Record Haul of Nazi Artifacts Found in Argentina.

[Luigi]

IN a hidden room in a house near Argentina’s capital, police believe they have found the biggest collection of Nazi artefacts in the country’s history, including busts of Adolf Hitler, magnifying glasses inside elegant boxes with swastikas and even a macabre medical device used to measure head size.











Art belonging to senior Nazi officials seized in Argentina

[Davis Knowlton]

^Shitload of money at auction there.

[Loy Toy]

I watched a documentary about this some months back and apparently they were in the process of building a Nazi Fortress there as well.

An American News team were investigating and trying to find out more about the Nazis that fled there after the war.

[Davis Knowlton]

I had a complete Nazi SS tanker's uniform that my Dad had 'liberated' from a warehouse on the drive through Germany (he was also a tanker) - jacket, trousers, overalls, and hat. My brother sold it for me years ago at an auction - as I recall, I made around $800. Nazi original stuff is worth serious $$$$.

[Loy Toy]

Apparently Joseph Mengele the death doctor from Auschwitz lived in Argentina for years after the end of the war along with his henchmen.

Not confirmed but if you watch the documentary people swear by it.

[DrB0b]

Apparently Joseph Mengele the death doctor from Auschwitz lived in Argentina for years after the end of the war along with his henchmen.

Not confirmed but if you watch the documentary people swear by it.

It was confirmed a few years back. He spent much of his life in Argentina but he died in Brazil in 1979. Mengele's body was buried in Sao Paulo, Brazil. DNA testing confirmed it was him and his family then revealed the story of his whereabouts and some of his activities since the war.

Re the OP. It looks like the owner owned them legitimately. He's an antique dealer whose house was raided after he was accused of dealing in illicit antiquities - Egyptian and Chinese.

[thaimeme]

I watched a documentary about this some months back and apparently they were in the process of building a Nazi Fortress there as well.

An American News team were investigating and trying to find out more about the Nazis that fled there after the war.

Quite well known, historically, about the higher end Nazi's presence in post war South America.....spilling over into the theories/conspiracies that link Hitler [and his cronies] making it out as well - setting up a whole infrastructure and underground support groups.

[DrB0b]

I watched a documentary about this some months back and apparently they were in the process of building a Nazi Fortress there as well.

An American News team were investigating and trying to find out more about the Nazis that fled there after the war.

Quite well known, historically, about the higher end Nazi's presence in post war South America.....spilling over into the theories/conspiracies that link Hitler [and his cronies] making it out as well - setting up a whole infrastructure and underground support groups.

It's mostly a myth. No high-ranking Nazi has ever been shown to have gone to South America. Thousands of Nazis did, of course, go there but they were mostly middle-level functionaries. Probably the best known Nazis to have gone to South America were Eichmann, Stangl, and Mengele. None of them held high rank. The highest ranking Nazi I can think of offhand who escaped to South America was Eichmann who was an SS Obersturmbannfuhrer - Lieutenant Colonel - not a particulalry high rank and he had no political influence in the NSDAP.

[lom]

Tommy Robinson would have a field day in that shop

[DrB0b]

Tommy Robinson would have a field day in that shop

That brain-dead dwarf would have been gassed as lebensunwertes leben.

[Klondyke]

The Colony: Chile's dark past uncovered
How did a secret German sect in Chile become a haven for Nazi fugitives and a torture centre for the Pinochet regime?
Al Jazeera Correspondent | 15 Dec 2013 09:19 GMT |

Forty years after the US-backed military coup that brought General Augusto Pinochet to power in Chile, the truth about the sordid abuses and crimes that took place during his dictatorship are still emerging.

The mountains of Patagonia in southern Chile witnessed a particularly bizarre chapter of the Pinochet era; one that is still claiming victims today.

In 1961, a former Nazi corporal called Paul Schaefer fled Germany, along with hundreds of others, to found a sect in southern Chile. In an idyllic rural enclave framed by the Andes Mountains he created a virtual state within a state - one where horrifying events unfolded.

Initially with the ignorance of the government, and then with the complicity of the Pinochet regime, children were separated from their parents at birth and raised in a Kinder House. Men and women were kept apart and often drugged, while Schaefer systematically sexually abused boys and, occasionally, girls.

It also served as a haven for Nazi fugitives - such as Walter Rauff, the inventor of the portable gas chamber, and Joseph Mengele, the so-called 'Angel of Death' - who were permitted to hide out there in exchange for overseeing sophisticated forms of torture.

All of this took place with the full knowledge of the Pinochet regime, whose notorious intelligence chief, General Manuel Contreras, would often visit the site.

In The Colony: Chile's dark past uncovered, the truth about what took place inside the Colony is revealed through the story of Winfried Hempel. Now 35, Hempel was born into the Colony and raised there without any knowledge of who his parents were. When he first left its grounds, he was 20 years old, spoke no Spanish, had no notion of the country in which he lived and had never seen a television, computer or mobile phone.

Although he initially struggled to adapt to the world beyond Colonia Dignidad, he gradually learned to speak Spanish, received his high school certificate and eventually qualified as a lawyer.

Al Jazeera's Lucia Newman has followed the story of the Colonia Dignidad since 1996 - at one point even being turned away from the site at gunpoint. As a Chilean, she wants to expose the crimes that took place there - crimes that her country was not only complicit in, but an active participant to.

The Colony: Chile's dark past uncovered - Al Jazeera English

[PeeCoffee]

The highest ranking Nazi I can think of offhand who escaped to South America was Eichmann who was an SS Obersturmbannfuhrer - Lieutenant Colonel - not a particulalry high rank and he had no political influence in the NSDAP.

Yesiree Bob. Eichmann was "just following orders" in the 'facilitation of mass deportations and the overall management of the logistics involved for all extermination camps' in German-occupied Europe throughout WW2.

POSSIBLY his trial and death by hanging for crimes against humanity was just a sham.
(The real reason simply was his that his name was Adolph...but don't tell anyone.)

[Looper]

Probably the best known Nazis to have gone to South America were Eichmann, Stangl, and Mengele.

Hans Ulrich Rudel finished up there too.



The only recipient of the Golden Oak Leaves with Swords and Diamonds

[thaimeme]

I watched a documentary about this some months back and apparently they were in the process of building a Nazi Fortress there as well.

An American News team were investigating and trying to find out more about the Nazis that fled there after the war.

Quite well known, historically, about the higher end Nazi's presence in post war South America.....spilling over into the theories/conspiracies that link Hitler [and his cronies] making it out as well - setting up a whole infrastructure and underground support groups.

It's mostly a myth. No high-ranking Nazi has ever been shown to have gone to South America. Thousands of Nazis did, of course, go there but they were mostly middle-level functionaries. Probably the best known Nazis to have gone to South America were Eichmann, Stangl, and Mengele. None of them held high rank. The highest ranking Nazi I can think of offhand who escaped to South America was Eichmann who was an SS Obersturmbannfuhrer - Lieutenant Colonel - not a particulalry high rank and he had no political influence in the NSDAP.

Before you commit yourself to the standard convention of invented history, Bob, you might want to explore and dig deeper.

As there is a tonne of material available that might contradict your set-in-stone understanding of these historical issues.

Chaotic theories play havoc on the fabricated scientific walls.

[DrB0b]

I watched a documentary about this some months back and apparently they were in the process of building a Nazi Fortress there as well.

An American News team were investigating and trying to find out more about the Nazis that fled there after the war.

Quite well known, historically, about the higher end Nazi's presence in post war South America.....spilling over into the theories/conspiracies that link Hitler [and his cronies] making it out as well - setting up a whole infrastructure and underground support groups.

It's mostly a myth. No high-ranking Nazi has ever been shown to have gone to South America. Thousands of Nazis did, of course, go there but they were mostly middle-level functionaries. Probably the best known Nazis to have gone to South America were Eichmann, Stangl, and Mengele. None of them held high rank. The highest ranking Nazi I can think of offhand who escaped to South America was Eichmann who was an SS Obersturmbannfuhrer - Lieutenant Colonel - not a particulalry high rank and he had no political influence in the NSDAP.

Before you commit yourself to the standard convention of invented history, Bob, you might want to explore and dig deeper.

As there is a tonne of material available that might contradict your set-in-stone understanding of these historical issues.

No, there isn't.

[Wilsonandson]

A Thai relation on my wife's side of course has this coin he says he bought 15 years ago in Kanchanaburi. Does anyone know if it is a real coin or a replica souverner?

[Looper]

^I have got a 1934 3rd reich zwei reichsmark and it does not have Hitler on it. It has von Hinderburg on the obverse.



I don't think Hitler ever featured on regular Reichsmark pieces.

Could be some kind of token but does not look very authentic.

[fred flintstone]

A Thai relation on my wife's side of course has this coin he says he bought 15 years ago in Kanchanaburi. Does anyone know if it is a real coin or a replica souverner?

Going for 7 CND on ebay.

1935 Adolph Hitler 5 Reichsmark Exonumia Coin | eBay

[Looper]

^Looks like a replica 5RM token. Hitler did not feature on legal tender coins.

Coin Value: Germany German Adolf Hitler 5 RM Coin 1935

...probably a replica of 5 reichsmark (RM) token issued by Germany. The replicas are modern and carry little value...

[BobR]

Shows how insane these people were that even after Hitler dictated a scorched earth policy that led to the complete destruction of Germany and destroyed the Nazi party through absolute incompetence against the advice of his generals and admirals, some apparently still worshiped him.

Not endorsing Nazism, but one would think those who do would hate him too.

[katie23]

There's a movie, Colonia (the colony) which stars Emma Watson of Harry Potter fame, and a German actor as her bf. Interesting movie and tells abt the religious sect/ cult which lived in the middle of nowhere. Founder of cult was a German guy with Nazi links.

[PeeCoffee]

Katie, please see Klondyke's post # 11 above for more background. ^^^

[PeeCoffee]

^I have got a 1934 3rd reich zwei reichsmark and it does not have Hitler on it. It has von Hinderburg on the obverse.



I don't think Hitler ever featured on regular Reichsmark pieces.

Could be some kind of token but does not look very authentic.

What you have might be 1937.

(Hindenburg died in '34.)

[Looper]

Well there you go my memory is indeed failing me.

It is in fact a 1938.

[DrB0b]

Well there you go my memory is indeed failing me.

It is in fact a 1938.

Issue started in 1937. Hindenburg's 90th Anniversary. Does it have GEMEINNUTZ GEHT VOR EIGENNUTZ - ("The Common Good comes Before the Self") around the rim?