Over 200 publications and book covers with Nazi content were confiscated yesterday Wednesday at illegal printing house in a suburb of Buenos Aires and its owner was arrested, police said.
“We were stunned by the amount of material. It’s historic. This is a real printing house for the purpose of dispersing and selling Nazi symbols, books and propaganda”Police Chief Juan Carlos Hernandez said during a press conference.
Police carried out the operation and seizure at a residence in San Isidro, 25km north of the capital, following a two-year investigation.
The investigation began following a complaint filed in 2021 by the Delegation of Israeli Associations Argentinian (Delegación de Asociaciones Israelitas Argentinas, DAIA) and arrived at the Terrorism Investigation Unit of the Argentine Federal Police (PFA).
The seized material was sold through online stores and had a “high” level of “consumption” and dissemination, according to Mr. Hernandez.
“We cannot rule out that this is simply the tip of the iceberg. For now, we have cut the distribution lines, but the law also punishes those who consume” such material, he added.
Displaying Nazi symbols is illegal in Argentina.
The Latin American country was a haven for Nazi criminals after World War II, but it also welcomed many Jews who fled pogroms and concentration and extermination camps.
In 2019, a total of 83 Nazi artifacts, seized by Buenos Aires police two years earlier, were handed over to Argentina’s Holocaust museum.
Source: News Beast
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