I'm not calling the USA borderline fascistic for this
incident alone, but for a sequence of events dating back
to 9/11.
Actually we got quite late to the postwar Nazi garage sale.
The URSS and the USA[1] got the lot, including the guy who
almost decimated London's civilian population[2].
The best one we could get was Kurt Tank[3].
ODESSA, a former SS officers organization created in 1946
to assist Nazi war criminals, had ramifications in
Argentina. It was mostly backed here by Walther Darre's[4]
family, german companies (e.g. Siemens) and a few
right-wing politicos.
Thankfully, MOSSAD was able to partially correct that black
page in our history in 1960.[5]
Although Peron was quite an intolerant person, he had a
soft spot for human rights and opened the doors to
Jewish inmigrants in 1946. We received 463456 jewish
inmigrants between 1947 and 1951.[6][7]
Also we were one of the first countries to recognize
Israel in 1949.
There is one famous town founded by Germans in 1930,
Villa General Belgrano[8]. Many of their original
inhabitants are survivors from the Graf Spee sinking[9],
although I challenge you to find a fluent German speaking
person there under the age of 80.
If you want to check it out, go during the first weekend of
October so you don't miss their amazing Oktoberfest.
All Nazi related government files have been declassified in
1992, and can be freely accessed. Although they haven't
been digitalized.
After the tenths of thousands of deaths caused by our
last dictatorship[10] in the 70's, we started to develop
a politically liberal, more tolerant and more agnostic
world view.
This led us to be the first country in Latin America to legalize gay marriage and marihuana, among other things.
Sorry for the excessive length of this comment, just wanted
to dispel some common myths about my country.
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I'm not calling the USA borderline fascistic for this incident alone, but for a sequence of events dating back to 9/11.
Actually we got quite late to the postwar Nazi garage sale. The URSS and the USA[1] got the lot, including the guy who almost decimated London's civilian population[2].
The best one we could get was Kurt Tank[3].
ODESSA, a former SS officers organization created in 1946 to assist Nazi war criminals, had ramifications in Argentina. It was mostly backed here by Walther Darre's[4] family, german companies (e.g. Siemens) and a few right-wing politicos.
Thankfully, MOSSAD was able to partially correct that black page in our history in 1960.[5]
Although Peron was quite an intolerant person, he had a soft spot for human rights and opened the doors to Jewish inmigrants in 1946. We received 463456 jewish inmigrants between 1947 and 1951.[6][7]
Also we were one of the first countries to recognize Israel in 1949.
There is one famous town founded by Germans in 1930, Villa General Belgrano[8]. Many of their original inhabitants are survivors from the Graf Spee sinking[9], although I challenge you to find a fluent German speaking person there under the age of 80.
If you want to check it out, go during the first weekend of October so you don't miss their amazing Oktoberfest.
All Nazi related government files have been declassified in 1992, and can be freely accessed. Although they haven't been digitalized.
After the tenths of thousands of deaths caused by our last dictatorship[10] in the 70's, we started to develop a politically liberal, more tolerant and more agnostic world view. This led us to be the first country in Latin America to legalize gay marriage and marihuana, among other things.
Sorry for the excessive length of this comment, just wanted to dispel some common myths about my country.
Links: [1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Paperclip [2]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wernher_von_Braun [3]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kurt_Tank [4]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Walther_Darr%C3%A9 [5]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adolf_Eichmann [6]: http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/vjw/Argentina.ht... [7]: http://www.lavozylaopinion.com.ar/cgi-bin/medios/vernota.cgi... [8]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Villa_General_Belgrano [9]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_cruiser_Admiral_Graf_Spe... [10]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Reorganization_Process