Jews doubt probe on Argentina’s past
by BUENOS AIRES (JTA) -- Local Jewish leaders are skeptical about an Argentine government decision to create an independent commiss, The announcement to form the panel was made last week by Interior Minister Carlos Corach, who said that Argentine President Carl
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In a recently declassified memo dated April 1945, the U.S. Embassy in Buenos Aires estimated at the time Nazi assets in the country were worth more than $1 billion.
Last year, Argentina's central bank turned over five volumes of financial records to the local office of the Simon Wiesenthal Center.
But, according to Jewish researchers, that was the last time the government cooperated in their efforts to probe Argentina's wartime past.
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