Private Citizen Goes Undercover, Performs Sting on High-Ranking Nazi
After years of deep research and undercover work in Germany, a private American citizen posing as a neo-Nazi sympathizer has implicated Bernhard Frank, alleged to be the high-ranking Nazi officer who signed the “start order” that commenced the genocide of Europe’s Jewish population.
Having met Frank and gained his trust over four years, Holocaust scholar Mark Gould confronted the SS Colonel last Thursday during a videotaped meeting in Frankfurt, Germany, listing his alleged crimes against humanity and presenting a copy of a lawsuit newly filed in U.S. Federal Court in the District of Columbia.
“It’s been over six decades since Bernhard Frank took a pivotal role in the Nazis’ extermination program, but given the cover-up of his identity and the lack of criminal remedies, this led to the decision to file a civil suit and to publish his crimes — at the very least, allowing the civilized world to recognize and condemn his deeds,” said Gould, whose Jewish relatives were among those murdered as a result of the orders signed by Frank.
The civil action charges Frank with genocide, torture, kidnapping, and crimes against humanity. The suit was brought by Gould along with Burton Bernstein, the brother of composer Leonard Bernstein, both of whose relatives were murdered during the Holocaust.
“We believe that this case is unprecedented and historic in that it represents the first time that heirs of those murdered by Nazi atrocities have brought civil suit against one of the perpetrators of the Holocaust,” stated Gould’s lead attorney, Nitsana Darshan-Leitner. “There have been criminal prosecutions, but no one has ever located a Nazi war criminal and brought a civil suit. For those long frustrated by the criminal justice system, this provides a bold new approach for survivors to take action, hunt war criminals themselves and prosecute them in civil court.”
Co-counsel Robert Tolchin agrees that, “in the history of Holocaust cases, institutions have been sued, but never a victim suing an individual perpetrator.”
Gould, with the consensus of international academics, asserts that now-97-year-old Frank was a senior official of the Nazi elite Schutzstaffe (SS) who rose to the rank of Obersturmbannfuhrer (Lieutenant Colonel), reporting directly to Himmler and later to Hitler. In videotaped interviews, Frank himself confirms that, on July 28, 1941, he personally signed the “start order” allowing the first mass execution of Jews in the Pripjet Swamps near the Polish, Belarussian/Ukrainian border. This effectively served as the flashpoint of the Holocaust.
WHen you read about Frank, it also brings up the question why certain Nazi officials were allowed to go free or received very light sentences. Two individuals that come to mind are Albert Speer and Karl Wolff. Speer clearly should have been executed along with the main Nuremberg defendents and Wolff was basically allowed to live a lie, including obviously fabricated lies about his lack of knowledge of the “Final Solution”.
If the world really wanted to get rid of every Nazi, it would have been easy after the WWII. We, the United States, for example, could have executed all those thousands we brought here to aid in our war effort.
What did Mr. Wiesenthal really accomplish? Mr. Gould spent four years to ‘capture’ Frank who lived openly in Germany. If memory serves he even published his memoirs?
The sad fact is that nobody, except some Jews, cares.
Himler’s daughter plays openly the Nazi princess and runs the Stille Hilfe, the modern day ODESSA.
I think it’s never too late for the hit teams to be deployed.
When one thinks of “hit teams” the first thing to mind is likely highly-trained professional soldiers supported by the full force of nation states. Maybe that’s how it should be; but I look at those more likely as being creaky and wheezy old men with some money in the bank and much in the way of years in the head, men who know why, even if the doing is as hard as shovelling snow off the driveway. I think we should be happy to leave younger men to live and raise families and go forth in the world to do great things for themselves and their families, leaving the other work of the world to old men. James Bond might well be good at “hitting” people, but I think I’d have more faith in Mr. Smith who used to be the western regional sales rep. for Acme Widget corp. Common sense, maturity, experience in the world, a genuine understanding that not all can be done but that some things must be done, these are things we might appreciate in one meting out right justice. Let evil men come to fear the sound of cracking bocce balls!
In this amazing story, I am struck, as is everyone, by the heroic dedication of Mark Gould, whose belief in justice was so deep and strong that he willingly submitted himself to four years of physical danger so great that he without doubt would have been so horribly tortured and mutilated that death would have been a blessing. Perhaps more than the physical risks Gould ran was the tremendous emotional burden he willingly took on himself, not only from seeking justice for his murdered family, and all the victims of the Holocaust; but also from the crushing despair and hopelessness which is simply unavoidable from immersing oneself in the Holocaust. It is a task which has destroyed many people, because it crushed all the joy and hope out of them…sometimes forever. Gould showed incredible moral stamina to brave the soul-choking depression which lurked in his files. His deeds are worthy of the heroes of legend.
But I was also struck by another spiritual aspect of this hunt for The Last Nazi. What impressed itself on me was, if ever there was proof that the atheism of our modern blood-drenched wretches was committed and absolute, it is Frank. I can hardly conceive how Frank, a 97-year-old with so many, many acts of torture and cruelty to his credit that they must be in the countless thousands, if not millions, can possibly be so smugly dismissive of eternity that he is STILL spreading his poisonous hatred as the very death angel hovers above his head! The mind boggles at the hideous callousness and arrogant cruelty of his soul.
Forget earthly justice, which can hardly touch such a ancient and spiritually deformed creature at this very late point in his existence. The real question is how, HOW, can he apparently not give a single thought to whether he might ever stand in spiritual judgment for his numberless ghastly crimes against his fellow humans? All those men, women and tiny children he had killed, and surely by almost every torturous method man can devise; and yet Frank can still express his revulsion that Jews ever drew breath on the same earth inhabited by his own exalted being. My God, what vanity!
Say what you will, but without atheism as a central tenet of Hitler’s vile philosophy, Bernhard Frank, and all the Nazis, could never have been possible. What conceit it takes for one to convince himself there is no power higher than man.
Well said Sardondi!
Simple. He does not believe the same things you believe. He does not even have to be an atheist, consider how many Inquisitors back in the 1600′s not only were devout Christians, but they took part in the torture and killing. (This is not an attack on Christianity. Most relegions have similar people in their history, it is close to universal.)
I am surprised. You have before you the atheistic nihilism of Hitler (as well as the other 20th-century tyrants I invoked, led chiefly by Mao, Stalin and Pol Pot, all proudly and famously atheist), and you attempt to somehow…I don’t know what it is…counterbalance? embarrass?…the historical facts into submissive silence with a shrill cry of “The Inquisition!”. Not only is it so very overused by atheists, but an embarrassingly weak argument (maybe it would have carried more weight if you had included the usual reference to Torquemada).
I must say, as the best atheist counter to the Holocaust, that I never expected The Spanish Inquisition!
Well said.
But gibberish to atheists.
The very idea that WWII Nazis have a fan club is sickening.
“Speer clearly should have been executed”
Because? There were lots bigger fish than Speer that actually committed crimes and didn’t spend 20 years in solitary confinement as Speer did. I suppose the worst you could pin on Speer is using slave labor for his armament projects but as far as my research tells me he never signed an order to have anyone murdered or put to death. Speer was a technocrat that sold his soul to the man in charge for the opportunity to do what he was trained to do, design buildings. Speer says he did not attend the Wanasee conference, or at least had left by the time the “final solution” issue was discussed. I hardly think that would be reason for a death penalty. I think the sentence he received was much fairer than what thousands of former Nazis received, absolutely nothing.
Speer also claimed at the trial that he had made some half-hearted attempt to assassinate Hitler, by the utterly appropriate means of poison gas. That probably swung the judges in his favor.
Speer was the only Nazi leader to accept responsibility for the crimes of the regime. That most likely figured prominently in saving his life.
In the actual decision, the Soviet and American judges voted for death and the British and French judges for imprisonment. Speer did protect many of artworks and institutions in France from the looting of lessor Nazis and many have speculated that the French spared his life in response.
Barney Frank a former SS officer????!!!!!! I love it! I knew it all the time!!! ……… oh, Bernhard.
never mind……
When you understand that the Nazi’s murdered close to six million Jews including over one million children, that they deliberately allowed up to three million Russian POW’s to starve or freeze or be worked to death and they murdered millions more Slav’s, Russians and Poles you might gain in inkling of understanding why the pursuit and prosecution of these Nazi monsters will never be completed until they are all dead. Either by natural means or at the end of a rope.
Wow another PJ article on Nazis, Holocaust, Iran, Israel, Pals, Israel, Islam, ..did we say Israel?
Pajamas Media has degenerated into nothing more than another Jewish
propaganda organ. Much like every other Jewish owned mass media
outlet in the USA. You know like Viacom, Washington Post, New York Times
Time, NBC, CBS, ABC, US News and World Report, Random House Books,
Disney, Paramount, MGM..and on and on and on. All the mainstream outlets
that Pajamas Media pretended it was going to be different from.
Hey tell ya what..when will Pajamas media talk about Holocaust Denial..
oh no not THAT Holocaust..every sane person admits that happened..I want
to see a series of Pajamas Media articles on the other BIGGER Holocaust..the Jewish run Communist Revolution that killed 300 million world wide. The Communist Revolution where nearly every major figure from Marx to Engels, to Trotsky to Kagonovich, to all the Communist Front organizations and Student Far Left organizations in the USA were and still are in fact JEWISH owned and operated. Think we could have that in Pajamas Media? Hmmm? The only reason Jews started up Pajamas Media is that, as always, their campaigns of destruction waged on goy society..mass immigration, mass liberalism, mass media indoctrination mass indebtedness have gone so far they are threatening to dissolve the
social structure the Jews live off of. Tnen and only then did they decide to stop.
People of Jewish descent are overrepresented in communism and socialism in general because social is a political pathology of intellectuals and Jewish culture produces a disproportionate high percentage of intellectuals. It the same dynamic that explains why upper class urban families produced more communist as well. The more books a population reads, the more likely they are to fall for some bit of intellectual stupidity.
However, it is quite clear that prior to WWII Jewish socialist were relentlessly secular and indeed were seeking a political ideology that would let suppress and erase their Jewish heritage. After all, all Communist are atheist and Jewish identity is centered on religion so its clear that “Jewish” communist were no longer interested in identifying themselves as Jewish. Communist sought to erase all existing cultures and replace them with a single utopian communist culture. That is not a Jewish way of thinking.
Jew are disproportionately represented in many industries for the simple fact that all ethnic groups are disproportionately represented in different industries. An American engineer, for example, is even today much more likely to have a german surname than any other European surname. Not to mention how Asian-Americans have come to dominate technological fields. Americans of Scots-Irish ancestry are overrepresented in the military and vastly overrepresented in medal winners.
That is just how the world works. It’s not conspiracy, its that culture matters. Cultures like Jews, Areminians, Banglores or expatriate Chinese who have for generation focused on business and banking have a high percentage of businessmen and bankers. It is no great mystery,
More to the point, traditional anti-semtism was based on the fact that Jews were the predominate pre-industrial capitalist. All anti-semtict arguments centered on the idea that Jews cared only for business and money and not the “higher” values like nationalism or fealty. Why would a commercial people who survived via capitalism support communism. Isn’t it more likely that individuals abandoning Judaism would support the polar opposite of the way that most Jews made their living and lived their lives?
Shannon, everything you say is right, but WADR you have erred in accepting “ehunts”‘s premise — that concepts of group guilt, even applied to as amorphous a group as us Jews, are a bona fide basis for discussing crime, punishment and justice.
Having said all that, our little fascist forgets to mention that the Jewish core of the Bolshevik revolution was liquidated by Stalin — including the sacking of Maxim Litvinov in favor of Vyacheslav Molotov to ease the Germans’ “discomfort” with his Jew ambassador and pave the way for the Non-Aggression Pact that made so much of this possible. From his assassination and purging of the early Jewish revolutionaries Stalin, the former seminarian, was relentlessly anti-semitic right through the Doctor’s Plot trials at the end of his wretched life.
Nice reply, though I might contest some details.
An important caution in all Holocaust vs. Gulag comparisons, however. The Nazi level of horror would not be all that remarkable in Asia, or indeed, from the Adriatic Sea to the Pacific. We notice the horror because it emerged into Central Europe and even somewhat into Western Europe – into places we thought were civilised and had left such things behind centuries before.
I say this not to minimise the evil, but the opposite: to give sanction to the determined, even obsessive efforts to illustrate in our law and culture our repudiation of such things. Did Mao or Stalin do worse, and often, and were a hundred lesser tyrants equally vicious on a smaller scale? Certainly. But this was our backyard, an at-least partially Christian nation that reverted to pagan atrocities, clothing themselves in scientific, Christian, and western cultural language to justify themselves.
The only religion that Marx practiced as an adult (unless you count atheism) was Christianity. Marxism is anti-semitism expanded to a class. See Paul Johnson, “Intellectuals”. But you probably hate Christianity, also.
There were active attempts in Christian Europe to “reform” the Jews, in the hope of Christianizing them. The Czar was basically at war (a one-sided war) with his Jewish population. All they succeeded in doing was in destroying the Jew’s traditional religion, leaving them open for all sorts of nonsense.
You reap what you sow.
When do we bring the first communist to trial for the genocide of 100 million in the last century?
When do we prosecute Kapos that murdered Christians in the Nazi camps.
http://www.uccla.ca/In%20Auschwitz-Petelycky.pdf
When does Soros get tried for his role in the Holocaust?
You want to play that game? How about all of the Ukaranians (especially), Lithuanians (ditto), Romianians, Poles (some), and all sorts of other good Christians who were busy murdering Jews before the Nazis got there, when they were there, and after they left. You have a very selective view of history.
I looked at the article you linked to, and it seems fine. It’s too bad you seem to have cherry-picked from it.
It is important that we get as many eye-witness testimonies as possible as the last of the Holocaust survivors and WWII Nazis walk into eternity, so that we do our best to help our posterity learn from history. So, I’m grateful for the work of Mr. Gould; and I pray that he can live in peace having uncovered the truth and having tried to obtain justice.
I believe the import of the article (and especially of Mr. Gould’s efforts) isn’t limited to hunting down Nazis. They are, after all, a vanishing breed, leaving behind a messy legacy of skinheads and neo-Nazis, of course, but soon to depart from this earth. No, what Mr. Gould’s action does is give an avenue of redress to victims of other, more recent genocides, such as have occurred in Cambodia, Kosovo, and various African countries, for instance. Little enough justice has been carried out for those atrocities, but now there’s a way to make the perpetrators feel they can and will be hunted down and made to pay.
Wow ehunt, you’re really a loon. I’m always amazed that people like you can even tolerate living every day surrounded by the your imagined conspiracies. Wouldn’t it just be easier to leave? Or do you perhaps enjoy being a submissive in your fantasy world? Is it easier to imagine the world is controlled by some secret force and you are powerless to resist. Maybe that’s it…certain makes for wonderful excuses for failure in life.
@7. ehunt
You failed to mention other conspirators. For example, the Nobel Prize Committee, a Jewish Zionist cabal if there ever was one. How else can you account for the overwhelming proportion of Juice who have reached Nobel Laureate status?
And the Bankers Association of the World? They are all Juice, every single one of them. Moreover, have you ever heard of a Rabbi who wasn’t Juice? Please.
This clannish bunch of overachievers, secretly studying economic theory in their spare time, will not rest (except on Saturday) until they own every Jewish Jewelry store in the northern hemisphere (and in Capetown, too).
I could go on, but you catch my drift …
@ehunt: Russia would be a great place for you right now, actually. Neo-Nazis have become a pretty large movement there, from what I understand. There’s even some video of someone in the Russian parliament giving the Nazi salute. Seems like you’d fit in.
I’m not a collectivist, so I don’t really understand racism. I do believe, however, that we should make every effort to out those individuals who committed crimes like Mr. Frank, whether it be those responsible for the horrors of Nazism, or the even greater horrors of Communism. They’re all abhorrent human beings (term used loosely) who deserve to be, at the very least, shunned from society. Just like you–for while I’m sure you’re not a war criminal, you are a racist wackjob. Good day, sir. Watch out behind you! There’s a Joo! *cringes* :/
I’ve spent the last 2 months typing transcriptions of indepth radio interviews Roger Fredinburg did with Holocaust survivors and historians specializing in the Nazi era. He did the 21 interviews back in 1997-1998. The survivors are so precious. It’s hard to single one story out, but I fell in love with the story of JACK & ROCHELLE, two Polish-Jew teenages who fled to the deep woods in eastern Poland and joined a group of Jewish Partisans after their families were “liquidated”. If they ever made the movie of their story it would be a blockbuster — dynamiting train tracks and causing any mayhem they could to strike back at the Nazis. They survived, married and moved to Minnesota! Rochelle was an elderly grandmother when she told the story. What a doll!
As a young man I read Martin Gray’s heartbreaking Au nom de tous les miens, and during the years most of his books. I also spent a couple of years working in Israel with men with tattoos on their forearm. It was hard to look at my best friend’s father’s tattoo, or listen to his rambling stories, especially when he was mentally gone; drooling, alcoholic ‘human being.’
I can’t imagine an end harsh enough for a single Nazi.
ehunt, wow. That is probably one of the most ignorant things I have ever read. Why do every one of those news media outlets you name always come down on the side of the Palestinians in any story relating to peace in the Israeli, Palestinian debate? I guess it is only self hating jews that run those media outlets. Look in the mirror ehunt and only there will you find the answer to your problems.
@ehunt
OK Jews tend to be interested in their own history more than perhaps is healthy. So what? really! What harm is there in that? Nobody dies from reading a blog. I also agree that it is troublesome that Jews tend to be over represented in leadership of progressive movements. Correction: They are the leaders of progressive movements.
But in the end I have self preservation enough to know that if I ever need heart surgery or brain surgery, I want that doctor to be Jewish. I do not want him to be let’s say for instance a Muslim Arab OK? I want to live. You catch my drift.
The achievements made by Jews in science, art and medicine is completely unmatched by any other ethnicity. Jews are basically the one ethnic group that the industrialized world cannot be without. Without Jews the world would simply not be the same. I’m not sure there would even be an industrialized world.
A little more balance please. There is good and bad everywhere. And Jews have definitely given the world their share of good. If Jews are a bit narcissistic about their own culture, it’s certainly more understandable than with most other cultures.
The reason we “obsess” over this is to try to keep people from doing it again. After all, the Holocaust occurred during the modern era, when these things were not supposed to happen anymore. Today, it Eastern and Western Europe, and here in the Middle East, there are plenty of people who want to take it up where the Nazis left off, heaven forbid. Look at our commenter above.
What people don’t realize is that the War Crimes trials saved lives. They were announced while the holocaust was still going on, and we havecases of Nazis who held back out of fear. Of course, if they had known how anemic the prosecution would really be, they probably woulsn’t have bothered.
A mass-murder is a mass-murderer. I don’t care if he is putting out his last breath; I don’t want his death to be natural. Maybe his would-be successor will think twice.
Now if only somebody had the courage and testicular fortitude to do the same to the leaders of the New World Order, the entire Bush clan including Prescott Bush(dead now), George Bush, George H.W. Bush,Obama,the Rothscields Clan,all of the owners and Banksters of the Federal Reserve all of the members of the Trilatteral Commission, the United Nations, and the Council on Foreign Relations which includes most of the politicians in the united states.
I’m convinced that a political party that endorses the murder of babies inside and outside the womb is not much different than Hitler’s Nazi Party. Today’s Democrats–socialists and fascists, along with plain jane statists–would send genuine Americans to concentration camps and gas ovens if they could get away with it.
Article read. Facts of article not reported here read. PJ-Media credibility adjusted downward accordingly. Since you’ve hit zero, I have to assume this is some sort of sad humor site that I’m not bright enough to appreciate.
Vaya!