My australian friends, I抳e thought you could be interested. Hugs and
kisses from France. Bernard Blanc.
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Free World Archives: Australia
Date:
Mon, 16 Aug 1999 02:00:48 -0500 (CDT)
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[Understand, the 'only' reason leading SS officers were given the red
carpet treatment in Australia is to prevent them falling into the hands
of the evil Russians. Then why not try them for war crimes after they
arrived? A rhetorical question. And since they were there....why not
put them to work for ANZUS allies, which is to say, Uncle Sam? To be
remembered the next time the specter of the Third Reich is raised by our
president to 'justify' the terror bombing of a small, defenseless
nation.]
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Monday August 16 2:22 AM ET
Australia Recruited Nazi Scientists - Newspaper
SYDNEY, Australia (Reuters) - Nazi scientists, including members of
Adolf Hitler's elite SS, were secretly brought to Australia after World
War Two to work on government defense projects and research, an
Australian newspaper said Monday. The Sydney Morning Herald said the
scientists were brought to Australia as part of a plan by the United
States and Britain to prevent Russia from recruiting German scientists.
The newspaper said thousands of previously classified Australian
documents showed 31 Nazi Party members were recruited between 1946 and
1951. ``Some were given security clearances for weapons development and
rocket research.创 The newspaper did not name any of the scientists
and the Australian government was not immediately available for comment.
The Herald said least 127 scientists were brought to Australia at a time
when Germans were barred from entering the country. It said 31 were Nazi
Party members and 12 belonged to other Nazi groups. Six were members of
the SS -- Hitler's brownshirt stormtroopers. The Nazi-hunting Simon
Wiesenthal Center in Israel had confirmed that seven of the 127
scientists matched the names of suspects wanted by the U.N. War Crimes
Commission, but could not say for certain they were the same people, it
said. ``We do not yet possess enough details to be able to verify
whether they are the same persons admitted to Australia,创 said
Efraim Zuroff, director of the center, according to the Herald. The
Herald said Australia was invited by Britain to ``bid创 for German
scientists in a top-secret cable dated September 18, 1945. The British
government cable said Britain had decided to recruit ``a limited number
of German scientists and technicians...on defense research work in order
to develop military potential at Germany磗 expense,创 it said. A
cable from the Australian High Commission in London 11 months later said
Britain had selected 120 German scientists, the newspaper said. A High
Commission cable two months later warned that Russia was about to
abandon an agreement not to recruit scientists with Nazi backgrounds and
was kidnapping scientists, it said. ``Both the U.S. and UK are planning
to prevent this moving of German scientists and technicians eastwards
since it would increase significantly the war potential of Russia,创
it said. Scientists brought to Australia under the scheme, code-named
``Operation Matchbox,创 included the head of the top-secret
Messerschmitt jet aircraft factory and a nuclear physicist engaged in
atomic research for the German army, said the Herald. It said two of the
scientists worked on Australia's guided-missile rocket tests at Woomera
in the 1950s, 10 worked in government defense laboratories, while others
worked for the government's top scientific organization.
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