South American Nazi Escape in Argentina Stumbled on in an Archaeological Jungle

""A new discovery suggests the Nazis made it further into the jungles of South America than previously realized. A team of Argentine archaeologists say they've stumbled upon a secret German lair built by the Nazis during the Second World War.

As the Clarin newspaper is reporting, archaeologists from the University of Buenos Aires have discovered the remains of three buildings in Teyu Cuare provincial park in northern Argentina. The structures were found alongside five German coins produced between 1938 and 1941, and a fragment of a porcelain plate bearing the inscription "Made in Germany." Intriguingly, the archaeologists also found Nazi symbols, inclueding the swastika, carved onto the structure's walls.

Though more work is needed to confirm the finding, the archaeologists speculate that the buildings, located near the Paraguayan border, were intended to house high-ranking Nazis looking to escape prosecution after the Second World War.

One of the buildings appears to be a look-out tower, while the other two may have been intended for housing and storage. The site also features a number of apparent escape points. The archaeologists describe it as a protected, dependable site where the Nazis could live quietly.

"We can find no other explanation as to why anyone would build these structures, at such great effort and expense, in a site which at that time was totally inaccessible, away from the local community, with material which is not typical of the regional architecture," lead researcher Daniel Schavelzon told Clarin. "Apparently, halfway through World War II, the Nazis had a secret project of building shelters for top leaders in the event of defeat — inaccessible sites, in the middle of deserts, in the mountains, on a cliff or in the middle of the jungle like this.""

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Germany Rejects Greece's Renewed Call for World War II Reparations from the Nazi Occupation of the Early 1940's

""The German government has dismissed calls from the new Greek prime minister, for Berlin to pay billions of euros in reparations for the crimes of the Nazis during the Second World War occupation of Greece.

Alexis Tsipras, who is trying to find a way to reduce Greece's massive debt, said in a speech to parliament late on Sunday that Greece has a “moral obligation” to demand reparations from Germany.

Greece has an obligation “to our people, to history, to all European peoples who fought and gave their blood against Nazism,” he said.
But the response from Germany was blunt.

“The likelihood is zero,” Sigmar Gabriel, Angela Merkel’s vice-chancellor, told a party meeting in the state of Brandenburg.

The German government says the matter is not open for discussion, and that a final settlement was reached on the question of war reparations in the treaty which reunified Germany in 1990.

“For us there is no question. The question has already been resolved and there is no further issue,” a spokeswoman for the German Finance Ministry told The Telegraph.

Mr Tsipras is not the first Greek leader to raise the issue of war reparations. Greek governments have claimed repeatedly over the years that Germany never paid proper reparations for the damage done by the Nazi occupation, and the issue has dogged relations between the two countries.

The Nazis famously subdued Greek resistance in a matter of weeks in 1941, after the Greeks had held out for months against Mussolini’s Italian army. The occupation that followed was brutal even by Nazi standards, and 40,000 civilians starved to death in Athens alone.

The demand for reparations centres on two issues: a war loan of 476 million Reichsmarks that the Bank of Greece was forced to make to the Nazis – essentially the Greeks were made to pay the costs of their own occupation – and compensation for the destruction and suffering caused by the occupation.

The loan, which was never directly repaid, would amount to some €11bn (£8bn) today before interest. A Greek commission of inquiry last year determined that Germany owes Greece a total of around €160bn (£120bn) before interest, to cover the loan and the cost of damage from the occupation.""

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http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/greece/11400718/Germany-rejects-Greek-war-reparations-call.html