Silly question: see if you can post a cynical-sounding but realistic answer.

[raccoon]

Why didn't the US government, British, or for gossakes Israeli government, go after the Nazis who ran off to Argentina, and other countries?

[last1standing]

1. Who do you think helped them escape in the first place?

Not Israel, of course. They have been hunting down the war criminals, the US and Britain helped escape for years.

[Old Codger]

2. as far as I Know

Israel did go after some and actually caught some. But I am not sure of that. I seem to remember they went and kidnapped a few from Argentina and got them tried... Have to do some more research on that I guess.

[MrScorpio]

3. Look up ODESSA and the Gehlen Organization

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ODESSA

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reinhard_Gehlen

[ben_meyers]

4. Go after them? Hell, we were competing with Russia

over who got to keep them.

Our space program was a race between our Nazis and their Nazis

[sixmile]

5. Because a united Russia was more dangerous than a divided Nazi party

Or we were led to believe.