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Although Evita Peron has enjoyed a rep­u­ta­tion as a friend of Argentina’s down­trod­den, she was also instru­men­tal in help­ing to build the large Nazi and fas­cist emi­gre com­mu­nity that devel­oped in that coun­try in the post-World War II period. Dur­ing a 1947 tour of Europe, Evita touched bases with Swiss and Span­ish gov­ern­ment offi­cials and Pope Pius XII (among oth­ers) in order to facil­i­tate the trans­port of numer­ous Nazis to Argentina. Juan Peron (her hus­band) was not only the dic­ta­tor of Argentina but an ardent and open admirer of Nazism and fas­cism. The “rat lines” that Evita helped to develop were real­ized with the assis­tance of the large German-Argentine com­mu­nity, ele­ments of the SS and its ODESSA net­work, Swiss gov­ern­ment offi­cials and pri­vate bankers and Argen­tine secu­rity offi­cials employed by her hus­band. In addi­tion the wealth that many of the Nazi emi­gres brought to Argentina, the Nazi exiles con­tributed their tech­ni­cal exper­tise to the devel­op­ment of Argentina’s military-industrial com­plex. Ulti­mately, the fas­cist roots that this Third Reich estab­lished in Argentina and else­where in Latin Amer­ica grew into the mur­der­ous fas­cist dic­ta­tor­ships that plagued the region in the 1970s and 1980s. (Recorded in Feb­ru­ary of 1999.)