article_snippet: A secret Nazi bolthole for fleeing war criminals has been found in a remote jungle area of Argentina.
article_snippet: A secret Nazi bolthole for fleeing war criminals was discovered with piles of coins and porcelain inside .
article_snippet: South America has had a long and unusual relationship with the Nazis who escaped there in droves after the Second World War.
article_snippet: the Nazis fled to northern Argentina, Paraguay, Brazil, Uruguay, Chile and Bolivia.
article_snippet: northern Argentina was earmarked as a prime haven for the Third Reich's elite - such as Auschwitz medic Dr Josef Mengele and Holocaust organiser Adolf Eichmann - to get to when Nazism collapsed in 1945.
article_snippet: At least 180 Nazi war criminals were known to have fled to Argentina .
article_snippet: By the time the Nazis landed, with Europe in ruins, the Nazis had smuggled out enough gold and money to live comfortable lives under the radar in cities or on ranches out on the sprawling pampas.
article_snippet: In 2012 secret files revealed that 9,000 Nazi war criminals fled to South America after the Second World War, it has been revealed for the first time.
article_snippet: After receiving tip-offs, German prosecutors were granted access to secret files in Brazil and Chile that confirmed the true number of Third Reich immigrants.
article_snippet: According to the documents, an estimated 9,000 war criminals escaped to South America, including Croatians, Ukrainians, Russians and other western Europeans who aided the Nazi murder machine.
article_snippet: Most, perhaps as many as 5,000, went to Argentina; between 1,500 and 2,000 are thought to have made the Nazi murder machine to Brazil; around 500 to 1,000 to Chile; and the rest to Paraguay and Uruguay.
article_snippet: These numbers do not include several hundred more who fled to the safety of right-wing regimes in the Middle East.
article_snippet: Previous estimates as to how many Nazis fled to South America have varied wildly from 5,000 to 300,000.
article_snippet: Several others escaped to Chile.