What would the world look like if the NAZIs had won World War II?

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79. General Reinhard Gehlen rose to become head of West German (NATO) intel...

...which we see today has had a problem in overlooking the continuing influence of Nazis in German political life.

Germany's neo-Nazi investigation exposes institutional racism

Despite talk of integration, the racist assumptions that hindered the hunt for a murderous gang are reflected in German institutions

Ben Knight
guardian.co.uk, Tuesday 13 November 2012

The last alleged member of the German neo-Nazi gang that murdered nine immigrants has been charged, a year after her arrest uncovered a decade-long terrorist campaign – but the case has also uncovered some uncomfortable truths about racism in Germany's institutions. Last week, German state prosecutors chose the first anniversary of Beate Zschäpe's arrest to reveal the charges they would be levelling against her. Because she is alleged to be the only surviving member of the murderous trio that called itself the National Socialist Underground, the prosecutors took a calculated risk and charged Zschäpe with complicity in all the group's known crimes: 10 murders, two nail bombings and 15 bank robberies.

The judiciously timed announcement ended the first chapter of one of the most momentous criminal investigations in unified Germany, and next spring's trial could potentially uncover the true extent of Germany's underground neo-Nazi network. Even if it doesn't, the court case will hopefully give new urgency to the obstructed parliamentary investigations into the authorities' failure to stop the NSU.

Since last November, four separate committees (one federal, three regional) have drip-fed the country with revelations of incompetence or criminal collusion in every security body from the federal and state police forces to sundry intelligence agencies. Four secret service chiefs have lost their jobs.

Above all, the investigation has revealed how racist assumptions hindered detective work. We learned, for instance, that the police were so convinced that only the Turkish mafia would murder Turkish Germans that officers set up fake kebab shops and sent undercover investigators among the families of the victims.

While those infiltrating detectives found that the Turkish community suspected far-right extremists to be behind the killings, their suspicions were ignored. Meanwhile, numerous paid neo-Nazi informants – some of whom had contact with and supplied weapons to the real killers, the NSU – wilfully kept the authorities in the dark.

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http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2012/nov/13/germany-neo-nazi-investigation-institutional-racism

An excellent resource from the National Security Archives of George Washington University:

The CIA and Nazi War Criminals

My two cents on the BFEE turd Gehlen.

Most importantly: Thank you, Javaman, for caring about what is going on and standing against them.