Nuremberg Witch Trials

In the final months of World War II , the Nazis were being brought to justice through the Nuremberg trials. However hundreds of top Nazi leaders such as Alois Brenner and Vladimir Katriuk managed to escape trial through a series of networks known as the ratlines. Most of the Nazis escaped with the help of the vatican, Argentina, “axis” alliance and other supporters. It was believed by multiple historians that the other countries helped purely through either greed or sympathy.

The Nuremberg trials were a series of 13 trials carried out in Nuremberg Germany between 1945 and 1949. Nazi party officials and high ranking military were among the defendants along with German industrialist, lawyers and doctors. Most of the high ranking Nazi’s were

This made it extremely easy for fugitives and war criminals to integrate into the communities without causing suspicion. There are multiple reasons and theories historians have come up with to understand why South America welcomed most of these war criminals with open arms. Some believe that it is because of Germany’s longstanding ties with the political power structure in these countries, for example: Prussian military officers trained the Chilean army in the beginning of the 1900’s.”In particular the Argentinian Peronist regime was sympathetic to Nazism, saw potential political advantages in assisting Nazi war criminals, and even went to considerable lengths to facilitate their escape and hiding,”-Dr Toby Simpson, Wiener library. what many people find interesting is that Argentina,at the beginning and throughout all of WWII,declared its neutrality however still continued to trade with Germany, Spain and

With the Draganovic ratlines many war criminals actually didn't turn up in the isolated jungles of South America, But instead settle in densely populated countries such as Britain, Canada, Australia and the United States of America. Since the news of the vatican’s potential involvement of smuggling war criminals out of Germany, they have consistently claimed that they were unaware of the identities of those who were undeserving of their humanitarian assistance. However some influential priests at the time knew exactly who the war criminals were and, they actively sought them out and provided them with extra special treatment. During this time period, where all of the countries were on thin ice, the pope never condemned or spoke out against the Nazis and their atrocious actions. "Why, it has been asked repeatedly, did the Pope not utter a solemn denunciation of this crime against the Jews and against humanity? . . . Why, it has been demanded, did he not give a clear moral and spiritual lead to Catholic priests throughout Europe? In June 1941, when the Vichy French government introduced ‘Jewish laws' closely modeled upon the Nuremberg Laws, the Pope