KLM to probe flights for fleeing Nazis

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AMSTERDAM (Reuters) - Dutch airline KLM will probably seek an independent investigation into whether it flew Nazi fugitives to Argentina after the Second World War, the national airline said on Tuesday.

Questions over KLM's past surfaced last week after a Dutch television documentary claimed to have discovered archive documents showing the airline played an active role in helping suspected war criminals flee Germany.

KLM, now part of Air France, said it had never found any proof in its own archives about flying Nazis to Argentina but had also never denied a possible involvement.

"The checks we have done in our archive so far have not delivered any specific information about this sort of transportation. But that does not mean that it has not been done," KLM spokesman Bart Koster said.

Adolf Eichmann, who planned the extermination of the Jews, and Josef Mengele, the doctor of the Auschwitz death camp nicknamed the "Angel of Death" were among the large number of fugitive Nazis who were harboured by Argentina after the war.

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1. friendly skies

Let's just hope that KLM will now have the opportunity to offer the same service again; this time to neocons. Do they fly to Asuncion?

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2. Prescott Bush and Averell Harriman's J. Henry Schroeder Bank

First they helped arm the NAZIs.

http://www.politicalfriendster.com/showConnection.php?id1=5336&id2=421

Then, they helped them escape the gallows.

Now, they rule the planet.