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Groning trial: Auschwitz survivor recounts brutal experiments by infamous Nazi Dr. Mengele
Eva Kor reveals how she and her twin sister were both injected with unknown substances as she gives testimony at trial of guard charged with complicity in Holocaust.
Eva Kor still bears the blue Auschwitz prisoner number A-7063 on her forearm. But as she sat opposite an impassive 93-year-old former guard at the death camp who is charged with complicity in the murder of 300,000 Jews, she recalled how as a child prisoner she endured the hideous medical experiments of the infamous Auschwitz doctor Josef Mengele.
The trial of Oskar Gröning continued in Lüneburg with testimony from the 81-year-old Ms Kor. She told the former SS guard: “Tell today’s young neo-Nazis that Auschwitz existed and Nazi ideology produces no winners only losers.”
In harrowing detail, the petite Ms Kor told a court how she and her twin sister Miriam escaped being gassed at the death camp because of Mengele’s obsession with experimenting on twins. She recalled how she arrived at Auschwitz with her family after a 70-hour journey from Romania in a rail cattle wagon without food or water. “All I really remember is seeing my mother’s arms stretched out in despair as she was pulled away. I never got to say goodbye to her,” she told a hushed courtroom. “Everywhere there was shouting in German, dogs were barking.
It was the gates of hell.”
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/oskar-groning-trial-auschwitz-survivor-recounts-being-subjected-to-brutal-experiments-at-the-hands-of-infamous-nazi-doctor-josef-mengele-10196486.html
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Aleksandras Lileikis was a Nazi officer implicated in 60,000 Jews’ deaths. He later worked for the C.I.A. before immigrating.
In Cold War, U.S. Spy Agencies Used 1,000 Nazis
By ERIC LICHTBLAU
The New York Times, OCT. 26, 2014
WASHINGTON — In the decades after World War II, the C.I.A. and other United States agencies employed at least a thousand Nazis as Cold War spies and informants and, as recently as the 1990s, concealed the government’s ties to some still living in America, newly disclosed records and interviews show.
At the height of the Cold War in the 1950s, law enforcement and intelligence leaders like J. Edgar Hoover at the F.B.I. and Allen Dulles at the C.I.A. aggressively recruited onetime Nazis of all ranks as secret, anti-Soviet “assets,” declassified records show. They believed the ex-Nazis’ intelligence value against the Russians outweighed what one official called “moral lapses” in their service to the Third Reich.
The agency hired one former SS officer as a spy in the 1950s, for instance, even after concluding he was probably guilty of “minor war crimes.”
And in 1994, a lawyer with the C.I.A. pressured prosecutors to drop an investigation into an ex-spy outside Boston implicated in the Nazis’ massacre of tens of thousands of Jews in Lithuania, according to a government official.
Evidence of the government’s links to Nazi spies began emerging publicly in the 1970s. But thousands of records from declassified files, Freedom of Information Act requests and other sources, together with interviews with scores of current and former government officials, show that the government’s recruitment of Nazis ran far deeper than previously known and that officials sought to conceal those ties for at least a half-century after the war.
In 1980, F.B.I. officials refused to tell even the Justice Department’s own Nazi hunters what they knew about 16 suspected Nazis living in the United States.
CONTINUED...
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/10/27/us/in-cold-war-us-spy-agencies-used-1000-nazis.html?_r=0
PS: Thank you, Surya Gayatri. The NAZI era will not end until they all are exposed and prosecuted and their ideology discredited. So far, only Democracy has proven effective.
In Cold War, U.S. Spy Agencies Used 1,000 Nazis
By ERIC LICHTBLAU
The New York Times, OCT. 26, 2014
WASHINGTON — In the decades after World War II, the C.I.A. and other United States agencies employed at least a thousand Nazis as Cold War spies and informants and, as recently as the 1990s, concealed the government’s ties to some still living in America, newly disclosed records and interviews show.
At the height of the Cold War in the 1950s, law enforcement and intelligence leaders like J. Edgar Hoover at the F.B.I. and Allen Dulles at the C.I.A. aggressively recruited onetime Nazis of all ranks as secret, anti-Soviet “assets,” declassified records show. They believed the ex-Nazis’ intelligence value against the Russians outweighed what one official called “moral lapses” in their service to the Third Reich.
The agency hired one former SS officer as a spy in the 1950s, for instance, even after concluding he was probably guilty of “minor war crimes.”
And in 1994, a lawyer with the C.I.A. pressured prosecutors to drop an investigation into an ex-spy outside Boston implicated in the Nazis’ massacre of tens of thousands of Jews in Lithuania, according to a government official.
Evidence of the government’s links to Nazi spies began emerging publicly in the 1970s. But thousands of records from declassified files, Freedom of Information Act requests and other sources, together with interviews with scores of current and former government officials, show that the government’s recruitment of Nazis ran far deeper than previously known and that officials sought to conceal those ties for at least a half-century after the war.
In 1980, F.B.I. officials refused to tell even the Justice Department’s own Nazi hunters what they knew about 16 suspected Nazis living in the United States.
CONTINUED...
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/10/27/us/in-cold-war-us-spy-agencies-used-1000-nazis.html?_r=0
PS: Thank you, Surya Gayatri. The NAZI era will not end until they all are exposed and prosecuted and their ideology discredited. So far, only Democracy has proven effective.
Because she was a twin, she was taken with her sister to the children’s block where she remembered seeing the floor strewn with the corpses of dead children who were the victims of Mengele’s experiments. “I was determined that Miriam and I should not end up like that,” she said.
