A Nazi organization in Montevideo, Uruguay, the National Socialist Party, has a training camp some 12 kilometers from Montevideo, according to a report here In La Luz which quoted from an article in Nuevo Mundo Israelita published in Caracas, Venezuela. The aim of the party, the report stated, is to “liquidate Jews and Communists” and to achieve “the unity of all the Uruguayans.” The Nazi Party comprises three groups: “Black Shirts,” “Brown Shirts” and “Gestapo.”
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