The national park of Argentina found refuge for Nazi war criminals – Russian newspaper

The group of Argentine archaeologists discovered deep in the jungle on the border with Paraguay abandoned buildings, which could presumably serve as a haven for Nazi war criminals who fled to Argentina after the Second World War.

structures, which are the remains of a stone structure, probably destined for human habitation, and warehouse are located in the national park “Teyu Kuar” in the province of Misiones. According to experts of particular buildings destroyed by time suggests that they are not only to protect those who are inside, but also allows you to monitor the surroundings. In some places, the thickness of the walls of the bunkers, built of large stones whole, is almost three meters.

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According to the head of the archaeological team Daniel Shavelsona found the building was built on a special mission leaders of the Third Reich, and the place chosen for the construction is not accidental – the proximity to the Paraguayan border would guarantee harbored an opportunity for 10 minutes to leave the territory of Argentina. “Apparently, in the middle of World War II, the German Air Force began to implement a secret plan to build shelters for the Nazi leadership in remote areas – in the deserts, the mountains or in the jungle, as here,” – says Shavelson.

The main evidence supporting the “Nazi trail,” the researchers presented German coins dating from the period from 1938 to 1941, as well as items of porcelain found in the vicinity of buildings during the excavation. However themselves archaeologists believe that the Nazis so never used this refuge. However, according to local legend here was hiding himself Martin Bormann.

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It should be noted that Argentina really took on its territory a large number of fugitive Nazis, who began to leave en masse to Europe in early 1945, when the inevitable defeat of Nazi Germany became apparent to many people.

According to some estimates, the Argentine land came to five thousand Nazis. Perhaps the most famous case of life hiding in Argentina servants of the Third Reich was the arrest in 1995 in the border with Chile city of San Carlos de Bariloche with the subsequent extradition to Italy of the former SS-Hauptsturmführer Erich Priebke. Recall that Priebke was eventually sentenced by an Italian court to life imprisonment for participating in the Ardeatine massacre March 24, 1944 in Rome, when 335 civilians were killed by the Italians. Nevertheless, because of age, he was serving his sentence under house arrest. Thus, one of those responsible for carrying out mass executions, more than 50 years he lived in freedom in its own estate in the Argentine Andes and some time even led the German school in the city.

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