6 Friday, September 19, 1975

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THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS

Interpol's Continued Ties to the Third Reich

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able after substantial con- French police groomed in classes of crimes is not
Paul Dickopf's career in • : HOUSEHOLD SALES • .
ning and trickery. It ap- the prescriptive tradition of new. These theories were the German Federal Police •
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pears that there is a Policing and prohibiting as a published previously in the is marked by his refusal to . • MARION GASPAS . •
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conspiracy to withhold and method of prevention of Nazi Interpol official jour- support the German author- :
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From 1968-1972 Paul ing Nazi criminals.
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haps more than others. It is, Dickopf, Chief of the Ger-
terpol and its executives.
"For example, in Switzer- therefore, not astonishing man Federal Police (BKA)
land, the Foreigners' Police, that the Nazis found so was President of Interpol.
(Fremdenpolizei) has a 11/2- many collaborators within Before the war he had been
inch thick file on Dick- the French police. Once an active Nazi officer in the
opf(Interpol president). their reliability was se- SS (No. 337259) and mem-
By S.A. BARRAM
When I asked for the file, I cured, they attained a lim- ber of the SD.
"I was born in Germany was told that one of the in- ited amount of autonomy His exposure, this past
in 1925 and shortly before stitutions which has to be and this was maintained as year, evoked reactions from
the outbreak of the war my asked by the Swiss police, long as the French police the BKA and Interpol. Both
parents and I emigrated to would be Interpol, although functioned to uphold the issued denials and a white-
Israel. Dickopf was dead at that Nazi regime. And for this wash. (See Barram's article,
"In Germany I was an time; not an executive of the reason, the French Police The Jewish News, July 11,
emerged from the occupa- 1975, Page 48.)
eyewitness to some of the organization anymore.
After the war, he re-
atrocities of the "Kristall-
"It seems, that the loyalty tion with disgrace.
nacht" and also saw my of the Swiss police to a dead The four years of collabo- turned to Germany and
father, who was a Polish cit- man is greater than to the ration between Ducloux, Si- joined the police. His rise
izen, being deported to Po- public. There are many cot and Nepote in the Surete under the membership of
land. more examples like this. Nationale headquarters Globke and Dullien, was
"These experiences left an Needless to point out that during the Nazi occupation rapid. It is noteworthy that
unforgettable impression on the perusal of the file was of Paris formed a distinct both of his mentors were ex-
me and created the desire to refused. bond between the three — a posed as Nazis.
Dullien became a member
research and understand
"It was also not easy to bond of complicity.
The re-birth of Interpol of the SS and NSDAP in
the phenomenon of racial capture the attention of the
persecution.
public — even the Jewishwas not without obstacles. 1933; his party number was
"However, only during public. I have encountered Indeed, in the spring of 1853922.
During the war Dullien
the last several years could I indifference, apathy, doubt 1946, the U.S. government
fully devote myself to re- and most of all — an unwill- was opposed to participat- was the chief of Depart-
search and writing and ingness to challenge and ing at the meeting of dele- ment III in the General
FOR HER... FOR HIM!
since then I have published expose Interpol.
gates to an Interpol Assem- Commissariate of Wolhy-
a number of papers on the
"But, I also found encour- bly in that year in Brussels. nia and Podolia and
No moving parts.
Nothing to
origins of Nazism and mod- agement and help from Si-
This meeting was called Reichskommissar of the
wear out. Micro-miniature circuits transmit
ern trends of violence which mon Wiesenthal, Colonel the 15th Assembly and the Ukraine. His department
impulses to the light-emitting diode. when the
have their roots in Nazism. Kas of the Austrian Minis- continuity of Interpol was was in charge of the loot-
"About 11/2 years ago, try of Interior and Vaughn stressed during the meet- ing of the occupied areas
button is depressed.
and his senior was the war
when I started to investi- Young of the National Corn- brig.
FASHION'S FIRST
An executive body was criminal Koch.
gate the phenomenon of in- mission for Law Enforce-
established which consisted
ternational terrorism, my ment in the U.S.
Globke was co-author of
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attention was drawn to
"In the course of time, a of President Louwage, Vice the dictatorship laws and of
JEWELERS
Interpol, as an interna- valuable and fruitful ex- President J. Edgar Hoover, the racial laws in Nazi Ger-
LINCOLN CENTER • OAK PARK
tional police organization, change of documents and in- General Secretary Ducloux many and as such shared
We honor Master Charge and SorlkAmericard
which has the potential of formation developed be- and three reporters; Ronald the burden of the responsi-
effective combat of terror- tween Dr. Wiesenthal, Howe of Scotland Yard, bility for the "Final Solu-
Werner Muller of the Swiss
ism, but fails to do so. Young and myself."
Since the end of the war, Police and Harry Soderman
Trying to find the reasons
for its passivity, I learned "fellow travelers" and col- from Sweden. It must be
that Interpol also refuses laborators of the Nazis re- noted that Hoover was
to get involved with the peatedly promulgated the elected in spite of the fact
biggest crime in history — story that they "had been that the U.S. did not partici-
genocide.
deceived and betrayed by pate and Hoover was not
"This spurred me on a the Nazis" but in their among the delegates.
thorough investigation of hearts had opposed the sys-
It is of significance that
Interpol, its history and the tern. Whereas this may have out of the six aforemen-
men behind it. During two been legitimate in some tioned executives only two
trips to the Continent, I was cases, it is not true of offi- did not collaborate with the
able to uncover unimpeach- cers of the police force.
Nazis during the war —
able documents, which show
The development of the Hoover and Howe.
that the organization is not German police system into a Louwage's successor was
only ineffective in the corn- repressive totalitarian force Agostino Lourenco of Por-
bat of ordinary crime, but upholding the regime tugal, who was succeeded by
its attitude towards terror- started with the seizure of Franssen of Belgium, both
ists and war criminals, is power by the Nazis in 1933. collaborators of war time
politically motivated. During the war, in the occu- Interpol.
"Some of the documents pied territories, the Nazis
Although the newly
applied the same principle drawn up constitution was
of concentration, central- based on the Universal Dec-
ized control and intensified laration of Human Rights,
militarization to the foreign the organization has vio-
police forces. lated its Constitution and
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The most effective, effi- some critics say that the
THE LOST ART
cient and ruthless tool to spirit of the Nazi-Interpol
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bring into line the foreign era has survived the collapse
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police forces, were the Secu- of the Third Reich and
home of the immaculate
WHERE PEOPLE STILL COME FIRST
ray Police and Security found an outlet in this or
fit in custom, tailored-to-
Service
(SIPO
and
SD).
ganization.
measure or quality brand X

(Editor's note: At the
request of The Jewish
News, London scholar
S.A. Barram gives some
autobiographical data and
the reasons for his interest
in the Nazi regime and In-
terpol — the international
police organization. Bar-
ram's letter, and the third
article in a series by him
on the Nazi control of In-
terpol follow.)

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