The court's judiciary told the Associated Press Sunday that the Argentine Supreme Court found documents related to the Nazi regime, including propaganda materials that were used to spread Adolf Hitler's ideology in South American countries.
Sources said the court encountered material while preparing to create a museum with its historical documents. The official requested anonymity due to internal policies. In the documents, they found postcards, photos and publicity materials from the German regime.
Some of the materials “aim to consolidate and spread Adolf Hitler’s ideology in Argentina during World War II,” the sources said. It is unclear whether the items will eventually be displayed in the still-in-progress museum.
Argentina's Supreme Court through AP
The boxes are believed to be related to the arrival of 83 packages in Buenos Aires on June 20, 1941, and were sent by the German Embassy to Japan's ship “Nan-a-Maru” in Tokyo.
At the time, Germany's diplomatic mission in Argentina called for the release of materials, claiming that the boxes contained personal belongings, but the Ministry of Customs and Ports kept it.
Supreme Court President Horacio Rosatti ordered the preservation of materials and thorough analysis.
According to the World Jewish Congress, Argentina is home to the largest Jewish population in Latin America, with an estimated 200 Holocaust survivors still remaining in the country. This is many Nazis and sympathizers, including Adolf Eichmann – War criminals and one of the organizers of the Holocaust – fled after the war was over.
The county has a museum dedicated to the Holocaust, the Buenos Aires Holocaust Museum, which opened in 2001.
According to Reuters, in 2017, police raided the home of an antique collector and discovered a secret room with more than 80 Nazi-era artifacts. The objects were later displayed in the museum, the report said.
