April 21, 2009

It was a secret of many NATO countries: underground armies should be in an invasion of the Soviet Union of the guerrilla war record. The traces go back to the fifties - the Nato mauert today. Germany in September 1952, Chancellor Adenauer drives with full force the Western integration of the young Federal Republic of progress, one of its major objectives: the inclusion of Germany in NATO. During this time bursting the incredible statement by a former SS officer. A statement that the consequences of a transatlantic scandal trigger. Hans Otto explains the Hessian criminal, he is one “of a political resistance group, whose task it was, in the case of a Russian march sabotage, and to blow up bridges.”

The political resistance group is dominated by right-wing extremists “Federation of German Youth,” short BDJ. Otto says: “About 100 members of the organization were politically trained, and in the service of American, Russian and German weapons, and in the use of military tactics instructed. The members of this organization were mostly former officers of the Air Force, the Army or the Waffen-SS. “Otto told the police that an American secret service agents for the money and the greatest part of the training and equipment provided. The men were in the vicinity of forest -Michelbach, a municipality in the Hessian Odenwald, has been informed, had a house with an underground shooting range and a bunker nearby.

Otto himself was unwilling to increasing activity on the methods taught: “He taught us, for example, how to kill someone without leaving a trace, if one just with chloroform unconscious makes him into his car, and a hose used to the exhaust of the car into the car’s interior chamber. He taught us certain interrogation techniques, how to use force, without leaving a trace. “It sounds like the statement of a Spinners. A statement is a scandal

But four days later, on 13 September 1952, the police stormed the headquarters of the BDJ in the Odenwald. They arrested members, confiscated weapons, ammunition and explosives, as well as lots of files. One of the surprises of those papers to identify particular officials: “This list contained the names of the persons who should be eliminated. The list was not complete because it still worked.” On the list are the names of many well-known German Communists in the case of an invasion should be murdered - but also the name of moderate Social Democrats, like that of Henry Zinnkann, then interior minister of Hesse.

The incident, in political circles for a scandal. A secret organization as the basis of illegal activities, outside of any legislative control and under the influence of American secret services?

The journalist Leo Muller reported that after the list was found, “the surprise was so great that most reacted with disbelief.” Chancellor Konrad Adenauer claimed by the whole affair to be a lie, while Walter Donnelly, the American High Commissioner in Germany, explains that the network already in just this month to be dissolved. Already on 30 September, the Federal judge in Karlsruhe, that all members of the group arrested are released.

Hessen Minister President Georg August Zinn responded angrily: “The only legal explanation for this release may be that the people in Karlsruhe, a U.S. statement followed.” He decides to keep the public informed. On October 8, 1952 he joined after a conversation with German Chancellor Adenauer before the Hessian Parliament: “On 9 September 1952 was an outpost of the Hessian Verfassungsschutz office by a secret organization, the 1950/1951 from the leaders of the BDJ under the name TD, ‘Technical Services’, was founded. “

After explaining their way of working he adds: “On 1 October ordered the top federal prosecutor for the release of the suspects, as the organization at the request of the American secret service was created.”

A scream goes through the parliament, the New York Times writes about German-American crisis meetings, the Mirror reported: “The BDJ affair has in the various headquarters of the great American secret unrest triggered. The ‘Technical Service’ in Germany is a unit of a comprehensive partisan network by the United States and throughout Europe. “

Sabotage behind enemy lines

For the first time the public learns something from a German so-called stay-behind network. “Stay behind” - the English word for “left behind” was the tactic of a British special forces in the Second World War with a parachute behind enemy lines and absprang sabotage perpetrated. After the defeat of Germany in 1945, fearing the United States and Western Europe against a Soviet invasion and build similar groups. An anti-communists and experience with weapons, there is shortly after the war is not. But after the dissolution of the BDJ advised the networks from the view of the public - nearly forty years.

“The structure of the Stay-behind organizations of NATO countries began shortly after the end of World War II,” confirms an official report of the German government in December 1990: “The units of the Allied secret services on German territory until 1955, procurement structured messages - and smuggling organization was established in 1956 by the BND over. “The report also states that the organization is not, as promised in 1952 has been dissolved. 104 persons have worked together with the BND.However, the Secret Service wanted to - after agreements with the allies - the organization until April 1991 to dissolve. The Cold War is over, the secret armies are no longer needed.

As Andreotti auspackte

The report was preceded by revelations of Italian Prime Minister Giulio Andreotti in October 1990. To be suspected of murder and mafia activities freely buy Andreotti revealed the existence of an Italian stay-behind organization named “Gladio”, the Latin term for the Roman short sword - a symbol of fascist Italy under Benito Mussolini. The group consists of anti-communists, kept secret weapons storage and should be an underground war in the event of a Soviet occupation lead.

Andreotti also refers to an overarching command structure of NATO - it wipes out this notice, but a little later in the dossier. The first time since the Fifties, we learn something from a stay-behind organization. But not only Italy, and most other Western European states reluctant to admit then, that their countries secret armies just in case would be entertained.

A month later the European Parliament discussed the “Gladio” scandal. In the Official Journal C 324/201 states: “Whereas, this organization has more than forty years of any democratic control could escape, and that they are informed by the intelligence services of the countries concerned, in cooperation with NATO had been” condemned the European Parliament on the establishment of secret organizations to influence and implementation of measures “and calls for a full education. But only Belgium, Switzerland and Italy set up parliamentary commissions to study and publish their reports. Only 18 years later published by the Swiss historian Daniele Ganser an extensive study about the work of the Stay-behind organizations. In eleven NATO nations and in neutral countries, Sweden, Switzerland, Austria and Finland were the “stay-behind” organizations worked, it says.

Furthermore, the groups in some countries, internal politics intervened massively –at least in Belgium, Greece, Turkey, France and Italy, such as the bombing of the Central Station of Bologna the 1980th

Ganser sees in the secret stay-behind paramilitary troops of the NATO two things: You were the one wise precaution, but also the source of the abuse and terror. “It is unacceptable that taxpayers’ money be used to kill people,” he says in an interview with sueddeutsche.de.

The facts showed that the legislature “was not able to effectively secret armies to control. So little is known of totalitarian states - but for democracies, it is at least surprising,” said Ganser further.

A comprehensive education but fail because the NATO protocols and records of Stay-behind networks still do not make accessible.

The military alliance was officially launched in November 1990 on the allegations position as a spokesman confirmed that “NATO never a guerrilla war or secret actions has taken into consideration. It has always been the military’s own affairs and the defense of Allied Frontiers employed. A day later, another spokesman said that NATO will never be secret military questions, and therefore the report from the day before was wrong. This was the sole and final opinion - until today. So, even almost twenty years after the end of the Cold War Stay-behind organizations of the NATO countries are still a mystery.

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