Fox — Argentina is set to declassify all government-held files relating to Nazi fugitives who fled and settled in Argentina after World War II, according to reports.
The documents will likely include Nazi-linked bank accounts and archival records detailing the use of Nazi "ratlines" which were monetary and logistic pathways Nazis used to escape justice and flee Argentina following the war.
Guillermo Alberto Francos, Argentina’s interior minister, made the announcement Tuesday, the Buenos Aires Times reported citing DNEWS.
It is estimated that up to 10,000 Nazis and other fascist war criminals escaped justice for Holocaust atrocities by fleeing to Argentina and other Latin American countries.
Notorious high-level Nazis, including Holocaust mastermind Adolph Eichmann and "angel of death" Josef Mengele, fled to the South American country, while rumors have swirled for years that former Nazi Party leader Adolf Hitler also ended up there.
The pending release comes after Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, requested their release last month in a letter to Argentinian President Javier Milei. Grassley is investigating Credit Suisse and its historic servicing of the Nazi-linked accounts and ratlines.
In the letter, Grassley wrote that the records would help shine a light on the Nazi planning of the covert escape routes. Grassley recently chaired a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing focused on stemming the tide of antisemitism in the U.S.
Milei promised officials of the Simon Wiesenthal Center his full cooperation in granting access to the documents. The center is famous for tracking down Nazis and is named after the famed Nazi hunter.
In 2017, the CIA declassified a document revealed that the intelligence agency investigated the possibility that Adolf Hitler was alive in South America as late as 1955 — nearly a decade after World War II ended.
The three-page document, which appears on the CIA's website, highlights a former SS soldier who told spies he had regularly met with Hitler in Colombia.
The document suggests that Hitler may have worked as a shipping company employee, prior to potentially fleeing to Argentina. On the second page is a picture of the informant, Phillip Citroen, with a person he claims is Hitler in the mid-1950s.
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**Submission Statement**
Argentinian President Javier Milei has ordered the declassification of documents revealing how Nazi war criminals found refuge in Argentina after WWII through the ‘ratlines’
(escape routes for Nazi fugitives).
The RED CROSS has been known for decades as one of the biggest aiders in the nazi’s escape.
The [attached](https://x.com/shoahukraine/status/1850516925492916482?s=46&t=lyUkewqrOx_z4p8M2W3EIQ) fake document is that of Adolf Eichmann and has the Red Cross stamp on it.
Others who escaped with the help of the Red Cross include:
•Josef Mengele – The Auschwitz “Angel of Death” escaped to Argentina using a Red Cross passport issued in Genoa, later moving to Paraguay and Brazil.
•Klaus Barbie – The “Butcher of Lyon” fled to Bolivia with the help of the ratlines, using a Red Cross document.
•Franz Stangl – Commandant of Treblinka, he escaped to Brazil using a Red Cross passport issued in Rome.
•Gustav Wagner – Another Treblinka and Sobibor officer, Wagner also escaped to Brazil with similar documents.
•Alois Brunner- Eichmann’s assistant, responsible for deporting Jews to concentration camps, used a Red Cross passport to reach Syria.
•Eduard Roschmann – The “Butcher of Riga” fled to Argentina using false
documents.
And many other Nazis…