{"id":76914,"date":"2020-04-12T17:05:28","date_gmt":"2020-04-12T15:05:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/?p=76914"},"modified":"2020-04-03T07:53:18","modified_gmt":"2020-04-03T05:53:18","slug":"24-05-49","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/?p=76914","title":{"rendered":"Wiesenthal Centre Reveals 12,000 Names of Nazis in Argentina."},"content":{"rendered":"
\"\"<\/a>Wiesenthal Centre Reveals 12,000 Names of Nazis in Argentina, Many of Whom Apparently Had Accounts Transferred to Credit Suisse<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/h5>\n

The Simon Wiesenthal Center<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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March 2, 2020<\/strong>
\nParis and Buenos Aires<\/p>\n

\u201cWe believe that these long-dormant accounts hold monies looted from Jewish victims.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Argentine investigator, Pedro Filipuzzi, has shared with Dr. Shimon Samuels and Dr. Ariel Gelblung – respectively the Centre\u2019s Director for International Relations and Director for Latin America – a list of some 12,000 names of Nazis in Argentina, many of whom had contributed to one or more bank accounts at the Schweizerische Kreditanstalt, which became the Credit Suisse bank, based in Zurich, Switzerland.<\/span><\/p>\n

During the 1930s, the pro-Nazi military regime of President Jos\u00e9 F\u00e9lix Uriburu, who was nicknamed \u201cVon Pepe\u201d as a Germanophile, and of his successor Agust\u00edn Pedro Justo, welcomed a growing Nazi presence in Argentina.<\/span><\/p>\n

In 1938, the latter was replaced by anti-Nazi President Roberto Ortiz, who established the \u201cSpecial Commission to Research Anti-Argentine Activities,\u201d principally to de-Nazify Argentina.<\/span><\/p>\n

Up until 1938, however, there was an official figure of 1,400 members of the NSDAP\/AO (the German National Socialist Party \/ Foreign Organization), based in Argentina, with 12,000 supporting members of the cover-up \u201cUni\u00f3n Alemana de Gremios\u201d (the German Union of Syndicates) formerly named “Frente Aleman del Trabajo” (German Labour Front) and an additional 8,000 affiliated to other Nazi organizations.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cThese included such German companies as IG Farben (the supplier of Zyklon-B gas, used to exterminate Jews and other victims of Nazism) and financial bodies such as the ‘Banco Alem\u00e1n Transatl\u00e1ntico’ and the ‘Banco Germ\u00e1nico de Am\u00e9rica del Sur.’ These two banks apparently served for Nazi transfers on the way to Switzerland,\u201d explained Samuels.<\/span><\/p>\n

Gelblung added, \u201cMany of the names listed were related to pro-Nazi companies blacklisted by the US and UK during World War Two.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

The aforementioned Special Commission to Research Anti-Argentine Activities captured the complete cache of documents in a raid on the Uni\u00f3n Alemana de Gremios. In the period 1941-1943, the C\u00e1mara de Diputados de la Naci\u00f3n (the lower chamber of the Congress) studied and printed a report that included Nazi bank transfers from Argentina to Switzerland. We hold a copy of the list of Nazis based in Argentina, among whom several account holders of funds that were sent to the then Schweizerische Kreditanstalt, now Credit Suisse.<\/span><\/p>\n

In 1943, the pro-Nazi United Officers’ Group (in Spanish, GOU – Grupo de Oficiales Unidos) took power – headed by fascist militia leader Pedro Pablo Ramirez Menchaca as President – and disbanded the Special Commission, burning their findings and reports, including the Nazi-related lists printed by the C\u00e1mara de Diputados de la Naci\u00f3n.<\/span><\/p>\n

Mr. Filipuzzi, working in the former Buenos Aires Nazi headquarters, discovered, in an old storage room, an original copy of the 12,000 lists, now shared with the Wiesenthal Centre. See below-selected pages of the file:<\/span><\/p>\n

Examples of the C\u00e5mara de Diputados de la Naci\u00f3n’s materials found by our researcher<\/em><\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

In a letter to Credit Suisse Vice-President, Christian K\u00fcng, the Centre stated: \u201cWe believe very probable that these dormant accounts hold monies looted from Jewish victims, under the Nuremberg Aryanization laws of the 1930s,\u201d adding, \u201cWe are aware that you already have claimants as alleged heirs of Nazis in the list.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

The Centre requested access to the Credit Suisse archives to settle this matter on behalf of the diminishing number of Holocaust survivors.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cMr. K\u00fcng, in 1997, we organized a major conference in Geneva, together with Winterthur Insurance, on \u2018Restitution: A Moral Debt to History\u2019. A few weeks before our conference, I received a telephone call from Credit Suisse, requesting to co-sponsor our gathering.\u201d… \u201cIn the spirit of the conference\u2019s title, I asked for access to spoliated accounts for our expert researcher. There was no response,\u201d noted Samuels.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cThe current story and the remaining assets, arguably looted, of 12,000 Nazis will, we hope, be viewed differently, for the good name of Credit Suisse,\u201d concluded Samuels and Gelblung.<\/span><\/p>\n

For further information, Shimon Samuels may be contacted at the AIPAC Conference in Washington DC at +33 609 770 158 or contact Ariel Gelblung at +54 911 49 695 365, \u2028and join the Center on Facebook, www.facebook.com\/simonwiesenthalcenter, or follow @simonwiesenthal for news updates sent directly to your Twitter feed.<\/span><\/p>\n

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The Simon Wiesenthal Center is one of the largest international Jewish human rights organizations with over 400,000 member families in The United States. It is an NGO at international agencies including the United Nations, UNESCO, the OSCE, the OAS, the Council of Europe and the Latin American Parliament (Parlatino).<\/span><\/p>\n

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