Secret and confidential records Secretos y Reservados

This collection contains confidential reports from various Argentinean government agencies and political offices to the Argentine Ministry of the Interior, including the Ministry of Foreign Relations, various provincial Governor's offices, the national police, the Ministry of War, the Postal and Telegraph Service, the Ministry of Agriculture, and others. Also includes records pertaining to Jewish immigration (both legal and illegal) to Argentina and other Latin American countries, the Jewish colonization movement, Nazi activities in Patagonia and other parts of Argentina, and communications received from Argentine consulates in Europe pertaining to Jewish applications for emigration. In addition, the collection contains reports on German and Japanese immigrants in Argentina and other Latin American countries including reports on arrest and deportations of German and Japanese nationals, investigations of Jewish union workers and leftist politicians, arrests of individuals for anti-Argentine activities, communications to and from the German Embassy in Buenos Aires, and reports on Argentina's relationship with various European countries during World War II.

Original records are arranged by carton (not by individual file) and relevant documents are disbursed throughout the holdings, this collection was reproduced following the full carton contents. The contents of cartons were microfilmed in their entirety as long as they contained relevant pages. Those cartons without any relevant documents were not microfilmed.