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How Cuba’s communist dictator Fidel Castro bought arms from a Nazi war criminal
Babalu Blog
August 8, 2019
 by Alberto de la Cruz

Tell us again how much socialists and communists hate Nazis.

John Suarez in Notes from the Cuban Exile Quarter:
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    Remembering the man who saved Hitler’s Third Reich in 1944 and sold arms to Fidel Castro in the 1960s

    A closer look at an unrepentant Nazi who sold weapons to Fidel Castro

    Seventy five years ago on August 7, 1944 the trials of the conspirators who tried to kill Adolf Hitler in Operation Valkyrie began. Judge Roland Freisler presided over the political show trial of the men who had attempted to rescue Germany and bring the Nazi regime and the war to an end.    ...   

However, what remains disturbing is that the man who broke up the conspiracy Otto-Ernst Remer (18 August 1912 – 4 October 1997) would go on to play a big role in post-Nazi Germany. Captured by the United States, he remained a prisoner of war until 1947.   ...

In the early 1960s Otto-Ernst Remer had contacts with and assisted Fidel Castro in Cuba with the purchase of weapons. Ernst-Remer along with Ernst Wilhelm Springer sold the Cuban dictator 4,000 pistols. German foreign intelligence agency Bundesnachrichtendienst (BND) reported: “Evidently, the Cuban revolutionary army did not fear contagion from personal links to Nazism, so long as it served its objectives.”    ...

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