Franz Hoover sent the Jews of Austria to their deaths, but was protected by the CIA • He never paid for his crimes and even lived comfortably under his full name • "The Americans used him"
Franz Hoover (left)
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New documents released by the BND archives, the German West Intelligence Service reveal a shocking and difficult-to-digest case in which Gestapo General Franz Josef Hoover, who was not tried at the Nuremberg trials after the war and even received full protection from the CIA and Western German intelligence services Reinhard Gehlen.
In order for us to better understand who Franz Hoover was, it is enough to tell how he sent tens of thousands of Austrian Jews to the extermination camps to their deaths, working closely with the German criminal Adolf Eichmann.
Franz was the head of the Gestapo in Vienna and tortured tens of thousands of people in his offices.
He never judged his actions and served the United States and West Germany after the war under his full name, without ever expressing remorse for his past or paying a price for his actions.
The affair of the German general began after his fall into American captivity at the end of World War II in 1945.
He fully cooperated with American scholars and was marked as a senior and very effective anti-communist.
The Americans believed that he could help them establish a new intelligence system against the communist system of the Soviet Union.
A CIA document published in the New York Times wrote of Hoover in 1953: "Although we do not diminish or ignore the risk and responsibility of operating a general of the Ghetto, we also believe based on the information we have that Hoover can serve this organization well and effectively (the CIA). A.g.) ".
This cooperation allowed the Americans to prevent Hoover's testimony at the Nuremberg trials when in fact they were protecting him and preventing other parties from demanding that he pay for his actions.
Whoever was happy to recruit the man was the well-known Nazi general and founder of the West German intelligence system, Reinhard Gehlen.
He headed German intelligence in World War II against the Soviet Union, and after the war was asked to establish a new and more effective system that would fight the Soviets and Wiggis agents to the West.
As part of this cover story, Gehlen recruited former Nazi Germans to the West German intelligence system.
In doing so he was able to protect them from trial or payment for their actions.
The historian of the German intelligence organization BND, Bodo Hecklemmer, says in a new television program revealing the documents on the recruitment of German war criminals that "the West had a burning need to recruit extremist anti-communist agents and people to fight Soviet intelligence."
According to the CIA and FBI historian, 1,000 senior Nazi officials recruited for their activities around the world, including Adolf Eichmann's deputy and his final solution partner Otto von Bolswing, who was a CIA spy who was retired and living a comfortable life in California without being prosecuted.
With regard to General Franz Hoover, he worked for the German intelligence until 1967, even though the organization knew about his past.
After his retirement, Hoover continued to live by his real name in the city of Munich when he never expressed remorse or disapproval of his actions and crimes.
