Overview

• The Argentine government has made 1,850 documents on Nazi activities and 1,300 presidential decrees from 1957 to 2005 freely accessible online for the first time.
• This initiative follows President Javier Milei’s February 2025 meeting with the Simon Wiesenthal Center, which requested the digitization of Nazi-related archives.
• Previously declassified in 1992 under Carlos Menem, these files were only accessible in a restricted reading room until now.
• The archives include detailed records of Josef Mengele’s life in Argentina, his false identity, and his subsequent escape to Paraguay and Brazil.
• Documents also cover the extradition of Erich Priebke for his role in the 1944 Rome massacre and other sensitive topics like arms purchases and anti-communism plans.