Die "Paladingruppe" wurde 1970 von dem ehemaligen SS-Offizier Otto Skorzeny und dem ehemaligen Offizier der US Army James Sanders gegruendet.
"The Paladin Group was created in 1970 in Albufera, near Alicante, in the South of Spain by former SS Colonel Otto Skorzeny and former US Colonel James Sanders" ...
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Die Spinne (German for "The Spider") is believed by some to be a secret organization established and led in part by Otto Skorzeny, Hitler's commando chief, as well as Nazi intelligence officer Reinhard Gehlen[1][2] which helped as many as 600 former SS men escape from Germany to Spain, Argentina, Paraguay, Chile, Bolivia and other countries.
Die Spinne was established by Skorzeny using the cover names of Robert Steinbacher and Otto Steinbauer, and supported by either Nazi funds or, according to some sources, Austrian Intelligence. Later, Skorzeny, Gehlen and their network of collaborators had gained significant influence in parts of Europe and Latin America. Skorzeny travelled between Francoist Spain and Argentina, where he acted as an advisor to President Juan Perón and bodyguard of Eva Perón,[3] while fostering an ambition for the "Fourth Reich" centred in Latin America.[4][5][6]
According to Infield, the idea for the Die Spinne network began in 1944 as Hitler's chief intelligence officer Reinhard Gehlen foresaw a possible downfall of the Third Reich [7] due to Nazi military failures in Russia. T.H. Tetens, expert on German geopolitics and member of the US War Crimes Commission in 1946-1947, referred to a group overlapping with die Spinne as the Führungsring "a kind of political Mafia, with headquarters in Madrid... serving various purposes." [8] The Madrid office built up what was referred to as a sort of Fascist International, per Tetens. [9] According to Tetens the German leadership also included Dr. Hans Globke, who had written the official commentary on the Nuremberg Laws. [10] Globke held the important position of Director of the German Chancellery from 1953 until 1963, serving as adviser for Konrad Adenauer. [11]
Die Spinne was established by Skorzeny using the cover names of Robert Steinbacher and Otto Steinbauer, and supported by either Nazi funds or, according to some sources, Austrian Intelligence. Later, Skorzeny, Gehlen and their network of collaborators had gained significant influence in parts of Europe and Latin America. Skorzeny travelled between Francoist Spain and Argentina, where he acted as an advisor to President Juan Perón and bodyguard of Eva Perón,[3] while fostering an ambition for the "Fourth Reich" centred in Latin America.[4][5][6]
According to Infield, the idea for the Die Spinne network began in 1944 as Hitler's chief intelligence officer Reinhard Gehlen foresaw a possible downfall of the Third Reich [7] due to Nazi military failures in Russia. T.H. Tetens, expert on German geopolitics and member of the US War Crimes Commission in 1946-1947, referred to a group overlapping with die Spinne as the Führungsring "a kind of political Mafia, with headquarters in Madrid... serving various purposes." [8] The Madrid office built up what was referred to as a sort of Fascist International, per Tetens. [9] According to Tetens the German leadership also included Dr. Hans Globke, who had written the official commentary on the Nuremberg Laws. [10] Globke held the important position of Director of the German Chancellery from 1953 until 1963, serving as adviser for Konrad Adenauer. [11]
The "Fascist International" ...
During the period from 1945 to 1950, Die Spinne leader Skorzeny facilitated the escape of Nazi war criminals from war-criminal prisons to Memmingen, Bavaria, through Austria and Switzerland into Italy. [12] Certain US military authorities supposedly knew of the escape, but took no action. [13]The Central European headquarters of Die Spinne as of 1948 was in Gmunden, Austria. [14]
A coordinating office for international Die Spinne operations in Madrid, Spain, by Otto Skorzeny, under the control of Generalissimo Francisco Franco, [15] whose victory in the Spanish Civil War was guaranteed by economic and military support from Hitler and Mussolini. When a Die Spinne Nazi delegation visited Madrid in 1959, Franco stated, "Please regard Spain as your second Fatherland." [16]
Skorzeny used the resources of Die Spinne to allow Nazi concentration camp doctor Joseph Mengele to escape to Argentina in 1949. [17]
Die Spinne leader Skorzeny requested the assistance of ultra-wealthy German industrialist Alfried Krupp, whose company controlled 138 private concentration camps under the Third Reich, and this was granted in 1951. Skorzeny became Krupp's representative in industrial business ventures in Argentina, [18] a country which harboured a strong pro-Nazi political element throughout World War II and afterwards, [19] regardless of a nominal declaration of loyalty to the Allies as World War II ended.
With the help of Die Spinne leaders in Spain, by the early 1980s Die Spinne had become influential in Argentina, Chile and Paraguay, including ties involving Paraguayan dictator Alfredo Stroessner. [20]
War Crimes investigator Simon Wiesenthal claimed that Joseph Mengele had stayed at the notorious Colonia Dignidad Nazi colony in Chile in 1979, [21] and ultimately was harboured in Paraguay until his death.
As of the early 1980s, Die Spinne's Mengele was reported by Infield [22] to have been advising Stroessner's ethnic German Paraguayan police on how to reduce native Paraguayan Indians in the Chaco Region to slave labour. [23]
A wealthy and powerful post-World-War-II underground Nazi political contingent held sway in Argentina as of the late 1960s, which included many ethnic German Nazi immigrants and their descendants. [24]
In popular culture ...
The Die Spinne network in Spain is the focus of the 1966 Nick Carter spy novel Web of Spies.References ...
Otto Skorzeny, Nazi Commando, Dead". The New York Times. July 8, 1975.
"Nazis: The Deadly Spider". Newsweek. July 21, 1975.
"Peculiar liaisons: in war, espionage, and terrorism in the twentieth century", John S. Craig. Algora Publishing, 2005. ISBN 0-87586-331-0, ISBN 978-0-87586-331-3. p. 163
"Barbie's Postwar Ties With U.S. Army Detailed". Boston Globe. 14 February 1983.
Glenn Infield. The Secrets of the SS. Stein and Day, New York, 1981
Joseph Wechsberg. The Murderers Among Us. McGraw Hill, New York, 1967. pp. 81, 116
T.H. Tetens. The New Germany and the Old Nazis. Random House/Marzani+Munsel, 1961. p. 31 ...
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Der zuegig verurteilte und hingerichtete Terrorist von Oklahoma, US Army Veteran Timothy Mc Veigh, war mit z.T. gleichen Methoden ausgebildet worden wie Angehoerige der SS: Abtrainieren der Toetungshemmung durch Anweisung zum Toeten eines Kaninchens, das zuvor von dem Betreffenden aufgezogen und am Koerper gewaermt und herumgetragen worden war.
- Militaerexperte Grossmann hat die Risiken des Abtrainierens der Toetungshemmung bei Rueckkehr ehemaliger Soldaten in das Zivilleben thematisiert.
Ein Vergleich von "Tornisterschriften" der deutschen Wehrmacht im 2. Weltkrieg und "Field Manuals" der US Army laesst es denkbar erscheinen, dass "Experten" der deutschen Wehrmacht nach dem Ende des 2. Weltkriegs an Strategien der US Army zum "Kampf gegen den Kommunismus" beratend mitgewirkt haben.
Besonders den "Green Berets" wird ein Einfluss von Figuren wie Skorzeny nachgesagt.
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"Scandinavian Waffen SS recruiting poster, the forerunner to NATO, the fight against communism!"
schrieb Francisco Zañartu, der dieses Poster auf Pinterest einstellte.
Er meint also, die skandinavische Waffen-SS sei ein Vorlaeufer der NATO gewesen, der gemeinsame Nenner sei der "Kampf gegen den Kommunismus".
Dagegen wuerde sich die NATO-Pressestelle sicher heftig verwahren, und mit guten Gruenden. Dennoch, Aufmerksamkeit fuer Kontinuitaeten von Denkmustern aus den 1920er/ 1930er Jahren, als es auch in den USA, Grossbritannien und Westeuropa in einflussreichen Kreisen durchaus Nazi-Sympathien gab, ist sinnvoll.
Stichworte auf diesem Blog (u.a.) Wedemeyer, Condor, Atlantis.
