EX-NAZIS ARE BONN ENVOYS IN AFRICA
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November 19, 1971
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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
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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