A doctor who threw live newborns into the fire
SSESOV Doctor Josef Mengele was fled to Argentina on 22 in June 1949 under the name Helmut Gregor And so domesticated there that six years later he submitted his birth certificate at the office and reimbursed the right name. The Argentine government has publicly announced more than 2000 secret documents on Monday, revealing arrival and the life of Nazi war criminals in Argentina, between them Adolf Eichmann, Ericha Priebke and Martina Bormanna personal secretary Adolf Hitler.
Some secret records were disclosed in 1992, but were available only at the premises of the General Argentina National Archives (AGN), and now they are fully available to the public on the official AGN website.
The government of the Argentine President Javier Mileia she sorted the documents at the request of the center of Simon Wiesenthal to combat anti -Semitism, where they investigate links between the Credit Suisse Bank and Nazism. « The Argentine state has no reason to continue protecting this kind of information, » said the head of the government’s cabinet Guillermo French upon announcement of the publication of secret documents.
A teenager cut with a knife
Mengele better known as nicknamed Angel of death from Auschwitz, in the Polish camp was responsible for the death of thousands of people. He performed horrific attempts at Jews and other victims of the Nazi regime. According to the newspaper The Jerusalem Post From 1959, the Nazi doctor threw live newborns in the fire, in the face of their mothers, injecting the captives a phenol, and the fourteen -year -old girl was cut with a knife. Mengele lived for most of his life after World War II in Buenos Aires, where he arrived a year for Bormann, and in 1950 they were joined by Eichmann, one of the main organizers of the Holocaust.
Argentine documents on the life of Nazi war criminals Photo: Argentina General Archive (AGN)
While Mengele in South America remained until the natural death in 1979, Israeli spies are led by Isser Harel Eichmann in 1960 discovered and taken to Israel where they because of the crimes against humanity in 1962 hung. The Argentine authorities participated in his abduction and extradition, according to new documents. When Mengele heard what had happened to a former associate, he fled to Paraguay at first and later to Brazil under the name Wolfgang gerhardand there, during his swimming in the lake, he suffered a cardiac arrest and drowned. His identity remained a secret until 1985.
The pie, the SSESSOV Captain, lived in an unnoticed in Argentina until 1991 when he was interviewed by the Argentine writer Esteban Buch. He revealed his role in the massacre in the Ardeatin Caves, where the Nazis killed 335 Italians in Hitler’s order for the death of 33 soldiers of the German armed forces, who fell in the clash with the Italian resistance movement. Three years later, an interview with the Nastbke was also done by the US media house ABC. Interview triggered a tumultuous the response of the world public And many requirements for Priebke’s delivery of Italy. He was handed over to the Argentine state in 1998. In court, he admitted to the regulation in the Ardeatin Caves, but morally forgive himself, saying that he acted under orders. During the trial, it turned out to have killed two of the Italian prisoners himself. Due to his participation in the massacre, the 83-year-old in Rome was sentenced to life in prison at the time.