Peron and the Nazis
ALEXANDER, ROBERT J.
Perdon and the Nazis A former Argentine official, now exiled in Uruguay, recently uncovered new and incontrovertible evidence of close ties between By Robert J. Alexander Sensational new...
...682114 of June 28, 1941, for 50,000 pesos to General Carlos von der Becke" (later one of Peron's most trusted Army lieutenants...
...After the war, Argentina became the chief refuge for European fascists, including many labeled by the Allies as "war criminals...
...During questioning concerning certain checks made out "To the Bearer" by the German Embassy in June 1941, he identified four of them as follows: "Check No...
...Duarte has told me, was only brought into the revolution to avoid his leading a powerful group of followers against it at a critical moment...
...Otto Skorzeny, notorious SS general...
...Former Deputy Silvano Santander recently published in Montevideo, Uruguay detailed evidence connecting Peron, his late wife Eva Duarte Peron and other leaders of the present Argentine government with Nazi espionage agents in Argentina, Spain and Germany...
...H. Theis, a former Gestapo expert at "obtaining evidence," is now a "technical adviser" of the Argentine Federal Police and is widely credited with inventing the "electric needle" which has gained rueful fame among oppositionists...
...During and after World War II, serious charges were made that the military leaders who seized power in Argentina on June 4, 1943 were closely associated with the Nazis and other European fascists...
...He spent several months in Berlin doing research, and his book, in addition to presenting translations of documents, contains photostatic copies of the most important ones...
...During the early years of World War II, Peron reported to him occasionally on the opinions and sentiments of Army personnel regarding the war's outcome...
...He conferred with Colonel Peron, General von der Becke, ex-Governor of the State of Buenos Aires Manuel Fresco, and Carlos Ibarguren, among others...
...Santander also cities the report to Niebuhr on Argentina's June 4, 1943 revolution by his successor, Otto Meynen, which sheds much light on the relations of the military group with the Nazis...
...Admiral Litzmann, commander of the Nazi Black Sea Fleet...
...The importance German espionage agents placed in Peron and his friends is shown by the fact that General von Faupel, chief of Nazi operations in Latin America,the Army's coup d'etat of June 4, 1943...
...These facts have been known for years, but they seem to have been forgotten by the governments which fought the Axis less than a decade ago...
...He estimates that German investments in Argentina by 1945 amounted to more than $217.5 million...
...Santander quotes Niebuhr's report concerning Peron's "irrevocable belief" in German victory early in 1943...
...Some of the participants he named were generals Ramirez and Farrell, the later of whom immediately preceded Peron as President of Argentina...
...After the Nazi downfall, two German submarines landed in southern Argentina...
...463803 of June 26, 1941, for 33,600 pesos to Eva Duarte...
...General Rawson was the first man made President by the revolting military men, but was eliminated within two days because of his pro-Allied sentiments...
...Only recently, they signed an important trade agreement with him...
...Galland and Rudel were given good positions in the Government-owned Cordoba Motor Factory...
...For instance, when German agent Gottfried Sandstede was summoned before the Chamber of Deputies' Anti-Argentine Activities Committee, they helped smuggle him out of the country...
...Perdon and the Nazis A former Argentine official, now exiled in Uruguay, recently uncovered new and incontrovertible evidence of close ties between By Robert J. Alexander Sensational new evidence has been uncovered by an exiled Argentine political leader concerning the wartime pro-Nazi activities of President Juan D. Peron...
...Now ex-Deputy Silvano Santander has produced new and incontrovertible evidence of Peron's Axis connections before, during and after World War II...
...By 1953, according to Santander, these investments were worth about $1.5 billion...
...When the German espionage net got into difficulties, Peron and Eva Duarte came to the rescue...
...Check No...
...Check No...
...Sanlander's material was culled from Nazi Foreign Office records and from evidence which top-flight Nazis gave while being interrogated by Allied officials after the war...
...The United States has courted Peron off and on ever since he became President--even to the extent of lending him $125,000,000...
...That nation is Germany In South America it is our mission to make the leadership of Argentina not only possible but indisputable...
...In the letter to Eva, he wrote: "The Argentine workers were born domesticated animals and as such they will die...
...Players included various Argentine military, naval and Embassy officials, he said, and they were always allowed to win...
...The biggest and best-equipped nation will guide the destinies of the newly-united continent...
...He also was responsible for the expulsion of General Rawson, who,according to what Srta...
...Peron, Evita and others were particularly friendly with Captain Niebuhr, naval attache and espionage chief in the German Embassy...
...This same memorandum by Otto Meynen quotes from a letter which Eva Duarte had shown him, and which came from Colonel Peron...
...Ex-Deputy Santander maintains that Peron has used his governmental positions to hide and protect Nazi investments in Argentina...
...Ante Pavelic, Nazi puppet ruler of Croatia...
...They included investments in financial, commercial and industrial enterprises, as well as in construction firms and agricultural corporations...
...It is particularly interesting because of the role Peron later played as a "friend of labor...
...All efforts to get the Argentines to surrender any "war criminals" were futile...
...A bit later in his report, Meynen commented: "From confidential information sent by Princess Kaourdacheff, we know that the Government of the United States will immediately recognize the new government...
...Mussolini's one-time Minister of Agriculture, A. Muti...
...To govern them, it is sufficient to give them food, work and laws for domestication, to keep them satisfied...
...463801 of June 24, 1941, for 250,000 pesos, signed, paid by me, as were all of the others, to Miguel Viancarlos" (at the time chief of detectives of the Argentine police...
...Eva borrowed one of Peron's Army greatcoats, dressed the escaping Nazi agent in it, and helped him get past waiting police agents at the airport...
...and Adolph Galland and Hans Ulrich Rudel, Luftwaffe aces...
...According to Santander, they unloaded considerable quantities of valuables--exactly what has never been disclosed...
...Von Thermann also testified that, a year earlier, a series of poker games had been held in the German Embassy...
...This pronunciamen to declared: "Germany is making a titanic effort to unite the European continent...
...The United States Government formally made such charges in the Blue Book issued by the State Department during Peron's first Presidential campaign...
...the last two secretaries of the Italian Fascist party, Eduardo Moroni and Carlo Scorza...
...Admiral Tessaire, now Vice President of Argentina and President of the Partido peronista, and Peron...
...In recent months, the Soviets have been trying to gain Peron's favor...
...Civilian poker fans present included Carlos Ibarguren, extreme nationalist and chief attorney for the Banco de la Nacion Argentina, and Miguel Viancarlos...
...The British have never had any official harsh words for Peron, since they sorely need the wheat, corn and meat which Argentina produces...
...Eduardo Moroni was given a post in the Banco Central de la Republica Argentina...
...After the war, Peron's Government gave refuge not only to Nazis and Fascists, but to their wealth, and again the Argentine President and his wife were paid for their services...
...One of Santander's damaging bits of evidence is the testimony of former Nazi Ambassador to Argentina Edmund von Thermann...
...The exposures of Silvano Santander should give food for thought not only to the Argentine people, but to many of Argentina's neighbors, including the United States...
...Among the more famous of them were Mussolini's son Vittorio...
...The famous statement issued by the secret Grupo de Oficiales Unidos in May 1943, a few weeks before its principal leaders seized control of Argentina, openly proclaimed its sympathy for the Nazis...
...Early in his report, Meynen said: "The success of the revolution of our friends has been complete Also, we have triumphed completely insofar as foreign policy is concerned...
...What is more, the peronista Government frequently gave these fascists important posts...
...Santander says that, years before the beginning of the war, the Nazis were organizing construction companies, banking institutions and other corporations as fronts for imported German capital...
...By the time Peron's Nazi friends were defeated, he was Vice President of Argentina, and, less than a year later, he was elected President...
...Check No...
...This means a triumph of the inspired leadership of our friend Peron over stupid Roosevelt...
...Even the German Ambassador did not know about von Faupel's visit until some months after it occurred...
...In his little book, entitled Tecnica de una Traicion ("Technique of a Betrayal"), Santander makes two points: Peron and Evita worked with the principal Nazi espionage agents in Argentina during the war and accepted pay for their services...
...682117 of June 30, 1941, for 200,000 pesos to Colonel Juan Domingo Peron...
...There was never much doubt about the wartime affection of many Argentine militarists for the Axis powers...
Vol. 37 • April 1954 • No. 15
