Police find hidden trove of Nazi artifacts in Argentina including P-08s!

mrerick · 06-21-2017, 12:03 PM

Here's another write on the story:

https://www.jta.org/2017/06/20/news-...-investigators

Apparently the objects will be donated to a Holocost museum in Argentina.

There were antiquity objects found in the cache. The discovery was related to an Interpol program on trafficking in illicit objects called "Operation Far East":

https://www.interpol.int/Crime-areas...ing/Operations

BTW, the hidden room apparently had an exterior window...

There were stories of submarines carrying 3rd Reich officials and treasure to Argentina's coast at the end of the war. I suppose that the only way to authenticate this stuff would be contemporary photographs showing objects.

DonVoigt · 06-21-2017, 07:36 PM

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Originally Posted by mrerick

Here's another write on the story:

https://www.jta.org/2017/06/20/news-...-investigators

Apparently the objects will be donated to a Holocost museum in Argentina.

There were antiquity objects found in the cache. The discovery was related to an Interpol program on trafficking in illicit objects called "Operation Far East":

https://www.interpol.int/Crime-areas...ing/Operations

BTW, the hidden room apparently had an exterior window...

There were stories of submarines carrying 3rd Reich officials and treasure to Argentina's coast at the end of the war. I suppose that the only way to authenticate this stuff would be contemporary photographs showing objects.

Thanks Marc,
typical media hype and BS, a "hidden" room with a window- what will they think of next.

Nazi's were welcome in Argentina at one time- I don't know when that policy ended- but there is probably a lot of genuine stuff really "hidden" there.

sheepherder · 06-21-2017, 07:41 PM

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Originally Posted by DonVoigt

typical media hype and BS, a "hidden" room with a window- what will they think of next.

You gotta rent the Johnny Depp film "Secret Window".

Depp should have gotten at least an Oscar nomination for it.

But no Nazis...and no Lugers...

Tinplatejeff · 06-21-2017, 10:12 PM

So any thoughts if this is real?!

DonVoigt · 06-21-2017, 10:55 PM

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Originally Posted by Tinplatejeff

So any thoughts if this is real?!

Looks like some kind of "cast" solid copy of a luger, not an actual pistol.

gunbugs · 06-22-2017, 12:31 AM

I don't really think of WWII German guns as "NAZI". That would be like saying "Democrat guns" or "Republican guns". NAZI is an acronym for National Socialist. A political party. No doubt, these were bad guys, but I don't associate political ideology with firearms.

kurusu · 06-22-2017, 03:58 AM

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Originally Posted by gunbugs

I don't really think of WWII German guns as "NAZI". That would be like saying "Democrat guns" or "Republican guns". NAZI is an acronym for National Socialist. A political party. No doubt, these were bad guys, but I don't associate political ideology with firearms.

Neither do I. Guns have no ideology they are just tools.

kurusu · 06-22-2017, 03:56 AM

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Originally Posted by DonVoigt

Looks like some kind of "cast" solid copy of a luger, not an actual pistol.

Yep! That is not a real pistol. I don't think they had any real firearms there.

Tinplatejeff · 06-22-2017, 07:41 AM

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Originally Posted by DonVoigt

Looks like some kind of "cast" solid copy of a luger, not an actual pistol.

Quote:

Originally Posted by kurusu

Yep! That is not a real pistol. I don't think they had any real firearms there.

Yea, I can see that now.

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gunbugs Lifetime Forum Patron Join Date: Sep 2013 Location: Fairbanks, Alaska. Home of the best moose. Posts: 681 Thanks: 375 Thanked 1,227 Times in 414 Posts	I don't really think of WWII German guns as "NAZI". That would be like saying "Democrat guns" or "Republican guns". NAZI is an acronym for National Socialist. A political party. No doubt, these were bad guys, but I don't associate political ideology with firearms.