Ilan Hartuv, one of the surviving hostages in the hijacking of Air France Flight 139 in 1976, recalled Böse saying to him during the hijacking that "I carried out terrorist acts in West Germany because the ruling establishment took Nazis and reactionaries into its service."<ref name="Melman 2011">{{cite news |last=Melman |first=Yossi |url=http://www.haaretz.com/weekend/week-s-end/setting-the-record-straight-entebbe-was-not-auschwitz-1.372131 |title=Setting the record straight: Entebbe was not Auschwitz |newspaper=[[Haaretz]] |date=8 July 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221108041827/https://www.haaretz.com/2011-07-08/ty-article/setting-the-record-straight-entebbe-was-not-auschwitz/0000017f-da7f-dea8-a77f-de7fcaeb0000|archive-date=2022-11-08}}</ref>