BUENOS AIRES (AFP).- Argentine authorities said Tuesday they had seized a bust relief of Adolf Hitler among a major trove of authentic Nazi artifacts.

Officials and Jewish groups said it was a major historical find in a country where numerous senior Nazis fled after World War II.

They included Adolf Eichmann, who was captured there and later convicted as one of the architects of the Holocaust.

Numerous sculptures and crafted objects including an eagle of the Third Reich were found in two shops and a home in the north of the capital, the security ministry said in a statement.

It said no arrests were made and gave no indication of who had owned the objects, which will now be taken to the Buenos Aires Holocaust Museum.

"This investigation is a major contribution to the institutional mission to fight against anti-Semitism," the Delegation of Israeli Argentine Associations said in a statement.


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