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    Chile police declassify World War II-era files on Nazi plots

    Chile police declassify World War II-era files on Nazi plots

    These are files from around 1937-1944. It would be interesting to see the files after WWII.

    The Chilean equivalent of the FBI has declassified World War II-era files that show Nazi agents in the South American country’s main port of Valparaiso plotted to destroy the Panama Canal.

    According to the files released by Chile’s investigations police, the force’s counterintelligence unit thwarted the plan after it detained the people leading it in Valparaiso. No other details were provided.


    The head of Chile’s investigations police said Thursday that the Department 50 unit also dismantled two Nazi espionage networks in Chile at the time.


    The files from 1937-1944 were put in display at ceremony in the Chilean capital. The documents can also be accessed online.
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    Now that's interesting. WW2 The Germans were probably smarter than the Japanese but not nearly as cruel.
    Suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of Congress. But I digress....

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    Quote Originally Posted by AZ Jim View Post
    Now that's interesting. WW2 The Germans were probably smarter than the Japanese but not nearly as cruel.
    Lots of jews might beg to differ on that!
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    Is Chile coming out from the shadow of Pinochet?

    Is Pinochet's shadow over Chile beginning to recede?
    12 Sept.`18 - It's been 45 years since Pinochet took power. While some view the leader positively, others search for the disappeared.
    The Memory and Human Rights Museum in Santiago, Chile's capital, was an initiative of former president and newly-appointed UN human rights chief Michelle Bachelet - who herself was a victim of torture under Augusto Pinochet's rule. It opened in 2010 and became part of an ongoing debate over the legacy of Chile's former leader. Mauricio Rojas, the newly appointed culture minister, was forced to resign after four days in office over comments he had made about the museum in a 2015 book. He had accused the institution of manipulating history and attempting to shock visitors to "prevent them from reasoning".



    Santiago's Memory and Human Rights Museum receives some 160,000 visitors each year, many of whom come from Chile, according to the museum's director



    The museum features instruments of torture and victim's testimonies alongside historical documents and drawings by children whose parents were arrested under Pinochet's rule. "It's a shameless and inaccurate use of a national tragedy that touched so many [Chileans] directly," he said. Rojas - who fled Chile following the US-backed coup d'etat that brought Pinochet to power - later said the comments did not reflect his current view and that he had not intended to diminish or justify the "systematic and grave" human rights violations that took place.



    Portraits of some of the thousands who were murdered, tortured and disappeared



    On September 11, 1973, Pinochet seized power by overthrowing the democratically-elected Marxist President Salvador Allende, and went on to rule for the next 17 years. He stepped down in 1990, following a referendum on extending his term. Under his rule, the Latin American country flourished economically, but the opposition was repressed and thousands of people were executed, disappeared and tortured by state forces. While Pinochet is vilified as a ruthless dictator on the international stage, the view in his homeland has always been more nuanced, with some still viewing his rule as a positive force.



    Supporters of Sebastian Pinera hold a bust of Pinochet aloft following the news of Pinera's election victory in December 2017



    As the country marks the 45th anniversary of the coup on Tuesday, is Pinochet's shadow, which has loomed large for decades, beginning to recede? "There's a general awareness in Chile that during the dictatorship years, fundamental human rights were violated in a systematic and cruel manner," said Francisco Javier Estevez, the director of the Museum. "[Rojas' comments] generated a very large reaction. The political and cultural worlds said, 'No, we're going to defend this museum because it tells the truth and, if we want to contribute to a more just society, we are going to have to get together behind the principles of truth and justice so that [human rights abuses] never happen again'," he told Al Jazeera.


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    Quote Originally Posted by resister View Post
    Lots of jews might beg to differ on that!
    Uh, other people too.

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