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Dinko Šakić (September 8, 1921 – July 20, 2008) was a convicted Croatian war criminal, an army leader of the fascist Independent State of Croatia (NDH), established under Third Reich and Italian tutelage, and commander of the Jasenovac concentration camp during World War II.
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Senior official of the pro Nazi state of Croatia Ushtasa.
Commander in Josenovac concentration camp.
Accused of various war crimes, including torture of Remzija Rebac.

He arrived Argentina on 22/12/1947 on board the steamer Tucumán.
The passport was issued by the Red Cross, appeared as a mechanic and there are no names.
In 1956 he was awarded a certificate of good conduct to travel to Spain.
Three years later he returned and in 1969 requested a passport and travel to Canada, USA and Spain.
In 1986 he was arrested and released at the airport Barajas in Spain.
In 1998 Croatia formally requested his extradition to Argentina and was arrested at his home in Santa Teresita city.-
He was tried in his country and sentenced to 20 years in prison.
He died in Zagreb in 2008, serving the sentence.
 
Hans Fischböck (24 January 1895 - 3 July 1967)
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Dr. Hans Fischbock during the war years in the Netherlands, along with Dr. Arthur Seyss

Was an Austrian banker who was the economics minister and minister of finance of Austria and the finance minister of Nazi occupied Holland. He was born in Geras, Austria and studied in Vienna. From 1915 to 1918 he served in the Austro-Hungarian Army and was deployed to the front in the South of the County of Tyrol. After the First World War, in 1919 he gained a doctorate in Vienna and then worked in the Austrian banking system.

In March 1938, after the Anschluss of Austria by Germany, Fischbock was appointed economics minister and in May 1938 he was appointed Minister of finance and took measures for the expropriation of Jewish property. After the invasion of the Netherlands, Arthur Seyss-Inquart appointed him minister of finance of the occupied Netherlands and he served in this capacity from 1940-1945. From March 1941 he was involved in the expropriation of Jewish property and sending forced laborers to Germany to work in the arms industry.It also highlights the member of the Reichstag have been.

He joined Argentina on 02/02/1951 in steam Ana C from Genoa with false documents issued by the Red Cross. The false name used was the Jacob Schramm. In 1953 begins to use his real name. It was never requested his extradition to Argentina. In 1958 he returned to Europe and he died in Marburg, Germany in 1967.
 
Ludolf von Alvensleben (March 17, 1901, – March 17, 1970)
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Was a Nazi official in the rank of SS-Gruppenführer and Major General of the Police. His familiar name was "Bubi" (Little Boy).

Alvensleben was born in Halle to the lower German noble family von Alvensleben. His father was a Prussian Major General Ludolf von Alvensleben, his mother, Antoinette von Alvensleben, née Freiin von Ricou. Alvensleben belonged to the Prussian cadet corps since 1911, and in 1918 he joined the Hussar regiment and fought during World War I. Between 1923 and July 1929, he belonged to the nationalist paramilitary organization Stahlhelm.

After the First World War, Alvensleben graduated with a degree in Agriculture. After the death of his father in December 1912, the family's Schochwitz castle, which had been inherited from Alvensleben's grandfather, the Prussian general Hermann von Alvensleben, became his own. He wed on May 3, 1924; the marriage produced four children. He also later fathered illegitimate children under orders from Nazi officials to procure a master race.

Alvensleben became a member of the Reichstag in 1933; on April 5, 1934, he became commander of the 46th SS Regiment in Dresden. Later on, Alvensleben was made first adjutant of the Reichsführer SS. His career continued with appointments to commander of the SS and police in Crimea and commander of the Selbstschutz (“Self-Defense”) paramilitary forces of Reichsgau Danzig-West Prussia, presiding over mass executions durning Intelligenzaktion in Pomerania in "Fordon Valley of Death", Mass murders in Piaśnica and other atrocities.

In April 1945, Alvensleben was captured and held in British captivity. At the end of 1945, he made an escape from the internment camp at Neuengamme. After a short stay in Schochwitz, he fled with his family to Argentina in early 1946. Although there is no precise data on the date of their arrival in the country, a 2000 documentary film records that on November 27, 1952, the government of Juan Domingo Perón granted Alvensleben citizenship under the name of Carlos Lücke.

He lived until July 1956 in Buenos Aires, then he moved to Santa Rosa de Calamuchita. From November 1952, he served as inspector of fish farming.

In January 1964, the district court of Munich put out an arrest warrant for Alvensleben for the killing of at least 4,247 people in Poland by units of the Selbstschutz under von Alvensleben's command in the autumn of 1939. Attempts by the prosecution had no consequences for Alvensleben and he died in 1970 without having been brought to trial.
 
Erwin Fleiss (Sturmbannfuhrer SS - 1910 Innsbruck, Austria - 1964 Cipoletti, Arg)
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He served in Austria in the underground for National and was chief of the SS in Tirol.
Fleiss listed order police capture Innsbruck because of their involvement in the killing of Jews.
He joined Argentina on 19 September 1948 in a clandestine manner, from Paraguay.
He lived in Cipoletti (Arg) and was dedicated to the sale of spray and fertilizer equipment for the chemical company Monsanto .-
Fields ran into a truck Rastrojero, without suspecting its neighbors that it would signal further as a Nazi chief
He died in 1964 .-
Never requested the extradition to Argentina.
 
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Adolf Eichmann (March 19, 1906 – May 31, 1962)
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Was a German Nazi and SS-Obersturmbannführer (Lieutenant Colonel) and one of the major organizers of the Holocaust. Because of his organizational talents and ideological reliability, Eichmann was charged by Obergruppenführer (General) Reinhard Heydrich with the task of facilitating and managing the logistics of mass deportation of Jews to ghettos and extermination camps in German-occupied Eastern Europe.

After the war, he fled to Argentina using a fraudulently obtained laissez-passer issued by the International Red Cross and lived there under a false identity working for Mercedes-Benz until 1960.

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He was captured by Mossad operatives in Argentina and taken to Israel to face trial in an Israeli court on 15 criminal charges, including crimes against humanity and war crimes. He was found guilty and executed by hanging in 1962. He is the only person to have been executed in Israel on conviction by a civilian court.

According to David Cesarani, a leading Holocaust historian and Research Professor in History of the Royal Holloway, University of London, Eichmann is quoted thus:

"Long live Germany. Long live Argentina. Long live Austria. These are the three countries with which I have been most connected and which I will not forget. I greet my wife, my family, and my friends. I am ready. We'll meet again soon, as is the fate of all men. I die believing in God".

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Shortly after the execution, Eichmann's body was cremated in a specially designed furnace. The furnace was so hot that no one dared to go near it, and a stretcher on tracks was used to place the body into it. The next morning, June 1, his ashes were scattered at sea over the Mediterranean, beyond the territorial waters of Israel by an Israeli Navy patrol boat. This was to ensure that there could be no future memorial and that no country would serve as his final resting place.-

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Guido Zimmer 1911-1977
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Guido Zimmer was a mid-level SS officer involved in the Holocaust in Italy and in Nazi espionage. His notebooks, which are translated in the CIA's file, offer insight into Nazi intelligence activities the last year of World War II, particularly Reich Security Main Office (RSHA) efforts either to negotiate a separate peace with the West or to divide the Allies.

Zimmer's notebooks (the original in German shorthand), which covered his activities from May 1944 until March 1945, contain new information about the intelligence contacts that led to the surrender of German forces in northern Italy arranged by Allen Dulles (May 2, 1945). Dulles's negotiations, codenamed "Operation Sunrise," saved some lives and certainly added luster to his achievements as head of the OSS office in Switzerland. The story of the secret American-German negotiations in Switzerland in March and April 1945 was revealed in 1947 in a series of magazine articles in the Saturday Evening Post. Although the purpose of this publicity was probably to counteract tendentious and inaccurate Italian accounts of the surrender of German forces in Italy, stories about Dulles's wartime successes helped him later to become director of the CIA. Therefore, new evidence about the background of Operation Sunrise is historically quite significant.

Another significant element of Zimmer's file is that he was able to escape prosecution as a war criminal partly through exploiting his wartime intelligence contacts and dealings with OSS officials, who spoke up for him after the war. In that sense his history mirrors the experience of some other Nazi officials.

Born on November 18, 1911 in Buer, Westphalia, Guido Zimmer was a slim, athletic man of average height with dark brown hair and a high-pitched voice.1 He joined the Nazi Party in 1932 and the SS and SD in 1936. By 1940, as a member of Foreign Intelligence branch of the RSHA, he was assigned to Rome. After Zimmer's cover was blown through a slip, he was recalled to Berlin.

In September 1943, after Mussolini was overthrown and a new Italian government tried to sign an armistice, the Allies landed troops in southern Italy. Germany intervened with its own troops and SS and police, taking control of most of the country. Killings and deportations of Jews in Italy began.

Zimmer was assigned to Genoa, where he tracked Jews down, then to Milan. His commander in Milan was the infamous SS Colonel Walter Rauff, head of the Security Police and SD for Group Northwest Italy (Gruppe Oberitalien West). (Years earlier in the RSHA criminal-technical institute, Rauff had designed gassing vans to poison Jews and other victims.) Zimmer led a small team in Milan that seized Jewish property and lived well off the proceeds. He also obtained political information from abroad and built up a network of agents who could supply Germany with intelligence if the Allies overran Italy. Like Rauff, Zimmer was involved both with war crimes and with espionage in Italy.
After the war because of their contacts receive lenient treatment from the Allies.
Until 1955 sought by the authorities of Dortmund. Entered the country on October 22, 1949 on the steamer Toscanelli Paolo, from Genoa, as permanent.
Declared to be a farmer.

In 1977, when he died in Villa General Belgrano (Arg), Guido Zimmer was a stranger among his neighbors.
 
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Josef Mengele (Günzburg, Baviera, march 16, 1911 – Bertioga, Brazil, febr. 7, 1979)
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What can you say this character very well known?
Doctor of Philosophy and Medicine Mengele was known as "angel of death" for the experiments carried out with humans in the extermination camp at Auschwitz.
He was captured and liberated by the Allies in 1945.
Argentina joined the King in the North vapor under the false name of Gregor Helmut.
He lived in Buenos Aires with his real name from 1949 until the Nazis warned by others that the Mossad was after him .-
He began to hide in less populated areas .-
He lived in Paraguay and then died in 1979 in Brazil .-
He was never captured to stand trial for his crimes, of which there are still some witnesses and victims.
Argentina entered the documentation of the Red Cross.
 
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Kurt Christmann SS Obersturmbannführer - june 1, 1907 /april 4, 1987
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Alias ​​Dr. Ronda.
During the war he was a senior SS officer, head of the Gastapo in Klapenfurt and Salzburg.
He was then assigned to Russia where he served as head of a Eizantzgruppe in the town of Kransnodar (Russia) .-
The escape route and the date of admission could not be determined due to insufficient information.
But it is tested if staying in Argentina during Peron's first government until 1965.
His home was located in the town of Florida, Buenos Aires .-
In 1965 he returned to Munich where it is tried and sentenced to 10 years in prison by execution of partisans .-
He died on april 4, 1987.-
 
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Sandor Kepiro (born 18 February 1914) is a former gendarmerie captain accused of war crimes committed by Hungarian forces during World War II.

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Kepiro served as a gendarme during the war, when parts of Serbia were occupied by troops from Hungary, then allied with Nazi Germany.

More than 1,000 civilians - Serbs, Jews and Roma - were killed in the 1942 Novi Sad massacre, ordered in retaliation for attacks by partisans.

Kepiro lived in Argentina from 1948 to 1996. He was spotted in 2006 in Budapest by the Nazi-hunting Simon Wiesenthal Center, which informed Hungarian authorities.

The prosecution had said Kepiro was involved in a series of events in which people were rounded up and sent to their deaths before a firing squad.

Kepiro was also charged with being a member of a squad that murdered people in their homes. He denied committing murder or knowing about the crimes at the time.

"I am innocent, I have committed no murders, no robberies, I only served my country," Kepiro said in a final statement read by an aide before the verdict.

"Today's (july 18, 2011) verdict laughs in the face of at least 1,246 victims of the raid of Novi Sad. We are going to do everything we can to overturn this verdict," the center's Efraim Zuroff said after the verdict.

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Kepiro, today.
 
Friedrich Josef Rauch 1906-1970's
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Friedrich Josef Rauch was an SS Obersturmbannführer (Lieutenant Colonel) in charge of the Führer's personal security at the Reichskanzlei (Reich Chancellery) after 1942 and was alleged to be involved in the disposal of Nazi gold in 1945.

SS Obersturmbannführer Rauch surrendered to US troops in June 1945 but was soon released under curious circumstances after helping US military personnel locate much of the loot, which was never properly processed to the appropriate US military financial authorities. According to SHAEF regulations, Rauch should have been automatically arrested due to his SS rank, but he was not interned until 27 November when a special Counter Intelligence Corps agent seized and interrogated him at Tegernsee city jail. Rauch was then, inexplicably, transferred to a Civilian Enclosure at Stephanskirchen and released the following year.

In February 1948 Rauch and his wife emigrated to Argentina with the direct help of the Croatian Roman Catholic priest Krunoslav Draganović, where he became José Federico Rauch. Rauch soon "became a partner in a metallurgical firm by the name of Exact SCL, a company formed by Germans and based at Santa Rosa" in Buenos Aires.-

The exact details of his demise are unclear, but it is understood that Rauch may have returned to Europe and settled in Austria shortly before his death in the 1970s.-
 
Eckart Krahmer Born march 10, 1903 in Innsbruck, Austria. Died in 1978.-
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High Luftwaffe officer .- Ex air attache of the Luftwaffe in Madrid during the war.
In 1938 he wrote the book "Der Innere Dienst in der Luftwaffe".
According to investigative journalist Uki Goñi in 1944 oversaw the illegal shipment from France to Spain than 200 works of art stolen by Hermann Goering. Including paintings by Rubens and Van Dyek.
He arrived in Argentina february 2, 1948 clandestinely by boat "C" from Uruguay.
Lacking documentation, the Argentine government granted the radication on october 27, 1948. In 1963 he requested a passport to travel abroad.
He died in 1978.
 
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