Argentina lifts the shroud on Nazi war criminals it sheltered
He arrived in Argentina on a steamship in 1949 with a Red Cross refugee passport, using the pseudonym Helmut Gregor. Seven years later, the impeccably dressed German with a distinctive gap-toothed smile felt comfortable enough to ask the local police to kindly use his real surname on his identity card: he then became known as José Mengele.
Documents detailing that request were part of hundreds released online by the Argentinian government on Monday, many of which confirmed a long-known dirty secret: the ease with which senior Nazis, including Dr Josef Mengele, the barbaric 'Angel of Death' of Auschwitz, lived in Argentina after the Second World War.
Their publication completes a pledge made in February by President Milei that he will lift the shroud with which
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