Neo-nazi, Anti-semitic Tracts Sold on Newsstands in Buenos Aires

A neo-Nazi publication, with Hitler and Mussolini on the cover, is openly being sold in the heart of Buenos Aires despite an alleged police crackdown, it was revealed today by the Anti-Defamation League of B’nai B’rith.

According to Rabbi Morton Rosenthal, director of ADL’s Latin American Affairs Department, Argentine authorities assured the delegation of Argentine Jewish Associations (DAIA) that the police had launched a massive sweep of newsstands to remove neo-Nazi and other anti-Semitic literature.

The president of DAIA, Dr. Mario Hector Gorenstein, reported Nov. 3 to the representative body of Argentine Jewry that the police action was triggered by a DAIA complaint against a blatantly anti-Semitic program that was recently aired on prime time Argentine television.

Rosenthal said that days after the promised police crackdown, the October issue of “Popeles,” published by the Aryan Nationalist Integral Party (Partido Ario Nocionalisto Integral), was still available on newsstands in downtown Buenos Aires. In the October issue, above the photos of Hitler and Mussolini standing side-by-side on a reviewing stand, is the inscription: “Buenos Aires is the capital of the Aryan world.”

NAZIS ARE GLACIFIED

One of the articles glorifies the Nazis convicted at the Nuremberg trials and calls their accusers “criminals.” Another describes U.S. National Security Adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski as a “miserable Jew” and accuses him of having pressed the Shah to assassinate the Iranian people. The article on Brzezinski, along with others, is reprinted from other anti-Semitic journals in Latin America, making Popeles a “sort of clearinghouse for international anti-Semitism,” Rosenthal said.

The “Buenos Aires Herald,” on English-language newspaper, attacked the Aryan Party last May as a “political entity which proselytizes with extremist ideology” and “shares the premise of the fuehrer and seeks the resurgence of the swastika.” The newspaper also challenged the legality of Popeles and asked, “Why is Popeles in its seventh month of publication?” Popeles labeled the Herald editorship as dominated by “Hebrews.”

Another major source of current Nazi literature, Rabbi Rosenthal said, is the organization Editorial Zorzal of Buenos Aires, which has been publishing a series of booklets, some of which are entitled “Jew, a Taboo Word,” “Jews or Argentines,” “Hitler and the Jews” and “Timerman, One Goucho Less.” One of its booklets, titled “Introduction to Hitler,” contains a poem that begins: “Hitler is God.”