After the fall of the Third Reich and the defeat of Nazi Germany before the allies, a significant number of the Nazi hierarchs fled before confronting the international courts of justice. One of the preferred destinations of these criminals was Latin America. Today we are going to talk to you about 5 Nazi criminals who escaped there after the war.
- Aribert Heim
Sadly known as "Doctor Death," Aribert Heim was an Austrian doctor who experimented with terrible ways to assassinate Jews in concentration camps. In his stories are mentioned terrible instances in which Heim injected gasoline or poisons
into the blood of his victims to later observe how much it took them to die.
At the end of the war he was imprisoned, then released and before facing more accusations, he fled the world. It is believed that his final destination was San Carlos de Bariloche, in Argentina and, it is not known if he still lives or has already died.
- Adolf Eichmann
SS Lieutenant, Adolf Eichmann, was one of those in charge of carrying out called «Final Solution», that is, the extermination or sending to concentration camps of Jews, specifically in Poland.
After the war, Eichmann went underground in Europe and in 1950 traveled to Argentina, where he lived under the name of Otto Eckmann. Unlike other Nazi criminals, Eichmann was identified and the Israeli Mossad kidnapped him and took him to Israel where he was tried and then executed.
- Josef Mengele
This sadistic doctor, who made brutal experiments with the prisoners in the concentration camps, especially in twins (he was obsessed with them and the idea of creating a "perfect race"), also fled to Latin America. Josef Mengele escaped to Argentina first and unpunished, lived without changing his name or surname. In 1960 he moved to Paraguay.
There is enough data to suppose that he frequently visited the town of Candido Godói, in Brazil, where he would have practiced as a doctor. The most surprising fact is that even today, this Brazilian people have a very high rate of births of twins: in 1 out of 10 births twins are born.
This figure is much higher than the world average, so it is believed that Mengele continued his experiments there.
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- Walter Rauff
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It is the inventor of the "Trucks of Death", the systems used as gas chambers, was accused as responsible for the execution of more than half a million people.
Although Walter Rauff was captured, he escaped from prison and moved to Chile. Despite being identified, he was never extradited and is believed to have cooperated with the dictatorial government of Augusto Pinochet.
- Ludolf von Alvensleben
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This war criminal, responsible for mass executions, was captured in Germany in 1945, but escaped with his family and went to Argentina. Ludolf von Alvensleben lived in different cities of the country quietly until the time of his death, due to natural causes.
Why did so many Nazi criminals end up in Latin America? The governments of that time, gave them asylum clandestinely in complicity with European institutions, including the Vatican, all in exchange for money.
It is believed that up to 300,000 Nazis could have fled to South America, with Argentina being the main destination, followed by Brazil, Chile, Paraguay and Uruguay. The 5 Nazi criminals that we present in this article are just a sample of the impunity they enjoyed without receiving punishment, after committing the most horrendous crimes.