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THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS

Argentina Called Center of Nazi Literature Distribution

NEW YORK (JTA) —
Argentina has emerged
as a major world center
for the publication and
distribution of Nazi liter-
ature, it was repOrted by
Rabbi Morton M. Ro-
senthal, director of the
Latin American Affairs
Department of the
Anti-Defamation League
of Bnai Brith.

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In a special report, he
stated that newsstands
and bookstores in Buenos
Aires and other large
cities in Argentina prom-
inently display classic
texts by Goebbels and Hi-
tler in Spanish transla-
tions.
Books by other Nazi
writers as well as con-
temporary works and
pamphlets eulogizing Hi-
tler and the Third Reich
are also on sale.
"Editorial Milicia,"
which describes itself as
"the only publishing
house in all the world ded-
icated to the publication
of fundamental texts of
national Socialism" has
been the main source of
the literature, Rosenthal

stated.
Milicia celebrated its
first anniversary on June
30, proudly announcing
that it had already pub-
lished 16 paperbacks in a
series called "Library of
Doctrinal Formation," and
10 individual books on the
topic, all of which have
been sold in "impressive
numbers."
Among the titles are
two by Mussolini, "Fas-
cism" and Revolutionary
Fagcism" two by Hitler,
"My New Order" and "My
Enemies and Yours"; and
three by Goebbels, "To-
ward the Third Reich,"
"The Conquest of Be-
rlin," and "Hitler or Le-
nin." Other authors pub-
lished include Nazi prop-

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agandists
Dieter
Schwartz, Heinz Roth,
and Hans Sponholz.
Planned for publication
this month is the anti-
Semitic classic, "The Pro-
tocols of the Elders of
Zion," which Milicia de-
scribes as the first
Spanish translation of
the celebrated edition
published during the
Third Reich by Theodore
Fritsch, "the maestro of
anti-Semitism," who
translated it from the
Russian.
The respected Buenos
Aires daily "La Prensa"
has condemned what it
describes as Milicia's
"damaging and persis-
tent spreading of the doc-
trine of Adolph Hitler,"
Rosenthal reported.
In its editorial "Publi-
cations of the Nazi Doc-
trine," the paper called
upon the government to
close down Milicia, as it
did 48 other organiza-
tions dissolved under
public law, because their
purposes involved "the
spreading of alien
ideologies."
A similar request was
made by representatives
of Argentine Jewry in a
lengthy meeting last
month with the Minister of
-Interior, Gen. Albano E.
Harguindeguy.
The Jewish delegation,
made up of Dr. Hehemias
Resizky, pregident of
DAIA, the representa-
tive body of Argentine
Jewry, and three other
DAIA officers, expressed
the community's concern
with the proliferation of
propaganda that is
plainly Nazi and anti-
Semitic. They gave Har-
guindeguy a list of the lit-
erature and reminded
him of the fact that under
Argentine law, inciting
religious or -racial hatred
is a criminal act.
The interior minister
assured the Jewish lead-
ers, who later described
the meeting as being
frank and cordial, that
the government did not in
any way encourage racial
or religious prejudice. He
said that the matter
would be studied care-
fully and that the gov-
ernment would seek an
appropriate solution.
Editorial Milicia
charged that -"a cam-
paign orchestrated by
Judaism by means of the
Masonic - Liberal - Bol-
shevik press" was trying
to destroy it, Rosenthal
said.
In a printed four-page
reply headed, "Who are
the victims and who are
the executioners, the Jews
or the Nazis?" Milicia
blamed Jews for the
world's problems. Among
18 examples were the cre-
ation of capitalism and
communism by Jews, sub-
verting Cuba and Chile,
and causing both world
wars.
According to Milicia,
Adam Smith, Fidel Cas-
tro, Salvador Allende,
Franklin D. Roosevelt,
Harry Truman, Joseph
Stalin and Jacques Mari-
tain were all Jewish. Jews
are also blamed for creat-
ing the United Nations
and controlling interna-

tional news agencies. An
additional 18 points fo-
cused on the role of Jews
in Argentina, alleging
that they lead the liberal
parties and the Bol-
sheviks, and are respon-
sible for prostitution and
fraud.
The reply ended with
Milicia's vow to continue
"to unmask Judaism. We
will see who will win: the
gold of the international
Jew or the will of the
Argentine people."
The growing volume of
literature is particularly
menacing to Argentine
Jews because the country
is experiencing a political
and economic crisis al-
most without precedent.
The military junta, which
took power in March of
this year, is attempting to
rescue the country from
economic collapse while it
simultaneously seeks to
suppress left-wing ter-
rorist organizations.
The threat to Jews is
magnified by a prolifera-
tion of indigenous anti-
Semitic literature in addi-
tion to Milicia's tracts.
"Ediciones Theoria"
recently published a fifth
edition of "The Jew in the
Mystery of History" by
Rev. Julio Weinvielle, an
anti-Semitic priest who
was spiritual adviser to
many nationalist officers
until his death last year.
"AOCRA Argentina' has
published anew edition of
two classic Argentine
anti-Semitic novels by
Hugo Wast — "El Kahal"
and "Oro."
Argentina's new role as
a major world center for
Nazi literature is also a
threat to the country's
image abroad. It evokes
memories of the 1930s
and '40s when Argentina
was the base for Nazi es-
pionage and propaganda
in Latin America.
The activities reached
such proportions in the
'30s that the Chamber of
Deputies created an in-
vestigation commission
to study Nazi subversion.
It is well-known that
Argentina entered the
war against Germany be-
latedly and reluctantly
and, under Peron's lead-
ership, gave haven to
thousands who fled Ger-
many as the Third Reich
crumbled, Rosenthal de-
clared.
The La Prensa editorial
calling for a ban on Nazi
publications pointed out
that "there has never been
sufficient clarification of
the clandestine entry of
thousands of Third Reich
ex-agents and officials"
under the Peronist gov-
ernments.
La Prensa contrasted
the present situation in
Argentina with that in
West Germany where
Nazism is proscribed "for
moral reasons more than
juridical."

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