Original geschrieben von Hellmann
Meist wird er von den Historikern als inkompetenter und verschrobener "Herrenreiter" behandelt, der überhaupt eher zufällig in die Geschichte hereingestolpert zu sein scheint.

Das ist gefährlicher Unsinn!

Wer und was war dieser Franz von Papen wirklich?

Wer macht mit, die Hintergründe dieses Lebenslaufes zu ergründen?

Original geschrieben von Hellmann
Meist wird er von den Historikern als inkompetenter und verschrobener "Herrenreiter" behandelt, der überhaupt eher zufällig in die Geschichte hereingestolpert zu sein scheint.

Das ist gefährlicher Unsinn!

Wer und was war dieser Franz von Papen wirklich?

Wer macht mit, die Hintergründe dieses Lebenslaufes zu ergründen?

Original geschrieben von Tankist
Da der Thread von dir ist, schätze ich mal war er britischer oder amerikanischer Spion. Liege ich richtig?

Original geschrieben von Tankist
Da der Thread von dir ist, schätze ich mal war er britischer oder amerikanischer Spion. Liege ich richtig?

In 1949, John McCloy was appointed High Commissioner of Germany. McCloy was not the first choice. Lewis Douglas, the head of the Finance Division of the Control Council was. However, Douglas agreed to step aside in favor of McCloy. It appears nothing was being left to chance in post war Germany. The governing of post war Germany would be a family affair. The three most powerful men in post war Germany: High Commissioner McCloy, Douglas, Head of the Finance Division of the Control Council and Chancellor Konrad Adenauer were all brother-in laws. All three men had married daughters of the wealthy Fredrick Zinsser, a partner of JP Morgan. The Morgan empire would control the fate of Germany.

What little justice achieved under the Control Council and General Clay would now be rapidly undone. Up until 1940 McCloy had been a member of the law firm Cravath, de Gersdorff, Swaine and Wood. This law firm represented I.G. Farben and its affiliates. In 1940, McCloy was appointed Assistant Secretary of War. At least three other individuals from the same law firm turned up in the War Department. Alfred McCormick and Howard Peterson both served as assistants to the Secretary. Richard Wilmer was commissioned as a colonel after the war started and served in a similar vein.61 Peterson later served as the finance chairman of the National Committee Eisenhower for President, 1951-1953.

The career of McCloy is one sympathetic to fascism and warrants a closer look. Henry Stimson appointed McCloy as assistant secretary of war. Roosevelt had selected Stimson to head up the War Department in 1940 in an attempt to make the war effort a bipartisan effort and to blunt any criticism of the upcoming war by the Republicans. One of the first acts of Stimson upon taking over the War Department was to appoint McCloy as Special consultant to the War Department on German sabotage. Before 1940 ended McCloy was appointed as assistant secretary. As Secretary of State under Hoover, Stimson would surely have been aware of the cartels of I.G Farben and how the Hoover administration aided their formation. McCloy spent most of the 1930s in Paris working on a sabotage case stemming from WWI. In 1936, he shared a box with Hitler at the Olympics.

Original geschrieben von [HC]KROPOTKiN
Papen hat als deutscher Militärattache ganz Washington umgedreht; die haben ihrerseits gedacht, sie hätten ihn umgedreht und so hat jeder jeden umgedreht.

Original geschrieben von politjunkie
Zitat: "Die immer wieder kolportierte Episode, Papen habe in der New Yorker U-Bahn eine Aktentasche mit Plänen, wie man Mexico zum Kriegseintritt gegen die USA bewegen wollte, liegengelassen"
Angeblich nur ein "Gerücht".... http://www.sauerlaender-heimatbund.d...von_papen.html

Heinrich Albert was one of these. Albert, a commercial attaché in the Consulate, foolishly forgot his briefcase on a New York elevated train. An American intelligence agent seized it. The briefcase contained a number of incriminating documents that were later published in the newspapers and served to embarraSS Papen and the entire German diplomatic corps. Worse, Papen quarreled constantly with Franz von Rintelen, who had been sent from Berlin to oversee sabotage in the U.S.

Rintelen was a foolhardy madman, according to Papen. At their first meeting together, Rintelen informed Papen that he had made several unique bombs that he planned to use to blow up American freighters taking supplies to England. He would also immediately launch a terrorist campaign across the U.S., blowing up warehouses and U.S. military installations.

This was not Papen's kind of espionage. He feared that Rintelen's wild sabotage would endanger his own mission. Several U.S. merchant vessels were sabotaged and Rintelen was the funding source behind the Mare Island explosions.

Papen's response to all this was to cable the Abwehr, demanding that Rintelen be recalled. Rintelen was ordered back to Germany but he was taken from a Dutch ship (the Netherlands then being a neutral nation) when it stopped at Southampton. British naval intelligence agents working under the direction of Reginald Hall had decoded Papen's message to the Abwehr about Rintelen.

The Abwehr respected Papen but it also demanded that he supervise sabotage now that Rintelen had been removed. Papen refused to have his agents commit such acts in the U.S., but he did send a group of saboteurs to Canada to blow up strategic parts of the Canadian Pacific Railway in order to prevent Canadian troops from reaching ships sailing for England. Canadian police and the Royal Canadian Mounted Police were able to track down the saboteurs before they could do any damage.