{"id":38836,"date":"2016-04-05T17:05:57","date_gmt":"2016-04-05T15:05:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/?p=38836"},"modified":"2016-04-02T09:10:27","modified_gmt":"2016-04-02T07:10:27","slug":"04-05-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/?p=38836","title":{"rendered":"The Nazi Who Became a Mossad Hitman"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"\"<\/a>The Nazi Who Became a Mossad Hitman<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/h5>\n

Dan Raviv and Yossi Melman<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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His Hero: Skorzeny meets with Hitler in 1943 after leading the daring rescue of the German leader\u2019s friend and ally, Benito Mussolini.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

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\nOn September 11, 1962, a German scientist vanished. The basic facts were simple: Heinz Krug had been at his office, and he never came home.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

The only other salient detail known to police in Munich was that Krug commuted to Cairo frequently. He was one of dozens of Nazi rocket experts who had been hired by Egypt to develop advanced weapons for that country.\u00a0HaBoker, a now defunct Israeli newspaper, surprisingly claimed to have the explanation: The Egyptians kidnapped Krug to prevent him from doing business with Israel.<\/span><\/p>\n

But that somewhat clumsy leak was an attempt by Israel to divert investigators from digging too deeply into the case \u2014 not that they ever would have found the 49-year-old scientist.<\/span><\/p>\n

We can now report \u2014 based on interviews with former Mossad officers and with Israelis who have access to the Mossad\u2019s archived secrets from half a century ago \u2014 that Krug was murdered as part of an Israeli espionage plot to intimidate the German scientists working for Egypt.<\/span>
\n Moreover, the most astounding revelation is the Mossad agent who fired the fatal gunshots: Otto Skorzeny, one of the Israeli spy agency\u2019s most valuable assets, was a former lieutenant colonel in Nazi Germany\u2019s Waffen-SS and one of Adolf Hitler\u2019s personal favorites among the party\u2019s commando leaders. The F\u00fchrer, in fact, awarded Skorzeny the army\u2019s most prestigious medal, the Knight\u2019s Cross of the Iron Cross, for leading the rescue operation that plucked his friend Benito Mussolini out from the hands of his captors.<\/span><\/p>\n

But that was then. By 1962, according to our sources \u2014 who spoke only on the promise that they not be identified \u2014 Skorzeny had a different employer. The story of how that came to be is one of the most important untold tales in the archives of the Mossad, the agency whose full name, translated from Hebrew, is \u201cThe Institute for Intelligence and Special Missions.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Key to understanding the story is that the Mossad had made stopping German scientists then working on Egypt\u2019s rocket program one of its top priorities. For several months before his death, in fact, Krug, along with other Germans who were working in Egypt\u2019s rocket-building industry, had received threatening messages. When in Germany, they got phone calls in the middle of the night, telling them to quit the Egyptian program. When in Egypt, some were sent letter bombs \u2014 and several people were injured by the explosions.<\/span><\/p>\n

Krug, as it happens, was near the top of the Mossad\u2019s target list.<\/span><\/p>\n

During the war that ended 17 years earlier, Krug was part of a team of superstars at Peenem\u00fcnde, the military test range on the coast of the Baltic Sea, where top German scientists toiled in the service of Hitler and the Third Reich. The team, led by Wernher von Braun, was proud to have engineered the rockets for the Blitz that nearly defeated England. Its wider ambitions included missiles that could fly a lot farther, with greater accuracy and more destructive power.<\/span><\/p>\n

According to Mossad research, a decade after the war ended, von Braun invited Krug and other former colleagues to join him in America. Von Braun, his war record practically expunged, was leading a missile development program for the United States. He even became one of the fathers of the NASA space exploration program. Krug opted for another, seemingly more lucrative option: joining other scientists from the Peenem\u00fcnde group \u2014 led by the German professor Wolfgang Pilz, whom he greatly admired \u2014 in Egypt. They would set up a secret strategic missile program for that Arab country.<\/span><\/p>\n

In the Israelis\u2019 view, Krug had to know that Israel, the country where so many Holocaust survivors had found refuge, was the intended target of his new masters\u2019 military capabilities. A committed Nazi would see this as an opportunity to continue the ghastly mission of exterminating the Jewish people.<\/span><\/p>\n

The threatening notes and phone calls, however, were driving Krug crazy. He and his colleagues knew that the threats were from Israelis. It was obvious. In 1960, Israeli agents had kidnapped Adolf Eichmann, one of the chief administrators of the Holocaust, in far-off Argentina. The Israelis astonishingly smuggled the Nazi to Jerusalem, where he was put on trial. Eichmann was hanged on May 31, 1962.<\/span>
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It was reasonable for Krug to feel that a Mossad noose might be tightening around his neck, too. That was why he summoned help: a Nazi hero who was considered the best of the best in Hitler\u2019s heyday.<\/span><\/p>\n

One of the Mossad\u2019s top priorities was stopping German scientists from working on Egypt\u2019s rocket program.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Read more: The Nazi Who Became…<\/span><\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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