When
the Second World War neared its end in Europa, many influential
Nazi's, scientists and bureaucrats made preparations for the future.
Some committed suicide, some fled to Sweden or South-America or went
underground. Other prepared their defection to the Allies and
Heinrich Himmler, 2nd in the Reich and leader of the SS
and the Gestapo, approached the Americans and Churchill, personally,
with a offering of peace. The Allied Forces and the German troops
would move east to fight the real enemy: the Soviet-Union. The
Eastern Front was crumbling and the Red Army was 100 miles from
Berlin.
Churchill
and the Americans refused to negotiate. Nazi-Germany had to surrencer
unconditionally. Hitler was furious, when he heard that Himmler had
betrayed him. He decided to fight till the end.
Reinhard
Gehlen was a Wehrmacht-general, who was responsible for
information-gathering and espionage at the Eastern Front. He knew
that the war was lost and when he confronted Hitler, he was fired.
But Gehlen did not quit. He was sure, that after the defeat of
Germany a confrontation with the Soviet-Union and communism would be
next. Together with his staff he buried tuns of data, on different
places in the Bavarian Alps.
After
the war Reinhard Gehlen offered the information and his expertise to
the Americans. Finally the general and his staff were flown to the
USA to brief the US Military. Although there were doubts about his
actions during WW2, the USA was glad to cooperate and even financed
'Organization Gehlen”, when they went home and started gathering
information about the Sovjiet-Union, the occupied countries and the
Russian Occupation Zone. On a yearly basis Gehlen received half a
million dollars to pay for his services. Reinhard Gehlen recruted
many old friends and fellow Nazis, with a dark past. One of them was
Klaus Barbie, who worked for America for years. This made them easy
targets for Soviet spies. In the 50s en 60s many double agents and
Soviet spies were active in Gehlen's.
Gehlen
and his man were responsible for a constant flow of documents, plans
and top-secret information, which fed the common opinion, that the
Soviets were preparing for a war, to conquer Western Europe. The
necessary divisions were placed and trained, ready to strike; as was
the case in 1940, which led to Hitler's “pre-emptive” strike in
1941.
The
results of Gehlen's spies and under-cover agents had an enormous
impact on the American foreign policy and it is fundamental for
understanding the Cold War, first formulated by Winston Churchill.
Again “Dark Ages” had begun.
In
fact Reinhard Gehlen was a war-criminal. His information was gathered
by torture, cruelty, slaughter, mass-executions and fear. He
committed crimes against human dignity and humanity. Those who
talked, were killed, when no longer useful. He should have been put
on trial for this. Even worse. When the US-government were forced to
publish reports of the “Gehlen Organisation”, most of the
gathered information and research was only partly true and mostly
completely wrong. An impressive form of “Agitprop”, the Germans
propagandists during the Nazi-regime were common to use. Reinhard
Gehlen is seen as the founder of German “Intelligenz”-department.
He also did everything he could, to realize Heinrich Himmler's plan
of a war of the Allies (including Germany) against Russia end the
Eastern European states. Battlefield Europa and a final tank-battle,
fought on ancient battlegrounds in Poland and Ukrain.
But
relax. We have gone global now.
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