Milei's government will declassify files related to the Nazis in Argentina

The Government of Javier Milei announced it will proceed to declassify secret documents related to the presence of Nazis in Argentina after World War II. 

The measure aligns with what was communicated hours earlier by the presidential spokesperson, Manuel Adorni, who reported in a video that the SIDE will deliver to the National General Archive all the existing documentation on the actions of the Armed Forces during the last military dictatorship.

The Chief of Staff, Guillermo Francos, explained in an interview with DNews that the decision to release documents about the Nazis arose after President Milei received representatives of the Simon Wiesenthal Center at Casa Rosada.

During the meeting, they delivered a letter from U.S. Senator Chuck Grassley, from the Senate Judiciary Committee, requesting Argentina's cooperation in his investigation.

It is publicly known that, in the late 1940s, under the leadership of Juan Domingo Perón, the Argentine government quietly allowed the entry of several Nazi war criminals fleeing Europe after the collapse of the German regime.

The Chief of Staff specified that Milei has already ordered "that all information existing in any State agency will be released".

He highlighted that the most relevant archives are in the Ministry of Defense, headed by Luis Petri, in addition to financial documentation related to the issue. "There is no reason to withhold information", he stated.

In this context, Francos emphasized the importance of knowing the history in its entirety, a goal that Milei's Government seeks to achieve with the declassification of these documents.

"There was a decree that ordered the release of all these archives and it had never been done. The president states that these are archives of a part of Argentine history and they must be public", Francos said regarding the documents on the actions of the Armed Forces during the last military dictatorship.

As Adorni anticipated, this decision aligns with "the fulfillment of decree 4 of the year 2010, which although it was issued 15 years ago, was never fully implemented".

"For decades, the archives in the hands of the SIDE remained in the shadows and only the governments of the day had access to this secret information. Despite empty slogans about their commitment to truth, memory, and justice, these documents were used as a war trophy, who knows for what reason", criticized the presidential spokesperson.