Huge Collection of Nazi Artifacts Discovered Inside Secret Room in Argentina

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Huge Collection of Nazi Artifacts Discovered Inside Secret Room in Argentina

Federal police in Argentina recently discovered a time capsule of evil, hidden inside a house near Buenos Aires. Roughly 75 Nazi artifacts, including everything from a large knife to Nazi medical devices to a photo negative of Adolph Hitler, were uncovered in a secret room. Police are investigating when and how the items entered the South American country.

As Haaretz reports, agents from Interpol raided the home of the unnamed owner of the Nazi artifacts on June 8th. Some artworks of “illicit origin” were discovered on the north side of Buenos Aires, leading police to the man’s home. When investigators arrived they found a large bookcase that was hiding a secret room. The man remains free, but it’s unclear if he will face any charges.
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Interesting how much Nazi people & stuff wound up in Argentina after WWII.

Interesting ... (yawn) ...

JacksinPA said:

https://paleofuture.gizmodo.com/huge-collection-of-nazi-artifacts-discovered-inside-sec-1796250871

Huge Collection of Nazi Artifacts Discovered Inside Secret Room in Argentina

Federal police in Argentina recently discovered a time capsule of evil, hidden inside a house near Buenos Aires. Roughly 75 Nazi artifacts, including everything from a large knife to Nazi medical devices to a photo negative of Adolph Hitler, were uncovered in a secret room. Police are investigating when and how the items entered the South American country.

As Haaretz reports, agents from Interpol raided the home of the unnamed owner of the Nazi artifacts on June 8th. Some artworks of “illicit origin” were discovered on the north side of Buenos Aires, leading police to the man’s home. When investigators arrived they found a large bookcase that was hiding a secret room. The man remains free, but it’s unclear if he will face any charges.
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Interesting how much Nazi people & stuff wound up in Argentina after WWII.

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Yes it is interesting. This was most likely just one of the many results of one of the most well-organized refugee relocation operations in history: rof the ODESSA Network. In which members of the Nazi state security apparatus, the Schutzstaffel or "SS" were secreted away to escape prosecution by the Allies (and persecution by the Soviet Union to South America) to live out their lives, often helping many of the new authoritarian regimes of those nations like Argentina and Brazil root out their own local troublemakers, including Socialist and Communist sympathizers, dissident journalists, people who questioned whether it was a good idea letting Nazis into their country, people who wanted to "vote" and believed that they were entitled to "civil rights", etc. (you know the usual riffraff :roll.

This just goes to show you, kids: Just because someone is a refugee does automatically not mean they are a good person and worthy of sympathy or immediate entry into your nation with open arms. They just might be fleeing their country because they are a devout Nazi or an adherent of some other horrible ideology.

Sorry about that. I meant to say does NOT automatically mean. :doh

Felis Leo said:

This just goes to show you, kids: Just because someone is a refugee does automatically not mean they are a good person and worthy of sympathy or immediate entry into your nation with open arms. They just might be fleeing their country because they are a devout Nazi or an adherent of some other horrible ideology.

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I keep hearing this "open arms" theme repeated day after day, as if there's a total lack of Department of Homeland Security vetting.
Would you care to point to any evidence, direct, anecdotal or otherwise, that DHS or any other associated agency has been slacking off in that regard?

If you are simply of the opinion that vetting accomplishes nothing, are you saying that you favor a full stop to immigration, or something like it?

Checkerboard Strangler said:

I keep hearing this "open arms" theme repeated day after day, as if there's a total lack of Department of Homeland Security vetting.

Would you care to point to any evidence, direct, anecdotal or otherwise, that DHS or any other associated agency has been slacking off in that regard?

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Actually, I am not talking about DHS specifically, but a broader attitude that has permeated Western society both in Europe and the United States, in that being a refugee automatically grants a person moral legitimacy and makes someone a person who must be offered the hand of assistance without much further inquiry.

Checkerboard Strangler said:

If you are simply of the opinion that vetting accomplishes nothing, are you saying that you favor a full stop to immigration, or something like it?

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Speaking as the son of an Iranian immigrant to this nation, I am not for a full stop to immigration.

Actually, I am all for letting as many decent people as possible into our country after having them undergo proper vetting. I believe that we should delve into the background of all refugees and explore the reasons as to why they are being oppressed. For example, I think we should offer more refuge to victims of religious oppression. I think the United States should offer asylum and a path to citizenship to more people from the Middle East, such as Arab Christians (Members of the Maronite and Coptic churches), Iranian Bahai's, and Iraqi Yazidis, among others, who are the victims of horrific oppression in their home countries. I do not think we should flat-out bar inhabitants of any one country coming into our country on the basis of their national origin. As for those who are targeted because of ethnic/racial discrimination, for example, I think we should offer refuge to Kurdish people from Turkey, Iraq and Syria, who are targeted by the Turkish and Syrian security forces, as well as the Rohingya minority from Myanmar.

But in all cases, no matter what the cause of oppression, or who is being oppressed, any refugee or immigrant to this country must understand and be willing to accept the pluralistic values of religious and ethnic tolerance, freedom of worship and freedom of conscience of our liberal democracy before being given refuge. Merely being the victim of oppression and imminent death is not enough to earn one a place on our shores, in my opinion.

Felis Leo said:

Actually, I am not talking about DHS specifically, but a broader attitude that has permeated Western society both in Europe and the United States, in that being a refugee automatically grants a person moral legitimacy and makes someone a person who must be offered the hand of assistance without much further inquiry.

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Sorry, but I am not sure I have ever heard anybody endorse that kind of idea.

Felis Leo said:

Speaking as the son of an Iranian immigrant to this nation, I am not for a full stop to immigration.

Actually, I am all for letting as many decent people as possible into our country after having them undergo proper vetting. I believe that we should delve into the background of all refugees and explore the reasons as to why they are being oppressed. For example, I think we should offer more refuge to victims of religious oppression. I think the United States should offer asylum and a path to citizenship to more people from the Middle East, such as Arab Christians (Members of the Maronite and Coptic churches), Iranian Bahai's, and Iraqi Yazidis, among others, who are the victims of horrific oppression in their home countries. I do not think we should flat-out bar inhabitants of any one country coming into our country on the basis of their national origin. As for those who are targeted because of ethnic/racial discrimination, for example, I think we should offer refuge to Kurdish people from Turkey, Iraq and Syria, who are targeted by the Turkish and Syrian security forces, as well as the Rohingya minority from Myanmar.

But in all cases, no matter what the cause of oppression, or who is being oppressed, any refugee or immigrant to this country must understand and be willing to accept the pluralistic values of religious and ethnic tolerance, freedom of worship and freedom of conscience of our liberal democracy before being given refuge.

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Well then you'd love the corner store I go to every single morning.
Owned by an Egyptian family, they are indeed Coptics, all except for two employees, one of whom is actually an Egyptian Muslim believe it or not, and the other, a Mexican lady.

They are pretty much a magnet for any Egyptian moving into the local area, because about a third of the roster is fairly high turnover.
They get here, get a foot in the door, get a part time or full time job working the store, then move on when a better opportunity pops up.
The place is almost big enough and busy enough to be a truck stop, they just don't have a large enough physical footprint or else they would be.

Felis Leo said:

Merely being the victim of oppression and imminent death is not enough to earn one a place on our shores, in my opinion.

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I am struggling to make sense of the notion of putting the word "merely" together with the rest of the sentence.
One does not "merely" become subject to imminent death and oppression.

Felis Leo said:

Speaking as the son of an Iranian immigrant to this nation, I am not for a full stop to immigration.

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من فارسی صحبت نمی کنم

Farsi ne me du nam.

The only thing I can say in Farsi is to say I speak no Farsi...in Farsi.
I just had to share. :lol:

Checkerboard Strangler said:

من فارسی صحبت نمی کنم

Farsi ne me du nam.

The only thing I can say in Farsi is to say I speak no Farsi...in Farsi.
I just had to share. :lol:

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Haha, your Farsi is just fine. I grew up learning English because my mother married an American and my childhood was monolingual. I only know a few words of Farsi myself.

Big deal, only people who live under rocks wouldnt know that the Nazis ended up in Argentina after the war.

Felis Leo said:

Haha, your Farsi is just fine. I grew up learning English because my mother married an American and my childhood was monolingual. I only know a few words of Farsi myself.

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I know a couple more, but this is supposed to be a family friendly site and I didn't want to appear vulgar hahaha.