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primarily with the North Americans. That was the best time”—during
the Ríos Montt massacres, already discussed. 60
According to Herman, the “Black International” in Latin America, in
which Barbie was a leading figure, included Dutch Nazi Alfons Sassen
(who “escaped” from Holland after working with US intelligence) in
Ecuador, Friedrich Schwend (who worked with US intelligence in Austria
and Italy and was sent to Latin America under false identity papers
supplied by US intelligence when he was wanted for murder in Italy) in
Peru, Wim Sassen (who “escaped” from US custody in Holland) in
Argentina, and Walter Rauff (the inventor of the first gas chambers) in
Chile. One of its leading figures was SS Obersturmfuehrer Otto Skorzeny,
who had rescued Mussolini and whose last assignment for Hitler was to
train the “Werewolves,” who were to fight to the death after the allied
victory. He developed plans for a partisan war against the Soviet Union
(sent on to Eisenhower), then was released by a US military court, then
“escaped” from US custody after he had been jailed by the Germans. He
worked as coordinator of the Latin American-based Black International
from fascist Spain, where his US advisor described him with great
admiration as “a gentleman of Victorian knighthood.” The top figure was
Hans Ulrich Rudel, former Luftwaffe air ace, who had close personal
and business relations with dictators Stroessner in Paraguay and
Pinochet in Chile.
In 1982 a new Bolivian government sent Barbie back to France,
where he will come to trial unless he mysteriously dies in prison;
collaboration with the Nazis was so widespread in France that many
would prefer that his stories not be told. A flurry of interest was aroused
here as the unsavory US role in his career was partially revealed. This
elicited a letter to the New York Times by Col. (ret.) Eugene Kolb,
identified as a former Counterintelligence Corps officer who was chief of
operations in the Augsburg region. Kolb defends the use of Barbie as an