12—Friday, November 3, 1967

THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS

Many Murderers at Large:
Nazi War Criminals in Egypt

BY ALFRED WOLFMANN

ministry. He is known as El Hus
sein.
BONN—When the Six-Day War
Form er SS-Standartenfuhrer
began in the Middle East, the Corn- Baumann, who took part in the
munist press of Eastern Europe liquidation of the Ghetto in War-
opened a campaign of slander saw, lives in Egypt. He worked
against Israel, likening that na- first for the Egyptian War Minis-
tion's efforts to avert its own an- try. Later he became an "instruc-
nihilation to the acts of the Nazis. tor" of the "Palestine Liberation
Neither Moscow nor its allies could Organization."
give the slightest proof of the
Hans Becher was in the Jewish
"Nazi-like atrocities" charged to
Section of the Gestapo in Vienna.
Israel. But apparently that has no
Since 1950 he has lived in Alex-
importance to the Communist
andria and works in the Egyptian
press.
police.
There is a grim irony in this.
SS-Sturmbannfuhrer Bernhard
For if the Soviets and their East-
Bender was a member of the Ges-
eni European friends really feel so
tapo in Warsaw. After the war he
strongly about the Nazis, they became an adviser of the political
have only to turn to their Middle section of the Police in Cairo and
Eastern allies, principally Egypt,
goes by the name of Ben Salem.
to discover a veritable rat's nest Bender helped Dr. Hans Eisele
of former Nazi war criminals who to open his practice in Egypt.
live in comfort and safety and, al-
Former SS-Officer Werner
most without exception, hold high
positions within various Govern- Birgel came from East Germany to
Egypt.
He is now El Gamin and
ment ministries and agencies.
This unpalatable truth has been works in the Egyptian propaganda
documented by Simon Wiesenthal, ministry.
SS-Untersturniftihrer Wilhelm
head of the archives in Vienna and
author of the newly published Bockler participated in the liquids-
book, "The Murderers Among Us." tion of the Warsaw Ghetto. He has
Wiesenthal cites the names, alias- lived in Egypt since 1949 and
es, former rank and present em- works in the Israel Department of
ployment of scores of Nazis who the Egyptian Information Service.
have found refuge in Egypt and He, like most of the others, is on
other Arab countries. Most of them the Nazi-criminal wanted list of
are wanted for crimes perpetrated -many East European countries.
SS-Sturmbanauhrer B of 1 m a nn
against Jews in Nazi extermination
was sought by the Prague govern-
camps.
One example is the former Com- 1 ment as a war criminal. Since 1949
mander of the Nazi extermination he has Ived in Cairo as an adviser
camps at Treblinka, Franz Stang1,1 of Egypt's propaganda ministry.
who was recently extradited from Former SS-Unterturmfuhrer WU-
Brazil to Germany. In 1948 Stangl helm Borner became a Moslem and
fled from prison in Austria to Sy- calls himself Ben Raskin-. He work-
ria, where he lived for several ed in the Egyptian ministry of the
years before he went to Brazil.
interior and was recently transfer-
red to the "Palestinian Liberation
One of Goebbel's leading anti-
Army."
Semitic figures was Johannes
Franz Buensche learned his job
von Leers, who went to Egypt
with Goebbels and Streicher.. He
after World War II, became a
has
lived in Alexandria since 1949
moslem and lived under his new
and is the author of anti-Israel
name Amin ben Omar. He con-
Propaganda booklets.
tinued his Nazi propaganda in
Fo er-Obersturmfuhrer Erich
Cairo within the Egyptian propo-
Bunze who worked in Goebbels'
ganda ministry.
ministr works today in the Israel
The former Nazi minister to
Section of Egypt's propaganda
East European countries during
ministry, Former SS-Standarten-
the war, Rademacher, respons-
fuhrer Erwin Fleiss, responsible
ible for the murder of thousands
for many crimes against Jews in
of Jews, lived in Syria under his
Austria, now lives in Port Said as
real name until a few months
an advisor to Egypt's Police and
ago. He felt so secure that he
calls himself Achmed Sadat.
dared to return to Germany
SS-General Leopold G l e i m
where he was arrested.
committed crimes in Poland.
It is well known that the notori-
Since 1955 he has worked for the
ous Doctor Hans Eisele of the con- Egyptian secret service. He too
centration camp at Buchenwald
converted to Islam and took the
fled to Cairo some years ago.
name, All el Macher.
German courts asked for his extra-
Another ex-Nazi resident of
dition, but Cairo refused. So Dr.
Egypt is El Hadj, alias Louis Hei-
Eisele, who had committed terrible
den,
who translated Hitler's
^rimes in Buchenwald, continued
"Mein Kampf" into Arabic. The
his work as a doctor in Cairo until
Israel
army found copies of this
his death there last April.
translation in the Sinai Desert
One of the chief aides of Adolf
during
the Six-Day War.
Eichmann was Alois Brunner, Eich-
SS-Haptsturmfuhrer Dr. Herbert
mann had sent him to Czechoslo-
vakia and Greece to arrange the Heim was the doctor of the ex-
"final solution." For years now termination camp of Mauthausen,
he has lived in Syria and Egypt. where he committed criminal ex-
He is wanted by Austria, the USSR periments on inmates. Today, he
and Hungary, but Cairo, where he works as a doctor for Egypt's
police.
lives to day, is his haven.
The former Hitler-Youth leader,
Franz Abromeit, another aide of
Karl
Luder, participated in crimes
Adolf Eichmann in Hungary and
against
the Jews in Poland. He
Theresienstadt, is accused of mur-
der. The Arabs regard him as their works today for Egypt's war
ministry.
friend.
The former Gestapo-chief of Kat-
Hans Appler worked in the Goeb-
' , el's ministry. After the war he towice, SS-General Dr. Rudolf
fled to Spain. Since 1956 he has Mildner, has been living in Egypt
lived in Cairo. He became a for the past four years.
The list goes on and on. The fact
Moslem, assumed the name of
Salah Chaffer, and works in Egypt's is that major Nazi criminals have
found
a welcome refuge in Arab
propaganda ministry.
countries, and the Communist
The former Gestapo man, Franz
countries accept this sivation with-
Bartel, once wanted by Poland,
out protest. It shows who are the
has worked since 1954 for the Jew-
friends and allies of Moscow.
ish Section in Egypt's propaganda

(Copyright 1967. JTA Inc.)

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