Wiesenthal Says Nazis Paid $60,000,000 for False Argentine Passports

Nazis seeking refuge after the end of World War II transferred hundreds of millions of dollars to Latin American countries, and $60 million of their hidden funds went to Juan Peron, dictator of Argentina at that time, according to Simon Wiesenthal, director of the Documentation Center at Vienna, who is now visiting the United States.

Mr. Wiesenthal made his disclosures at a public meeting here arranged by the Farband-Labor Zionist Order and the Organization of Jewish Victims of Nazis in the United States. He said that thousands of Nazi war criminals obtained fraudulent passports to enter Argentina as a result of the money given to Peron. Nazis also have taken refuge in large numbers, he said, in Brazil, Chile and Uruguay. Other speakers at the meeting included Jacob Katzman, general-secretary of the Farband, and Moses Socachevsky, president of the organization of Nazi victims.