Uki Goñi

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Uki Goñi (* 1953 , Washington, DC ) is an Argentine journalist and historian .

Life

Goñi grew up in an Argentine diplomatic family. His grandfather Santos Goñi was the Argentine consul in San Francisco, Vienna, Genoa and Bolivia from the 1920s to 1940s. His father - who was friends with Senator Eugene McCarthy - worked in the Argentine embassy in Washington DC and later was the Argentine ambassador to Ireland. Grew up in the USA, Mexico and Ireland, Goñi has lived in Argentina since 1975 and works as a journalist for the Buenos Aires Herald .

Goñi became better known in 1994 with a report on the practice of enforced disappearances and torture during the Argentine military dictatorship : El Infiltrado. La verdadera historia de Alfredo Astiz . The book was based on a personal experience. A group that visited him as a journalist and reported the regime's human rights violations became victims of these crimes themselves. The frigate captain Alfredo Astiz , who became known for his torture, managed to infiltrate the group.

Goñi then worked for various media around the world, including the New York Times , Time Magazine and the British Guardian .

With the book Perón y los Alemanes (1998) he drew the "connections between Peronism and the Nazi regime and describes the espionage networks of the Nazis in Argentina during the war". With his work The Real Odessa , published in 2002 , for which he researched US, Argentine and European archives and interviewed over 200 contemporary witnesses, he presented for the first time a comprehensive study of the system of escape assistance for Nazi war criminals. The work became an internationally recognized standard work.

Works

  • El Infiltrado. La verdadera historia de Alfredo Astiz , 1994
  • Perón y los Alemanes , 1998
  • The Real Odessa , 2002

In German translation

  • Uki Goñi: Odessa. The true story. Escape aid for Nazi war criminals. Translated from the English by Theo Bruns and Stefanie Graefe. Association A, Berlin a. a. 2006, ISBN 3-935936-40-0 .

Reviews

to Odessa: The real story. Escape aid for Nazi war criminals.

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Individual evidence

  1. Quoted from the publisher's portrait