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Argentina declassifies more than 1,800 files on Nazi escape via ‘rat-lines’ to South America

JL;DR SUMMARY Argentina has made public nearly 1,850 documents detailing how Nazi fugitives used rat-lines to escape to South America after World War II. A way out west there was a fella, fella I want to tell you about, fella by the name of Jeff Lebowski. At least, that was the handle his lovin' parents gave him, but he never had much use for it himself. This Lebowski, he called himself the Dude. Now, Dude, that's a name no one would self-apply where I come from. But then, there was a lot about the Dude that didn't make a whole lot of sense to me. And a lot about where he lived, likewise. But then again, maybe that's why I found the place s'durned innarestin'.

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Simon Wiesenthal CenterHolocaustWorld War IiArgentinaAdolf EichmannJosef MengeleDeclassificationNazi EscapeRat LinesNational Archive

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Argentina
"The Argentine government announced the release of nearly 1,850 classified documents that show how Nazi fugitives escaped to the country after World War II."
Israel
"Adolf Eichmann, the architect of the Holocaust who was captured by the Mossad in 1960 and later tried and executed in Israel,"
Iowa, United States
"Sen. Chuck Grassley, an Iowa Republican, also requested the records in a letter delivered by representatives of the Simon Wiesenthal Center."
Jerusalem, Israel
"A replica of the gloves that were used by an Israeli Mossad agent during the capturing of Adolf Eichmann in Argentina in 1960 is displayed at an exhibition at the Knesset in Jerusalem."

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