Those who helped Nazi criminals escape

 Unfortunately, global opinion is completely mistaken about what happened at the end of World War II. Films—primarily from the Anglo-Saxon world—have led us to believe that the Nuremberg trials delivered justice against those who had committed crimes unprecedented in human history.

The reality is very different: very few criminals were actually tried and convicted, and—adding insult to injury—most of those convicted were released after just a few years. For instance, more than 99% of the SS members guilty of all manner of atrocities were never even put on trial.

Just when one thinks nothing could be worse than this lack of justice, further elements emerge that push the ordinary citizen's astonishment to unimaginable levels—such as the fact that certain countries that fought to eradicate Nazism, like the United States, helped Nazi criminals evade justice and/or employed them without punishment in covert operations or in shaping the new German administration, including the military and intelligence services.

The subject is an ocean of ignominy, and we can only examine a few drops of that ocean. It is well known that the Vatican helped notorious war criminals escape the limited justice that was actually meted out—facilitating their flight primarily to Spain and South America—and it is also known that the United States utilized Nazi scientist-criminals to develop new weapons via Operation Paperclip. However, let us put names and faces to some of these individuals who are completely unknown to the general public.

One of them is four-star General L.L. Lennitzer—apparently one of the United States' most prestigious military figures. Possessing a hidden and highly dubious track record, not only regarding the Nazis but also concerning plots against President Kennedy.

Lyman Louis Lemnitzer

   According to President J.F. Kennedy, this general was a hysterical anti-communist backed by unscrupulous multinational corporations, as stated in Thierry Meyssan's book *The Big Hoax* (*La Grande Imposture*).

The published secret correspondence of this general demonstrates that he conspired with the commander of U.S. forces in Europe (General Lauris Norstad) and other very high-ranking officers to sabotage J.F. Kennedy's policy.

Lauiris Norstad

Looking back to the World War II era, we see that Lemnitzer was a specialist in covert operations; in 1943, he led negotiations with Italy to secure its defection to the Allied side. In 1944, alongside Allen Dulles in Switzerland, he conducted secret negotiations with the Nazis regarding their capitulation (Operation Sunrise); he participated in establishing NATO's "stay-behind" network—recruiting former Nazi agents to counter a hypothetical Soviet invasion—and contributed to operations that enabled criminals against humanity to escape to Latin America.

1. Operation Sunrise and Karl Wolff

In March 1945, Lemnitzer (then a Major General) traveled secretly to Switzerland alongside OSS officer Allen Dulles to negotiate the early surrender of German forces in Italy with SS General Karl Wolff. 

Karl Wolff on trial en Munich in 1984

The Atrocities: Wolff was the former Chief of Staff to Heinrich Himmler and a high-ranking SS officer heavily implicated in the deportation of hundreds of thousands of Jews to the Treblinka extermination camp. 

Karl Wolff


The Protection: To secure the surrender and prevent Soviet advancement into the region, the Anglo-American negotiators offered Wolff certain assurances. Following the war, U.S. intelligence actively protected Wolff from being prosecuted at the main Nuremberg War Crimes Trials. Lemnitzer’s involvement in these foundational surrender terms ultimately laid the groundwork for Wolff to elude immediate war crimes tribunals. 
In 1964, he was sentenced to 15 years in prison for sending 300,000 Jews to Treblinka, but he was spared once again, as he was released in 1971 due to health reasons.
From then on, he gave lectures on the workings of the SS and his relationship with Himmler. He died in a hospital bed in 1984 at the age of 84.

2. Safeguarding Nazi Scientists for U.S. Military Gain

After the war, Lemnitzer was appointed to the Strategic Survey Committee of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. During the early Cold War, this body oversaw the strategic integration of former Axis assets.

Operation Paperclip: Under this secret program, more than 1,600 German scientists, engineers, and technicians—many of whom were dedicated Nazi Party and SS members—were brought to the United States. 
Rewriting Records: To bypass President Harry Truman’s strict directive forbidding the recruitment of active Nazis or war criminals, military intelligence and the Joint Chiefs routinely expunged, altered, or classified the backgrounds of these specialists. 
The Justification: Lemnitzer strongly advocated for retaining these experts—such as V-2 rocket designer Wernher von Braun—specifically to prevent their advanced technological and military knowledge from falling into the hands of the Soviet Union. 

By prioritizing geopolitical strategy and military advancement over post-war accountability, the administrative apparatus Lemnitzer helped command successfully whitewashed the wartime records of individuals who otherwise faced indictment for crimes against humanity. 

On April 17, 1961, Cuban exiles and mercenaries—in an operation orchestrated by the CIA—landed at the Bay of Pigs (Cuba) to overthrow Fidel Castro. 

Allen.W. Dulles

The operation failed, due in part to the decision by President Kennedy—who had recently taken office—not to provide air support. He dismissed CIA Director Allen Dulles, 

CHarles P. Cabell

Deputy Director Charles Cabell, and "stay-behind" program director Richard Bissell; 

Ricahd M. Bissell

an internal investigation was commissioned, but no concrete measures were taken.

As an example of the trajectory of high-ranking US military officers and membres of the CIA,In July 1962, Bissell joined the Institute for Defense Analyses (IDA) and eventually served as its president.^[7] IDA was a Pentagon think tank set up to evaluate weapons systems. From 1964–74, he worked for the Hartford-based United Technologies, a large military contractor. He also worked as a consultant for the Ford Foundation

Edwin A. Walker

Democratic Senator Albert Gore of Tennessee—father of the future vice president—is overseeing Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearings regarding the military far-right; there are suspicions that the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, General Lyman L. Lemnitzer, was involved in the conspiracy known as the "Walker plot." 

The military officers involved in this plot denounce Kennedy's refusal to authorize military intervention in Cuba, regarding him as a traitor, and hold the CIA civilians responsible for the poor planning. 

A plan for a new military operation dubbed "Northwoods" was proposed. General Lemnitzer himself presented the plan to the expanded Special Group on March 13, 1962, but Robert McNamara rejected it entirely, sparking six months of hostility between the Kennedy administration and the Joint Chiefs of Staff. The plan entailed various false-flag operations designed to force U.S. military intervention in Cuba, several of which involved the loss of innocent American lives.

The President is assesinated in November 22th 1963.