Declassification of government-held files relating to Nazi fugitives who fled Germany before the end of WWII and settled in Argentina are set to be released according to Argentina’s President Javier Milei.
Argentina’s interior minister, Guillermo Alberto Francos, says Nazi-linked bank accounts and archival records which outline how Nazi’s utilized “ratlines” to escape to Argentina following the war are included in the files according to the Buenos Aires Times.
The case for the documents release began last month after a letter was sent by U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley to Argentina’s President through the Simon Wiesenthal Center, which is famous for tracking down Nazis.
The letter stated that Grassley was investigating Credit Suisse and its ties to bank accounts linked to Nazis. The release of the files was also help in exposing how the Nazis utilizes escape routes to get through Europe to Latin America.
The Simon Wiesenthal Center was informed by President Milei that he would be in full cooperation in granting access to the files.
Nothing Shall Be Hidden
At the close of WWII, well known, high-level Nazis fled Germany, such persons included Adolph Eichmann and Josef Mengele who was infamously known as the “angel of death.”
It is estimated that between 10,000 to 12,000 Nazis and other war criminals escaped to Argentina and other Latin American countries after the war.
Eichmann, one of the main architects of the Final Solution, was discovered living in Argentina when Israeli agents captured him in 1960. He was taken to Israel, tried and eventually hung for his crimes.
Nazis were also found to have fled to the U.S., Canada and Mexico.
In 2017, the CIA declassified a document which exposed how the intelligence agency investigated if Hitler was actually alive and living in South America.
Just a few years later, in 2020, another batch of documents were produced which identified more than 12,000 Nazis who lived in Argentina in the 1930s. Many of theses individuals had one or more bank accounts at what is now known as Credit Suisse bank.
