Protean Press has reached out to Ronen Bergman – a New York Times journalist who published a story this week about Franz Josef Huber, a top commander in Hitler’s secret police, who evaded prosecution and punishment after World War II – to invite him to read “The Secret Ending of World War II: How Nazism Survived to Fight Another Day,” a book proposal that makes up Part III of Carl Oglesby’s posthumously published book, “Clandestine America: Selected Writings on Conspiracies from the Nazi “Surrender” to Dallas, Watergate, and Beyond” (Protean Press, 2020).  In this proposal, Oglesby contends – and thousands of pages of Freedom of Information Act files and other primary research tauntingly support – that Reinhard Gehlen, Hitler’s lead spymaster, along with a team of his men (perhaps including Mr. Huber) “surrendered” to the U.S. in the summer of 1945, and were flown to Fort Hunt near Washington DC to negotiate a separate peace with the U.S. Government. The results of these negotiations were the newly-formed CIA, headed by Allen Dulles, who had spent much of the War in Switzerland, and the Gehlen Organization, which in the 1950s became part of the West German BND – and for which Franz Josef Huber worked.  Bergman notes that “…American forces arrested Huber in May 1945. There are no available records about his interactions with U.S. military intelligence over the two years he was in custody…”

At the virtual book launch for Oglesby’s book, Dr. Douglas M. Johnston, President Emeritus and founder of the International Center for Religion & Diplomacy, noted that he found Oglesby’s Gehlen work credible and important, and urged scholars to dig deeper and find the ugly truth. It seems that process has begun, with Bergman’s article shedding light on long-buried secrets – secrets that Carl Oglesby made his life’s work to reveal – about how World War II really ended.