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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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Former Secret Service officials warn of low-tech threats facing Trump after latest Mar-a-Lago breach
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A deadly confrontation at Mar-a-Lago, Florida, Sunday is the latest in a string of high-profile security incidents threatening President Donald Trump, as former Secret Service officials warn that low-tech, lone actors now pose one of the toughest challenges to presidential protection.
«It should be quite clear to all of us by now that Trump is the most threatened president in the history of the U.S.,» former Secret Service agent William «Bill» Gage told Fox News Digital Monday, pointing to multiple high-profile incidents in recent years. Unlike past presidencies, where threat levels often subsided over time, Gage said, «the longer he’s president, the more these attacks keep happening.»
Gage said the most difficult cases to prevent are often the least sophisticated. The recent incidents, he noted, were «super low-tech attacks by people with zero training,» using rudimentary weapons. «If you were standing behind them in line at Starbucks, you wouldn’t have given them a second look,» he said.
Gage said the threat landscape shifted over the course of his 12-year career as a Secret Service agent. When he joined the Secret Service in 2002, he said the agency was moving away from what he described as the traditional «lone gunman» model — figures like Lee Harvey Oswald, who assassinated John F. Kennedy, or international militants such as «Carlos the Jackal,» one of the world’s most wanted terrorists in the ‘70s and ’80s — and adapting to a post-9/11 world focused on coordinated terrorist networks like al Qaeda and later ISIS.
A deadly confrontation at Mar-a-Lago, Florida, Sunday is the latest in a string of high-profile security incidents involving President Donald Trump. (Marco Bello/Reuters)
«But if you look at Butler and the two incidents at Mar-a-Lago, those were super low-tech attacks,» Gage said. «The low-tech actors are the ones that tend to slip through the cracks.»
He also warned of a potential copycat effect when details of such incidents become public.
«If it were up to the Secret Service, they would never report any of these incidents ever,» Gage said, arguing that widespread coverage allows others to «study what happened» and attempt to refine it.
In today’s hyperconnected political climate, he said, that dynamic adds another layer of complexity for agents trying to stop the next threat before it materializes.
In the early hours of Sunday, a 21-year-old man identified as Austin Tucker Martin of North Carolina was shot and killed by U.S. Secret Service agents and a local sheriff’s deputy after entering the secure perimeter of Trump’s Mar-a-Lago resort in Palm Beach, Florida.
Authorities say Martin drove through the north gate carrying a shotgun and a gasoline can. After being ordered to drop both, he dropped the can but raised the shotgun toward officers, who fired and killed him at the scene. Trump and First lady Melania Trump were in Washington at the time.
The incident marked the third highly publicized security encounter involving Trump in less than two years.
In July 2024, a gunman opened fire at a campaign rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, grazing Trump’s ear and killing an attendee before being shot by a Secret Service sniper.
In September 2024, a man armed with a rifle was confronted by agents near Trump’s golf course while he was playing; that suspect was later convicted on attempted assassination charges.
While the incidents have drawn intense attention, former Deputy Assistant Director Don Mihalek said the latest Mar-a-Lago intrusion does not necessarily signal a breakdown in protective systems.
«He got through an exterior gate of an active club,» Mihalek told Fox News Digital. «This wasn’t someone reaching the president’s residence.»
Agents confronted the suspect within seconds, he said, describing the rapid response as evidence that overlapping security layers functioned as designed.
Mihalek said presidential protection relies on multiple rings of security because outer perimeters at properties like Mar-a-Lago cannot be sealed in the same way as the White House.
«If he ended up in the president’s house on Mar-a-Lago, that might be a different conversation,» he said.
He also cautioned against viewing recent incidents in isolation, noting that presidents routinely face roughly 2,000 threats per year, most of which are mitigated before the public ever becomes aware of them.
«These just happen to be very public instances,» Mihalek said, arguing that the social media era amplifies perceptions of escalation.
Then-Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump is whisked away by Secret Service after shots rang out at a campaign rally at Butler Farm Show Inc. July 13, 2024, in Butler, Pennsylvania. (Jeff Swensen/Getty Images)
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Mihalek pointed to the 2024 rally shooting in Butler, Pennsylvania, as an example of how early intervention can be decisive, noting that local law enforcement had reportedly identified the suspect prior to the attack.
«If somebody had walked up and said, ‘Hey, who are you?’ we wouldn’t be talking about Butler,» he said.
As Trump prepares to address Congress at the State of the Union, both former officials said the security posture at the Capitol is unlikely to change in response to the weekend incident.
The annual address is designated a National Special Security Event — the highest level of federal security planning — triggering coordination among the Secret Service, U.S. Capitol Police, FBI, War Department and other agencies. The designation allows for expanded perimeter controls, airspace restrictions and continuity-of-government planning.
Barricades go up around the Capitol ahead of the State of the Union. (Kylie Cooper/Reuters)
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Gage, who previously led advance planning for State of the Union addresses, said the event operates under a well-established security «blueprint» built to account for worst-case scenarios. «There’s really no way to increase it anymore,» he said.
Both former officials said the defining challenge for presidential protection today is unpredictability: individuals with minimal training, rudimentary weapons and the ability to find reinforcement online. Unlike organized extremist networks, such actors may leave few detectable signals before acting.
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UK government to unseal former ambassador Mandelson documents tied to Jeffrey Epstein probe
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The UK government is set to unseal a first batch of key documents relating to Peter Mandelson’s appointment as ambassador to the U.S., MPs were told Monday.
The disclosure, set for «early March,» follows a Commons motion ordering the release of files related to Mandelson’s vetting for the post and comes in the wake of his arrest on suspicion of misconduct in public office.
«The government expects to be able to publish the first tranche of documents very shortly, in early March,» Darren Jones, chief secretary to Prime Minister Keir Starmer, told the House of Commons.
«I should, however, inform the House that it remains the case that a subset of this first tranche of documents is currently subject to the ongoing Metropolitan Police investigation,» he said.
British Prime Minister Keir Starmer, right, talks with Britain’s ambassador to the United States Peter Mandelson during a welcome reception at the ambassador’s residence in Washington, on Feb. 26, 2025. (Carl Court/Pool Photo via AP)
Jones added that «a small portion of that material engages matters of national security or international relations» and would be handled through the Intelligence and Security Committee, in line with the will of the House.
As previously reported by Fox News Digital, a Metropolitan Police spokesperson confirmed in a statement Monday that officers had arrested a 72-year-old man at an address in Camden and took him to a London police station for questioning.
The arrest follows revelations about Mandelson’s links to convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein and comes days after former Prince Andrew was detained.
The investigation relates to allegations that Mandelson shared confidential government information with Epstein while serving as business secretary.
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Former British Ambassador to the U.S. Peter Mandelson enters a vehicle outside a reported residence, after police launched a misconduct in public office investigation. (Reuters)
Police had opened a criminal inquiry after the government passed on communications between the former ambassador and the disgraced financier.
Emails released by the U.S. Department of Justice also appeared to show Mandelson sharing market-sensitive information with Epstein during the 2008 financial crisis.
Mandelson has denied wrongdoing and said he does not recall the alleged disclosures and apologized to Epstein’s victims for maintaining contact with him after his conviction.
On Feb. 4, Starmer told the Commons: «I’m as angry as anyone about what Mandelson has been up to. The disclosures … are utterly shocking and appalling. He has betrayed our country. He has lied repeatedly. He is responsible for a litany of deceit.»
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Jeffrey Epstein was found dead in federal custody in 2019. (New York State Sex Offender Registry via AP, File)
Starmer later said that if he had known then what he knows now, Mandelson «would never have been anywhere near government.»
Mandelson, an architect of New Labour, was appointed U.S. ambassador before being dismissed in September 2025 as scrutiny over his links to Epstein intensified.
He resigned from the Labour Party and stepped down from the House of Lords.
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As U.S. ambassador, Mandelson scored an early victory by ensuring Britain was the first country to agree to a deal with the U.S. to lower some of President Donald Trump’s tariffs, but was fired a few months later.
Starmer has also faced calls to step down over Mandelson’s appointment, Reuters reported.
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Hace cuatro años comenzaba la criminal invasión de Rusia a Ucrania: jamás abandonemos a Kiev
El “Triángulo” es el nombre que recibe el distrito gubernamental de la capital ucraniana, el objetivo primario de los asaltos rusos contra Kiev durante las dos primeras semanas de la operación a gran escala desencadenada por Vladímir Putin el 24 de febrero de 2022.
Eran las 04:15 de aquel día, cuando en un anuncio televisivo grabado tres días antes, el presidente de la Federación Rusa declaró la guerra a Ucrania. La agresión comenzó entre las 04:45 y las 05:00 con potentes interferencias de las telecomunicaciones, los sistemas de radar de los invadidos y una intensa actividad de acoso por parte de drones que simulaban ser aviones rusos. Además, las Fuerzas Armadas de la Federación Rusa desencadenaron también ciberataques a gran escala contra las infraestructuras del Gobierno ucraniano, con las que consiguieron interrumpir redes de alto voltaje y subestaciones eléctricas por todo el país.
En consecuencia, el sistema de comunicaciones de las Fuerzas Armadas Ucranianas quedó interrumpido y cortados todos los enlaces entre el Estado Mayor Conjunto, los Comandos Operacionales y las Brigadas, durante varios días.
Al mismo tiempo, numerosas oleadas de misiles balísticos y de crucero impactaron contra aeropuertos civiles y militares e instalaciones seleccionadas de defensa antiaérea y, aunque algunas Bases Aéreas, casi todos los grandes aeropuertos y varios de los emplazamientos de la defensa antiaérea resultaron severamente alcanzados, las bajas que causaron a la Fuerza Aérea Ucraniana fueron mínimas gracias a que en el último minuto habían evacuado sus aviones y helicópteros a aeródromos situados en el sudoeste del país.
Aún se estaban desarrollando los primeros ataques cuando el Ministerio de Defensa de Moscú puso en marcha su “golpe”, una operación cuyo objetivo era derribar al Gobierno ucraniano y así decapitar y paralizar el liderazgo político y militar del país, justo al inicio de la guerra. A causa del favoritismo de Putin, esta tarea se encargó a una mezcla de unidades selectas de las Fuerzas Aerotransportadas Rusas, Compañías Militares privadas y, en especial, la poderosa Fuerza Aeroespacial. El resultado fue un plan complejo, engorroso, lento en su ejecución y con tropas demasiado escasas para una operación de este alcance e importancia. Primer gran error del Alto Mando ruso, de los muchos registrados por Moscú a lo largo de estos cuatro largos años.
Es importante mencionar que la acción comenzó días antes del ataque, con la infiltración de numerosos equipos y mercenarios en el centro de Kiev, con el objetivo de capturar y eliminar al presidente Volodímir Zelensky, a los miembros de su Gabinete e incluso a su familia. De todas maneras, si esta misión fracasaba, se encargó a tres grupos tácticos de “elite” que en vez de participar en el asalto a Kiev, aseguraran aeropuertos fuera de la ciudad, para que sirvieran como cabezas de puente para la llegada de más tropas aerotransportadas, como apoyo a las operaciones de fuerzas especiales.
No muy lejos y por detrás, dos Grandes Unidades de Batalla (Guardia Nacional, unidad militar para uso en el interior del país que depende directamente del presidente Putin), avanzarían por carretera desde Bielorrusia para asegurar algunas infraestructuras cruciales en torno a la capital y esperar a la llegada de las unidades mecanizadas que, a su vez, completarían la conquista del centro de Kiev y su aislamiento del oeste y el sur del país.
No pudo concretarse el paseo que imaginaba Putin de 48 horas y la entrada triunfal en la capital de las tropas del nuevo Zar moscovita. Han pasado cuatro años desde esa agonía que continúa hoy implacablemente, sin solución de continuidad.
Al presidente Zelensky, héroe indiscutido de este nuevo siglo, el mundo libre le pide que continúe con todas sus fuerzas y profundas convicciones democráticas, en esta cruzada libertadora. Miles de millones de personas apoyamos esta causa como propia en todo el hemisferio, recordando que la inmensa mayoría de los países de la Unión Europea, el Reino Unido de Gran Bretaña e Irlanda del Norte y Canadá, entre otras naciones centrales, están demostrando inequívocamente que los principios nunca se negocian y que la democracia y libertad, no se entregan jamás ni son moneda de cambio.
La plena vigencia del Multilateralismo como doctrina esencial de las relaciones internacionales, que se sustenta en la globalización y la interdependencia entre naciones, fue y continúa siendo el antídoto más eficaz contra los gobiernos totalitarios.
Su plena vigencia desde 1945 y su consolidación con la caída del Muro de Berlín en 1989, demuestran que la solución de controversias entre Estados no es una alquimia sino una demostración que, aunque existan asimetrías enormes especialmente desde el punto de vista del instrumento militar, la diplomacia a través de la persuasión, el consenso y fundamentalmente la disuasión desde una posición de fuerza indiscutible, son los elementos que hacen posible lograr una paz digna.
De lo contrario, no es paz, es capitulación, rendición incondicional y Ucrania ha demostrado con hidalguía superlativa, que no existe Plan “B”. Definitivamente Putin debe devolver todos los territorios invadidos. Se lo exige la comunidad democrática internacional, con racional, equilibrada y, fundamentalmente, profunda determinación. A cuatro años del inicio de esta pesadilla, es imperioso que todos los países actúen ya con renovada firmeza y no se permita que el tiempo sea cómplice de los invasores.
José Ingenieros decía con manifiesta claridad ejemplificadora: “Los que aspiran a ser águilas, deben volar alto y mirar lejos porque aquellos que se resignan a arrastrarse como gusanos, pierden el derecho a protestar si los aplastan”.
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