The Real Odessa Quotes

“This same complex but well-oiled machinery went into high gear during 1948 when Perón’s Nazi rescue group began working in Europe, principally out of Berne and Genoa. In a period of under two months that year, Immigration files similar to Stojadinovic’s were opened for four notorious SS officers: Adolf Eichmann, Josef Mengele, Josef Schwammberger and Erich Priebke. They arrived on separate ocean liners many months apart, but the paperwork for their journeys began together – in the case of Mengele and Priebke, simultaneously, as we have seen.”
― Uki Goñi, The Real Odessa: How Perón Brought the Nazi War Criminals to Argentina

“Almost equally, the country remains at a loss to comprehend how, even in 2002, the most egalitarian society in Latin America has lurched suddenly into a chaos of apocalyptic proportions, undone by widespread corruption and with the spectre of mass hunger haunting a land historically known as the ‘breadbasket’ and ‘beef capital’ of the world. It could take many more years before such an understanding is possible. Meanwhile, clues as to how that past horror of mass extermination and this present one of rampant corruption were generated may be found in Argentina’s (still-denied) closure of its borders to the Jews at the beginning of the Holocaust and the warm welcome it extended to the Nazis afterwards.”
― Uki Goñi, The Real Odessa: How Perón Brought the Nazi War Criminals to Argentina

“In London, patient digging in British postwar papers finally paid off when these documents revealed direct Papal complicity in the protection of war criminals. Documents I requested from the United States under the Freedom of Information Act proved how Perón’s top Nazi smuggler had actually been a secret agent of the SS, sent out of Berlin in 1945 on a mission slated to start after the end of the war. Declassified CIA documents also explained how gold looted from the Serb and Jewish victims of Croatia’s Nazi puppet regime had found its way to Argentina in the early 1950s.”
― Uki Goñi, The Real Odessa: How Perón Brought the Nazi War Criminals to Argentina

“The documents reveal that the ‘real’ Odessa was much more than a tight organization with only nostalgic Nazis for members. It consisted instead of layered rings of non-Nazi factions: Vatican institutions, Allied intelligence agencies and secret Argentine organizations. It also overlapped at strategic points with French-speaking war criminals, with Croatian Fascists and even with the SS men of the fictional Odessa, all in order to smuggle Hitler’s evil minions to safety.”
― Uki Goñi, The Real Odessa: How Perón Brought the Nazi War Criminals to Argentina

“While in Rome they had met Perón, who was undergoing training in the Fascist army of Benito Mussolini and who had also been received by the Pope.”
― Uki Goñi, The Real Odessa: How Perón Brought the Nazi War Criminals to Argentina

“When World War Two began, Argentina was divided between pro-Allied and pro-Nazi camps.”
― Uki Goñi, The Real Odessa: How Perón Brought the Nazi War Criminals to Argentina

“In 1989, shortly before his death, he campaigned for Peronist presidential candidate Carlos Menem.185”
― Uki Goñi, The Real Odessa: How Perón Brought the Nazi War Criminals to Argentina