Paws of Justice: Flossi Uncovers Argentina’s Nazi Filing Cabinet

In a discovery worthy of a second-rate political melodrama or a forgotten dispatch from a dust-choked embassy file, the Argentine Supreme Court has, quite accidentally, stumbled upon a trove of Nazi-era ephemera—no fewer than eighty-three crates of it—reposing undisturbed in its own basement like a ghastly souvenir from the age of moral ruin.

The boxes arrived in June of 1941 aboard the Japanese vessel Nan-a-Maru, dispatched with all the tact and subtlety of a diplomatic middle finger by the German embassy in Tokyo. The official explanation, offered with that peculiar mixture of self-importance and implausibility known only to minor consular staff, was that the crates contained personal belongings—perhaps a few Wagner scores, some Homburg hats, or an occasional bust of the Führer.