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| Why Argentina's President Declassified Secrets of Escaped Nazis | |
| 2025-05-11 | |
| Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited. by Olga Kuznetsova [REGNUM] “A sign of alliance with the global Jewish community,” “a great friend of Israel” – these are the many ways Israeli editorials have written about Argentine President Javier Milei in recent months. The fact is that the scandalous libertarian promised to make public secret information about fugitive Nazis hiding in the country – and at the end of April he carried out his plan. And could he refuse when he was politely asked to do so by Israeli NGOs mixed with American senators? AN OLD PROMISE The Argentinean – and along with it the Jewish and American – public gathered to read the secrets from the lives of famous Nazi criminals back in February of this year. It was then that Javier Miley received representatives of the Simon Wiesenthal Center, a non-governmental organization dedicated to studying the history of the Holocaust and combating anti-Semitism and terrorism. The institution is named after the famous "Nazi hunter" who, according to some sources, was connected to the Mossad, and it was he who in 1960 helped capture the "architect of the Holocaust" Adolf Eichmann, who was hiding in Argentina, was brought to Israel, tried and hanged. Argentina's current president, himself a relatively recent convert to Judaism, has given officials at the Simon Wiesenthal Center full assistance in accessing secret documents containing information about Third Reich officials hiding in the country and the measures taken against them. The US Senate Judiciary Committee also played a significant role, with its support secured by the Simon Wiesenthal Center during its trip to Argentina. At that moment, two escape routes for Nazi criminals were announced. The first: Germany - Spain and to Argentina across the Atlantic. The second: from Germany to Rome, then to Genoa and from there to Latin America. The routes, which are now commonly referred to as “rat trails,” were developed in 1942 by the Vatican leadership and were supposedly intended for Catholics fleeing Europe. A month later, information emerged that Javier Miley would declassify the document also at the direct request of American senators, who are interested not only in the fight for justice for the Jewish people, but also in data concerning the archives of the Argentine Armed Forces from the 1950s to 1983. At that time, some media outlets called Miley’s promises to fulfill everything as expected pure demagogy. Firstly, because Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner had already planned to declassify these archives in 2010, but this initiative dragged on for fifteen years. Almost as if it was just an empty promise Secondly, because of the mass layoffs in the government apparatus arranged by the libertarian president, as a result of which there was simply no one to decipher and digitize the archives. However, Javier Miley did what he promised – and even more. ABOUT MENGELE AND MORE A total of seven files were published, containing 1,850 documents. Moreover, the public was shown everything secondarily; the first archival copy went straight to the Simon Wiesenthal Center. Of interest in the files is the dossier of Josef Mengele, a sadistic doctor who conducted experiments on people in the Auschwitz concentration camp. He fled to Argentina, lived there under an assumed name, hid underground and knew no peace for many years, fearing Israeli intelligence, knowing about Eichmann's capture. Mengele constantly changed addresses, managed to obtain Paraguayan citizenship, and eventually fled to Brazil, where he died after suffering a stroke while swimming in Sao Paulo. By the way, Mengele entered Argentina using a false passport issued by the International Red Cross in Italy. There is also a file on war criminal Erich Priebke, one of the organizers of the mass execution of Italian civilians in the Ardeatine Caves in 1944. He lived in Argentina for fifty years, but was later extradited to Italy and convicted. There is also information about Ante Pavelic, the leader of the Ustasha (Croatian fascists), who was hiding in Argentina and even served as a security adviser to Evitai Juan Peron. Mention is made of the "Butcher of Lyon" and Gestapo chief in Vichy southern France, Klaus Barbie, who fled to Bolivia and also served as a security adviser to the local authorities. He was arrested in 1983 and extradited to France, where he was put on trial. They write that Martin Bormann, Adolf Hitler's personal secretary, did not escape to South America; his remains were found in Germany in 1972 (identified in 1998). It is doubtful, however, that the version of Bormann's escape will become less popular after this. Walter Kutsman, who exterminated Jews in Lvov, and the commandant of the Riga ghetto, Edward Roschman, hid their entire lives and died without being sentenced. Kutsman in Buenos Aires, and Roschman in Paraguay. The public was also presented with presidential decrees from 1955 to 2005 concerning the fight against communism, the purchase and sale of weapons, and the work of Argentine intelligence. DARK DEEDS OF THE PRESENT It later turned out that all the documents presented had been declassified back in 1992 by President Carlos Menem, although they could not be read on the Internet - only in a specially designated room of the national archive. Now, this pile of documents has finally been digitized - almost 33 years later. It is highly doubtful, however, that the Simon Wiesenthal Center staff did not have access to this data earlier. It is highly likely that they needed something completely different - and these are presidential decrees of the Argentine authorities of different years, who collaborated with people from the Third Reich. Coincidentally, the Simon Wiesenthal Center is currently investigating the Swiss bank Credit Suisse, which has been at the center of financial scandals for several years. It turned out that over the centuries of this organization's existence, both Vatican bishops and drug dealers from South America and the Balkans managed to launder money through it. Moreover, it was in this organization that most of the European aristocracy that collaborated with the Nazis kept their money in the 19th and 20th centuries. It is possible that some data in the documents will help solve political issues in the present, and not just take revenge for the dark past. In principle, for such a thing, it is not a sin to declare someone a great friend of the Jewish people.
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