With Syria teetering on brink, if the reigme there is over thrown, maybe the world will finally get some answers on Alois Brunner... Alois Brunner - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia long dead i'm sure, but confirmation would be nice.
Agreed, most likely dead now. Not sure if we will get the full story either though. Totalitarian states like to destrory their embarrasing fact before they fall. Two reports recently worry me. Early this week is was stated that Assad has lost control of the countryside and this morning reports that Syria was moving WMD's out of storage. This could get supremely ugly very quickly.
Interesting. I've never thought of that before. IF they can win, it depends on whether rebels feel like spilling secrets to the international community. Given the lack of support from NATO, I'm not sure how "liberal" they would be about spreading state secrets. Its not like they would have anything to thank them for. Its not like Libya, where NATO saved the rebels from being pushed into the sea and destroyed the best of Gaddafi's military. The best bet for having this information released is if a top government functionary defects. When the top diplomats started to defect from Libya, they always were ready to talk. I suspect that Syria would be the same. On the topic of missing war criminals, I'd be more interested to hear what happened to 'Gestapo' Mueller.
The head of the Gestapo's fate has always fascinated me, especially considering Hans Baur quoted Muller as saying, in the fuhrerbunker, during the last days... 'We know the Russian methods exactly. I haven't the faintest intention of being taken prisoner by the Russians.'...Heinrich Muller 1 May 1945 To me, that sounds like a man who knows what is happening, and who has a plan. Killed himself? Doubt it. Escaped to South America? Quite possibly. Became a CIA asset at the start of the cold war, despite the release of CIA files stating they have no knowledge/involvement with Muller? Most likely
*bump* for an update- "One of the world's most wanted Nazi criminals died in exile in Syria four years ago and will never be brought to justice, a leading Nazi hunter has said. Alois Brunner, who would have been 102 years old today, is allegedly buried in Damascus, where he is said to have been working as a government adviser on torture. Brunner has frequently been described as the 'right hand man' of Adolf Eichmann, the architect of the Holocaust, and was responsible for the deportation of 128,500 Jews to death camps. Brunner fled to Syria in the 1950s and advised government on torture Dr Efraim Zuroff, director of the Simon Wiesenthal Center's Israel office and chief investigator in Brunner's case, said he is '99 per cent sure' Brunner is dead and buried in Syria, after receiving new intelligence from a 'reliable source. A former German secret service agent who had served in the Middle East has confirmed what the organisation had feared, Dr Zuroff told the BBC, which is that Brunner has been dead for at least four years." http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2856148/Nazi-hunters-believe-wanted-war-criminal-Alois-Brunner-buried-Damascus.html#ixzz3KhOc2uSF
And *bumped* for another update- Alois Brunner - of the world's most wanted Nazi criminals who invented mobile gas-vans to kill Jews during WW2 - met his death in a squalid cellar in Damascus 16 years ago. The fate of Brunner has been one of the lingering mysteries left over from WW2. But on Wednesday a French magazine reported that the monster, who described Jews as 'human garbage', met his end in the country which gave him sanctuary after 1945. Veteran Nazi-hunter Serge Klarsfeld said from his Paris home that he had read the report in the magazine XXI and found it 'highly credible.' Brunner, who was 89 in 2001, was one of the most notorious of Nazi killers during the Holocaust which claimed six million Jewish lives." http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4108854/Nazi-war-criminal-Alois-Brunner-invented-mobile-gas-vans-kill-Jews-died-years-squalor-living-Syrian-cellar-revealed.html#ixzz4VSmbJg00
