American Goes Undercover to Expose Nazi War Criminal

American took an unconventional journey and found a man he believes is a key Nazi war criminal.
American Goes Undercover to Expose Nazi War Criminal
WAR CRIMES: American data broker Mark Gould (R) unveils video evidence which he says incriminates former Nazi colonel, 97-year-old Dr. Bernhard Frank (screen) as being guilty of genocide during World War II. (The Epoch Times)
12/8/2010
Updated:
10/1/2015
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WAR CRIMES: American data broker Mark Gould (R) unveils video evidence which he says incriminates former Nazi colonel, 97-year-old Dr. Bernhard Frank (screen) as being guilty of genocide during World War II.  (The Epoch Times)
Intrigued by the untold stories of Nazi crimes committed in World War II, Mark Gould, a 43-year-old American went on an unconventional journey leading him to a man he believes is a key Nazi war criminal.

Gould, an information data broker, says his journey was inspired by finding a pistol surrendered in 1945 by high-ranking Nazi officer Hermann Göring at a gun show in California.

Posing as a well-off American neo-Nazi interested in Third Reich memorabilia, Gould set out for Germany in 2002. He went underground and obtained a variety of documents. The trail eventually lead him to Bernhard Frank, now 97, a former close assistant to Heinrich Himmler, the Reich leader of the Nazi SS.

Gould says when he started his journey he was unaware of what his search would lead to. One figure he came across was Frank. Gould said he easily located him in a Frankfurt phone book, then contacted him to set up an interview.

Gould held a press conference Dec. 7 at the Marriott Marquis at Times Square to release his findings.

Eight days prior to his first interview with Frank, Gould says he received a letter from the man bearing his signature—a signature that looked familiar. This led Gould to discover what he believes was an identical signature on documents dated July 28, 1941, containing requests from Himmler ordering the killing of thousands of Jews.

Over a period of four years, Gould conducted a number of video interviews with Frank in which the former Nazi admitted the signature on the documents was his.

Gould says that as a linguist, Frank was in charge of removing incriminating wording from Nazi reports under Himmler’s command.

“This is how history wouldn’t remember them. And his [Frank’s] job was to take the report and remove anything about the killing of Jews, and only focus on the glory or the bravery of the SS in the field,” says Gould.

Gould says that one day he arrived at Frank’s for an interview carrying the July 28, 1941, order. “I put it in his hand and he admitted that he had signed it. I had a ticket into his world now. He wanted credit badly for this.”

According to Gould, Frank showed no signs of remorse saying it was “necessary” and that “the Jews had done this to themselves,” since they were “interrupting the supply lines.” When asked what about the women and children, Frank shrugged his shoulders, says Gould.

In his opinion, Gould thinks Frank’s responsibility is immense. “It’s immeasurable in my mind.”

Guy Walters, blogger for The Telegraph and author of numerous books including “Berlin Games” and “Hunting Evil,” claims the allegations and Frank’s role are blown out of proportion.

Walters cites “Holocaust and Genocide Studies, Volume I” in saying the orders given on July 28 were only further instructions for previous orders given by Himmler on July 19, and 22, 1941.

“It should also be borne in mind that these orders are far from the first in which the murders of Jews were called for,” writes Walters on the blog.

On Dec. 2, Gould personally presented a lawsuit filed in U.S. Federal Court in the District of Columbia to Frank in Frankfurt, accusing him of genocide, torture, kidnapping, and crimes against humanity.

Gould’s attorney, Nitsana Darshan-Leitner, says this civil action is seeking compensation for the deaths of 27 relatives of Gould and Burton Bernstein, brother of composer Leonard Bernstein, and invites heirs of Holocaust victims from Eastern Europe to join in becoming plaintiffs in the case against Frank.

Efraim Zuroff, a top Nazi hunter for the Simon Wiesenthal Center told the Associated Press in a telephone interview that he has not seen evidence of Frank having ordered Jews to be killed. Zuroff said that several people signed the document and “Frank’s job was just to verify that the language conformed with Nazi ideology—rather than actually give any order for killing.”

Gould, however, asserts that upon presenting his findings to academics in the field, many have validated his findings.

Holli Levitsky, the director of the Jewish Studies Program at Loyola Marymount University told The New York Times that upon reviewing Gould’s work, she believes he has “connected dots that had previously been ignored and missed.”

In a release, Gould says he hopes to further develop an authoritative database to aid researchers in combating Holocaust deniers.

A part of Gould’s interviews with Frank can be seen at www.pjinstitute.com/holocaust