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time, a friend of his arrived. He
was a massive fellow, built like
a football player. My contact
said he had to dirve back into
the city to drop off some
papers and would take me
back to my hotel.
I got in front with the ad-
visor and the big buy got in the
back. We drove along for a
while. Then the man in the
back seat began asking me
questions. I was feeling threat-
ened and the questions seemed
to have an intimidating edge,
but nothing happened and I
got off at my hotel without in-
cident. Still, it was an anxious
couple of hours for me, given
the people and the circum-
stances. Somehow, when you
are seeking information about
Nazi war criminals, violence
never seems very far away.
Of course, Paraguay is not
the only country in Latin
America that has a Nazi
population. In southern Brazil,
I was taken to a house that has
been made into a shrine to
Adolph Hitler, complete with
busts of the Fuhrer and pic-
tures of him in his glory days.
The owners of the house, an
elderly German couple who
emigrated to Brazil after the
war, still consider Hitler one of
history's great men.
Together with a group of ex-
patriate Germans, I was
treated to a brunch. Everyone
sang German folk songs and
drank endless mugs of beer,
and the topics of conversation
— in German — were largely
reminiscences of "the good old
days;" the early years of World
War II.
In Buenos Aires, when I
tried to take a picture of a Nazi
knife in a gun store window
display, toughs snatched my
camera out of my hand and
smashed it. All over the city I
found swastikas scrawled on
the sides of buildings. Anti-
Semitic literature warning of
Zionist plots to take over half
of Argentina as a second Israel
are sold openly at the local
news kiosks. A small stand in
the lobby of the Sheraton hotel
in downtone Buenos Aires sells
Nazi memorabilia. Doors were
slammed in my face and I
received an anonymous tele-
phone call telling me I was a
pest.
Elsewhere I met with groups
of Nazis who believe that the
Holocaust was a myth. I met
others who view Nazism as a
complete way of life. Young
Fourth Reichers even held a
"Miss Nazi" contest in Chile.
In southern Brazil I watched a
rally of young Nazi supporters,
complete with swastika arm-
bands and stiff arm salutes. In
Buenos Aires I read a paper
called The Voice, as strident a
Jew-baiting periodical as any
that existed in Nazi Germany.
In Paraguay, I met a young
Chilean Fourth Reicher who
told me his pro-Nazi party in
Southern Chile numbered more
than 2,500 active members.
The threat has not disap-
peared. it has only changed
and gone underground. The
new f,anatics who wear swas-
tika' armbands in public
displays in Buenos Aires and
Santiago many not have the
power of Hitler's Germany
behind them, but they certain-
ly have the desire. That is
danger enough.
As for me, I am glad that the
research phase of my book
about Mengele is almost over.
The new fanatics
who wear swastikas
in Buenos Aires and
Santiago may not
have the power of
Hitler's Germany
behind them, but
they certainly have
the desire. That is
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