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History > WW2 > 1939-1945
Axis powers, Germany, Europe > Antisemitism, Adolf Hitler, Nazi era, Holocaust / Shoah, Samudaripen
War criminals
Franz Josef Huber 1902-1975
Franz Josef Huber, front row center, holding gloves, and his Vienna Gestapo team in an undated photograph.
Photograph: National Archives of Slovenia
He Led Hitler’s Secret Police in Austria. Then He Spied for the West. Franz Josef Huber, responsible for deporting tens of thousands of Jews, escaped punishment with U.S. backing and went on to work for West German intelligence, newly disclosed records reveal. NYT Published April 5, 2021 Updated April 6, 2021, 6:07 a.m. ET
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/05/
Huber, far left, at a meeting with some of the Third Reich’s most high-profile war criminals, including (from left) Arthur Nebe, Heinrich Himmler, Reinhard Heydrich and Heinrich Müller.
Photograph: ullstein bild, via Getty Images
He Led Hitler’s Secret Police in Austria. Then He Spied for the West. Franz Josef Huber, responsible for deporting tens of thousands of Jews, escaped punishment with U.S. backing and went on to work for West German intelligence, newly disclosed records reveal. NYT Published April 5, 2021 Updated April 6, 2021, 6:07 a.m. ET
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/05/
Himmler, the SS leader, fourth from right, visiting the Mauthausen concentration camp.
Huber is sixth from right, at center rear.
Photograph: Amical de Mauthausen
He Led Hitler’s Secret Police in Austria. Then He Spied for the West. Franz Josef Huber, responsible for deporting tens of thousands of Jews, escaped punishment with U.S. backing and went on to work for West German intelligence, newly disclosed records reveal. NYT Published April 5, 2021 Updated April 6, 2021, 6:07 a.m. ET
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/05/
Huber, left, on vacation in Italy in 1942 with Müller, then the head of the Gestapo.
They were police colleagues in Munich before the rise of the Nazis.
He Led Hitler’s Secret Police in Austria. Then He Spied for the West. Franz Josef Huber, responsible for deporting tens of thousands of Jews, escaped punishment with U.S. backing and went on to work for West German intelligence, newly disclosed records reveal. NYT Published April 5, 2021 Updated April 6, 2021 6:07 a.m. ET
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/05/
Franz Josef Huber 1902-1975
Franz Josef Huber, responsible for deporting tens of thousands of Jews, escaped punishment with U.S. backing and went on to work for West German intelligence,
A top commander in Hitler’s secret police, responsible for deporting tens of thousands of Jews, was shielded by the U.S. and German authorities after World War II and later joined West Germany’s foreign intelligence service, which knew about his wartime role, newly disclosed records reveal.
By the war’s end the official, Franz Josef Huber — who also held a general-level rank in the SS, the Nazi paramilitary organization — led one of the Gestapo’s largest sections, stretching across Austria and with roles out to the east.
In Vienna after the Nazi takeover, his forces worked closely with Adolf Eichmann on deportations to concentration and extermination camps.
Eichmann would eventually be executed for his role in coordinating the murder of millions of Jews.
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But Huber never had to hide or to escape abroad, as many other top Third Reich commanders did.
He spent the final decades of his life based in his hometown, Munich, with his family, under his own name.
And the explanation for this strange immunity appears to lie in his usefulness in the spying conflicts of the Cold War.
U.S. intelligence documents show that there was strong interest in drawing on Huber’s wartime network to recruit agents in the Soviet bloc, even as Austria was seeking to have him tried for war crimes.
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/05/
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/05/
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