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WANTED: Did Nazi Criminal Alois Brunner train Syria’s Security Forces ?
02-Feb-2012
Resident in Syria - possibly dead. Commander of Paris internment camp, deported thousands to death camps under orders of Adolf Eichmann. Convicted in absentia in France but never punished. To this day Alois Brunner - now 90 - has successfully evaded capture. He is believed to live in Damascus using the name of his cousin Georg Fischer, though in December 1999, there were unconfirmed reports that he had died in 1996 and was buried in a Damascus cemetery. Brunner is reported to have been a security adviser to the Syrian government long before Hafez Assad came to power in 1970. He's said to have invented a torture machine—a variant on the medieval rack.
Presumably Dead?:
French correspondent Georges Malbrunot’s article in Le Figaro suggests that Alois Brunner probably died in Syria in 1996 and buried at Dar Dah cemetery in the outskirts of Damascus ( see article in French Here)
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About Alois Brunner: Alois Brunner was born in Austria in 1912 and joined the Austrian Nazi Party in 1931 at the age of 19. His anti-Semitism was considered to be so extreme that he was swiftly tapped to be Adolf Eichmann’s private secretary. As head of the Nazi’s Jewish affairs office in prewar Vienna, he organized persecution that forced thousands of Jews to flee to other European countries and the United States. When World War II started, he sent 47,000 Austrian Jews to concentration camps. After organizing mass roundups in Berlin, he transferred to Greece, where he was responsible for deporting all 43,000 Jews in Salonika within just two months. In June 1943, he was sent to France to take over the Drancy transit camp near Paris from its French administrators. During 14 months in France, Brunner sent an estimated 25,000 men, women and children to their deaths. A survivor, Georges Appel, later recalled that Brunner's mean, cruel demeanor was matched only by his immoral behavior: "He would beat elderly women, and ordered the inmates to prepare Postcards saying that all was well with them." These were mailed after they had been sent to the gas chambers ..
Brunner often sought after young Jewish women, either pregnant or with infants, to join the deportation to the Nazi death camps. As he said: "I can't let children live. They will be future terrorists."
Once Brunner ordered the arrest and deportation of more than 200 French Jewish children. They were loaded aboard the crude cattle cars without any adults to accompany them and were never seen again, according to author Didier Epelbaum in his 1990 book Alois Brunner.
But German journalists visiting Syria in 1999 said Brunner was living at the Meridian Hotel in Damascus under police protection. Brunner is easily identifiable, having lost an eye and several fingers from letter bombs sent him years ago by French and Israeli security agents. With the release of Adolf Eichmann's memoirs, Alois Brunner, whom Eichmann once called his best man, was again in the news. Brunner was already sentenced to death in absentia in France in 1953 and 1954; more recently, a new suit was filed there based on his sending children to Auschwitz. Previous attempts to persuade Syria to release Brunner failed. Germany applied for his extradition in 1987, and in 1991 the European Parliament voted to condemn Syria for continuing to harbor the alleged war criminal. In 1995 German State prosecutors in Cologne and Frankfurt posted a $333,000 reward for information leading to the arrest of the last leading Nazi still believed to be on the loose. Germany, Austria, Slovakia, France and Poland currently seek his extradition but until now the Syrians have ignored all attempts to extradite him, including those by Simon Wiesenthal.
The famous Nazi-hunter and Holocaust survivor Simon Wiesenthal has made the pursuit of Nazi war criminals his life's work and has spent more than half his life doggedly gathering information on the whereabouts of fugitive Nazis. In his introduction to
In the Lion's Mouth by Joan Campion he writes: "As these words are written, Alois Brunner, perhaps the most outstanding surviving Nazi war criminal, is living as a free man in Damascus, Syria. Human justice did not get to this man. He committed his crimes not only in Slovakia, but also in Austria, France, Greece, and Yugoslavia, yet he has nothing to fear. All attempts to have him extradited have been refused. It seems that in Syria the murder of Jews is not a crime." Brunner was interviewed about 15 years ago in the Austrian news magazine Bunte. He said he did not suffer from a bad conscience for, in his own words, "getting rid of that garbage." His one regret was that he hadn't murdered more Jews. In 1987 in a telephone interview Alois Brunner told the Chicago Sun Times: "The Jews deserved to die. I have no regrets. If I had the chance I would do it again …" (See Original Source Here)****************************************
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SYRIAN REGIME's CRIMES AGAINST HUMANITY
Unconfirmed Footage coming out of Syria hint
to rutheless Methods of Extermination of civilians
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Video shows entire family massacred in Homs (FRANCE 24) Activists in the Syrian city of Homs released a particularly worrisome video Friday. It shows the bodies of at least ten people – of whom five are children, four are women and one is a man – laid out in a room. Their bodies are covered in blood, and some of them are disfigured. According to one of our Observers in Homs, Rami H. (not his real name), this video shows a family from the neighbourhood of Karm Al Zaytoun. He says all 14 members of this family were killed on January 26 when “chabbihas”, militiamen who work with Syria’s security forces and army, paid a visit to the neighbourhood. According to Rami H., who spoke with neighbourhood residents, the chabbihas barged into several houses, apparently picked at random. Then, according to the residents, they took the people they found in these homes out into the street and ran them over with cars. New images of killings in Syria are posted to YouTube every day. However, this video particularly shocked Syrian web users, because they show women and children – the youngest of whom seems to be at most two years old – killed in what is described as a random and barbaric manner. According to Rami H., 29 people were killed Thursday in the neighbourhood of Karm Al Zaytoun alone. WARNING TO SENSITIVE VIEWERS GRUESOME !
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Human rights groups working in Syria say that at least 28,000 people are missing after being taken from their homes or grabbed in the street by Syrian soldiers or militia. Some suggest the figure may be much higher.
But even the conservative estimates would mean the number who have "disappeared" in just 19 months equals the number of people kidnapped during Argentina's long "Dirty War" that began in the 1970s.
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"There are never independent European roles.."
by Rea on Tue Sep 04, 2012 04:32 AM PDTSadly, he's right there.
As for fear of return. Only if some sort of general abolition law was declared. To make sure people are not imprisoned, for any n all reasons, upon their return.
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(CNN) -- As violence raged in Syria, a government official Monday urged citizens who have fled the nation to come home immediately, saying they have no reason to fear.
"There is nothing at all which prevents the return of any Syrian citizen," Information Minister Omran al-Zoubi said.
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Footage broadcast on state TV on Friday showed scenes of destruction in the Baba Amr district of Homs.
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Describing the Syrian conflict as a civil war, former National Front (FN) leader Jean-Marie Le Pen said that it was “not abnormal for the Syrian state to defend itself,” and that Bashar al-Assad should not face criticism from countries who fought Nazi Germany during World War II.
His comments came just days after his daughter, presidential candidate Marine Le Pen, was grilled on the subject herself. Appearing in a live TV debate on state channel France 2, Le Pen junior managed to evade the issue by arguing that there weren’t “only bad guys or good guys” in Syria. “I just hope Bashar al-Assad won’t be replaced by Islamist fundamentalists,” she concluded, firmly dodging the question.
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He then went on to dismiss the deaths of 6,000 people killed in the conflict, weighing the casualty count against that of Allied operations during World War II. “Yes, there is shelling every minute, every two minutes [in Syria]… But within just 30 seconds in Tokyo, 100,000 civilians were killed. In Nagasaki, Hiroshima, 80,000 were killed. In Dresden, 200,000. The people who carried out these bombings on civilians should keep quiet about Mr Assad and his 6,000 deaths over six months.”Adding insult to injury, Le Pen also read out a poem by French Nazi sympathizer Robert Brasillach.
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Former far-right head Jean-Marie Le Pen has defended Syria’s Bashar al-Assad on French radio, claiming Allied forces during World War II had far more blood on their hands.Paid killer in Syria describes his work
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A self-described assassin for the Syrian government says he has killed as many as 70 people and once slit a man's throat.
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by Darius Kadivar on Thu Feb 09, 2012 01:29 AM PSTSyrian activist: Infants, medics killed (cnn)
Four consecutive days of shelling and bombing by Syrian government forces into the besieged city of Homs have left residents cowering, afraid to escape and fearing for their lives.
That's how activists in Homs described the situation Wednesday. One, identified for his safety only as Abu Rami, said he heard explosions every few minutes from bombs launched by unseen forces outside the city limits.
Not even infants or medical crews have been spared, he said, calling it "a huge crime against humanity."
"They are shelling from a far distance," Abu Rami said. "They are using many kinds of weapons -- heavy weapons, anti-aircraft, they are using nail bombs."
Children flee artillery assault on Homs
by Darius Kadivar on Tue Feb 07, 2012 08:43 AM PSTChildren flee artillery attackWatch (VIDEO, BBC)
As the Syrian army launched a fresh assault on Homs, pounding the city with mortars and artillery fire, footage has been released showing the impact on civilians and children in particular.
The United Nations Children's Fund said heavy shelling of civilian neighbourhoods in the city of Homs was "undoubtedly causing further suffering for more children".
As people tried to leave a building which had come under fire, a man carrying two children followed by a crying child could be seen fleeing to safety, as Lucy Hockins explained.
Syria forces 'target the field hospital'
by Darius Kadivar on Mon Feb 06, 2012 09:47 AM PSTSyria forces 'target the field hospital' (BBC, AUDIO)
6 February 2012 Last updated at 10:36 GMTHelp
A field hospital in the Syrian city of Homs has been targeted by government forces and civilians are being killed, reports say.
A resident, who calls himself Omar, told the BBC that the government had stepped up its violent crackdown since Russia and China vetoed a UN resolution on Syria.
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'Nowhere to hide' : Syrian Army steps up Homs shelling
by Darius Kadivar on Mon Feb 06, 2012 09:45 AM PST'Nowhere to hide'Watch NEW (BBC, VIDEO)
6 February 2012 Last updated at 17:24 GMTHelp
Residents in the restive Syrian city of Homs are suffering one of the fiercest assaults from government troops since the uprising began.
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China and Russia have defended their decisions to veto a draft UN resolution on Syria.
The BBC's Paul Wood, and cameraman Fred Scott, are among the few foreign journalists to report from inside Homs.
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مآمورFri Feb 03, 2012 07:44 PM PST
this viedo of yours Mr Kadivar in your comment on sandis and Ahmadinejad has actualy embarrased me!!! dont I, the official agent of IRI, dare!!!
As u have realized, floating with the flow is much easier than defending our homeland Iran, if u r living abroad and in a western countr. getting in video with Ahmadi and saying all those things could potentialy get u in trouble where I live!!!!
good to see some courageous iranians.
I wear an Omega watch
No worries Sirius Jan those good ol' days will be back soon ...
by Darius Kadivar on Fri Feb 03, 2012 04:19 PM PSTEnjoy your Sandis in the meantime ...
And, making a comment about
by Sirius on Fri Feb 03, 2012 08:13 AM PSTAnd, making a comment about Iranian.com, if it is not out of order...
When I discovered this site, I don't remember if 5 or 6 years ago, I was pleased to see the very good taste and intellectual ambiance that pervade this forum.
In the other forums in which I participate(d) I always said: "Go to Iranian.com ... go to see how intelligent, honest and well mannered are the participants of this forum. You will find here of everything, from Poetry, Photo Essays, intelligent and as much as possible, objective articles, etcetera. No comparison between, say, the Cuban exiles - a gang of thugish pornographers, that just claim for terrorism and invasion against the birthland - and this intelligent and even somehow patriotic Iran exiles".
However, every time that tensions between Iran and the USA escalate, this site overflows with the same thugisness and mendacity as any regular US corporate Media.
( Like equating "Syrians = Nazis"... who they think they are fooling, I wonder? )
However, I hope that the good things that this site still have, survives for a long time.
Regards.