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Lake Fuschl [1] [2] [3] (German: Fuschlsee) is a lake in the Salzkammergut, Austria, located in the state of Salzburg. Its area is approximately 2.7 km 2 (1.0 sq mi) and its maximum depth is 66 metres.
In mid-1941, during the German occupation of Latvia, Cukurs became deputy commander of the newly formed Latvian Auxiliary Police unit, the Arajs Kommando. [10]In his book The Holocaust in Latvia, 1941-1945, the Latvian historian Andrew Ezergailis writes that Cukurs played a leading role in the atrocities that were committed in the Riga ghetto in conjunction with the Rumbula massacre on 30 ...
The origins of the first ratlines are connected to various developments in Vatican-Argentine relations before and during World War II. [7] As early as 1942, the Vatican Secretary of State Cardinal Luigi Maglione – evidently at the behest of Pope Pius XII – contacted an ambassador of Argentina regarding that country's willingness to accept European Catholic immigrants in a timely manner ...
Films about Nazi fugitives in South America (2 C, 4 P) Novels about Nazi fugitives in South America (3 P) A. Nazis in Argentina (2 C) C. Chilean Nazis (2 C, 5 P)
The German government states that to this date, there is "no evidence to support or invalidate Wiesenthal's claim or the more general allegation that the Colonia Dignidad or its legal successors was a place of refuge for Nazi criminals. [39] The Nazi underground in South America was established some time before World War II.
Further, the Bergier commission found that the SNB's governing board knew at an early point that the gold was being looted from other countries. [9] The U.S. study further found that Germany transferred over $300m (2.6b 1998)—about $240m of which was looted—to neutral countries Portugal , Spain , Sweden , and Turkey (all of which aided ...
German submarine U-977 was a World War II Type VIIC U-boat of Nazi Germany's Kriegsmarine which escaped to Argentina after Germany's surrender. The submarine's voyage to Argentina led to legends, apocryphal stories and conspiracy theories that it and U-530 had transported escaping Nazi leaders (such as Adolf Hitler) and/or Nazi gold to South America, that it had made a secret voyage to ...
Carlos Horst Fuldner (December 16, 1910 – 1992) was an Argentine born Nazi and businessman. [1] He served as a captain in the SS during World War II, at one point as a translator for the Blue Division, and after the war worked with Rodolfo Freude and Karl Nicolussi-Leck to set up ratlines to assist fleeing Nazis get to South America and find employment.