From the Holocaust to Hamas

The connection between the Nazi idea of a master German race and Hamas’ intention to free the world of Jews aligns across the decades since the end of WW2. The violent terrorist attack of October 7, 2023 would not have been possible without the dedicated work of one Swiss Nazi: François Genoud.

Genoud was the principle financial manager, financial fixer for the Third Reich who made a fortune wielding influence in the Middle East after the end of the war. He created a conduit for stolen and unrecorded wartime assets taken from Jewish victims including cash, gold, art, and diamonds into protected Swiss bank accounts. His relationship with Haj Amin al-Husseini, the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem, set the stage for "a money pipeline that was directed to Arab insurgents in Palestine”.

Genoud did many things. He moved stolen money and goods out of Germany, financed the legal defense of multiple Arab Terrorists who killed and terrorized Jews using ransom, kidnapping, car bombing, and the highjacking of airplanes. Genoud recruited ex-Nazi intelligence officers and specialists in weapons and military training to their cause, published the first Arab translation of The Protocols of Zion and spread antisemitic propaganda over the region. He helped multiple high ranking Nazi war criminals escape justice, set up funds for Nazis in prison, seems to have had knowledge of the Munich Olympic massacre before it happened, and smuggled weapons to Algeria and other countries. Genoud opened Swiss bank accounts in the names of terrorist groups, and helped to found and bankroll the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine thus supporting terrorist causes in Palestine. His involvement is likely to be found in most actions working against Israel and the Jewish people and in favor the the Thousand Year Reich for the nearly 50 years he lived past the end of the war.

François Genoud committed suicide at age 80 in 1993, just four weeks after The World Jewish Congress and Swiss banking officials announced a consequential commission to investigate him.

For further reading

Hitler's Swiss Connection, by David Lee Preston
published in the Philadelphia Inquirer, Jan. 5, 1997

Revealed: Nazi financial fixer who funded Palestinian terror

By Patricia and Gerald Posner, published in The Jewish Chronicle, Jan 25, 2024

photo credit: Mark Serr