The Argentine Supreme Court found the documentation associated with the Nazi regime among its archives, including the propaganda equipment which was used to disseminate the ideology of Adolf Hitler in the South American nation, a judicial authority of the Court told the Associated Press on Sunday.
The court came across the equipment when preparing the creation of a museum with its historical documents, said the source. The manager asked for anonymity due to internal policies. Among the documents, they found postcards, photographs and propaganda equipment from the German regime.
Part of the material “intended to consolidate and propagate the ideology of Adolf Hitler in Argentina, in the middle of the Second World War,” said the source. It was not clear if the articles would possibly be displayed in the museum, which is still in preparation.
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The boxes would be linked to the arrival of 83 packages in Buenos Aires on June 20, 1941, sent by the German Embassy to Tokyo on the Japanese steam “Nan-A-Maru”.
At the time, the German diplomatic mission in Argentina had requested the release of the material, claiming that the boxes contained personal effects, but the division of customs and ports preserved it.
The president of the Supreme Court, Horacio Rosatti, ordered the preservation of the material and an in -depth analysis.
Argentina is home to the largest Jewish population in Latin America, according to the World Jewish Congress, which estimated that 200 Holocaust survivors remain in the country. This is where many Nazis and sympathizers, including Adolf Eichmann – A war criminal and one of the organizers of the Holocaust – fled after the end of the war.
The county has a museum dedicated to the holocaust, the Holocaust Museum in Buenos Aires, which opened in 2001.
In 2017, the police went down to the house of an antiquity collector and found a secret room with more than 80 relics from the Nazi era, Reuters reported. The objects were then displayed at the museum, according to the report.