Günter Grass: the man who broke the silence

[Thomas Eckhardt]

Am 19.04.2015 um 18:10 schrieb rich:

> i see the goebbels family wants royalties from publisher of Peter
> Longerich's new bio [in English] of Joseph Goebbels. expecting more from
> this one than his previous bio of Himmler which i still required reading
> but just like the man himself it gets bogged down in bureaucratic
> details and tends to the dull. more to report on Goebbels and we have
> the diaries. cant imagine what family is thinking

This probably still has got something to do with this guy:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fran%C3%A7ois_Genoud

"Genoud is notable for being the executor of last will and testament of 
Nazi propagandist Joseph Goebbels, and for reportedly making a fortune 
from publishing Goebbels' diaries which he held the posthumous rights 
for along with Hitler and Bormann's works. This enterprise suffered a 
setback in 1960 when Paula Hitler died without him securing the full 
rights to the literature works of Adolf Hitler."

Also, interestingly:

"Genoud was a close friend of Otto Skorzeny, Karl Wolff, and Klaus 
Barbie during the years of the Third Reich.

Genoud financed several legal defenses, including Adolf Eichmann and 
Klaus Barbie. He financed the defense of Bruno Breguet during the 1970s 
after a bombing mission in Israel in 1970. The PFLP called for the 
release of both Breguet and Leila Khalid, part of the Che Guevara 
Commando Unit of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, 
together in 1970. Genoud helped Ilich Ramírez Sánchez in 1994, after 
playing a key role in the success of his missions in the previous decades.

He was closely associated with Ali Hassan Salameh, providing him medical 
care, and he also bankrolled Ayatollah Khomeini's exile in France when 
Iran was governed by Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlavi. He was a mentor of 
Ahmed Huber.

Throughout the 1970s he financed many left-wing groups with the goal of 
armed Arab liberation. It is alleged that he delivered the ransom demand 
after Lufthansa Flight 649 highjacking in 1972.

He was associated with Noam Chomsky, Simone de Beauvoir, and Jean-Paul 
Sartre, sitting on a committee with them in the 1970s, which resulted in 
the pardon of Bruno Breguet."

Not to mention Genoud's relation to the Red Army Faction in Japan, "the 
only terrorist group to publicly claim responsibility for the September 
11 attacks."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_Red_Army
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