“I think all the Nazis fled to Argentina,” said Sam Meadows audience. The audience realized an uneasy truth: after World War II, thousands of Nazi members flew to Argentina, which remained an “extremely uncomfortable period” in the country’s history.
Argentina is not good at “using it as a safe haven for war criminals.” However, President Javier Milei “seems to have changed the thoughtfulness”. On April 29, he released 1,850 documents from the country archives containing details. Buenos Aires pioneerAmong the “famous Nazi criminals who fled to Argentina”, are the infamous Auschwitz concentration camp doctor Josef Mengele, known as the “Ange of Death”.
‘Nazi haven’
Most documents, including a combination of police and intelligence agency archives, were declassified in 1992 but were “almost inaccessible”. era. They can only be “by appointment, in a designated room”.
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Milli promised to “lift up the shroud that the Argentine government has long covered the level of aid that his predecessor has provided to war criminals”. and files, now Can be viewed onlineconfirming “a famous dirty secret”: the “easy” of the Nazi senior living in Argentina. “Once, Argentina became a safe haven for the Nazis,” said Defense Secretary Luis Petri.
Mengele, “notorious” for her inhuman experiments on prisoners, arrived in 1949 and lived under “various alias.” The Time of Israel. The documents included “nearly 100 pages detailing his time in Argentina” and for the first time indicated that he made a request for a trip from Argentina to West Germany in 1959, according to the German Public Broadcasting Corporation using his real name. MDR. “This means that “several countries may have a more accurate understanding of Mengele’s information than previously thought. ”
Another SS official, and one of the main architects of the “Final Solution” has several documents on Adolf Eichmann. He came to Argentina under an alias in 1950.
According to reports Associated Press On Sunday. An anonymous judicial authority said the court encountered a box of photos, postcards and propaganda during World War II “to consolidate and spread Adolf Hitler’s ideology.” The court’s president, Horacio Rosatti, ordered a “thorough analysis”.
Expose “ratlines”
The Times said Nazi officials who fled to Argentina might be “dead”, but “their hunters insisted that their work was not done.” The Simon Wiesenthal Center, a U.S.-based human rights group, hopes to “expose the so-called “Ratlines”, networks, individuals and institutions that helped the Nazis escape Europe and start new life in South America. The NGO has applied to the successive Argentine government for release of these documents in the past 20 years.
In January, the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee released two reports to Credit Suisse, which concluded that “70 Argentine accounts with reasonable connections to Argentina-based Nazis” were opened to the bank after 1945.
Previous investigations also found a “significant link” between Credit Suisse and individuals operating Ratlines. Lemond. “Money is not innocent,” Ariel Gelblung, director of Latin America at the Simon Wiesenthal Center, told the newspaper that “money is not innocent.” Credit Suisse, which was taken over by UBS Group in 2023, has promised “all the necessary help.” After meeting with representatives from the Simon Vicintal Centre earlier this year, Miley ordered the release of documents.
Le Monde said in a report of the 1999 commission of inquiry into Argentina’s Nazist activities, historian Holger M. Meding “identified the promoters of the Nazi deprivation of Argentina” for the Catholic Church and the Red Cross. But the role of then-President Juan Peron was “decisive”. Meding wrote that Perron had a “preference to Germans” towards the Germans.
The audience’s grass said it might have been the decision that prompted Miller to release the documents. The president is “not secretly his hatred of Peronism” and these documents could lead to “further review” of Peron’s role.
