German officials probing secret NAZI networks within government AFTER World War 2
Sinister world of Nazis thriving in post-war Germany set to be exposed
A MULTI-MILLION top level enquiry has been launched in Germany that aims to lift the lid on a possible conspiracy involving secret Nazi cells infiltrating post-war governments.
The four million Euro probe will run into 2020 and will attempt to find the truth where dozens of other inquiries have failed – and potentially spark a political earthquake with the outing of high level Hitler loving ex-politicians.
In October a separate study revealed half of all senior officials in Germany's Justice Ministry in the 1950s and 1960s were ex-Nazis.
One of them, Eduard Dreher, was found to have attempted to introduce a law restricting the work of Nazi hunters.
The new investigation will specifically shine a light on the role that Hans Globke.
He was a high-ranking civil servant who advised former West German Chancellor Konrad Adenauer between 1953 and 1963.
But back in the early 1930s Globke was involved in the preparation of the notorious Nuremberg Race Laws.
The legislation discriminated against Jews and paved the way for the Holocaust.
One of the networks is known as ODESSA.
The sinister organisation of former SS members helped war criminals escape justice after World War 2.
But it is now thought there were other covert groups set up to among Nazi era officials.
The findings are sure to be mired in controversy and in some cases could be explosive because it is expected to show men playing a key role in the murderous Nazi regime continuing on after World War 2 in positions of power.
While most of the top Nazis were either killed or brought to justice in war crime trials, many more lower level ones lived and became rich in post-war Germany.
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