Tag: Nazis

• Tuesday, March 25th 2025 - 09:07 UTC

  Milei orders declassifying Nazi and military dictatorship files

  

  Argentine President Javier Milei announced Monday two significant declassification initiatives. First, at the request of US Senator Steve Daines, he ordered the release of all official documents related to Nazis who sought refuge in Argentina after World War II, Cabinet Chief Guillermo Francos confirmed. These files, primarily held by the Defense Ministry, include financial records and their release would end decades of secrecy.

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• Monday, July 25th 2022 - 08:47 UTC

  July 1942: Nazi Germany begins the systematic extermination of Polish Jews

  

  In July 1942, Nazi Germany ordered the systematic extermination of the Jewish population in the Polish capital of Warsaw. Jews had been confined to the Warsaw Ghetto from November 1940, life was terrible. In the Ghetto to the northwest of the city some 450,000 men, women, and children lived crammed together behind the high walls. Around 100,000 people had died of hunger or disease, or been killed in summary executions. But the worse was to come on 22 July 1942.

• Wednesday, June 3rd 2020 - 08:30 UTC

  Austria is turning Hitler's house into a police station, hoping to neutralize neo Nazi attraction

  

  Austria presented an architectural plan on Tuesday to turn the house where Adolf Hitler was born into a police station in the hope of “neutralizing” the space and ensuring it does not attract neo-Nazis.

• Thursday, May 21st 2020 - 08:49 UTC

  Controversy in Argentina over a new bank bill with the image of a brilliant doctor with Nazi connections

  

  Argentina's Jewish community has expressed outrage at the decision to print a banknote bearing the likeness of a doctor who expressed support for Nazi ideology and even backed Josef Mengele's experiments on Jewish prisoners in Auschwitz.

• Thursday, March 5th 2020 - 08:59 UTC

  A list of 12.000 Nazis in Argentina with accounts in Credit Suisse has surfaced, confirms Simon Wiesenthal Center

  

  A research by Argentine investigator Pedro Filipuzzi revealed a list of 12,000 Nazis in Argentina that apparently have money in accounts at the Zurich-based Credit Suisse investment bank, the Simon Wiesenthal Center said in a statement.

• Tuesday, September 17th 2019 - 09:39 UTC

  UN apologizes to Spain: Nazis bombed Guernica, not the Republican forces

  

  The United Nations has apologized to Spain for having mistakenly attributed the devastating 1937 bombing of the town of Guernica to Spanish Republican forces, a spokesman said on Monday.

• Monday, November 5th 2018 - 08:30 UTC

  Soccer and the Holocaust exhibit in Argentina awarded German football tolerance prize

  

  The German soccer federation is giving an award for tolerance for an Argentine exhibition of harrowing stories about soccer from the Holocaust era. The 11-panel exhibit — one for each soccer player on the field — tells the stories of teams and sportsmen who suffered under the Nazis.