Developed between the late 1930s to 1940 in Salto, the plan was never put to fruition due to the operation being discovered by Uruguayan officials, leading to the perpetrators being arrested.
The idea for such an attack was first conceived by Arnulf Fuhrmann, a Uruguayan journalist who had moved to Uruguay from Germany at the tail end of the First World War.
In February 1937, Fuhrmann was hired by the Salto newspaper La Campaña as head administrator, eventually being promoted to director in March 1937.
Once the nation is captured, Fuhrmann would assume control, exterminating any Jews or pre-colonial politicians within Uruguay, turning the state into a "colony of German peasants."
As the trials were being held in Buenos Aires, Germany attempted to extradite the six convicts back to Berlin, with Argentina declining and sentencing the men to thirteen years in prison.