REINHARD GEHLEN

Gehlen’s war crimes and knowledge thereof were overlooked setting a precedent for even allowing German and Japanese major war criminals into the United States. In those days, most men of substance belonged to one or more private clubs which was a important element of their social and professional lives. People of unsavory character were not welcome at such clubs.

Despite his immoral and unsavory past, the Americans decided to use him and many of his German WWII operatives who were involved with spying in Russia. See {635149}. Note that he still maintained a Nazi view of racial superiority and hostility against all cultures and nations that were not Christian and Western. Hitler and many of the other Nazis thought that America and England should have been allied with him in his mission to destroy the Eastern European Cultures including the Christian ones from the Eastern Orthodox tradition.

Despite his immoral and unsavory past, the Americans decided to use him and many of his German WWII operatives who were involved with spying in Russia. See {635149}. Note that he still maintained a Nazi view of racial superiority and hostility against all cultures and nations that were not Christian and Western. Hitler and many of the other Nazis thought that America and England should have been allied with him in his mission to destroy the Eastern European Cultures including the Christian ones from the Eastern Orthodox tradition.