Nazi propaganda material dating back to 1941 was found underground in the Argentina Supreme Court.
More than 80 boxes filled with Nazi German documents were discovered underground in the Argentina Supreme Court decades after the wooden frame was hidden in 1941.
The “discovery of global importance” came when workers were clearing the area in preparation for the archive to move to a newly established museum, the court said in a statement Monday.
The 83 boxes were sent to Argentina in June 1941 by the German embassy in Tokyo, Japan, on the Japanese steamship “Nan a Mar,” a court statement said.
At the time, German diplomats in Argentine claimed that they contained personal influences, but the cargo was supported by customs and was subject to an investigation by a special committee on “anti-a-a-genin activities.” The judge later ordered the seized material, and the matter ended before the Supreme Court.
About 84 years later, opening one of the boxes, the court identified a material that was “intended to integrate and propagate Adolf Hitler’s ideology in Argentina during World War II.”
The remaining boxes were held last Friday in front of officials at the Buenos Aires Holocaust Museum, the presence of the Argentine Israel Mutual Association (AMIA).
“Given the historical relevance of the discoveries and the important information that could be included to clarify events related to the Holocaust, Supreme Court President Holocio Rozatti ordered a thorough investigation of all material found,” the court said.
“The main purpose is to determine whether the material contains important information about the Holocaust. It adds that the cues found can shed light on still unknown aspects, such as the route of Nazi money at a global level.”
Argentina’s Holocaust Museum will take part in the survey
The court moved the box to a room with additional security measures and invited them to participate in the storage and inventory at the Holocaust Museum in Buenos Aires.
Experts look at them for clues about yet unknown aspects of the Holocaust, such as the international funding network used by the Nazis.
Argentina remained neutral in World War II until 1944. The following year, the South American country declared a war between Germany and Japan. From 1933 to 1954, 40,000 Jews entered Argentina as 40,000 Jews fled Nazi persecution in Europe.
However, after World War II, Argentina, led by President Juan Peron, became a paradise for several high-ranking Nazi officials.
They included Adolf Eichmann, who was considered a key architect in Hitler’s plan to eradicate European Jews. He was captured in Buenos Aires in 1960 and taken to Israel, where he was tried and executed.
Nazi doctor Joseph Mengele also went into hiding in Argentina and then fled to Paraguay and later Brazil before he died.
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