The Argentine Supreme Court has found the documentation associated with the Nazi regime among its archives, including the propaganda material that was used to disseminate Adolf Hitler’s ideology in the South American nation, said a judicial authority of the Court on Sunday to The Associated Press.
The court met the material when the preparation for the creation of a museum with its historical documents, said the source. The official requested anonymity due to internal policies. Among the documents, they found postcards, photographs and propaganda material of the German regime.
Part of the material “destined to consolidate and spread the ideology of Adolf Hitler in Argentina, in the midst of World War II,” said the source. It was not clear if the articles would be possible for all things to be shown in the museum, which is still in process.
It is believed that the boxes are related to the arrival of 83 packages to Buenos Aires on June 20, 1941, sent by the German embassy in Tokyo aboard the Japanese vapor “Nan-A-Maru”.
At that time, the German diplomatic mission in Argentina had requested the release of the material, claiming that the boxes contained personal belongings, but the customs and port division retained it.
The president of the Supreme Court, Horacio Rosatti, ordered the preservation of the material and an exhaustive analysis.
Argentina is home to the largest Jewish population in Latin America, according to the World Jewish Congress, which has been estimated that 200 holocaust survivors remain in the country. It was where many Nazis and supporters, including Adolf Eichmann – A war criminal and one of the organizers of the Holocaust – they fled after the end of the war.
The County has a Museum dedicated to the Holocaust, the Holocaust Museum of Buenos Aires, which opened in 2001.
In 2017, the police raided the house of an antique collector and found a secret room with more than 80 relics of the Nazi era, Reuters reported. The objects were exhibited later in the museum, according to the report.