François Genoud

François Genoud (26 October 1915 – 30 May 1996) was a noted Swiss financier and a principal benefactor of the Nazi diaspora through the ODESSA network and supporter of Middle Eastern terror groups during the post-World War II 20th century. He was considered the Swiss financier of the Third Reich.

Genoud said "My views have not changed since I was a young man. Hitler was a great leader, and if he had won the war the world would be a better place today."

Genoud was from Lausanne, Switzerland. He met Adolf Hitler in 1932 as a teenager in a hotel while studying in Bonn. He joined the pro-Nazi National Front in 1934, and two years later he traveled to Palestine where he met the grand mufti of Jerusalem Amin el-Husseini. Working for both Swiss and German intelligence agencies, Genoud traveled extensively in the Middle East.

Genoud traveled to Berlin frequently during the war "to see his friend the grand mufti," and visited him afterward many times in Beirut. The grand mufti allegedly "entrusted Genoud with the management of his enormous financial affairs".

In 1940, together with a Lebanese national, he set up the Oasis nightclub in Lausanne to serve as a covert operation for the Abwehr. In 1941, Abwehr agent Paul Dickopf sent Genoud into Germany, Czechoslovakia, Hungary and Belgium. Genoud befriended several top Nazis, including Karl Wolff, "supreme SS and police leader" in Italy. At the end of the war, Genoud represented the Swiss Red Cross in Brussels.

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