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Nazis in Argentina: the complicity of a government.

Argentina was a refuge for Nazi criminals like Adolf Eichmann and Joseph Mengele, with the active complicity of the authorities.

There was a net redemption of German Nazi officials and related schemes - after the defeat of Germany - organized by the first government of Gen. Juan Domingo Peron (1946-1955), which facilitated his escape from Europe when many had orders capture.

We go up little by little the stories of some of the characters who passed through here ..

Siegfried Uiberreither (29 March 1908 in Salzburg – 29 December 1984)

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Was a Nazi Gauleiter in Styria, Austria in the time of the Third Reich.
Party member since 1924. In 1933 he graduated in law at the University of Graz in 1938 at the time of the Anschluss was promoted to SA dirname Brigadeführer and political commissar in Graz 25/05/1938 is appointed Gauleiter of Styria region in Austria. During the period 1939 -1940 served in the armed forces (Gebirgsjäger, mountain troops).
With the rank of lieutenant involved in the landings in Norway. In 1941 he was appointed civil administrator in some areas occupied Yugoslavia and curator for the defense of his Gau. In 1944 he was appointed head of the Volkssturm in 1945 Styria.En is arrested and appears as a witness at the Nuremberg trials. It is not clear why his release without trial because of its very high position in the party.
In 1947 he moved to Argentina where he entered illegally with the help of Bishop Alois Hudal. Works in the same company that Adolf Eichmann CAPRI. Horst Property of SS Carlos Fuldner.
In Argentina used the false name of Armin Dardieux (Uki Goñi journalist research). This name would be derived from the name of his right hand during the war Dadieu Armin, who also flee to Argentina. According to researcher Oliver Ratkholb may have been in Bolivia. He died in 1984 in Germany.

To be continued
 
Erich Priebke (Hennigsdorf,Germany, july 29, 1913)

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Was the second in command of the Gestapo during the German occupation of Rome. It is said that he had a great instinct for exposing the activities of partisans and enemy spies. It was one of those responsible for collecting 335 Italians to be killed in the Ardeatine Caves in reprisal for the killing of a handful of German soldiers attacked as partisan.
He was arrested after the war ended and he escaped from a prison camp in Italy in 1946, arriving in 1948 to Argentina with the false name of Otto Pape on board the steamer San Giorgio. He settled for Buenos Aires in 1954, post arrived Bariloche city. When he moved to Bariloche Priebke began directing the Instituto Cultural Argentino Germano Bariloche, and primary and secondary school, the Instituto Primo Capraro.

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He was a prominent member of that community until he is discovered by a group of American journalists. Extradited to Italy in 1998 and sentenced to life imprisonment. Currently under house arrest in Rome.
 
Reinhardt Kopps, (29. September 1914 in Hamburg, - 11 September 2001 in Bariloche, Argentina)
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Former agent of the Abwehr .- Known as who denounced to Erich Priebke for its actions in World War II. Not been proven to be a war criminal but some say it may have been involved in the deportations of Jews in Albania. He was one of the main assistant to the famous bishop Hudal in the assembly of the Ratsline or Route Rats. He was editor of the pro-Nazi Der Weg in Buenos Aires.
He joined the Argentina under the false name of Juan Maler in 1948 to keep on board the steamer Santa Cruz. He died in Bariloche where he always lived undisturbed for justice. After having reported Priebke received death threats. Declared to be without nationality to enter. When interviewed prior to the arrest of 90 claimed to be a small fish, which is not true as he participated in the escape of all necionalidades Nazi war criminals included.
 
Gerhard Bohne (1. July 1902 in Braunschweig - 8. July 1981)
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It was a Doctor of Law, director of the AGR (Aktion T4) Working Group of the Reich Health and Nursing. An organization which aimed to wipe out 70,000 people with mental and physical abnormalities in Germany since coming to power of the Nazis until 1941.

Income in 1948 to Argentina in the steam Ana C, as technical assumption to be employed in the industry.

He returned to Germany in 1955 after being ousted Perón in 1963 only to return with the false name of Kurt Rudiger.

He was arrested in 1964 and extradited to Germany in 1966. Was declared unfit for trial due to illness but lived 10 years in Germany.
 
Herbert Habel (Germany 1914 - El Bolson, Arg. 2000)

SS Hauptsturmführer - Born in 1914, Germany - Fought on the Russian front and in Normandy.
May have committed war crimes when served the Gauleiter of Linz Airgrubel.
He joined the Argentina under the false name of Kurt Repa in 1950. Spent some time in Buenos Aires and then settle in the Bag (Río Negro) where he died in 2000.
Told on several occasions she met General Peron who helped him regain his true identity and contact was Mengele and Eichmann in Argentina
 
Josef Schwammberger (February 14, 1912 in Brixen (Bressanone), in what was the Austro-Hungarian county of Tyrol – December 3, 2004 in Hohenasperg prison hospital in Ludwigsburg)
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Was a member of the SS (Schutzstaffel, military protection unit) during the Nazi era.

During the Second World War, Schwammberger was a commander of various SS Arbeitslager (forced-labor camps) in the Kraków district (late August 1942 until spring 1944).

From 1948 until 1987, Schwammberger lived in hiding in Argentina. Finally, in 1987 he was extradited to Germany; his capture cost the German state of Baden-Württemberg just under 500,000 Deutschmark.

At his trial, which lasted nearly a year, (1991 until 1992) Schwammberger denied being guilty of the crimes of which he was charged; he simply admitted that "Ghetto A" was taken to the Przemyśl camp. On May 18, 1992, he was condemned by the Stuttgart regional court (Landgericht) to life imprisonment, which he was to serve in Mannheim. He was found guilty of seven counts of murder and 32 counts of accessory to murder.

The court ruled that on Sept. 21, 1942, which was Yom Kippur, the Jewish Day of Atonement, Mr. Schwammberger sought out and killed a Jewish rabbi in Rozwadów, a crime that Judge Luippold called one of his "most despicable and reprehensible." In addition, the judge found that Mr. Schwammberger was an organizer of a mass execution in the Przemyśl camp on Sept. 2, 1943, in which at least 500 Jewish prisoners were shot by Gestapo soldiers.

His wife Käthe Schwammberger died in 2003 at the age of 87 in Argentina.
Josef Schwammberger himself died in prison on December 3, 2004, aged 92.

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Paul Schaefer born 4/12/1921 in Troisdorf, Germany.
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Besides being a member of the army, was a medic .-
Member of the party and the Hitler Youth. No recorded crimes during the second world war, but was arrested for child abuse at the notorious Colonia Dignidad in Chile.
Is more related to Chile but we include it because it was caught in Argentine territory where he entered clandestinely after the war. He died in a Chilean prison in 2010.
 
Walter Kutschmann SS Untersturmführer - 1914-1986
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He was a prominent leader of the Gestapo for the start of World War Il in Tarponol (Poland), and later head of the Jewish affairs section in the Polish district also Drohobycz.
Towards the end of the war was moved to France, but shortly before the apocalypse crossed the border with Spain.
Charged with the death of 20 Polish professors and 18 of its most direct relatives, besides the execution, ordered directly by Kutschmann, 1,500 Jews in 1942 in the Polish sector under police jurisdiction ..
Entered Argentina in 1948 (with spanish passport) in steam Monte Amboto under the false name of Ricardo Pedro Olmo.
Here he worked as head of household shopping Osram.
He was arrested on November 14, 1985 in the town of Florida, Buenos Aires, with the participation of Interpol agents.
While those a cumbersome process of extradition, died on August 30, 1986 on the Fernandez Hospital due to a sudden heart condition.
 
Ante Pavelić (Croatian fascist leader) 14 July 1889 – 28 December 1959
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Military and political leader of Croatian Ushtasa movement.
He becomes head of state when Germany invade in 1941 the yugoslav state.
Nazi accomplice and ally in all its activities in the region during the Second World War.
Directly responsible of Josenovac concentration camp (led by Dinko Sakic.)
Entered Argentina in 1948 by boat from Brazil with the false name of Antonio Sedar. The documentation was of the Red Cross.
There was no request for extradition and died in Madrid in 1959.
 
Klaus Barbie - Nikolaus 'Klaus' Barbie - (October 25, 1913 – September 25, 1991) was an SS-Hauptsturmführer
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Principal chief of the Gestapo in Lyon France and member SD.
Nicknamed the Butcher of Lyon. Charged with numerous crimes including the capture and deportation of 45 Jewish children and members of the French Resistance.
He joined Argentina in transit to Bolivia in 1950.
He used the false name of Klaus Altmann. Manage a business in Bolivia and was adviser to the government of that country for anti-guerilla warfare.
Barbie was identified in Bolivia as early as 1971 by the Klarsfelds (Nazi hunters), but it was only on January 19, 1983, that the newly elected government of Hernán Siles Zuazo arrested and extradited him to France.
On July 4, 1987, Barbie was sentenced to life imprisonment for crimes against humanity, and died in jail in Lyon of leukemia four years later, at the age of 77, in 1991.
 
Edward Roschmann - (11 Nov. 1908, Graz, Austria; 8 Oct. 1977, Asunción, Paraguay)
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Roschmann was a member of the Nazi SS organization. He was commandant of the Riga ghetto from January 1943 until the ghetto was closed in the fall of that year. He was responsible for numerous murders and other atrocities.
In 1938 he joined the Nazi party. In 1939 he joined the SS. In January 1941 he was assigned to the Security Police.

Riga ghetto: Starting from January 1941, Roschmann worked in at the Central Reich Security Office, or RSHA (Reichssicherheitshauptamt). Within RSHA, Roschmann worked in the Security Service, or SD (Sicherheitsdienst). Later, he worked in SD department IV, Gestapo with the commander of the security police and SD (Kommander der Sicherheitsdienst und SD, or KdS) in Latvia.

Within the SS Roschmann was assigned to the Security Service (Sicherheitsdienst), often referred to by its German initials SD. Following the German occupation of Latvia in World War II, the SD established a presence in Latvia with the objective of killing all the Jews in the country. To this end, the SD established the Riga ghetto.

In October 1944, out of fear of the approaching Soviet armies, the SS personnel of the concentration camp system in Latvia fled the country by sea from Riga or Liepāja to Danzig, taking with them several thousand concentration camp inmates, many of whom did not survive the voyage.

False Argentine identification issued to Roschmann in the name of "Federico Wagner".In 1945, Roschmann was arrested in Graz but later released.
Roschmann concealed himself as an ordinary prisoner of war, and in so doing obtained a release from custody in 1947. After that however he became imprudent and visited his wife in Graz. He was recognized with the assistance of former concentration camp inmates and arrested by the British military police. Roschmann was sent to Dachau concentration camp which had been converted to an imprisonment camp for accused war criminals. Roschmann succeeded in escaping from this custody. In 1948 Roschmann was able to flee Germany.
He travelled first to Genoa in Italy, and from there to Argentina by ship, on a pass supplied by the International Red Cross.
Roschmann was assisted in this effort by Alois Hudal, a strongly pro-Nazi bishop of the Catholic church.
Roschmann arrived in Argentina either on 10 February 1948 or 2 October 1948 (2/10/1948 or 10/2/1948, depending on date notation used).
He founded a wood import-export firm in Buenos Aires.
In 1955 Argentina Roschmann married, although he was not divorced from his first wife. {His second wife left him in 1958-the marriage was later declared null and void.-
In 1968, under the name "Frederico Wagner" (sometimes seen as "Federico") he became a citizen of Argentina.
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In 1960, the criminal court in Graz issued a warrant for the arrest of Roschmann on charges of murder and severe violations of human rights in connection with the killing of at least 3,000 Jews between 1938 and 1945, overseeing forced laborers at Auschwitz, and the murder of at least 800 children under the age of 10.
However, the post-war Austrian legal system was ineffective in securing the return for trial of Austrians who had fled Europe, and no action was ever taken against Roschman based on this charge.
In 1963, the district court in Hamburg, West Germany issued a warrant for the arrest of Roschmann. This would eventually prove a more serious threat to Roschmann.

In October 1976, the embassy of West Germany in Argentina initiated a request for the extradition of Roschmann to Germany to face charges of multiple murders of Jews during World War II. This was based on the request of the West German prosecutor's office in Hamburg.
The request was repeated in May 1977. On July 5, 1977, the office of the President of Argentina issued a communiqué, which was published in the Argentine press, that the government of Argentina would consider the request even though there was no extradition treaty with West Germany.
The communiqué was reported to be a surprise to both the Argentine Foreign Ministry and the West German embassy. The Argentine Foreign Embassy had not received a request that Roschmann be arrested. Roschmann was in fact still not under arrest at the time the communiqué was issued.

Roschmann then fled to Paraguay. Roschmann died in Asuncion, Paraguay on August 8, 1977. His body was unclaimed at first and there was some question raised as to whether it was truly that of Roschmann.
The West German embassy attempted to make a positive identification of the body, which according to a story in the Paraguayan newspaper ABC Color, bore papers in the name of "Federico Wegener", a known alias of Roschmann's. The newspapers also reported that the body was missing two toes on one foot and three on the other, consistent with war injuries apparently sustained by Roschmann, and that his body had been identified by a man named Emilio Wolf, who had been a prisoner under Roschmann and who later came to be running a delicatessen in Asuncion. Simon Wiesenthal, then the head of the Jewish Documentation Center, had been trying to have Roschmann brought to justice for a long time.
Wiesenthal was skeptical that the body was truly that of Roschmann, saying "I wonder who died for him?
 
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Aribert Heim (born 28 June 1914 – allegedly died 10 August 1992)
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Was an Austrian doctor, also known as Dr. Death.

SS doctor featured in the Mauthausen-Gusen. is accused of killing and torturing many inmates through various methods such as direct injections of toxic compounds in the hearts of his victims.

Along with Alois Brunner, Heim was one of the last major Nazi fugitives who were always free.

On 15 March 1945 Heim was captured by US soldiers and sent to a camp for prisoners of war. He was released and worked as a gynecologist at Baden-Baden until his disappearance in 1962; he had telephoned his home and was told the police were waiting for him.

According to a source of the Mossad, Heim was kidnapped in Canada and taken to Santa Catalina off the coast of California, where he was killed by a Nazi-hunting team code "The Owl"in 1982, although the French Nazi hunter Serge Klarsfeld said this is not true.

It is said that he may have died in Argentina and said his family around 1993 however the German researchers, along with the Simon Wiesenthal Center, have discovered their secret bank accounts in Berlin in the early 2000. Shown to have € 1 million (£ 680,000) in cash and other assets.

He is alleged to have lived for many years in Cairo, Egypt under the alias of Tarek Farid Hussein and reportedly died there on 10 August 1992, but his grave and body have not been found.
 
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Walter Rauff (K̦then, Germany June 19, 1906 РSantiago de Chile, May 14, 1984).
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Was an SS officer in Nazi Germany, attaining the grade of Colonel (Standartenführer) in June 1944.[1] From January 1938 he was an aide of Reinhard Heydrich firstly in the Sicherheitsdienst or SD, the SS security service, later in the Reichssicherheitshauptamt or RSHA, the Reich Security Main Office, a department created by Himmler in 1939 grouping the Gestapo, SD and Kripo, the criminal police.
Rauff is thought to be responsible for nearly 100,000 deaths during the Second World War.
As a member of the Gestapo took part in the creation of Jado prison camp in Tunisia despite repeated protests by Rommel who was totally against the techniques used by the SS.
There is little information about what developed in this area, only that the prisoners were used as forced labor.
Wanted by the Allies for war crimes, was arrested on April 30, 1945.
Two years later, he escapes from prison and was recruited by Syrian intelligence services.
He then moved to Italy to escape to South America, living in Quito (Ecuador), Buenos Aires (Argentina) and Punta Arenas (Chile).
Rauff died at his home in Chile on May 14, 1984 due to a heart attack.
 
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