It wouldn't be a surprise. Argentina was a refuge for many Nazi criminals like Adolf Eichmann and Joseph Mengele, with the active complicity of the authorities (Peron

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Erich Priebke

Was the second in command of the Gestapo during the German occupation of Rome. It is said that he had a great instinct for exposing the activities of partisans and enemy spies. It was one of those responsible for collecting 335 Italians to be killed in the Ardeatine Caves in reprisal for the killing of a handful of German soldiers attacked as partisan.
He was arrested after the war ended and he escaped from a prison camp in Italy in 1946, arriving in 1948 to Argentina with the false name of Otto Pape on board the steamer San Giorgio. He settled for Buenos Aires in 1954, post arrived Bariloche city. When he moved to Bariloche Priebke began directing the Instituto Cultural Argentino Germano Bariloche, and primary and secondary school, the Instituto Primo Capraro.
He was a prominent member of that community until he is discovered by a group of American journalists. Extradited to Italy in 1998 and sentenced to life imprisonment. Currently under house arrest in Rome.
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