Argentina’s Supreme Court discovered dozens of boxes filled with Nazi material dating from World War II, including photos and postcards, among its archives in its basement.

Argentina’s Supreme Court has found dozens of boxes filled with Nazi material among its archives in its basement.

The 83 boxes hold documents including postcards, photographs and notebooks, as well as propaganda material, the court said on Sunday.

Court employees discovered the material by chance while preparing for the creation of a museum.

“Upon opening one of the boxes, we identified material intended to consolidate and propagate Adolf Hitler’s ideology in Argentina during the Second World War,” the court said.

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      But if you read the article, is not what we assumed. The boxes were being shipped from the German embassy in Japan to Argentina, and were marked as personal effects. The Argentinians did a spot check and found the propaganda, so they confiscated it because they were worried it could impact their neutrality. It went to the courts, up to their supreme court, though no one knows what action if any the court took. Obviously the Nazis didn’t get the material back.

      Argentina being a safe haven for Nazis didn’t happen until after the war, if I understand things correctly.

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      Didn’t the Vatican organise a whole underground railroad for Nazis to go retire in Latin America…

      Bastards of a feather…

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        and SAS sent Christopher Lee, yes, THAT Christopher Lee, down there to make sure the very worst of them didn’t escape justice

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          That’s so epic. Imagine thinking you’d gotten away with it, and you hear Saruman asking after your old name at the front door.

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          They - failed Dr. Josef Mengele for instance lived out his life in Latin America working for the Mengele tractor company then drowned in a swimming accident.

          Christopher Lee must have been blind to miss the fact. Many of them didn’t even bother to change their names.

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            for sure. argentina did a lot to shield a lot of people and 23 is simply not that many nazis to kill

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      Argentina and South Africa were their two main escape routes.

      Musk’s Nazi family used SA…