The Real Odessa: Smuggling the Nazis to Peron's Argentina

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Author: Uki Goni

ISBN-10: 1862075522

ISBN-13: 9781862075528

Category: Historical Biography - Latin America

Drawing on American and European intelligence documents, Uki Goni shows how from 1946 onward a Nazi escape operation was based at the presidential palace in Buenos Aires, harboring such war criminals as Adolf Eichmann and Josef Mengele. Goni uncovers an elaborate network that relied on the complicity of the Vatican, the Argentine Catholic Church, and the Swiss authorities. The discoveries made in this meticulously researched book reveal the entangled web of the Nazi regime and its...

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Drawing on American and European intelligence documents, Uki Goni shows how from 1946 onward a Nazi escape operation was based at the presidential palace in Buenos Aires, harboring such war criminals as Adolf Eichmann and Josef Mengele. Goni uncovers an elaborate network that relied on the complicity of the Vatican, the Argentine Catholic Church, and the Swiss authorities. The discoveries made in this meticulously researched book reveal the entangled web of the Nazi regime and its sympathizers and has prompted Argentine officials to demand closed files on the Nazi era from their current government.

AcknowledgementsviiAbbreviationsixKey PlayersxiForewordxix1War Games12Peron Leaps to Power163Undesirable Immigration254The Abandonment of Argentina's Jews455Extortion of the Jews516The Nazi Escape Begins637Cardinal Recommendations938Peron's Odessa1009Digging for Clues11610Criminal Ways12211The Nordic Route12812The Swiss Connection13613The Belgian Way16314The Slovak Committee19315Flight of the Ustashi20016A Roman 'Sanctuary'22917Erich Priebke25218Gerhard Bohne26619Josef Schwammberger27320Josef Mengele27921Adolf Eichmann292Conclusion320Afterword327Notes349Documentary Sources390Bibliography392Index401