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BBC8 May 2007
The Dutch airline KLM is facing calls for an inquiry into reports that it helped Nazi war criminals escape to Argentina after World War II.
According to papers found by Dutch journalists, KLM asked Switzerland to let Germans cross its borders and fly to South America without proper papers.
Suspected war criminals were forbidden from leaving Germany by the Allies.
KLM acknowledges some of its passengers may have been fleeing justice, but denies it sought to help them escape.
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Dutch MPs, historians and Jewish groups have demanded an independent investigation into the reports first aired last week, particularly because a member of the Dutch royal family may have been involved.
Prince Bernhard, the father of Queen Beatrix, was the director of KLM at the time.
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According to documents found in Switzerland by Dutch TV documentary-makers, a local representative for KLM, Mr Frick, asked the Swiss border police in 1948 to allow his airline's passengers from Germany to enter the country without the proper papers so they could fly to Argentina.
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