Post War Germany

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   Two interesting little anecdotes from Germany's immediate post-war history. 

1. The former Israeli President Menachim Begin was the organiser of an assasination attempt on the first Chancellor of West-Germany Konrad Adenauer. 
In March 1952, a letter bomb adressed to the German politician exploded in a Munich police station and killed a police officer. Begin was the then head of the Jewish terror group "Irgun" which planned the assassination.
The plot was recently revealed by a former member of the group.

http://www.faz.net/s/RubFC06D389EE76479E9E76425072B196C3/Doc~E35BBCD5A37DA47809AD4F6A865C6332B~ATpl~Ecommon~Scontent.html
Only in German!

2. According to recently published information from CIA records, the CIA knew the where abouts of the German war criminal Adolf Eichmann, who was in hiding in Argentina in the late 50s under a false name. The CIA did not pass this information on to any court or organisation that was looking for former Nazis who where responsible for the Holocaust. By then, the CIA was employing a number of Nazis in various Cold-War enterprises.
The Israeli Secret Service Mossad found Eichmann indepentendly, kidnapped him, brought him back to Israel where he was tried and sentenced to death in the early 60s.

http://www.dradio.de/aktuell/508420/   Only in German!

Edited by Komnenos - 13-Jun-2006 at 05:10