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Podcast: Everything Everywhere Daily: History, Science, Geography, & More
Episode: Nazis in South America
Description: On May 11, 1960, an auto worker who went by Ricardo Klement stepped off the bus after his shift at a Mercedes-Benz automotive plant in Buenos Aires, Argentina. As he was walking home, he was abducted by several men and thrown into a vehicle.This was no ordinary kidnapping, however. There was no demand for ransom. That was because this was no ordinary autoworker. This was actually Adolf Eichmann, one of the masterminds behind the holocaust.Eichmann wasn’t the only member of the German Nazi Party to have found his way to South America. He...