Compañía Argentina para Proyectos y Realizaciones Industriales - Fuldner y Cía

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The "Compañía Argentina para Proyectos y Realizaciones Industriales - Fuldner y Cía" (German: Argentine Society for Industrial Projects and their Execution - Fuldner & Co. ), called "CAPRI" for short , was an Argentine company of the former SS-Hauptsturmführer Horst Carlos Fuldner (* 1910; † 1992), which he founded in Buenos Aires , probably around 1950, in order to provide an income to National Socialists who had fled Europe , including numerous wanted war criminals who had escaped criminal prosecution and entered the country under false names procure. The company filed for bankruptcy in 1955 .

"Rat lines"

The overwhelming majority of the National Socialists managed to flee to Argentina using so-called " rat lines ". These included mostly privately organized networks such as the ominous organization of former SS members ( "ODESSA" ), the " Silent Help for Prisoners of War and Internees " or the "Comrades Aid " by Hans-Ulrich Rudel . Individual Catholic clergy in Rome also played a special role , such as the Austrian bishop Alois Hudal , who provided the seminary Collegio Teutonico di Santa Maria dell'Anima as a shelter and stopover, or the Croatian Franciscan Krunoslav Draganović .

Company purpose and employees

The company was together with the subsidiary "Banco Fuldner" in the Avenida Córdoba No. 374 in Buenos Aires. The employees had the task of inaccessible jungle areas and the like. a. To measure the flow velocities of bodies of water, to collect rock samples and generally to record survey data. The company initially benefited from orders from the Argentine government under dictator Juan Perón and employed up to 400 people, including 300 refugees from Nazis, of which only 40 were trained technicians.

Company employees included:

Rough manners

At least some of the NS staff had indeed appeared for their money work: So had Berthold Heilig z. B. to the waterfalls on the Iguaçu , in the Gran Chaco and in the Cordilleras , where he mostly lived in jungle camps or with Indians. There were also frequent fights and even knife fights.

In the course of the economic crisis in Argentina, which became noticeable from the summer of 1953, the order situation for the company deteriorated, so that it finally had to file for bankruptcy in 1955.

literature

  • Gerald Steinacher : Nazis on the run, How war criminals escaped overseas via Italy 1946-1955 , StudienVerlag, Innsbruck-Wien-Bozen 2008, ISBN 978-3-7065-4026-1
  • Uki Goñi : Odessa: The real story. Help for Nazi war criminals to escape , 2006
  • Ernst Klee : Persil notes and false passports. How the churches helped the Nazis. Fischer Paperback, 4th edition, 2002
  • Eckhard Schimpf: Holy. The escape of the Braunschweig Nazi leader on the Vatican route to South America. Braunschweig 2005

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Eckhard Schimpf: Holy. The escape of the Braunschweig Nazi leader on the Vatican route to South America. Braunschweig 2005, p. 110
  2. ↑ Eckhard Schimpf: Holy. The escape of the Braunschweig Nazi leader on the Vatican route to South America. Braunschweig 2005, p. 116
  3. ↑ a b c d Eckhard Schimpf: Holy. The escape of the Braunschweig Nazi leader on the Vatican route to South America. Braunschweig 2005, p. 111