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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.
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Man who burned Quran in London may get US asylum as case draws Trump administration attention
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The Trump administration is weighing involvement in the case of a protester who was fined for burning a Quran outside the Turkish Consulate in London, as U.K. prosecutors look to reinstate his overturned conviction, according to reports.
Officials are said to be discussing granting 51-year-old Hamit Coskun refugee status if the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) wins its appeal, with a senior U.S. administration official telling The Telegraph the case is one of several «the administration has made note of.»
Coskun, of Armenian-Kurdish descent, had initially sought asylum in the U.K. from Turkey, where he says Islamic extremists «destroyed» his family’s life and where he was jailed for protesting Islamist governance.
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Hamit Coskun has said he may «flee» to America if the Crown Prosecution Service succeeds in its High Court challenge. (Aaron Chown/PA Images via Getty Images)
On Feb. 13, 2025, he traveled to the Turkish Consulate in London and set fire to a copy of the Quran while shouting slogans including «Islam is [the] religion of terrorism» and «f— Islam.»
There he was attacked by Moussa Kadri, a passerby who chased him with a knife, kicked him and spat on him.
Kadri later received a suspended prison sentence after being convicted of assault and having a bladed article in a public place.
Initially charged with harassing the «religious institution of Islam,» Coskun’s case drew intervention from the National Secular Society and the Free Speech Union, who argued prosecutors were effectively reviving blasphemy laws already abolished in 2008.
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Coskun was convicted of a religiously aggravated public order offense and fined in June 2025.
That October, Coskun’s conviction was overturned when a judge ruled that while burning a Quran was «desperately upsetting and offensive» to many Muslims, the right to free expression «must include the right to express views that offend, shock or disturb.»
The CPS is now seeking to reverse that decision at London’s High Court, with Coskun telling The Telegraph that if the appeal goes against him, he may be forced «to flee» the country.
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At the 2025 Munich Security Conference, Vice President JD Vance said «in Britain and across Europe, free speech, I fear, is in retreat.» (Matthias Schrader/AP Photo)
«For me, as the victim of Islamic terrorism, I cannot remain silent. I may be forced to flee the UK and move to the USA, where President Trump has stood for free speech and against Islamic extremism,» he told the outlet.
«If I have to do so, then, to me, the UK will have effectively fallen to Islamism and the speech codes that it wishes to impose on the non-Muslim world,» he added.
President Donald Trump and the U.S. administration have already criticized the U.K. and European governments over increased restrictions on expression.
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In 2025, Trump slammed the U.K.’s laws around online speech, saying «strange things are happening» there and that it was «not a good thing.»
At the Munich Security Conference in 2025, Vice President JD Vance also said, «In Britain and across Europe, free speech, I fear, is in retreat.»
Fox News Digital has reached out to the Department of State for comment.
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El dictador Kim Jong-un inauguró un distrito de viviendas para las familias de soldados norcoreanos enviados a morir en la guerra de Putin
El régimen de Corea del Norte culminó la construcción de un nuevo distrito residencial en Pyongyang destinado a las familias de soldados norcoreanos que murieron combatiendo junto a Rusia en la guerra contra Ucrania.
La inauguración, presidida por el dictador Kim Jong-un, forma parte de una campaña para “glorificar” a quienes el régimen considera “mártires jóvenes” que “lo sacrificaron todo por la patria”.
Según imágenes difundidas por los medios de propaganda, Kim Jong-un recorrió el barrio bautizado como Saeppyol Street en compañía de su hija, Kim Ju Ae, y visitó algunas de las viviendas recién entregadas. Durante el acto, el líder norcoreano prometió recompensar a las familias de los caídos y elogió la “valentía sin igual” de los soldados que, bajo órdenes del régimen, viajaron miles de kilómetros para luchar en un conflicto ajeno.
Corea del Norte ha intensificado en los últimos meses la propaganda sobre la participación de sus tropas en la guerra de Ucrania, erigiendo memoriales y planificando la apertura de un museo dedicado a los muertos en combate.
Kim Jong-un insistió en que “el heroísmo y la bravura de los soldados del Ejército Popular de Corea, involucrados en operaciones militares en el extranjero, deben ser grabados en la historia como símbolo de invencibilidad”.
La presencia de contingentes norcoreanos en Ucrania se produce en el contexto de una alianza con el Kremlin y de un régimen que, aislado internacionalmente, ha encontrado en Moscú un socio clave para sortear sanciones y obtener tecnología y recursos. De acuerdo con estimaciones de la inteligencia surcoreana, alrededor de 6.000 soldados norcoreanos han resultado muertos o heridos durante su despliegue en territorio ucraniano. El balance de víctimas mortales supera las 600, aunque Pyongyang no ha ofrecido cifras oficiales ni reconoce bajas en su propaganda.
En paralelo al envío de tropas, Corea del Norte ha suministrado a Rusia artillería, misiles y sistemas de lanzacohetes de largo alcance, reforzando el poder de combate de las fuerzas de Vladimir Putin ante la resistencia ucraniana. A cambio, el régimen norcoreano ha recibido asistencia financiera, transferencia de tecnología militar, alimentos y energía, según fuentes diplomáticas y de inteligencia regional.
El homenaje a los soldados muertos y el otorgamiento de viviendas a sus familias son parte de una estrategia de control social y cohesión interna en un país donde la información está estrictamente censurada y los gestos de lealtad al régimen se premian públicamente. Analistas apuntan que el régimen norcoreano busca contener el descontento social ante el costo humano del envío masivo de combatientes a una guerra exterior y consolidar la imagen de Kim Jong-un como un líder fuerte y generoso ante la opinión pública norcoreana.
El nuevo barrio residencial se inaugura a pocos días de la apertura de un congreso clave del partido único, donde se prevén anuncios sobre los próximos objetivos políticos y económicos del régimen y posibles medidas de endurecimiento del control interno.
Estos gestos de reconocimiento a las familias de los caídos funcionan también como mensaje hacia la cúpula militar y la burocracia del partido, recordando que la fidelidad al líder y el sacrificio serán recompensados con visibilidad y privilegios estatales.
(Con información de The Associated Press y AFP)
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