Meet the Dutch, who had betrayed the Jews by sending them to the gas chambers (Photo)

With a return to the Netherlands at 18 years of age, antisemit, pimp, carjacking and jewelry, in short, one of the low class. He seized the opportunity when the Nazis invaded the country in 1940. He promised loyalty to the invaders, he entered the Sicerheitsdent elite, the German security service operating as SS supporter. Yet, there was still a lack of the last or final achievement.

During a search into a house where Esther Schaap was hiding, a Jew whose husband was deported, Riphagen discovered that the woman hid a bag of diamonds under her hair. This was one way that the Jewish families were provided with a vague hope of escaping death and of buying their escape. Diamonds, rings, necklaces, valuable clocks, and fragile hopes. In those moments before that bag with diamonds, Riphagen's eyes shone more than those stones.

Educated and almost kindly addressed the woman: “I can help you.” So began everything, a business exceeding the cynicism and the ferocity of the Hitler-led routine and applied by Adolf Eichman against the Jewish people. Before Esther's surprise and disbelief wondering how and why she wanted to help someone who hid goods and who was punished with a bullet in the head if they were caught, Riphagen invented a fascinating story: “I worked with the Nazis, but I was married to a Jew and I couldn't save her. That's why I decided to help you and not just you.”

The trap was a pervert. Ester Schaap, captured and helpless, except that the payment of some diamonds would receive protection and a house until the end of the war and should introduce Riphagen, for the same purpose other Jewish families who with a payment were saved and placed in empty and furnished houses confiscated by the Nazis whose owners had died or been sent to the camps. To make the business look serious and reliable, Riphagen was photographed with families taken under protection and delivered bills for the values handed over that would be returned at the end of the war.

And furthermore charitablely, he drank tea with all of them. Bette Wery, a young woman militant in anti - Nazi resistance, managed to hand over her friends in exchange for Riphagen to order her family not to be killed in Poland. Near the end of the war, Riphagen decided to come to life his plan.

A bank in Luksenburg was sheltering their bags of jewelry and money, and he discovered all the protected Jews, had names of all, and photos and sent them to the gas chambers.

His escape was spectacular too. He was able to leave in a coffin during a burial and a secret agent, Fritz Kerkhoven, helped him cross into Belgium and then across the Mining Way, a road that many criminals fled from Europe to South America, arrived in Spain. Since there were no documents in prison, they are again assisted by Kerkhoven, who buys clothes, finds false documents, and with some diamonds is able to escape. They arrive in Argentina and soon gain the friendship of Juan and Eva Peron.

Like many war criminals lined up under the blue and white flag and under the peronistic protection. It was a factor in organizing the secret services of peronism. For example, the Special Section, where the electric rod created by the son of the fascist poet Leopoldo Lugones and the executions of such commissioner Cypriano Lombilla and officers José González, José Faustino Amoresano and Salomón Vasserman ran into the fists and electric shocks of all antiperionists. Among the many intellectuals who were tortured by Special Section was historian Félix Luna, of whom there is an annex, where Luna tells Peron: “In your government there are torturers, general! - Please, Luna, don't exaggerate... who have they tortured? I'm General! ”

In 1988 an international search warrant for Riphagen arrives in Argentina. Too late... In 1977, 63 years old, I die of cancer at a clinic in Switzerland. / F. Agastra / World.al