Argentina’s president, Javier Milei, ordered all state institutions to declassify official documents concerning Nazis who escaped to Argentina during the 20th century.
Milei made this decision following a meeting with Montana Senator Steve Daines, who emphasized the documentation of the period during which Argentina protected individuals who fled Nazi Germany after the Second World War.
During a TV interview, Argentina’s Minister of Interior, Guillermo Francos, confirmed that classified documents on Nazi bank movements and finances still exist. “Milei ordered that all available information from any state agency be released. The most important files are probably in the Ministry of Defense. There is no reason to hide this data” Francos stated.
🇦🇷 Argentina will declassify files on Nazis who fled there post-WWII.
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In addition to declassifying Nazi documents, Milei ordered papers of Argentina’s Military dictatorship to be revealed
Milei’s presidential spokesperson, Manuel Adorni, informed the media that, alongside the declassification of Nazi documents, the President had also ordered the release of all records related to the country’s military dictatorship.
Argentina endured one of the most brutal dictatorships of the 20th century between 1976 and 1983. Jorge Rafael Videla’s regime killed, tortured, and forcibly disappeared thousands of citizens.
After WW2, the country was home to key Nazi officials that fled Germany
Argentinian press has also reported that the files the Milei administration is set to declassify will shed light on the stay of Nazi officials like Josef Mengele and Adolf Eichmann in the country.
Adolf Eichmann was one of the architects of the Holocaust. He arrived in South America in 1950 under the alias of Ricardo Klement after escaping Germany through “ratlines”.
Eichmann stayed in the country until Israeli Mossad agents arrested him in Buenos Aires in 1960, and put him on trial in Israel between 1961 and 1962. He was convicted of crimes against humanity and war crimes and was sentenced to death. He was executed by hanging on June 1st, 1962, at Ramla prison in Israel.
Josef Mengele was another key Nazi figure. He was known as the “Angel of Death” from Auschwitz and is believed to have reached Argentina in 1949. Unlike Eichmann, however, he did not stay in Argentina. Mengele fled the country for Paraguay and then Brazil. Despite Mengele not being captured after fleeing Nazi Germany, forensic examinations have confirmed his death by drowning while swimming off the coast of Brazil in 1979.
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