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Argentina reveals secret WWII files on Hitler’s henchmen who fled before, after the war
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Multiple documents featuring some of the worst Nazi war criminals were released and declassified earlier this year by Argentine President Javier Milei. The more than 1,850 documents comprise thousands of pages detailing the South American country’s efforts to track and verify the whereabouts of thousands of Nazis who fled Europe after World War II.
The catalyst for the effort came from the Senate Judiciary Committee and Chairman Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, who was credited by the Simon Wiesenthal Center for his efforts in getting Milei to release the documents.
Most of the materials relate to investigations carried out between the late 1950s and the 1980s and were digitized and made available on the nation’s General Archive website, along with secret, declassified presidential decrees from 1957 to 2005.
The original batch of documents released online is divided into seven large files roughly centered around the main Nazi criminals covered in them. There are multiple documents related to Adolf Eichmann, the engineer of the «Final Solution,» the plan for the extermination of European Jewry. He lived under the name Ricardo Klement around Buenos Aires until being captured by Mossad agents on Argentine soil and taken in a secret operation to stand trial in Jerusalem in 1960.
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Adolf Eichmann, in a bulletproof cabin, puts on earphones to hear the reading of the act of accusation against him, Dec. 17, 1961. He was in charge of the extermination of Jews in Poland and then organized the deportation and extermination of Jews in 13 European countries. (Keystone-France/Gamma-Keystone via Getty Images)
Eichmann’s case features prominently in the files and there is contradicting evidence that the leftist, populist government of Juan Perón not only knew Eichmann was in the country but also made efforts to protect him.
Multiple documents also exist detailing the lives of Josef Mengele, the «angel of death» doctor from Auschwitz-Birkenau camps who lived in Argentina and escaped to Paraguay and Brazil, where he died in 1979.
Documents detailing the hunt for Martin Bormann, Hitler’s lieutenant and right-hand man, as well as Croatian murderer, Ante Pavelic, deputy führer and defector Rudolf Hoess and the so-called «butcher of Lyon,» Klaus Barbie, received special attention in the files.
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Three SS officers socialize on the grounds of the SS retreat outside of Auschwitz, 1944. From left to right they are: Richard Baer (commandant of Auschwitz), Dr. Josef Mengele and Rudolf Hoess (the former Auschwitz commandant). Mengele escaped to Argentina, later escaping to Paraguay and Brazil. (Universal History Archive/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)
According to Harley Lippman, a member of the United States Commission for the Preservation of America’s Heritage Abroad and a board member of the European Jewish Association, the relevance of the release of the Argentinian documents cannot be understated.
«There are numerous questions that these documents can bring light to why a sophisticated society, far from the plagues of European antisemitism such as Argentina’s, agreed to hide Nazi criminals and their secrets for so long. What happened to the U-boats loaded with Nazi gold brought to the country and given to the authorities?» he asked.
«On the one hand, it is shameful that Argentina kept these documents a secret for so long, but on the other hand, we also need to acknowledge the enormous efforts being made by this government to make these documents public. While the historical significance is important, this is more important for Argentinians to be able to confront their demons as a society than for Jews,» Lippman said.
This 1950 Argentine federal police memo, marked strictly secret and confidential, seeks intelligence on Josef Mengele, the notorious Nazi doctor from Auschwitz, suggesting that Argentine authorities were aware of his possible presence or activity in the region at that time. (General Archives of the Government of Argentina)
Adding to the large reveal, in May, while the Supreme Court of Argentina was undergoing renovations and transferring document collections to museums, a forgotten trove of 83 boxes of Nazi documents was discovered almost untouched in the basement of the institution. Upon inspection, the crates revealed documents intercepted by Argentine customs in 1941, sent from the German Third Reich Embassy in Tokyo, Japan, to Argentina’s capital, Buenos Aires, aboard the Japanese steamer Nan-a-Maru.
The documents had been sent as personal effects of embassy personnel but were intercepted under orders of the country’s minister for foreign affairs in order not to undermine Argentina’s neutral position in the war. The shipment became the subject of a probe by a commission investigating «anti-Argentine activities,» which led to the seizure and possession of the crates by the country’s supreme court, where they remained for nearly 84 years.
The finding of the boxes revealed multiple materials intended to propagate and consolidate the Third Reich’s and Hitler’s ideologies in Argentina and South America, possibly in an effort to bring neutral countries under the auspices of Germany.
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The document recounts an Argentine police report describing a German fugitive, Walter Flegel, believed by some to be Martin Bormann, Hitler’s former deputy, living under a false identity in Argentina. It was later proven that the lead was incorrect and that Flegal was not Borman. Earlier this year, Argentina President Javier Milei declassified and released over 1,850 documents detailing Argentina’s efforts to track and verify the whereabouts of thousands of Nazi war criminals. (General Archives of the Government of Argentina)
After opening the boxes along with prominent members of the country’s Jewish community, the court issued a statement saying that «given the historical relevance of the find and the potential crucial information it could contain to clarify events related to the Holocaust,» an exhaustive survey of all the material was ordered.
The contents of the crates have not yet been made public, but Milei’s office has said that once all the documents have been digitized, they will also be declassified and made available.
Argentina’s chief of the Cabinet of Ministers, Guillermo Francos, has previously said Milei gave the order «because there is no reason to continue withholding that information, and it is no longer in the interest of the Republic of Argentina to keep such secrets.»
«Jews after World War II lived a golden age of about 80 years where antisemitism had subsided, at least apparently, and they could be productive and contributing members of society. This has now ended — partially because of the genocide committed against Israelis by Hamas on Oct. 7, 2023, with world opinion projecting on Israelis and Jews the false role of perpetrators of genocide in the war in Gaza, but also by bringing back the same old antisemitic views that had been alive in Germany and before then,» Lippman says.
A police officer stands in front of a cache of Nazi artifacts discovered in 2017, during a press conference in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Wednesday, Oct. 2, 2019. Argentine authorities found the cache in a secret room behind a bookcase and had uncovered the collection in the course of a wider investigation into artwork of suspicious origin found at a gallery in Buenos Aires. (Natacha Pisarenko/AP Photo)
«The fact that many people under 30 do not know or understand [the meaning of] the Holocaust is part of the reason why antisemitism is on the rise again. «The Holocaust was the largest systematic industrial killing of humans in history. This happened only 80 years ago. Young people seem not to be able to grasp the scale of this, but these documents can bring back the memory of what the Holocaust really was,» he said, comparing the propaganda war currently faced by Israel and Jews under a progressive and projectionist guise.
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Beyond the lives of senior Nazis who escaped to South America on the so-called «ratlines»—possibly under the auspices of certain local governments—Lippman said the documents could also provide important information regarding the role played by Swiss and Argentine banks.
«The Holocaust was the greatest theft in history. Many Swiss banks [which were the depositaries of Jewish money] would not release funds to sometimes a sole survivor from a family who perished in the Holocaust without a death certificate for their loved ones. But Auschwitz did not issue death certificates — they only issued ashes.»
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El acuerdo comercial entre la Argentina y Estados Unidos anunciado este jueves por la Casa Blanca incluye 11 puntos clave que buscan “fortalecer y equilibrar la alianza económica” entre los países que lideran Javier Milei y Donald Trump.
El pacto era esperado desde hace semanas por el Gobierno y se concretó durante la visita a EE.UU. del canciller, Pablo Quirno. El entendimiento, según describió un comunicado difundido en Washington, “busca impulsar el crecimiento a largo plazo, ampliar las oportunidades y crear un entorno transparente y basado en normas para el comercio y la innovación“.
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El acuerdo incluye ítems sobre aranceles, eliminación de barreras no arancelarias, normas y evaluación de la conformidad, propiedad intelectual, acceso a los mercados agrícolas y trabajo. Además, abarca las áreas de seguridad económica, oportunidades comerciales, medio ambiente, comercio digital y oportunidades comerciales.
El comunicado señaló que “Estados Unidos y la Argentina trabajarán con celeridad para finalizar el texto del acuerdo para su firma y llevar a cabo sus respectivas formalidades internas antes de que entre en vigor”. “Los países revisarán la aplicación del acuerdo y continuarán una estrecha coordinación en materia de comercio e inversión a través del Acuerdo Marco de Comercio e Inversión y del Foro de Innovación y Creatividad para el Desarrollo Económico”, afirmó.
Los puntos del acuerdo comercial entre EE.UU. y la Argentina
El acuerdo comercial entre EE.UU. y la Argentina incluye 11 puntos:
- Aranceles: Ambos países abrirán sus mercados a productos clave. La Argentina otorgará acceso preferencial a los mercados estadounidenses para las exportaciones de bienes, incluidos ciertos medicamentos, productos químicos, maquinaria, productos de tecnología de la información, dispositivos médicos, vehículos automotores y una amplia gama de productos agrícolas. A su vez, Estados Unidos eliminará los aranceles recíprocos sobre ciertos recursos naturales no disponibles y artículos no patentados para uso farmacéutico. Ambos países se comprometieron a mejorar las condiciones de acceso bilateral y recíproco a los mercados de carne vacuna.
- Eliminación de barreras no arancelarias: La Argentina desmanteló numerosas barreras no arancelarias que restringían el acceso a su mercado, incluyendo las licencias de importación. Además, se comprometió a no exigir formalidades consulares para las exportaciones estadounidenses. Además. eliminará gradualmente el impuesto estadístico a los productos norteamericanos.
El presidente Donald Trump recibe al presidente de Argentina, Javier Milei, a su llegada a la Casa Blanca, el martes 14 de octubre de 2025, en Washington. (AP Foto/Mark Schiefelbein)
- Normas y evaluación de la conformidad: La Argentina permitirá el ingreso de productos estadounidenses que cumplan con las normas estadounidenses o internacionales aplicables, las regulaciones técnicas estadounidenses o los procedimientos de evaluación de la conformidad estadounidenses o internacionales, sin requisitos adicionales de evaluación de la conformidad. Además, continuará eliminando las barreras no arancelarias que afectan el comercio en áreas prioritarias. También aceptará la importación de vehículos fabricados en Estados Unidos que cumplan con las Normas Federales de Seguridad de Vehículos Automotores y las normas de emisiones estadounidenses, y aceptará los certificados de la Administración de Alimentos y Medicamentos de Estados Unidos (FDA) y las autorizaciones previas de comercialización para dispositivos médicos y productos farmacéuticos.
- Propiedad intelectual: La Argentina reforzará la aplicación de la ley contra la falsificación y la piratería, incluso en el entorno digital. Asimismo, se comprometió a abordar desafíos estructurales como los de patentabilidad, el retraso en la tramitación de patentes y las indicaciones geográficas, así como a trabajar para armonizar su régimen de propiedad intelectual con las normas internacionales.
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- Acceso a los mercados agrícolas: La Argentina abrió su mercado al ganado bovino vivo estadounidense y se comprometió a permitir el acceso al mercado de las aves de corral estadounidenses en el plazo de un año. Además, acordó no restringir el acceso al mercado de los productos que utilizan ciertas denominaciones para quesos y carnes. Argentina simplificará los procesos de registro de productos para la carne de res, los productos cárnicos, las vísceras y los productos porcinos estadounidenses, y no exigirá el registro de instalaciones para las importaciones de productos lácteos estadounidenses. Estados Unidos y Argentina tienen la intención de colaborar para abordar las barreras no arancelarias que afectan al comercio de alimentos y productos agrícolas.
- Trabajo: La Argentina reafirmó su compromiso con la protección de los derechos laborales reconocidos internacionalmente. Además, adoptará e implementará una prohibición a la importación de bienes producidos mediante trabajo forzoso u obligatorio y reforzará la aplicación de la legislación laboral.
- Medio ambiente: La Argentina se comprometió a adoptar medidas para combatir aún más la tala ilegal; fomentar una economía más eficiente en el uso de los recursos, incluso en el sector de los minerales críticos; y aplicar plenamente las obligaciones del Acuerdo de la Organización Mundial del Comercio (OMC) sobre Subvenciones a la Pesca.
- Alineación en materia de seguridad económica: La Argentina intensificará la cooperación con Estados Unidos para combatir las políticas y prácticas no mercantiles de otros países. Ambos países también se comprometieron a identificar instrumentos para armonizar sus enfoques en materia de control de exportaciones, seguridad de las inversiones, evasión arancelaria y otros temas importantes.
Donald Trump habla en la Casa Blanca (Foto de archivo: REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst)
- Consideraciones y oportunidades comerciales: La Argentina y Estados Unidos cooperarán para facilitar la inversión y el comercio de minerales críticos. Ambos países también acordaron trabajar para estabilizar el comercio mundial de soja.
- Empresas estatales y subvenciones: Argentina se comprometió a abordar las posibles acciones distorsionadoras de las empresas estatales y las subvenciones industriales que puedan tener un impacto en la relación comercial bilateral.
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- Comercio digital: La Argentina se comprometió a facilitar el comercio digital con Estados Unidos reconociendo a este último como jurisdicción adecuada, conforme a la legislación argentina, para la transferencia transfronteriza de datos, incluidos los datos personales. Además, se abstendrá de discriminar a los servicios o productos digitales estadounidenses. Argentina también se propone reconocer como válidas, según su legislación, las firmas electrónicas que sean válidas conforme a la legislación estadounidense.
El comunicado oficial de la Casa Blanca señaló que el resultado de este acuerdo “refleja la ambición y los valores compartidos por ambos países, y se basa en las medidas que Argentina ya ha adoptado para modernizar su régimen de comercio e inversión y fomentar condiciones recíprocas”.
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Observers stunned as Nikki Haley takes harder line than Trump on Chinese student visa plan
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Former Trump U.N. ambassador Nikki Haley warned Thursday that President Donald Trump’s plan to allow 600,000 Chinese students to study in the United States would be a «massive mistake.»
«That would be a huge gift to China and a threat to the United States,» Haley wrote on X.
Haley’s criticism surprised many conservatives who said they did not expect her to take a harder line than Trump on China and immigration.
«I did not have Nikki Haley being to Trump’s right on immigration issues on my 2025 bingo card,» wrote X user S.A. McCarthy, an editor at The American Spectator magazine.
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Former Trump U.N. ambassador Nikki Haley warned Nov. 13, 2025, that President Donald Trump’s plan to allow 600,000 Chinese students to study in the United States would be a «massive mistake.» (Peter Zay/Anadolu via Getty Images)
«I rarely agree with Nikki Haley. I think she is far too much of a throwback to failed George W. Bush era thinking,» wrote conservative analyst Greg Lawson. «BUT, on this specific issue, she is right.»
Others questioned the economic logic behind the policy.
«America has a shortage of workers in tech and we are training foreign nationals?» one user asked.
«Holy s—! I haven’t agreed with anything Nikki Haley has said in I don’t remember when,» wrote another. «It is insane for the Trump administration to allow 600K foreigners into American colleges — not because they are Chinese, but because the cost of college is already too high. Reduce demand = reduce costs.»
«When Nikki Haley is to the right of you, you’re making a big mistake,» another user quipped.
«Ladies and gentlemen, Trump is now to the left of Nikki Haley,» added another.
Trump first floated the 600,000 figure in August, alarming critics who have long warned about Chinese espionage at U.S. universities. More than 277,000 Chinese students studied in the U.S. during the 2023–2024 academic year, according to federal data.
The White House later clarified that the 600,000 figure referred to two years’ worth of visas, meaning the proposal represented a continuation of current policy rather than a doubling of admissions.
President Donald Trump first floated the 600,000 figure in August, alarming critics who have long warned about Chinese espionage in U.S. universities. (Mark Schiefelbein/The Associated Press)
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Trump defended the plan Monday on Fox News.
«We do have a lot of people coming in from China. We always have — China and other countries,» he said. «We also have a massive system of colleges and universities. And if we were to cut that in half, which perhaps makes some people happy, you would have half the colleges in the United States go out of business.
«I actually think it’s good to have outside countries. Look, I want to be able to get along with the world — not the French, though.»
Fox News host Laura Ingraham pushed back. «The Chinese, they spy on us, they steal our intellectual property,» she said.
«Do you think the French are better?» Trump replied.
«We do have a lot of people coming in from China. We always have — China and other countries,» President Donald Trump said. (Andrew Lichtenstein/Corbis via Getty Images)
«Yeah,» Ingraham shot back.
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«I’m not so sure,» Trump said, citing French tariffs. «It’s not that I want them, but I view it as a business. One thing you don’t want to do is cut half the students from all over the world who are coming into our country and destroy our entire university system. I don’t want to do that.»
China’s 2017 National Intelligence Law requires all citizens and organizations to assist the Chinese Communist Party’s intelligence efforts in the name of national security, a key concern among U.S. lawmakers warning that Chinese students and researchers can be pressured to steal sensitive data on behalf of Beijing.
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African Union chief denies genocide claims against Christians as Cruz warns Nigerian officials
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Nigeria’s worsening crisis is under renewed international scrutiny after a top African Union official rejected claims of Christian genocide — a statement that drew sharp reaction from Washington.
The dispute comes amid a yearslong wave of killings, abductions and village attacks in northern and central Nigeria that Christian communities say have reached crisis levels.
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At least 51 Christians were killed in another attack in Nigeria’s Plateau state. (Reuters)
Asked by a reporter about President Donald Trump’s recent threats to Nigeria over the persecution of Christians, the African Union Commission Chairman Mahmoud Ali Youssouf dismissed the genocide allegations, telling reporters at the United Nations, «Let me say this first — there is no genocide in northern Nigeria.» Youssouf continued, from the U.N. headquarters podium, «We have issued a communication making clear that what’s going on in the northern part of Nigeria has nothing to do with the kind of atrocities we see in Sudan or in some parts of eastern DRC.»
He continued, «The first victims of Boko Haram are Muslims, not Christians, and I’m saying this with documented references.» Youssouf said the situation is «extremely complex,» warning international actors not to reduce it to a single narrative. «The complexity of the situation in northern Nigeria should not be taken lightly, nor described with overly simple language,» he said, stressing again, «There is no genocide in northern Nigeria.»
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Funerals for some 27 Christians who were reportedly killed by Islamist Fulani tribesmen in the village of Bindi Ta-hoss, Nigeria. (Christian Solidarity International)
In a statement to Fox News Digital, Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas., warned about a PR campaign being waged by the Abuja government to fight the accusations.
«Nigerian officials know their policies have created an environment in which Christians are being persecuted and slaughtered, including their enforcement of sharia law and their tolerance of Islamist violence. Instead of reversing these policies, they are waging a media campaign to escape exposure and accountability. I intend to prevent them from doing so.»
Sen. Ted Cruz listens during a Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing March 23, 2021. (Greg Nash/Pool via AP)
The White House also responded in starkly different terms. A senior official told Fox News Digital: «As the president stated, if the Nigerian government continues to allow the killing of Christians, the U.S. will immediately stop all aid and assistance to Nigeria and may take action to completely wipe out the Islamic terrorists who are committing these horrible atrocities.» The official added that President Trump has designated Nigeria a «country of particular concern» and ordered the Department of War to prepare for possible action.
Women and children who were held captive by islamic extremists, and rescued by the Nigerian army, are seen upon arrival in Maiduguri, Nigeria, May 20, 2024. (AP Photo/Jossy Olatunji)
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On Capitol Hill, some lawmakers are pressing for even stronger measures. Rep. Riley Moore, R-W.Va., said the United States could take a range of actions — including sanctions and «even kinetic military action» — in response to what he called the «genocide» of Christians in Nigeria. Trump designated Moore, a member of the Appropriations Committee, along with Chairman Tom Cole, R-Okla., to lead an investigation into the killing of Christians by Islamist militants in the African nation.
On Wednesday, Stéphane Dujarric, a spokesman for the U.N. secretary-general, addressed the issue in response to a question by Fox News Digital at the daily press briefing about persecution of Christians in Nigeria — and whether the secretary-general supports President Trump’s warning that Nigeria must act or face consequences. Dujarric, said, «We believe that the Nigerian government has been struggling with an insurgency that has been killing people, whether Muslims, Christians or others, and I think whatever assistance is needed should be done with the cooperation of the Nigerian authorities.»
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