(ORDO NEWS) — In a secret room inside a house located in Argentina, the police found the largest collection of Nazi artifacts in the history of the country.
Among the finds are a relief depicting Adolf Hitler, a magnifying glass in an elegant box with a swastika, and even an eerie medical device used to measure the volume of the skull.
In the house of a collector in Beccara, a northern suburb of Buenos Aeros, about 75 objects were found.
Authorities believe they are all originals that belonged to high-ranking Nazis in Germany during World War II.
Argentine Security Minister Patricia Bullich told The Associated Press that initial research confirmed the authenticity of the products. Some fragments of the finds, according to Patricia, were accompanied by unusual photographs.
“This is a way to commercialize artifacts by showing that they were used by a terrible person, personally by the Fuhrer. In the photographs, he is depicted with these things.
Among the objects found are toys that, according to Bullich, were used for propaganda among children.
In addition, jewelry and household items were found: a large statue of a Nazi eagle, an hourglass and a box of harmonicas.
Police say one of the most compelling pieces of evidence of historical importance comes from the negative of a photograph of Hitler holding the same magnifying glass found among other items.
“We turned to historians, and they confirmed that this is indeed the original glass used by Hitler.
We have now reached out to international experts to deepen the investigation,” says Nestor Roncaglia, head of the Argentine Federal Police.
The authorities refuse to release the photo, but agreed to show it to Associated Press correspondents on the condition.
Now the police are concerned with the question: how exactly did the artifacts get to Argentina?
The main hypothesis of researchers and members of the Jewish community in Argentina is that they were brought into the country by the Nazis themselves during or after the end of the war at a time when the South American country became a haven for fugitive war criminals.
When important members of the Third Reich were put on trial for war crimes, Josef Mengele fled to Argentina and lived in Buenos Aires for 10 years.
He fled to Paraguay after Israeli Mossad agents captured Holocaust mastermind Adolf Eichmann, who also lived in Buenos Aires.
By the way, Mengele died in Brazil in 1979, while swimming on the beach in the city of Bertioga.
Police in Argentina have not yet named the specific names of high-ranking Nazis who may have owned the artifacts.
According to Ariel Cohen Sabban, president of DAIA (the political umbrella for Jewish communities and institutions in Argentina), the 75 original artifacts are an unprecedented find and could provide irrefutable evidence of the presence of top Nazi leadership in Argentina, which until then has been the subject of historical disputes and speculation.
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