Nazism in Argentina
The appearance of boxes containing Nazi propaganda material An investigation is underway in a basement of the Palace of Justice to shed light on a period in national life influenced by anti-democratic sectors. The documents had been seized in the port of Buenos Aires in 1941, on a Japanese-flagged ship arriving from Europe thanks to the work of the National Congress's Investigative Commission on Anti-Argentine Activities. After the 1943 military coup, they were taken to court, and the investigation was abandoned.
From 1920 onwards, nationalist movements emerged in our country that deviated from the liberal tradition enshrined in the national Constitution. The seizure of power by the fascism In Italy he was a model for the mentors of these movements that influenced the outbreak of the coup in 1930 and the plans of the de facto president who emerged from that institutional interruption to reform the Constitution to adopt a system that would replace Congress with a corporate chamber, a plan that was set aside in the face of resistance from political parties and, in the Army, by officers who answered to the leadership of General Agustín P. Justo .
In Argentina in the 1930s, the percentage of the population born in Europe was very high, especially in agricultural regions and cities like Rosario and Buenos Aires. This facilitated the attempts of the Mussolini and Hitler regimes to establish parties of that orientation in our country.
Between 1936 and 1938, the Nazis gathered around 15,000 people at Luna Park for events attended by the German ambassador. The German embassy also established a spy network.
There were many ties between the regime that emerged from the coup against President Ramón Castillo and the totalitarian regimes of the Axis powers, despite the fact that, in June 1943, the Allies had won in Africa and were entering Italy, opening a front in Western Europe. In Russia, the German Army had been retreating for months after the surrender of part of its forces at Stalingrad, but some officers were convinced of the Nazi triumph in Europe.
Many German spies maintained ties with officers of the United Officers Group (GOU) , a nationalist and secret Argentine military organization, such as Colonel Enrique González and General Alberto Gilbert , Minister of the Interior under President Pedro Ramírez . After the latter was dismissed by a group of Army officers, days after the break in relations with Germany in early 1944, some spy raids were carried out by Coordinación Federal, whose leader was then-Major Oscar Contal . However, deportations were delayed and few were carried out. According to Contal's testimony, they were soon released on the directives of then-Colonel Juan Perón , and statements made by the spies captured by Coordinación Federal were also erased, especially those regarding their ties to local political figures and the Army.
It is worth remembering the appointment of figures such as Santiago Peralta , linked to fascist nationalism in the Immigration Directorate, who prevented the granting of visas to members of the Jewish community seeking refuge in the country, instead facilitating the entry of German Nazis and collaborators from occupied Europe.
The material found in the courtrooms must be opened immediately to clarify this local past, in which the misguidance and complicity with an essentially evil and criminal regime, which offends the human condition, built complicity with some of our civilian and military compatriots. Propaganda against the liberal institutions established in the Constitution influenced Argentine politics and explains the deterioration of these institutions and the persistent crisis that, since those years, has led to the decline of positions, rank, and prestige in the world.
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