Nazi fugitives files released by Argentina
Argentina has made public a declassified documents that detail the actions of Nazi fugitives who fled Europe after the Second World War. The files were previously held under state secrecy rules but have been released on the order of President Javier Milei.
A formal request from US senator Steve Daines, a Republican from Montana, as well as representatives from the Simon Wiesenthal Center in meetings with Milei gave momentum to the movement. The government initially insisted that the move is a part of its commitment to more transparency.
The General Archive of the Nation (AGN) published a total of 1,850 declassified documents, including banking records, secret intelligence files, and confidential Defence Ministry reports. These are available to the public for view on a government website.
The files include details of investigations carried out by the Federal Police’s Foreign Affairs Directorate, Argentina’s intelligence services (State Intelligence Secretariat, or SIDE), and the National Gendarmerie (Border Guard) between the 1950s and 1980s. Presidential decrees signed between 1957 and 2005 are also included.
The documents will hopefully shed light on, among other things, arms deals, budgetary changes, Argentina’s intelligence services, and the war against communism during the Cold War, historians hope.
The Simon Wiesenthal Center received copies of the documents. It is probing Credit Suisse bank for its links to Nazis. The centre is named after one of the most well-known hunters of Nazi fugitives and a survivor of the holocaust.
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