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Here are just a few of many main stream media coverage about this find.
Hidden Bookshelf Passageway Reveals Disturbing Nazi Collection in Argentina
History - 19 hours ago
After World War II, many high-ranking Nazis escaped to Argentina. There, they concealed their identities and tended to live out of the public eye. Now a massive cache of original Nazi artifacts—including a photograph of Adolf Hitler and a ghoulish ...
Trove of Nazi Memorabilia Discovered in Secret Room in Argentina
Forbes - 19 hours ago
The Argentine
police struck a laudable blow for the ongoing illumination of that
country's extremely checkered post-World-War-II history earlier this
month, when, clearly tipped off, they raided a house in the well-heeled
Buenos Aires suburb of Beccar ...
A huge collection of Nazi artifacts was discovered hidden behind a bookcase in Argentina
Business Insider - Jun 20, 2017
A massive collection of Nazi artifacts was discovered in a secret room in Argentina
Business Insider - Jun 20, 2017
About 75 Nazi artifacts were discovered in a hidden room in Buenos Aires, Argentina, the biggest collection
ever found in the country. Some of the artifacts include medical
devices, weapons, and even a portrait of Adolf Hitler. Some people in
the ...
Huge Collection of Nazi Artifacts Discovered Inside Secret Room in Argentina
Gizmodo - Jun 20, 2017
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 ...
Hidden Nazi Memorabilia Stash Found in Argentina (Photos)
Daily Beast - Jun 20, 2017
Hidden Nazi Memorabilia Stash Found in Argentina (Photos). Behind a secret wall, police found what they believe to be the biggest collection of Nazi artifacts in the country's history. The Daily Beast ...
Hitler bust and swastikas found among Argentina's biggest hidden stash of Nazi memorabilia
Telegraph.co.uk - Jun 19, 2017
Argentinian police are investigating whether an unprecedented find of Nazi
artefacts including personal effects used by Adolf Hitler were brought
into the country by infamous Holocaust physician Josef Mengele. In a
room at the end of a secret passage ...
Nazi World War II Artifacts Found in Argentina Include Hitler Busts and Medical Tools
Newsweek - Jun 20, 2017
A police operation in Argentina has seized a collection of original Nazi artifacts believed to be the country's biggest haul of its kind to date. Argentinian police and Interpol raided the house of an art collector in the north of Argentina's capital ...
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Nazi collection found in Argentina could offer 'irrefutable proof' of top leaders' escape
Found via supersoldiertalk.com
In a hidden room in a house near Argentina's capital,
police believe they have found the biggest collection of Nazi artefacts
in the country's history, including a bust relief of Adolf Hitler,
magnifying glasses inside elegant boxes with swastikas and even a
macabre medical device used to measure head size.
"Our first investigations indicate that these are original pieces," Argentine Security Minister Patricia Bullrich said, adding that some pieces were accompanied by old photographs.
"This is a way to commercialise them, showing that they were used by the horror, by the Fuhrer. There are photos of him with the objects."Among the items were toys that Ms Bullrich said would have been used to indoctrinate children, a large statue of the Nazi eagle above a swastika, a Nazi hourglass and a box of harmonicas.
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Toys used to indoctrinate children, such as harmonicas, were among the items found. (AP: Natacha Pisarenko)
Police said one of the most compelling pieces of evidence of the historical importance of the find is a photo negative of Hitler holding a magnifying glass similar to those found in the boxes.
"We have turned to historians and they've told us it is the original magnifying glass that Hitler was using," said Nestor Roncaglia, head of Argentina's federal police.
"We are reaching out to international experts to deepen the investigation."
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During a raid, agents found a hidden passageway to a room filled with Nazi imagery. (AP: Natacha Pisarenko)
The investigation that culminated in the discovery of the collection began when authorities found artworks of illicit origin in a gallery in north Buenos Aires.
Agents with the international police force Interpol began following the collector, and with a judicial order raided the house on June 8.
A large bookshelf caught their attention and behind it agents found a hidden passageway to a room filled with Nazi imagery.
Authorities did not identify the collector, who remains free but under investigation by a federal judge.
"There are no precedents for a find like this. Pieces are stolen or are imitations. But this is original and we have to get to the bottom of it," said Mr Roncaglia.Police are trying to determine how the artefacts entered Argentina.
The main hypothesis among investigators and member of Argentina's Jewish community is that they were brought to Argentina by a high-ranking Nazi or Nazis after WWII, when the South American country became a refuge for fleeing war criminals, including some of the best known.
As leading members of Hitler's Third Reich were put on trial for war crimes, notorious Nazi doctor Josef Mengele fled to Argentina and lived in Buenos Aires for a decade.
He moved to Paraguay after Israeli Mossad agents captured Holocaust mastermind Adolf Eichmann, who was also living in Buenos Aires. Mengele later died in Brazil in 1979 while swimming in a beach in the town of Bertioga.
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A Nazi medical device used to measure head size was found in the collection. (AP: Natacha Pisarenko)
While police in Argentina did not name any high-ranking Nazis to whom the objects might have originally belonged, Ms Bullrich noted there were medical devices.
"There are objects to measure heads — that was the logic of the Aryan race," she said.
Ariel Cohen Sabban, president of the DAIA, a political umbrella for Argentina's Jewish institutes, called the find "unheard of" in Argentina.
"Finding 75 original pieces is historic and could offer irrefutable proof of the presence of top leaders who escaped from Nazi Germany," Ms Cohen said.
AP
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-06-20/nazi-artefacts-swastikas-hitler-bust-found-in-argentina-raid/8635940