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Secret documents on Nazis who fled to Argentina after WWII being declassified
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.
Members of the Nazi Sturmabteilung (SA) marching down the Luitpoldhain with their banners at the Nuremberg Rally to mark the 6th Nazi Party Congress, 9th September 1934. The event was filmed by Leni Riefenstahl and released as ‘Triumph des Willens’ (‘Triumph of the Will’) the following year. (FPG/Archive Photos/Getty Images)
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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.
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, pictured. (AP Photo/Natacha Pisarenko)
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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.
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. (Getty Images )
It is not known if the upcoming declassifications by Argentina will shed any light on the Hitler conspiracy.
Mainstream historians say Hitler committed suicide by taking a cyanide capsule and shooting himself in Berlin in 1945. His body was later discovered by Soviet soldiers and buried in an unmarked spot. A German court declared Hitler dead, but not until 1956, more than a decade after the war ended.
His wife Eva Braun also killed herself by swallowing a cyanide pill.
Eichmann, one of the main architects of the Final Solution, escaped Europe after World War II and was living in Argentina under an assumed name when Israeli agents snatched him off a street in 1960. He was later tried and hung in Israel.
Mengele, meanwhile, was arrested by U.S. forces in 1945 but released shortly after. He then spent years on the run and was infamous for carrying out brutal medical experiments. He arrived in Argentina in 1949 and lived there for a decade before fleeing to Paraguay and later to Brazil, where he died in 1979.
Members of the Nazi Sturmabteilung (SA) marching down the Luitpoldhain with their banners at the Nuremberg Rally in 1934. Thousands of Nazis are understood to have fled to Argentina. (FPG/Archive Photos/Getty Images)
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Nazis fled to several countries in the Americas following the war, including to the U.S., Canada and Mexico.
In 2020, a cache of documents appeared to identify more than 12,000 Nazis who lived in Argentina in the 1930s and who had one or more bank accounts at what is now Credit Suisse bank.
The Simon Wiesenthal Center said the files were found in a storeroom at a former Nazi headquarters in Buenos Aires.
Fox News’ Lucia Suarez Sang and Chris Ciaccia contributed to this report.
Russia has initiated its largest military draft in 14 years as reports indicate Russian President Vladimir Putin is preparing a spring assault on Ukraine despite ongoing peace negotiations to end the three-year war.
Putin has called up 160,000 men as part of the country’s bi-annual conscription drive as Russia seeks to beef up its military ranks.
According to the legislation, citizens aged 18 to 30 will be called up for mandatory military service through June 15. The spring draft marks the largest conscription campaign since spring 2011, when 200,000 men were called up for service. Last year, 150,000 men were called, following 134,500 in 2022.
Russia has initiated its largest military draft in 14 years of 160,000 men as reports indicate Russian President Vladimir Putin is preparing a spring assault on Ukraine. (Contributor/Getty Images)
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The Kremlin and Defense Ministry insist the latest conscripts are not being sent into combat and that the draft is unrelated to the war in Ukraine. Russian authorities say troops deployed to Ukraine only include volunteers who signed contracts with the military.
Some draftees, however, fought and were taken prisoners when the Ukrainian military launched an incursion into Russia’s Kursk region in August.
President Donald Trump has been trying to secure a ceasefire deal with Russian President Vladimir Putin. (Getty Images | Fox News Digital)
Putin said late last year that Russia should increase the overall size of its military to almost 2.39 million and its number of active servicemen to 1.5 million.
It comes as a report suggests the Kremlin is preparing a six- to nine-month offensive across the Ukrainian front, potentially stretching over 1,000 kilometers, according to The New Voice of Ukraine. Potential targets include Sumy, Kharkiv and Zaporizhzhya oblasts, as well as the Kursk Oblast, where they’ve seen recent success.
The offensive is also aimed at maximizing pressure on Ukraine and strengthening the Kremlin’s negotiating position in ceasefire talks, Ukrainian government and military analysts said.
Meanwhile, U.S.-led talks attempting to broker a ceasefire deal appear to have stalled. The U.S. has struggled in its efforts to secure an immediate 30-day ceasefire, despite Moscow saying it agreed with a truce «in principle.»
Negotiations have continued since the infamous dust-up at the Oval Office in February between President Donald Trump, Vice President JD Vance and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy. (Getty Images)
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Rebekah Koffler, a former DIA intelligence officer who specializes in Russia’s war-fighting strategy and Putin’s thinking, told Fox News Digital that Putin’s goal with his conscription drive is to prolong the fighting.
«There’s no ceasefire and no peace plan between Russia and Ukraine to be had,» said Koffler, the author of a best-selling book «Putin’s Playbook.» «What President Trump seeks is regretfully, unachievable. Putin’s goal is to keep fighting, in order to compel Ukraine to capitulate.»
Trump is trying to secure a peace and rare earth minerals deal, while on Sunday the president said he did not think Putin was going to go back on his word for a partial ceasefire.
Koffler, meanwhile, said the latest conscription numbers are intended to ensure that the correlation of forces on the battlefield and in reserves, continues to favor Russia.
«Now that Germany and France are considering to deploy reassurance forces into Ukraine, Putin is factoring in those numbers, so he is increasing his force’s posture, to deter such a deployment or failing to prevent it by force.»
A car, destroyed by a Russian drone, in the center of Kharkiv, Ukraine, on March 29, 2025. Two people were killed in a massive attack on the city. (Sofiia Bobok/Anadolu via Getty Images)
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«Putin has prepared Russia for a long, protracted conflict, in which he wants the Russian forces to be ready to fight till the last Ukrainian and the last missile in the NATO arsenal,» Koffler said.
She said Putin is also considering the possibility of having a direct kinetic war with NATO, in the event that NATO decides to deploy forces into the theater in Ukraine.
«So, he intends for these mobilization numbers as a deterrence value and battlefield utility, if it comes to that.»
Fox News’ Rachel Wolf and The Associated Press contributed to this report.
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Estados Unidos: Trump despide a cientos trabajadores de la Salud y pretende recortar hasta 10 mil empleos
Cientos de trabajadores federales de diversas agencias vinculadas al Departamento de Salud y Servicios Humanos de Estados Unidos (HHS), desde puestos de alta dirección a médicos, empezaron a recibir notificaciones de despido este martes, informaron medios estadounidenses.
Comienza a cumplirse así la amenaza del presidente Donald Trump, que pretende recortar hasta 10.000 empleos.
La medida forma parte de la política de reestructuración del Departamento de Salud que el responsable de esta cartera, el secretario Robert F. Kennedy Jr., anunció la semana pasada.
Algunos empleados se enteraron este martes de su despido al llegar al trabajo y constatar que sus acreditaciones para pasar los habituales controles de seguridad habían sido desactivadas.
El viernes pasado ya se filtró parte del desglose de los 10.000 empleos que se pretenden destruir: 3.500 puestos en la Administración de Alimentos y Medicamentos (FDA); 2.400 en los Centros para el Control y la Prevención de Enfermedades (CDC); 1.200 empleos en los Institutos Nacionales de Salud (NIH); y 300 en los Centros de Servicios para los planes médicos Medicare y Medicaid.
De hecho, a los funcionarios responsables de los CDC se les dijo entonces que sus oficinas cerraban.
Los despidos se enmarcan también en un contexto erosión de los derechos de los trabajadores federales, después de que el jueves pasado el presidente estadounidense Donald Trump firmara una orden ejecutiva que pone fin a la negociación colectiva con los sindicatos de agencias con misiones de seguridad nacional como los propios CDC.
Los avisos de este martes pusieron fin a varios días de ansiedad para muchos empleados, algunos de los cuales dijeron que pasaron el fin de semana consumidos con la preocupación de si todavía tenían trabajo.
Una fuente citada por NBC News confirmó que los avisos no se enviaron como estaba previsto el viernes para que «todos los datos pudieran verificarse tres veces durante el fin de semana».
Las divisiones más afectadas por los recortes de empleo incluyen las encargadas de abordar temas como el VIH, mejorar la salud de las minorías y prevenir lesiones, como la violencia armada.
Todo el equipo de la Oficina de Asuntos de Medios de la FDA fue despedido, según fuentes familiarizadas con el asunto.
Los recortes también afectaron a las divisiones que supervisan la aprobación de nuevos medicamentos, proporcionan seguro de salud y responden a brotes de enfermedades infecciosas.
Se prevé que los despidos reduzcan el HHS a 62.000 puestos, eliminando casi una cuarta parte de su personal mediante estos 10.000 despidos y otros 10.000 trabajadores que ya habrían aceptado ofertas de jubilación anticipada y desvinculación voluntaria.
Lo que significa una disminución de aproximadamente un tercio de la plantilla total con respecto a los aproximadamente 92.620 empleados que tenía el departamento en septiembre de 2024.
Además de los despidos en las agencias federales de salud, se están empezando a implementar recortes en los departamentos de salud estatales y locales como resultado de una medida del HHS la semana pasada de retirar más de 11.000 millones de dólares en fondos relacionados con la lucha contra el covid-19.
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