Argentine police have detained a man in Buenos Aires who possessed a vast array of vintage Nazi weapons decorated with Third Reich symbols from Adolf Hitler’s infamous regime, according to officials on Friday.
According to a report from Argentina’s federal police, police officers had confiscated over 60 firearms from the man’s home, including 43 rifles stamped with Nazi eagle markings, 15 pistols, five bayonets and a machine gun.
Nazi flags, military uniforms, hats, helmets and Hitler’s busts were additionally confiscated by authorities, the report stated, adding that officials from the Buenos Aires Holocaust Museum had aided the law enforcement action, which sought to enforce a national anti-discrimination law.
The home where the objects were found is situated in the city of Quilmes, near the southern edge of the sprawling metro area of Buenos Aires, the capital city.
Police had been tracking the man after he traveled abroad and was busted in an investigation launched by the federal police of Bosnia-Herzegovina.
After World War Two, several Nazi officials including notorious death camp supervisor Adolf Eichmann fled to Argentina to avoid being tried for war crimes.
Last year, local security forces raided and closed an Argentine bookstore retailing books about Nazism online.
