German intelligence to open books on Nazi past

[steve2470]

http://www.dw-world.de/dw/article/0,,14775766,00.html

Germany's domestic intelligence agency wants to shed light on its past by opening the books on its many former Nazi employees during the post-war era. A team of historians is to be given this task.

Reinhard Gehlen was a flexible man: The former major-general and chief of the Foreign Armies East military intelligence organization within the German military once spied for Hitler; soon afterward he was in the service of the United States.

Gehlen helped set up Germany's post-war secret service for the Americans, the body that would go on to become the Federal Intelligence Service (BND).

With the Cold War looming, Gehlen did not hesitate to look to the ranks of former Nazis in his recruitment drives. Culprits of the Holocaust - former SS and Gestapo members - were given a new lease on life, and a new identity with the BND.

[tritsofme]

1. Our Germans are better than their Germans!

[Octafish]

2. Perhaps we could do the same and learn more about Gehlen's Org USA.

Thank you, steve2470, for the heads-up. I'm sorry I'm too late to rec, but this news is something all should know.

Here's a bit on how the Intelligence Community that helped form our National Security State was itself, eh, formed:

Know your BFEE: Reinhard Gehlen