Argentina intends to declassify all government documents related to Nazi fugitives who sought refuge in the country after World War II, according to reports.

These documents are expected to include information on Nazi-linked bank accounts and records detailing the “ratlines,” the financial and logistical networks used by Nazis to evade justice and escape to Argentina after the war.

Argentina’s Interior Minister Guillermo Alberto Francos announced the decision on Tuesday, as reported by DNEWS.

Estimates suggest that up to 10,000 Nazis and other fascist war criminals avoided punishment for their atrocities by fleeing to Argentina and other Latin American nations.

High-ranking Nazis, such as Holocaust architect Adolph Eichmann and Josef Mengele, known as the “angel of death,” escaped to Argentina. Rumors have also circulated for years about Adolf Hitler potentially finding refuge there as well.

This decision to declassify the documents follows a request from Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) in a letter to Argentinian President Javier Milei last month. Grassley is investigating Credit Suisse’s historical handling of Nazi-linked accounts and ratlines.

In his letter, Grassley stated that the records would help clarify the planning behind the Nazis’ secret escape routes. Grassley recently led a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing addressing the rise of antisemitism in the U.S.

Milei assured officials from the Simon Wiesenthal Center, an organization dedicated to tracking down Nazis and named after the famous Nazi hunter, of his complete cooperation in providing access to the documents.

In 2017, the CIA declassified a document revealing that the agency investigated the possibility that Adolf Hitler was alive in South America as late as 1955, nearly a decade after the end of World War II.

The three-page document, available on the , details a former SS soldier who claimed to have regularly met with Hitler in Colombia.

The document implies that Hitler may have worked for a shipping company before potentially fleeing to Argentina. The second page contains a photograph of the informant, Phillip Citroen, with a person he identifies as Hitler in the mid-1950s.

It remains unknown whether the upcoming declassifications by Argentina will provide any new information on the Hitler conspiracy.

Historical accounts state that Hitler committed suicide in 1945 by taking a cyanide capsule and shooting himself in Berlin. His body was later discovered by Soviet soldiers and buried in an unmarked location. A German court declared Hitler dead in 1956, more than a decade after the war concluded.

His wife, Eva Braun, also died by suicide, ingesting a cyanide pill.

Eichmann, a key figure in the Final Solution, escaped Europe after and lived in Argentina under an assumed identity until Israeli agents captured him in 1960. He was subsequently tried and executed in Israel.

Mengele was initially arrested by U.S. forces in 1945 but was soon released. He spent years as a fugitive, known for conducting horrific medical experiments. He arrived in Argentina in 1949 and lived there for ten years before fleeing to Paraguay and later Brazil, where he died in 1979.

Following the war, Nazis fled to several countries in the Americas, including the U.S., Canada, and Mexico.

In 2020, a collection of documents surfaced, identifying over 12,000 Nazis who resided in Argentina in the 1930s and held one or more bank accounts at what is now Credit Suisse bank.

The Simon Wiesenthal Center reported that the files were discovered in a storage room at a former Nazi headquarters in Buenos Aires.

’ Lucia Suarez Sang and Chris Ciaccia contributed to this report.

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