49 CIC Region XII November 23, 1949, KPD Activities against Anti-Communist Gestapo Specialists, NARA, RG 319, IRR Fischer, Eugen, D 112374. 50 Special Agent John J. John to HQ, 7970th CIC Group, October 17, 1949, NARA, RG 319, IRR Fischer, Eugen, D 112374. 51 Maj. Henry W. Ida, CIC Region XII to Major George Riggin, HQ 7970 Detachment CIC, October 17, 1949, NARA, RG 319, IRR Fischer, Eugen, D 112374. 52 Mahler, Lebenslauf, May 24, 1949, NARA, RG 319, IRR Mahler, Anton, XE 050898. 53 Bericht Nr. 525, November 12, 1948, NARA, RG 319, IRR Mahler, Anton, XE 050898. 54 CIC Region XII November 23, 1949, KPD Activities against Anti-Communist Gestapo Specialists, NARA, RG 319, IRR Fischer, Eugen, D 112374. 55 Mahler, Lebenslauf, May 24, 1949, NARA, RG 319, IRR Mahler, Anton, XE 050898 56 On his work for Fischer see Col. David G. Erskine, 66th CIC Detachment to Director, Intelligence Division, HQ, EUCOM, October 12, 1950, NARA, RG 319, IRR Fischer, Eugen, D 112374. On his meetings with Berchtold <strong>and</strong> payments see the payment sheets in NARA, RG 319, IRR Mahler, Anton, XE 050898. 57 CIC Region XII November 23, 1949, KPD Activities against Anti-Communist Gestapo Specialists, NARA, RG 319, IRR Fischer, Eugen, D 112374. 58 Col. David G. Erskine, 66th CIC Detachment to Director, Intelligence Division, HQ, EUCOM, October 12, 1950, NARA, RG 319, IRR Fischer, Eugen, D 112374. 59 Special Agent Siegfried Clemens, Notes on Eugen Fischer-Anton Mahler Trial, undated, p. 17, NARA, RG 319, IRR Fischer, Eugen, D 112374. 60 The judgment dated <strong>and</strong> signed March 14, 1950, is Aktz. 1 KLa 87–88/49 (III 14/49), in NARA, RG 319, IRR Fischer, Eugen, D112374. 61 Special Agent Siegfried Clemens, Notes on Eugen Fischer-Anton Mahler Trial, undated, p. 28, NARA, RG 319, IRR Fischer, Eugen, D 112374. 62 Maj. George Riggin to Region IV, February 1, 1950, NARA, RG 319, IRR Fischer, Eugen, D 112374. 63 R. F. Cunningham, Chief Operations Division (Frankfurt) to Director of Intelligence, EUCOM, September 14, 1950, NARA, RG 319, IRR Fischer, Eugen, D 112374. 64 Col. David C. Erskine to Director, Intelligence Division, EUCOM, October 12, 1950, NARA, RG 319, IRR Fischer, Eugen, D 112374. 65 Search for the Former Gestapo Officials Eugen Fischer <strong>and</strong> Anton Mahler, May 29, 1950, NARA, RG 319, IRR Mahler, Anton, XE 050898. 66 Mahler’s pay sheet for January 1950 <strong>and</strong> the Kolb note are in NARA, RG 319, IRR Mahler, Anton, XE 050898. 67 Mahler to Lappler, December 31, 1951 (provided by Lappler to CIC), NARA, RG 319, IRR, Mahler, Anton, XE 050898. 68 Maj. Harold Bush, CIC Region XII, to HQ, 66th CIC Detachment, January 22, 1952, NARA, RG 319, IRR Mahler, Anton, XE050898. 52 | New Materials on Former Gestapo Officers
CHAPTER FOUR The CIC <strong>and</strong> Right-Wing Shadow Politics Allied intelligence organizations monitored communist parties in postwar Germany <strong>and</strong> Austria, but they also worried about Nazi resurgence. Many former Wehrmacht <strong>and</strong> SS officers were involved in political intrigue after the war. 1 Scholarly accounts of such movements exist, but the new CIC records have hundreds of files on such groups. What follows are two examples––the Bruderschaft (Brotherhood), a shadow organization in West Germany, <strong>and</strong> the Spinne (Spider) a shadow organization in Austria. The Bruderschaft The Bruderschaft (Brotherhood) was a semi-secret postwar organization of perhaps 2,500 right-wing German nationalists. The outlines of the organization are known. It was formed in 1949 in the British occupation zone amongst staff officers from the army’s elite Grossdeutschl<strong>and</strong> Division, former SS officers, <strong>and</strong> senior Nazi party members who had been held in Engl<strong>and</strong> after the war. It worked behind the scenes of West German politics. It maintained ties with right-wing parties <strong>and</strong> groups in West Germany <strong>and</strong> with neo-Fascists <strong>and</strong> ex- Nazis abroad, advocating a Europe independent of either the United States or the USSR, <strong>and</strong> disintegrated owing to internal fights in 1951. Its significance lay within the rearmament debate in West Germany in 1950 <strong>and</strong> 1951. 53
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