Casie, full of Nazi documents found in the Argentine Court’s basement

The stews containing documents from Nazi Germany were rediscovered in the basement of the Supreme Court of Argentina.

The unusual find was made as the workers cleared the basement of the building before its archives were moved to a newly created museum.

The documents were sent by the German Embassy in Tokyo and arrived in Argentina on June 20, 1941, inside 83 diplomatic bags aboard a Japanese steamer, according to information collected by court officials.

They found themselves in the Supreme Court that year after being confiscated by Argentine customs officers who had opened five bags on a random basis and found Nazi propaganda material inside.

They were rediscovered last week by workers who were intrigued by a number of wooden champagne crates, which they encountered as they moved archival materials from the basement of the Supreme Court.

“After opening one of the boxes, we identified material designed to consolidate and distribute Adolf Hitler’s ideology in Argentina during (World War II),” the court said of the find.

The offices were quickly moved to a protective office in the building, and court officials signaled to the Holocaust Museum Buenos Aires for their existence and demanded his help to create inventory from all their content.

Photos posted by the court show that experts that are sifted through black and white photos and membership books that carry swastizes on their covers.

Historians hope the documents will give clues to the financial networks of the Nazis and their international connections.

In a statement, the Supreme Court of Argentina revealed the information that she had been able to collect so far.

It says that the documents arrived in Argentina aboard the Nan-A-Maru steamer of Tokyo in June 1941 were declared “personal effects” by the German Embassy in Buenos Aires at the time.

However, Argentine officials were suspicious of the size of the shipment and signaled the Argentine Foreign Minister, fearing that it could contain material that could threaten Argentina’s neutral position in World War II at that time.

Five of the bags were randomly opened and it was found to contain cards, photographs and Nazi propaganda material.

The German Embassy in Buenos Aires asked the bags to be sent back to his embassy in Tokyo – where they were sent first – but Argentine judge ordered in September 1941 that all 83 bags were seized.

Argentina’s Supreme Court was charged with the decision on what to do with them, but it seemed that no decision was made before 1944 – when Argentina violated the relationship with the Axis powers – explaining how the crates eventually collect dust in the basement of the court for decades.

After the end of World War II, Argentina – under the leadership of Juan Perran – has become a place for refuge for a number of high -ranking Nazis, including Adolf Eichmann and Joseph Mengele.

In 2000, President Fernando de la Rua officially apologized for the role of his country in attracting Nazi war criminals.