Boxes of Nazi equipment are found after decades in the basement of the court of Argentina

Workers eliminating the subsoil from the Supreme Court of Argentina recently made a surprising discovery. They found boxes filled with laptops with the swastika, propaganda equipment and other documents from the Nazi era.

The boxes had been stored there for more than eight decades, said the court, and was discovered by accident because the workers crossed archives for the creation of a Museum of the Supreme Court.

By opening the boxes, they found “material intended to consolidate and propagate the ideology of Adolf Hitler in Argentina, at the height of the Second World War”, according to a press release from the Spanish court.

Last week, managers, researchers and members of the Argentine Jewish community organized a ceremony to open more boxes. The president of the court, Horacio Rosatti, ordered a complete investigation into the equipment given its historical importance and “of the potentially crucial information that he could contain to clarify the events related to the holocaust,” the court said on his statement on Monday.

Jonathan Karszenbaum, executive director of the Holocaust Museum in Buenos Aires, participated in the official opening on Friday. “I was shocked because of the volume of this,” he said, adding that he had not seen the contents of all the boxes.

The court determined certain details on the origin of the boxes. He said the material had arrived in Argentina from the German Embassy in Tokyo on June 20, 1941 on the Japanese ship Nan-A-Maru, when Argentina was officially neutral during the Second World War, and Japan was ally with Hitler Germany.