20260131 Kriegsverbrecherliste bleibt geheim

31.01.2026 Kriegsverbrecherliste bleibt geheim

Show SS tattoo upon entry

The most well-known of the rat lines was the route across the mountains from Austria to Italy and then, with the help of the church, on to South America, primarily Argentina. The church escape helper in Rome was Bishop Alois Hudal, who wrote in 1948 under the title "Gruß übers Meer" (Greetings Across the Sea) in the National Socialist German-language magazine "Der Weg" in Buenos Aires, "To my dear compatriots in Argentina!": "...perhaps not a few, I was able to help during the most difficult weeks of their stay in Rome. (...) Do not simply believe all the trial records from Nuremberg, Landsberg, and some of the courts. (...) Only a few years will pass before the great revision of German historiography of the last thirty years will begin, in order to restore justice and fairness to our people."

Let us hope that this moment does not begin this year with the Nazis taking power in some federal states.

Another rat line

Susann Witt-Stahl reports in Junge Welt on the largely unknown rat line to Canada. For 40 years, the country's national library, Library and Archives Canada (LAC) in Ottawa, has held a list of 700 suspected Nazi perpetrators who entered Canada after World War II. A commission of inquiry into war criminals in Canada had compiled this list under the leadership of retired judge Jules Deschênes.

Since the summer of 2024, LAC officials have been contacting selected individuals and organizations to ask whether the list should be made public. Now a decision has been made. The list will remain under lock and key, even though most of the people on it are long dead, because "the Russian government could use it for its war propaganda against Ukraine".

It had emerged that many members of Canada's Ukrainian community were among the 700 names. This is also evidenced by the graves and monuments decorated with the lion emblem of the Waffen-SS Division "Galicia," for example, at the Ukrainian Cemetery of St. Volodymyr in Oakville, Ontario. Another fascist organization, the "Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists" (OUN), which also collaborated with Nazi Germany in the Holocaust, is also among them.

The Jewish Telegraphic Agency described in 1997 how easy it was for Nazis to emigrate to Canada via Great Britain after the war. Junge Welt quotes historian Irving Abella: "Emigrants from Europe only had to show their SS tattoos... that proved you were anti-communist."

Kommentar: RE: 20260131 Kriegsverbrecherliste bleibt geheim

Schwerstverbrecher und Völkermörder wie Adolf Eichmann, Josef Mengele, Eduard Roschmann oder Erich Priebke flohen nach Südamerika aber ihr habt nicht erwähnt, dass auch die USA sehr großzügig waren. 1947 baute das Counter Intelligence Corps, kurz CIC, ein Nachrichtendienst der US-Armee, sogar selbst einen Fluchtweg auf. Der bekannteste Reisende war Klaus Barbie, ehemaliger Gestapo-Chef von Lyon. Nach dem Krieg hatte er das CIC bei seinen Aktivitäten gegen den Kommunismus unterstützt. 1951 wurde Barbie mit Hilfe der US-Amerikaner und des kroatischen Priesters Krunoslav Draganovic nach Südamerika verbracht. (s. euren 2. Link)

Po., 31.01.26 15:18