Udo Albrecht 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.[1]
Albrecht was born in East Germany. He joined the Freikorps Adolf Hitler in 1967.[2] He cultivated close ties with the Palestinian Liberation Organization in the 1970s. When the PLO fought Jordanian forces, Albrecht and other neo-Nazis fought alongside the Fedayeen.[3] For this, he was arrested by the Jordanian army. Because of these close ties, during a hostage taking by Black September at the Saudi Embassy in Khartoum, the group demanded Albrecht's release. After his release, he was arrested again in Vienna in 1971.[1] He was arrested again in Germany in 1976 and was held in a prison Bonn in solitary confinement on charges of membership in a criminal organization and illegal possession of weapons.[2] He fled to Lebanon in 1981, where he was again arrested.[1]
References
edit- ^ 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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