13-07-2018, 02:05 AM
In answer to the several questions from Mr. Lemkin about the Ganis book.
1. Ganis uses unnumbered notes by chapter just as in The Three Barons. The difference is, that in the Three Barons, I tried to put a "direction finder" in each separate item in the note to point to the particular fact that was supported by the note in the particular chapter involved. I started with good intentions and numbered notes, but when you have 110 notes for one chapter as I did, the renumbering becomes brutal if you add or remove even one note. There is apparently no way in Microsoft Word to automatically correlate note numbers between text and notes. I think they do this in Wikipedia, but neither the publisher nor myself had any easy solution.
2. Mr. Ganis states that there is an ongoing effort to find the proper archives to safeguard and store the Skorzeny records. I could recommend the Wisconsin Historical Society in Madison. I have gone through 17 boxes of personal papers of James Dombrowski there. There was one FBI file missing from the boxes. But the WHS had microfilm which I used to fill the gap before I sent them along to Dr. Caufield for his use. The WHS has 20 or 30 microfilm scanners which cost $10,000 each I was told.
3. On the Kammler issue, I have recently read biographies on Gen Karl Wolff, Gen. Walter Schellenberg, Maj. Horst Kopkow (Gestapo and U.K.agent) and also further back Martin Bormann, Skorzeny and Stuka Pilot Hans-Ulrich Rudel. I have on order one on Himmler and another Goring ($12.00 total for two!). Also I read Gregory Douglas' controversial Muller Journals.
I have not seen a lot of info on Kammler. In general, it seems difficult to determine all the people who might have interrogated a particular Nazi. The British used Kopkow, who was the Deputy to Muller at the Gestapo. They used him up at least into the 1960's as a consultant. When the British was using him, they sent the Americans a phony obituary saying that he died in London. He didn't; he lived for years thereafter.
I am confidant that the worldwide Nazi network were in the midst of the JFK plot. But the only members who I have actually seen connected (besides Skorzeny) is Martin Bormann in "Treason For My Daily Bread" by Mikhail Lebedev and Hans-Ulrich Rudel who is connect in the book "One Last Victim" by Gelb and Rosenthal. That latter connection went through Dan Burros whose name was in Oswald's notebook.
Rudel was perhaps the most politically active in an aggressive way. He was part of a Neo-Nazi Party in West Germany just after the War. Unlike almost all the other fugitive Nazis, he was not Catholic and was not involved in the Vatican "ratlines". In fact, Rudel was the son of a Lutheran minister and was very clear about his own personal ethics, patriotism and idealism. Rudel is by far my favorite fugitive Nazi (a dubious honor). He was also a very good writer of memoirs IMO. And he really loved Argentina, too and not without good reason because of the natural beauty there.
One of the shocking things to me that I took away from the Skorzeny Papers was that David Martin was head of the International Relief Organization (IRO). If you are a "Nazi hunter" like me, you probably know that the IRO was the group who provided false ID to the fugitive Nazis.
You probably also know that it was David Martin who decided to knowingly release information on Soviet-Ukrainian double agent Bogdon Stashynsky in November, 1963 to try and mislead the American public into assuming that the Soviets killed JFK. Martin was "foreign relations chief" for Senator Thomas Dodd. Both of these roles were mentioned by Ganis.
James Lateer
1. Ganis uses unnumbered notes by chapter just as in The Three Barons. The difference is, that in the Three Barons, I tried to put a "direction finder" in each separate item in the note to point to the particular fact that was supported by the note in the particular chapter involved. I started with good intentions and numbered notes, but when you have 110 notes for one chapter as I did, the renumbering becomes brutal if you add or remove even one note. There is apparently no way in Microsoft Word to automatically correlate note numbers between text and notes. I think they do this in Wikipedia, but neither the publisher nor myself had any easy solution.
2. Mr. Ganis states that there is an ongoing effort to find the proper archives to safeguard and store the Skorzeny records. I could recommend the Wisconsin Historical Society in Madison. I have gone through 17 boxes of personal papers of James Dombrowski there. There was one FBI file missing from the boxes. But the WHS had microfilm which I used to fill the gap before I sent them along to Dr. Caufield for his use. The WHS has 20 or 30 microfilm scanners which cost $10,000 each I was told.
3. On the Kammler issue, I have recently read biographies on Gen Karl Wolff, Gen. Walter Schellenberg, Maj. Horst Kopkow (Gestapo and U.K.agent) and also further back Martin Bormann, Skorzeny and Stuka Pilot Hans-Ulrich Rudel. I have on order one on Himmler and another Goring ($12.00 total for two!). Also I read Gregory Douglas' controversial Muller Journals.
I have not seen a lot of info on Kammler. In general, it seems difficult to determine all the people who might have interrogated a particular Nazi. The British used Kopkow, who was the Deputy to Muller at the Gestapo. They used him up at least into the 1960's as a consultant. When the British was using him, they sent the Americans a phony obituary saying that he died in London. He didn't; he lived for years thereafter.
I am confidant that the worldwide Nazi network were in the midst of the JFK plot. But the only members who I have actually seen connected (besides Skorzeny) is Martin Bormann in "Treason For My Daily Bread" by Mikhail Lebedev and Hans-Ulrich Rudel who is connect in the book "One Last Victim" by Gelb and Rosenthal. That latter connection went through Dan Burros whose name was in Oswald's notebook.
Rudel was perhaps the most politically active in an aggressive way. He was part of a Neo-Nazi Party in West Germany just after the War. Unlike almost all the other fugitive Nazis, he was not Catholic and was not involved in the Vatican "ratlines". In fact, Rudel was the son of a Lutheran minister and was very clear about his own personal ethics, patriotism and idealism. Rudel is by far my favorite fugitive Nazi (a dubious honor). He was also a very good writer of memoirs IMO. And he really loved Argentina, too and not without good reason because of the natural beauty there.
One of the shocking things to me that I took away from the Skorzeny Papers was that David Martin was head of the International Relief Organization (IRO). If you are a "Nazi hunter" like me, you probably know that the IRO was the group who provided false ID to the fugitive Nazis.
You probably also know that it was David Martin who decided to knowingly release information on Soviet-Ukrainian double agent Bogdon Stashynsky in November, 1963 to try and mislead the American public into assuming that the Soviets killed JFK. Martin was "foreign relations chief" for Senator Thomas Dodd. Both of these roles were mentioned by Ganis.
James Lateer