1. NazistotheCore
TheSassenBrothersandtheiranti-
BolshevikCrusadeinLatinAmerica
J. Botman
aspekt
Wim Sassen’s name has always been linked to the Eichmann case.
Little is known about his personal life. Even less is known about the
other Sassen family members who, like him, fled to Latin America af-
ter WWII. While two sisters abandoned their Nazi ideology and kept
a low profile in Ecuador, Wim and his brother Alfons continued their
Nazi allegiance. They joined forces with fugitives like Josef Mengele,
Walter Rauff and Klaus Barbie under the protection of the German
Secret Service.
This book reveals new information on Wim and Alfons Sassen. It not
only seeks to explain why they joined the SS, but also narrates their
escape from Europe. During the war, they made a pact with the Dutch
resistance in case the Nazi empire should collapse. Once it did, the
Dutch resistance helped them find their way to Latin America, re-
ceiving aid from both a Catholic and a former collaborator’s network.
While Wim escaped to Argentina through Ireland, Alfons was recruit-
ed by foreign intelligence services as a so-called “Abwehr” specialist.
He was tasked with dismantling “Wehrwolf” networks and penetrat-
ing communists cells. Once it was discovered that his intelligence re-
ports were based on nothing more than fantasy, he too escaped. With
the aid of the famous Spanish General Moscardó of the Siege of Al-
cázar he managed to reach Ecuador. There, his true intelligence work
started. Together with his brother-in-arms Wim, he was reunited with
Nazi diehards including Luftwaffe ace Hans Ulrich Rudel, and Mus-
solini-liberator Otto Skorzeny. This moment was the starting point of
complex intrigues between secret services, arms dealers, Latin Ameri-
can dictators like Augusto Pinochet and Alfredo Stroessner, and drug-
lords in Bolivia. These intrigues earned Wim and Alfons, respectively,
the reputation of international arms-trafficker, and advisor to military
juntas all over the world.
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J. Botman
Nazisto
the Core
The Sassen Brothers and their anti-
Bolshevik Crusade in Latin America
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