The Red Cross and the Catholic Church have been collaborating with Nazis and Socialists for decades.

From: Irish Times July 9, 2011

Author: Robert Gewarth, Director, UCD Centre for War Studies

WISH YOU WERE HERE: THE CHURCH, THE RED CROSS, AND THE NAZIS' GREAT ESCAPE

https:// www.irishtimes.com/news/wish-you-were-here-the-church-the-red-cross-and-the-nazis-great-escape-1.596170

"…a detailed and chilling analysis of the three organisations that were in fact largely responsible for facilitating the escape of German war criminals: the International Red Cross, the Catholic Church, and the American CIA. Steinacher emphasises from the start that the motivations of this unlikely coalition of escape route facilitators can only be understood against the backdrop of the start of the Cold War, during which Communism seemed a much more pressing problem than prosecuting former Nazis, however implicated they were in the Holocaust."

>>1165679

Add'l excerpts from article referenced:

"The CIA’s attitude towards ex-Nazis – and in particular to former SS “intelligence experts” – was essentially pragmatic: after Germany had been defeated and relations with the USSR had begun to deteriorate, the CIA was willing to give exit visas and new identity papers to middle-ranking Nazis in exchange for valuable intelligence information on the new Soviet enemy."

"Even more intriguing is the role played by the Red Cross. In a genuinely fresh contribution to the subject, Steinacher establishes that the International Red Cross issued about 25,000 new identity documents to men whose past was often more than dubious. Although this assistance primarily came from individual Nazi sympathisers within the organisation, Steinacher argues that all senior members of the International Red Cross knew about the misappropriation of identity documents. In particular, he demonstrates that the two presidents of the International Committee of the Red Cross in the post-war decades, Carl Jacob Burckhardt, and his successor, Paul Ruegger, consciously decided to turn a blind eye to the frequent abuse of Red Cross identity documentation, largely because of their latent anti-Semitism and anti-Communism."

>>1165731

One more excerpt from referenced article. Eye-opening mention of the most common destinations of some of the 25,000 Nazis who were whisked out of Europe; not just the well-known South America, but Africa and the Middle East as well. The national socialists were strategically and methodically embedded in key locations.

"Steinacher’s book focuses on Argentina, but it also offers intriguing new perspectives on other “safe havens” in Latin America, Africa and the Middle East. The post-war journey of former SS colonel Walter Rauff, who invented the mobile gas vans used to kill thousands of Jews along the Eastern front, exemplifies the transnational dimension of Nazi escape routes: after the war, he was first hidden by Bishop Siri of Genoa, before fleeing to Damascus in 1947. In late 1949, he used Red Cross documentation to move to Ecuador, where he worked for Bayer pharmaceutical company. In the early 1960s, Rauff retired to Santiago de Chile, where he died peacefully in 1984."

"North Africa and the Middle East also proved to be very popular destinations for ex-Nazis, most notably after the fall of Perón’s regime in 1955, which made Argentina a much less hospitable place for them."

"At least three dozen Nazi refugees found a new home in Egypt, Saudi Arabia and Iran, where active participation in the Holocaust was not always seen as a terrible thing. But there were also individuals who were not prominent Nazi perpetrators who found new lives abroad due to employment opportunities; one example being the Austrian engineer, Walter Hassler, presented in the book as an example of a skilled labourer in demand after the second World War."

"During the war, the Nazis had established links with influential Muslim circles, including the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem, who actively supported the German crusade against the Jews. After the war, such connections continued. The former Nazi agitator Johann von Leers, for example, was recruited by Nasser to offer his “know-how” for anti-Israel campaigns sponsored by the Arab League."

>>1165650

Anon, you get virtual homemade chocolate cake for sharing this eye-opener. Thank you. Be careful and stay safe.

>>1165889

THANK YOU - agree that significance of this find was mystifyingly overlooked.

We did some minor digging into this overnight Friday & Saturday early AM, but it was so out of control in here that it got lost in the noise.

>>1165918

Yes, very plausible - would be a matter of making sure transfers didn't exceed an amount which would trigger closer scrutiny by whatever oversight (or lack thereof) to which operations would be subject.

Yeesh, been many years since college finance classes. There's smoke coming out of my ears, kek!

>>1165933

Georgian checking in. We hate those guidestones.

A breakdown: https:// www.thechancegeorgeblog.com/single-post/2016/07/17/GEORGIA-GUILDSTONES-RC-CHRISTIAN-REVEALED-MYSTERY-SOLVED

>>1166144

Mark Twain? :(

How disappointing. How on earth did the man who wrote The Innocents Abroad end up hanging out with such a bunch of weirdos?

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>>1166276

Also agree that we need to leave the Plus Ultra post-it up on our giant board to keep it in play.

Think will go dig on it some more and cross-reference with some other topics we've kicked around to check for connections to people and organizations.