Somewhat NP Argentinians bound for Germany

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In einer eMail vom 04.08.00 07:32:34 (MEZ) - Mitteleurop. Sommerzeit schreibt 
JBFRAME at aol.com:

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 Actually, by the spring of 1945, Argentina was at war with what remained of 
 the Third Reich, & U-boats would not have been too welcome in Buenos Aires.  
 The myth of Eva Peron's direct involvement with the Germans in WWII were 
 perpetrated by anti-peronistas in the late fifties.  There were even some 
 impressive looking documents forged to give some validity to the story.  
 That being said, there may be some truth to her involvement after the war -- 
 especially her famous European Tour -- arranging Swiss bank accounts for her 
 husband, etc.  You don't need nazi gold to account for Peron's later wealth 
 in Spanish exile.  He looted Argentina the same way Marcos looted the 
 Philippines. >>
Officially they were at war with Germany - the thing with the German U-boat 
was of course a "top secret" operation. The problem is that the Perons and 
especially Evita are still a myth in Argentina. I know of which I speak. Nine 
years ago, I met an Argentine woman who was a political refugee in Germany. 
Her husband was a political prisoner during the military dictatorship from 
1976 to 1982. They escaped from Argentina and came to Germany 1979 where they 
were recognized as political refugees. Later they were divorced, and the wife 
lived alone, together with her two children; she has got now the German 
citizenship. She was a psychologist, and less political engaged than her 
husband, but she knew a lot of the political conditions in Argentina. But: 
for her the Perons were still a kind of "holy persons", untouchable whatever 
they might had done. Most people in Argentina think so. But the fact that an 
investigation comitee now does its work shows that there "something happened".
kwp
P. S.: The Peronist movement contains all sorts of political directions from 
the extreme left to the extreme right, and the lable "Peronist" says nothing 
about the ideology of the individual member.