Grupo de Oficiales Unidos
The Grupo de Oficiales Unidos or GOU (German group of united officers ) was an extremely nationalist unofficial group of colonels of the Argentine army , who u. a. Juan Perón belonged to. It was founded in 1943 for the purpose of overthrowing the oligarchic government of Ramón Castillo and shaped the dictatorship of the country until 1946. It provided presidents Pedro Pablo Ramírez (1943–44) and Edelmiro Julián Farrell (1944–46). In terms of foreign policy, it was close to the Axis powers .
Agreement on mutual cooperation with the SD
In May 1943, the GOU military concluded an agreement on mutual cooperation with the head of the SD -Ausland, Walter Schellenberg . The agreement guaranteed the immunity of the Nazi agents from criminal prosecution and offered them a cover identity as members of the Argentine secret service. They were also able to use the Argentine diplomatic baggage to transport information between Berlin and Buenos Aires. Through agents Hans Harnisch and Osmar Hellmuth , the GOU tried - in talks between the agents and Colonel Enrique P. González and President Ramírez - to obtain German weapons for a war with Brazil.
literature
- Uki Goñi : Odessa. The true story. Escape aid for Nazi war criminals. Berlin / Hamburg 2006, ISBN 3-935936-40-0 .
- Heinz Schneppen : Odessa and the Fourth Reich. Myths of Contemporary History. Berlin 2007, ISBN 978-3-938690-52-9 .
Web links
- Theo Bruns: Argentina and the “undesirables”. After 1938, Jewish refugees could often only enter in secret or with forged papers. In: Ila 298 [1]
- Theo Bruns: Mass exodus of Nazi war criminals to Argentina. The largest escape aid operation in criminal history. In: ila 299 [2]
- Theo Bruns: The Vatican and the Rat Line. How the Catholic Church smuggled Nazis and war criminals into South America [3]
- Lukas Mihr: The Rat Line ( PDF )