Udo Albrecht was a far right extremist with a long history of criminal activity dating back to the 1950s including prison escapes, bank robberies, counterfeiting and offences related to explosives and weapons sales.[1]
Albrecht was born in East Germany, he joined the Freikorps Adolf Hitler in 1967.[2] He cultivated close ties with the Palestinian Liberation Organization in the 1970s. When the PLO fought Jordanian forces, Albrecht and other neo-Nazis fought alongside the Fedayeen.[3] For this, he was arrested by the Jordanian army. During a hostage taking by Black September at the Saudi Embassy in Khartoum, the group demanded Albrecht's release; so close were their ties. After his release, he was arrested again in Vienna in 1971.[1] Arrested again in Germany in 1976 and was held in a prison Bonn in solitary confinement on charges of membership in a criminal organization and illegal possession of weapons.[2] He fled to Lebanon in 1981, where he was again arrested.[1]
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