Posted on 03/28/2023 6:57:29 AM PDT by Milagros
Introduction:
The TEMPLERS got on well with both Arabs and Jews until Buchhalter formed a branch of the Nazi Party in Jerusalem in 1934. This was followed by the outbreak of the three-year armed Arab revolt against the British Mandate in 1936 and Jerusalem Arabs happily saluted Templer architect and builder Hermann Imberger when he took his Sunday stroll wearing a swastika armband.
'Templer Town'. By Meir Ronen, The Jerusalem Post, March 13, 2008 https://www.jpost.com/magazine/books/templer-town
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Bergman, R. (2019). Rise and Kill First: The Secret History of Israel's Targeted Assassinations. United States: Random House Publishing Group, pp. 16-17:
The leader of the Templers in Palestine was a man named Gotthilf Wagner, a wealthy industrialist who assisted the Wehrmacht and the Gestapo during the war. A Holocaust survivor by the name of Shalom Friedman, who was posing as a Hungarian priest, related that in 1944 he met Wagner, who "boasted that he was at Auschwitz and Buchenwald twice. When he was in Auschwitz, they brought out a large group of Jews, the youngest ones , and poured flammable liquid over them. 'I asked them if they knew there was a hell on earth, and when they ignited them I told them that this was the fate awaiting their brethren in Palestine.'" After the war, Wagner organized the attempts to allow the Templers to return to Palestine.
Rafi Eitan, the son of Jewish pioneers from Russia, was seventeen at the time. "Here come exultant Germans, who had been members of the Nazi Party, who enlisted to the Wehrmacht and SS, and they want to return to their property when all the Jewish property outside was destroyed," he said.
Eitan was a member of a seventeen - man force from the Haganah's "special company" sent to liquidate Wagner, under a direct order from the Haganah high command. The Haganah chief of staff, Yitzhak Sadeh, realized that this was not a regular military operation and summoned the two men who had been selected to squeeze the trigger. To encourage them, he told them about a man he had shot with his pistol in Russia as revenge for a pogrom.
On March 22, 1946, after painstaking intelligence gathering , the hit squad lay in wait for Wagner in Tel Aviv . They forced him off the road onto a sandy lot at 123 Levinsky Street and shot him.
Haganah's underground radio station , Kol Yisrael (the Voice of Israel), announced the following day, "The well-known Nazi Gotthilf Wagner, head of the German community in Palestine , was executed yesterday by the Hebrew underground . Let it be known that no Nazi will place a foot on the soil of the Land of Israel."
...The lessons that the new Jews of Palestine learned from the Holocaust were that the Jewish people would always be under the threat of destruction , that others could not be relied upon to protect the Jews, and that the only way to do so was to have an independent state.
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"In fact, Gotthilf Wagner had been a member of the Nazi party in Palestine. His membership no. 7024779 is recorded at the Public Record Office in London and the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C."
(The Holocaust denial antisemitic 'Adelaide Institute of Australia' naturally "denied" he was a nazi).
Wawrzyn, H. (2013). Nazis in the Holy Land 1933-1948. Germany: De Gruyter, p. 127
Bookmarked.
****** ****** had it coming.
Long overdue
Should have set him on fire.......................
CLEAN SHOT:
Sarona Mayor, Prominent Palestine Nazi and S.S. Leader, Shot to Death Near Tel Aviv
March 24, 1946
[http://pdfs.jta.org/1946/1946-03-24_069.pdf]
Gotthilf Wagner, former mayor of the German colony of Sarona, near Tel Aviv, and one of the leading Palestine Nazis, was today shot to death as he journeyed from Sarona to Wilhelma, another German community. Before the war he was a S.S. group leader.
The attack took place on the outskirts of Tel Aviv. One man alighted from a taxi and approached the car in which Wagner and a police escort were sitting, and opened fire. No one else in the car was hurt. The attacker immediately re-entered the taxi and fled. Although Wagner was carrying over $3,000, no money was taken.
Wagner, an owner of a large iron foundry in Jaffa, was interned by the Palestine Government during the war. He acted as liaison agent between the other detained Palestine Nazis and the Administration, and also served as trustee for their property. Throughout the war he paid taxes to the Tel Aviv municipality in order to maintain German claims to various plots of land in the city.
https://www.jta.org/archive/sarona-mayor-prominent-palestine-nazi-and-s-s-leader-shot-to-death-near-tel-aviv
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