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Do you know Genoud? Would you want to?

Comments by Jared Israel and Nico Varkevisser

[Posted 7 September 2003]

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Below we have posted excerpts from a Philadelphia Inquirer article on the late Francois Genoud. Genoud is important because as the post-war keeper of the Nazi's World War II "treasury" (i.e., loot) he created powerful financial links between Nazism and terrorism. And according to all reports he bankrolled the French attorney, his friend and political ally, Jacques Verges. [1]

As noted elsewhere, Internet discussion has recently focused on the attempt to make Jacques Verges a leading light in The Hague Tribunal case of Slobodan Milosevic. [2]

We (Nico Varkevisser and Jared Israel) have been leaders of the Milosevic support work.

Jacques Verges has given interviews where he falsely posed as Milosevic's attorney. (If this sounds familiar you've probably read our articles about Ramsey Clark, who did the same thing.) As the text from the Philadelphia Inquirer below suggests, Jacques Verges is, like Ramsey Clark, linked to the most extreme Islamic Fundamentalist groups and to neo-Nazism - the very things opposed by Milosevic and the Serbian people. [3]

Why have these men gotten involved in a campaign to defend Milosevic, their natural enemy? Their involvement reinforces the already negative media image of Slobodan Milosevic by associating him with their own identification with Nazism and terrorism and b) draws Milosevic sympathizers into their orbit, in which Muslim terrorists are touted as leading the fight against Empire. [4]

Below are excerpts from the Philadelphia Inquirer article. We will post the full text of that article in two parts tomorrow Monday.

Jared Israel
Nico Varkevisser

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* Excerpts from Philadelphia Inquirer article on Francois Genoud and his connection to Attorney Jacques Verges *

Philadelphia Inquirer; "Hitler's Swiss Connection;" By David Lee Preston; Jan. 5, 1997

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"He [Genoud] was an unrepentant Nazi who devoted his life to aiding Adolf Hitler's surviving henchman and those he saw as Hitler's natural anti-Jewish successors: Arab terrorists.

"He was a financier of fascism, and a manager of the hidden Swiss treasure of third Reich.

"A shadowy figure in six decades of international intrigue, he masterminded an airplane hijacking, underwrote attacks on Israel and paid for the defense of Adolf Eichmann, Klaus Barbie and 'Carlos the Jackal.' An anti Jewish propagandist, he made a fortune publishing Nazi tracts.

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In 1934, back in Switzerland, the 19 year old Genoud joined the pro-Nazi National Front, and two years later he began to forge the other political links that would prove so valuable. He traveled to Palestine. There he met the grand mufti of Jerusalem, the pro-Nazi religious and political leader of Palestinian Muslims, Amin el-Husseini, who was to spend most of World War II in Germany, and who, according to British author Gitta Sereny, "would consider [Genoud] a confidant until his death in 1974."

Genoud traveled to Berlin frequently during the war "to see his friend the grand mufti," and visited him afterward many times in Beirut, according to Le Monde correspondent Jean-Claude Buhrer. The grand mufti "entrusted Genoud with the management of his enormous financial affairs," according to Sereny. Working for both Swiss and German intelligence agencies, Genoud traveled extensively in the Middle East.

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"Beginning in the 1960s, Genoud helped finance numerous Arab terrorist causes, selling weapons and paying legal fees. In November 1969, he sat alongside the radical lawyer Jacques Verges as an adviser at the trial in Switzerland of three terrorists from the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) who had blown up an El Al plane in Zurich that February. Genoud's Arab Commerical Bank paid for the defense.

"Two decades later, Genoud would team up with Verges again, this time as financier for the left-wing lawyer's defense of Barbie, the Gestapo chief known as the 'Butcher of Lyon.' In June 1987, Genoud ignored a summons to appear as a witness in the Lyon court trying Barbie for crimes against humanity. Barbie killed 4,000 non-Jewish French citizens and deported 7,000 Jews to death camps. He was convicted in 1987 and died in prison.

"Genoud meanwhile, set up a fund to help Nazis in prison. 'He even had baskets of chocolate sent in to people in jail,' says American journalist Kevin Coogan, who met Genoud in 1986. "

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- Genoud on Hitler's hopes for Third World fascism:

"It was at the Nuremberg trials in 1946 that Genoud befriended Maj. Gen. Herman Bernhard Ramcke and obtained Bormann's account of Hitler's conversations from Ramcke's subordinate, former SS Capt. Hans Reichenberg. In the preface to the Bormann document, Hitler's Table talk, Genoud wrote that Hitler wanted the people of the Third World to carry on the work of the Thousand Year Reich."

[End of excerpts from Inquirer article]

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Footnotes and Further Reading

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[1] There are lots of sources on the Verges-Genoud connection. For example see, The Internet Anti-Fascist, Article #8, "Swiss probe anti-U.S. neo-Nazi Suspected financial ties to al Qaeda," at
http://www.anti-fascism.org/ez-tinaf.txt

[2] See, "Jacques Verges says he's Milosevic's Lawyer, but it's a Lie," at
http://emperor.vwh.net/verges/notlawyer.htm

[3] Regarding Ramsey Clark's pretense of being Milosevic's attorney, see, "More on how Ramsey Clark Attacked Milosevic at the National Press Club,"
http://emperor.vwh.net/milo/ramsey2.htm

For an example of Jacques Verges posing as Milosevic's attorney, see "Jacques Verges says he's Milosevic's Lawyer, but it's a Lie," at
http://emperor.vwh.net/verges/notlawyer.htm#pose

[4] Regarding the issue of Verges' involvement in the Milosevic defense, see the letter from writer/activist Colin Meade in the UK, "I refuse to be tainted by association with Fascism," at
http://www.tenc.net/letters/meade.htm

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