Argentinian President Javier Milei officially gave the order to declassify documents pertaining to the 5,000 Nazi war criminals who escaped to Argentina, the Chief of Staff, Guillermo Francos, announced on Tuesday.
“The president directed all state agencies to release official files connected to Nazis who found asylum in Argentina following the Holocaust,” stated Francos, according to YNet News.
Last month President Milei told officials from the Simon Wiesenthal Center (SWC) that he would give them access to the classified government documents, even though at this point the criminals in question – and those who aided them – are already dead.
“While some previous leaders promised full cooperation to get to the hard truths that involved Argentina’s past, Milei is the first to act, with lightning speed, to enable the SWC to uncover important pieces of the historic puzzle, especially as it related to involvement with Nazis before, during and after the Holocaust,” Rabbi Abraham Cooper, associate dean of the SWC said at the time.
Some ten thousand Nazi war criminals are estimated to have avoided conviction in Europe via escape routes known as the so-called “ratlines,” half of whom are thought to have ended up in Argentina. […]
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