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BND career after arresting Anne Frank
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Published: 10.04.11, 17:15
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1. Look at Japan to see what will happen to the descendants of
Rivkah   (04.10.11)
German Nazis involved in atrocities. The sins of the fathers are visited on the children to the third and fourth generation, Scripture warns. Germany is trying to avert that judgment from YHWH by paying reparations to Holocaust survivors. That may or may not appease YHWH on behalf of the blood that cries out from the ground of the victims and the souls under the altar of YHWH asking for vengeance on the inhabitants of the earth.
2. sad, but not surprising
nadav ,   tel aviv   (04.10.11)
countless nazi criminals escaped with blood on their hands because the Allies were too soft on the Nazis.
3. surprised anyone??????
tiki ,   belgium   (04.10.11)
The BND needed bloodhounds and many were walking around freely. So much for the 'new Germany
4. #2&3: right, but what about the US
Noa   (04.10.11)
The role of the US is very shady. I am sure the US was informed and played along.
5. Don't forget she was NOT Dutch
Moishe Zuchmir ,   Chelm Galicia   (04.10.11)
Anne Frank and her family NEVER became Dutch, first they were Germans and later stateless. The Dutch never granted them the Dutch nationality. The irony of this is that she became the 8th most famous Dutch person in history
6. Wiesenthal tried to arrestation im
Rich   (04.10.11)
Simon Wiesenthal's search for the man who had arrested Anne Frank began in 1958 when he was challenged by Holocaust deniers to prove the existence of Anne Frank by finding the Nazi who caught her. His name had been disclosed in 1948 during the initial investigation into the betrayal and arrest of Anne Frank, her family, the four people she hid with, and two of their protectors. The Dutch SD detectives who had assisted with the raid were identified by Miep Gies and said they remembered nothing about it, other than the name of their superior, Karl Silberbauer. Silberbauer in later life Wiesenthal requested the help of Anne's father, Otto Frank, who refused on the grounds that their betrayer, not the arresting officer, should bear the blame. Wiesenthal disagreed, and in October 1963, after two years of eliminating fourteen other Austrians with the same name, he tracked Silberbauer to Vienna. Silberbauer was suspended from the police force pending an investigation into undeclared Nazi activities during the war. When the Dutch media learned of his whereabouts, they descended on his home and he admitted to them that he had arrested Anne Frank. The story was broken to the world's media on November 11, 1963, and an investigation into the identity of the betrayer was reopened. Silberbauer's memories of the arrest were notably vivid - he in particular recalled Otto and Anne Frank. When he asked Otto Frank how long they had been in hiding, Frank answered "Two years and one month." Silberbauer was incredulous, until Otto stood Anne against the marks made on the wall to measure her height since they had arrived in the annex, showing that she had grown even since the last mark had been made. Silberbauer said that Anne "looked like the pictures in the books, but a little older, and prettier. 'You have a lovely daughter', I said to Mr. Frank" (Roses from the Earth, pp. 245–246). Silberbauer had only been told by his superiors that the tip came from a 'reliable source' and was unable to provide any information that could help further a police investigation. His superior officer, Julius Dettmann, who had originally taken the call, committed suicide immediately after the war. The Viennese authorities and the Amsterdam police could not produce enough evidence of criminal misdemeanor to prosecute Silberbauer himself, and given Otto Frank's crucial declaration that Silberbauer had obviously acted on orders and behaved correctly and without cruelty during the arrest, the judicial investigation was dropped. His suspension from the police force was lifted and he returned to work.
7. What else is new?
Anshe ,   Toronto   (04.10.11)
He is not the only Nazi or SS officer employed after war by Germans and/or CIA... shameful history.
8. Infiltration by Albert Speer is completely dull
Ypip ,   Canada   (04.10.11)
9. # 6
Birdi ,   Israel   (04.10.11)
Thanks Rich, for sharing.
10. organisation gehlen
sweeter than honey ,   far away   (04.10.11)
before you get on your high horse remember it was gehlen who gave mossad operatives in egypt immaculate and impenetratable cover (as ex ss officers etc.) when he had control of west german intelligence subsequent to ww2. believe it or not. this was in no small part anti-communist, the way he could see nasser going (see yemen war). still it does go to show the respect israel has garnered from perhaps the most improbable areas.
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