Argentine police arrested Arnulf Fuhrmann, confessed author of a Nazi military plan to seize Uruguay and transform it into a German colony and also the the prime anti-Semitic agitator of South America, a Buenos Aires dispatch to the New York Times reported today.
Fuhrmann, a naturalized Argentine whose main activities were carried out at Montevideo, Uruguay, was arrested yesterday at Concordia, Entre Rios Province, Argentina. He had crossed the Uruguay river into Argentina, posing as a modest provincial photographer.
The Nazi leader was arrested along with other Nazis by Uruguayan authorities some time ago but they were released as the result of German pressure, the report said. The Argentine Government is expected to cancel his naturalization and order his deportation.
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