An old
case pertaining to leaked CIA documents from 2006 has spark
speculation as to whether Greece’s great statesman was a Nazi
collaborator
An unusual
leaked CIA document that has been around since 2006 has been doing
the rounds on the Internet in recent hours, trending on Twitter as
#Karamanlis_gate. The document in question dates back to September
16, 1962, states that two former conservative prime ministers of
Greece – Constantine Karamanlis and Kostantinos Tsaldaris – had
collaborated with the Nazis during the Jewish Holocaust and
specifically in the drive to rid Thessaloniki from its large
sephardic community.
The writer
of the text based evidence on talks with former Greek consul Ioannis
Moschopoulos, who announced that there was a list of Greek
collaborators who worked with the Nazis causing the death of millions
of Greek Sephardic Jews. The announcement was made during the Adolf
Eichmann trial.
The document
states that during the trial of Eichmann, there was an Israeli
official monitoring on behalf of the Greek government. The official,
characterised as a trusted person of the Greek Foreign Ministry, was
part of the press office of the Greek diplomatic mission to Israel.
The official noted that the names of Karamanlis and Tsaldaris were on
a list, marked with a red pen.
The case
appears to be linked with the scandal of Max Merten that occupied
public opinion in Greece during the end of the Fifties and start of
the Sixties. Specifically, Merten had been in charge of civilian
affairs as part of the puppet government installed in Greece during
the German Occupation in World War II. Merten’s jurisdiction was in
the Thessaloniki-Aegean area where most Jews lived. He had made a
deal with the Jews to keep them from going to death camps in exchange
for their gold and other valuables, thus amassing a treasure worth
2.4 billion dollars before sending the Jews to death camps anyway.
From the 80,000 Jews in the area, only 5,000 survived.
At the end
of the war, Merten returned to the region and was recognized by a
Holocaust survivor. Tried and convicted of war crimes, he was
sentenced to prison for 25 years, but only served 8 months after
Karamanlis gave him an amnesty.
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