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"We were looking into what happened at the weekend, we are investigating it. We know how it took place and the price of entry," Justice Minister Anibal Fernandez told a local radio station.
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BUENOS AIRES (AFP)---Neo-Nazi groups in Argentina staged a clandestine weekend rock concert in homage to Adolf Hitler, sending invitations over the Internet and causing government alarm, an official said Monday.
"We were looking into what happened at the weekend, we are investigating it. We know how it took place and the price of entry," Justice Minister Anibal Fernandez told a local radio station.
"The reasons behind this are of concern because of what it signifies, and what motivates these kinds of people," Fernandez said, referring to the fanaticism which has grown up around the German dictator, who led the Nazi movement until committing suicide at the end of World War II.
A statement on the neo-Nazi website "La revuelta va" (The Ongoing Revolt) said the aim of the concert was "enjoying our own music, camaraderie, beers, and mainly to commemorate the birthday of Adolf Hitler."
The location of the concert was kept a secret.
The weekend show was arranged by underground groups including "Legion Pretoriana", which actively supported Argentina's last dictatorship from 1976 to 1983, in which the "Dirty War" led to the disappearance of roughly 30,000 people, according to human rights groups.
There was no immediate reaction from organizations of the South American nation's 300,000-strong Jewish community, which was in the midst of Passover celebrations.
After the fall of Germany's Third Reich at the end of World War II, Argentina was seen as a refuge by hundreds of Nazi officers accused of genocide, including Nazi Gestapo police chief Heinrich Muller and concentration camp doctor Joseph Mengele.
In 1950 Nazi war criminal Adolf Eichmann fled to Argentina, where he was tracked down and kidnapped by the Israeli secret services 10 years later.
He was sentenced to death after a trial in Jerusalem and executed by hanging in 1962.
