Crates full of Nazi documents found in Argentine court's basement2 days ago Share Save Vanessa Buschschlüter BBC News Share SaveReuters The boxes contained what appear to be membership booklets for Nazi-affiliated organisationsCrates containing documents from Nazi Germany have been rediscovered in the basement of Argentina's Supreme Court. The unusual find was made as workers were clearing the building's basement ahead of its archives being moved to a newly created museum. The documents were sent by the German embassy in Tokyo and arrived in Argentina on 20 June 1941 inside 83 diplomatic pouches aboard a Japanese steamship, according to information gathered by court officials. They ended up in the Supreme Court that same year after they were confiscated by Argentine customs officials who had opened five pouches at random and found Nazi propaganda material inside. Reuters Workers found the wooden crates in the basement of the Supreme CourtThey were rediscovered last week by workers who were intrigued by a number of wooden champagne crates they stumbled upon while moving archival material from the Supreme Court's basement.