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Well, housing Nazis tends to put you on, at the very least, a "tread with caution" international list, not to mention on the very infamous Mossad's "blacklist". Argentina and Switzerland are their black sheep for housing Nazis and stealing the Jewish gold.

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That happened 70 years and many governments ago and has absolutely no bearing on international dealings with either Switzerland or Argentina today any more than that dealings with Germany do and has nothing at all to do with Binance.

Don't forget to tell that to Mossad who not even a few years ago hunted down a 90 years old Hungarian dude who was nothing more than a simple guard at one of the concentration camps, forget which one.

The Mossad's relentless focus and unlimited budget to go after these assholes is commendable. But that is a very long way from seeing the present day Argentina as directly influenced by the Nazis.

Laszlo Csatary is probably who you are thinking of. We're rapidly approaching the end of the hunt though, simply because there are fewer and fewer of the escapees still alive.

Which is my point exactly. Relentless focus and unlimited budget and you only get to see the tip of the iceberg in the news. Can you imagine that Mossad is like "we only hunt old Nazis but the countries benefited from their gold we leave them alone and don't meddle in their politics"? Because I don't.

Now let's talk about paperclips...

While the US importing Nazi scientists is ethically very questionable, it's not really the same. Many of those scientists were guilty of benefiting from the work of forced labor and such, though typically weren't involved in enslaving people themselves, while the Nazis given refuge in Argentina were directly responsible for not only that but the abuse and murder of millions of innocent civilians.

The motives were fairly closely aligned though, both the US and Argentina at the time hoped that bringing these Nazi operatives into their respective countries would give them an edge military wise.

Also, let's not belittle the involvement of the German scientists that went to the US in the Nazi campaign, they knew very well what they were doing and each and every rocket launched against London had the signature of Werner von Braun on it. See also: Tom Lehrer.

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