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In 2009, a book claimed Mengele’s continuing experiments may have been responsible for one in five pregnancies in the Brazilian town of Candido Godoi resulting in twins – most of them blond-haired and blue-eyed. He lived out the rest of his days in Brazil, where he died of a stroke in 1979, aged 67.ĭisturbingly, while in South America, he adopted the pseudonym Dr Helmut Gregor and performed abortions in an illegal practice. He fled to Argentina initially, around 1950, and briefly lived in neighbouring Paraguay. Germany issued a warrant for his arrest but he was never found. Perhaps the most notorious Nazi to flee to South America was Mengele. The Americans may have hated Nazis but they had one thing in common – a loathing of Communism.
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They smuggled him in and used his deadly skills to hunt down revolutionary Che Guevara. Gestapo chief in France Klaus Barbie – The Butcher of Lyon – set up home in Bolivia with the help of America’s CIA. After being kidnapped by Mossad agents, he was tried in Israel and executed in 1960.īut it was not just corrupt leaders in South America who aided the fleeing Nazis. Up to 2,000 went to Argentina, where Eichmann posed as Ricardo Klement in Buenos Aires. Several high-level figures in the Catholic Church are alleged to have been helpful in smuggling them. Nazis fled Europe through undercover routes to Italy and Spain, before being transported across the Atlantic. “It is still suspected that among her possessions, there were pieces of Nazi treasure that came from rich Jewish families killed in concentration camps,” said Leandro Narloch and Duda Teixeira in their book The Politically Incorrect Guide to Latin America. His wife, Eva Peron, also gained financially from the scheme.
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With Peron sympathetic to the fascist regime and desperate for the technology and scientific advances the Nazis brought, Argentina became one of the greatest refuges for fleeing Germans. They were sent back to Europe with Argentine passports on a Nazi rescue mission that facilitated the arrival of the worst mass murderers of the 20th century.” “Some of the first SS and Nazi officials who arrived in Argentina were received by President Juan Perón at the Casa Rosada, Argentina’s equivalent of the US White House. It was Argentina that made a concerted effort to rescue as many Nazis as possible. Uki Goni, author of The Real Odessa: How Peron Brought the Nazi War Criminals to Argentina, said: “Argentina stands out among the countries on the American continent that Nazis escaped to. In 2006, Schäfer was sentenced to 33 years for sexually abusing 25 children. He was joined in Chile by Paul Schafer, a one-eyed Nazi soldier who became a pastor, establishing Villa Baviera – which was essentially a paedophile’s paradise. He had fled to Chile, where he blended in as an air-conditioning salesman. One of Priebke’s regular guests in Bariloche was SS colonel Walter Rauff, a hero of Hitler’s who created gas vans that murdered 100,000.