EX-NAZIS ARE BONN ENVOYS IN AFRICA

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CIA-RDP88-01350R000200840003-9
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November 19, 1971
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IL:(L.`Y F02M). 1 9 NOV 1971 Approved For Release 2004/11/01: CIA-RDP88-01350R09~0 0840Qp~-9a -l -~< s danger to colonial rule does not Daily world Foreign Des artrrlent came' from the subject peoples, i'No fewer`than 10 of r,he m eni who today t epiese ut the but from Communist propaganda :West German state in Africa were formerly active sup-` ..." Lippoldes wrote. porters of the racist and colonialist regime of Adolf liit- - Dr.. Gerhard Moltmann, ~ler,"states Dr. Julius Mader of the German Democratic Ambassador to Tunisia. Member of the Nazi party, (Party card no. Republic. in a detailed. scholarly, survey of West Ger 7,005,175). Molt_nann served in.. many's diplomatic corps in Africa... the. Nazi foreign office and .was Dr. Mader may be familiar to Nazi a libassadors posted to Yugoslavia (1933-41) and Americans through a book .which he authored, called "Who's Who in the CIA." The German edition was published in the GDR in 1S38 and was quickly translated into English; it contains hundreds of short, biographical sketches of leading agents. of the Central Intellige;ice Agency and has be- come required reading in some circles. Nazis' co?rrdal plan .Nazi German's colonial plan for seizing Africa was drawn up on Sept. 5, 1940, vrith'the approval of the Nazi foreign ministry-(then usually referred to as "the Wil- helmstrasse.") The plan provided for the "re- occupation" of the former Imper- lal German colonies in Africa: As Or. Mader points out, West Berne, Switzerland (1943-44).. In Germany's ambassadors' to the ' Belgrade in 1911 he helped to pre= independent African states today pare the Nazi invasion of Yugo- are part of this German imper- slavia. He.was "reactivated" as a ialist tradition and ' identified diplomat in I949 as soon' as the themselves with the racist Nazi new Vlest German state was form- ideology. Among the examples ed.. Mader gives are: Now that there is a new, Social' - Dr. Ilardo Brueckner, ,West Democratic government in West German Ambassador to the zaire Germany led by Chancellor Willy Republic (ongo-Kinshasa). Brandt, it can be hoped that "these Brueckner was born in 1910 in and other imperialist 'and- Nazi Austria and was an early recruit "hold-overs" from the German. to the broom-shirted Nazi Sturm past will be cleaned out of Bonns Abteilung (SA), or Storm Troop- diplomatic corps, since they cer- ers, even though the SA eras it- thinly do no "represent" either legal in 'independent Austria in Vlest-Germany-s people,or govern- 1934-33. meet abroad. After the Nazi seizure of Aus- tria in 1938, Brueckner joined.the Nazi party. He got a position in the Cameroon, Tanganyika (now Tan- Nazi foreign ministry, where he zania), Ruanda, and in addition was made responsible for - South the conquest of. French Equator- West Africa (Namibia)1 ial Africa, Nigeria, the Gold Coast , When Brueckner later was (now Ghana), Dahomey, Me transferred to the Nazi Finance Belgian Congo (tile Zaire Repub- Ministry, he was given a com- lie, 'Congo-Kinshasa), the French mendation stating that "the bear- Congo (Con go-ErazzaviIle), Ugan- er has proved by -his behavior da and ICenya.. that he will always unconditional- Today, we can only judge what the , Nazis might have done to. Africa, had they succeeded in "reconquering" it, by what they did in Europe to peoples they con-. sidered racially inferior such as . the Jews, Poles, Russians, and so on. We. do know that prior to the First World. War, vrhen Imperial Germany . ruled several African colonies, its regime was just as brutal as that of any other colon- ial power.:: in. German South West Africa .(now Namibia) for exam- ple, German military forces up to 1914 were fighting a war of ex- termination against the Herrero there, imprisoning the survivors The colonial territories, with in primitive types of. _caA~ '~~iedt lr I lehslYl$'U04'1"'~[0.1a??Q~IA-RDP88-0135OR000200840003-9 tion cams.' - 9 This plan was not implemented ly support the National Socialist because of the Allied defeat of the state." Nazis in World War If. After the war, Brueckmer "did not return to Austria but remained in-West Germany, where he enter- ed the diplomatic.service and was posted to South Africa and often visited and lectured in South West Africa (Namibia). Dr. Ifans-Welhelin Lippold es, Ambassador to Lesotho. Lip- poldes in 1935 wrote Ph.D. dis- sertation for Freiburg University, with the title: "The Javanese Sugar Industry." It was based on his study and research in Java, then. part of the Dutch East In- dies (now Indonesia). Lippoldes wrote: "There/is one character- istic generally lacking among force, can develop fully only with W k o F " C' i t" U E7 1_1 European initiative. "What is the attitude toward the colonizing efforts of the white race? Undoubtedly,' it is the ac- quisition of material goods. The