Argentina's Supreme Court has found dozens of boxes filled with Nazi material among its archives in its basement.

The 83 boxes hold documents including postcards, photographs and notebooks, as well as propaganda material, the court said on Sunday.

Court employees discovered the material by chance while preparing for the creation of a museum.

"Upon opening one of the boxes, we identified material intended to consolidate and propagate Adolf Hitler's ideology in Argentina during the Second World War," the court said.

The court has invited Argentina's Holocaust Museum to help document and preserve the materials.

Experts will also examine them for any clues that can "shed light on still-unknown aspects" of the Holocaust, such as international financing networks used by the Nazis, the court said.

The boxes were sent by the German embassy in Japan to Argentina during World War II aboard........

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