BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) — Argentine authorities said Wednesday they were pressing their search for a 18th-century Italian portrait believed to have been looted 80 years ago from a Jewish collector by a fugitive Nazi officer who settled in Argentina after World War II.

The federal public prosecutor’s office said a police raid the day before on a seaside villa south of Buenos Aires had turned up potentially relevant German documents and prints from the 1940s, but not the sought-after stolen painting.

The developments reopened a shadowy chapter in the history of this South American nation, which sheltered scores of Nazis who fled Europe to avoid prosecution for war crimes, including high-ranking party members and notorious architects of the Holocaust like Adolf Eichmann .

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