by WorldTribune Staff, April 2, 2025 Real World News
Argentina's President Javier Milei has ordered the declassification of documents with details on the 10,000 Nazis who fled Germany and settled in Argentina after World War II.
High-level Nazis, including Holocaust mastermind Adolph Eichmann and "angel of death" Josef Mengele fled to the South American country.
It has been rumored for years that Adolf Hitler also ended up there.
The documents will likely include Nazi-linked bank accounts and archival records detailing the use of Nazi "ratlines" which were monetary and logistic pathways Nazis used to escape justice and flee Argentina following the war, Fox News Digital reported.
In a February letter to Milei, Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley of Iowa requested the release of the documents. Grassley is investigating Credit Suisse and its historic servicing of the Nazi-linked accounts and ratlines.
Milei told officials of the Simon Wiesenthal Center they would have his full cooperation in granting access to the documents.
In 2017, the CIA declassified a document which revealed that the intelligence agency investigated the possibility that Hitler was alive in South America as late as 1955.
The three-page document, which appears on the CIA's website, highlights a former SS soldier who told spies he had regularly met with Hitler in Colombia.
The document suggests that Hitler may have worked as a shipping company employee, prior to potentially fleeing to Argentina. On the second page is a picture of the informant, Phillip Citroen, with a person he claims is Hitler in the mid-1950s.
Eichmann, one of the main architects of the Final Solution, escaped Europe after World War II and was living in Argentina under an assumed name when Israeli agents snatched him off a street in 1960. He was later tried and hung in Israel.
Mengele, meanwhile, was arrested by U.S. forces in 1945 but released shortly after. He then spent years on the run and was infamous for carrying out brutal medical experiments. He arrived in Argentina in 1949 and lived there for a decade before fleeing to Paraguay and later to Brazil, where he died in 1979.
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