Hidden trove of suspected Nazi artifacts found in Argentina

[Judi Lynn]

Source: Associated Press


Debora Rey, Associated Press
Updated 9:31 pm, Monday, June 19, 2017


BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) — In a hidden room in a house near Argentina's capital, police believe they have found the biggest collection of Nazi artifacts in the country's history, including a bust relief of Adolf Hitler, magnifying glasses inside elegant boxes with swastikas and even a macabre medical device used to measure head size.

Some 75 objects were found in a collector's home in Beccar, a suburb north of Buenos Aires, and authorities say they suspect they are originals that belonged to high-ranking Nazis in Germany during World War II.
 
"Our first investigations indicate that these are original pieces," Argentine Security Minister Patricia Bullrich told The Associated Press on Monday, saying that many pieces were accompanied by old photographs. "This is a way to commercialize them, showing that they were used by the horror, by the Fuhrer. There are photos of him with the objects."
 
Among the disturbing items were toys that Bullrich said would have been used to indoctrinate children and a statue of the Nazi Eagle above a swastika.

Read more: http://www.chron.com/news/world/article/Hidden-trove-of-suspected-Nazi-artifacts-found-in-11231657.php

[sandensea]

1. Here's some of what they found (meant for the black market):

Link to tweet

Brings back memories of the Highway 78 corridor between Carlsbad and Escondido, California.

Some of the antique shops in that area look like Third Reich museums.

[Judi Lynn]

6. Had no idea that has happened in that area. So weird.

This sent me to find a map, to reactivate idle brain cells, to recall where this is:



Very, very interesting. Thanks for mentioning it.

[sandensea]

17. Sure, Judi.

I knew (at least) two descendants of Operation Paperclip Nazis when I lived in that area; they seemed quite proud of it.

A shame, because they had seemed like nice people until the moment they revealed that (after knocking back a few drinks).

I also once met an Argentine descendant of a Nazi emigré (a Danish collaborator, actually). She was born years after the war, but she seemed to feel more than a little guilt.

Man's inhumanity to his fellow man.

[hunter]

14. Historically, the Ku Klux Klan was strong in the area too.

Lot's of U.S. Americans were infatuated with the Nazis; they simply put it in the closet when World War II started.

http://www.sandiegohistory.org/journal/2000/april/klan/

[War Is A Racket]

2. This Article Is A Typo

They meant found in Trump Tower.

[sandensea]

3. I bet some of the buyers were in fact domiciled there.

The rest, probably in southern Brazil - a hotbed of separatist and crypto-Nazi activity.

[area51]

11. You bring up Brazil;

it's a curious place (Confederates in Brazil).

[Judi Lynn]

7. No doubt. Hitler loved to spend time at his hideout, the Eagle's Nest.

A US military man after the end of WWII, standing in front of the place where Hitler and his pals loved to meet.

[Yupster]

10. Going up there made me wonder what was wrong with Hitler

There he was in the most beautiful place on earth, the most popular leader, of the most prosperous country, and it wasn't enough. Sitting up on the rocks looking at the Alps, I just wondered, how was this not enough.

Hitler did not go to the Eagle's Nest very often. There are less that two dozen documented times. He enjoyed the Berghof, which was a much larger chalet lower on the mountain where he lived and held his meetings. It was a tough two hour walk uphill to get to the Kehlstein or you can take an elevator through the mountain.

The Berghof was bombed at the end of the war. The German government blew up what was left in 1952. The Kehlstein remains as a tourist destination today. It's worth the trip, if just for the view.

[HAB911]

12. Here is one from Trump Tower

[SCVDem]

4. That's why we have museums.

It allows historical horrors to be displayed in their proper context.

Same with The Confederacy.

I have been through the Hiroshima museum at Peace Park in 1976. The context was slightly tilted that Pearl never happened and we just wiped them out. Maybe things have changed.

[C Moon]

5. I hope they found this among the items...

[orangecrush]

16. That is perfect

Do they make a Trump version?

[burrowowl]

8. K&R

[burfman]

13. What's the fuss over these trinkets when Argentina was a home for Eichmann, Mengele and others?

From: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_Argentine

Take this in:

After World War II under Juan Perón's government, Argentina participated in establishing and facilitating secret escape routes out of Germany to South America for ex-SS officials (the ODESSA network)[4] Former Nazi officials emigrated to Argentina in order to prevent prosecution. Some of them lived in Argentina under their real names, but others clandestinely obtained new identities. Some well-known Nazis that emigrated to Argentina are Obersturmbannführer Adolf Eichmann, Nazi doctors Josef Mengele and Aribert Heim, Commander Erich Priebke, Commandant Eduard Roschmann, and General Lieutenant "Bubi" Ludolf von Alvensleben.


burfman........

[Judi Lynn]

15. Behind a secret bookshelf passageway, a trove of Nazi artifacts in A/

JUNE 20, 2017 5:21 PM
Behind a secret bookshelf passageway, a trove of Nazi artifacts in Argentina
BY MAX BEARAK
THE WASHINGTON POST

The international police agency Interpol discovered one of the largest and most disturbing sets of Nazi artifacts this month in a northern suburb of the Argentine capital, Buenos Aires.

Agents became aware of a collector of historical artifacts who they say had procured some of his items illegally. This month, with the power of a judicial order, they raided the collector's house. Behind a secret passageway hidden behind a bookshelf, they found the biggest trove of original World War II-era artifacts in Argentina's history.

They were put on display at the Delegation of Argentine Israeli Associations in Buenos Aires on Monday. Many Nazi higher-ups fled to Argentina in the waning days of the war, and investigators believe that officials close to Adolf Hitler brought the artifacts with them. Many items were accompanied by photographs, some with Hitler holding them.

"This is a way to commercialize them, showing that they were used by the horror, by the Fuhrer. There are photos of him with the objects," Argentine Security Minister Patricia Bullrich told The Associated Press.

More:
http://www.kansascity.com/news/nation-world/world/article157238714.html