Eichmann's (Fake) Passport
Bloomberg News's Eliana Raszewski has an interesting story today on the fake passport used by Nazi war criminal Adolf Eichmann when he entered Argentina under a false name in 1950. The document was included in a 1960 petition by Eichmann's wife, Veronica, for a court to investigate his disappearance... When she filed the petition, Veronica Eichmann didn't know her husband had been abducted by agents of Israel's Mossad secret service.The story tells the curious history of the Nazi use of Argentina as a refuge, including Hitler's desire to "retire" in Patagonia and "Angel of Death" Josef Mengele's eluding of justice until his death, in Brazil, in 1979.
A copy of the false Eichmann passport will be on view at Buenos Aires's Holocaust Museum, Montevideo 919, starting tomorrow.
posted by Ian @ 2:20 PM
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I recently watched the Vice Guide to Travel. They went to Nuevo Germania in Paraguay, which is where Mengele apparently spent his dying days screaming in his sleep, and pottering around the village during the day.
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