Jimmy Carter Interceded on Behalf of Nazi SS Guard

By any measure of a man, Jimmy Carter is a worthless piece of shit. But when you consider that he’s also a former US President, his legacy of anti-Jewish sentiment makes him below contempt and a national embarassment.

Carter’s newest book, Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid, has already caused numerous resignations from the Carter Center because of the bias and lies.

The latest news today is that a former U.S. Justice Department official who contends that Carter sent him a letter in which the former President interceded on behalf of a Nazi SS man who had been deported by the US:

Neil Sher, a veteran of the U.S. Justice Department’s Office of Special Investigation, described a letter he received from Carter in 1987 in an interview with Israel National Radio’s Tovia Singer. The letter, written and signed by Carter, asked that Sher show “special consideration” for a man proven to have murdered Jews in the Mauthausen death camp in Austria.

What kind of “special consideration” could Carter possibley want for a man who helped kill Jews in a death camp?

“Also around that time, in the spring of 1987, we deported a series of SS guards from concentration camps, whose names nobody would know. One such character we sent back to Austria was a man named Martin Bartesch.”

Bartesch, who had immigrated to the U.S. and lived in Chicago, admitted to Sher’s office and the court that he had voluntarily joined the Waffen SS and had served in the notorious SS Death’s Head Division at the Mauthausen concentration camp where, at the hands of Bartesch and his cohorts, many thousands of prisoners were gassed, shot, starved and worked to death. He also confessed to having concealed his service at the infamous camp from U.S. immigration officials.

“We had an extraordinary piece of evidence against him – a book that was kept by the SS and captured by the American armed forces when they liberated Mauthausen,” Sher said. “We called it the death book. It was a roster that the Germans required them to keep that identified SS guards as they extended weapons to murder the inmates and prisoners.”

“We kicked him out and he went back to Austria. In the meantime, his family – he had adult kids – went on a campaign, also supported by his church, to try to get special treatment. In so doing they attacked the activities of our office and me personally.

The only “special treatment” that Bartesch deserved was a bullet in the head. But his family pressed on, looking for somebody who would act on behalf of their dear Jew killer:

The family approached several members of Congress. “The congressmen would, very understandably, forward their claims over to our office and when they learned the facts they would invariably drop the case,” Sher recalled.

But there was one politician who accepted the claims without asking for any further information.

“One day, in the fall of ’87, my secretary walks in and gives me a letter with a Georgia return address reading ‘Jimmy Carter.’ I assumed it was a prank from some old college buddies, but it wasn’t. It was the original copy of the letter Bartesch’s daughter sent to Carter, after Bartesch had already been deported.

Sounds pretty damnable so far. But the following passage makes this pretty much a non-story:

“On the upper corner of the letter was a note signed by Jimmy Carter saying that in cases such as this, he wanted ‘special consideration for the family for humanitarian reasons.’

As much as I hate Jimmy Carter, and as much as I believe him to be an Anti-semitic old bastard — I don’t believe him to be a Nazi sympathizer. There’s a world of difference in wanting special consideration for the family and in wanting special consideration for the Nazi himself.

NOTE: I strongly disagree with Carter though that the family should get any “special consideration” either…especially since the “special consideration” likely was to allow their Jew-killing relative to come back to the US.