U-boats carried Nazi gold to Evita Peron?
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>Date: Thu, 26 Jun 1997 17:42:29 -0700
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>Wiesenthal says Evita probably stashed Nazi loot
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>BUENOS AIRES (June 26, 1997 6:03 p.m. EDT) – Simon Wiesenthal, the
>renowned hunter of Nazi war criminals, said in an interview published
>Thursday that Argentina should investigate whether Eva Peron hid Nazi
>gold in secret Swiss bank accounts.
>
>Journalists and historians have long suspected that Peron, wife of Juan
>Peron who ruled Argentina from 1946-55 and from 1973 until his death in
>1974, used her European tour in 1947 to deposit bribes from Nazi war
>criminals in Swiss banks.
>
>”In principle I would say it seems probable that those accounts exist
>because of the contacts Evita had with German and Croatian war
>criminals,” 88-year-old Wiesenthal, himself a Holocaust survivor, told
>Argentina’s “Pagina 12” newspaper.
>
>Argentina under the Perons was the refuge of some top Third Reich
>officials on the run from Europe, including Hitler’s confidant Martin
>Borman [sic], Holocaust “architect” Adolf Eichman[n] and possibly
>Auschwitz doctor Josef Mengele.
>
>Peron is alleged to have given thousands of blank passports to Nazis,
>and U.S. wartime documents estimate the Nazis secretly sent more than $1
>billion to be invested in Argentina one month before the war ended.
>
>Wiesenthal told “Pagina 12” at a Geneva conference on Jewish property
>looted by Nazis that Argentina should look into “German companies that
>received big investments in 1943 and 1944″ and reports of secret trips
>by German submarines.
>
>”It should also look at whether Eva Peron’s accounts in Switzerland
>existed or not,” the world-famous Nazi hunter said. He urged
>investigation into a “Swiss-Argentine axis” where Nazi loot was
>laundered in Switzerland and sent on to Argentina, which he said set up
>a virtual “welcoming committee for Nazis, giving them passports, visas
>and shelter.”
>
>”All South American countries had broken links with the Nazis except for
>Argentina, which continued keeping up good contacts with Hitler and
>doing business with the blood of the victims,” said Wiesenthal, founder
>of a Los Angeles center in his name that investigates Nazi war criminals
>still at large.
>
>Argentine President Carlos Menem, a Peronist, promised in May to set up
>a committee to investigate his country’s Nazi sympathies of the past.
>Wiesenthal praised the initiative but said there was no sign of it
>starting work yet.
>
>”It’s a much better attitude than Argentine governments had years ago,
>but for now it’s just promises. They have to investigate once and for
>all because no less than half a century has gone by,” he said.
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>[A note about an item in this story: “Bormann, Martin, 1900Â1945, German
>Nazi leader. In 1942 he became Hitler’s private secretary. Although he
>was rumored to have escaped to Argentina in 1945, his skeleton was
>unearthed and identified in West Berlin in 1973.” (from =Concise
>Columbia Encyclopedia= (1995)]