Argentina was full of nazi spies and argentine officers and diplomats held important positions in axis europe. Nazi germany nurtured this sympathy, promising important trade concessions after the war. The incredible picture that proves adolf hitler lived to. As the story goes, he and eva braun fled to an idyllic argentinian town after the second world war and died there of old age. The sophisticated german submarine u3523 might have been the perfect vehicle for getting nazi loot. Are these classified fbi files proof adolf hitler escaped.
Fuhrers appalling oral hygiene allows jawbone held in moscow to be identified by its. The red cross and the vatican both helped thousands of nazi war criminals and collaborators to escape after the second world war, according to a. The cia was aware of and interested in rumors that nazi leader adolf hitler escaped germany at the end of the world war ii and fled to south america, documents released this. The untold story of the nazis in bariloche, argentina. A fact that the argentine tourism board prefers not to promote is the large scale migration of nazis into argentina after the end of the second world war. Ratlines were a system of escape routes for nazis and other fascists fleeing europe in the aftermath of world war ii. Conspiracy theorist argues that hitler escaped to argentina. Conspiracy theories about adolf hitlers death wikipedia. Adolf hitler escape from nazi germany rumor revealed in. Then there were claims that he was living as a hermit in a cave in italy, or working as a shepherd in the. Why did the vatican help some nazi war criminals like. The documented truth of hitlers escape from berlin ebook.
There is no forensic evidence for his or eva brauns death and eyewitness stories about their survival in argentina are compelling. Then make your own conclusions about whether or not hitler escaped to south america after world war ii. No, hitler did not escape there is no truth to the popular myth that hitler escaped berlin and went to argentina. Vatican city and the pope eugenio pacelli did not help eichmann nor any other war criminal escape to brasil. Fbi doc confirms hitler fled to argentina in 1945 april 5, 2015 geopolitics101 11 comments hidden in plain sight at fbi. Fbi doc confirms hitler fled to argentina in 1945 covert. How the catholic church sheltered nazi war criminals.
Hitler bit on a cyanide capsule at the same time shooting himself in the mouth. Cia suspected adolf hitler was alive in colombia until at least the 1950s after surviving world war 2. But odessa was a code name for either a smaller organization of ratlines set up to assist the escape of nazis or just the shadowy organization that assisted in nazi escape routes. What is a fact is that the name first appeared in 1946 and was used by. Gripping new evidence shows what could have happened. There always have been doubts as to hitler s alleged suicide in his bunker in berlin on april 30, 1945. This is a dramatization of supposed real events the untold story of adolf hitler s escape to argentina at the end of ww2. As said, if you read the book with an open mind and follow the details, you, like the authors, may come to the same conclusion that it was more plausible that hitler did in fact escape the bunker and did go to argentina as described in the book. They were called ratlines a system of escape routes for nazis and other fascists fleeing europe in the aftermath of world war 2. The escape of adolf hitler by british authors simon dunstan and gerrard williams, suggest that hitler and braun did not commit suicide, but actually escaped to argentina. Adolf hitler survived the bunker in germany and lived to be an old man of 95 in south america. The shocking revelations of adolf hitler, eva braun, and thousands of top nazi officers and germans to south america prior to the end of ww2. But there are some who regard it as the absolute truth.
The escape of adolf hitler, has a different idea on where hitler went and what he did. Adolf hitler is dead and has been since he killed himself in his bunker in april 1945. In 1933, the fbi investigated an assassination threat. Based on interviews with eye witnesses in argentina and years of detailed research, the film covers events from hitler s escape by air from the ruins of berlin on april 28th, 1945.
Thanks to the countrys controversial leader who had help from some nazi sympathizers in europe, as many as 5,000 ss officers and nazi party members were thought to have found a new life in argentina after the fall of the third reich. Ava braun his wife of a few hours had taken a cyanide capsule supposedly hitlers. The quiet alpine town in argentina that housed thousands of nazis after the war and hitler may have been one. Perons government was a big fan of the fascist trappings of nazi germany. The sophisticated german submarine u3523 might have been the perfect vehicle for getting nazi. How legitimate is the theory that hitler didnt actually.
Controversial book grey wolf, the escape of adolf hitler, by british authors gerrard williams and simon dunstan, published in october, describes how. Uboat rumoured to have helped nazis escape to argentina. Good question its a open to speculation the story goes. This video clip features a wwii veteran, a twotime purple heart and twotime bronze star with valor recipient, aubrey m.
The 7 most notorious nazis who escaped to south america history. Even today argentina has notoriously porous borders, and many expats live in argentina on threemonth tourist visas, as was the case for the nazis who came to hide out here in the. We now have a serious and well researched book by ron t. Adolf hitler escaped to argentina after the war guardian. The escape of adolf hitler, which was made into a documentary film earlier this year, have been accused of plagiarism by a journalist in argentina. Another fugitive living in argentina, he gave an interview for abc news in 1994.
These escape routes mainly led toward havens in latin america, particularly argentina, paraguay, colombia, brazil, uruguay, mexico, peru, guatemala, ecuador, and bolivia, as well as the united states, spain and switzerland. Without a doubt one of the most pervasive, and persistent, conspiracy theories to have come out of the second world war is that nazi leader, adolf hitler, escaped to argentina in 1945 somehow evading capture, to live out the rest of his years in peaceful obscurity. When the piece aired on television, it resulted in priebkes extradition to italy. Nazi war crimes and japanese imperial government records interagency working group contributor michael best language english. Of course, it helped that juan peron had an established relationship with hitler and organised escape routes, called ratlines, for the nazis via spain and italy. The 7 most notorious nazis who escaped to south america. News world europe uboat rumoured to have helped nazis escape to argentina is discovered. A submarine linked to rumours that adolf hitler survived and escaped to argentina in a uboat has been discovered lying wrecked at the. The documents in this file range from 1933 to 1947, but primarily fall either in 1933 or between 1945 and 1947. Theory that adolf hitler fled to argentina and lived to. Red cross and vatican helped thousands of nazis to escape.
Sakic, who was commander of jasenovac camp, run by the ustashe the croatian pro nazi party, was rather forgotten by 1998. Most of these theories hold that hitler and his wife, eva braun, survived and escaped from berlin, germany, and europe. With dante venesio, maria heller, pietro gian, alexia moyano. Josef stalin told president harry truman that hitler did not.
Are these classified fbi files proof adolf hitler escaped by submarine to argentina. This conspiracy theory is based around the idea that hitler fled to argentina with eva braun, to live off the gold the nazis had stolen from other countries and sent to argentina on uboats. There, corsi claims, the two retired peacefully in. It argues that ongoing conspiracy theories relating to hitlers survival and the supposedly poor quality and ideologically driven nature of the british investigations. The escape of adolf hitler audioboek simon dunstan. No matter what you believe, this is one of the biggest lies in the history of our modern world revealed. Fleeing berlin, the former fuhrer escaped to argentina along with other nazi leaders. Marshall zhukov said we have found no corpse that could be hitler s. Hansig entitled hitler s escape in which he makes a very convincing case that stalin was correct in.
Hundreds of nazi war criminals fled to argentina in the. Seeing hitler escape germany, april 30, 1945 youtube. Bormann relied on contacts within the vatican to travel south to italy. Argentina, for one, was already home to hundreds of thousands of german immigrants and had maintained close ties to germany during the war. The scenario proposed by these two authors is as follows. To most of us, the story of hitler s escape from his bunker in berlin sounds like utter fantasy. The startling theory that the fuhrer survived in exile until age 73 was examined in a book.
Adolf hitler adolph hitler 18891945 was leader of the national socialist nazi party and chancellor of germany from 19331945. Adolf hitler and hundreds of his most senior commanders escaped to south america at the end of world war ii. The escape of adolf hitler also accuses us intelligence of allowing the dictator to flee in return for access to nazi. This book not only tells of the escape of adolf hitler, eva braun and others of the third reich. At the beginning the catholic church was fooled into believing that adolf hitler, being an austrian and catholic, would keep his rep. As it happens, a recently published book by another austrian, the brilliant young scholar gerald steinacher, lays out in powerful, if lugubrious, detail how and why the catholic church, through its personnel, financing, and aid from institutions, committees, and priests, protected nazi war criminals. German campaigners demand disclosure of dossier on nazi s flight to argentina.
If he wanted to fake his death and escape germany it seems pretty likely that he would ask people to lie for him. Uboat rumoured to have helped nazis escape to argentina is. Even more shocking is the proof that the allied governments knew he was still alive and helped to conceal the truth that he was living in argentina with his wife, eva braun hitler. Adolf hitler faked his own suicide and fled to argentina where he lived until a ripe old age, according to extraordinary new claims. The most authoritarian doubter was the russian dictator joseph stalin who was convinced that hitler escaped to spain in april of 1945.