General Jorge Videla, chief of the Argentinian Junta, presenting the World Cup trophy to Argentina's team captain Daniel Passarella at the Buenos Aires River Plate stadium.

Members of the federal police show a bust relief portrait of Nazi leader Adolf Hitler at the Interpol headquarters in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Friday, June 16, 2017. In a hidden room in a house near Argentina's capital, police discovered on June 8th the biggest collection of Nazi artifacts in the country's history. Authorities say they suspect they are originals that belonged to high-ranking Nazis in Germany during World War II.

Nazi war criminal Adolf Eichmann in his cell at Djalameh jail, 1961

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