Assets of thousands of Nazis in Credit Suisse accounts? A new trail from Argentina

Documents found in Argentina contain the names of about 12,000 Nazis who lived there in the 1930s. Some of them had bank accounts in Switzerland. According to researchers from the Simon Wiesenthal Center, the accounts may be active.


The International Jewish Agency, based in Los Angeles, is dedicated to preserving the memory of the victims of the Holocaust, as well as tracking down Nazis who escaped justice after the war. Recently, the Simon Wiesenthal Center asked the Swiss bank Credit Suisse to disclose inactive bank accounts that previously belonged to the Nazis.

"We believe that these long-inactive accounts contain money from Jewish victims," the organization said.

British BBC television reminds that after the adoption of anti-Semitic laws in 1935, a massive seizure of Jewish property began in Germany, which intensified in the 1940s during the Holocaust. According to the researchers, a significant part of the property stolen from Jews went to the accounts of officials of the Third Reich in Swiss banks.

In 1930-1938, Argentina was ruled by a pro-fascist military regime led by President Jose Felix Uriburu, who was called "von Pepe", and his successor Agustin Pedro Justo. At that time, lists of Nazi officials who owned property and were temporarily residing in Argentina were compiled. In 1938, the document was handed over to a special commission formed during the reign of anti-Nazi President Roberto Ortiz. In 1943, another military coup took place in Buenos Aires, the pro-Nazi regime came to power again, and the results of the committee against Nazism were burned. The original copy with 12,000 surnames was recently found by Argentine investigator Pedro Filipuzzi.

The Simon Wiesenthal Center says in a statement on its website that the document contains a lot of Nazi data. Who "deposited money into one or more bank accounts at Schweizerische Creditanstalt, which was converted into a Credit Suisse bank." Accordingly, the organization asked Christian Kung, vice president of Credit Suisse, to disclose this data and account information and gain access to the archives.


In a statement sent to AFP, Credit Suisse recalls that in 1997-1991 it cooperated during the Volcker investigation, the purpose of which was to trace Swiss accounts belonging to former Nazis and containing assets stolen from Holocaust victims. The bank assured that it would review the case again.

Argentina was a refuge for the Nazis not only during the Third Reich. After the fall of Nazi Germany, many criminals found peaceful refuge in South America, including Adolf Eichmann, one of the main ideologues of the Holocaust. 1xbet 프로모션