Udo Albrecht
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Udo Albrecht (born 13 April 1940[1] in Beyrode, Germany, likely died in 2019)[2] was a far right extremist with a long history of criminal activity dating back to the 1950s including prison escapes, bank robberies, counterfeiting and offences related to explosives and weapons sales.[3]
Albrecht was born in East Germany. He joined the Freikorps Adolf Hitler in 1967.[4] He cultivated close ties with the Palestine Liberation Organization in the 1970s. When the PLO fought Jordanian forces, Albrecht and other neo-Nazis fought alongside the Fedayeen.[5] For this, he was arrested by the Jordanian army. Because of these close ties, during a hostage taking by Black September at the Saudi Arabian Embassy in Khartoum, the group demanded Albrecht's release. After his release, he was arrested again in Vienna in 1971.[3] He was arrested again in Germany in 1976 and was held in a prison in Bonn in solitary confinement on charges of membership in a criminal organization and illegal possession of weapons.[4] He fled to Lebanon in 1981, where he was again arrested.[3]
References
[edit]- ^ Andreas Förster: Zielobjekt Rechts: Wie die Stasi die westdeutsche Neonaziszene unterwanderte. Christoph Links, Berlin 2018, ISBN 978-3-86153-987-2, S. 145.
- ^ Suche nach Thüringer Terrorist Udo Albrecht wird beendet. MDR, 31 March 2019
- ^ a b c Dafinger, Johannes; Florin, Moritz (2022). A Transnational History of Right Wing Terrorism: Political Violence and the Far Right in Eastern and Western Europe since 1900. United Kingdom: Routledge. p. 162.
- ^ a b "Network of PLO Terrorists in West Germany is Uncovered". Jewish Telegraphic Agency. 3 December 1976. Retrieved 4 October 2023.
- ^ "Revealed: German neo-Nazi who helped Palestinians was CIA agent". Intel News. 4 January 2013. Retrieved 4 November 2023.
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