New details of Nazi fifth column activities in Argentina are revealed in the press.
A German general, Niederfuhr, recently arrived here to conduct these activities, according to newspapers. There also arrived a Nazi agent named Maurer who once was arrested in France as a suspicious character.
Local newspapers publish letters from non-Nazi Germans who complain of being forced to join German organizations.
Many Nazis occupy leading positions in the Government. The chief of the Geological-Topographical Department of the Mine Administration is a Nazi named Grober.
Recently police arrested three Nazis posing as itinerant workers in whose baggage there was found incriminating maps and other material. One of the arrested was a former officer of the Tacoma, supply ship of the German pocket battleship Graf Spee.
The fifth column uses anti-Semitic propaganda as one of its weapons, having changed the former “Jewish Communism” bogy to “Jewish Britain,” with emphasis on the Jewish.
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