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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.

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When Argentina Used World Cup Soccer to Whitewash Its Dirty War

‘We should not play soccer amid the concentration camps and torture chambers,’ wrote proponents of an international tournament boycott that year.

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

The 7 Most Notorious Nazis Who Escaped to South America

In some cases, it took four or five decades to bring them to justice.

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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.

Hidden Bookshelf Passageway Reveals Disturbing Nazi Collection in Argentina

A massive cache of original Nazi artifacts—including a photo of Adolf Hitler and a ghoulish cranial-measurement device—was found in a secret room in a Buenos Aires suburb.

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