Uki Goňi collection : The Real Odessa research material

Document | Accession Number: 2012.70 | RG Number: RG-72.015M

Date: inclusive: 1945-1995
Language: Spanish
English
German
Extent: 687 digital files : PDF ; 2.9 GB.
27 microfilm reels ; 35 mm.
1 DVD-ROM.
Credit Line: Forms part of the Claims Conference International Holocaust Documentation Archive at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. This archive consists of documentation whose reproduction and/or acquisition was made possible with funding from the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany.

System of Arrangement: Arranged by the source archives: Archivo General de la Nacion (ARG-AGN); Archivo General Del Poder Judicial De La Nacion (ARG-AGPJN); Banco Central de la Republica Argentina (ARG-BCRA); Comisión para el Esclarecimiento de las Actividades del Nazismo en la Republica Argentina (CEANA)[Commission of Enquiry into the Activities of Nazism in Argentina (CEANA)] (ARG-CEANA); Cámara de Diputados de la Nación Argentina [Chamber of Deputies] (ARG-Diputados); Direccion Nacionale de Migraciones (ARG-DNM); ARG-LA NACION (Newspaper); ARG-Ministerio del Interior (Ministry of Interior); Ministerio de Relaciones Exteriores (ARG-MRE); German Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Auswartig Amt); Books- Potocopied; DAYE - Records related to Pierre Daye (Schaerbeek, 1892 - Buenos Aires, 1960), a Belgian Nazi collaborator, who exiled himself to Juan Peron's Argentina after World War II; Switzerland- consists of records from the Swiss Federal Archives; Public Record Office (UK-PRO); National Archives and Records Administration (USA-NARA).
Reference: Uki Goni. The Real Odessa: Smuggling the Nazis to Peron’s Argentina. London-New York: Granta, 2002.

The USHMM has digitized and acquired separately from Mr. Goňi telephone interviews that he conducted with individuals as a part of his research.
Special Collection: Claims Conference International Holocaust Documentation Archive
Topical Term: War criminals--Latin America--History--20th century.
War criminals--Germany--History--20th century.
Nazis--Argentina--History--20th century.
Fugitives from justice--Germany--History--20th century.
Geographic Name: Argentina--Politics and government--1943-1955.
Argentina--Relations--Germany.
Germany--Relations--Argentina.
Argentina--Relations--Catholic Church.
Personal Name: Eichmann, Adolf, 1906-1962.
Mengele, Josef, 1911-1979.
Perón, Juan Domingo, 1895-1974.
Corporate Name: Catholic Church--Relations--Argentina
Catholic Church
Holder of Originals: Uki Goñi
Legal Status: Permanent Collection
Provenance: Uki Goňi, historian and author in Argentina collected archival materials from various archives worldwide for his research book "The Real Odessa: Smuggling the Nazis to Perón's Argentina." The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum International Archival Programs Division acquired this collection from Uki Goňi in 2010. The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives received the collection via the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum’s International Archives Project in May 2012.
Related Materials: Additional Accession Number: 2018.662
Conditions on Access: This material can only be accessed in a Museum reading room or other on-campus viewing station. There are no additional access restrictions to this material.
Conditions on Use: The donor, source institution, or a third party has asserted copyright over some or all of these material(s). The Museum does not own the copyright for the material and does not have authority to authorize use. For permission, please contact the rights holder(s).
Copyright Holder: Uki Goñi
: Record last modified: 2023-08-24 15:01:04
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Also in Uki Goni collection : The Real Odessa research material

Contains the research materials collected by Uki Goňi, author of "The Real Odessa: Smuggling the Nazis to Peron’s Argentina." In course of his research for this book, Mr. Goňi collected relevant documents over a period of 20 years in various archives worldwide, including in Argentina, Germany, Italy, Switzerland, and the United States. Uki Goňi shows how from 1946 onward a Nazi escape operation was based at the presidential palace in Buenos Aires, harboring such war criminals as Adolf Eichmann and Josef Mengele. Goni uncovers an elaborate network that relied on the complicity of the Vatican, the Argentine Catholic Church, and the Swiss authorities.

Date: 1945-1995

Interview concerning Fernando Amarante

Oral History

The son of Fernando Amarante discusses his father’s work in the Police force, where he was in charge of capturing German spies; how Fernando Amarante was shot in the head and killed in 1946 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil and his death was labeled a “suicide”; being very proud of his father’s activities; his father being in the “department of Federal coordination” of the Police; his father finding German gold and returning it to the treasury; his father being a Peronist; an incident with his uncle and Eva Peron; his maternal grandfather, Count Sotocassa, in Italy, funding Vittorio Emanuele in his campaign of independence; his father’s mission to Brazil with a suitcase full of secret documents, intending to discuss a wheat purchase, and Rolando Hagomosino going along with the mission; the different branches within the Peronist party; his father being a radical, although in uniform he could not express it openly; the connection between Basiani, Chief of Police, and his father; Vincente Palomin investigating the whereabouts of the brother of a Nazi spy in Montevideo in 1945; his father’s remains arriving in Buenos Aires on October 5, 1946 and Rodriguez’s eulogy; the “Blue and White” book galleys, which was written with Abel Rodriguez, and is a compilation of newspaper articles of that time; his father’s treatment of detainees; his father not holding a specific opinion on either side of the war; his view of the Monroe Doctrine and the plundering of South America by North American governments; a possible affair between Evita and Amarante Sr. when he was put in charge of her entourage; details about Ludwig Freude, whose son, Rodolfo Freude, became head of information services for Peron; the money that was printed in Germany with the idea to flood the market and destabilize the economy; the conflict between Amarante Sr. and Osimole (Peron’s associate); the American government asking for the extradition of Ludwig Freude; Amarante Sr. being against blocking the extradition; medals being given to Amarante Sr. by both Syrian-Lebanese and Jewish communities for his intervention on their behalf; and Contal managing to exchange the sterling in the Central Bank despite the fact that it was proven fake.

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