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3 unusual facts about Alfredo Astiz


Álvaro Alsogaray

He felt that some of the most brutal torturers during Dirty War, such as Alfredo Astiz, were "heroes," and even once attempted to use his influence over the Menem administration to have a monument built in their honor.

Superior orders

The defense of superior orders again arose in the 1961 trial of Nazi war criminal Adolf Eichmann in Israel, as well as the trial of Alfredo Astiz of Argentina, the latter responsible for a large number of disappearances and kidnappings that took place during that country's Dirty War.

Uki Goñi

He is also the author of two previous books in Spanish, El infiltrado, la verdadera historia de Alfredo Astiz (Sudamericana, Buenos Aires 1996), regarding crimes committed by Argentina's 1976-83 military dictatorship, and Perón y los alemanes (Sudamericana, Buenos Aires 1998), on wartime links between Berlin and Buenos Aires.



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