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Subject: Tudjman's Best Friends - From "Germany's Secret"
From: stojanov@husc11.harvard.edu (Milan Stojanovic)
Date: 23 Jan 93 16:35:04 EST
Organization: Harvard University Science Center


Recent events in Serbian Republic of Krajina reminded me on this
article, published some time ago in "Searchlight," July 1992, London.
Whole article is too big for my low-tech approach, so I am posting 
just parts of it.  Obviously, Tudjman made a lot of good friends with his 
statements about Jews, Serbs, and "dark-faces."


GERMANY'S SECRET

............

Another international brigade

...In Vukovar, just up the road from Flores' detachment, is another 
calling itself the Black Legion.  
	At the head of the race to tout support for this "volunteer" 
group is the US-based nazi NSDAP-AO, led by Gary Rex Lauck.  Successive 
editions of Lauck's broadsheet "New Order" have boasted of the presence
of hardline nazis in Croatia.
	In the March 1992 edition, Lauck, who functions as a leg man 
for the German neo-nazi Bewegung, carried an urgent appeal "Croatia
needs help."
	The appeal sets out the international neo-nazi agenda clearly:
"Many Croatians stand on the side of White Europe and also on the side 
of a Nationalist New Order on this continent."
	Lauck pitches his appeal historically, praising the wartime Nazi 
collaborationist butchers of the Croatian Ustashi, who slaughtered more 
than a million Jews and Serbs.  He lauds especially their role as cogs 
in Hitler's Waffen-SS killingsmachine.
	However the kind of help that Lauck calls for only becomes clear
in later editions.  In an article in the July-August edition a UA nazi 
relates how the NSDAP-AO receives letters from German nazi volunteers in 
Croatia who, according to a published letter, "belong to an independent 
unit."
	This information received limited confirmation from the German 
government which, in a written parliamentary reply to Bundestag member 
Ulla Jelpke, dated 14 April, stated that "around 30 Germna citizens are 
active as advisers to the Croatian National Guard." 
	Remarkably, however, this same parliamentary answer, from 
Foreign Office State Minister Helmut Shaefer, claims bizarrely for example
that the German government has "no knowledge" either of former soldiers of 
the East German army fighting on the side of Croatia or of illegal 
weapons being delivered from Germany.
	Yet this flies in the face of evidence, presented before Shaefer's
reply by the German Interior Ministry, confirming existence of the Black
Legion and saying that this troop was under the command of a former East
German officer.
	The Interior Ministry also stated unambiguously that the German 
security services were aware that not only German but also other European
nazis were making frequent visits to Croatia and that there were plans 
afoot to established a "first-aid corps," which had been temporarily 
short-circuited by the preventive detention of top nazi Gottfried Kuessel
in Vienna.
	... [More details with some names given]...
	As reported earlier in "Searchlight," Croatia has become the
focal point for fascists internationally.  Reports are being received about
attempts to recruit US nazis for military action and French fascists have 
also been engaged with the Black Legion.
	Notable among them is the French nazi FNE member Michael Faci,
who boasted, inaccurately, to reporters that he was in charge of a unit
of about 200 fascists including Austrians and Germans and, more plausibly,
that he killed himself two Serbs.
	It is significant that, despite efforts to keep a safe distance 
from their more violent brethern, exponents of ballot-bow fascism have also 
sought to show their backing for the Croatian war against Yugoslavia.
	As already mentioned, Jean-Marie Le Pen's Front National ( FN) has 
sent volunteers to Croatia, according to Spanish sources. In the summer of
1991, le Pen and the German fascist MEP Harald Neubauer made a secret trip 
to Zagreb for talks with senior advisers to the Croatian leader Franjo
Tudjman.
	Neubauer - true to his nazi beliefs - declared; " We are not the
last of yesterday but the first of tomorrow," while Tudjmans henchmen, 
Hrvoje Sosic, defended the fascists visit with the statement that "negative
attitudes to Le Pen and his party are Bolshevik slanders."
	...Description of Belgian fascist visit to HOS given...
	...
Germany - playing for high stakes

	...
	The Kohl government's support firstly for Slovenia and more 
recently for Croatia has been startling replica in broad terms of the 
stance taken in the Balkans both by the Kaiser's regime and later by 
Hitler's Nazi dictatorship. 
	...
	The German declaration set the seal of any last surviving chance 
of preserving the Yugoslav state, even though at that stage the USA, France 
and Britain hoped this could be achieved.
	The regime which Genscher was so keen to recognise has an unbroken 
line of continuity from the Ustashi murderers of Ante Pavelic during the 
second world war.
	Its leader, Franjo Tudjman, is a hardline antisemite, proud that 
his wife is neither Jewish nor Serbian.  Tudjman has open links with Le Pen's
nazi Front National in France and has written a book - " Wastelands - 
Historical Truth," defending Hitler.
	...
	

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Regards,

Milan N. Stojanovic




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