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| | Genoud was a close associate of George Habash and Jacques Vergès. In September 1969 he contributed finances for the legal expenses of three Palestinians from the [[Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine]] (PFLP) following their attack on an El Al flight in Zurich, present at trial.<ref name=leemartin1987>Lee, Martin A. and Coogan, Kevin (May 1987) "Killers on the Right: Inside Europe's Fascist Underground" Mother Jones. pp.45-52. [https://books.google.com/books?id=recDAAAAMBAJ&q=Francois#v=snippet&q=Francois&f=false]</ref><ref name=maariv19dec1969/> Including among the prisoners to be exchange for the ''Achille Lauro'' hostages was one of West Germany's top neo Nazis.<ref name=leemartin1987/> | | Genoud was a close associate of George Habash and Jacques Vergès. In September 1969 he contributed finances for the legal expenses of three Palestinians from the [[Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine]] (PFLP) following their attack on an El Al flight in Zurich, present at trial.<ref name=leemartin1987>Lee, Martin A. and Coogan, Kevin (May 1987) "Killers on the Right: Inside Europe's Fascist Underground" Mother Jones. pp.45-52. [https://books.google.com/books?id=recDAAAAMBAJ&q=Francois#v=snippet&q=Francois&f=false]</ref><ref name=maariv19dec1969/> Including among the prisoners to be exchange for the ''Achille Lauro'' hostages was one of West Germany's top neo Nazis.<ref name=leemartin1987/> |
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| − | German [[Wehrmacht]] officer in [[World War II]], Otto Ernst Remer was in contact with [[Yasser Arafat]], "I know Mr. Arafat quite well, natürlich," he asserted. "I saw him many times. He invited me to eat at his headquarters. I knew all his people. They wanted many things from us." For Remer, anyone who was an enemy of Israel was his friend, particularly when a profit could be turned. He claimed to have brokered several business deals between West German companies and the PLO.<ref name=martin2013>Lee, Martin A.. The Beast Reawakens: Fascism's Resurgence from Hitler's Spymasters to Today's Neo-Nazi Groups and Right-Wing Extremists. United Kingdom: Taylor & Francis, 2013. [https://books.google.com/books?id=sZ_cAAAAQBAJ&pg=PA181 181-182].</ref> | + | -German [[Wehrmacht]] officer in [[World War II]], Otto Ernst Remer was in contact with [[Yasser Arafat]], "I know Mr. Arafat quite well, natürlich," he asserted. "I saw him many times. He invited me to eat at his headquarters. I knew all his people. They wanted many things from us." For Remer, anyone who was an enemy of Israel was his friend, particularly when a profit could be turned. He claimed to have brokered several business deals between West German companies and the PLO.<ref name=martin2013>Lee, Martin A.. The Beast Reawakens: Fascism's Resurgence from Hitler's Spymasters to Today's Neo-Nazi Groups and Right-Wing Extremists. United Kingdom: Taylor & Francis, 2013. [https://books.google.com/books?id=sZ_cAAAAQBAJ&pg=PA181 181-182].</ref> |
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| − | The W German neo-Nazi Karl von Kyna, fighting for "Palestinians" against Israel, fell in a commando raid on the Suez front in September 1967. | + | -The W German neo-Nazi Karl von Kyna, fighting for "Palestinians" against Israel, fell in a commando raid on the Suez front in September 1967. |
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| − | A handful of W Germans subsequently joined the ''Hilfskorp Arabien'' (Auxiliary Corps Arabia), which had been advertised in Gerhard Frey's Deutsche National-Zeitung in 1968.<br> | + | -A handful of W Germans subsequently joined the ''Hilfskorp Arabien'' (Auxiliary Corps Arabia), which had been advertised in Gerhard Frey's Deutsche National-Zeitung in 1968.<br> |
| − | ''Two years later, West German police arrested Udo Albrecht, founder and leader of the Freikorps Adolf Hitler, who was founded carrying an identification card linking him to El Fatah, the largest PLO faction, led by Yasser Arafat. Albrecht and twelve other neo-Nazi militants had recently fought alongside the Palestinians against Jordan's King Hussein during the battle of Black September,'' 1970.<ref name=martin2013/> | + | -''Two years later, West German police arrested Udo Albrecht, founder and leader of the Freikorps Adolf Hitler, who was founded carrying an identification card linking him to El Fatah, the largest PLO faction, led by Yasser Arafat. Albrecht and twelve other neo-Nazi militants had fought alongside the Palestinians against Jordan's King Hussein during the battle of Black September,'' 1970.<ref name=martin2013/> |
| | + | -Albrecht, who boasted of direct access to PLO Chairman Yasir Arafat, is believed to have used PLO facilities in Lebanon to train West German neo-Nazis.<ref>[https://www.jta.org/archive/criminal-linking-neo-nazis-plo-believed-to-be-in-east-germany Criminal Linking Neo-nazis, PLO Believed to Be in East Germany], JTA, July 30, 1990. |
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| | + | A violent criminal suspected of being the main link between West German neo-Nazis and the Palestine Liberation Organization’s El Fatah faction is believed to be hiding somewhere in East Germany, according to the federal prosecutor in Karlsruhe. |
| | + | Federal sources said Sunday that the East German authorities were cooperating in the search for Udo Albrecht, who is wanted for a series of violent crimes, including bank robbery. |
| | + | According to the prosecution, he fled West Germany in 1981 and found haven in East Germany, which was governed by a Communist regime until earlier this year. |
| | + | Albrecht, who has boasted of direct access to PLO Chairman Yasir Arafat, is believed to have used PLO facilities in Lebanon to train West German neo-Nazis. |
| | + | If the suspicions of the Karlsruhe prosector prove correct, it will be the first conclusive proof that the former East German secret police, the Stasi, not only helped Palestinian terrorists but knowingly protected neo-Nazis. |
| | + | The media has carried reports in recent years indicating that the old East German regime initiated neo-Nazi incidents in West Germany to prove the Federal Republic was a haven for unrepentant Nazis and anti-Semites.</blockquote></ref> |
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