Boxes full of Nazi documents found in the basement of the Argentine court

Cretches containing documents from Nazi Germany were re -opened in the cellars of the Supreme Court of Argentina.

An unusual find was made when the workers cleared the basement of the building in front when its archives were moved to the recent museum.

The documents were sent to the German Embassy in Tokyo and arrived in Argentina on June 20, 1941. In 83 diplomatic bags aboard the Japanese steamer, the information collected by court officials said.

They found themselves in the Supreme Court in the same year after they were confiscated by Argentine customs officials, who opened five bags accidentally and found Nazi propaganda material inside.

Last week, they were re -opened by the workers who were intrigued by a number of wooden champagne boxes, to which they came across, moving archival materials from the Supreme Court.

“After the opening of one of the boxes, we identified the materials intended for the consolidation and distribution of Adolf Hitler’s ideology in Argentina during (World War II),” the court said.

The boxes were quickly moved to a safe office in the building, and court officials warned the Holocaust Museum Buenos -Aires about their existence and asked for his help in creating the inventory of all their content.

Photos posted in court show that experts are sifted through black and white photos and booklets of membership that carry swastika on their covers.

Historians hope the documents will give the Nazis financial networks and their international relations.

In his statement, the Supreme Court of Argentina showed the information he managed to gather together.

It states that the documents that arrived in Argentina on board the Nan-Maro steamer from Tokyo in June 1941 were announced by the German Embassy in Buenos Aires as “personal belongings”.

However, Argentine experts were suspicious of the shipment size and warned Argentina Foreign Minister, fearing that he may contain material that could threaten Argentina’s neutral position in World War II at the time.

Five bags were opened by accident and found that they contain postcards, photos and Nazi propaganda material.

The German Embassy in Buenos -Aires asked the bags to be sent back to the Embassy in Tokyo – where they were sent first – but the Argentine judge ordered in September 1941 to seized all 83 bags.

The Supreme Court of Argentina was instructed to do what to do next, but it seems that the decision was not made until 1944 – when Argentina violated the attitude with the powers of the axis – explaining how the boxes were collecting dust in court for decades.

After the end of the Second World War, Argentina, under the leadership of Juan Pron, became a shelter for a number of high -ranking Nazis, including Adolf Eichman and Joseph Mengele.

In 2000, President Fernando de la Rua officially apologized for his country’s role in bringing Nazi war criminals.