Among other things, he played a part in training Yasser Arafat in terrorism; was an advisor to the Nasser government, along with many other ex-Nazis; was an advisor to Juan Peron and bodyguard to Eva; and an advistor to Muammar Ghaddafi.
Now, I don’t know much about Juan Peron, other than that he is a left wing hero. Looking up his story, I found this interesting quote:
Italian Fascism led popular organizations to an effective participation in national life, which had always been denied to the people. Before Mussolini’s rise to power, the nation was on one hand and the worker on the other, and the latter had no involvement in the former. […] In Germany happened exactly the same phenomenon, meaning, an organized state for a perfectly ordered community, for a perfectly ordered population as well: a community where the state was the tool of the nation, whose representation was, under my view, effective. I thought that this should be the future political form, meaning, the true people’s democracy, the true social democracy.[42]
—Juan Perón
Peron also clearly aided and supported the covert movement of many ex-Nazis into Germany. Why not? He liked their ideology. For his part Skorzeny apparently hoped Peron would build a Fourth Reich in Argentina.
According to the link, 1,500 Communists rioted when Skorzeny’s memoirs were published by Le Figaro. I find this interesting. As I have said often, there is no practical difference between National Socialism and Communism, except perhaps the scale of the war on the rich. In National Socialism, you tolerate the rich who support your regime, and in Communism you don’t, with the result that the economies of Fascist regimes–China is clearly a modern example–run more smoothly; but the human rights situation, the repression, the injustice, are the same in both cases.
Historically, Communists hate Fascists for the sole reason that Hitler waged war on the Soviet Union, and prior to that because they had been fighting in the streets over, in essence, whether the concepts of nation and race were useful or pernicious.
As an unabashed nationalist, Peron was clearly a Fascist. It is a sign of the lack of clarity of thought on the Left that they can praise him and still claim to hate Fascism. Again, if they had retained the capacity to think, they would not be Leftists.
The New Deal was a Fascist project, and I don’t think it is too early to call Obama–clearly and FDR admirer–a Fascist as well. His project is that of Peron, and other than accepting the label Fascist, I think he would be proud to claim that legacy.
I would expect further efforts at press intimidation and curtailment of free speech in his second term. Thank God the Constitution makes it more challenging for him.