Posted on 04/01/2012 2:48:10 PM PDT by nickcarraway
Nine thousand Nazi war criminals fled to South America after the Second World War, it has been revealed for the first time.
After receiving tip-offs, German prosecutors were recently granted access to secret files in Brazil and Chile that confirmed the true number of Third Reich immigrants.
According to the documents, an estimated 9,000 war criminals escaped to South America, including Croatians, Ukrainians, Russians and other western Europeans who aided the Nazi murder machine.
Most, perhaps as many as 5,000, went to Argentina; between 1,500 and 2,000 are thought to have made it to Brazil; around 500 to 1,000 to Chile; and the rest to Paraguay and Uruguay.
These numbers do not include several hundred more who fled to the safety of right-wing regimes in the Middle East.
Previous estimates as to how many Nazis fled to South America have varied wildly from 5,000 to 300,000.
The files also showed that during the war Argentine President General Juan Peron sold 10,000 blank Argentine passports to ODESSA the organisation set up to protect former SS men in the event of defeat.
Kurt Schrimm, 62, head of the central war criminal authority in Germany, is among the legal team sifting through archives.
He said: 'These documents provide the hottest leads we have had for years.'
Mr Schrimm said a female historian provided the clues about the Nazis who got away, who included Holocaust mastermind Adolf Eichmann, Auschwitz doctor Josef Mengele and Treblinka death camp commander Franz Stangl
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I have yet to see a single list, secret or otherwise, of Communist War Criminals from during WWII and up to today. Perhaps the Kommisars are politically protected as they are the cadre teaching political indoctrination and butchery to the current agents in Western governments.
I knew one such Nazi. He was a dentist who, by the way, operated on Actor Dustin Hoffman.
does clove oil really exist?
Also we don’t have hours of visual footage of Communist atrocities, like we do with the Nazi atrocities.
I had a retired U.S. Marine friend who did join up after his release here in the states. He was a German infantryman during WWII and saw action in Russia during Operation Barbarossa. His prior cold weather training saved many lives up near the Chosin Reservoir.
I thought they all went to Antarctica?
In the whole scheme of things, the Soviets (especially under Stalin) killed tens of millions more people than Hitler ever did. Somehow, the Soviets got away with it. Even nowadays in history textbooks.
After the war, the Soviets used Buchenwald as a Concentration Camp of their own.
Is it safe? (shudder)
yep
Ich bin ein Braziliner
Lets hunt down the congers and if they are dead—find their friends and sons and slay them! Dig up their graves and scatter their bones! Hey—Lets start acting a bit Christian here—Its been too long. Time to seek forgiveness—let God sort out the just from the unjust-—Why look back in time when so many problems exist in the here and now? Look to the murderers who are alive today—the terrorists—the Jihadists—the wild-eyed anti-Semites in Iran. We need no boogie men from Nazi Germany—we have more than enough today.
Leads to what, some 90 year old retired auto worker who is now dead but was convicted by the U.S while being found innocent by the Israelis themselves?
_________________________________________________________ Ummm, the Commies were on the winning side twice in WWII!
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The first time when Poland was partitioned, the second, when Germany was partitioned
I think Poland has tried going after some of them. Recently hungarians passed some laws stating that communism is a criminal enterprise and revoked statutes of limitations for communist crimes. The new conservative hungarian constitution is worth reading.
Much more could be done worldwide, of course. The crimes of communists are so numerous and so appalling (think Katyn) that it boggles the mind. Whole nations enslaved by criminal gangs, economies bled dry, tens of millions imprisoned, slave labour, deportation of entire nationalities, dynamiting of thousands of churches, (muslims would be happy here) incredible oppression of conscience and corruption of generations... boggles the mind.
Indeed.
Well said.
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