KLM accused of helping Nazis escape Europe after WWII

[formercia]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/6635677.stm

KLM accused of helping Nazis flee

The Dutch airline KLM is facing calls for an inquiry into reports that it helped Nazi war criminals escape to Argentina after World War II.

According to papers found by Dutch journalists, KLM asked Switzerland to let Germans cross its borders and fly to South America without proper papers.

Suspected war criminals were forbidden from leaving Germany by the Allies.

http://www.mystae.com/restricted/streams/masons/conspire.html

"Prince Bernhard of the House of Orange in the Netherlands had been a member of the SS before the war, followed by a stint as an employee of I. G. Farben. He then married into the House of Orange and assumed his position as chairman of Shell Oil."
- William Bramley, The Gods of Eden

Not surprising since Prince Bernhard was the Director of KLM at the time...

[Coventina]

1. Slightly off-topic, but on the subject of corporate war crimes...

I can't remember, did Mercedes and BMW ever pay restitution to their former Jewish slaves? I remember hearing about it in the news a few years ago, but don't remember the outcome.

[formercia]

5. It's all connected

the boys have always used slave labor when they could get away with it.

[Beausoleil]

2. I first read it as KSM

and thought, "didn't we go through this already a few months ago?"

[demo dutch]

3. Not at all surprised. The Prince was a controversial figure. Blame the Swiss as well!

[formercia]

4. I'm surprised this wasn't dealt with sooner.

ODESSA and the "Rat Line' were well known and widely investigated.

[dave_p]

6. It was universal

The US administration in Germany had pretty much abandoned extraditions and war crimes trials by 1947 along with the whole denazification and decartelization program. US and other government agencies were offering ex-nazis and collaborators a new life in return for information and assistance in the Cold War. KLM may have been part of the escape route, but you can be sure it wasn't the brains behind the operation.

[formercia]

7. Prince Bernhard was a Big Fish

http://www.mystae.com/restricted/streams/masons/conspire.html

The Bilderbergers

"It should not be surprising to learn that there is on the international level an organizational equivalent of the C.F.R. This group calls itself the Bilderbergers....The strange name of this group is taken from the site of the first meeting in May, 1954 - the Hotel de Bilderberg - in Oostebeek, Holland. The man who create the Bilderbergers is His Royal Highness Prince Bernhard of the Netherlands. The Prince is an important figure in Royal Dutch Petroleum (Shell Oil) and the Societe General de Belgique, a huge conglomerate cartel with worldwide holdings. The Bilderbergers meet once - or sometimes twice - a year. Those in attendance include leading political and financial figures from the United states and Western Europe. Prince Bernhard makes no effort to hide the fact that the ultimate goal of the Bilderbergers is a world government. In the meantime, while the 'new world order' is being built, the Bilderbergers coordinate the efforts of the European and American power elites.
"Prince Bernard's counterpart among the American Bilderbergers is David Rockefeller, chairman of the board of the C.F.R., whose economic base is the giant Chase Manhattan Bank and Standard Oil. Among the other Bilderbergers from the world of ultra-high finance are Baron Edmund de Rothschild of the House of Rothschild, C. Douglas Dillon (C.F.R.) of Dillon Read & Co., Robert McNamara of the World Bank, Sir Eric Roll of S.G. Warburg and Co., Ltd, Pierce Paul Schweitzer of the International Monetary Fund, and George Ball (C.F.R.) of Lehman Bothers."
- Gary Allen, None Dare Call It Conspiracy

"Prince Bernhard personally chaired these meetings until 1976, when a corruption scandal forced him to resign."
- William Bramley, The Gods of Eden