Argentina's rescue myth

A combination of historical fallacy and shallow scholarship allowed the country to hide its secret anti-Jewish immigration policy for many decades, promoting instead the false thesis that Argentina's diplomats saved Jews. There is ample documentation regarding how Argentina's diplomats, far from aiding European victims of the Holocaust, refused to rescue some 100 Argentine Jews, whom the Nazis wanted Argentina to repatriate. The culmination of Argentina's rescue myth came when a plaque was put up honouring twelve diplomats. In May 2005, the plaque was taken down