Angel of revenge Che (7 photos)

This girl went down in history as Che Guevara's Avenger. Raised by her father as a reference Aryan girl, Monica by the will of fate and became a Bolivian communist of her own.







Monica as a child

Her father is the famous Nazi filmmaker Hans Ertl. fled Germany after the fall of the regime in 1945. And gave out overgrown daughter without her consent for another Nazi - Hans Harjes. Disenfranchised choice, Monica did not despair. She spent hours wandering through the jungle with camera. And then the locals taught her self-defense skills, shooting, possession of cold weapons. And Ertl made a hand to the family, leaving Nazi relatives in the past.





Shortly after the death of Che Guevara, she met representatives of the National Liberation Army of Bolivia - fairly battered but intact. And she became a partisan. Here just education and vaunted German pedantry came in handy: Monika studied accounting, audited available resources and adjusted logistics. The army returned combat capability, and Ertl became indisputable authority among the partisans and joined the communist movement.



Sketch (left) compiled by the police and a portrait of Monika Ertl in 1971

In 1971, the partisans learned that one of the executioners of Che Guevara, cut off the hands of the already dead commander, Roberto Quintanilla Pereira received the post of Bolivian consul in Germany. Monica, being purebred German, returned to her homeland without hindrance, calmly planned the operation and shot the official. as a visiting cards leaving a weapon, a wig and a note with the words next to the body Victoria o muerte (victory or death).



Nazi criminal Klaus Barbie

Monica returns to Bolivia and together with her friend and colleague Che Reese Debre devises a plan to kidnap another flamboyant character - Nazi criminal Klaus Barbie, nicknamed Lyons butcher. Barbie must be taken to France and betrayed a fair trial at the scene of the crimes committed. But mother the Nazi had already been given intelligence: "Uncle Klaus" had a lot of connections. Putting two and two together, he realized he was the next target.



May 12, 1973 Ertl, who passed someone from the group, got into ambushed by the Bolivian police and was killed. body in evidence the death of a revolutionary was photographed, and then taken out in an unknown direction, so that the burial place does not turn into a shrine and a place worship. Where is buried a young woman who was only 35 years old, family did not know. In memory of her, there was an inscription on the tombstone of her mother at the German cemetery in La Paz. But the avenging angel of Che Guevara and without a grave forever remained in people's memory.