(Daily Mail-UK) Allan Hall - German prosecutors were recently granted access to secret files in Brazil and Chile that confirmed that some 9,000 war criminals escaped to South America, including Croatians, Ukrainians, Russians and Western Europeans who aided the Nazi murder machine. Perhaps as many as 5,000 went to Argentina; between 1,500 and 2,000 are thought to have made it to Brazil; around 500 to 1,000 to Chile; and the rest to Paraguay and Uruguay. These numbers do not include several hundred more who fled to right-wing regimes in the Middle East. Argentine President General Juan Peron sold 10,000 blank Argentine passports to ODESSA - the organization set up to protect former SS men in the event of defeat. "800 higher functionaries of the SS and Nazi state entered Argentina alone on such passports," said Uwe Steintz of the central war criminal authority in Germany.
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