Ratlines: Argentina, Milei, and the Nazis

Argentina 's President Javier Milei has agreed to cooperate with an ongoing investigation into “previously undisclosed and unknown Nazi assets at Credit Suisse and its predecessor banks” Milei’s involvement represents an opportunity to confront and resolve lingering consequences of WWII -era crimes.

South American politicians, U.S. and British intelligence, and a Vatican official allegedly helped Nazi war criminals flee Europe to numerous countries.

Some of the Nazi SS allegedly had a banking relationship with Credit Suisse .

The investigation has yielded “ several hundred alleged Nazi intermediaries who helped Nazis to hide gold, camouflage illicit transactions to purchase war materials, loot Jewish assets, and generally support[ed] the Nazi war economy.