2002 Events

The Real Odessa: Smuggling the Nazis to Perón's Argentina

Uki Goñi
Author of The Real Odessa

An incredible discovery of the complex network that delivered Nazi war criminals safely to Argentina.

“This is a remarkable if depressing account…Historical honesty shines through the pages of one of the most dishonest episodes in European (and Latin American) history.” -The Sunday Telegraph, UK.

It has long been known that Adolf Eichmann, Josef Mengele, Erich Priebke, and many other major war criminals found refuge and led prosperous lives in Argentina. Now, for the first time a courageous Argentinean journalist-Uki Goñi-shows exactly how it was done and demonstrates how the escape mechanisms were organized with the enthusiastic support of President Juan Perón himself.

In The Real Odessa, Uki Goñi:
* Draws on recently declassified American intelligence documents, previously unseen European archives, and countless interviews with those involved
* Exposes how the entangled network of the Vatican, the Argentine Catholic Church, and the Argentine government orchestrated the Nazi escape route to Argentina
* Shows the early contacts between Perón and the Nazis
* Details the Nazi escape organization that operated out of Perón’s Presidential Palace in Buenos Aires
* Traces the escape organization’s tentacles throughout Europe
* Reveals how the Swiss authorities turned a blind eye to the smuggling of Nazis through their territory
* Explains how the gold of the Croatian state treasury-mostly pillaged from the 600,000 Jewish and Serb victims-ended up in Argentina

When: Wednesday, November 13 at 7:00 P.M.
Where: Room 9204
The Graduate Center
365 Fifth Avenue
(Between 34th and 35th St.)

To reserve please send e-mail to bildner@gc.cuny.edu or leave message at (212) 817-2096.