Argentine prosecutors have found hundreds of documents and membership cards from Nazi organizations in boxes in the archives of the country's Supreme Court, local media reported today.
The seven boxes were opened on Friday, and their contents were classified, documented and preserved by order of the Supreme Court to determine whether they could provide relevant information regarding events related to the Holocaust or the escape of Nazis to Argentina.
The media reported that the existence of Nazi propaganda and photographs had been discovered.
The Holocaust Museum in Buenos Aires, whose representatives were present at the opening of the boxes on Friday along with Supreme Court President Horacio Rosati, is participating in the inventory and conservation work.
It is estimated that thousands of Nazis passed through Argentina or took refuge there after World War II.
The most famous cases are Adolf Eichmann, captured in Buenos Aires in 1960, who was tried and executed in Israel, then Josef Mengele, a doctor known for his experiments on prisoners, who hid in Argentina before fleeing to Paraguay and Brazil, where he died.
The third known case is Erich Priebke, responsible for a massacre in 1944 during the German occupation of Italy.
Pribke was arrested in Argentina and extradited to Italy in 1995, where he died in prison in 2013, having served a life sentence.
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