Why was the mandible not DNA tested?
New Doubts Whether Hitler Died
The Mercury [Hobart, Tas]
6 June 1946
NEW YORK - New doubts whether Hitler actually died in the vaults of the   Reichschancellery as the Russian Army swept into Berlin have arisen in both the   British and Russian intelligence services.   The Berlin correspondent of the "North American Newspaper Alliance" says the Russians in the past   few days have roped off the air raid   shelter where Hitler is supposed to   have died and are carrying out digging operations in the greatest secrecy.   The British heard of their activities and immediately assigned three   high-ranking intelligence men to attend as observers.
The correspondent says he visited   a tiny room where Hitler and his   mistress, Eva Braun, are stated to   have shot themselves.   He found the Russians, in the   presence of the British officers,   testing bloodstains on the floor.   They also had removed an arm   from the couch where Hitler is supposed to have slumped after his   death.   The correspondent says many Germans still believe Hitler is alive.
"Almost anywhere in Berlin," says   the correspondent, "you can hear   Germans saying: 'They can't prove   Hitler is dead, so he must be alive.   He must have escaped somehow.' There certainly can be nothing   final about the mystery of Hitler's   fate while there are secret British   and Russian digging parties and   blood testing experiments".
The Nazis "Niederlage" [Defeat] Plan started in Hitler's Bunker a very long time ago. He was reported to have committed suicide by shooting himself and swallowing poison. There was only one problem he didn't. Like all good criminals he crafted the ultimate escape from the law and justice. He faked his death.  One of the most important pieces of evidence was the purported skull of Adolf Hitler held by the Russians was examined and found to be a woman's. That's just a small detail to be sure, but it pokes a large enough hole into the story to conclude fraud
The Soviet Union made a series of contradictory statements or lies concerning Hitler's death. Stalin announced to Truman during lunch in Potsdam on 17 July 1945, that Hitler did not commit suicide but had probably escaped. After that, the Russians released photographs of what they claimed to be Hitler's corpse on a dingy floor.
No other photos of Hitler's body were ever released by the Russians, who insist they discovered his corpse and performed several autopsies to  positively identify him. How and why such an extremely important forensic investigation could have been conducted in the 20th century, without extensive photographic evidence, remains one of the great mysteries of modern history.
It would have been relatively easy to amass a collection of body parts for any occasion because the fighting around Berlin was intense. At the end of the war the Russians were doing 'Operation Myth' and the British 'Operation Nursery'. The facts had to be fudged to suit a political agenda. If Hitler was, like many of the other top Nazis, welcomed with open arms by the western allies, then it was in their interest to allow him to escape to Valhalla. The Russians didn't get him or the loot from the Reichbank or the scientists and the advanced technology. They needed the Myth.
A British surgeon and forensics expert Dr. Hugh Thomas wrote many interesting books of the hierarchy of the Third Reich. His books on Rudolf Hess instigated a six month investigation by Scotland Yard. The report was immediately suppressed.
His book on Hitler, "Doppelg�ngers", was a thorough examination of the crime scene. No one died in the purported room. The sofa involved was stripped of material and showed no signs of a massive trauma wound to the head. In short we were misled by a tall tale.
There is no doubt the death was a fake. It is possible a double was murdered in his place for a body, but Hitler escaped. Reports say he was flown out days prior. One account states he was flown to Denmark and then evacuated by submarine. There is an account that a man on the Danish coast recovered a message in a bottle saying Hitler was being taken out on a submarine called the 'Nautilus'. The German's didn't name their submarines. The only 'Nautilus' was the 'USS Nautilus' the largest in the world at the time, mysteriously pulled from the Pacific theatre to be scrapped at the climax of the war's end. 'Nautilus' was used by special forces primarily. Did she perform the awesome deed?
An American officer working in the Russian sector, the first American in the Bunker was on the radio once. On a day off he went to the Bunker. He bribed an NKVD officer guarding it to let him in. He asked him, "Where's Hitler?" Without hesitation the Russian said, "Argentina". When he entered the building he noticed one very unique thing. The Bunker was the only place he had been in that didn't smell of death. It only smelled from water damage. A rather important point.
Hitler, a most intelligent man, could have orchestrated a great montage of his death, if he wished. After all, he was the F�hrer of Germany and had all the means and resources at his disposal to do so. That is why, if he had indeed escaped, it is plausible that he should create a myth about his destiny, in order to prevent anyone from seeking to seek him.
Some authors say that the alleged corpse burned in Berlin was actually that of one of his doubles. The statements of the witnesses who claimed to have burned his corpse could either be wrong [they burned a corpse, but was it Hitler's?] or be false, lying for the F�hrer. It is even possible that all the people susceptible to be questioned about what they should declare were taught, and it is also possible that they were premeditated to believe that Hitler committed suicide. These suspicions are based on the fact that, although the suicide story at first sounds convincing, one can not forget that they were all absolute supporters and faithful to Hitler.
In �Hunting Hitler,� Corsi posits Hitler made his way to Argentina with the help of U.S. intelligence agents that had been secretly working with the Nazis since 1943. Allen Dulles, then an agent of the Office of Strategic Services, or OSS, the predecessor agency to the CIA, was communicating secretly with top Nazis from his office in Bern, Switzerland, Corsi said.
Corsi brings to light many troubling questions, including:
� Why were the Americans unable to obtain physical evidence of Hitler�s remains after the Russians absconded with his body?
� Why did both Stalin and Eisenhower doubt Hitler�s demise?
While the Soviets in Berlin on 6 June 1945 were saying that they believed with a high degree of certainty that Hitler was dead, Stalin, from paranoid suspicion or cynical malignity or both, ignored all solid evidence coming in from Berlin.
On 6 June in Moscow when Harry Hopkins, W. Averell Harriman, and Charles Bohlen met with Stalin, Stalin said he was sure that Hitler was still alive.
In Berlin Marshal  Chukov and Vasily Sokolovsky, deputy commander in chief of Soviet forces in East Germany, were flabbergasted when they heard this. They had already told the "molar identification" to several Western military men and diplomats visiting Berlin for quadripartite preliminaries [Specifically,  Sokolovsky had told his opposite number, American General Lucius D. Clay, and the top American diplomat,  Ambassador Robert Murphy]. 
However, after his press conference, Stalin immediately sent Andrei Vyshinsky [later prosecuting attorney at Nuremberg] to Marshal Georgy Zhukov in Berlin as his �political representative to the Chief of the Soviet Military Administration".
At a major press conference on 9 June, in Berlin,  Zhukov, with Vyshinsky sitting next him, held a press conference in which he started to backtrack. He spoke of "Hitler's death or disappearance". 
A few days later, when the Marshal paid a courtesy visit to General Eisenhower's headquarters in Frankfurt on the Main, Zhukov backed down completely. There was, he told Ike privately, "no solid" evidence" of Hitler's death. Eisenhower, whose prestige throughout the world was then at its pinnacle, re-echoed these doubts a few days later at the Hotel Raphael in Paris. His was the first western voice to do so.
� Why did nobody in Hitler�s Bunker hear any shots fired
Nobody heard the shot that killed Hitler...
Witnesses who were standing by the double doors to Hitler's study, which were thick enough to muzzle such a sound, claimed they heard nothing.
Those who did make this claim in 1945 withdrew it, saying  Allied interrogators pressured them into saying it.
Some people who claim to have heard a shot were not even present at the scene.
� Did U.S. intelligence agents in Europe, including the OSS and Allen Dulles [who later headed the CIA under President Eisenhower], aid Hitler�s escape, as they did with so many other Nazis?
� Argentinean media reported Hitler arrived in the country and it continued to report his presence. Why have the findings not made it to the US?
Corsi relies on autopsy reports, interrogation transcripts, documents from Soviet archives, CIA reports, extensive research in the National Archives and Records Administration in Washington, D.C., and in College Park, Md., and more to back up his case.
Did U.S. intelligence help Hitler get away?
His evidence is shockingly abundant, and his clear argument lends credence to a new theory that disembowels the double-suicide narrative.
�The story Hitler and Eva Braun committed suicide was a cover story, designed by U.S. intelligence agents at the end of World War II to facilitate the escape not only of Hitler and Eva Braun, but also of top Nazi war criminals such as Adolf Eichmann who was discovered in 1960 hiding in Argentina," Corsi argued.
He presents documentary evidence Allen Dulles� wartime mission in Switzerland included helping Martin Bormann, Hitler�s secretary, to funnel billions of dollars of Nazi ill-gotten financial gain out of Germany and invest in the U.S. and Argentinian stock markets to provide a financial cushion to survive in hiding after the war.
In the National Archives at College Park, Corsi discovered a clipping from the U.S. military newspaper "The Stars and Stripes" published 8 October 1945, reporting a shocking statement made by General Dwight D. Eisenhower, then the supreme commander of the Allied Forces.
The short piece read:
"There is 'reason to believe' that Hitler may still be alive, according to a remark made by Gen. Eisenhower to Dutch newspapermen. The general�s statement reversed his previous opinion that Hitler was dead".
Corsi asks why Eisenhower�s shocking claim has gone largely unreported in U.S. newspapers and history books even until today.
Was Hitler on the U-530?
Tracing Hitler�s escape route, Corsi found in the National Archives documentary evidence Hitler got to Argentina in a German submarine, the U-530 that mysteriously surfaced outside the harbor at Mar del Plata under the command of Otto Wermuth and his executive officer, Karl Felix Schuller, after having spent weeks making surreptitious drops of passengers along Argentina�s Atlantic shore.
Was there ever a �Captain Wilhelm Bernard� aboard U-530?
Wilhelm Bernard appeared in the works of Howard A. Buechner, who wrote �Adolf Hitler and the Holy Lance� and �Hitler�s Ashes� who identified this as a pseudonym. 
U-530 had a crew of 54 men. The five officers were the commander Otto Wermuth together with Karl-Felix Schuller, Karl Heinz Lenz, Peter Leffler, and Gregor Schl�ter, all interrogated by the Argentine Navy and the US Navy. The rest of the crew was made up of 18 NCO�s and 31 ratings.
"Captain" [of what?] Bernhard says he joined the German Navy in 1943 and was "assigned to the U-Boat Service". He would then have undergone training until August 1944 "from when he served aboard U-530 until the boat surrendered" and was "scuttled off the coast of Mar del Plata on 10 July 1945".
Bernhard has such a remarkable memory that he recalls U-530 being scuttled at Mar del Plata on 10 July 1945, even though U-530 was taken afloat to the United States in August 1945 for close examination there, together with the crew, of which he obviously claims to have been one, before being scuttled months afterwards off the US coast.
It is fair to conclude that "Captain Wilhelm Bernhard", if he ever existed was never aboard U-530, and one wonders what purpose it served to claim to have been so.
Hidden away in the National Archives, Corsi found a U.S. naval intelligence report written 18 July 1945, by the Naval Attach� in Buenos Aires who notified Washington there was reason to believe U-530 had landed Adolf Hitler and Eva Braun in the south of Argentina before the submarine journeyed on to surrender at Mar del Plata.
Corsi had newspaper reports translated of Hitler and Braun being welcomed by wealthy Nazi sympathizers among Argentina�s large German community. The Germans there had constructed a mansion hidden away in the dense mountain forests of Bariloche to provide the Nazi F�hrer with comfort and security in his elder years.
Corsi writes:
"In 1943, architect Alejandro Bustillo, at the request of German supporters of Hitler then living in Argentina, designed and constructed an elaborate resort residence for Hitler and Eva Braun, Residencia Inalco, located in a remote area between San Carlos de Bariloce Villa La Angostura, bordering the Nahuel Haupi Lake, outside the city of Bariloche, in the province of R�o Negro, Argentina".
In southern Argentina in the region of the Andes adjoining Chile, he writes, �the surroundings and the Hitler residence were selected and designed to have a distinct feel of Hitler�s Obersalzberg retreat above the town of Berchtesgaden in the Bavarian Alps. Hitler moved into the residence in June 1947".
Hitler's Secret Argentine Sanctuary Is for Sale, Say Conspiracy Theorists
By Jesus Diaz
11/16/11
The  house were Hitler spent the last years of his life, is a remote mansion similar to the infamous Berghof located in the Nahuel Huapi Lake, in Patagonia, Argentina, a remote mountainous paradise full of Nazi refugees.
That's what the conspiracy theorist say, anyway.
The mansion�called 'Residencia Inalco'�is now for sale after going through a few owners starting with Enrique Garc�a Merou, a Buenos Aires lawyer linked to several German-owned companies that allegedly collaborated in the escape to Argentina of high Nazi party members and SS officials.
He bought the lot from architect Alejandro Bustillo, who created the original plans of the house in March 1943. Bustillo also built other houses for Nazi fugitives who were later apprehended in the area. The terrain in which the house was erected, on Bajia Istana near the little town of Villa La Angostura, was quite remote and hardly accessible at the time.
The plans are similar to the architecture of Hitler's refuge in the Alps, with bedrooms connected by bathrooms and walk-in closets and a tea house located by a small farm.
Like Berghof, the Inalco house could only have been observed from the lake�a forest on the back limited the view from land. It even had Swiss cows imported by Merou from Europe.
On 23 November, 1954,  Merou sold the house to Jorge Antonio, who was connected to the President Per�n and was the German representative of Mercedes Benz in the South American country.
The data of the transfer of the property can be verified in the documentation of the Property Registry of the province of Neuqu�n.
According to the book "Grey Wolf: The Escape of Adolf Hitler," Hitler was already dead�after leaving behind two daughters�by the time the house was sold to Jos� Rafael Trozzo in 1970. Strangely enough, Trozzo also bought other properties owned by someone called Juan Mahler. Mahler was the fake name of Reinhard Kopps, SS official and war criminal.
Kopps was connected to Erich Priebke, former Hauptsturmf�hrer in the Waffen SS who participated in the massacre of the Ardeatine caves in Rome, in which 335 Italian civilians were executed after a partisan attack against SS forces. Priebke was a respected member of the high society in the area. He was the director of a school Primo Capraro. The son of Capraro sold the Inalco house terrains to Bustillo.
Reinhard Kopps was an SS Officer for the Nazi Party during World War II. Following the defeat of Germany in World War II, he helped Nazis escape to Argentina, finally fleeing there himself. Under the assumed name of Juan Mahler, Kopps was hiding in the small town of Bariloche in the Andes Mountains. Bariloche was the home of many Germans after World War II.
Recently opened Nazi archives in 1994 caused "ABC News" to research Nazi war criminals. After research revealed many Nazis living in Argentina, Sam Donaldson confronted Mahler on camera, getting him to admit that he was Reinhard Kopps, a former Nazi, and that he assisted Nazis to leave Germany and settle in Argentina.
In order to deflect attention away from himself, he told Donaldson that an ever worse war criminal, Erich Priebke was also living there, confirming "ABC News" research.
Priebke was soon arrested, and Kopps fled. The story was made for ABC's "Primetime Live", as well as "Nazi Hunters".
The Trozzo family is now selling the house and the original plans have now been published, along with the Hitler legend recently resuscitated by "Grey Wolf", perhaps in an effort to increase the interest on the property.
The Directorate of Culture of the Municipality of La Angostura admitted: 
"Several times it was said that in that house lived Hitler, it is a version that circulated always". 
The complex was completely autonomous, with its own animals and agricultural areas. It also had a ramp that led into the lake, with a boat house that was rumored to contain a hydroplane.
 
A research vessel, the Deutsche Lufthansa operated catapult ship 'Schwabenland' left Hamburg 17 December 1938, arrived at position 4 deg. 15' W, 69 deg. 10'S in Antractica on 19 January 1939, and departed for Germany in mid-February 1939. 
The two Wal floatplanes it carried made fifteen flights covering an area of 600,000 square miles and took 11,000 photos.
 
The aircraft discovered mountains above 4,000 metres [Wohltat Massiv, M�hlig-Hoffmann Gebirge] and huge ice-free areas. The most interesting discovery lay between Wohltat Massiv and the coast, a mountainous region with numerous warm fresh water lakes and a mild climate, this due to volcanic activity originating from a large submarine trench.
Engineer Assistant Heinz Siewert and First Carpenter Richard Wehrend who were aboard 'Schwabenland' on the original voyage stated that even after the end of the expedition in the spring of 1939, they continued to serve on the  'Schwabenland'. The ship voyaged on a quarter yearly basis between between Hamburg and Neuschwabenland to transport equipment and entire mining facilities to the Antarctic. This included track systems and lorries, but also a huge milling machine to drill tunnel systems into the ice.
Inspired by the WW1 Austro-Hungarian trench diggers, Ritter Engineering sketched a colossal armored project that had it been constructed would have been the largest and longest armored vehicle in history - the mighty Midgard-Schlange.
The name Midgard-Schlange is derived from Norse/Germanic mythology: the Midgard Snake was a demonic monster which looped the whole earth with its giant length. Thor, the God of Thunder, was its sworn enemy and he often tried to kill it. Thor finally succeeded in killing the snake  with his hammer, Moljnir.
Ritter, fond of the Norse/German mythology promoted by the Nazi regime named his project after the mythological snake and began preparations for designing the armored beast.
The first plans of this project were made in the summer of 1934. It was decided that the beast was to be a hybrid armored vehicle, which like a tank could drive; in addition, it would be able to tunnel like a mole underground and under water to a theoretical depth of 100 meters. The vehicle would be made from 77 individual cells, whereby each cell would be 6.8 meters wide, 3.5 meters high and 6 meters long. These joined to form a queue of sections with an overall length of 524 meters!
At the front end a drilling head was to be mounted which would consist of 4 smaller drills of 1.5 meters diameter. The drill would be driven by 9 engines providing 8,800 hp total. Three side drills were also envisioned. For progressive movement, the tracks were to be propelled by 14 engines providing an incredible 19,800 hp. A speed of 30 km/h was calculated; underground, 10 km/h and under water, just 3 km/h. For the underwater travel there were an additional 12 engines providing 3,000 hp together.
960 m3 of fuel would be carried. On board there would be an electrical kitchen, a sleep area with 20 beds, 3 on-board workshops, several periscopes, 580 large pressurized air bottles and a large charge thrower. As armament 1,000 mine charges of 250 kg explosive would be carried, another 100 smaller charges of 10 kg explosive as secondary armament, and 2 twin machine guns. The whole vehicle would have had a loaded weight of 60,000 tons  and a crew of 30 men.
Ritter planned for the Midgard Snake to tunnel under the fortifications of the Maginot Line and into hostile ports laying down 20 explosive charges.
All this sounds quite irrational, if not impossible, for the time period; so consequently, that is one of the many reasons why it was never built. The principal reason lies, however, in the vast unsolvable technical problems with a vehicle of such immense size and proportions.
On 28 February 1935 the Midgard-Schlange plans were returned to Ritter Engineering, rejected as impractical.
The plans were not simply rejected as absurd, insane, or impossible  - the request had been turned down due to lack of financial and material resources, and available manpower. Had Hitler personally ordered the machine built, work would have started immediately and by 1939 it is possible that the monster would have breathed life.
This suggests that some kind of permanently staffed base must have been set up.
This idea is supported by the fact that when the freighter 'Kandelfels' was converted to a raider in Germany in early 1940, she was named 'Pinguin'. In late 1940 she captured the Norwegian whaling fleet in Antarctica, and the possibility is that a plan existed from the beginning of her career to remove the Norwegian presence from the area so that whatever was being done should not be reported to the Allies. 
If there was a large scale underground base "211" as has been suggested, building materials and supplies would also have come from a nearby friendly neutral such as Argentina where, in Patagonia, Germany had a massive espionage/supply network. There is Intelligence evidence that throughout the war, two German freighters made regular short-duration voyages from near Santa Cruz to an unknown destination.
There is also the fact that almost all records of all commanders, staffs, flotillas, and submarines fell into the hands of the Allies [especially England] after the Second World War.
Many submarines that officially were launched but were not sunk or captured remain unaccounted for, as is the case with many successful engineers, scientists, physicians, and technicians who certainly did not fall into the hands of the Allies.
The brackish water of the warm [30 degrees] lakes found, virtually confirmed that all had an outlet to the sea and would thus have been a haven for U-Boats. The two ice-free mountain ranges in Neuschwabenland  presented no worse an underground tunnelling project for Organisation Todt than anything they had encountered and overcome in Norway. The Germans were the world's experts at building and inhabiting underground Metropolises. 
At the end of the war the United States gave anything concerning Ohrdruf a top secret classification for 100 years upwards. The fact that there had been substantial underground workings there, and that Ohrdruf was the location of the last Redoubt, was concealed absolutely. Fortunately for researchers, in 1962 the DDR had taken sworn depositions from all local residents during an investigation into wartime Ohrdruf, and upon the reunification of the two Germanys in 1989, these documents became available to all and sundry at Arnstadt municipal archive.
From the Arnstadt documents it is clear that the Charity-Anlage unit operated in a three-story underground Bunker with floors 70 x 20 metres. When working, the device emitted some kind of energy field which shut down all electrical equipment and non-diesel engines within a range of about eight miles. For this reason, even though Ohrdruf was crawling with SS, it was never photographed from the air nor bombed. Declassified USAF documents dated early 1945 admit the existence of an unknown energy field over Frankfurt/Main "and other locations" which "fantastic though it may appear" were able to "interfere with our aircraft engines at 30,000 feet."
At Ohrdruf, enough electrical generators to service all of Berlin were found in the ruins of Amt 10. The majority of these were unused. In 1980 Russian scientists could still record on their instrumentation a strong anomalous magnetic field from below the Truppen�bungsplatz for which they were unable to offer an explanation.
When the Bundeswehr recovered the region from the Russians in 1990, Nazi-period thick electric cabling was found which led down into the ground below the Truppen�bungsplatz. The cables wers cut to see whether a consumer complained about the loss of supply but none ever did. It was concluded that there was an underground power source below Ohrdruf which had been operating without maintenance for over 40 years.
Ohrdruf rebuilt below Neuschwabenland during the last two years of the war would not have been difficult, and since Charity-Anlage had the highest priority of anything in the Third Reich, it seems likely that it must have been. Such a base would have been impregnable, for the suggestion is that the force-field worked in various ways favourable to the occupants.
Until we know more about this strange science, logical questions about subterranean bases elsewhere may have an answer which exists but cannot yet be provided.
"When WWII ended, the Germans had several radical types of aircraft and guided missiles under development. The majority were in the most preliminary stages, but they were the only known craft that could even approach the performance of objects reported by UFO observers..."
-- Captain Edward J. Ruppelt Chief of the US Air Force Project "Bluebook" in 1956
There have been more UFO sightings in the area of Tierra del Fuego than anywhere else in the world, and many of these have been observed and documented by Chilean and Argentine scientists.
Martin Bormann � A New Body of Evidence
Laurence De Melo
24 August 2016
Martin Bormann, Hitler�s right hand man and chancellor, the man that controlled all of Nazi Germany�s appropriated loot, was tried in absentia in October 1946 at the Nuremberg trials. Found guilty of war crimes and sentenced to death by hanging, Bormann evaded the noose due to his mysterious disappearance.
When anyone mentions the name Martin Bormann most baby-boomers will know who he was, they will also be quick to tell you that; while there was a wild goose-chase across the globe to find him, he certainly died in 1945, proved they say, by the finding of his bones in Berlin in 1972.
Two Nazi witnesses at the Nuremberg trials testified to the fact that they had seen Bormann and fellow Nazi, Dr Ludwig Stumpfegger dead, in the vicinity of the Weidendamm Bridge and the Lehrter train station in Berlin, only hours after fleeing the Bunker � where Hitler had supposedly put a bullet through his brain. One witness going as far as to say that he had even seen Bormann�s dead "moonlit face".
From 1945 the hunt for Martin Bormann was on. During the confusion of those early post war years, the West German government kept the heat up, but the "hunt" was only, If anything, lukewarm. A concentrated search effort had been made in 1945 around the site of the supposed "moonlit" scenario of Bormann and Stumpfegger, with whom he was last seen alive. With the advantage of hordes of allied troops on the ground to co-ordinate a thorough search near and around the Lehrter station in Berlin, no stone was left unturned. The same was done independently by a Russian recon group, after Lieutenant General Konstantin Telegin, of the Soviet 5th Shock Army was delivered a diary said to be of Bormann�s, found near the same site.
In those early post war years, it was not yet a "cold case", with memories still fresh and the ground still soft. Any such corpses although decomposed, would have certainly been on, or near the surface and easily identifiable with the minimum of forensics; but not as much as a scrap of flesh was found of either man. At least they had some disputable charred remains of Hitler, but the bodies of Bormann and Stumpfegger had literally "vanished" into thin air, along with the Nazi loot.
But after construction workers came across human remains near the Lehrter station in Berlin in 1972, the world�s press gathered to hear if this was indeed Bormann. Bormann�s Nazi dentist Dr Hugo Blaschke was called and he recalled from memory his former patient�s dental physiology and gave testimony that they were one and the same, the case was then closed.
  
"Daily Express", 25 November 1972
It was not until 1998 that due to modern science technology, the remains were subjected to a DNA forensic study by the West German prosecutor. The reason for this new 1998 investigation was that in 1996 Christopher Creighton, aka John Ainsworth-Davis a former British Naval Intelligence agent and member of the covert British group C.O.P.P [Combined Operations Pilotage Parties] had published a book, "OPJB" [Operation James Bond]. In the book, Creighton using a pseudonym, claims that along with Ian Fleming, he was instructed by Winston Churchill and Desmond Morton the head of Secret British intelligence section V, to rescue Martin Bormann from a burning Berlin in May 1945. The book passed off as a novel, to protect Creighton from potential serious consequences due to breach of the Official Secrets Act � unsettled the German government to the extent that a thorough forensics and DNA investigation was carried out on the remains. The forensic results came back after the legal medical team matched blood from a maternal Bormann relative, the match was positive.
A confirmation of the remains being those of Bormann was released to the world�s press, along with the statement that Martin Bormann had certainly died in 1945 at the site his remains were found.
Martin Bormann�s body was "unearthed" in 1972 � at a site that had been thoroughly and extensively  searched by various groups of soldiers and investigators over the years
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Due to the 1998 DNA confirmation of the Martin Bormann skeleton, modern historians teach their students that stories of Bormann escaping to South America are false, nothing more than the rantings of conspiracy theorists and madmen. A handful of bona-fide investigative journalists and even former intelligence agents have been continually slandered after they have released information to the contrary, that there has been a cover-up by the western allies; that not only did Bormann escape, but his escape was orchestrated by the British intelligence services with the full knowledge of the United States government.
Anyone that dares to raise any questions as to the true dynamics of Bormann�s disappearance and death, is discredited based only on the DNA match which confirm the remains as being Bormann. But why are there such conflicting stories between the official version and the version by those that have seriously investigated this strange case for decades? Bormann�s remains were found in 1972, but did he really die in 1945? And what exactly is at stake if it were proved that he died much later than we are led to believe? Even though his remains were found in 1972 in Berlin, it does not mean that his body had lain there since 1945 and there is absolutely no evidence to suggest such. In fact, there is more evidence to suggest foul play by the British and American intelligence services, that Bormann did escape and after his death in the mid/late 1960�s his remains were carefully reburied in the place historians like to believe he fell.
On the publication of the 1998 Bormann DNA report, "London�s Daily Express" newspaper called it a "whitewash". The author of the article, Stewart Steven a very experienced foreign editor of the "Daily Express", who was participant and directly involved with a thorough Bormann investigation in Buenos Aires, along with a team of highly qualified academics and lawyers, was sacked 6 days later. Stevens was accused of publishing a "hoax" and discredited as having being hoodwinked into believing that classified Argentine government and Federal police files were fakes, even though there is absolutely no evidence to date to prove, let alone suggest, that such files were in fact anything but genuine.
But why do modern historians find it so shocking to consider the possibility  that Martin Bormann, Hitler�s "Banker" may have escaped from Berlin with the help of British intelligence? Not only would it make absolute sense to Churchill, to lift the man with access to all the money, it would be negligent to fail to.
After all, numerous Nazi officers who were participant in the brutal slavery of concentration camp prisoners, were snapped up by the USA for their various talents. Many of whom were made post WWII heroes in the American scientific community, after being "invited" to the USA as part of Operation Paperclip.
Notorious  Nazi Klaus Barbie, a former head of the  Gestapo and known as the "Butcher of Lyon", was tried at Nuremberg and sentenced to death in absentia, yet it is documented that Barbie was protected and formerly employed in 1947 by the U.S Army Counterintelligence Corps [CIC] and later by the CIA to set up the Western Intelligence Network to keep tabs on communist threat. This was a major and shocking betrayal by the USA as to the allied Nuremberg trial sentencing of Barbie. When the French government discovered that the USA were protecting Barbie, they requested he be immediately handed over for execution under international law. The USA flatly refused and consequently gave Barbie a new identity and shipped him off to Bolivia.
If the USA could blatantly fly in the face of the International Nuremberg trials death sentence which they were actively participant in by protecting a psychopathic killer such as Barbie, why is it so unacceptable to believe that the allies would rescue Martin Bormann, the man with access to the hidden Nazi funds? If anything, there should have been a rabid race between the USA and Britain to see who could get to him first.
Pried loose by Congress, which passed the Nazi War Crimes Disclosure Act three years ago, a long-hidden trove of once-classified CIA documents confirms one of the worst-kept secrets of the Cold War � the CIA's use of an extensive Nazi spy network to wage a clandestine campaign against the Soviet Union.
The CIA reports show that U.S. officials knew they were subsidizing numerous Third Reich veterans who had committed horrible crimes against humanity, but these atrocities were overlooked as the anti-Communist crusade acquired its own momentum. For Nazis who would otherwise have been charged with war crimes, signing on with American Intelligence enabled them to avoid a prison term. 
-- Martin A. Lee   "San Francisco Bay Guardian"  7 May 2001  
Hans Globke was a  Nazi functionary working with Adolf Eichmann in the Jewish Affairs department who helped draft the laws stripping Jews of rights. After the war he rose to become one of the most powerful figures in the government. As national security advisor to Chancellor Konrad Adenauer, he was the main liaison with the CIA and NATO.
Julian Borger in Washington: 
 
On 23  May 1960, when Israeli prime minister David Ben-Gurion announced to the Knesset that "Adolf Eichmann, one of the greatest Nazi war criminals, is in Israeli custody", US and West German Intelligence services reacted to the stunning news not with joy but alarm. 
At the request of the West Germans, the CIA even managed to persuade "Life" magazine to delete any reference to Globke from Eichmann's memoirs, which it had bought from the family.
But it was not just Globke. When Eichmann was captured the CIA combed files it had captured from the Nazis to find information that might be useful to the Israeli prosecution. The results caused near panic among the CIA's leadership because, unknown to the junior staff who had looked through the files, a few of Eichmann's accomplices being investigated had been CIA "assets".
--- "Guardian" 8 June 2006 
The Nazis were also experimenting with technology extremely advanced for their time, and many Nazi scientists, evaluated as  being valuable resources for post-war America, were repatriated to the US under "Project Paperclip".
Between 1945 and 1965 there were numerous sightings of Bormann. Bormann�s former personal chauffeur, Jakob Glas, said that he had seen Bormann in Munich months after May 1945, as did many others.
Paul Manning, author, intelligence expert and former war correspondent claimed along with others that Bormann escaped. When Manning tried to publish his extensively researched 1981 book "Martin Bormann � Nazi in Exile", he was menacingly threatened. After finally getting a renegade publisher to agree to publish his work, within two weeks the publisher had his legs broken in a vicious and anonymous attack and shortly after Manning�s son was mysteriously murdered. In fact Manning�s story is very much in line with the former British Intel officer and author of "OPJB". Christopher Creighton states that Bormann escaped, as does former WWII British army General and war crimes investigator, Ian Bell. Bell can be seen on YouTube telling us that he saw Bormann being taken to a ship in Genoa and when he radioed back to his HQ command, he was told to follow but "do not apprehend".
Contrary to the survival story being told by those considered "crazy conspiracy theorists", there are many highly qualified and well versed investigators and former intelligence agents that tell us the story we teach our children at school is just that, a story.
Hugh Thomas, surgeon, international forensic expert and author of the 1995 book "Doppelg�ngers" wrote extensively about the Bormann forensics investigation that suggest Bormann died later than 1945. According to Jonathan Glancey of "The Guardian", Thomas�s "scalpel-sharp eye for detail" and second investigative work "Hess: A Tale of Two Murders", "precipitated a six-month Scotland Yard inquiry that saw its report immediately suppressed". Thomas confirms that the original Bormann medical reports in 1972 released only some and not all the information found under the microscope. While it is true the dentistry of the skull found was identified as Bormann, the official report failed to reveal to the public that there was dentistry performed in the skull, which could only have been done in the 1950�s due to the technology used. A man that died in 1945 is certainly not going to go to the dentist in 1950. Also, the skull "found" in Berlin was encased in a "red clay" type earth, exotic to Germany but local to a place in Paraguay, the very place that many investigators have traced Bormann to in his last years. Those last year�s being as late as 1968. Reinhardt Gehlen former senior Nazi, Cold war spymaster and head of the West German Intelligence network, also claimed that Bormann escaped to South America and died in Paraguay.
But probably some of the most disturbing work comes from Ladislas Farago. In 1974, Farago a brilliant military historian, WWII war correspondent and former civilian naval intelligence officer, published "Aftermath: Martin Bormann and the Fourth Reich". Farago, after a long and painstaking investigation on the ground in South America, much of which was spent accessing classified Argentine intelligence documents, presented his evidence including copies of said documents in his book. Not only did Farago examine and get the classified documents he accessed authenticated, he called in a team to join him on the ground in Buenos Aires to witness and document the authentication of such.
The formidable 1972 Buenos Aires team with Farago included former intelligence operative and New York attorney Joel Weinberg, Stewart Steven the Foreign Editor of the "London Daily Express" and four top Argentine attorneys; Dr. Guillermo Macia Ray, Dr. Jaime Joaquin Rodriguez, Dr. Silvio Frondizi the brother of the former President Frondizi of Argentina and Horacio A. Perillo, the former legal aid to the Argentine President Frondizi. Farago and his team�s conclusion was that Martin Bormann certainly escaped Europe in 1945 with the help of the Allies and went on to South America where he survived for many years, many of them in Argentina.
Even though Farago and his team were highly qualified to make an intelligent and thorough analysis and investigation on the documents made available to them, Farago�s publication was ignored and serious attempts were made to discredit him and the other members of the team. Precedence had been set, when it came to stating or even suggesting Bormann had survived, even experts like Farago, who was also the world�s leading expert on propaganda and clandestine psychological forms of espionage at the time, was not safe from character assassination, ridicule and criticism. It is blatant there were those that were determined to keep the 1945 Bormann death myth in force and such suppression of evidence continues to this day.
But not everyone ignored Farago�s book. The content and evidence produced by Farrago was so compelling that it attracted the attention of Dr. Robert M.W. Kempner, a former Nuremberg trial attorney who decided to reopen the Bormann investigation, based on Farago�s documentary evidence of survival.
Farago, Manning, Thomas and Kempner, are sadly long gone, but the Bormann investigation is far from a cold case, as a new generation of investigative journalists have reopened the dusty Bormann files and have enthusiastically picked up from where their predecessors departed. Recent research reveals that the Federal police archives in Argentina show that the FBI were sending agents to Argentina to follow the Bormann case and his financial trails well into the 1980�s. New elderly witnesses, who till recently refused to talk have also come forward in the past 3 years and startling new evidence has come to light that cannot be ignored and may very well lead to the undisputable discovery that Bormann did escape and lived for many years in South America with the protection of the allies.
One important witness is a former military ADC to Argentine General Juan Peron. This high ranking internationally decorated military officer had been the ADC to 7 Argentine presidents, a close personal friend of Chilean President Pinochet and was the sub chief of the tough Argentine Federal secret police and prominently involved in the dismantling of the Argentine narcotics traffic in the 1990�s. His taped testimony given in 2010 on the premise that it could only be revealed after his death to protect his family, is that he met Martin Bormann frequently in Buenos Aires in late 1952 and till the end of 1953. He also testifies that on the instructions of Peron, he organised the personal security for Bormann and escorted him to various meetings in Argentina. This highly credible witness also tells us that Bormann had been installed in a famous luxury hotel in Buenos Aires throughout 1953, which was owned by Germans.
The ADC also testifies that he was sent on a weekly basis to collect the Bormann bill from the hotel concierge which he was instructed to take directly to Peron, who paid the bill from his personal bank accounts. This man asked for nothing in exchange for his testimony, all he requested was that the truth be finally known after his death. The official died in 2012 and his testimony is now ready for publication.
Another recent elderly witness with ties to the FBI and CIA, is a former Naval Captain who was in charge of the security for the port of Buenos Aires. He tells us that not only was it common knowledge, but it is documented in the classified Federal police archives that Bormann was certainly living in Argentina in the 50�s and that the CIA were in Argentina keeping close tabs on Bormann�s South American movements as late as 1967.
The most controversy surrounds the author of the 1996 book "OPJB". Christopher Creighton writes that he was instructed by Lord Louis Mountbatten and Winston Churchill to reveal the truth of all the ops in which he was participant, 25 years after the death of both. According to Creighton, "OPJB" is not only the title of the book, but the operational code name given to the plan to rescue Bormann from Berlin. Documents have been seen and recently photographed which were written to Creighton from Lord Louis Mountbatten in 1976 which prove Creighton was not only certainly working for British Naval intelligence at the very highest level, but that Creighton was Desmond Morton�s Godson.
This new evidence puts in grave doubt spy writer Nigel West�s claims that Christopher Creighton is a "charlatan". There are also letters from James Bond author Ian Fleming to Creighton which testify to OPJB, the highly covert operation as being fact and that he based his James Bond Character on Creighton�s covert naval operations. How did Fleming know? Because according to verified letters from Fleming to Creighton, Fleming was not only part of the operation while he was a Royal Naval commander under the command of Desmond Morton for the British secret service, but he was the commander in charge of the rescue.
A British factual film company, "Christopher Robin Media Ltd", have in their possession an as yet unpublished 2013 interview of Creighton recorded only weeks before his death. The startling interview gives never before revealed details of various highly covert British Naval intelligence operations, including the assassination of French Admiral Francois Darlan and the operation to remove Martin Bormann from Berlin.
In 2007 a lady came forward to investigators with a story that she had been born in a German clinic in Brazil in 1952. This five foot two, blonde, green eyed lady, was found to be a well balanced, well educated and discreet and trustworthy member of her community, a far cry from a publicity seeking delusional self-promoter. Her adoptive father had been a senior naval officer for the  Dominican Republic dictator Radael Trujillo. She claims her adoptive father was entrusted with her in 1952, the year of her birth, after he was in Brazil negotiating arms deals between the Dominican Republic government and the German arms factories hidden in the Brazilian jungle.
In 1984 she contacted the Simon Wiesenthal centre after her adoptive father revealed on his death-bed that she was the daughter of "one of Germany�s three greatest men". Extremely distressed at this shocking revelation and wondering who it could possibly be, she with her attorney approached the Simon Wiesenthal Centre for help. Within weeks her attorney was anonymously threatened with his life and shortly after, dropped her representation after the SWC aggressively told him that they were not able to help and would not investigate due to "lack of funds". An unusual response from a wealthy organisation whose main objective has been to track down Nazi war criminals. Even Simon Wiesenthal himself believed till his death in 2005, a full 7 years after the 1998 DNA analysis that Bormann escaped and was frequently outspoken against the official version. It is shocking and detrimental to Wiesenthal�s memory, that those that now head the very organisation founded in his name have obstructed investigations and ridicule others that believe what Wiesenthal believed, Bormann escaped.
I contacted the SWC in 2010 to request copies of the investigation files held by the Simon Wiesenthal Centre on Martin Bormann. After three months of cold shouldering on their part, I finally managed to speak to the head of the organisation itself. I revealed the fact we were in touch with a lady that had been formally refused help by the SWC in 1985 and we had the documentation that the SWC refused to investigate due to "lack of funding". We were now soliciting their support to reopen her case and investigate, especially as the SWC had been avidly promoting and raising significant funding for their much publicised  "Operation Last Chance" - "a campaign to bring remaining Nazi war criminals to justice by offering financial rewards for information leading to their arrest and conviction". But rather like the famous Anna Anderson and Russian Grand Duchess Anastasia case, all efforts to access information on official files to see if this adopted woman has any Nazi blood connections have failed.
If Bormann did escape, then the adopted woman may very well be the daughter of Martin Bormann, not only because of the mysterious dynamics surrounding her birth, but photos of her, the officials involved, the timing of her birth and the fact investigators believe Bormann was in Brazil with Dr Josef Mengele in late 1951. Recent photos of the woman�s son show an uncanny similarity  with Martin Bormann�s eldest son Adolf. 
Access to genuine DNA of Martin Bormann or one of his children or grandchildren is now vital to the investigation, not only to make comparisons with potential offspring conceived post 1945, but also to compare with supposed Bormann DNA profiles in the Files held by various intelligence agencies.  If Bormann did indeed escape, those that covered it up are going to go to enormous lengths to hide any incriminating evidence. Bonafide DNA profiles of Bormann would be the last thing they would leave hanging around.
I was extremely surprised to discover that during the forensic analysis of the Bormann remains in 1998, only mitochondrial DNA was put on the record. And the Bormann relation that was used to confirm the identity of the skeleton was a Borman Maternal relative, not Martin Bormann�s son who was easily available for such. The mitochondrial DNA specifics were confirmed in a conversation I had with one of the doctors involved in the original 1998 investigation, which had been instigated by the West German Prosecutor. For those that are not genetically savvy, mitochondrial DNA could only be used to match a person or corpse to maternal blood relations. This means that the Martin Bormann DNA profile held on official documents is worthless for use for matching with any possible offspring or grandchildren.
One would have thought that after going to such extraordinary lengths of opening a through investigation and having such remains available for research, the scientists and doctors would have taken every possible bit of data possible, particularly DNA � they did not. And just to keep things really tidy, after the closing of the investigation, Martin Bormann, guardian to Nazi Germany�s post WWII wealth and classified technology, was promptly cremated and thrown "into the sea".
Those that work to uncover highly covert conspiracies have a hard time, whether it be on the Kennedy assassination, death of princess Diana or Martin Bormann, much of their compelling evidence can be at best circumstantial and it would not be a conspiracy if the organisers of such were sloppy enough to leave a paper trail or hot leads to expose their plot. The appeal is now for genuine Martin Bormann blood relatives to come forward, not only to cross match with the woman, but to cross match with the DNA profiles supposedly used to identify Bormann in 1998 and those held in official and public files. Of course if this woman does have Bormann DNA and being born in a German clinic in Brazil in 1952, it will once and for all put to bed the mystery and will vindicate all those that have sacrificed much to reveal what they believed to be the truth. Could that truth be that Martin Bormann escaped and went on to manage the vast funds accumulated by Nazi Germany with the help of Britain and the USA? And according to recent research, those vast funds were probably laundered through and invested into over 750 international companies with or without Bormann.
Since 1972, "official" historians and academics have spun their tales and told the world that Bormann certainly died near the Lehrter station in the early hours of 2 May 1945. This oral history is based on no more than unreliable witnesses, two of which were Nazis and a DNA match to a skeleton found in 1972.
DNA may prove that the remains are those of Bormann, but there is more evidence to prove that he was alive for at least 25 years after 1945. 25 years, in which he could have managed the vast Nazi wealth, including cash, gold, stocks, bonds, shares and priceless works of art. After all, with all the modern banking forensics available to date, not one single Intelligence agency or government claims that the vast, fat, booty has been found! Or has it?
Yet it has been officially written, printed, signed sealed and delivered, even into our children�s history lessons. Martin Bormann died in 1945 de-facto, the loot disappeared and anyone that tells you different is a deluded "conspiracy theorist".
Proving once and for all with new testimony, documentation and forensic science that Hitler�s handler, Martin Bormann survived, will redeem many damaged reputations and will certainly bury the myth and cause many a red face in the high end academic and "history" community. But more importantly, it will open a very nasty can of worms and raise many more complicated and embarrassing questions to those agencies and governments that will have knowingly perpetrated the Bormann death myth for the past 70 years.
Only a handful of countries hiding under the umbrella of neutrality continued to trade with the Nazis during the war. The table below reflects the change in gold reserves of Nazi Germany�s primary trading partners. The figures are in millions of dollars.
Country
1040
537
Obviously, not all the increase can be attributed to the Nazis. However, the figures do set an upper limit. Further, since the only currencies not accepted globally were the German Mark, Italian Lira, and Japan Yen, the neutral countries continued to accept the US Dollar and British Pound. Additional evidence comes from the declared deposits of Swiss banks which had soared from Swiss Franc [SF] 332 million in 1941 to SF 846 million in 1945. Again not all the increase in deposits can be attributed to the Nazis but it does set an upper limit of half a billion dollars.
The Foreign Office conducted a vigorous campaign warning neutral countries about accepting gold from the Nazis. The United States Department refused to support the measure until July 1943, when the alarming increase of gold reserves of the neutral countries became apparent. Even then the support from the State Department was at best cool.
The countries listed above are not mere accidents. Without the raw materials supplied by Sweden, Spain, Portugal, and Turkey, the Nazis would not have been able to conduct war. Sweden supplied vitally needed high-grade iron ore. Turkey supplied Hitler with chromate. Portugal and Spain supplied wolfram. All three metals were needed to produce war munitions and heavy armor. Chromates were used to harden steal for armor while wolfram or tungsten was used primary in machine tools. Nazi sources for both metals were extremely limited and they were forced to rely almost one hundred percent on these countries.
Considering South America was a prime refuge for the Nazis after the war it is instructive to look at changes of the gold reserves of South American countries, particularly Argentina. Argentina�s gold reserves increased from 313.83 metric tons in 1940 to 1064 tons in 1945. The increase in the gold reserves of Argentina in terms of dollars, was a whooping $635,000,000 dollars. To put that figure in perspective the U.S. budget for 1940 was approximately $9.4 billion dollars. Brazil also saw an increase in gold reserves from 45 metric tons in 1940 to 314 tons in 1945, or an increase of about $228,000,000 dollars.
The above reserve figures shed some light on the destination of some of the Nazis� loot. How much of the increase in South American gold reserves came from Germany near the end of the war to finance the Nazis� planned comeback is still unknown.
What's the true story on South American Nazis? After World War II why would countries like Argentina and Paraguay want them
After the war Argentina and Paraguay were run for years by nationalist strongmen, Juan Peron and Alfredo Stroessner respectively.
Argentina had remained officially neutral until early 1945, when economic pressure forced it to throw in with the Allies, but until that point was in intimate contact with Hitler's regime and the fascist Franco government in Spain. Postwar Brazil was still fascist-friendly, a legacy of deposed dictator Getulio Vargas.
The leaders of these countries nurtured fraternal feelings for fleeing Nazis, but  not all fugitives from the Third Reich ended up in South America � quite a few  headed for Spain or the Middle East, and the U.S. imported a crowd of Nazi rocket scientists during Operation Paperclip.
The true story of how war criminals wound up in the land of the gauchos has never been fully told, and even now it's difficult to separate fact from fiction. Leading candidates for chief enabler of the great escape include:
�  Odessa. Part of the popular consciousness ever since Frederick Forsyth's best-selling 1972 novel "The Odessa File", this secret group [acronym for "Organization der ehemaligen SS-Angeh�rigen" - Organization of Former SS Members] supposedly used stashed war booty and connections in high places to spirit Nazis out of reach of the Allies. Nazi hunter Simon Wiesenthal says he first heard about Odessa during the Nuremberg trials, and in his 1989 book "Justice, Not Vengeance" he seems convinced it exists, or rather existed. He offers little evidence, though, and others have their doubts. Even some believers say the organization was amateurish and short-lived.
� The Catholic church. The claim that members of the Catholic hierarchy were instrumental in obtaining documents, cash, and safe passage for many escaping Nazis is only barely scandalous these days. The benign view is that individual clerics acted out of humanitarian concern, believing they were aiding refugees from postwar communist persecution, and were unaware of their charges' sordid pasts. Others say the Vatican knew quite well what was going on but wanted former Nazis as allies in its struggle against the Reds.
After the war, the Vatican, the OSS, the SS [Schutzstaffel] and the various branches of SMOM [Sovereign Military Order of Malta] joined to do battle against the common Soviet enemy-and to help Nazi war criminals escape.
Catholic monasteries and convents were used as safe houses for war criminals on their way to Latin America. Sometimes the  U.S. Army's Counter Intelligence Corps [CIC] supplied false documents, while church organizations provided the means of escape
That the Vatican, OSS and the CIC were a party to such arrangements is shown by files that Justice Department investigators discovered in the 1980s.
� All of the above plus Peron. Argentine journalist Uki Go�i, in "The Real Odessa: Smuggling the Nazis to Peron's Argentina" [2002], offers what amounts to a synthesis of earlier theories. The "real Odessa," he says, consisted of about a dozen energetic ex-Nazis and Nazi collaborators from several nations, including a few wanted war criminals, working in concert with the Peron regime and sympathetic Catholic officials in both Europe and Argentina.
Go�i makes a plausible case that the cabal, which was organized in Buenos Aires following Peron's election as Argentina's president in 1946, orchestrated the emigration of hundreds, perhaps thousands of Nazis and other unsavory types to the country in the late 1940s and early 1950s. [He also claims that the cabal was based at the presidential palace, and that many of its members were given important jobs in Peron's government]. The old Nazis made frequent trips to Europe to troll for more fugitives; some war criminals had to be smuggled out, but in other cases countries were glad to unload their troublesome Nazi refugees. Visas and landing permits were handed out freely, the chief concern being that no communists or Jews be allowed in by mistake. How many ex-Nazis made it to Argentina is not known. Go�i says he identified 300 during six years of research, and it's easy to believe there were many more.
Notwithstanding his 591 footnotes Go�i concedes that many key Argentine records that would have corroborated his story have been destroyed. Still, he avoids the overheated claims of other writers, and the plain fact is that all those Nazis did not wind up in South America by coincidence � they were going where they were welcome. As for the details? Given the current worldwide consensus that Nazis represent the ultimate human evil [and the resulting disinclination of officials in Argentina and elsewhere to come clean], Go�i's book may be as close as we'll get to the truth.
Juan Domingo Peron and Argentina's Nazis
By Christopher Minster
After World War Two, Europe was full of former Nazis and wartime collaborators in once-occupied nations. Many of these Nazis, such as Adolf Eichmann and Josef Mengele, were war criminals actively searched for by their victims and Allied forces. As for collaborators from France, Belgium and other nations, to say that they were no longer welcome in their native countries is an epic understatement: many collaborators were sentenced to death. These men needed a place to go, and most of them headed to South America, particularly Argentina, where populist president Juan Domingo Per�n welcomed them. Why did Argentina and Per�n accept these desperate, wanted men with the blood of millions on their hands? The answer is somewhat complicated.
Per�n and Argentina Before the War
Argentina had long enjoyed close ties with three European nations above all others: Spain, Italy and Germany. Coincidentally, these three formed the heart of the Axis alliance in Europe [Spain was technically neutral but was a de facto member of the alliance].
Argentina�s ties to Axis Europe are quite logical: Argentina was colonized by Spain and Spanish is the official language, and much of the population is of Italian or German descent due to decades of immigration from those countries. Perhaps the greatest fan of Italy and Germany was Per�n himself: he had served as an adjunct military officer in Italy in 1939-1941 and had a great deal of personal respect for Italian fascist Benito Mussolini. Much of Per�n�s populist posturing was borrowed from his Italian and German role models.
Argentina in World War Two
When the war broke out, there was much support in Argentina for the Axis cause. Argentina technically remained neutral, but aided the Axis powers as actively as they could. Argentina was teeming with Nazi agents, and Argentine military officers and spies were common in Germany, Italy and parts of occupied Europe. Argentina bought arms from Germany because they feared a war with pro-Allied Brazil. Germany actively cultivated this informal alliance, promising major trade concessions to Argentina after the war. Meanwhile, Argentina used its position as a major neutral nation to try and broker peace agreements between the warring factions. Eventually, pressure from the USA forced Argentina to break relations with Germany in 1944, and even formally join the Allies in 1945 a month before the war ended and once it was clear that Germany would lose. Privately, Per�n assured his German friends that the declaration of war was just for show.
Important Argentines were Sympathetic
During World War Two, Argentina clearly favored the Axis because of close cultural ties with Germany, Spain and Italy. This is not surprising, as most Argentines were of Spanish, Italian or German descent. Nazi Germany nurtured this sympathy, promising important trade concessions after the war. Argentina was full of Nazi spies and Argentine officers and diplomats held important positions in Axis Europe. Per�n's government was a big fan of the fascist trappings of Nazi Germany: spiffy uniforms, parades, rallies�and rampant anti-Semitism. Many influential Argentines, including wealthy businessmen and members of the government, were openly supportive of the Axis cause, none more so than Per�n himself, who had served as an adjunct officer in Benito Mussolini's Italian army in the late 1930's.
Although Argentina would eventually declare war on the Axis powers [a month before the war ended] it was partly a ploy to get Argentine agents in place to help defeated Nazis escape after the war.
They still had many friends in Europe
It's not like World War Two ended one day in 1945 and suddenly everyone realized how horrible the Nazis had been. Even after Germany was defeated, there were many powerful men in Europe who had favored the Nazi cause and continued to do so. Spain was still ruled by the fascist Francisco Franco and had been a de facto member of the Axis alliance; many Nazis would find safe, if temporary, haven there. Switzerland had remained neutral during the war, but many important leaders had been outspoken in their support of Germany: these man retained their positions after the war and were in a position to help out. Swiss bankers, out of greed or sympathy, helped the former Nazis move and launder funds. The Catholic Church was extremely helpful: several high-ranking church officials [including Pope Pius XII] actively helped the Nazis escape.
There was Money Involved
There was a financial incentive for Argentina to accept these men. Wealthy Germans and Argentine businessmen of German descent were willing to pay the way for escaping Nazis. Nazi leaders plundered untold millions from the Jews they murdered and some of that money accompanied them to Argentina. Some of the smarter Nazi officers and collaborators saw the writing on the wall as early as 1943 and began squirreling away gold, money, valuables, paintings and more, often in Switzerland. Ante Pavelic and his cabal of close advisors were in possession of several chests full of gold, jewelry and art they had stolen from their Jewish and Serbian victims: this eased their passage to Argentina considerably. They even paid off British officers to let them through Allied lines.
The Americans and British didn't want to give them to communist countries
After the war, communist regimes were created in Poland, Yugoslavia and other parts of Eastern Europe. These new nations requested the extradition of many war criminals in allied prisons. A handful of them, such as the Ustashi General Vladimir Kren, were eventually sent back, tried and executed. Many more were allowed to go to Argentina instead, because the Allies were reluctant to hand them over to their new communist rivals, where the outcome of their war trials would inevitably result in their executions. The Catholic Church also lobbied heavily in favor of these individuals not being repatriated. The Allies did not want to try these men themselves [only 23 men were tried at the famous Nuremberg Trials], nor did they want to send them to the communist nations that were requesting them, so they turned a blind eye to the Ratlines carrying them by the boatload to Argentina.
Active Aid for Nazi Refugees
Although it�s never been a secret that many Nazis fled to Argentina after the war, for a while no one suspected just how actively the Per�n administration aided them. Per�n dispatched agents to Europe � primarily Spain, Italy, Switzerland and Scandinavia � with orders to facilitate the flight of Nazis and collaborators to Argentina. These men, including Argentine/German former SS agent Carlos Fuldner, helped war criminals and wanted Nazis flee with money, papers and travel arrangements. No one was refused: even heartless butchers like Josef Schwammberger and wanted criminals like Adolf Eichmann were sent to South America. Once they arrived in Argentina, they were given money and jobs. The German community in Argentina largely bankrolled the operation through Per�n�s government. Many of these refugees met personally with Per�n himself.
Per�n�s attitude
Why did Per�n help these desperate men? Per�n�s Argentina had actively participated in World War Two. They stopped short of declaring war or sending soldiers or weapons to Europe, but aided the Axis powers as much as possible without exposing themselves to the wrath of the Allies should they prove victorious [as they eventually did]. When Germany surrendered in 1945, the atmosphere in Argentina was more mournful than joyous. Per�n therefore felt that he was rescuing brothers-in-arms rather than helping wanted war criminals. He was enraged about the Nuremberg Trials, thinking them a farce unworthy of the victors. After the war, Per�n and the Catholic Church lobbied hard for amnesties for the Nazis.
They Were an Essential Part of Per�n's "Third Way"
By 1945, as the Allies were mopping up the last remnants of the Axis, it was clear that the next great conflict would come between the capitalist USA and the communist USSR. The geo-political situation in 1945 was more complicated than we sometimes like to think. Many people � including most of the hierarchy of the Catholic Church � believed that the communist Soviet Union was a far greater threat in the long run than fascist Germany. Per�n and some of his advisors, predicted that World War Three would break out as soon as 1948. In this upcoming "inevitable" conflict, third parties such as Argentina could tip the balance one way or the other. Per�n envisioned nothing less than Argentina taking its place as a crucially important diplomatic third party in the war, emerging as a superpower and leader of a new world order. The Nazi war criminals and collaborators may have been butchers, but there is no doubt that they were rabidly anti-communist. Per�n thought these men would come in useful in the "upcoming" conflict between the USA and the USSR,  they were veteran soldiers and officers whose hatred of communism was beyond question.  Some had  even gone went so far as to declare early in the war that the USA should ally itself with Germany against the USSR. Per�n was one such man.
For a brief moment in the early 1950s, Argentina stood at the forefront of      aviation development, a result of a      bold undertaking envisioned to push the Argentinean industry into a      completely new era. Alas, it was not to materialize.
In the post-war world,  many qualified German personnel found their way to Argentina.
Documents reveal that the head of the Swiss Federal Police, Heinrich Rothmund, and the former Swiss intelligence officer Paul Schaufelberger participated in the activities of the illegal Argentine emigration service in Bern.
For instance, one urgent telegram from Bern to the Swiss Legation in Rome stated:
"The [Swiss] Police Department wants to send 16 refugees to Argentina with the emigration ship that leaves Genoa 26 March [1948]. Stop. All of them carry Swiss ID cards and have return visa. Stop".
Besides political sympathies, the Peron government saw an economic pay-off in smuggling German scientists to work in Argentine factories and armaments plants.
The Argentinean government was quick to approach the arguably most talented of all German aircraft constructors, Dipl. Ing. Kurt Tank. Famous for the immortal Focke-Wulf  Fw 190/Ta 152 series of fighters, Tank was not slow to pick the chance of starting his professional life again. He managed to collect a large team originating from the Focke Wulf design bureau and established himself in C�rdoba in 1947.
From the late 1944, his team had been working on a 2nd generation jet fighter for the Luftwaffe under the designation Ta 183 Huckebein. It was an advanced jet, extraordinarily compact in size and aerodynamically clean, sporting a 32� swept wing, and accommodating a Heinkel He S011A jet engine which would bring it to calculated maximum speed of 967 km/h at an altitude of 7000 meters.
Equipped with the  invaluable aerodynamic research data from this project, all Tank had to do was to finalize his ideas and produce a prototype aircraft. What Tank didn't know was that the very same data were simultaneously worked upon in the Soviet Union for development of an aircraft that would eventually become the MiG-15.
Like the MiG-15, the chosen powerplant for the Pulqui II was s Rolls Royce Nene II. The Nene was more powerful than the He S011A but required a redesigned new fuselage with a larger cross-section due to it having a centrifugal rather than axial compressor. The resulting product was the IAe.33 Pulqui II.
The new fighter was a real beauty. The high-mounted negative-incidence wings were swept back  40�, even more than the Ta 183. The long fuselage was perfectly circular in section with the engine buried inside right at the center of gravity. The airframe was finished off with a graceful swept-back T-shaped tail. The pilot sat in a pressurized cockpit under a teardrop canopy. Armament would include four fuselage-mounted 20mm cannon. Many elements incorporated into the Pulqui II were totally new in the fields of aeronautical construction, placing the Argentinean aero industry amongst the most advanced during those years.
The economic crisis that hit Argentina beginning in 1953 forced the slowing down of armament development programs. The high-cost high-profile Pulqui II project was halted, first temporarily, but the fall of Peron administration in 1955 meant it was never to recover. Kurt Tank moved on to another projects, first trying to return to Germany but then moving on to India. Most of his team ended up leaving Argentina to find work in the United States and other countries. Kurt Tank himself was not to return to his life and work in Germany until 1970s, where he died in 1983.
 Legacy of Argentina's Nazis
In the end, these Nazis had little lasting impact on Argentina. Argentina was not the only place in South America that accepted Nazis and collaborators: many eventually found their way to Brazil, Chile, Paraguay and other parts of the continent. Many Nazis scattered after Peron's government fell abruptly in 1955; fearing that this sudden, fundamental shift in Argentine politics and another government � especially a civilian one � would not  protect them as Per�n had.
Most of the Nazis who went to Argentina lived out their lives quietly, fearing repercussions if they were too vocal or visible. This was particularly true after 1960, when Adolf Eichmann, architect of the program of Jewish genocide, was snatched off a street in Buenos Aires by a team of Mossad agents and whisked off to Israel. There he was tried and executed. 
Hitler�s Deputy Bormann Was with Eichmann in Argentina; Ex-envoy Reports
Jewish Telegraphic Agency
10 May 1961 
TEL AVIV - Martin Bormann, Hitler�s deputy, who was at first believed to have been killed in Berlin in 1945, but was later reported to have escaped to South America, was in Argentina when Adolf Eichmann was captured there last year, a former Argentine diplomat told a press conference here today.
The diplomat, Dr. Gregario Topolevsky former Argentine Ambassador to Israel, said that Bormann, who was living in Argentina under another name, fled to Brazil when he heard about Eichmann�s capture in May last year. [Dr. Fritz Eauer, chief prosecutor at Frankfurt, Germany, reported only last Sunday that he has �virtually certain proof� that Bormann is alive and hiding "outside Germany"].
In 1966, Argentina extradited Gerhard Bohne to Germany, the first Nazi war criminal formally sent back to Europe to face justice.
Other wanted war criminals were too cautious to be found: Josef Mengele drowned in Brazil in 1979 after having been the object of a massive manhunt for decades.
However, by the 1990's most of these ageing men were living openly, under their own names. A handful of them were eventually tracked down and sent back to Europe for trial, such as Josef Schwammberger and Franz Stangl. Others, such as Dinko Sakic and Erich Priebke, gave ill-advised interviews which brought them to the attention of the public: both were extradited [to Croatia and Italy respectively] tried and convicted.
As for the rest of the Argentine Nazis, most assimilated into Argentina's sizeable German community and were smart enough to never talk about their past. Many went on to become productive members of Argentine society, albeit not in the way Per�n had envisioned, as advisors facilitating Argentina�s rise to a new status as major world power, and some of these men were even quite successful financially, such as Herbert Kuhlmann, a former commander of the Hitler youth who became a prominent businessman
In the long run, Argentina was probably hurt more than helped by these fugitive Nazis.
The fact that Argentina had not only allowed so many war criminals to escape justice, but had actually gone to great pains to bring them there, became a stain on Argentina�s national honor and informal human rights record.
 
 
New Evidence exposes Hitler�s Secret Refuge after World War II
Mounds of evidence in the past couple of years are making it harder and harder to accept the death of Hitler in 1945. As people continue to talk about having seen Hitler after his alleged death and new [un]classified documents seem to confirm eyewitness testimonies, a documentary called Revealed: Hitler in Argentina is attempting to set the record straight. In an interview with the "Voice of Russia" the filmmaker Noam Shalev talked about the new pieces of information that can effectively reveal the truth about when and where Hitler really died.
"For many residents living in Argentina around the time of World War II, they have come to understand a different take on Hitler�s legacy. Numerous eyewitnesses have spoken out about seeing Hitler, talking to him, or hearing about him in their region after 1945, the supposed year of his death.
"Then they described their executive consensus of how they met him, how they knew it was Hitler, what they were told from people who knew this person that they saw," Noam Shalev, creator of the documentary "Revealed: Hitler in Argentina" said. A portion of testifiers, who were all unpaid, claimed they had some form of contact with the German dictator.
Indeed, feedback from locals though may not be convincing enough for history buffs and the mass public to accept. However, documented reports from archives in Argentina started to become declassified just one decade ago. Researchers who got a hold of those files found the information impossible to disregard.
"During this 10 years researchers and historians got access to the archives, found many interesting documents from the 30s and from the 40s including up to 45 from which they�ve concluded, that  regardless of eyewitness reports that there is substance to this story," Shalev admitted to the "Voice of Russia".
Reports from the archive also point out that government officials knew that Hitler was laying low within their borders.
The feasibility of Hitler making a last-minute escape from Berlin was apparently accepted by the most senior Soviet officers.
 
 "Overwhelming circumstantial evidence?"
The circumstantial evidence overwhelmingly
points to Hitler's escape. In fact, there seems to be more evidence that Hitler lived, than there is that he committed suicide in the Bunker in Berlin.
On 2 May 1945, the Soviet official newspaper "Pravda" declared:
"The announcement of Hitler�s death was a fascist trick" designed to facilitate Hitler's escape.
On 10 June 1945, the commander of the Soviet Zone in Germany, Marshal Georgy K. Zhukov, stated that Hitler "could have taken off at the very last moment, for there was an airfield at his disposal".
The Soviet commandant of Berlin, Col. Gen. Nikolai E. Berzarin, said:
"My personal opinion is that he has disappeared somewhere into Europe�perhaps he is in Spain with Franco. He had the possibility of taking off and getting away". 
On 30 July 1945, General Alexander Gorbatov, the Soviet military chief of a Berlin occupied by the Allied forces, told the international press that Hitler could "be alive and hidden" in some part of the world.  
L�on  Degrelle  was a Belgian politician, who founded Rexism and later joined the Waffen SS, as a leader of its Walloon contingent, which were front-line troops in German combat operations against the Soviet Union.
Degrelle was promoted directly to SS-Brigadef�hrer and Generalmajor der Waffen-SS by Heinrich Himmler on 2 May 1945; an entry to this effect appears in his Soldbuch, however this promotion cannot be considered official as Himmler had been stripped of all SS and Party posts by F�hrer order on 28 April 1945.
After Germany's defeat, L�on Degrelle fled first to Denmark and eventually fled to Norway, where on 7 May, he commandeered a Heinkel He 111 aircraft, allegedly provided by Albert Speer.
 
The Heinkel He 111 was intended to provide the nascent Luftwaffe with a fast medium bomber.
Perhaps the best-recognised German bomber due to the distinctive, extensively glazed "greenhouse" nose of later versions, the Heinkel He 111 was the most numerous Luftwaffe bomber during the early stages of World War II. The bomber fared well until the Battle of Britain, when its weak defensive armament was exposed. Nevertheless, it proved capable of sustaining heavy damage and remaining airborne. As the war progressed, the He 111 was used in a variety of roles on every front in the European theatre. It was used as a strategic bomber during the Battle of Britain, a torpedo bomber in the Atlantic and Arctic, and a medium bomber and a transport aircraft on the Western, Eastern, Mediterranean, Middle Eastern, and North African Front theatres.
The He 111 was constantly upgraded and modified, but became obsolete during
the latter part of the war. The German Bomber B project was not realised which forced the Luftwaffe to continue operating the He 111 in combat roles until the end of the war. Manufacture of the He 111 ceased in September 1944, at which point, piston-engine bomber production was largely halted in favour of fighter aircraft.
With the German bomber force virtually defunct, the He 111 was used for logistics.
The plane ran out of gasoline, and Degrelle was severely wounded in a crash-landing on a beach in  Donostia-San Sebasti�n in northern Spain.
At the beginning of May, Pierre Laval, the former Vichy French prime minister, was flown to Spain aboard a Ju 88. [Franco would expel him, and he would be executed by his countrymen in autumn 1945].
A night flight would not have been particularly dangerous.  It would be assumed by all concerned that only Allied aircraft would be in the air by that time and the profile of some German military aircraft was similar to the profile of some Allied aircraft [the Junkers 88 could be mistaken for a 'Mosquito' bomber] so any challenge would be unlikely.
It was reported that the Berlin ambassador of Italy�s rump Fascist republic, Filippo Anfuso, had also escaped late in April 1945, apparently aboard a �Croat plane".
As early as 26 April 1945, Moscow Radio had charged that Spain was receiving Nazi refugees at an airfield on the Balearic island of Minorca. Quoting Swiss sources, the Soviets said:
"To supervise the business, Gen. Jos� Moscardo, an intimate of Franco � visited Minorca last month. Recent arrivals at the airdrome are the family of [Robert] Ley [head of the German Labor Front] and several Gauleiters".
Whatever the popular image of total Allied air superiority over Western Europe in the last days of the war, in reality it was unnecessary to maintain total surveillance of thousands of cubic miles of sky; the remnants of the Luftwaffe were encircled in an ever-decreasing area. For Allied fighter pilots it was a "target-poor environment"; the very fact that air-to-air encounters were at this point so rare argues that single machines flown by intrepid, experienced, and lucky German airmen could slip across it unnoticed.
Since it is established that  Degrelle was flown all the way from Norway�and according to Friedrich Arthur Ren� Lotta von Argelloty-Mackensen, via T�nder in southern Denmark�to northern Spain as late as 8 May, there is certainly nothing inherently impossible about Hitler having beaten him to it at the end of April 1945.
There is no official record of Degrelle�s plane stopping at T�nder, but details of the flight remain obscure, and it is plausible that it could have landed there to top up its fuel tanks before the long flight south. There is a photograph of Degrelle in Oslo, standing next to a Heinkel with the identification letters �CN� visible on the fuselage.
On 19 June 1945, the London Daily Express�under the headline "Is Hitler in Spain?"�described the arrival of a German trimotor aircraft carrying a mysterious passenger who was "saluted deferentially despite his civilian clothes.� His face muffled in a raincoat, the passenger stepped from the plane to the smart Nazi salute of its crew, then took off in a Spanish plane to an unknown destination. The German plane reportedly was dismantled".
-- See also 'Claim Nazi Officials Arrive in Spain', "Telegraph Herald", 21 June 1945
Abel Basti asserts that the F�hrer managed to flee to Argentina in a submarine after being flown by plane from Berlin to Barcelona, maintaining that the Nazi dictator was embarked on a submarine in the Galician coast, "in all likelihood in Vigo".
"I have at least one Spanish testimony that places him physically in the Cantabrian town of Somo, in an old inn called Las Quebrantas.  A 94-year-old Jesuit, whose family members were friends of the Nazi leader knows the story, and I have witnesses that allude to meetings he had with his entourage at the place where they stayed in Cantabria.
"Hitler was brought by plane from Berlin to Barcelona. The next clue appears in Somo and, according to the documents and testimonies that we have obtained, was embarked on a submarine in the Galician coast. There is the possibility that he left from Vigo or Ferrol, but it is almost certain that he did from Vigo, according to Britain�s MI6".
Vigo, the port of embarkation in the alleged escape of Hitler to Argentina, according to Basti, was during World War II an important supply base for the German submersibles -as can be seen in the famous Hollywood film "Das Boot", directed by Wolfgang Petersen.
U-Boats refueling in Ireland
There is a persistent rumor that one or more [usually more] U-Boats used Ireland as a refuel base in the war. Ireland was neutral for the duration of the war, but tilting somewhat to the Allied side.
There is no evidence of this to have taken place, in fact most data counters this. After so many years a crew member from one of those boats would have spoken up if true.
"There seems to be a good deal of evidence, or at any rate suspicion that U-Boats were being succored from West of Ireland ports by the malignant section with whom De Valera dare not interfere,� Churchill wrote.
"If the U-Boat campaign becomes more dangerous we should coerce Southern Ireland".
At a cabinet meeting on 24 October 1939 Churchill argued that the Dublin government should be told that "the use of the ports in Ireland by the Royal Navy was essential to the security of the Empire, and that the present attitude adopted by Ireland in that matter was intolerable". He wanted to seize Irish bases, but Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain rejected the idea by warning that this "would have most unfortunate repercussions in the United States".
The help Prime Minister, Eamonn De Valera gave the Germans was to refuse Britain the use of airfields and submarine bases in Ireland which would have set back the U-Boat operations in the Atlantic.
Another neutral nation did allow U-Boats to refuel in at least the port of Vigo, Spain. This was all done very clandestine at night from interned German merchant vessels there.
In the depths of the river estuary, in front of the C�es Islands, are the wrecks of four Nazi submarines sunk by English aviation.
The journalist Eduardo Rolland figures 37 German submarines, with 1,400 crew, were sunk in waters of the Galician south.  At least eight U-Boats were supplied in Vigo [U-29, U-43, U-52, U-77, U-96, U-434, U-574 and U-575].
Kriegsmarine U-Boats in Spain and Portugal during WW II
"The activity of the Nazi submarines in the Galician coasts became so intense in the first years of the war that Churchill came to plan an allied landing in the zone of Doni�os - an action that was scrapped when they built the code-breaking "Enigma" machine and managed to decipher Nazi submarine fleet messages and the course of submarine warfare was reversed.
"In addition, a document of the British secret services reveals that in those days, a Nazi submarine convoy left Spain, and after stopping in the Canary Islands, it continued its journey to the south of Argentina.
"Hitler and Eva Braun traveled onboard one of these submarines, which later arrived in Patagonia between July and August of 1945, under the de facto President Edelmiro Farrell and later Juan Domingo Peron, then his Minister of War. There is also another important document mentioning that the FBI was looking for Hitler in Spain after World War II".
"Antony Beevor, who is also in favor of the official theory of suicide, writes about an obscure episode that suggests  the corpse of a second Hitler -also with mustache and transverse bangs- was found in the Bunker, which was discarded for wearing mended socks, something that seemed improper for the F�hrer.
On 2 May 1945, around 9 am,, the first Russian combat troops arrived at the Bunker complex unopposed. They were followed by the Russian search teams of �SMERSH�, equivalent of CIC of the Allieds.
SMERSH [acronym of Spetsyalnye MEtody Razoblacheniya SHpyonov or Special Methods of Spy Detection, but also referred to as SMERt� SHpionam; "Death to spies"] was an umbrella name for three independent counterintelligence agencies in the Red Army formed in late 1942 or even earlier, but officially founded on 14 April 1943.
The Narodnyy Komissariat Vnutrennikh Del [The People�s Commissariat for Internal Affairs] abbreviated НКВД [NKVD] soldiers captured more than 50 officers and men who were still there in the Bunker complex, including Johannes Hentschel, the German-Danish master electro-mechanic for the Bunker complex, who since the field hospital in the Reich Chancellery above needed power and water, had opted to stay even after everyone else had either left or committed suicide during the night.
One search team found an old oak water tank which contained many dead bodies. They pulled out a particular body that resembled Hitler.
The dead man was one of Hitler�s doubles, named Gustav Weler. The Russians mistakenly believed the body to be that of Hitler because of his identical moustache and haircut.
The security personnel in the Bunker, responsible for Hitler�s safety, may have had Weler, a Doppelg�nger or Body-double of Adolf Hitler, to camouflage and help Hitler escape, if Hitler decided to take part in a breakout. But, after Hitler�s death, they would have realized that any double if found would be an embarrassment, and therefore disposed of him by shooting in the forehead, in an attempt to confuse the Russian troops.
When Lieutenant Colonel Ivan Klimenko, the leader of one of the search teams, returned to the Bunker the next day, 3 May 1945, he found the body resembling Hitler, displayed prominently in the main hall of the Reich Chancellery. Ignoring the darned socks, worn by the dead man, Klimenko assumed the crucial problem of finding Hitler dead or alive had been solved.
On the following day, 4 May 1945,  Ivan Dmitriyevich Churakov, a Russian soldier, climbed into a nearby bomb crater strewn with burned paper, and saw some partly burnt furry object. He called out to Lieutenant Colonel Alexej Alexandrowitsch Panassow, "There are legs here". They started to dig and pulled from the crater two dead dogs, and digging further they found the burnt bodies of a man and a woman.
At first Klimenko did not even think that the two burnt corpses might be that of Adolf Hitler and Eva Braun. Since he believed that Hitler�s corpse was already displayed prominently in the Chancellery and only needed to be positively identified, he therefore ordered the newly discovered burnt cadavers to be wrapped in blankets and reburied.
On 5 May 1945, Klimenko while pondering over his finding the burnt bodies of a man and a woman from the  crater rushed back and had the two bodies exhumed, and transported to Pl�tzensee Prison. There he was ordered to send them on to the 496th Field Hospital in Buch, a German locality within the Berlin borough of Pankow.
"If a historical judgment were made on Hitler's fate, one can assure that there is already more evidence that he has escaped than those related to the alleged suicide.  As the basis of his alleged death there is only the declaration of a handful of fanatic Nazis....who told the same story.  But there are no experts of the place of the suicide, since no elements related to his death were found. 
"There was no murder weapon, no bullets on the walls or ceiling, no corpses in Hitler's office.  Except for a small pool of blood that could not be shown to belong to the German Chancellor.  Nor is there a single testimony that Hitler was seen being shot.  Or a photo of the corpses in the place of the suicide or burning in the supposed funeral pyre.  Several corpses were found in the gardens, some burned, and a couple of them were attributed to Hitler.  But in the forensic tests it was shown that none had the measurements or the physical characteristics of the Chancellor of the Third Reich. 
"After the war, Stalin wanted to try Hitler in Nuremberg, and in the American Senate a reward of a million dollars for his head was even offered.  Germany, having no death certificate or corpse, declared him dead in 1956 on presumption of death.  So for Germany, Hitler was alive from 1945 to that date. During those years, Hitler had the legal status of a person alive, without conviction or prosecution against him. And consequently, no warrant.
The Berchtesgaden magistrate, who heard 42 witnesses and issued the death certificate for Hitler on 25 October 1956, announced:
"There can be no more doubt that Hitler at the F�hrerbunker on 30 April 1945 died by his own hand, by a shot into the right temple".
"The episode mentioned by Beevor of the two bodies of Hitler found in the Bunker obviously suggests the theme of the F�hrer's doubles, never officially recognized as it would overthrow the acceptance of the official thesis".
On 25 May, Degrelle was quoted as "expressing his belief that Adolf Hitler is alive and is in hiding". A Spaniard who saw him in the hospital said Degrelle had spoken of visiting Hitler in Berlin the day before the Russians entered the city; the F�hrer had been preparing to escape and was in no mood for either suicide or a fight to the death.
The government of Franco in Spain initially refused to hand him over to the Allies [or extradite him to Belgium] by citing his health condition. After further international pressures, Francisco Franco permitted his escape from hospital, while handing over a look-alike; in the meanwhile, Jos� Finat y Escriv� de Roman� helped Degrelle obtain false papers. In 1954, in order to ensure his stay, Spain granted him Spanish citizenship under the name Jos� Le�n Ram�rez Reina, and the Falange assigned him the leadership of a construction firm that benefited from state contracts. Belgium convicted him of treason in absentia and condemned him to death by firing squad.
While in Spain, during the Franco dictatorship, Degrelle maintained a high standard of living and would frequently appear in public and in private meetings in a white uniform featuring his German decorations, while expressing his pride over his close contacts and "thinking bond" with Adolf Hitler. He continued to live undisturbed when Spain became democratic after the death of Franco with the help of the Gil family.
Hitler's Refuge
The Northern Miner [Charters Towers, Qld] 
4 September 1944
NEW YORK - Signs that Hitler and other high Nazi officials intend to seek refuge in Spain are reported by authoritative circles   here, says the New York 'Herald Tribune's Washington correspondent.
These sources disclose tbat the German Embassy in Madrid is buying a   large number of cots and mattresses which are expected to be occupied by   distinguished visitors, who will arrive   with little or no baggage after a hasty   departure from a country not far distant from Spain.
The "Herald Tribune" points out that   the reports appear to add significance to the US. Secretary for State, Cordell Hull's statement that the   Allies are aware that Hitler may attempt to escape to a neutral country.   Diplomatic circles predict that if   the Nazis reach Madrid the Spanish   Government will permit them to remain, thus creating a crisis between   Spain and the Allies. Sanctions might   then be enforced against the Franco   regime, causing Spain to surrender the   Nazis to the Allies.
Hitler Died In U-Boat,   Says Bottle Message
The Sun [Sydney, NSW] 
27 November 1946
LONDON � A bottle found on a beach 18 miles   from Copenhagen [capital of Denmark] contains a message dated 10 November 1945, stating   that   Hitler did not did not   die in an air-raid Bunker beneath his Chancellery in Berlin   on 30 April 1945 [when the Russians were besieging the city,   as testified to by the British Intelligence Service], but in a U-Boat while en route from Finland   to Spain.
The newspaper   "Beriingske Tidende," states that the   note said that the submarine collided   with a wreck near Gedser lighthouse.   The note reads: "These are the   last lines of one of the survivors of the   U-Boat 'Nauecilus' in which Hitler was   hidden".
The "American Associated   Press" reports that the letter was written on a page of the U-Boat's log book   and signed Hans Routenburger. The 'Reuters' correspondent says the bottle was washed   ashore one hundred miles from Gedser   lighthouse, which is the area in which   the wreckage of the U-Boat was found.
In his 1947 book, "Speaking Frankly", James F. Byrnes recounted a conversation he had with Stalin at the Potsdam Conference on 17 July 1945:
�I asked the Generalissimo [Stalin] his views of how Hitler died. To my surprise, he said he believed that Hitler was alive and that it was possible he was then either in Spain or Argentina.  Some ten days later I asked him if he had changed his views and he said he had not".
Robert Ley, the head of the German Labor Front since 1933, committed suicide while awaiting trial for war crimes at Nuremberg in October 1945. During his interrogation, however, Ley stated that when he last met Hitler in the Bunker during April, the F�hrer had told him to "Go south, and he would follow".
Albert Speer, Hitler�s armaments minister, said much the same about a meeting in the Bunker on Hitler�s birthday, 20 April:
"At that meeting, to the surprise of nearly everyone present, Hitler announced that he would stay in Berlin until the last minute, and then "fly south".
Those who argue that Hitler survived the Bunker have three difficulties. First, there is the problem that Hitler had again and again said he would commit suicide at the end. Second, there is the problem of how Hitler could have escaped from Berlin at that late hour with Soviet troops less than a kilometer away. And, third, the difficulty of how Hitler�s new location in the Alps or on the Pampas or on Franco�s private estate in Galicia was kept secret for so many years.
It is perhaps natural to believe that oppressive dictators will die in a similar way that they caused others to die � poetic justice is most satisfying. But strangely, we see it happening only with the second tier of dictators � those who only have national, not international aspirations. So Qaddafi died of bullet wounds, Sadam was hanged. The most important personages don�t seem to die from violence or from legal proceedings. Stalin may have been poisoned by  his doctor. Napoleon died on St. Helena. Ivan the Terrible, Oliver Cromwell and Mao seemed to have died naturally. So why would Hitler go against the grain?
His escape to Argentina or Antarctica may not be probable in his physically unhealthy condition.
One possible theory is that Hitler only put on his shaking and other illness symptoms near the end in 1945 so that his staff would get the impression that he was a hopeless physical wreck, totally incapable of escape, and in the event that they were captured [and most were] and the Russians asked: "Did Hitler escape?" they could explain that he was a "wreck" like they saw him so the Russians would not think that he escaped.....After all he was a master of deception.
Also, if he was that ill he was quick enough to jump on tables, jump up from chairs, and wave his arms around in the air while he shouted at the top of his lungs at his staff when he became angry about something. His shaking would suddenly stop!!   
But he may have temporarily escaped to a secret Bunker in the southern mountainous region only he knew of in specific detail. He died there perhaps due to his untreated illnesses. Dental records would be that of his doubles.
Authority figures in Argentina were not alone. Irrefutable evidence points out that the US government had their eye on Argentina until the late 40s. The FBI, which had posts in Argentina and Washington DC at the time, wrote up reports on their sightings and the existence of Hitler in Argentina from 1945 until 1949.
In the event that Hitler did live on, the burning question still remains�whose charred bodies were actually found.
"Nobody could know but there were so many bodies in the area of the Bunker," Shalev commented. Even after carefully looking over the single still photo taken of what appears to be Hitler in the garden, it is hard to admit if it is really him or not.
"If they were taken before, this is a manipulation that even 70 years ago you wouldn�t need Photoshop in order to create something like this but it looks weird, it looks strange, it looks out of place," Shalev said about the way the moustache appeared on Hitler�s face.
Russian soldiers snapping one photo of the body, then quickly burning it sounds odd, to say the least.
"This is one of the biggest achievements of the war and that�s it? Immediately burn the body and finish everything," Shalev commented and said in that situation, something was wrong.
Contends Hitler is Alive
Mudgee Guardian and North-Western Representative [NSW] 
15 July 1940
What will Hitler do when he finds, as he is bound to do    sooner or later, that he has lost   the war?   Will he kill himself, as in    Munich he once promised he   would? Or will he allow himself to be taken prisoner?   Will he be incarcerated on another Elba � another St. Helena? Or will he seek a self imposed exile at another Doorn?
A London correspondent writes:
On the mountain peaks high   above Berchtesgaden Hitler has   built an astounding retreat, approached only by a single mountain   road and a passenger lift. There he might go in the final hours of   his fall, to await the verdict of   destiny.    Even at the last, Hitler's optimism might lead him to think that,   he can escape from his enemies and   live a life of security.
There is ample evidence to show   that the leaders of Nazi Germany   already have their escape plans,   and laid away some useful nest-eggs against their day of defeat.   Defying their own laws against   keeping banking accounts outside   Germany, they have scattered funds   in practically every country in   Europe, purchased securities in   South America, and even bought   ranching lands in the Argentine.
Until 1937, an account in Swiss   francs in Hitler's name was actually kept by the Swiss Bank Corporation in Switzerland. Subsequently it is said to have been   transferred to London, where it   now appears as a deposit in the   name of a nominee on the books   of a foreign bank.
There is nothing new in this.   Even Napoleon had a London banking account.
Not long ago a Buenos Aires   newspaper revealed that a large   ranch had been purchased for Hitler on the Pampas. An immediate   denial was promptly issued by the   local German consulate. Shortly   afterwards the newspaper carried   the field when it actually published   a photograph of the lease and signature. It wasn't in Hitler's writing; but it was in that of his chief   accountant, Max Amann. And the   ranch has ever since merely been   run by a German-born manager "for the proprietors".
In 1920 Hitler suggested that Max Amann should become the full-time business manager of the National Socialist German Workers Party [NSDAP]. Amann rejected the offer with the argument that he had secure career prospects and a pension to look forward to at the bank, while employment by the little Nazi Party would mean a substantial cut in salary and an uncertain future. Hitler replied "What good will your pension be if someday the Bolsheviks string you up from a lamppost?" Amann considered the offer for three days before finally accepting the job.
William L. Shirer described Amann as "a tough, uncouth character but an able organizer".
James Pool, the author of "Who Financed Hitler: The Secret Funding of Hitler's Rise to Power" believed that Hitler had made an excellent choice in Amann: "Efficient, parsimonious, incorruptible, and without personal political ambition, Amann was exactly the right man for the job. He brought a commonsense business approach to Party affairs".
To ensure against ever being   brought to ground by his opponents, Hitler has built up an elaborate system of fortifications. His new Chancellery in Berlin has the   biggest bomb-proof cellar in the   Reich. Built to hold thousands of   men, it Is equipped with hospitals   and storerooms. Hitler and his   henchmen could live in safety,   if they wished, for years on end.   Deeper still, a hundred feet below the ground, there is said to be   another cellar. Into this, at the last   moment, the Nazi chiefs could bolt,   slamming steel doors behind them,   and escaping through secret tunnels to exits far from the heart of   Berlin.
At the exits, so it is said, two   powerful cars are always kept waiting, with food, money and jewels, the chief needs of a refugee.
Hitler Mystery Deepening
Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate [NSW] 
12 September 1945
LONDON - The mystery surrounding the fate of Hitler   is deepening.   British intelligence authorities have   issued a warning that a "Hitler   legend" is gaining ground in Germany.   The renewed search for Hitler or   for definite proof of his death is   being intensified, according to a report from the Berlin correspondent   of the London "Daily Express".   Allied authoritics are concerned at   reports in certain newspapers that   Hitler has been seen recently. These   stories are encouraging more rumours,   which the occupation authorities are   anxious to avoid.   Latest Berlin reports link up with   the Hamburg theory that Hitler may   have escaped in a luxury yacht. A   woman who sheltered regularly at the   Chancellery and escaped at the last   minute says she saw Hitler and Eva   Braun alive in   the Chancellery shelter. They could   have got away after she left, as the   end did not come until 24 hours later.
The "Daily Express" correspondent   adds:
"British intelligence authorities   know that during that time at least   two cars left the Chancellery along   a road leading to the coast and along   which orders had been given that   bridges were not to be blown up. No   trace of these two cars has so far   been found and nobody has been able   to establish who was in them.
"Another Berlin woman says a   general, whose home is near Hamburg and whose name was never   announced in the lists of captured   soldiers - went to the Chancellery   during the last few hours with a car   fuelled for a long journey and also   stacked with wine and food. The general declared he was going to Hamburg after calling at the Chancellery.   This man was one of Hitler's earliest   friends, and some Germans think he   may have changed his name and may   still be at large in the Hamburg   area".
Built   into the equipment of Hitler's   "Flying Chancellery" his Fock-Wulf   plane, there were such embellishments as gold hair brushes and a   safe, stuffed with actual cash, or   items which might be transformed   into cash in time of need.
Along every road out of Berlin,   so an enterprising American newshawk discovered, Hitler's chauffeur   has planted stores of petrol. Hitler's super-charged Mercedes sportscar is always kept ready.
Berchtesgaden itself has been quitted in   favor of a more remote house in   the mountains, which could not be   easily surrounded. It possesses at   least one secret entrance, and also   enjoys a bomb-proof cellar.
Was Stalin was correct in his statements to his western Allies in 1945, telling them that Hitler [and Eva Braun] were still alive?
Hitler's death, at the end of World War II, assumed to be by his own hand, remains unproven. This assumption was the result of what many conceive as a conspiracy by the Western Powers, bowing to political pressures and to fight Nazism, to come up with Hitler's suicide story. This then would explain Hitler's disappearance from Nazi Germany after Germany's defeat.
By mid-1945, the public was being asked to choose between a proliferating number  of escape stories and the suicide theory. All in all, the evidence supporting Hitler's escape to  Argentina is pretty flimsy. And yet, so is the evidence that Hitler died in the Bunker. It rests on testimony provided by fellow Nazis who were fanatical  devotees of Hitler. As such, its not hard to imagine they might have lied to help  their former Leader.
However, the public was given the impression  that only the suicide theory had any evidence to support it and deserved to be  taken seriously.
Hitler's chauffeur Erich Kempka evidence not only became the basis for Major Hugh-Trevor-Roper's book, "The Last Days of Hitler", it was also endorsed at Nuremberg as the sole source of reliable information  concerning Hitler's demise.
The primary reason Kempka's story won such a  positive reception from the Anglo�American authorities was that Kempka was the  sole source of evidence that appeared to support the suicide theory.
Kempka also contradicted  Soviet claims that Hitler could have escaped.
In his 4 July 1945 interview  record, he declared:
"[With a]  statement reported to have been made by the Russian Marshall Chukov [sic] that  Hitler and Eva Braun could have escaped from the Berlin area by air, I can't  agree. On 30 April 1945 and two or three days previous, no one could possibly have  left the inner parts of Berlin by air. There was a heavy artillery fire on all  the inner parts of Berlin during those days. Neither did I hear about a plane  arriving or leaving after 25 or 26 of April 1945".
Unfortunately for Kempka, one of the best-attested events of the last  days of the Third Reich is that of a flight piloted by General Robert Ritter von  Greim and Hanna Reitsch that arrived in Berlin on the morning of 26 April. The  same pair took off from Berlin in the early hours of 29/30 April. Reitsch herself  not only spoke about the two flights on numerous occasions between 1945 and her  death in 1979 but also devoted a chapter,  'The Last Journey to Berlin',  to them in her autobiography "Flying Is My Life", Putnam's Sons, New  York, 1954. The Greim�Reitsch flights were not even the only flights  in and out of central Berlin in this period. In her book, Reitsch refers to at  least two others.
In the final days of April 1945 there was a huge millitary airlift by the Nazis to fly naval personnel from Baltic garrisons to Berlin to shore up its defences.
Squadron "Mau�" operating Ju-352s from Rostok flew in 476 naval troops on 27 April 1945. Oberfeldwebel Paul Kohler operated Ju-352 G6+EX, another Ju-352 G6+RX was operated by StFw Kurt Becker.
OltZSee Clemens Zuborg recalled after the war witnessing two Ju-352 unloading about 80 sailors at the Reichs Chancellery.
During the late spring of 1942, the Junkers-Dessau project office was instructed by the Reich Air Ministry to investigate the possibility of redesigning the structure of the Junkers Ju 252 transport to make maximum use of non-strategic materials, steel tube, fabric and wood, and replacing the Junkers Jumo 211F engines of the
Ju-252 with Bramo 323R radial engines. The result but was an entirely new aircraft. The 'Herkules' followed closely the aerodynamic design of the Ju-252 but the wing was mounted further aft on the fuselage,
a new vertical tail was designed, and the semi-circular windows of the Ju-252 were replaced with square windows. The Ju 352 also had a similar Trapoklappe ["Transportklappe", rear loading ramp] to that of the
Ju-252, allowing the loading of vehicles or freight into the cargo hold while holding the fuselage level.
 
One of these aircraft received heavy Soviet ground fire stopping two of its three engines and was forced to make a crash landing which miraculously its pilot OFw Herbert Schultz, his crew and passengers all survived.
Hitler's own VIP squadron F.d.F, which had three Ju-52 aircraft, one Ju-290 and two Fw200, all of which kept landing and taking off from the East West Axis, flew Schultz and his crew out of Berlin, back to their unit at Gro�enbrode on 29 April.
The Ju 52 that had "successfully managed to land" on the Ost-West-Achse on 28 April and then taken-off again was flown by Oberfeldwebel B�hm from II./TGr 3. This was reported by another young Ju 52 pilot from this unit, Uffz. Johannes Lachmund who described events in his 2009 memoir, "Fliegen ; Mein Traumberuf � bis zu den bitteren Erlebnissen des Krieges". Although a pilot Lachmund flew on this sortie as a gunner. Lachmund records that this mission was flown from G�strow to Berlin with five aircraft to evacuate high-ranking personnel from Berlin, including Ritter von Greim. As Lachmund reports, three of the five Ju 52s had to return after missed approaches, chiefly because the visibility was so poor from the heavy smoke from the fires everywhere on the ground. One Ju-52 was shot-down by the Soviets during the approach.
Lachmund mentions discussions via telephone from the "air traffic control" command-post at the Siegess�ule [Berlin's Victory column] between B�hm and the Bunker in the Reichskanzlei. There was apparently some dispute over the passengers to be flown-out, chiefly because Hanna Reitsch wanted to fly out Ritter von Greim herself at the controls of the Arado Ar-96, and not leave Berlin as a passenger on this Ju-52 flight. Eventually, the Ju 52 boarded only a few other wounded passengers but not the VIPs. Because of damage to the 'runway' from shelling, the Junkers transport had only 400 metres in which to get airborne.
Hitler�s personal pilot Hans Baur, promoted by Hitler on 30 January 1945 to SS-Gruppenf�hrer, saw Hitler on the morning of 30 April and offered to fly him out in a Fieseler Storch, but Hitler declined the offer.
Given that the  evidence from other sources is abundant enough to establish that they actually  took place, there is something extremely suspicious about Kempka's assertion  that no such flights would have been possible.
The explanation that best  accounts for events, therefore, is that Kempka sought to suppress his knowledge  of the two flights. When Kempka first gave his story to the Americans in June  1945, he had no reason to believe that they knew anything at all about them.  There is a very good reason why Kempka would not have wanted to mention these  flights: the cover story�that Greim flew to Berlin to receive instructions from  Hitler, who had just made him the new head of the Luftwaffe�is preposterous. Why  would Hitler, who was anxious for everyone else to leave Berlin, want someone to  come to him? Why would he have been so keen to talk to the head of an almost  nonexistent entity?
The official story fails to justify Greim and Reitsch's extremely dangerous flight.
It also does not explain why the pair's flight from  the Luftwaffe air base at Rechlin near Berlin to Gatow airport on Berlin's  periphery was accompanied by an escort of 30�40 fighter jets�in other words, the  extant Luftwaffe virtually in its entirety.
Clearly, the flight had a more  serious purpose than we have been led to believe. 
In a  striking passage in his memoirs, former Volkssturm member Dieter H. B. Protsch relates an incident that took place in Berlin on 29 April 1945. That day, which  happened to be his thirteenth birthday, in the course of searching for food for  his family he stumbled upon a basement occupied by several Waffen-SS men  operating radio equipment who gave him bread and chocolate:
"After some small talk about the family, they  suddenly stopped talking when the radio operator raised his hand to demand  quiet. The 'Funker' [Radio Operator], wearing a head set, started smiling and  stated that 'der F�hrer' got his belated birthday present. He explained further  that he [Hitler] made it safely out of Berlin, flown out by his personal pilot  Hanna Reitsch, Germany's best female test pilot. The report stated that she was  flying a small one engine, two or three seater plane, a so-called 'Fiseler [sic]  Storch'.
--  Dieter H. B. Protsch, "Be All You Can Be:  From a Hitler Youth in WWII to a US Army Green Beret", Trafford Publishing,  2004 
Thus the truth seems to be that, exactly as the Soviets  subsequently alleged, Hitler did indeed make it out of Berlin � more or less  around the time that the official story tells us that he was still in the Bunker  dictating his Political Testament�and that Erich Kempka knew precisely when and  how this had taken place, but withheld the information from the Americans.
According to Reitsch, the flight reached Rechlin at about 3.00 am. Here, she  states, Greim attended a conference. Then she and Greim flew�apparently using a  different aircraft�to Pl�n, a distance of some 400 miles. Their next  destinations were Dobbin, where Field Marshal Wilhelm Keitel was [Keitel confirms in his memoirs, "In The Service Of The Reich: The Memoirs of  Field Marshal Keitel", ed. Walter G�rlitz, Focal Point Publications, London,  2003, that he was at Dobbin this day, thus  confirming Reitsch's reliability. He adds the striking information, which  Reitsch does not mention, that Himmler was at Dobbin, too].
L�beck,  Pl�n again ["to see D�nitz"], and finally K�niggr�tz [in Bohemia, now Hradec  Kr�lov� in the Czech Republic.
If we assume, that Hitler was present during at least the first of these several stages, we  can say that at Rechlin the trail goes cold. If Hitler left Berlin with Greim and Reitsch, then that would account for the series of bizarre events�the  marriage to Eva Braun, the writing of the Political Testament, the recurring  rages�that have been enshrined in official history as "the Last Days of the  Third Reich".
Obviously, Hitler's last days in the Bunker needed to be accounted  for and so a lurid series of episodes had to be invented to fill in the yawning gap.
In a 2007 interview, Rochus Misch, Hitler�s bodyguard, phone operator and courier  said:
�Life in the Bunker was pretty normal. Hitler was mostly very calm".
He said historians, filmmakers and journalists always got it wrong when they described the mood in the Bunker as Soviet forces closed in on Hitler in the final days of the Nazi regime.
 Life in the bunker was pretty normal. Hitler was mostly very calm. It was much less dramatic than shown by many historians." But there was one disconcerting element: the silence. "Everybody was whispering, and nobody knew why. That's why it felt like the Bunker of death".
Theo Junker, the former Waffen-SS soldier with the Viking  division, stated that while he was held at a British POW camp for  SS and Waffen-SS in Neuengamme after the war, he met a former
SS telephonist in  the F�hrerbunker, who told him that Hitler was basically cool, calm,  collected�and
very much in command�right up until his last day. Despite all the  stress, he never "cracked up".
Baron Freytag von L�ringhoven who was the last survivor among the close advisers of the F�hrer said: "Hitler could be very aggressive but towards the end he was very controlled.
He could be pleasant and even warm. He could be very charming - he was a real Austrian".
Hitler undoubtedly had a magnetic personal appeal.  This has been confirmed many times
by members of his household - those that knew him best and saw him most often and, crucially, when
off-duty - all of whom testified to his immense personal charm; his bourgeois manners, his sense of humour and his caring, avuncular nature towards his secretaries.
On another level, Hitler also had the knack of impressing those who visited him in his headquarters. 
He tended - according to those that met him - to use his striking blue eyes
to great effect, holding his gaze on a new arrival to "test" them, for instance.  Hitler proved himself most adept at convincing his underlings of his point of view, not always by ranting and raving [though that
also played a part, especially as the war turned against him], but by persuasion.  There are countless examples of military men coming to the F�hrer-HQ urgently seeking to convince Hitler of their opinion, and coming away equally passionately convinced of Hitler's.  
Arthur Kannenberg, Hitler's butler, in an interview conducted at Nuremberg three years after the war by 
US judge Michael Musmanno, said: "'Before the end he [Hitler] gave me gold and silver cigarette cases engraved with his name. When he handed them over he said; 'Look after these until we meet again'.
Stalin stated to Harry Hopkins, political consultant and confidant of Presidents Roosevelt and Truman, and later secretary of state, that Soviet agents reported Bormann�s escape from Berlin late the night of 29 April in a small plane and in the company of three men � one heavily bandaged � and a woman. From there, Stalin insisted, his agents traced Bormann to Hamburg, where he boarded a large U-Boat and departed Germany.
"Irrefutable proof exists that a small plane left the Tiergarten  at dawn on 30 April 1945, flying in the direction of Hamburg.  Three men and a woman are known to have been on board. It is also indisputably established that a submarine left Hamburg before the arrival of the British troops, taking several passengers, including a woman".
 
-- From a Soviet Intelligence Commission of Inquiry Report, as quoted by  James McGovern, CIA agent in charge of researching the post-war survival  of Martin Bormann
"Stalin told Harry Hopkins in Moscow that he believed Bormann escaped.  Now he went further and said it was Bormann who got away in the fleeing  U-Boat.  More than that Stalin refused to disclose".
-- William Stevenson, author "The Bormann Brotherhood"
British Field Marshall Bernard Montgomery was reported in early September 1945 to have said British Intelligence received a report of Bormann in Hamburg the night of 1 May, apparently verifying Stalin's assertion that Bormann had been flown to Hamburg, or else how would he have gotten there so fast.
SS General Wilhelm Mohnke, however, confirmed to the Soviets that Bormann escaped to the Hamburg area with British assistance.
Stalin later reiterated his belief, claiming that Bormann was being harbored by the United States government in his escape and continued freedom.  The Allies, led by the United States, refused to give this story credence and ignored Stalin's demands for an explanation, and, in fact, began claiming in defense that the Soviets held Bormann. But Stalin insisted until his death that his was the correct account of Martin Bormann's fate.
Why would Stalin make such a claim? What did he stand to lose if it was true? What value could he gain from such an assertion if he knew it was false? And if it were true, why would the United States discount it out of hand?  These seem to be the obvious questions concerning the matter. But equally important, though much less glaring, are the small questions; the questions about the innocuous details that make up the fabric of Stalin's very specific story.
If Stalin was not telling the truth, why would he include such unique and seemingly contestable details as the fact the airplane carried four people when the only two airplanes capable of using the ad hoc runway in Berlin on 30 April, the Fieseler Fi-156 'Storch' and the Arado Ar-96, were designed to carry only two. Why did he include a woman in the escape party when it would be almost inconceivable that a woman would be on such a desperate and dangerous mission? And why would Stalin assert the escape was continued from Hamburg on a "large" U-Boat?" The Allies were fairly certain that all but two of Germany's largest U-Boats had been sunk during the war, and one of those was in the Pacific. The chances seem slim that such an escape as Stalin described was ever made.
The description of Bormann's getaway boat as a large U-Boat links the escape to the U-234, not just because U-234 was by comparison extremely large, but even more so because it appears to have been the only boat of its mammoth size left in Europe. 
 U-234 was originally built as a minelaying, Type XB U-Boat.  These double-hulled, triple-sized U-Boats were designed to seed strategically chosen bodies of water with high-explosive mines. The Allies became so adept at detecting and eradicating these mines before any harm was caused, however, that the Type XB quickly became obsolete.  There was but a handful of Type XBs ever built: U-116 through U-119, U-219, U-220, U-233 and the mysterious U-234.  When the Type XB proved not to have the impact for which it was designed, the boats were refitted as supply vessels for the 'Wolfpack' boats sinking Allied convoys on the battlefront in the Atlantic.
Compared to the Wolfpack boats, however, Type XB U-Boats were huge, more than 1600 tons displacement when surfaced, while the ubiquitous Type VII U-Boats that constituted 75 percent  of Germany's submersible fleet, were 500 tons - less than one-third the size of a Type XB.  The other popular U-Boat, the Type IX, was larger than the Type VII at anywhere from 740 to 1100 tons. But the Type XB was 50 percent larger than even these more common front boats that, combined with the smaller Type VII, constituted almost the entire remaining U-Boat fleet.  Russian observers of U-Boats were probably accustomed to both the Type VII and the Type IX and probably would not have differentiated them by size as out of the ordinary. 
Type XBs, however, were almost unknown. As noted, there had been only eight of them made. U-116 through U-220, with the exception of U-219, were all sunk in the year between the first of October 1942 and the end of October 1943. U-219 had fortuitously avoided this fate by being stationed in the Pacific immediately upon commissioning, having left Bordeaux, France on 23 August 1944 for Djakarta, Indonesia, where it arrived on 11 December 1944.
In the South Pacific it was far away from Europe and Bormann and the fierce Atlantic fighting when the war in Europe ended.  When Germany surrendered, U-219, still in the Pacific, was turned over to the Japanese Imperial Navy to continue the war under the flag of the Rising Sun.  U-233 had been sunk before commissioning, leaving U-234 as the only remaining "large" Type XB U-Boat available in Europe at the time of Bormann's alleged escape. 
The Type XIV U-Boat was the only other U-Boat larger than the popular Type IX and comparable in size to the Type XB.  Like the XB, few of these boats were made - only ten - which were all built and operational by the end of 1942.They were designed and used as a refueling boat for the Wolfpack vessels, and, as a result, like the XB, had a very high mortality rate.  The sinking of a single Type XIV shortened the combat patrols of approximately twelve fighting U-Boats, so Allied anti-submarine efforts concentrated on what the German U-Boaters affectionately called their 'Milk Cows'. 
The process of refueling was dangerous, requiring the Type XIV fuel supply boat and its recipient lie still in the water for hours on end during the fuel transfer process.  During this time, both boats were vulnerable to attack, which happened often, at which the panicked crews would quickly detach the umbilicals and both boats would execute emergency dives.  The smaller fighting boat, with its more compact size, greater maneuverability, and with its more disciplined, battle-seasoned crew, would invariably be the first to maneuver out of harm's way, leaving the clumsy behemoth Type XIV at the mercy of the enemy.  It was an easy target. 
None of the Type XIV U-Boats survived to the end of the war, all ten had suffered the fate of the majority of Type XBs by the end of 1943.  The only other large U-Boat built was the Walther U-Boat, the XXI, which was designed and under construction, but not operational, before the end of the war.  
U-234, therefore, was the only "large" U-Boat left in the Reich's fleet that would most closely fit Josef Stalin's escape boat description. 
The actual escape of Bormann as told by Joseph Farrell [citing several sources] involved German U-Boat 234, carrying Uranium 235, a necessary isotope for the Atom bomb.
The argument is as follows:  The Americans were struggling to gather enough of the necessary ingredients for the atomic bomb through their Manhattan project.  The Nazis had created enough of the isotope to build several such bombs but missed by a few months of being able to mount it on a A-10 rocket [under development] to send it to New York as a deadly greeting card. 
The projected A-11 three stage
satellite launcher
Bliss
1946
Consequently, one explanation is that Bormann made a deal to trade the Uranium, surrendering it to the Americans in exchange for his freedom.  Another suggests that the Americans and British were most certainly going to protect the U-234 on its mission to help America�s bomb building efforts.
Hitler had the atomic bomb and transferred it to the Allies, who then threw it on Japan, under a last-minute agreement, when Berlin fell and the defeat of the Third Reich was inevitable.
This statement corresponds to the confession of the Nazi scientist Erwin Oppenheimer, who worked in secret on the real atomic program of Nazi Germany. After finishing the war, he began to perform duties in the United States along with hundreds of German colleagues who, like him, crossed the Atlantic in the framework of the alliance between the Nazis and the Americans. Living in North America, he decided to tell the truth about the Nazi bomb assuring that the Germans, when they were ending the war, already had the nuclear weapon and not the Americans.
He did so in a small book that was quickly removed from the market by the American authorities. In it he affirmed that the Nazi atomic bomb on "the twentieth of April [of 1945] was finished" and that "the existing Uranium reserve was immediately used in the construction of four other artifacts".
That same day, during an interview, the Italian leader Benito Mussolini, by surprise, assured that Hitler already had three atomic bombs.
Italian dictator Benito Mussolini, in a "Political Testament" written shortly before his death at the hands of partisans in April 1945, stated:
"The wonder weapons are the hope. It is laughable and senseless for us to threaten at this moment, without a basis in reality for these threats. The well-known mass destruction bombs are nearly ready. In only a few days, with the utmost meticulous intelligence, Hitler will probably execute this fearful blow, because he will have full confidence.... It appears there are three bombs - and each has an astonishing operation. Th e construction of each is fearfully complex and of a lengthy time of completion".�
Mussolini�s mention of three bombs is intriguing because of a statement of a former Russian military translator who served on the staff of Marshal Rodion Malinovsky, the officer who took Japan�s surrender to the Soviet Union in 1945.
As reported by the German magazine "Der Spiegel" in 1992, Piotr Titarenko had written a letter to the Communist Party Central Committee, in which he stated that the three atomic bombs were dropped on Japan. One of these, dropped on Nagasaki prior to the blast of August 9, 1945, failed to detonate and subsequently was given to the Soviet Union by Japanese officials.
If Titarenko�s account is accurate, this would mean that America had three atomic bombs on hand in the summer of 1945. Yet, a report to Manhattan Project leader Robert Oppenheimer just days after President Roosevelt died on 12 April 1945, stated that not enough enriched uranium existed to create a viable critical mass for even one atomic bomb.
According to Oppenheimer's account, Hitler's original plan was "to launch a Uranium bomb over London," but then he changed his mind and opted to negotiate with the Allies.
The devastation of London or New York would not have materially altered the course of the war in the spring of 1945. And the retaliation of the Allies would have been unimaginable. Further, high-ranking Nazis, such as Hitler�s secretary Martin Bormann, who by war�s end had become the second most powerful man in Nazi Germany, realized the war was lost, and used advanced technology as a bargaining chip with the Western Allies. 
In this regard, the Nazi scientist said he does not know exactly how the bomb moved to the United States, but said that was the case when the conflict was coming to an end.
The Uranium weapon dropped on Hiroshima was a German nuclear weapon captured by US forces from an underground facility near Goslar on 26 April 1945. It was flown out of Germany by Col. Charles Lindbergh in a B-24. Lindbergh who at the time was employed as a consultant to the Naval Technical Mission Europe.
Other than addition of the so called California Brake tail fin the device was entirely German manufacture.
Germany had developed a far superior uranium enrichment project to the Manhattan Project's using Anschutz Mark IIIB Uranium centrifuges and thus overtook the Manhattan Project during 1944.
It was fear of Anthrax attack by Great Britain which inhibited use of nuclear weapons by Hitler. A threat conveyed via the German legation at Lisbon in July 1944 conveyed a threat to Hitler that Germany would be targeted by the first allied atomic bomb at Dresden.
The Trinity bomb exploded near Alamogordo, New Mexico, on 16 July 1945, was a plutonium bomb. Why then would the United States first drop the "Little Boy", an untested Uranium bomb, on Japan on 6 August 1945?
"A rational explanation is [that] 'Little Boy' was not tested by the Americans because... [t]he Americans did not need to test it, because its German designers already had,� surmised Joseph Farrell.
This idea is supported by the statement of German authors Edgar Meyer and Thomas Mehner that J. Robert Oppenheimer, the "father of the atomic bomb," maintained that the bomb dropped on Japan was of "German provenance".
In that sense, he said that "out of a handful of atom scientists and some politicians, everyone believed that the two bombs that crushed Japan in August 1945 were American-made. Actually, as I should find out later, these bombs were Hitler's secret weapon".
Erwin Oppenheimer, after the end of the war, worked on the United States nuclear project and in that regard revealed that "the real American bombs, which can be called atomic bombs, were only launched at the beginning of May 1948 in Eniwetok, This happened three years after the terrible nuclear attacks against Hiroshima and Nagasaki [previously to the launch at Eniwetok, they  had been tested in the reef of Bikini, in 1946].
"So while making sure that in 1945 Hitler did not have the bomb, and the Americans instead, the truth was exactly the other way around. And, as if this were not enough, the German atomic bombs fell on Japan, paradoxically the great partner of the Third Reich during World War II", Oppenheimer explained.
-- "The Secrets of Hitler", Abel Basti, Editorial Sudamericana.
A transcript of a top-level call between two military experts, General John E. Hull and Colonel L. E. Seeman, on 13 August 1945, about atomic bomb production in the next few months, reveals that there was one ready to be shipped out to Tinian, in the Mariana Islands where the 'Enola Gay' and 'Bockscar' had flown from, with the main plutonium core about to be shipped from the U.S. at that very moment. According to Seeman, it would be ready for use on 19 August.
Although some aircrew saw "Tokyo Joe" chalked on the bomb�s casing, it was said to be destined for Kokura, the original target for the second bomb, and named "Fat Boy".
On 15 August, however, just as the plutonium was about to be sent to Tinian, news of the Japanese surrender came through and its loading was stopped.
Bormann was well aware of this precious cargo and hitched a ride on the "protected" submarine to Spain, where he holed up for a year, before he moved on to Argentina.
Several details of these events ring true:
-- First, a makeshift runway is now well-known to have been operating in the Tiergarten to service the F�hrer Bunker during the last days of the war, although at the time of Stalin's comment that knowledge was not so wide spread.  Albert Speer, Hitler's Munitions Minister, described flying into the stop-gap landing strip on the occasion of Hitler's fifty-sixth birthday - celebrated a week before Bormann's mysterious escape - when the Russians were still at the outskirts of Berlin.
-- According to Speer, as an airplane prepared to land or take off, a detachment of SS soldiers would light a series of lanterns placed along both sides of the wide avenue that stretched from the Brandenburg Gate to the Reichs Chancellery.  The airplane would use the strip and then the lanterns quickly would be extinguished again.
-- Second, the great German aviatrix, Hanna Reitsch, a contemporary of Amelia Earhart's and close friend of Adolf Hitler, had flown into Berlin only a few days previous to the mysterious escape flight. [Reitsch had in the past received personally from Hitler the Iron Cross [the only woman to do so] both first and second class, for bravely test piloting the flying capabilities of a V-1 rocket, which had been modified with a cockpit.  Now, she had piloted a Fieseler Storch airplane to bring Luftwaffe General Robert Ritter von Greim to Berlin so Hitler could make him the overall commander of the Luftwaffe in place of the recently dethroned Goering.  During the flight into Berlin, von Greim was injured by enemy anti-aircraft shrapnel.
-- It is a well-known fact that while Berlin was being bombed and the Nazi leadership fell into panic or fled, Martin Bormann maintained secret radio negotiations with Admiral Karl D�nitz, the commander of all of Germany�s U-Boats, and had made plans to escape to D�nitz�s submarine headquarters. D�nitz at first resisted this effort but ultimately was ordered by Hitler [presumably at Bormann�s bidding] to accept Bormann at his headquarters. From this point on, details become sketchy and many disparate accounts are given of Bormann�s escape or possible end.
-- After landing, Reitsch and von Greim were harbored in the Bunker for a few days while von Greim lay in bed recuperating before making the exit flight. Hanna Reitsch recorded in her memoirs that she, with a heavily bandaged General von Greim by her side, flew out of Berlin from the Tiergarten, at dawn on 30 April according to her 5 December 1945 press interview -  exactly the same time Stalin reported the mysterious escape flight took off.  Then she recorded in her memoirs an odd event.  
Instead of flying to Austria, their intended destination, Reitsch writes how they flew 400 dangerous miles, partly over enemy territory, with the badly injured and very important General von Greim, to Pl�n, Admiral D�nitz's headquarters.  She gives the reason for this detour as the desire to wish the Admiral a fond farewell.
Such a detour for such a superfluous reason seems remarkably improbable given the desperate state of affairs on the military front and the injuries to General von Greim.  Would not a radio message have done? What if all the remaining German leaders decided to travel to each other in order to wish one another farewell?  There seems to be no indication that D�nitz and von Greim had any special relationship beyond two professionals doing their jobs.  The reason for the detour seems highly suspect. 
To be sure, other reasons were later given for the strange flight deviation, but, despite their outward veracity, when subjected to even minimal scrutiny they seem almost as hollow as the reason Reitsch describes.  The chief assertion is that von Greim was flown to Pl�n after Hitler had concluded Himmler was a traitor who had begun separate surrender negotiations with the West.
Supposedly von Greim was sent to arrest Himmler.  But the F�hrer Bunker was in radio contact with D�nitz many times a day and could have had D�nitz make the arrest. The wounded von Greim, with his one-woman retinue, was in far less able condition to arrest Himmler than the healthy D�nitz with his considerable cortege. D�nitz was a strict and efficient military professional with a strong reputation for carrying out his command. Indeed, at the end of the war Hitler entrusted him with the post-war leadership of the entire nation. 
If D�nitz was not capable of fulfilling the order, to send the injured von Greim to enforce the order over D�nitz's head and in his own headquarters, surrounded by the Admiral's full retinue and in the face of Himmler's substantial SS bodyguard, seems unlikely. And if they had, in fact, flown to D�nitz for this purpose, why would not Reitsch have stated so in her memoirs, written many years later?
The order for Himmler's arrest was never a secret - not even at the time it was issued, much less decades later when she wrote her book.  And in the end, when von Greim met with Himmler, he only told the Reichsf�hrer SS that Hitler had denounced him, further suggesting that von Greim was not really sent to Pl�n to arrest the SS chief.  In short, there seems to be no viable reason why Reitsch and von Greim had flown alone to Pl�n.  
The description of the little group of night flyers is explicit and unique in its observations: a heavily bandaged man, which fits the description of von Greim at the time, and a woman, which would be Hanna Reitsch, probably the only woman in the world one could have expected to see in that circumstance, at that place, at that time.
Over the years, there have been many questions about what really happened to Hitler. Is it possible that he actually escaped justice and fled, perhaps to South America, like so many other Nazis? The idea has been debated and explored in a number of different media. Now an Israeli film producer, Noam Shalev, is working on a documentary that goes further than any previous attempt to uncover the truth of Hitler�s final days.
Developing an interest:
When interviewing someone who is producing a film maintaining that Hitler may have escaped, the first thing you want to know is whether he entertains any other conspiracy theories. Who does he think really destroyed the World Trade Center? Are the Illuminati controlling the world? [One website devoted to Hitler�s death actually suggests he may have been abducted by extraterrestrials].
"If indeed Hitler escaped to Barcelona, he was tracked down by the local branch of the  Illuminati, and a UFO came down one night and abducted him.  It is rumoured that the secret 'Interplanetary Affairs Office' of the Pentagon exchanged him for the corpses of the extraterrestrials that died at Roswell, and that he later died at an ultra-secret US military facility".
We sufficed by asking Noam Shalev a question about a recent case that has similarities to Hitler�s. Does he believe that Osama Bin Laden is really dead? �Absolutely,� he said with a laugh. �I�m not a fan of conspiracy theories. This is my first film not based entirely on facts. That�s why it�s taking us so long. We�re trying to make it as factually verified as we can, without any rumors or theories or ambiguous reconstructions. We�re at a point now where we believe we have enough facts to go on.�
Shalev has directed two documentaries and produced eight, including one on the Israeli recovery organization ZAKA. The project on Hitler has been in the works for some time, although several other films of his were released recently.
"We started on it eight years ago. A researcher who was working with me, Pablo Weschler, read about the possibility in a local paper in Argentina, in an article about the wave of Nazis that arrived there in 1945. He pitched the idea to me and I said, �No way. We only do factual television.' I had never dealt with conspiracy theories. But I decided to start investigating. We found so many cracks in the accepted theory that something seemed wrong"'
There have been a number of curious findings in recent years regarding Hitler�s death. For example, in 2009 an American archaeologist from the University of Connecticut traveled to Moscow to take a sample from the skull fragment�complete with bullet hole�that the Russians had put on display as part of Hitler�s skull, allegedly recovered by Russian troops after the fall of Berlin. DNA tests showed that the skull was that of a young woman.
In fact, as soon as he started doing research, Shalev began to turn up other suspicious things as well.
�We hired more researchers in Argentina and Germany and obtained the records from the Nuremberg trials. We learned about the theory that Hitler had already escaped two days before the Bunker was raided. Some of the testimony at the Nuremburg trials seems to confirm that, including the testimony of a Luftwaffe pilot who allegedly took a few people from an improvised landing strip near the Bunker and flew them to Denmark.
�An order had been issued by Hitler the day before to use all of the aircraft at their disposal to secure the corridor between Denmark and Berlin. You think to yourself, That�s what Hitler was concerned about that day? Securing a certain corridor that had no strategic value to Germany at the time? It�s weird.
Bornholm, as a part of Denmark, was captured by Germany on 10 April 1940, and served as a lookout post and listening station during the war, as it was a part of the Eastern Front. The island's perfect central position in the Baltic Sea meant that it was an important "natural fortress" between Germany and Sweden, effectively keeping submarines and destroyers away from Nazi-occupied waters. Several concrete coastal installations were built during the war, and several coastal batteries had tremendous range. However, none of them were ever used, and only a single test shot was fired during the occupation. These remnants of Nazi rule have since fallen into disrepair and are mostly regarded today as historical curiosities. Many tourists visit the ruins each year, however, providing supplemental income to the tourist industry.
On 22 August 1943 a V-1 flying bomb [numbered V83, probably launched from a Heinkel He 111] crashed on Bornholm during a test � the warhead was a dummy made of concrete. This was photographed or sketched by the Danish Naval Officer-in-Charge on Bornholm, Lieutenant Commander Hasager Christiansen. This was the first sign British Intelligence saw of Germany's aspirations to develop flying bombs and rockets which were to become known as V-1 and V-2.
Bornholm was heavily bombarded by the Soviet Air Force in May 1945. German garrison commander, German Navy Captain Gerhard von Kamptz, refused to surrender to the Soviets, as his orders were to surrender to the Western Allies. The Germans sent several telegrams to Copenhagen requesting that at least one British soldier should be transferred to Bornholm, so that the Germans could surrender to the western allied forces instead of the Russians. When von Kamptz failed to provide a written capitulation as demanded by the Soviet commanders, Soviet aircraft relentlessly bombed and destroyed more than 800 civilian houses in R�nne and Nex� and seriously damaged roughly 3,000 more on 7�8 May 1945.
 On 9 May Soviet troops landed on the island, and after a short fight, the German garrison [about 12,000 strong] surrendered.  Soviet forces left the island on 5 April 1946.
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French Professor Paul Rivet, arrested in France in 1942, was sent to Bornholm for forced labour there.
On 15 October 1945, upon his return to Paris he told news reporters that the Germans had an Atomic Bomb factory at Bornholm, and that the Nazis had an atomic bomb from June 1944 but lacked the means to deliver it to targets.
Other claims say two other things in respect of Rivet's claim: 
1) that it is rumored to have been underground beneath Hammershus Fortress in NW Bornholm
2) that the function of the factory was to incorporate atomic warheads into radio controlled bombs.
A similar report from the OSS in Zurich from November 1944 also cites a forced labourer at the Flottemann factory in Breslau (now Wroclaw, Poland) where the V-2 rocket and the V-1 flying bomb are being modified to accept nerve gas and atomic warheads.
"The Flottemann factory in Breslau was modifying standard V-2 and V-1 projectiles for nerve gas and nuclear payloads".
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-- "Luftwaffe: the Allied Intelligence Files" by Chris Staerck, Paul Sinnott,
"A special nerve gas version of the V-1 [Fi-103 D-1] designed to attack the U.S. was completed in 1944 at a factory in Breslau".
"OSS Report A-44 316, report 5985 of 7 November 1944".   
By inference it is suggested the modified weapons were then sent to Bornholm for equipping with warheads to the V-1, V-2 and other pilotless missiles. 
In the book "Unexplained Mysteries of World War Two" by Robert Jackson, there is mention of rumours of an atomic research lab on Bornholm. These rumours were supposedly circulating in Germany in 1944-1945.
A member of the British T-force the English equivalent of ALSOS visited the island two days before the Soviet attack began. T-force would not have an interest in Bornholm without good reason; T-Force was primarily directed to track down targets of German hi tech weaponry and nuclear projects.
Bornholm was within one hundred miles of the German rocket site at Peenem�nde, and quite close to an alleged atom bomb test site on the small island of R�gen on the Baltic coast close to the port city of Kiel.
Maj Gen Walter Dornberger was  interned in the UK at CSDIC camp 11 where his conversations with other German generals were secretly recorded by the British.
Dornberger gave a number of comments about the German atomic bomb which remain classified even today. He also described Hitler's intention to use unconventional warheads on the V-2 rocket.
Dornberger also disclosed he and Wernher von Braun had gone to Lisbon to meet two GEC officials to pursue secret surrender negotiations in December 1944.   
-- Summary of transcripts PRO file WO.208/4178
The V-1 pictured was intended for launch from U-Boats offshore from New York.
The British 21st Army found a lot of nuclear material at Gardermoen airfield Norway in 1945 and took it out to sea in a basin south of Bornholm and dumped it there using a former LST.
He 177 at Gardermoen, Norway 1945
In 1945 the Luftwaffe completed         construction of an enormous airfield near Oslo, Norway, capable of handling very large aircraft         like the Me 264, the He 177, and the Ju 290 and 390.
In an article for the 29 June 1945 issue of the "Washington Post" a report that originated from 21st Army Group headquarters outlines the frightening discovery that awaited Allied military personnel who came to occupy Norway after the German forces there surrendered:
"It is known that Heinkel undertook special modifications of its He 177 four engine heavy bomber late in the war, adapting it to carry large atom bombs, radiological bombs, and biological and chemical bombs".
-- Friedrich Georg, "Hitlers Siegeswaffen Band 1: Luftwaffe und Marine: Geheime Nuklearwaffen des Dritten Reiches und ihre Tr�gersysteme" 
The loss of France to Allied forces in 1944 deprived the Luftwaffe of its large French airfields. Norway, however, remained in German hands up until their very surrender, and thus constituted the only remaining base of operations available to the Germans for any type of offensive operation against the North American continent.
�Then you see what happened with the U-Boats arriving in Argentina. The last boat to arrive is hardly documented, but it is known that it was a big one. There was a lot of movement on the beach to welcome it: Jeeps and wagons and horses". Shalev says that Argentina is the only place Hitler could have gone, and that his researchers found numerous signs of the massive influx of Nazis after the war. 
"We saw reports from the �70s and early �80s that talk about thousands of Nazis. We�re not talking about simple Nazi soldiers. They wouldn�t have been able to get the funds for a fake passport or to travel to Argentina. These were connected guys with money who knew whom to approach for assistance. I know the number is several thousand. I can�t get more specific than that.
"The evidence is especially clear in the Argentinian town of Bariloche, in the south. It�s like a small German colony. You hear German spoken there on the streets and in the restaurants. Of course you can�t mention the word Nazi today. But there are strong neo-Nazi organizations there. In the �70s the area was a no man�s land, and some of the Nazis were highly respected. 
�Today, when you drive in the small villages along the shore and go into a restaurant or pub, you see so many souvenirs on the wall with Swastikas and German insignia. When you ask people, �Where did you get that from?� they all answer, �My father found it on the beach in 1945'. Pablo heard that answer all over. History is alive there because the area hasn�t changed much since 1945. But we�ve changed, and we�re more skeptical now.
A Luger pistol, famous for being used by the Nazis, was found in Patagonia by a group of young residents of El Calafate, who found it casually when they were walking along the beaches of Lake Argentino.
 
The weapon was lying on a desolate beach, almost in contact with the water, in the north margin of the mentioned mirror of water. The pistol, besides being very oxidized, presents an important deterioration due to the erosion suffered during the passage of the years that passed while it was in the open.
The Parabellum or "Parabellum-Pistole", popularly known as "Luger", is a semi-automatic pistol driven by recoil. The design was patented by Georg Luger in 1898 and was produced by the German arms factory Deutsche Waffen und Munitionsfabriken [DWM] from the year 1900. The registered factory name for this weapon was "Parabellum". The first to call it "Luger" was its distributor in the US Hans Tauscher. The name Parabellum comes from an old Latin saying: "Si vis pacem, para bellum", If you want peace, prepare for war. This weapon, which was manufactured in different models, was used by the German armed forces in both the First and Second World War.
�When Pablo returned from his first trip, he brought back eyewitness reports and documents from the Argentinian National Archives that had just been declassified. We found a small treasure trove there".
He and his team have been working on it ever since, and crewmembers subsequently made two filming expeditions to the country. Shalev, who owns the production company making the film, is planning to accompany them for a final visit this summer. They will also be traveling to Germany and Scandinavia. He hopes to release the finished product between January and April of 2014�and then let his viewers decide for themselves.
Secrets
The research Shalev is doing is painstaking, gathering historical material of every sort. �We accumulated every possible clue or forensic result out there. For every theory that came out about Hitler�s remains, Hitler�s dental records, Hitler�s brain, there�s a counter-theory saying it�s false or the results were manipulated. It�s almost impossible to get any clear scientific facts".
But he did find results.
�A few years ago we found quite a treasure online, which disappeared after a couple of days. It was a cache consisting of partially redacted FBI reports, original documents that were sent by intelligence officers in South America, mostly from Argentina but also from Chile. They reported information they received� both actively from spying and passively from others�and discussed very thoroughly whether or not Hitler was alive in Argentina. They mention discussions between Nazis, both those who arrived in Argentina before the war and those who came at the end. The reports were all sent to Washington and they all received the same reply signed by J. Edgar Hoover. Basically it said, �Thank you for your report. We�ll look into it'.
�We have more than 100 reports from Argentina. No one has yet to doubt their validity. We let several historians check them, and no one said they are fakes. We have not yet sent them to the FBI for confirmation, so there�s no formal FBI perspective thus far. When they were approached in the late �40s, they said they had nothing to say".
One of the most important proofs of Hitler�s death has been the testimony of several Nazis who were in the Bunker with Hitler during those last days, such as the female Luftwaffe officer Hanna Reitsch; and Hitler�s bodyguard, Rochus Misch, who is still alive. [Misch is unique in another way: After eventually returning to Germany he found out that his wife was Jewish. His daughter, an architect, has visited Israel, lived on a Kibbutz, and has worked on designs for several German synagogues. Still, despite the revelation, Misch is unrepentant about his Nazi past].
But Shalev�s researchers found eyewitnesses of their own�the most important one being the first to claim having seen Hitler in Argentina after 1945:
�She was a maid at the Eden Hotel in Cordoba, Argentina, and I think we�re the only ones who ever interviewed her. In the beginning she was very suspicious of Pablo, but then she started talking and it was impossible to stop her. She is not senile at all. She was 84 at the time of our interview.
�She was very clear that it was Hitler she had seen. She described the circumstances in great detail, how the distinguished guest arrived and how she was given orders she had never received before: You do not approach him; you do not speak to him; you do not look at him. She related her conversations with the staff, including drivers and gardeners at the hotel. She said that everybody knew but they weren�t allowed to mention it, even in passing.
�There were no names. It was just �the distinguished guest'. He was put into a private villa that was rarely used, and only then by relatives of the hotel�s owner.
�The hotel was owned by the Eichhorn family of Germany. They were Hitler�s sponsors in the 1933 election for Chancellor and were his financial backbone for many years.
�The man she saw had no mustache and his hair was gray. The features, though, were absolutely his.
�The maid said she knew him very well because all the hotel rooms and dining halls had his picture hanging in them. She saw his picture every moment of the day when she was cleaning.�
"There are no other living employees of that hotel.
�We interviewed the son of a carpenter who worked there, who also claimed to have seen Hitler; the father had already died. The son gave us his father�s testimony, but it�s not really an eyewitness report".
One of Shalev�s researchers is investigating the area in which it is rumored that Hitler lived.
�For the last few years we�ve had an expert historian, whom we call Patrick Burnside, working for us in Argentina. He uses a false name because he�s constantly being threatened by neo-Nazis. He�s been doing research on this for 20 years and has discovered amazing things that corroborate the story�as much as you can without actually finding a body".
Why are neo-Nazis threatening him?
�They just don�t want anyone around with conspiracy theories. There are certain areas in Bariloche that you don�t go near. There are several huge ranches there�I�m talking about thousands of square miles. They�re very secluded. Everyone knows they were bought by neo-Nazis in 1945. Everyone knows they used to house fugitives from Nazi Germany.
�We have the names of two specific farms where Hitler supposedly went after the war. When Patrick started snooping around there, he was chased away at gunpoint in one case; in another, he received very specific threats against him and his family. He�s also shown us a lot of correspondence from various organizations and individuals, warning him to stay away".�
Unfortunately, one potential source Shalev has been unable to contact is the Russian soldiers who first captured the Bunker and supposedly unearthed Hitler�s corpse. �It was impossible to track any of them down. We read a few memoirs of some high-ranking Russian officers, and they never mentioned any other possibility besides him dying in the Bunker".
After the War
Why does Shalev believe that the truth of Hitler�s escape may have evaded the Allies?
"It�s understandable, when you look at what was going on in 1945, the mess that existed after the war. No one wanted to deal with it seriously. No one was willing to entertain conspiracy theories.
"As far as we know, the British intelligence didn�t really invest any effort into discovering what was going on in South America after the war.
"Similarly, no Nazi hunters believed that Hitler was alive. Everyone accepted the official version. No one wrote about it as far as I know, although a lot was written about the use of U-Boats to bring Nazis to Argentina.
"He was never an object of investigation. Wiesenthal and others focused on finding known Nazis and did amazing work. They focused on Eichmann and Mengele� But no one dealt with Hitler.
"When you look back, though, and see all the inconsistencies, you ask yourself why no one wanted to verify his death. Today, everyone would demand to see a videotape or a death certificate or something. But after the war, everyone wanted to believe he was dead and move on.
"There�s a famous picture taken by Russian soldiers outside the Bunker. According to Russian military reports, they poured approximately 500 liters of gasoline on the bodies, set them on fire and then took the picture. If you look at the picture, you see a profile that resembles Hitler with his mustache intact. But nothing would remain of a body except charcoal, even if much less than 500 liters had been used. You wonder why no one checked into it. No one thought it might be a fake".
The British did eventually care enough to have the soldier, and later Oxford professor of history Hugh Trevor-Roper, investigate Hitler�s death in 1945. Trevor-Roper concluded that he did die in the Bunker.
Shalev says that believing Trevor-Roper�s account requires a certain degree of trust in his sources.
"It�s convincing, assuming you trust the reports of the Russian soldiers or Russian scientists and the source of the dental records. It�s quite impossible today, or even 20 years ago, to look back and conclude that �that was that'.
So many things can�t be vouched for. So much of the evidence that was allegedly examined cannot be confirmed today.� And the British certainly weren�t going to hunt down leads overseas.
"Argentina was low in their priorities because they simply didn�t have the manpower to chase down his whereabouts".
"The Israelis didn�t run after any rumors of Hitler either", says Shalev.
�I think that�s because they never got any hint or information about him being alive. They pursued leads that had a source. The hunt for Eichmann began with a report from a Jew in Argentina who had heard something and sent the word out to the newly-formed Mossad. In the beginning that was ignored too, by the way. So it�s not that they decided to ignore Hitler. They just had no lead to start with.
"There�s actually one member of the Mossad from that period who is still alive. His name is Rafi Eitan. He was head of the Eichmann operation. We asked him a few years ago and he said he was never involved in anything involving Hitler, and neither was the Mossad".
The Russians, on the other hand, did look into the rumors�for a little while.
"What we hear is that the rumors began to circulate toward the end of July 1945. At the time, no one really cared what was going on in Germany. Everybody accepted that Hitler died in the Bunker. The bad guy was gone; let�s celebrate.
"But in Russia, when the officers started saying that something was wrong with the story, Stalin dismissed it at first as infighting among the generals for the sake of glory and post-war promotions. Then it became serious. And Stalin said some things that seemed like he knew something was wrong, and that they really needed to check into whether Hitler had really died in the bunker. In later correspondence, from 1948 and 1949, the tone suddenly changed. The Russians decided it was an established fact, that they weren�t going to deal with it anymore, and that there shouldn�t be any more publicity".
The end of evil
Shalev says that there are a few different theories about how long Hitler could have lived after the war if he did indeed escape to Argentina.
"The latest eyewitness reports say 1955. There are also claims and documents postulating as late as 1965. It is known that Hitler had Parkinson�s disease and wasn�t well at the end of the war. In the last films, you can see that he was shaking and could hardly move his hands. It�s very unlikely that he lived another 20 years, even with the best medical treatment".
Shalev says that the maid who allegedly saw Hitler in a hotel in Argentina also saw signs of Parkinson�s. "She talked about his very rigid way of walking".
The idea that Hitler may have lived on and died a peaceful death is disturbing to many. We asked Shalev for his feelings, as a Jew, about the possibility that such an evil person survived. At first he answered quite matter-of-factly.
"You know, Nazi Germany and the Holocaust weren�t the work of one lunatic who wanted to destroy the world. He had a very well-oiled machine behind him. We�re talking about thousands of people, and multiple levels of control. To say that justice wasn�t done�is not the case.
"You have to understand that after the war there wasn�t much interest in this. Nobody really cared. Everyone wanted to move on. Nevertheless, it�s a question that has to be answered, or at least investigated as thoroughly as possible".
But what does he think Holocaust survivors might feel when hearing that Hitler may have lived to a ripe old age?
"I think there will be a commotion. Almost all of my father�s family died in Treblinka. I�ve produced two films about the Holocaust and this is a subject I relate to in many ways. �I�m sure that it�s unpleasant for a lot of people. Of course, if he did survive, it would probably be a tiny measure of consolation that he would have had to witness Germany on its knees and all of the things that happened afterward, such as the establishment of the State of Israel and the fact that the Jewish people lives on. That in itself would have been quite torturous.
"The bottom line is that nowadays we have the ability to verify what happened and finally come to a conclusion. All it takes is money and the joint participation of a lot of people. This money can come from governments or academic bodies, and I wish they would join us in this venture to help give us even better tools than we already have".
But isn�t he taking away the sense of closure that some Holocaust survivors had thinking that Hitler died in despair in an underground Bunker?
"No, I don�t think so," Shalev said. "I think that given the public discussion of Hitler�s fate in 1945, it wasn�t so farfetched that he might have survived. It was in the headlines at the time. Of course, I�d be devastated if I made a Holocaust survivor feel bad.� We want to give closure. He�s definitely dead, whether in a Bunker in Germany or later in Argentina".
At the end of the day, is Shalev convinced that Hitler survived and escaped to Argentina?
"I can�t be convinced because I don�t have a body or final proof. But I believe that the weight of evidence we have is stronger than the weight of evidence for the conventional theory".
His documentary, still a year from release, will have to convince others of that as well.
How did Hitler really die?
Hannah Brown
The Jerusalem Post 
29 December 2012
Hitler's last days were not spent in his Berlin Bunker, but in tranquil luxury in an Argentine hotel at least, that's the story that director/ producer Noam Shalev and researcher Pablo Weschler are trying to prove in their upcoming documentary, "Revealed: Hitler in Argentina", set for release next year.
We will never know the truth, Shalev cautions, sitting in the offices of Highlight Films, the video production company he and Weschler run in Bnei Brak. But there is enough evidence to build an alternative theory about what happened to Hitler.
No one believed the Russians' story of Hitler's suicide in the Bunker, says Weschler. As early as the summer of 1945, there were headlines asking, "Where is Hitler?" all over the world.
One difficulty in confirming the basic facts of Hitler's suicide with his wife, Eva Braun, in the final days of the Allies approach to Berlin, was that the Russian troops did not give access to many forensic investigators. Shalev and Weschler believe that British intelligence officer and historian Hugh Trevor-Roper's investigation was rushed and unprofessional.
But what inspired them to begin making their film about the evidence they believe leads to proof of Hitler's secret flight to Argentina were recently declassified FBI documents.
"In those days, the FBI, not the CIA, was responsible for South America," explains Weschler. "And in declassified documents, we see that the FBI took very seriously the possibility that Hitler fled to Argentina".
The FBI set up a special unit to investigate this possibility.
Shalev and Weschler are convinced they have gathered significant evidence that pinpoints Hitler's whereabouts during the years following World War II. Inspired by the book "Hitler's Escape" by Italian journalist Patrick Burnside, they have done their own research as well.
When Burnside published his book, in 1998, he got thousands of E-mails from people coming forward with information, says Shalev. Some of them were crazy, of course, but he had enough information to do more research and write another book.
The manuscript of that book, which will be published next year, was a useful guide for Shalev and Weschler, and led them to a famous hotel.
The Eden Hotel in La Falda, Cordoba [in Argentina] was owned by Ida and Walter Eichhorn, who were close friends of Hitler, explains Weschler.
Hitler sent them a Mercedes Benz as a gift. It was the first Benz in Argentina.
The once-opulent hotel, now in ruins, was the site of lavish parties, and a host of notables, including Albert Einstein, stayed there in the Twenties and Thirties.
The Eichhorns were very vocal in their support for the Nazi party, and made financial contributions.
They also broadcast speeches Hitler's, whenever he spoke on the radio, throughout the hotel. Citing a September 1945 letter from the FBI [one of the documents declassified in the Nineties], Weschler points to the lines that show that the FBI believed that if Hitler got into trouble, he could always find a safe haven with the Eichhorns if he could manage to get there.
Weschler found former employees of the hotel who say they met and waited on Hitler after the war there.
"It was easy for them to recognize him, because his picture was all over the hotel", says Weschler. He says that his research shows that Hitler moved on from the hotel to an isolated rural estate in Argentina, where he lived out his days with Braun and their two daughters, and that he died in the mid-Sixties.
Particularly persuasive evidence, according to Weschler, is DNA testing done in 2009 on Hitler's skull fragments that were recovered from the Bunker.
They showed that they couldn't have been Hitler's skull because they were from a woman under 40, says Weschler, a finding that was reported in the mainstream press.
"DNA doesn't lie," he says. "The more you look into it, the less credible the official version becomes, and the more plausible an alternative theory seems."
Hotel Eden, La Falda Argentina
La Falda grew up around the hotel, and eventually crowded it out with competition.
Hotel Eden, maintained through the mid-1960s, fell into disrepair and was abandoned.
The hotel seems to be still in use as a museum.
 
The Daily Star
8 January 2016
Using never seen before before documents, respected ex-UN war crimes investigator John Cencich concludes the evil dictator did not shoot himself and his wife Evan Braun in the 'F�hrerbunker'.
It seems World War 2 may have ended happily ever after for the Nazi leader � who lived a life of luxury under the sun while the world mourned and starved.
Mr Crencich, who led probes into war crimes in the former Yugoslavia, said he used to think the Hitler faked death conspiracy theory was "nonsense".
But after sifting through 700 pages of new declassified US secret files and travelling to various points on the suspected escape route, he is now convinced the F�hrer of the Third Reich lived on bathed in sunshine
�We do know from evidence both of them had doubles. If someone was going to stage a crime scene, this was the perfect way to do it.�
Among the compelling proof that Hitler faked his own death is the fact that his body was recorded by the Russians as being five inches shorter than the dictator, who was five foot six inches.
A skull with a bullet hole was said to be smaller.
Mr Crencich said: "We do know from evidence both of them had doubles. If someone was going to stage a crime scene, this was the perfect way to do it.
�The accepted truth that he committed suicide is ambiguous".
Based on new evidence John Cencich believes Hitler faked his own death.
Hitler's corpse also disappeared before British and American authorities could check it out.
In the top secret papers, FBI chief J. Edgar Hoover said there was nothing to prove Hitler was dead.
Mr Crienich along with CIA veteran Bob Baer discovered a network of tunnels that formed a route to Tempelhof Airport.
Hitler is believed to have stayed in the Canary Islands after the war.
Hitler is then thought to have flown to fascist Spain and then to the Canary Islands.
The islands include includes sunny destinations favoured by Brits such as Tenerife, Fuerteventura and Lanzarote.
Mystery Villa of Fuerteventura
Lying in an isolated mountainside in one of the most secluded areas of the Canary Islands lies an spacious villa that has given birth to mysterious legends....
This spacious villa lies hidden from the world nestling between the mountains and the wild Atlantic ocean on Fuerteventura.
It can only be reached after a hair raising drive along a dirt track in the mountain borders.
The sheer isolation of Villa Gustav Winter holds a mystery which has yet to be explained. This mystery starts with the appearance and position of the villa itself.
It is surrounded by land which has exactly the same shape and proportions of the island of Fuerteventura itself. And the villa�s location within this enclosed replica corresponds geographically to its true position. 
Was this location and shape the result of exact mathematical positioning, or just sheer fluke? The truth will probably never come to light but theories abound.
German-born Gustav Winter arrived on Fuerteventura in the 1930s. He worked for a large company that had just acquired a great expanse of land in the south of the island � the peninsula of Jandia.
Winter became known for his mysterious dark glasses and accompanying black dog and was responsible for building the first port at Morro Jable. However, it is not for these reasons that he is best remembered. His name will always be connected to the small isolated hamlet of Cofete where he built the villa that later gave birth to countless myths.
The Nazis had first begun their search for a base in the Canary Islands when Hermann G�ring financed a �fishing expedition� to the islands between 14 July and 14 August 1938.
Leading the search was Gustav Winter, a German engineer and senior Abwehr agent, �in the Canary Islands in charge of observation posts equipped with radio, and of the supplying of German submarines". It was Winter who had conceived the idea of developing the uninhabited Jand�a peninsula as a base for Nazi operations. Born at Zastler, near Freiburg, on 10 May 1893, Winter studied in Hamburg before deciding to travel to the new German frontier in Patagonia in 1913.
After the outbreak of World War I the following year he sailed for home, but his ship was stopped, and he was interned by the British on a prison ship in Portsmouth. He first came to the attention of British intelligence in 1915, when he escaped by swimming to a Dutch ship, the 'Hollandia', and making his way to Spain. Winter spoke English fluently; upon his arrival in Spain he went to the British consulate, persuaded the consul that he was a British citizen in dire economic straits, and received a cash payment that enabled him to return to Germany. Between 1921 and 1937 he lived in Spain, traveling back to Germany regularly "to continue his studies".
Winter had been on the verge of buying Isla de Lobos ["Wolf�s Island"), a small barren rock to the north of Fuerteventura, but G�ring�s funded "fishing trip" in 1938 and Winter�s own travels aboard his yacht 'Argon' led him to a much better site for a clandestine operations base.
The desert-like southern peninsula of Jand�a comprised nearly 44,500 acres of uninhabited land, and in 1941, Gustav Winter purchased the whole area through a Spanish front company, Dehesa de Jand�a SA. The ostensible intention was to develop this barren area for agriculture, and tens of thousands of trees were planted to support this story. Construction started in 1943.
Franco�s dictatorship provided a ready supply of disposable labor among its political prisoners; the road to Villa Winter is still known as the "Way of the Prisoners". Details are unknown, since the story of the concentration camps at Tef�a on the island has yet to be written�as have many other dark tales from the Spanish Civil War and its aftermath.
-- Elizabeth Nash, "Germans Helped Franco Run Civil War Death Camps," London Independent, 22 February 2002
Gustav Winter himself spent much of his time between 1940 and 1944 at the U-Boat base near Bordeaux, returning to Spain only in August 1944 as the Allies overran the French Atlantic coast. In his absence, roads, tunnels into the mountains, defensive positions, and a strange castle-like structure�the "villa" itself�were all built between 1943 and 1945.
Villa Winter had an extensive, sophisticated military telecommunications system that was probably centered on the Siemens & Haske T43 machine, giving it constant contact with Germany, Argentina, and the U-Boats that were hungry for resupply from other bases on Spain�s supposedly neutral Canary Islands. The villa itself was equipped with tiled medical treatment rooms and a range of attics fitted out for the accommodation of troops and senior personnel.
By late 1944, with the movement of funds out of Germany in top gear after the Hotel Maison Rouge meeting of that August, the Germans had built a runway at the end of the peninsula; 1,650 yards long by 66 yards wide, this could easily handle four-engined aircraft like the Junkers Ju 290 or the Focke-Wulf Fw 200 Condor. 
Between late 1943 and February 1944, at least 250 Nazi agents made their way into the Canary Islands and the Spanish Saharan colony of Rio del Oro, via the Spanish port of C�diz. The Spanish authorities did not hinder them in any way. At least four months before the long-awaited Allied invasion of France, Bormann was moving key personnel involved in Aktion Feuerland to new bases, and these relocations to the Canaries rapidly increased later in 1944.
In October 1944, German activities in Spain were increasingly annoying the influential U.S. broadcaster and columnist Walter Winchell�a close friend of FBI director J. Edgar Hoover and usually well informed by both U.S. and British intelligence services.
Winchell reported:
"Hitler had been building air bases in Spain since 1939.� Work was supervised by German Army engineers, done by Franco�s political prisoners who worked at bayonet point".
He went on to state:
"Spanish islands off the coast of Villa Garcia were cleared of their civilian population last year. Landing fields, advance Luftwaffe, and three whole regiments of Nazi flyers took over the islands. All civilian travel has been suspended between the Spanish mainland and the Balearics and the Canaries".
Civilian travel to the islands was indeed banned. Winchell said that there were two major Nazi bases on Gran Canaria: Gando airfield and a nearby submarine base. If civilians had been able to travel to the islands, Winchell said, they �would see the great storage tanks for submarine fuel, in Las Palmas they would see German officers marching with the Falangists and ten times as many soldiers as in normal times. They would also see the great Nazi seaplane base in Baleares [on the Mediterranean island of Mallorca]".
In an interview shortly before her death, the widow of Gustav Winter firmly denied the allegations leveled at her late husband over the years. She denied that the villa had ever had connections to the Nazis or that it was built as a hideaway for Adolf Hitler � she said the infamous villa was built for the simple reason of exploiting agriculture in the area.
In 1984, an extremely colorful tale about the accidental discovery of a "U-Boat pen" tunneled into the island was published by a German magazine. This fiction has been exploded by the U-Boat historian Jak P. Mallmann Showell in his book "U-Boats At War: Landings on Hostile Shores" [Hersham, UK: Ian Allan, 2000], for which he carried out field research and a comprehensive analysis of U-Boat orders, logs, and mission reports relevant to the Canary Islands. There are detailed records of the U-Boat supply base run from an �interned� German freighter in Las Palmas harbor on Gran Canaria, but no suggestion that U-Boats visited Fuerteventura.
The Allies were seriously concerned that the Canary Islands were being used by the Germans to support U-Boat operations. This suspicion was based on the interception of a secret Kriegsmarine document titled U-Pl�tze, or "U-Places," which became interpreted as "U-Bases" with the presumption that they were U-Boat bases.
The �U� in fact related to Unterkunft, or "refuge," and there were scores of them dotted around the world, intended to shelter all types of Kriegsmarine vessels�places to undertake repairs or find fresh water.
Similarly there were consistent rumors among the Allies that there were U-Boat bases along the South American coastline, even as far south as Tierra del Fuego. There is no evidence to support such a proposition, but the list of locations in the U-Pl�tze does mention a tiny island off the coast of Rio de Janeiro.
From here it is thought he eventually travelled by U-Boat to Argentina, where he met wealthy friends.
He led a life of luxury in a secret compound, all the time plotting his return.
Mr Crencich said: "I am really pleased with what we have found. Could he have made it here? Absolutely".
Another version was quoted by the newspaper "ABC" in Spain, based on the book "In the Footsteps of Hitler", by the journalist Abel Basti. According to this researcher, Hitler fled to Patagonia and Paraguay after his flight from Berlin.
Hitler was "buried in British territory � in Jesus Christ's tomb"
Adolf Hitler survived the end of World War 2 and fled to a British territory � and is now buried in Jesus Christ's tomb, explosive new claims suggest.
Patrick Knox
"Hitler escaped to Kashmir, India, where his grave is in Rozbal garden".
In the shabby backstreets of Srinagar is an old building known as the Rozabal shrine.
But it is padlocked tight and it has a watchman guarding it to make sure no-one goes near the corpse.
Mr Shah believes the truth about Hitler could be found in official documents which he is now calling to be declassified.
He claims Adolf was pals with an Indian nationalist and Nazi sympathiser called Subhas Chandra Bose.
Bose collaborated with the Japanese in the fight against British rule in India.
Bose shared a hatred of the British with Axis powers Japan and Germany because of their colonization of India. He headed the Indian National Army � devoted to booting out the Brits.
He even lived in Third Reich for a spell during the war and formed a good friendship with Hitler.
Using his connections in India, he was said to have arranged a safe haven for the Nazi chief among the then Maharaja of Kashmir who kept the world�s most hated man in his palace, lavishing him in a life of luxury amid stunning scenery.
It is unclear from the theory when he died.
But Hitler was suffering the symptoms of Parkinson�s disease and could have only lived a few more years with medicine available in the 1940s.
It is claimed he was then taken to a tomb in Rozabal which is reputed to be the final resting place of Christ � the least likely place anyone would expect the fugitive F�hrer to be buried.
But because the site is holy an exhumation is unlikely any time soon because of strict laws safeguarding spiritual sites.
Yet while the theory remains that Hitler escaped his Bunker in Berlin and fled to a safe haven, Russia insists he did die and it has the bones to prove it.
According to Russian government authorities, the F�hrer�s skull and jaw with some teeth intact are safely stored away in one of Vladimir Putin's vaults in Moscow.
This has raised the prospect of Hitler being cloned should any DNA remain in his bones.
But the remains have not been confirmed as Adolf's and some claim the Soviet Union faked the discovery to avoid the embarrassment of Hitler escaping under their noses.
Yet until the bones with the Russians and those in Kashmir can be subject to DNA tests we will never know the true fate of Adolf Hitler.
-- NARA has a file named "ENTRY 216 boxes 250/64/34/02 [box 8]' which details Hitler's proposed escape to India in 1945.
General Aleksandr Anatolevich Vadis, conveyed to Moscow on 7 May that Hitler was dead, based on fragments of an upper jaw and a full lower jaw, which may have been ripped from badly charred corpses, or turned up in sifted earth and found on 5 May, but not autopsied until 8-9 May, with no report in the autopsy [or that of the "Braun" corpse], that any dental or facial structures were missing.
Anton Joachimsthaler and Joachim Fest, both state that all the Russians ever found were some teeth, a lower jaw, and other charred bits, and a few charred bits, turned up after sifting the soil in the Chancellery garden for days after the capitulation of the City.
Many of the Bunker personnel in Russian captivity were told they would later see Hitler's body--and it was never shown to them because, as Fest puts it, "there was no body to show!"
However, it seems, the Soviets were convinced that the teeth in their possession were those of Hitler and - logically - that Hitler was therefore dead. Indeed, in mid-May, Soviet intelligence officers confirmed to their Western counterparts that Hitler had "been poisoned" and Zhukov admitted to Khrushchev that they had found Hitler's "charred carcass".
Soon though,  Soviet leaders had opted to deny the obvious and chose instead to sow confusion over Hitler's death, insinuating that the German dictator had somehow survived and had escaped to the Western zones of occupation - thereby giving themselves an excellent stick with which to beat the West in the opening exchanges of the Cold War. It is the subsequent campaign of disinformation and obfuscation that led to the outlandish tales of Hitler's survival, in the jungles of Patagonia, in fascist Spain, or in a  secret base, that resurface to this day.
At a major press conference on 9 June 1945, Marshal Georgy Zhukov, Soviet commander of the Russian Zone of Occupation stated:  "It is well known that two days before Berlin fell Hitler married Eva Braun� he said. He added that the Russians had found references to the marriage in the diaries of Hitler�s personal adjutants. Zhukov said "We have found no corpse that could be Hitler�s" and added that Hitler and Braun had good opportunities to get away from Berlin: "He could have taken off at the very last moment, for there was an airfield at his disposal.� Zhukov told the press: "The circumstances are highly mysterious. We did not identify Hitler�s body and I cannot say anything about his fate. �" Zhukov added, "Now it is up to you British and Americans to find him".
-- "Associated Press", 'Zhukoff  [sic] Says Hitler Wed Actress in Berlin, May Be Alive in Europe', "The New York Times", 10 June 1945.
Major General Floyd Parks, who was commanding general of the U.S. sector in  Berlin, later stated for publication that he had been present when Zhukov stated he believed Hitler might  have escaped.
Colonel General Nikolai E. Berzarin, Soviet commander of Berlin, turning to the question of whether Hitler had died in Berlin, said,  "There are all sorts of people who were close to him who say that he killed himself. Still others say he was killed by an exploding shell," however, Russian soldiers had not yet found Hitler�s body. "My personal opinion is that he has disappeared somewhere into Europe". Berzarin said "Perhaps he is in Spain with Franco. He had the possibility of getting away".
The newly Soviet appointed German B�rgermeister of Berlin, Arthur Werner, said "Hitler-we just don�t know�There are many Germans who say he has found refuge in another country".
The following day, 10 June, Maj. Gen. Kenneth W. D. Strong, the SHAEF G-2, asked a Soviet intelligence officer regarding Zhukov�s statement that Hitler was still alive. The Soviet officer replied that the Russians had revised their earlier opinion that Hitler was dead, and that none of the evidence at present in their possession indicates definitely that this was so. Ambassador Murphy informed the State Department that while SHAEF G-2 did not exclude the possibility that Hitler may be in the Allied area, they did not accept the implication of Zhukov�s statement that primary responsibility rested with "us for finding him". 
-- Telegram Sent, No. 3541, Caffery [from Murphy] to the Secretary of State, 14 June [11 written over with 14] 1945, Classified Cables Sent to the State Department, 1945-1949 [NAID 1719688] Record Group 84.
 
On 10 June in Madrid the Spanish Foreign Minister had his press secretary deny Zhukov�s report that Hitler might have found shelter in Spain. The Spanish statement said: "Hitler, married or single, alive or dead, is not on Spanish soil, nor would he be allowed here, and if he entered he would not receive shelter". 
-- Wireless to "The New York Times", 'Hitler Not on Spanish Soil, Foreign Minister Says', "The New York Times", 11 June 1945.
The Russian press on 14 June reviewed an article by Elliott [probably George Fielding Eliot] in the "New York Herald Tribune" commenting on Zhukov�s reported statement that the English and Americans should organize a search for Hitler. Elliott reportedly expressed agreement with Zhukov and was cited as emphasizing the probability of the Soviet statement that Hitler at present was outside the Soviet occupation zone. Elliott was quoted to effect that Hitler probably fled to Spain where there were many German refugees who probably would seek to organize Hitler�s flight. Elliott was also quoted describing a possible escape route for Hitler to Argentina. The news item concluded by quoting Elliott�s opinion that the Allies ought to organize measures to apprehend Hitler including if necessary military operations against Franco�s Spain.
"Time" magazine on 2 July reported that at the end of June a SHAEF spokesman had said, summing up the Hitler situation �We have every reason to believe he is dead, but no evidence that he is not still alive". It also reported the Russians, who had done all the investigating in Berlin, had not amended their reports that no trace of Hitler had been found; no believable witnesses in their custody had actually seen him die; and Hitler had ordered his henchmen to spread the story that he was dead.
--  'International: Where There�s Smoke�', "Time", Vol. XLVI No. 1, 2 July 1945.
An "Associated Press" story from Stockholm on 15 July, reported that a Swedish newspaper reported that day that a rumor was circulating in Bern, Switzerland, that Hitler was hiding in the principality of Liechtenstein under the name of "Dr. Brandl". The story added that Braun was not with Hitler but probably in Argentina.
During July, various Allied personnel visited the Bunker in Berlin and subsequently reported on their visits. When Judge Michael Musmanno visited the Bunker, the Russian commandant in charge of the area, Major Feodorovitch Platonov, at once broke into a spirited argumentative denial that Hitler was dead. Musmanno had not made any assertion in the matter one way or the other. He had merely stated that he was examining the place where Hitler lived his last days and hours. The Russian major, pointing at a spot in the garden exclaimed: "It is not true that Hitler was found there! Our experts have established that the man found here didn�t look like Hitler at all. And we didn�t find Eva Braun either!"
On 17 July, Permanent Under-Secretary of State Sir Alexander Cadogan noted in his diary after visiting the Bunker, that he was shown a shallow crater in which he was told Hitler and Braun had been buried and later dug up and cremated. "This is also a rumor, of which there are many, and nobody knows the truth�"
At the Potsdam Conference Fleet Admiral William D. Leahy, Chief of Staff to the President, wrote that Stalin and Molotov, Truman, Secretary of State James Byrnes and he were together for lunch on 17 July  and Stalin repeated what he had already told Hopkins in Moscow: "He believes that the F�hrer had escaped and was hiding somewhere. He went on to say that the painstaking Soviet search had failed to discover any traces of Hitler�s remains or positive proof of his death". During the lunch Byrnes asked Stalin his views of how Hitler had died: "To my surprise, he said he believed that Hitler was alive and that it was possible he was then either in Spain or Argentina". Some ten days later Byrnes asked Stalin if he had changed his views and he said he had not. 
-- William D. Leahy, "I Was There" [New York, London, Toronto: McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1950]; James F. Byrnes, "Speaking Frankly" [New York and London: Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1947].
At his first news conference, Colonel-General Alexander V. Gorbatov, the Russian member of the Allied Kommandantur in Berlin, on 30 July was questioned as to his views regarding the fate of Hitler. He answered that there was still no definite satisfactory evidence of his death. He added, however, that among Russian officers the saying was that if Hitler was alive he was certainly not in Russian-occupied territory. He also noted that he had heard reports that Hitler�s dentist had taken a human jawbone to Moscow and identified it as that of Hitler, but Gorbatov said he knew nothing of the matter beyond that.
During July and August reports continued to surface of Hitler being alive. One in July indicated that he had taken a submarine to either Argentina or Chile; others that he was alive and hiding in Argentina. Reports of sightings continued in September.
-- See File: 862.002, Hitler, Adolf, Central Decimal File [NAID 302021] Record Group 59. For related correspondence see File: XE003655, Hitler, Adolf, Personal Name File, Intelligence and Investigative Dossiers Personal Files, 1977-2004 (NAID 645054) Record Group 319 and FBI File: 65-53615, Headquarters Files from Classification 65 [Espionage] Released Under the Nazi War Crimes and Japanese Imperial Government Disclosure Acts, 1935-1985  (NAID 565806) Record Group 65.
A news story from London on 8 September under the headline "World-Wide Search for Hitler Goes On", began "A manhunt that ranges from Berlin to Madrid, from Tokyo to Buenos Aires, is underway today on the chance that Adolf Hitler is still alive". Continuing, "The actual fate of the former Chancellor is the war�s biggest mystery and the Allies, not daring to gamble on such an issue, are tracking down every clue, investigating every rumor lest the story that Hitler took his own life beneath Berlin�s Reichschancellory prove to be history�s greatest and most tragic hoax". The reporter indicated that the Allies were checking every report, "no matter how fantastic". He noted that "One story has it that Hitler escaped to Japan by submarine; another that he is in Argentina; a third that he is hiding in Sweden. The latest rumors are that he is on board a yacht in the estuary of the Elbe River or living in luxury at a long-prepared lodge in the Bavarian Mountains".
-- "United Press", 'World-Wide Search for Hitler Goes On', "The New York Times", 9 September 1945.
Moscow newspapers on 9 September carried a "Tass" item with heading 'Rumors about Hitler', date line Rome, 8 September, saying Rome Radio has reported that Hitler has been seen in Hamburg, living under another name.
Russian newspapers noted on 10 September of the probability that Hitler was still alive. The idea was even put forward that Hitler was in hiding in Germany.
Harry Collins, a news reporter in London, on 15 September wrote that while there were reports that the charred body of Hitler had been found by the Russians in the Berlin Chancellery, the question remained "Is Hitler alive?" "The welter of speculation grows with each new 'clue' and 'disclosure'. The answer is simple-his conquerors do not know." Collins wrote that the Russians had never accepted as proved that the body they found in the Chancellery grounds was Hitler�s. He reported that British Army authorities had declared that the latest rumor that Hitler was seen in Hamburg was "completely unfounded" and that they denied that the British were searching for Hitler. "Yet", Collins noted, "it is known that British intelligence is far from convinced that Hitler is dead".
-- Harry Collins, 'Is Hitler Dead or Alive?' "The New York Times", 16 September 1945. 
"Izvestia" ran a story that Hitler and Braun were alive and well, and living in a moated castle in Westphalia, in the British Occupation Zone of Germany.  An American journalist in Germany believed that in throwing out names of such countries as Spain and Argentina, Stalin was probably just paying off old political grievances against Franco and other neutrals. But, in having a go at the British he was virtually accusing them of harboring a living Hitler. Dick White, head of counter-intelligence in the British Zone, described the situation as "intolerable". In September he would turn to Hugh Trevor-Roper to investigate the Death of Hitler.
General Eisenhower certainly did not help matters regarding Hitler still being alive, when on 6 October, it was reported by the Netherlands radio that he had told Dutch newspaper men that there was "reason to believe" that Hitler was still alive. The broadcast, recorded by the 'British Broadcasting Corporation' [BBC] in London, said that one of the correspondents accompanying Eisenhower on a visit to The Hague had asked Eisenhower if he thought Hitler was dead. 
-- "Associated Press", 'Hitler Believed Alive, Eisenhower Tells Dutch', "The New York Times", 7 October 1945.
"The Associated Press" (AP) in London on 7 October reported Eisenhower�s remark that there is "reason to believe" that Hitler may still be alive, reversed his previous opinion that Hitler was dead.  According to "The Times" on 8 October, Eisenhower had said to foreign journalists during a visit to the Netherlands: �Even though I initially believed that Hitler was dead, there are now reasons to assume that he is still alive.�
-- "Associated Press", London, 7 October 1945, 'Ike Believes Hitler Lives', "The Stars and Stripes", 8 October 1945, File: Hitler, Adolf, XE003655 [NAID 7359097].
In an editorial published on 8 October in the London newspaper, "News Chronicle", commenting on Eisenhower�s remark that Hitler may still be alive, Gallman observed:
"General Eisenhower�s remark that Hitler may still be alive is disturbing. It is certain there are still elements in Germany which would be only too glad to gather clandestinely round their old leader or-if that is not possible-at least to keep alive a Hitler myth. Nothing could do more to retard Germany�s return to normality than the belief that the F�hrer is still in the land of the living.  It would have been better if the general had said less, or said more. If there is just a faint doubt, then the less it is publicized the sooner it will be forgotten. If on the other there are solid grounds for believing that Hitler is not dead, we should be told more about them. It is a matter in which everyone is interested and the public would like to hear at least such of the evidence as will not hamper the hunt".
--  Incoming Telegram, No. 10492, Gallman, London to the Secretary of State, 8 October 1945, File: 862.002/10-845, Hitler, Adolf, Central Decimal Files [NAID 302021].
On 8 October the American Military Attach� in London sent a cable to United States Forces, European Theater [USFET] indicating that the British War Office had requested information as to whether press reports quoting Eisenhower�s statement was based on any recent information gathered by American agencies. The military attach� cabled again on 11 October, reporting that the bulk of British press on 7 October published prominently the statement reportedly made by Eisenhower to Dutch journalists at The Hague on 6 October to the effect that he has reason to believe Hitler was still alive. He also reported the story was broadcast by Hilversum radio [Dutch radio station in Hilversum] and also by the BBC. The Attach� requested directions, asking whether he should deny to the War Office that Eisenhower even discussed the mater or shall he say Dutch must have misunderstood.  USFET responded three days later, stating that Eisenhower spoke with representatives of Dutch Press aboard his train during his visit to The Hague. In this purely informal conversation the newsmen brought up question as to whether or not the General thought Hitler was dead or still alive. There was no speech or official statement made. Col. Edward R. Lee, the General�s aid, was present on this occasion and states, �General Eisenhower never said Hitler was alive; he merely said he could not prove he was dead".
-- Headquarters, U.S. Forces European Theater, Staff Message Control, Incoming Classified Message, Ref No. 65954, Office of Military Attach� London signed Tindall to US Forces European Theater Main, October 8, 1945, File: 091.1/1, 1945, Classified General Correspondence, 1945-46 [NAID 5665349], RG 498; Headquarters, U.S. Forces European Theater, Staff Message Control, Incoming Classified Message, Ref No. 65972, Office of Military Attach� London signed Tindall to US Forces European Theater Main, 11 October 1945, ibid.; Headquarters, U.S. Forces European Theater, Staff Message Control, Outgoing Classified Message, Ref No. SC-5486, US Forces European Theater Main signed Eisenhower to Military Attach� United States Embassy London for Tindall, 11 October 1945, ibid.
At Frankfurt on 12 October Eisenhower, explaining the alleged remarks he had made to a Dutch newspaper, denied that he had ever said that Hitler was alive but agreed with Lt. Gen. Walter B. Smith, his Chief of Staff, who declared that "�no human being can say he [Hitler] is conclusively dead". Eisenhower said what he had said was that "There is every presumption that Hitler is dead but not a bit of positive proof that he is dead". He added that the Russians had been unable to unearth "one single bit" of tangible evidence of Hitler�s death.
-- Wireless to "The New York Times", 'Eisenhower Didn�t Say He Believes Hitler Alive', "The New York Times", 13 October 1945.
In the House of Commons in London, on 15 October Hector McNeil, Under-Secretary for Foreign Affairs told a questioner that "The Government has no evidence proving conclusively either that Hitler is dead or is alive". He added that investigations were continuing.
Otto Abetz  is credited as one of the sources behind the theory that Hitler had escaped Germany and was living in Argentina, thanks to a quote given to French tabloid "France Soir" on 27 October 1945 � six months after Hitler had died � saying Hitler was "certainly not dead". The newspaper extract, which is included in the FBI records, says Abetz went on to say that Hitler "was not a coward � I believe one day he will return".
 
Did Hitler Die in the Bunker or did He Flee to Argentina? 
The journalist Eric Frattini has traced the question in official documents and exposes his theories in a book
EFE.MADRID   
03/28/2015
The Peruvian journalist and writer Eric Frattini ["Lima", 1963] has spent time going through "3,000 pages of official documents" in files across half the world, ones that conclude "Hitler died in the Bunker?", and ones that expose he could have escaped to Argentina.  "My purpose is to raise questions", he says.
In "Hitler died in the Bunker?", he relies on these official documents to "pull down" all the theories about the suicide of the Nazi leader and "cast doubt" on the readers of a world in which "nobody raises or questioned anything," he explains in an interview.
The author does not want to compromise but recognizes that, before beginning his investigation he as a "defender" of suicide abut now, "after reading so many documents" considered "by 50% he committed suicide in the Bunker and 50% he escaped to Argentina", he says, "I make a study of official and unofficial history and then present present it all, whether you're a famous accepted historian or a 'conspiranoico' that professes that Hitler took refuge in Antarctica, and shows it by documents".
With "Hitler died in the Bunker?" the writer, referring to the 70th anniversary of the end of World War II and the death of the "F�hrer", on 30 April 1945, raises questions about the different versions that exist of the suicide of Hitler and of his possible flight to Latin America.
To do this,  bases his research on documents relating to the flight of Hitler in the files of the FBI, the CIA, the British MI6, the KGB, the FSB Russian -Agency successor to the KGB, the Commission on Clarification of Nazi Activities in Argentina [CEANA] and the German government, among others, all gathered during "six years of research."
Frattini Peru says he "never" works in Spain because, he argues, "with" "Spanish"  collaboration I would have been "impossible" to write a book like this.
"We are talking about a country that does not meet the Constitution and the legal regulations regarding the declassification of documents and where archivists are hidden byn the Data Protection Act," says the author. 
 
The governments of the United States, Britain, Russia and Argentina collaborated with him "without any difficulty".
 
"There is  comparatively tighter control by the Russians and they have a federal law concerning the declassification of documents".
 
For example, he has referrs to "an official document sent by the German government" signed by the former head of the Gestapo, Heinrich M�ller which authorizes "special flight" from Berlin to Barcelona on 20 April 1945,  "where the number one and number two on the passenger list are Hitler and his wife Eva Braun". 
 
"There must be some record of the flight to Barcelona in a military archive of the time, but it would take so long to quarrel about him that I did not try", he explains.
Perhaps the  most sensational "revelation" in "Gestapo Chief: The 1948 Interrogation of Heinrich M�ller", by Gregory Douglas, is that Hitler did not commit suicide on 30 April 1945, as those who were with him in the final days of the war later unanimously testified, but instead escaped to Spain. M�ller insists that, with his help, Hitler and his mistress, Eva Braun, left Berlin on 22 April 1945, and flew from Austria on the 26th in a special four-motor aircraft that arrived the next day in Barcelona. "Listen to me," M�ller tells his American interrogator. "Hitler went to Spain. I know for certain his plane landed safely ..."
To confirm this testimony, the author presents what appears to be a facsimile reproduction of an authentic German document dated 20 April 1945. Headed "Special F�hrer Journey to Barcelona," and signed by M�ller, it declares that "the F�hrer and his entourage will depart from airfield H�rching [near Linz] on 26 April 1945".
M�ller says that, as part of the escape operation, he found a man who looked like Hitler to serve as a "double". Thus, M�ller says, Hitler's wedding to Eva Braun in the Berlin Bunker on 28 or 29 April 1945, was "pure theater." Afterwards, M�ller goes on, the "double" was shot and his body left so that the Russians would find it, to mislead them into believing they had discovered the F�hrer's corpse.
The man who crafted this that the "Gestapo Chief" series of books is a known fabricator of documents who has used a variety of names over the years, including Peter Stahl, Samuel Prescot Bush, and Freiherr Von Mollendorf. His real name, apparently, is Peter Norton Birch or Peter Norwood Burch.
Perhaps the most obviously suspect feature of the "Gestapo Chief" series is that the author will not permit any independent examination of his "original" documents. [To be sure, not all the documents he presents are fraudulent. To add credibility to his book, "Douglas" includes, among his forgeries, a number of indisputably authentic wartime documents].
Characteristic of this entire series is the clearly fraudulent "facsimile document" of 20 April 1945. This is actually the author's second, "corrected" version. The first appeared with an article he wrote for the spring 1990 issue of "The Military Advisor", a magazine issued by the same firm that publishes "Gestapo Chief". But whereas the "SS" characters are rendered in this earlier "facsimile" as normal typescript letters, they are rendered in "Gestapo Chief" as "lightning bolt" runes.
How did these amazing documents come into the author's possession? In "Gestapo Chief", the first volume of the series, "Douglas" tells the reader that "In the early 1980s, by means that are not of concern here, all of M�ller's personal files came into private hands". Later "Douglas" claimed that M�ller personally gave him these extraordinary documents ["Spotlight", 6 January 1997]. In another "Spotlight" interview [9 November 1998], "Douglas" claimed to have met M�ller in 1963, and to have known him well until his death in 1983. Remarkably, no mention of this twenty-year relationship appears in volume one of "Gestapo Chief".
To credit Douglas' fantastic yarns requires one to accept that Hitler's personal and political testaments of 29 April 1945, are phony, and that all those who were with him in the final days in the Berlin Bunker, and who survived the war, conspired for decades in a lie to hide the German leader's escape to Spain.
"The whole story of the alleged suicides of Hitler and Eva in the Bunker is totally farcical. The testimony of every single witness is badly tainted; not one witness is credible. There is, moreover, a far greater than normal incidence of changed testimony. This could be partially explained by several factors: the need for conformity, media pressure, or monetary gain".
-- Thomas, Hugh. "Doppelg�ngers: The Truth About the Bodies in the Bunker". Fourth Estate, London, 1995
James Preston O'Donnell, in "The Bunker" disputed the reliability of the interrogations of witnesses in 1945, which are used as primary sources by most historian. Many witnesses admitted that they either lied or withheld information during their 1945 interviews, mainly due to pressure from their interrogators [this was especially true of those captured by the Soviets].
Also, why would a documentary trail of a planned escape even be created when so much of the rest of the trail is so thoroughly and carefully obfuscated? Why take the chance that such a plot would be discovered and undone by creating a document?
But assuming the document to be genuine for the sake of argument, then perhaps it was intended as further obfuscation, for it indicates an escape from Germany by air to Nationalist Spain, a hazardous undertaking to say the least, since any available route from Berlin to that country would have flown through air space thoroughly under Allied control.
A Madrid message says that the Spanish Foreign Minister, in the strongest terms, has denied, that Hitler is anywhere in Spain:
"If Hitler had taken refuge here, Spain, in accordance with her agreement with the United Nations, would have immediately notified the Allies".
-- The Daily News [Perth, WA]
11 June 1945
Some of the questions posed by Frattini revolve around the "official history" of Hugh Trevor-Roper, who did a study on the orders of former British Prime Minister Winston Churchill certifying the suicide of Hitler to be declared "official" in late 1945.
"I began to realize that many important historians such as Joachim Fest or Stanley Payne, have been copying and plagiarizing others and assuming that the suicide story is real, have been supporting the same official story," he said.
German historian Werner Maser wrote in his biography "Adolf Hitler":
"The charred body [Hitler's]... there was nothing left of the face and only a horribly burnt remnant of the shattered skull - was pushed on to a tarpaulin, lowered into a shell crater in the vast graveyard around the Chancellery and, under heavy Soviet artillery fire, covered with earth, which was then stamped down with a wooden stamper, reported his personal adjutant Otto G�nsche, who had lit the corpse at 4 pm, half an hour after Hitler's suicide".
When asked in 1994 G�nsche said that he didn't known Maser and that he had never said anything like what Maser cited in his book. This quote from Otto G�nsche was used in a biography on Hitler by Joachim C Fest, newspapers and many other books. This shows how myths and legends are born and perpetuated in literature by reputable historians and journalists.
For Frattini, "historians have been complicit in the official histories" because it is "more comfortable" to handle official history "and so not investigating new things".
"So the great struggle is between historians and journalists writers. Therefore 'sell more books' were sold by writers/journalists, because we were not the official version,"  he argues.
The writer, who "lived" the last fifteen years "for his books", revealed that "has lost the taste for sold writing" and cherishes the idea that this is his last book, with publications planned for 2016 in Spain.
 
TRUTH: Hitler survived and escaped to Argentina
Posted on April 6, 2015 by Awakezone Team 
Hitler Survived the Battle of Berlin
I�m trying to make a point here. And the theory that Adolf Hitler survived the Battle of Berlin and escaped is making a strong comeback. The book "Grey Wolf: The Escape of Adolf Hitler" [2011] by Simon Dunstan & Gerrard Williams are not the only ones that questions the traditional incorrect report. Now there�s a new movie coming out 2015 called: �Revealed� from Highlight Films, by Noam Shalev. Which in fact proves that Hitler did survive and came to Argentina. Noam Shalev seems to be an excellent investigator and truthful..
Magazine and newspaper articles about Hitler�s possible escape to South America by submarine were common after World War II. Religious-cult founder Herbert Armstrong, in his "Plain Truth" magazine, published similar speculations in the 1960s to support his prophecies that the Third Reich would be resurrected in the 1970s as the Fourth Reich.
Many so-called "orthodox Historians" have also told their point about Hitlers death with the "ridicule" technique, or by historian Guy Walters who today branded them "2,000 per cent rubbish".� But I brand THEM as rubbish and narrow-minded for NOT investigating this truthfully. They stand on the old garbage version of this important piece of information which was downgraded to a junk story, being accepted as the truth about Hitler's death. Pathetic that 7-10 Russian soldiers first conviction can form the basis for what a world to believe in 70 years. For it was not Soviet Army's judgment that they found Hitler�s mortal remains. It was 7-10 soldiers who reported what they thought was Hitler�s corpse. This was truly also drawn back later.
On the 8 May - the day the autopsy of the putative Hitler remains was only being carried out by the Soviets - an  American war correspondent, Joseph ["Joe"] W. Grigg Jr, announced from Berlin that Hitler's body had almost certainly been found. Grigg was soon forced to retract his initial scoop, however by a particularly odd set of circumstances.
On 10 May, he reported that "Four bodies, blackened and charred, that seem to answer to Hitler's general appearance have been dragged out of the [Chancellery] ruins". He observed that "none has been identified as being definitely that of the Nazi F�hrer".
Grigg's conclusion was appropriately pessimistic: "...the Russians are beginning to believe that no body that can be identified without any shadow of doubt as that of Adolf Hitler ever will be found now".
Supposedly the Russians could positively identify the remains of Adolf Hitler and Eva Braun from their teeth, however there are at least 4 conflicting versions of this story. The Russians found fragments of jaw and teeth amongst 14 charred corpses when they excavated the Bunker site which had been heavily bombed. They managed to track down a dental assistant, K�the Heusermann.  who had worked on Hitler.  She was able to draw sketches from memory of Hitler�s terrible teeth. He had almost his entire mouth replaced by the end of the war.
His dentist Dr. Hugo Blaschke was later captured by the Americans, but as he never inspected the teeth and jaw fragments. He did state, however, that he could not agree that the drawings of Braun's dentition by Heusermann and Echtmann [by then, in Russian captivity and on their way to long "detention" in the USSR] were at all accurate. For Hitler's drawings, he had less doubt.
Hitler�s dental records were supposedly removed in the same B�rnersdorf Ju-353 plane crash that the discredited "Hitler Diaries" emerged from. Martin Bormann�s secretary Else Kr�ger was reportedly killed in this plane crash because her baggage was found in the plane. However she lived on and married a British intelligence officer. Several cargo boxes were retrieved from the crash site and removed. The "Hitler Diaries" could have been a limited Psy-Op to cover the tracks of the escape story with a high-profile hoax.
On 20 April 1945�Adolf Hitler's 56th birthday�Soviet troops were on the verge of taking Berlin and the Western Allies had already taken several German cities. Hitler's private secretary, Martin Bormann, put into action Operation Seraglio, a plan to evacuate the key and favoured members of Hitler's entourage from the Berlin  F�hrerbunker where they were based, the, to an Alpine command centre near Berchtesgaden�Hitler's retreat in southern Germany. Ten aeroplanes flew out from Gatow airfield under the overall command of General Hans Baur, Hitler's personal pilot. The final flight out was a Junkers Ju 352 transport plane, piloted by Major Friedrich Gundlfinger�on board were ten heavy chests under the supervision of Hitler's personal valet Sergeant Wilhelm Arndt. The plane crashed into the Heidenholz forest, near the Czechoslovak border.
Some of the more useful parts of Gundlfinger's plane were appropriated by locals before the police and SS cordoned off the crash. When Baur told Hitler what had happened, the German leader expressed grief at the loss of Arndt, one of his most favoured servants, and added: "In that plane were all my private archives, that I had intended as a testament to posterity. It is a catastrophe".  Apart from this quoted sentence, there is no indication of what was in the boxes. The last of the crash's two survivors died in April 1980, and Bormann was assumed to have taken his own life, having disappeared from the Berlin Bunker after Hitler's suicide on 30 April 1945. In the decades following the war, the possibility of a hidden cache of private papers belonging to Hitler became, according to the journalist Robert Harris, a "tantalizing state of affairs [that] was to provide the perfect scenario for forgery".
At the end of his life Hitler only had 5 original teeth, all the others had been replaced with porcelain crowns.
There seem to be way more than 5 awful teeth in the picture.
The Russians say that they had an X-ray in May 1945, when they verified teeth and bone fragments against the previously drawn sketch from memory by the dental assistant. However the dental assistant led them to a mildewed old dental office in Hitler�s Bunker to produce the X-ray[s]. Why didn�t his dentist have it? Why did the dentist flee, but the assistant stay to lead the Russians to this evidence?
Further complicating the story is the evidence chain of the teeth. A young Jewish girl in the Russian Army, Yelena Kagan, from a wealthy Moscow family, was given the teeth in a red jewelry box for safekeeping. She didn�t know where they came from, which raises the problem of the chain of evidence, for there are no means of knowing whether the teeth Heusermann was shown really came from the corpse autopsied on 8 May. And then Kagan serendipitiously manages to be the one who locates the dental assistant and X-Rays as well, thus proving the whole case that Hitler was dead.
There are other conflicting reports, such as this paper in the "Journal of Dental Problems and Solutions saying that both Hausermann and dental prosthesist Fritz Echtmann were arrested on 9 May 1945. Hausermann got 10 years in the Gulag and Echtmann got 9. On this same date, Heusermann verified the teeth in a hospital where they were still attached to the cadaver. This added a picture of Hitler�s mandible to the mix.
On the afternoon of 8 May, the commission handed over a red box to the Smersh. It contained jawbones and gold bridges from bodies N�12 and 13, out of 14 retrieved bodies, who were suspected to be Hitler�s and Eva Braun�s. This box was handed over to the interpreter.
The following day, the Smersh were looking for Hugo Blaschke, his dental prosthetist and his assistant. At the clinic of Kurf�rstendamm, they found out that the dentist had left Berlin for Berchtesgaden under the F�hrer�s command on 19 April. However, they succeeded in taking in the two others for questioning.
They were asked about the content of the red box which was shown to them. All that they said was immediately recorded before they had the chance to examine the human remains.
On 10 May, the Smersh sent a report to Moscow. It concluded that the two remaining bodies had been identified as Hitler and Eva Braun�s remains.
The red box and its content were sent back to the Soviet capital.
In this version of the story, the dental assistant and prosthetist never examined the remains which appeared to have the mandible intact. They were shown the red box and its contents, said "yes that�s Hitler". Case closed. No mention of the X-ray. And how big was this box to contain jawbones? Why were these teeth fragments separated from the cadaver[s] in the first place?
If it was Hitler�s double in the Bunker, it would have been easy to take him to the special dental office for X-Rays.
The dental assistant drew a picture of Hitler�s teeth, and then the technician confirmed the picture. According to Dr Mark Benecke:
"The actual identification of Hitler�s remains [and therefore the confirmation of his death based on physical evidence] was published in 1972. It was performed by comparing the teeth of the remains to the dental schemata drawn by Hitler�s dentist".
The picture matched the bone fragments in the red jewellery box, and the X-ray that the dental assistant would later lead the Russians to. Which came first? It seems that with her skills [presumably these are the finest dentists in Germany if not the world] she would be able to draw a sketch from an X-Ray. Why weren�t the X-Rays used in 1972?
Who was interpreting the match of the X-Ray, the teeth, and the fragments? Was it Soviet dental technicians? Or was it actually Heusermann and Echtmann?
The location of his crowns and a sawn-through upper left bridge matched the teeth in the jewelry box, but Rzhevskaya�s team needed further proof. Heusermann led them to a tiny, mildewed dental office in Hitler�s bunker, where she produced Hitler�s dental X-rays. The images�the placement of root canal fillings, sites of bone breakdown, and unusual bridges�confirmed that the body found in the rubble outside the chancellery had belonged to Hitler. A dental technician named Fritz Echtmann, who had worked in the same laboratory as Heusermann and created crowns and bridges for both Hitler and Eva Braun, verified the findings.
A double could have had crowns attached and partial sawing and metal bridges put in the same places as Hitler, then X-rays taken � easily justified to the dupe by saying "you have to look alike". Note that it�s the guy who made the crowns for Hitler and Eva verifying the findings.
Years later, Echtmann back-tracked a bit, saying [as quoted by Anton Joachimsthaler,"The last Days of Hitler. Legend, Evidence and Truth"] that he was not sure the dental remains were Hitler's, but that he knew "for other reasons" that Hitler had died in the Bunker. He would not disclose what those "other reasons" were.
In early June 1945, it was revealed that the Bunker had been littered with bodies of numerous individuals dressed in Hitler's trousers. On 9 June, during a press conference attended by British, American, French and Russian reporters, the Soviet military commander Marshal Georgi K. Zhukov admitted that they had "found no corpses which could be Hitler's". The Soviet commandant of Berlin, Colonel-General Nikolai E. Bezarin, explained that the Russians had "...found several bodies in Hitler's Reich Chancellery with the F�hrer's name on their clothes... In Hitler's Chancellery we found, in fact, too many bodies with his name on the clothes. It got to be a joke. Every time I would find a pair of pants I would say, 'These are Hitler's'."  Zhukov then  told the reporters that he now considered it a serious possibility that Hitler had escaped Berlin by air. "He could have taken off at the very last moment, for there was an airfield at his disposal".
Hitler's chauffeur Erich Kempka and former Reich Youth leader Artur Axmann, had both testified under oath in Nuremberg that on 30 April 1945 they had seen a body being carried out of the F�hrer's Bunker which was wrapped in a blanket and was dressed in Hitler's trousers, shoes and socks. Nevertheless the Berlin records office did not consider this to be proof that Hitler was dead maintaining  that this could have been any corpse dressed in Hitler's trousers and shoes..
Josef Stalin knew better as did most of the world leaders of the time.  Stalin even made a great fuss about Hitler�s escape in statements he made in July of 1945 more than two months after the alleged suicide. Stalin never changed his story, Hitler escaped to Argentina, he stated until his death.
The Official Version
Adolf Hitler killed himself by gunshot on 30 April 1945 in his F�hrerbunker in Berlin. His wife Eva Braun committed suicide with him by taking cyanide. That afternoon, in accordance with Hitler�s prior instructions, their remains were carried up the stairs through the Bunker�s emergency exit, doused in petrol, and set alight in the Reich Chancellery garden outside the Bunker. Records in the Soviet archives show that their burnt remains were recovered and interred in successive locations until 1970, when they were again exhumed, cremated, and the ashes scattered.
Accounts differ as to the cause of death; one states that he died by poison only and another that he died by a self-inflicted gunshot while biting down on a cyanide capsule. Contemporary historians have rejected these accounts as being either Soviet propaganda or an attempted compromise in order to reconcile the different conclusions.
One eye-witness recorded that the body showed signs of having been shot through the mouth, but this has been proven unlikely.
On 2 September 1955, Artur Axmann stated:
"Based on the signs I found, I had to assume that Adolf Hitler had shot himself in the mouth. For me the chin, which was pushed to the side, and the blood trails on the temples caused by an internal explosion in the head, all pointed to this. Later the same day SS-Sturmbannf�hrer G�nsche confirmed my assumption. I stick to my statement based on the signs I saw, that Adolf Hitler shot himself in the mouth".
Otto G�nsche, however, in his 20 June 1956 testimony stated:
"The head was canted [tilted] slightly forward to the right. I noticed an injury to the head slightly above the outer end of the angle of the right eyelid. I saw blood and a dark discoloration. The whole thing was about the size of an old three Mark piece".
Representatives of the Walther firm which manufactured the Walther PPK 7.65 are adamant. If the muzzle was placed against the head as it was discharged an exit wound the size of a closed fist should be on the other side of the victim's head. The only way the corpse could be in the condition described by the witnesses was if the shot was fired from a distance of ten or twelve feet.
There is also controversy regarding the authenticity of skull and jaw fragments which were recovered. In 2009, American researchers performed DNA tests on a skull Soviet officials had long believed to be Hitler�s. The tests revealed that the skull was actually that of a woman less than 40 years old.
Historians Wrong
The new facts from documents and witnesses, shows that the escape thesis means that all historians who specialized in Adolf Hitler who even chronicled the Battle of Berlin and Hitler�s direction of it day by day got it wrong. But could there be something more to this story?
Today its well-known that American intelligence officials were complicit in the escape, in return for access to war technology developed by the Nazis. But did Hitler put pressure on the Americans via his scientists? Because they were all still very loyal Nazis? Hitler could have pressed Nazi-scientists and Americans from his hiding in Argentina: �Leave me alone or  you get no new technology from my scientists?"
The Americans, British and Russians netted thousands of Nazis after the war. Many personnel of Hitler�s Bunker who had interacted with Hitler were captured, imprisoned and repeatedly interrogated for up to 11 years. Today we have websites that list the Bunker staff, the hour they last saw Hitler, and how long the Allies held them captive.
On 30 April, 2.30 a.m. Hitler personally said goodbye to about 20 staff gathered in the main passage of the Bunker.
General Wilhelm Mohnke who knew Hitler personally and was in charge of defending central Berlin reported to Hitler at 6 a.m. 30 April. At noon General Weidling who was in overall command of the defense of Berlin briefed Hitler that Soviet troops were storming the Reichstag [the Parliament building]. Mohnke was also present again. Could a substitute for Hitler have fooled generals who knew Hitler?
And there were others eyewitnesses. The chief of Hitler�s bodyguard, Hans Rattenhuber, was called to Hitler�s room at 10 p.m. on the 29 April [and tried to persuade him to leave Berlin] and was present in the Bunker on the 30 April. Secretary Traudl Junge was present. So was Hitler�s chauffeur, Erich Kempka, who, at 2.30 p.m., 30 April, was ordered to get 200 liters of Petrol for the cremation.
What you have to know about the Bunker is that it had a vast amount of other passages out from where Hitler's alleged room was.
Escape by Airplane
Was escape by airplane possible? Yes - Russian soldiers even reported that at least two airplanes took of from Berlin during the Soviet siege. Flights in and out of Berlin occurred until 29 April. On 22 April ten transport aircraft flew out from Tempelhof Airport, in south-east Berlin, carrying prominent Nazis and their staff to Munich. The last passenger plane also left that day with passengers for Sweden.
The last scheduled flight of Deutsche Luft Hansa - from Berlin to Munich took place on 21 April 1945, but the aircraft crashed shortly before the planned arrival. Another [non-scheduled] flight was performed the next day, from Berlin to Warnem�nde, which marked the end of flight operations.
Evidence also includes Luftwaffe pilot Peter Baumgart who testified, in a N�rnberg court that he had personally flown Hitler and his entourage to an intermediate destination in Denmark.
Baumgart�s testimony is also corroborated by notes from the U.S. Army interrogation of an SS Lieutenant who claimed to have witnessed the escape.
Maintains Hitler Escaped to Denmark
The Advocate
9 February 1949  
LONDON, Tuesday. - Captain Peter Baumgart, a former German Luftwaffe pilot, who insisted that he flew Hitler and Eva Braun to Denmark shortly before the fall of Berlin, was today sentenced by a tribunal of three Polish judges to imprisonment for five years for being a member of the S.S.
Baumgart told the tribunal that he was born in South-West Africa, but renounced British citizenship in 1935. He claimed he had shot down 128 Allied aircraft in Crete, Italy, North Africa and the Eastern Front, and was the holder of the Iron Cross and other decorations.
He added that on 25 May 1945 [sic], shortly before the fall of Berlin, Hitler suddenly summoned him and ordered him to fly to Denmark.
Hitler, Eva Braun and a German general, with others, boarded his plane in Berlin, and it took off for Denmark. The plane made a forced landing at Magdeburg, but, upon Hitler's insistence, he flew the following day through an artillery barrage to the Danish shore.
They landed about 44 miles from the Eiter River in a field. Hitler shook hands with him, gave him a cheque for 20,000 Marks, and ordered him to return to Berlin immediately. Baumgart added that he believed Hitler and his party had boarded a submarine.
One of the judges reminded Baumgart that Allied 'Intelligence reports showed that Hitler and Eva Braun killed themselves on 3 May 1945 [sic], but Baumgart stuck lo his story, adding that, Hitler was 'not  the kind of man to take his own life.'
Baumgart�s own claims would be separately corroborated by the testimony of a German prisoner of war, Friedrich Argelotty-Mackensen. The transcript of Mackensen�s interrogation by U.S. Admiral Michael Musmanno records a sighting of Hitler speaking to wounded German soldiers at an airfield, in T�nder, Denmark, three days before he was supposed to have died in Berlin.
Musmanno:
�Who had command of the plane?�
Mackensen:
"Well, of course, I have no idea. I only know that in one of the planes in which Hitler was, that this plane was being flown or piloted by a certain Captain Baumgart. I was lying in the grass and then I was being picked up again. I was carried to some certain place around the plane. Then somebody set me down. All the others were standing there already. Somebody put a knapsack under my head and then Hitler was standing there and� one moment now. Now, now, at the crucial point! Hitler has said that Admiral D�nitz is now in supreme command of the German army and Admiral D�nitz will enter into unconditional surrender with the Western powers. He is not authorized to surrender to the Eastern powers".
-- Interrogation of Friedrich Arthur Rene Lotta von Angelotty-Mackensen, Nuremberg Palace of Justice, 18 March 1948 [Gumberg Library Digital Collections of Duquesne University, "Musmanno Collection�Interrogation of Hitler Associates"].
Mackensen�s three-hour interrogation by Michael Musmanno, is rambling, and he repeatedly confuses dates. He was by then using a wheelchair, having suffered a broken spine in a forced landing in southern Sweden on 8 May after his attempted flight to Malaga, Spain [his was one of eleven German aircraft that were shot down or force-landed that day during such attempts]. He had recovered consciousness in a hospital at POW Camp 404 in Marseille, France, on 16 May.
Throughout his interrogation Mackensen states that he had been delirious for much of his time on the ground in Berlin and Denmark. Although it was dismissed as "fantastic" by Musmanno, close reading of Mackensen�s story reveals details that coincide with Baumgart�s account. Mackensen, too, seems to have vanished from sight after the war.
During the Trial Baumbach was doubted and sent to an asylum for psychological evaluation because he maintained that he was the man who facilitated Hitler�s escape.  The asylum concluded that this man was very sane and he would maintain his story to his death.  The tribunal simply passed him off as a �lunatic� even though their own psychiatrists had testified he was not insane at all.  Why was this man's testimony not believed? 
According to period newspaper accounts, Baumgart was briefly imprisoned in Poland after the war, released in 1951, and "never heard of again". However, Baumgart after his release from  Polish prison surfaced in the form of a TWA passenger manifest. According to it, Baumgart flew from Europe to New York before catching a flight for Washington, D.C., within weeks of his 1951 parole.
Hitler may   have Died in Wreck
The Sun [Sydney, NSW] 
Special Service
13 April 1952
LONDON - A wrecked submarine in the Baltic   Sea has caused British Intelligence   to resume inquiries into the possibility   that Hitler did not die a martyr in the   Berlin Chancellery in 1945.   It has also caused   Intelligence officers to resume inquiry into the   myth that Hitler's Deputy, Martin Bormam is   alive arid ready to lead   a new Nazi Germany.
The new inquiries began four days ago when   a depth charge blew open   the hull of the sunken   submarine.   RAF bombers sank the   submarine on 4 May 1945, in Lillebaelt Sound,   between Jutland and   Funen in the Kattegat, at   the mouth of the Baltic.
A Danish scrap metal   firm fired the depth   charge which blew the   submarine open.   In the submarine the scrap firm's   chief diver reported finding several skeletons. He said the U-Boat   was obviously on an escaping, and not a combat mission, as the torpedo tubes   were stuffed with tinned   meat, soup and sausages,   and he could find no ammunition, not even small   arms. The Rations were vastly in excess of a normal long-range submarine's requirements on a long   mission; they were sufficient   to take the submarine and   its passengers perhaps as   far as Japan and certainly as far as South   America.
Police at nearby Fredericia [Denmark] are trying to establish the identity of the skeletons. A dental examination,    Allied Intelligence officers   believe, can provide conclusive evidence on   whether these skeletons   include those of Hitler and Eva Braun,   or Bormann.   Such scientific proof   that Hitler and his wife didn't die in Berlin   would have major and   enduring political effects.   For it would show   that Hitler deserted a   sinking ship, and did   not die like a hero.   And the myth of Bormann leading a new Germany would die.   The submarine located   and blown open this week   is one of seven which   the RAF sank in the same raid.   All were sailing northward � that is, away   from Germany � when   attacked.
It is recalled that Captain   Peter Baumgart, a former Luftwaffe pilot, whom a Warsaw   court sentenced to five years' gaol in 1949, claimed in evidence that he flew Hitler and   some friends to Denmark on 28 April 1945.   He said the party included a woman whom   he believed to be Eva   Braun.   He also said that he   landed in Denmark about   44 miles from the River   Eiter.   There Hitler shook   hands with him and   handed him a cheque for   �6500.   Hitler and his party   then boarded a submarine.
The book  "Grey Wolf � The Escape of Adolf Hitler"  by Gerrard Williams and Simon Dunstan, has plenty of detail, footnotes, and claims about secret passages, Swiss bank accounts, and Vatican involvement. And that�s the problem the book is thick on speculation but thin on facts relevant to the escape thesis.
Did Adolf Hitler Survive World War 2 And Flee Germany?
Hidden Berlin Tunnel Discovery Sparks New Theory
Gregory Wakeman
16 October 2015
The discovery of a secret tunnel hidden under Berlin has sparked a new theory that Adolf Hitler actually survived World War II and managed to flee Germany out to South America.
This discovery and revelation will be documented on 'Hunting Hitler', a new eight-part documentary that will start airing on the "History Channel" on 2 November.
According to the "Express", in the midst of shooting this program a false wall was found in a Berlin subway station. This then led the show to hypothesize that Adolf Hitler used this to escape from Nazi Germany, which at the time of his alleged suicide had been surrounded by the invading Russian troops.
Those in control of creating 'Hunting Hitler' were also able to get their hands on around 700 declassified confidential FBI documents, some of which questioned whether Adolf Hitler had actually committed suicide alongside his wife Eva Braun. Instead they suggested that Hitler had fled Germany as his Nazi regime collapsed around him, and eventually ended up in South America.
One of the secret documents that was written by J. Edgar Hoover, the FBI director at the time of Hitler�s supposed death, declared:
"American Army officials in Germany have not located Hitler�s body, nor is there any reliable source that will say definitely that Hitler is dead".
Spurred on by this new evidence, 'Hunting Hitler�s team of investigators, which includes Bob Baer, an ex-CIA veteran; Tim Kennedy, who led the search for Osama Bin Laden afer 9/11; and Sascha Keil, a respected German historian, have been gathering evidence in their quest to learn what actually happened to Adolf Hitler.
They�ve approached it like a cold case, and have learned that there was a huge exodus of Nazi personnel and belongings from Tempelhof Airport on 21 April 1945. This was one day after the last confirmed public sighting of Adolf Hitler, while it has also been reported that eight of these planes were packed with Hitler�s personal baggage.
Hitler had decided to send non-essential staff out of Berlin to Berchtesgaden.
On the morning of 21 April, just after the last Allied air raid had finished, General Helmuth Reymann's headquarters on the Hohenzollerndamm swarmed with brown uniforms. Senior Nazi Party officials had rushed there to obtain the necessary authorization to leave Berlin. For once the "Golden Pheasants" had to request permission from the army. G�bbels, as Reich Commissioner for Berlin, had ordered that "no man capable of bearing arms may leave Berlin". Only the headquarters for the Defence of Berlin could issue an exemption.
"The rats are leaving the sinking ship" was the inevitable reaction of Colonel Hans von Refior, Reymann's chief of staff. Reymann and his staff officers received a fleeting satisfaction from the sight. Over 2,000 passes were signed for the Party "armchair warriors", who had always been so ready to condemn the army for retreating.
Reymann said openly that he was happy to sign them since it was better for the defence of the city to be rid of such cowards.
The State Department in Washington, DC, was warned by its embassy in Madrid that "the chiefs plan to get to Japan by way of Norway. Heinkel 177s will take them to Norway, and there, already waiting, are planes -probably Vikings [BV 222]- for the non-stop flight to Japan".
This was no doubt the wishful thinking of Nazis in Spain, who also talked of U-Boats being provisioned to take food to Germany and perhaps to bring out Nazi leaders.
On 21 April Grossadmiral Karl D�nitz�s personal Condor, GCzSJ, was pressed into service on a secret mission. The aircraft had just returned from a hazardous sortie to evacuate Spanish diplomats and some important German passengers from Berlin to Munich. Hitler had decided to send more non-essential staff out of Berlin to Berchtesgaden. GCzSJ touched down at Tempelhof, which was by then under fire, and met three black cars. Leading the group was NSKK-Gruppenf�hrer Albert Bormann, brother of Hitler�s secretary Martin Bormann. Accompanying him were his family, servants and twenty-five former occupants of the Berlin F�hrerbunker.
The plane was soon airborne and the pilot ducked into thick cloud cover to avoid Soviet fighters and flak. Near Dresden the Condor again came under Soviet anti-aircraft fire. Shell fragments struck the cockpit, shattering some of the instrument displays. One engine was knocked out but they made it intact to Neubiberg Airfield near Munich.
Albert Speer�s 'Condor', TAzMR, had been destroyed in a bombing raid and on 21 April his personal pilot, Major Erich Adam, had flown Heinkel He 111 transport TQzMU to Neubiberg. As the flak-damaged Condor GCzSJ carrying Albert Bormann and party came in to land at Neubiberg�s blacked out airfield the pilot, Hauptmann Husslein, suddenly saw Major Adam�s Heinkel 111 sitting on the runway directly ahead. The Condor�s brakes were engaged so hard that all four landing gear tires blew out, but a terrible ground collision was narrowly avoided.
On 21 April Lt. Herbert Wagner flew 48 passengers from Berlin to Salzburg in a FAGr. 5  Ju 290 A-2 transport [9V+BK], returning to Gatow on the following evening. 
The "Hessen", a Focke-Wulf Fw 200B-2 'Condor', registration D-ASHH, of Deutsche Lufthansa, was to take the DLH staff from Berlin-Tempelhof to Munich and then fly to Spain with four Spanish ambassadors.
The start, scheduled for the morning of 21 April, was postponed due to enemy activities. Although bad weather [thunderstorm] prevailed, the "Hessen" started around 20:25 for Munich. At around 9:50 pm, the pilots of the "Hessen" called for a radio direction signaling from Munich airport; the plane at that time was over Straubing. At 22:00 the engine sounds of the Fw 200 were heard over the airport Munich airport, but because of the bad weather the plane could not land and flew further south-east. The last message from the pilots was: "Flying directly to Barcelona". Shortly thereafter the radio contact broke down.
"Hessen" crashed near Piesenkofen, Germany, killing all 21 on board.
Because it was the last scheduled flight of a private airline from the Reich capital Berlin, there was a lot of speculation
Who had been flown in this plane? What documents were on it? Why was the aircraft to fly from Munich to Spain?
Immediately the rumor spread that Hitler, G�bbels and G�ring had been on the plane, which was only invalidated with the publication of the passenger list.
Hitler's personal transport Fw 200 C-4 coded "TK+CV, flown by Oberleutnant Hans M�nsterer, left Gatow with twelve passengers  on 24 April 1945, and delivered them to Wittstock in northern Germany, then flew back into Berlin, landing safely at Sch�nwalde Airfield.
As Soviet ground forces threatened Sch�nwalde, most of the remaining F.d.F. aircraft there flew out in one group. It consisted of three aircraft: a Siebel Fh 104, Junkers Ju 52/3m SFzIF and Junkers Ju 352 KTzVJ. They powered away from the burning capital, managing successfully to dodge Soviet fighters.
Hitler�s 'Condor', was flown to Staaken, outside Berlin.
The discovery of the above tunnel proves that Hitler could have traveled from the Bunker where he is believed to have killed himself in all the way to Tempelhof Airport underground. For years there was a clear passage from the Bunker to the airport, except for the final 200 yards. Now, with the discovery of this hidden tunnel, the final connection has been unearthed.
Speaking of the discovery of the tunnel, Jason Wolf, who is 'Hunting Hitler�s show-runner, declared:
"It was a Eureka moment. We were looking for the tunnel when Sascha suddenly went rogue down the subway. He knocked on the wall and it sounded hollow. We brought out the sonar and confirmed it was a false wall".
 
Baer admitted that he was originally skeptical about whether Hitler had actually been able to leave Nazi Germany undetected. Like everyone else, he had heard these rumors, but had dismissed them as false.
But he has now admitted that all of their discoveries have helped change his thoughts on the matter.
'Hunting Hitler' concludes that if Adolf Hitler did manage to make it out of Nazi Germany and Berlin alive, he�d have done so right under the noses of the advancing Russian army, before then traveling on a U-Boat from Spain [or Norway] to Argentina.
The director of the Jerusalem office of the Simon Wiesenthal Center, Efraim Zuroff, responded in dialogue with the "Jewish News Agency" to the new data revealed by the "History Channel" that the F�hrer fled to the Latin American country through an underground tunnel "The only thing I can guarantee you is that Hitler is dead," said Zuroff. "I think they're lies. I do not think these tests are enough, I may be wrong, but I do not think so".
He was consulted on the recent finding of the "History Channel" regarding a tunnel linking Adolf Hitler's Bunker with Berlin airport, which may have facilitated the F�hrer's possible escape to Argentina.
"The only thing I can guarantee you is that Hitler is dead," he repeated, after announcing the news presented by the documentary series.
Was The Airfield Useable?
Beate Uhse was a Luftwaffe captain [and the only woman to have piloted a jet fighter]. She landed an Arado 66, probably on 23 April, at Gatow Airfield on the western edge of Berlin. Tony Le Tissier, in "Race for the Reichstag: The 1945 Battle for Berlin", says Uhse came to rescue her infant son from the family home in the suburb Rangsdorf. When she returned to the airport the Arado had been destroyed. She flew out in another aircraft with her son, his nanny, a mechanic and two wounded soldiers.
Albert Speer, Germany�s munitions and armaments minister, also flew in on 23 April and landed at Gatow. A second airplane took him to the East-West Axis, the linked highways through the city center which, near Hitler�s Bunker, had been converted into a runway.
Hans Baur, Hitler�s personal pilot since 1932 and author of "Hitler At My Side", supervised the constant repair of bomb and artillery damage to the East-West Axis runway. On 26 April  two Junkers-52 transport planes landed there and brought reinforcements.
Gatow airfield remained usable until 27 April  � on  26 April transport aircraft landed 500 sailors there to help defend Berlin.
Hanna Reitsch
That same day [26 April] Germany�s most famous test pilot Hanna Reitsch arrived at Gatow with Robert von Greim whom Hitler wanted to appoint Commander-in-Chief of the Luftwaffe. Her airplane was later destroyed on the ground by Russian artillery. Gatow fell to the Russians about 29 April after fierce fighting with Luftwaffe cadets who sheltered behind wrecked aircraft or fired anti-aircraft guns at oncoming Russian tanks.
Until 30 April aircraft could still land or depart close to Hitler�s Bunker. At midnight 29 April a replacement airplane for Reitsch and von Greim arrived: "A Luftwaffe pilot landed an Arado trainer on the Charlottenburg Chaussee between the Brandenburg Gate and the Victory Column in what can only be termed a masterpiece of aeronautics". [Reported by Soviet soldiers].
About 1.00 a.m. 30 April, shortly before Hitler�s wedding to Eva Braun, von Greim and Reitsch departed Berlin in the replacement airplane. As they left they observed a Ju-52 off the runway and a pilot waiting. James O�Donnell ["The Berlin Bunker"] concludes that this Ju-52 was waiting for Hermann Fegelein, Eva�s brother-in-law, who never reached it, being instead executed for desertion. Reitsch was held by the Americans until October 1946 for questioning over the possibility that she had flown Hitler out.
Hans Baur was �one of the few people who were truly close to Hitler�. He saw Hitler on the morning of 30 April and offered to fly him out in a Fieseler Storch. This was a common German liaison airplane which required very short landing and take-off distances. One had been used to rescue Benito Mussolini off the Gran Sasso plateau near Rome in 1943 and had landed in only 30 meters and taken off in 80 meters. But Hitler declined the offer. Baur was captured when Bunker personnel made break-out attempts on 2 May and was repeatedly interrogated until 1955.
In the 1920s aircraft already existed that could cross the Atlantic. Germany, in 1945, possessed several giant Junkers Ju-390 � ultra-modern, fast, 6-engined and capable of flying 6000 miles. They could have reached Japanese Manchuria or, with a refueling stop, South America.
SS Staff Sgt. Rochus Misch, the telephone operator in the F�hrerbunker, said:
"There were two planes waiting to the north of Berlin. One of them was a Ju 390, and [the other] a Blohm & Voss [Bv222] that could fly the same distance. So Hitler could have escaped if he had wanted to".
James P O'Donnell, for his book "The Berlin Bunker"  interviewed Reichsminister Albert Speer and Hitler's pilot Hans Baur.
Speer saying that Baur had serious plans to fly Hitler out on 23, 28 and 29 April 1945.
He reported Baur being coy about the Ju-390 aircraft's ability to fly Hitler away from Berlin,  but also quoted Baur himself, after the war saying "right up to the last day I could have flown the F�hrer anywhere in the world".
In his book O'Donnell quotes Speer saying that Baur was fascinated with Rechlin projects and especially the Ju-390, however he was denied use of the Ju-390, stationed at Rechlin airfield 90 km north of Berlin, on 17 April  by Hans Kammler.
Baur had devised a plan to allow Hitler to escape from the Battle of Berlin; a Fieseler Fi 156 Storch was held on standby which could take off from an improvised airstrip in the Tiergarten, near the Brandenburg Gate. However, Hitler refused to leave Berlin.
On 26 April 1945, the improvised landing strip was used by Hanna Reitsch to fly in Colonel-General Robert Ritter von Greim, appointed by Hitler as head of the Luftwaffe after Hermann G�ring's dismissal. During the night of 29/30 April, Reitsch flew von Greim out on the same road-strip. 
Hitler suggested to Baur that he evacuate himself and Martin Bormann the same way. After Hitler's suicide, Baur found the improvised road-strip too pot-holed for use and over-run by the Soviet 3rd Shock army.
Georg Betz, Hitler's personal co-pilot, was present with Baur when Hitler said his farewell to his personal pilots 29 April. Baur pleaded with Hitler to leave Berlin. The men volunteered to fly Hitler out of Germany in a Ju 390 and to safety. It was all in vain as Hitler turned Baur down, stating he had to stay in Berlin.
Hans Baur, in "Ich flog M�chtige der Welt, [K W Sch�tz Verlag, Preussisch-Oldendorf, 1973], wrote:
"Early on 30 April 1945 I was appointed Hitler's Luftwaffe adjutant after von Below left the Reich Chancellery...I was summoned on several occasions to the F�hrerbunker...in his living room on the last occasion Hitler took both my hands and said, "Baur, I have to take my leave of you". In a state of great excitement I said to him, "You are not going to end it?" Hitler: "We have gone as far as we can. My generals have betrayed me and sold me out, my soldiers do not want to carry on and I cannot take any more!" I argued with Hitler that aircraft were available to fly him to Argentina, Japan or one of the sheikdoms, where he could vanish.....Hitler then gave me his reasons why he wished to stay in Berlin and die there...."
According to SS papers at the Berlin Document Centre, a Ju 390 prototype was at readiness at Bodo, painted in Swedish livery and under heavy SS guard. Suddenly in early May it was no longer there, and nobody knows what happened to it. 
Declassified Argentine intelligence documents state that in May 1945, a six-engined German transport aircraft from Europe landed on a large German ranch in Paysandu province, Uruguay with passengers and equipment, this ranch being near Puntas de Gualeguay about 70 kms out on the road from Paysandu town to Tacuarembo.
The mile-wide River Uruguay separates Uruguay from Argentina. On the other bank from Paysandu is Entre Rios province, mostly marsh and wild pasture and a hotbed of German settlers. To transport passengers from Paysandu into and across Argentina was not an enormous undertaking. 
After a long flight from Europe over the sea, Uruguay is the first neutral country on the South American landmass. It has many German settlers in the country; they tend to live in German villages and many of these settlers own large tracts of land.
Uruguay was neutral in the Second World War, Argentina was "at war with Germany" from March 1945. The only shots fired in anger between the two of them were the eight depth charges dropped on U-977 in the Gulf of San Matias on 18 July 1945. Certain sections of the police and armed forces in Argentina had been "bought" with Reich gold but it was by no means safe to overfly Argentinean airspace and land a large aircraft, whereas what went on in Uruguay interested nobody, least of all the Uruguayans.
The world learned in 2004 from then 93 year old Hauptmann Ernst K�nig that on 1 May 1945 he received orders from Baur to prepare a six engined Bv222 flying boat to fly VIP passengers from Norway to Greenland.
The plan, which was scuppered by the German surrender, would have involved Hermann G�ring, Heinrich Himmler and other senior figures taking off from north Germany to continue their struggles from abroad.
The Escape
Previously unpublished intensive field research in Argentina, including interviews with many eyewitness to his presence there, new findings that prove the "Hitler" skull held by the Russians is actually that of a young woman, and previously unpublished scientific evidence proving Hitler had a double being used in public in Berlin as late as March 1945 make the story compelling.
Berlin had over 1000 Bunkers, many underground factories, and connecting tunnels. There were also secret tunnels below the underground. This underground world, however, became itself a battleground and was partly flooded. An escape attempt on the ground was not an option, but the secret underground passage was however an option for Hitler. It�s through this passage they escaped.
In order for Hitler to flee Berlin upon the Soviet invasion, he would have needed to go through Tempelhof Airport. Since Berlin was swarming with Soviet soldiers, making himself visible at any point would have been fatal so the question resides in how he could have travelled around three and a half miles from his headquarters to Tempelhof without being seen. The underground tunnels, developed by Hitler himself in 1938 as part of his megalomaniac vision of an architecturally brilliant transport network, would have got Hitler most of the way, though maps of the tunnels suggest he would have been limited in his travels to what was then the "U6" subway station [now Luftbr�cke], leaving him 200 meters short of the airport. This means he would have gone over ground to get there. Indeed, one can imagine that Hitler would have been willing to risk this, given the compromised situation he was already in. However, military grade, ground-penetrating equipment has very recently discovered a false wall, allowing passage directly to the airport. From 22 April, prominent Nazis had been flown from Tempelhof to Munich as the Russians edged closer to central Berlin, culminating in the capture and control of Tempelhof by 27 April meaning Hitler�s escape has most frequently been pinpointed to 26 April.
During the month of May 1945 after Germany had surrendered, Russian criminologists, guided by Major Ivan Nikitine, chief of Stalin�s security police, reconstructed Hitler's last days in Berlin.
In the 28 May 1945 edition of "Time", which featured Hitler's portrait on its cover with a large cross through it, Nikitine stated:
"A removable concrete plaque was found next to a bookshelf in Hitler�s personal quarters. Behind it there was a man size tunnel which led to a super secret cement refuge 500 metres away. Another tunnel connected it with a tunnel belonging to a line of the underground/tube.  Remains of food indicated that there had been between 6 and 12 people there until 9 May 1945".
The knowledge of this secret passage tells us nothing. We do not know who used it to save their skins. Only free access to Russian archives which remain secret, will allow us to know the details about that hidden "emergency exit" which enabled escape from the underground refuge to "where an army troop train was waiting to take Hitler and his entourage to safety".
However, why would a man of Hitler's ambition, drive and rampant egomania spend years building escape tunnels throughout Berlin and then refuse to use them when the time came to do so.
Soviet Official View that Hitler is Alive
Goulburn Evening Post [NSW]
19 June 1951
Three weeks after the collapse of Nazi Germany, Major Ivan Nikitine, deputy chief of the Soviet Security Police, reported in Berlin that the F�hrer had neither shot himself nor been cremated, as generally believed, if indeed, he had perished at all.
Nikitine had interrogated many of the captured Bunker survivors. Under cross-examination, Germans who had told of Hitler's death �twisted their stories, clashed in detail", and finally admitted that no one had seen the F�hrer die.
A German SS officer had revealed under interrogation that he had heard Hitler ranting and raving about a coming conflict between the USSR and its western Allies once the war had concluded. [Hitler, in fact, anticipated the Cold War in his document known as "My Political Testament"]
But, Nikitine claimed, Hitler said that as long as he was still alive the wartime alliance would remain intact. The world would have to be convinced that he was dead. Once the former allies found themselves in conflict, he would reappear and lead the German people to their final victory over Bolshevism".
Today that is still the official Russian attitude, states Frederick Somdern, Jr., in the July "Reader's Digest".
An immediate and exhaustive inquiry, ordered by Gen. Eisenhower's Intelligence, reconstructed the details of Hitler's last days and found as follows:
"At approximately 2.30 on the afternoon of 30 April 1945, Adolf Hitler shot himself with a Walther automatic in the underground F�hrerbunker, while Eva [Braun] Hitler, recently become his wife, crunched a vial of cyanide between her teeth. At 10.30 that night the remains of their bodies -which had been repeatedly drenched with gasoline and burned in the Chancellery garden- were buried by Gen. Rattenhuber and a detail of Elite guards".
Moscow, however, not wanting it that way, did all in its power to obstruct the American investigation. Key witnesses captured by the Russians, including Hans Rattenhuber, disappeared. A jawbone found by Russian investigators at the place of cremation was definitely identified as Hitler's by dental technicians who had made his false teeth. The jawbone and men were sent to Moscow. and have not been heard of since.
Stalin himself, at the Potsdam Conference, set the official attitude, when he startled Presldent Truman and Secretary of State Byrnes with the remark that he believed Hitler was still alive and hiding, in Spa!n or Argentina.
Russian newspapers constantly refer to Hitler's "mysterious disappearance". Some Washington analysts believe that Stalin wants to keep Hitler "alive" as an excuse for eventual action in Europe. Others think that the record of those last terrible days in Berlin, as described in the "Digest" article�when a crazed tyrant to pull a whole nation down with him�would make unhealthy reading for the Russian people.
Donald McKale identifies the earliest source of the myth of Hitler�s escape to the southern hemisphere as the unexpected surrender of a German submarine in early July 1945 at Mar del Plata, Argentina.
In 1952, Eisenhower was quoted as saying, "To be honest, we have been unable to unearth one bit of tangible evidence of Hitler�s death".
 
Several Buenos Aires newspapers, in defiance of Argentine Navy statements, said that rubber boats had been seen landing from it, and other submarines spotted in the area.
On 16 July 1945, the "Chicago Times" carried a sensational article on the Hitlers having slipped off to Argentina.
The archive evidence does not suggest that it would have been particularly difficult to escape unnoticed in Argentina. Recently the Argentine naval archive and also the Police archive declassified documents relating to the submarine U-977 and two other U-Boats which allegedly unloaded close to Necochea, Buenos Aires province, on the night of 27 July 1945.
Conspiracy Questioned
Why can�t they believe that an escape took place? Almost all of them answers: Why years of interrogation failed to shake witnesses� testimonies?
How strange is that then? Come on...
Top Nazi officials including G�bbels and Bormann escorted Hitler�s body, wrapped in a blanket, outside for burning. What if the body was Hitler�s double, [it is proven he had several] someone who had received identical dental work]? So whats so difficult with that? The real Hitler disguised, and shielded by the same senior Nazis, could have left that night when most Bunker personnel were distracted with alcohol. Hitlers doubles also had dental work made.
Next a flight out in a 'Storch' the airplane with the short take-off distance. The German air force could, even at this late stage, have protected Hitler�s escape flight-route: Adolf Galland [a Luftwaffe commander], for example, commanded 70 jet fighters! ["The First and the Last"] After that, either a Junkers Ju-390 or a submarine and off to Argentina.
Bunker survivors, no matter how long interrogated, would sincerely describe what they seemingly saw - that Hitler was dead. Well they couldn�t have said something else. You can actually force someone to believe they saw something they didn�t.
Two months after the German surrender, two German submarines surrender to the Argentinians.
A German U-Boat, U-530, entered the Argentine naval base at Mar del Plata after escaping from Germany with Hitler, Eva Braun and Martin Bormann and other high-ranking Nazi and SS officials on board. [Over 150 German submarines were missing at the end of the war. Not reported sunken. What happened to them?]
Argentina
For decades, rumors swirled throughout Argentina that Hitler had in fact survived the Bunker and escaped to South America�s second largest country where he lived until 1962. Documents recently released by the Federal Bureau of Investigation in Washington DC are giving some credence to the rumors. While no concrete evidence exists to support either the death-by-suicide or life-in-Argentina theories, the weight of the evidence is shifting. And is now seriously tipping over to the �Hitlers Escape� theory�s advantage.
When you consider the series of declassified FBI telegrams from August 1945 reporting of local police activity investigating the presence of Hitler in Villa Gessel, Argentina � a German colony in a country whose political power class had become agents of influence of Berlin.
Or, perhaps, claims of former sailors of the 'Admiral Graf Spee' � a German cruiser scuttled off the Argentine coast whose crew had been stranded in that nation � that they had assisted in securing the scene of Hitler�s coastal landing from a Kriegsmarine U-Boat and had personally interacted with the F�hrer. Which is backed up by several testimonies.
Or an eighty-year-old Argentine waiter living in London. Roberto Brun recalling an incident from Buenos Aires:
"[He] probably came to the hotel six or seven months after I started working, and the preparation that day was very special including bringing one special chef to cook. Mandaver [the restaurant�s manager] didn�t tell me who it was, but I knew he was a very, very big chief. I remember black hair with little touches of white, a skinny face, no mustache. When he got up from the table to walk, Mandaver was with me to one side. And all the people were respecting him. And Mandaver said, �Do you know who it is?� And I said 'no'. He said 'the F�hrer'.
Here�s another testimony from a woman named Catalina Gamero. She once worked in the Eden Hotel La Falda in the Andes, where the FBI claimed Hitler lived. She says:
�I work at the Hotel as a waitress. The hotel is owned by Eda Eichhorn, a Nazi who gets funds by Josef G�bbels, Nazi Propaganda Minister. In 1948, i saw a limo with only 4 doors. When a door opens, i saw Hitler with his wife Eva Braunn going to the lobby.
'The "Hitler of the Andes" is the Hitler we all know at the television. Although he cut off his moustache and has a little hair, he wears a wig on it, yes he do. Usually, the lobby is full of people. But in 3 days Hitler lives there, the downstairs is reserved. Eda told me; �What ever you�ve seen, act as like you don�t.� So i joke with the chauffeur not to tell the secrets to anyone. But it�s been a long time, so i don�t care anymore!�
Hitler "did not live cloistered" but moved with total freedom, late 1940s and early 1950s,  throughout the Argentine territory, but also by countries like Brazil, Colombia and Paraguay. It made sightings almost inevitable. In time, Catalina Gomero would not be the only person willing to tell stories of meeting the former F�hrer in Argentina after the war.
Jorge Batinic, a bank manager from the city of Comodoro Rivadavia in the southern Patagonian province of Chubut, vividly remembered the story told to him by his Spanish-born mother, Mafalda Batinic. In summer 1940, she had been in France working for the International Red Cross, and on several occasions she had seen  Hitler at close quarters when he was visiting wounded Wehrmacht soldiers. In later years she would often say, "Once seen, the face of Hitler was never forgotten".
After the war Mafalda moved to Argentina, and by the beginning of 1951 she was working as a nurse in the Arustiza y Varando private hospital. One day, a German rancher was brought in for treatment for a gunshot wound, and a few days later three other Germans arrived to visit the patient. It was noticeable that two of them treated the third one as "the boss". Mafalda had to choke back an involuntary cry of amazement when she recognized him as Hitler. He had no moustache and was somewhat graying, but she had no doubt that it was him.
Shocked, Mrs. Batinic told the owners of the clinic, Drs. Arustiza and Varando; they watched him and were surprised, but did nothing. Apart from greeting the patient, Hitler hardly said a word. When the three Germans left, Mrs. Batinic asked the patient the identity of his important visitor. Realizing that she had already recognized the F�hrer, the injured rancher told his nurse, "Look, it�s Hitler, but don�t say anything. You know they�re looking for him, it�s better not to say anything".
Hitler would have been more than once in the Estancia Lago Hermoso, located 28 kilometers from San Martin de los Andes, in Patagonia. In that place, near the homonymous lake, existed an airstrip where Nazis arrived, after the end of WWII.
According to the story of Miguel Lema, a rural Peon who worked there, after ending that war, several Nazis arrived in planes that descended on a track built inside the Estancia, which is located between Villa La Angostura and San Martin de The Andes. Lema said that there the workers received a "military" type of treatment - they had to do training early in the morning, for example - under the leadership of a general boss known as "Ricks". Lema recounted that several times, in the evening hours, they had to set fire inside 200-liter drums to signal the runway, thus facilitating the arrival of small airplanes, as the Germans took advantage of the darkness for the fugitives to pass unnoticed. According to his account, in these aircraft arrived groups of Nazis that soon were destined to different points of the Patagonia. Lema said that he befriended one of them - who used the name Eddy Schyldroc, who confidently told him that Hitler was living very near there, in a house located a few kilometers from Villa La Angostura. He also told him that the Nazi chief's children were under protection in Cordoba, where they were studying.
Schyldroc further assured him that the Nazi F�hrer had gone more than once incognito to the Estancia Lago Hermoso and that his presence was not noticed by the peons who worked there.
From World War II versions and themes such as the Fourth Reich, the presence of German submarines on the coast and even the presence of Hitler in Argentina, began to circulate. After the clandestine arrival of several Germans of Nazi ideology  to Argentina, who had escaped at the end of the conflict through the assistance offered by the Vatican, these rumors grew, until creating and feeding several popular myths, one of them being the alleged presence of Hitler in Patagonia. 
Years later there was proof that there were hidden Nazis in Patagonia,and soon some studies like those of Ronald C. Newton, "The Fourth Side of the Triangle" Edit. South American, shed light on the supposed Fourth Reich and the "Nazi threat," or the presence of German submarines on the Patagonian coasts.
Many of these issues had been invented by the British Intelligence to put pressure on a country that was reluctant to declare war on Germany.
Some versions of Hitler's presence in Patagonia began to circulate early in the area between the village of Caleta Olivia and Comodoro Rivadavia. It was between these two coastal towns, where the family of the German pioneer Magnus Fratzcher had the idea to build a bench in a sector of his field that overlooked the Atlantic ocean. From that fact, the popular imagination assumed that from there were sightings and communications with the mysterious submarines were made. There were even those who saw the figure of Hitler sitting there some evenings,  observing the horizon. Hitler's presence in this area began to be a recurring theme.
In Comodoro Rivadavia, Mafalda Falc�n stated that in 1951, working as a nurse she saw him visiting a patient.
She had been a member of the International Red Cross, was in Europe during the war and said she was sure of what she said. This version about the supposed presence gave rise to a series of speculations, and the writer Patrick Burnside, in one of his interesting books, full of untested versions, but based on existing people, and on supposed situations occurring in Patagonia, returned to the subject again referring to the fact that Hitler had been seen years ago inside a car moving between the coast and the mountain range. He also suggested in "The Escape of Hitler," that a mysterious construction on the outskirts of Villa La Angostura was expressly built for the Nazi dictator.
Comodoro Rivadavia was one of the Patagonian cities where all the specialized petroleum labor was of German nationality, at both the Astra and Diadema oil camps, even before World War II. More than a thousand German citizens were employed at Astra, as well as some three hundred Austrians.
Alejandro Schikorrd was a German, who although not professing Nazi ideology had an incredible physical resemblance to Hitler. Schikorrd was born on 22 June 1895 in Marece, Austria, son of Miguel Schikorrd and Elizabeth Harich, and had arrived in the country as a sailor aboard the ship 'Patagonia', on 15 November 1914. He remained a time in Buenos Aires, and by 1917 he was already in Puerto Madryn. In 1918 he became a peddler traveling the area. In 1919 he was found in General Colonia San Martin, in 1920 he returned to Buenos Aires, and from 1934 he was employed by the oil company Astra, Comodoro Rivadavia.
Alejandro Schikorrd during a great part of his life, and until finally he could exhibit proof of his Argentine citizenship, had to endure diverse incidents by his physical similarity with Hitler. Arrested several times, it is possible that this is the German who generated the myth of Hitler's presence in Patagonia. Every time he went on vacation, new problems arose. Looking at his photos today, there is no doubt that the comments that were generated could originate with his presence, and those who were occasional witnesses might think that they had seen Hitler.
In the neighborhood of the Astra mine, resided Leonor Verasai. She was nine when she witnessed for the first time one of these detentions.
It was in 1946 when her German neighbors, Emilio Schier and Rosal�a Stobizer de Schier, after their marriage, had decided to settle in San Martin de los Andes. Prepared to accompany them in the move, Leonor, his father Juan Tom�s and Alejandro Schikorrd, loaded the goods in a truck and drove by the routes that unite Commodore, in the direction of Bariloche.
Schikorrd was on the truck that followed them. One of the interprovincial controls was in Rio Villegas, between the towns of El Bols�n and Bariloche, when, after passing the routine control, the occupants of the car realized that the truck no longer followed. They decided to turn around and return, and found it with the detachment. Alejandro that day was wearing britches and boots, this added to who he resembled, and it played against him once again: the surprised gendarmes believed to have "delayed" Hitler, who it was said "was in Patagonia". At the insistence of his companions, everything was solved after those at the checkpoint communicated with their superiors, who in turn, asking for instructions, had to call the company Astra, in order to make sure that Alejandro was who he claimed to be, and not who he appeared to be.
-- Ernesto Maggiori
There is also a number of sources, such as cooks and doctors, who claim to have known the Nazi leader before he died aged 73 on 13 February 1962. There also also claims that Hitler�s bloodline survived through two daughters he had with Braun. There are no traces or documents of them however.
The book "The Untold Story of Eva Braun: Her Life Beyond Hitler" [2011] by Thomas Lundmark, postulates that Eva Braun suffered from Mayer-Rokitansky-K�ster-Hauser Syndrome [MRKH] the congenital absence of an upper vagina and uterus, which prevented her from ever becoming pregnant.
This sensational claim, however, is unsupported by any reliable source or scholarship, in a self-published book which according to the author himself is "written like a novel" and presents a fictionalized account of Eva Braun's biography.
20 July 1944 was an important day for Hitler. From this point on, Hitler prepared many options for his escape, sowing confusion as to his whereabouts using Doppelg�ngers for his public appearances.
One, in a hospital, was shown on "Movietone News" in 1945 with the title 'German Newsreels on Hitler�s Escape'.
Newsreel narrator:
"Looking rather more round-shouldered than usual, he goes from bed to bed commiserating with the casualties. Maybe this is Hitler�s double or perhaps his double was killed by the bomb. Though there are scores of theories, the facts are not yet known".
The fact that "Movietone News" had the newsreel showed that it was leaked for Propaganda purposes.
The "Movietone News" Doppelg�nger was an entirely bigger person, with round shoulders, a chin, jowls, different-shaped ears, hairline and neck thickness. He was 1-2 inches taller [25-50 mm] had muscular arms, a thick chest and large farmer�s hands. He was a bigger man altogether but wore the trademark moustache which drew attention away from all other features. He had also had plastic surgery to imitate Hitler�s nose. Hitler, at this stage, was square-shouldered and thin, with a hollow chest.
Narrator:
�In the final months of the war, even the Germans couldn�t be certain. Since the 1944 bomb plot, Hitler kept well out of sight hidden away in Bunkers. The last ordinary Germans who saw him in the open were a handful of the Hitler Youth".
   German troops on the Oder front, salute Adolf Hitler  in March 1945
     Hitler visiting Berlin defenders in early April 1945 with Hermann G�ring
The main East-West avenue was used by the Nazis as a runway right up to the last moments when Berlin fell with Hanna Reitsch flying out on 29/30 April 1945.
The Nazis had captured British planes at hand to try and make their escape without being shot down, one of which was an 'Auster' with RAF markings.
The Auster was an observation and liaison aircraft
based on the American Taylorcraft design.
It served with several Air Forces during WW2.
The slow speed [130mph] and large glass area made it ideal
for observation duties, and it could also land in a short distance
which made it useful for casualty evacuation.
Flight out of Berlin was certainly possible. Rochus Misch, Hitler�s switchboard operator stated:
"There were two planes waiting to the north of Berlin. One of them was the Ju390 and a Blohm and Voss [Bv222] that could fly the same distance. It could fly 18,000 km without refuelling, so Hitler could have escaped if he wanted to".
Stalin�s deputy, Marshal Georgy Zhukov had announced Hitler was dead on 1 May 1945, but had changed his mind. Hitler could easily have escaped. The runway was open and he was probably in Spain or Argentina, both of which were fascist.
At a  press conference on 9 June 1945, Colonel General Nikolai E. Berzarin, Soviet commander of Berlin, turning to the question of whether Hitler had died in Berlin, said:
"There are all sorts of people who were close to him who say that he killed himself. Still others say he was killed by an exploding shell, however, Russian soldiers had not yet found Hitler�s body. My personal opinion is that he has disappeared somewhere into Europe. Perhaps he is in Spain with Franco. He had the possibility of getting away". 
So the newspapers published articles with the headings, 'Hitler�s Argentine Connection'. This was another cover-up. 
Despite the strong indication that Hitler had escaped to Barcelona, all search efforts were directed elsewhere.
"There was a heap of ashes. Someone said it was Hitler"
David Smith
The Observer
1 May 2005
For most people old enough to remember the war, next Sunday's 60th anniversary of Victory in Europe Day will evoke images of mass euphoria in Trafalgar Square and towns and cities on the home front. For one man, however, it revives memories of walking with giants - the statesmen who won the Second World War and shaped the postwar world.
Hugh Lunghi is thought to be the first Briton to have entered Hitler's Berlin Bunker and was one of Winston Churchill's interpreters at the key conferences with Josef Stalin, Franklin Roosevelt and Harry Truman.
On VE Day, Lunghi was with the British military mission to Moscow, and by July he was in Berlin, which had fallen to Soviet troops.
"I was in uniform and the Russian sentries allowed me to step down into Hitler's Bunker, which was flooded by two or three inches," the 84-year-old told "The Observer" in a rare interview. "It was damp and nasty and there was a lot of dirty clothing - a horrible, grim place which smelt terribly.
   
"However, it was fascinating, and that was a moment when I thought: 'My God, this is history'. Outside there was a heap of ashes and a pile of stuff and I said, 'What was that?' One of the soldiers, a major, said: 'Oh, that's Hitler and his mistress'. I don't think he realised he wasn't supposed to be telling me this".
Lunghi was allowed to take a memento from the Bunker.
"There were several rooms down there, including a medical room with a herb rack full of glass phials, which I suppose had both medicines and poisons in. Another room was like a studio and sitting-room with books in, including a set of Hitler's "Brockhaus" [the equivalent of Encyclopaedia Britannica]. I took one volume and when I went up the steps again asked, 'Can I take this?' They said: 'Oh yes, take it, by all means'.
In the end the Russians managed to swathe the whole question in such obscurity that the wildest versions concerning the end of Hitler circulated . . . fleeing in a submarine to a remote island, living in a Spanish monastery or on a South American Hacienda.
Amongst those most taken with the news that Hitler was alive was General Eisenhower. Months after Berlin was taken, he said publicly:
�We have been unable to find one tangible piece of evidence of Hitler�s death. Even though I initially believed Hitler was dead, there are now reasons to assume that he is alive".
A radio bulletin stated:
�The United States Army does not know whether Hitler is alive or dead." An Associated Press heading read �Zhukov Says Hitler Wed Actress In Berlin, May Be Alive in Europe ... Berlin, 9 June [1945] - Adolf Hitler not yet found".
On 19 December 1945 a newspaper article read:
�Soviets not convinced Hitler Dead". Other articles read, "Far from being brought to justice, Hitler had melted away" and "Court Ruling sought on Hitler�s Death".
After all of these headings the Soviets then claimed the British were holding Hitler alive. Stalin should know.
After the Potsdam conference the false trail was developed to Argentina and was continued through into the mid-1970s. This involved a U-Boat leaving Norway for Argentina in great secrecy and was followed by a well-publicised landing and surrender on the coast of Argentina on 17 August 1945.
The FBI then became involved and searched for Hitler from the subways of the Bronx to the jungles of Latin America. This was only ever going to be a wild-goose chase.
The FBI began to investigate if Hitler had made it across the Atlantic, and recently released FBI documents point to worry and hysteria surrounding the possibility that Hitler was alive and in their neighbourhood.
The documents presented had all traceable detail blacked out, so little or no follow-up was possible. Some of these documents were letters sent in by players to create false leads and other leads were treated as hoaxes, like "If you want to know where Hitler is call xxx-xxxx". The name and address was also blacked out.
Polls at the time showed that over 50% of people believed Hitler was still alive and this led to a lot of Hitler sightings.
The most enthusiastic Hitler hunter was "The National Police Gazette - Sports, True Adventure, People" [America�s first pictorial, established 1845]. The front cover of the December 1945 showed two American actors looking like suburban versions of Hitler and Eva at 40 and 30 years of age. The cover read "Hitler is Alive! His Marriage to Eva Braun - Their Fake Suicide and Escape from Berlin".
One story goes that a double had died for Hitler at the Bunker and Adolf Hitler and Eva Braun had escaped to Norway through Denmark, and from there were taken by the U-Boat submarine U-977 to Latin America.
 This was a voyage many had thought physically impossible but the U-977, a Type VIIC made it to the coast of Argentina on 17 August 1945.
On the same day the newspaper headline read "102 Days Late, German Sub Surrenders to Argentina". The crew were immediately taken prisoner and accused of hiding Hitler on board.
John Walsh, an American FBI G-Man [a spy working for the American Embassy in Buenos Aires on the fruitless Hitler-hunt in Argentina]:
"The U-Boats came and surrendered to Argentina. The press reports there indicated that someone in Montevideo [Uruguay] or Argentina suggested that Hitler had been on these boats and that caused a number of people to say, �Well, we have to look into that possibility�.
More reports of U-Boat landings came into the FBI over the next couple of weeks:
"Reports of Hitler Hideout - Los Angeles, [redacted] Bureau, 21 September 1945 - The first sub came close to shore after it had been signalled safe to land and a doctor and several men disembarked and Hitler and two women. Another doctor and seven more men said Hitler had suffered from asthma and ulcers and had shaved off his moustache and had a long �butt� on his upper lip".
Hitler was supposed to be hiding in the foothills of the Southern Andes but reports remained unconfirmed. The Argentina�s navy tried to capture the U-Boats but the huge coastline made it easy for the Nazis to evade capture and get ashore on German-owned coastal farms in Patagonia.
The FBI then set up an operation behind the walls of the American Embassy in Buenos Aires but its power of interrogation was restricted and the agents had to operate covertly. They had difficulty establishing the crucial network of informants on the ground and were limited by their conspicuousness. They were also under constant surveillance from local police and Nazis who hid behind newspapers.
Messages from outside Argentina were relayed to the FBI Hitler-hunters by the FBI Radiogram system. These instructions kept the team of G-Men busy chasing the ever-elusive, never-present Hitler for over four decades.
The FBI G-Men would even report on footprints found in mudflats near San Gelling [25 June 1948], leading to a car and would then follow up in Veronica. 
Another U-Boat was spotted on 18 July 1948 at Mar del Plata, then Hitler was seen heading across the Argentine pampas towards the southern Andes towards the German-owned Eden Hotel in La Falda, a remote region of Cordova nestled in the foothills of the Andes. This was a crop circle investigation, defined by the Oxford Reference Dictionary as caused by �whirlwinds, fungi, alien spaceships and/or hoaxers".
In November 1945, the FBI had linked Hitler to the Eden Hotel, a centrepiece of a long-established wealthy German community. This was an international hotel where aristocrats from Cordova and Buenos Aires danced to the orchestra into the early hours.
Since the 1930s, the Eden had been a paradise for its predominantly German clientele. It was run by Ida Eichhorn whose connections reached the highest echelons of the German Reich.
According to the FBI, who established a dossier on Eichhorn after the war, she had close links with the German Reich. Before the Nazis had come to power she placed her entire bank account of 30,000 Marks at G�bbels� disposal. Over the years she became one of Hitler�s closest friends and confidants although there is no mention of her in Joachim C. Fest�s authoritative "Hitler".
It was difficult for the FBI G-Men to get to La Falda in person, because they stuck out like sore thumbs. The FBI never went to the Eden Hotel. They used locals and got all of their information second-hand. A lot of photos of Hitler had been placed around the hotel and the hotel was in a constant state of readiness for his arrival. It was considered to be the natural place for him to be in Argentina.
This was a fabrication and showed the FBI�s collusion in taking the world�s attention off the scent, onto Argentina and away from Spain.
Spain was where Hitler was and, quite purposely, no postwar-controlled media published anything of him being there.
The FBI didn�t close the files on Adolf Hitler until the mid-1970s, after J. Edgar Hoover had died in 1972. After this the Americans started to liberalise their attitude towards the secret matters of WWII and a flood of documents were declassified in the spring of 1975 containing secret papers on cover and deception.
John Walsh stated:
�Much of the information was not credible ... others where there was a possibility of some credibility... we made enquiries .. . but [in] none of them we found any true indications that Hitler was in Argentina or the United States, or in any place where we had any responsibility. All the investigations we made came to a dead end because nothing really specific had been found.�
The narrator of the documentary "Hitler of the Andes" states that Stalin had deliberately confused and misinformed the West about Hitler�s fate in Spain or Argentina. This is an interesting end to the documentary as it never investigated Spain. It is designed to confuse, introduce an erroneous story, affirm lost leaders and discredit truthful leads.
Hitler wanted to continue his most far-reaching missions, and these did involve Antarctica, particularly the secret German submarine base at South 69� 10� and West 4� 15�.
The Germans had frequented Antarctica since the 1920s. Here they discovered an undersea entrance to a cavern south of South America in Queen Maud Land on the Princess Astrid Coast and named the mountains of their chosen area after German bureaucrats of the time like the M�hlig-Hofmann Mountains and the Wohlthat Mountains. These names remain today.
Richard E. Byrd was the most famous American Antarctic researcher and was the first person to fly over the South Pole in 1929. In mid-November 1938 [10 months before WWII] he showed a movie of his Antarctic flight in Hamburg, Germany. Very soon after Byrd was promoted from civilian to high-ranking US Navy Admiral.
The Germans went to Antarctica two months later based on what Richard E. Byrd had shown them. Under polar-experienced Captain Alfred Ritscher, the Germans made 15 flights over some 600,000 square kilometres [4%] of Antarctica from 19 January 1939 and took 11,000 pictures of the area. They discovered ice-free areas with lakes and small signs of vegetation. These aerial photographs showed that the 1931 Norwegian maps of the interior were fake.
Immediately after this, Nazis began building an underground city on the Princess Astrid Coast, and in 1940 Nazi engineers began construction of buildings to withstand 60�C below zero. During the war, underground bases were the de rigueur for protection and secrecy [Harz and Th�ringen] and the Germans have maintained underground construction activity at Antarctica since 1941.
The Nazis referred to this impregnable city as Neuberlin [New Berlin] in an area called Neuschwabenland or Base 211. It is built to withstand an atomic attack and a nuclear winter.
Where were operations conducted, if they really were the result of rogue Nazi activity after World War II?  That is, apart from captured Nazis post-World War II now working within the military programs of the U.S. or Soviet Union, is there any evidence that points to the location accommodating this potentially threatening activity?
There are two alternatives frequently discussed:  One location is barely possible while the other location is firmly accepted with a mountain of historical data proving it a safe haven for Nazis. 
First up, there is the fantastic possibility that at the end of the War, a German flotilla of U-Boats headed to Antarctica and set up shop in an acknowledged German naval base there.
Author Henry Stevens, a notable researcher of "What happened to Nazi technological inventions....Secret German naval bases" and "German flying saucers", addresses this question regarding "the where" with some compelling details in his book, "Hitler�s Suppressed and Still-Secret Weapons, Science and Technology".  
According to Stevens, the Allies believed many Nazi scientists survived the war and established themselves in one or both Polar Regions, residing under the ice to remain covert.  It seems evidence soon arose inferring Nazis were alive and operating with total latitude. This possibility led the U.S. military to take action. Stevens comments:
"The U.S. military spent huge amounts of time, money and manpower in the years following the war in secret missions, flying over the Arctic.  This is no secret now since we have the testimony of Col. Wendele Stevens who took part in these operations while serving in the USAF.  In these operations, B-29 bombers were outfitted with the latest electromagnetic sensing gear and flown all over the American and [apparently Stevens is speaking generally of "North American" and specifically] "Canadian Arctic" allegedly looking for "flying saucers". 
The Western Allies, the Russians, and the Germans all relied heavily on weather reports to plan and execute their campaigns, and for this purpose, accurate up-to-the-minute reporting on Arctic conditions was crucial. 
To this end it is not surprising to find the Germans in particular outfitting special commando units - usually Waffen SS - to operate independently in Spitzbergen Island north of Norway, in Greenland, and in Arctic Canada. Such teams were delivered to their operational areas via U-Boat. Spitzbergen in particular seemed to trade hands between the British and the Germans, as each side mounted commando operations to destroy the other's weather stations and listening posts.
On one such occasion, the most famous perhaps, the German battleship 'Tirpitz', sister ship to the 'Bismarck', sailed to the island where one such British station was operating, leveled her 15 inch heavy guns at it, and promptly dispatched it, no doubt to the complete shock and surprise of the British manning it. 
Other allegations have a secret German weather base and listening post operating in Franz Josef Land, the islands to the north of Finland and the Soviet Union.
However, with the allegations of German bases in Greenland, one again enters the realm of the surreal. These bases were allegedly comparatively large, as were the contingents of Germans operating them. While they were supposedly known by the Greenlanders and occupying American forces, most efforts to find them ended in failure. One postwar German source places as many as three independent SS battle groups [Kamfgruppen] operating in Greenland, under the code name of Thulekampfgruppen [Thule battle groups]. 
Predictably, these "Thule battle groups" become the subject of another series of survival legends, as former SS officers supposedly reported seeing U-Boats loaded with rates designated "Thule 1 K" and so on departing Germany in the final days of the war. Sworn to secrecy by the SS, the "clear implication is that the 'Thule 1 K' is the Thule Kampfgruppe 1" and that it had "no intentions of surrender; and that there was still a mission to accomplish". 
"The Americans, so the story goes, were unsuccessful in locating them bases for two reasons: The area was too large, and the bases were, "like the German fortifications built in Neuschwabenland... tunneled deep underneath the glaciers of ice [into presumably solid rock] and that they were bored to a length of 2000 meters". 
-- O. Bergmann, "Deutsche Flugsheiben und U-Boote �berwachen die Weltmeere"
This allegation is surely implausible, since the transport of sophisticated mining and boring equipment, let alone enough explosive, for such a task by U-Boat would have been an enormous undertaking, one quite beyond the labor capabilities of small SS battle groups � consider the fact that the huge underground factories in Germany were built over several months by thousands of slave laborers working around the clock with the best available existing mining and tunneling technology.
But this is not the end of the surreal aspects of the story. Should the bases have been detected, they were supposedly defended with exotic electromagnetic weapons, one of which had a short range, but that could cause the ignition of aircraft engines to fail completely.
One of the many Third Reich construction projects that was started but never finished was a series of underground complexes in central Th�ringen, southeast of the city of Gotha [near the concentration camp at Ohrdruf, the first such camp found by the Americans on German soil].
This project had several code names, depending on what part was meant, and the names also changed over time - the following names were used for all or part of this complex - Siegfried, Olga, Burg, Jasmin; the designation S/III was sometimes used for the entire project. The main works were dug into a hill forming the north side of the Jonas Valley, between Crawinkel and Arnstadt.
Part of the project was reportedly intended as a last-ditch headquarters facility for Hitler and his staff, should they fall back from Berlin into the interior of Germany [some reports say Hitler actually spent the end of March 1945 in this or another nearby underground F�hrer Headquarters].
Other theories say this or a nearby site were intended for production of the intercontinental "Amerika" rocket, and even testing and production of a Nazi atomic bomb. Most of the complex never advanced much further than the tunnel digging stage, and the Soviets blasted most of the tunnel entrances after the war. The exact purpose of this facility remains in doubt, as does its code-names ["Siegfried" and "Olga" may actually have been names of other sites].
Ohrdruf was reached by General Patton about 11 April 1945.
The Oberkommando der Wehrmacht [OKW, High Command] and Luftwaffe war diaries and all copies of them for the period March 1945 have disappeared and are suspected to be in American keeping.
On 17 April 1945, the United States Atomic Energy Commission inspected various underground workings at Ohrdruf, and removed technical equipment before dynamiting surface entrances.
The US authorities have classified all 1945 documents relating to Ohrdruf for a minimum period of 100 years.
Fortunately for researchers, in 1962 a quasi-judicial tribunal sat at Arnstadt in the then DDR, to take depositions from local residents for an enquiry entitled "Befragung von B�rgern zu Ereignissen zur �rtlichen Geschichte". The enquiry was principally interested in what went on at the Ohrdruf Truppen�bungsplatz [T�P] in the latter years of the war. The depositions became common property in 1989 upon the reunification of Germany and may be viewed at Arnstadt town hall.
A witness stated that in 1944 there was an installation below the Ohrdruf Truppen�bungsplatz which created an electro-magnetic field capable of stopping the engines of a conventional aircraft at seven miles.
During the war, the Allies never photographed Ohrdruf from the air, nor bombed it, even though their spies must have assured them it was crawling with SS and scientific groups.
The American military knew about the      Nazi forced labor camps and concentration camps because Allied      planes had done aerial photographs of numerous factories near      the camps in both Germany and Poland, and many of these camps,      including Buchenwald, had been bombed, killing thousands of innocent      prisoners.
In fact, General George S. Patton bragged in his autobiography      about the precision bombing of a munitions factory near the Buchenwald      concentration camp on 24 August 1944 which he erroneously claimed      had not damaged the nearby camp. Not only was the camp hit by      the bombs, there were 400 prisoners who were killed, along with      350 Germans.
Why did all the US Army generals visit this small, obscure forced labor camp, and no other? Could it be because there was something else of great interest in the Ohrdruf area besides the F�hrer Bunker and the salt mine where Nazi treasures were stored?
There has been some speculation that the Germans might have tested an atomic bomb near Ohrdruf.
In his book entitled "The SS Brotherhood of the Bell," author James P. Farrell wrote about "the alleged German test of a small critial mass, high yield atom bomb at or near the Ohrdruf troop parade ground on 4 March 1945".
The "troop parade ground" was at the German Army Base right next to the Ohrdruf labor camp.
Why did General Eisenhower immediately order a Propaganda campaign about Nazi atrocities? Was it to distract the media from discovering a far more important story? The first news reel about the Nazi camps called Ohrdruf a "murder mill".
A German electro-magnetic field which interfered with their aircraft at altitudes of up to seven miles is admitted by a 1945 United States Air Force Intelligence document. The USAF suspected that it was a device to bring down their bombers, but it obviously had some other purpose, or it would have been operating in Berlin.
On 6 December 1944, the US Military Intelligence Service commenced Research Project 1217 "Investigation into German Possible Use of Rays to Neutralize Allied Aircraft Motors".
This resulted from "recent interference phenomena occasionally experienced on operations over Germany in the Frankfurt/Main area". It was usually described as "freakish interference to engines and electrical instruments" over the north bank of the Main River, about ten miles from F�hrer headquarters Adlerhorst.
In a top secret report entitled "Engine Interference Counter-Measures" addressed to the Director, Air Technical Service Command, Wright Field, Dayton, Ohio, reference was made to OSS discussions about a German unit somewhere near Frankfurt/Main operating:
"An influence interfering with conventional aircraft... however incredible it may appear to project from the ground to a height of 30,000 feet sufficient magnetic energy to interfere with the functioning of the ignition system of an airplane, it must be concluded that the enemy not only intends to interfere with our aircraft by some immaterial means, but has also succeeded in accomplishing this intention..."
Many Arnstadt witnesses described occasions when electrical equipment and automobile engines cut out. They always knew when this was about to happen, for the ship's Diesel engine at Amt 10 would smoke. A Diesel motor is not affected by an electro-magnetic field.
In 1980, Russians scientists were still able to measure the field on their equipment, but they were never able to identify the source.
After the war, the Austrian "Wiener Montag" reported in its 29 December 1947 edition that Eskimos reported to American authorities that an SS battle group of fully 150 men had been encountered. 
The number 150 is realistic for a battle group, but quite below the labor requirements for the construction of such large bases.
Besides these allegations of large bases and battle groups and exotic weaponry, there is a similar account circulated by the distinctly pro-Nazi novelist Wilhelm Landig in his 1971 novel "G�tzen gegen Thule", a novel he billed as "full of realities" [voller Wirklichkeiten], of a large German base in the Canadian Arctic, near the magnetic North pole. 
This base, he alleges, was serviced by the German military using special long-range aircraft and, of course, flying saucers! 
As if that were not enough, Landig maintains that these aircraft were not equipped with normal machine guns or cannon for their defensive weaponry, but utilized a "Metallstrahl", essentially an electromagnetic "rail gun" used to propel tiny pellets with extreme velocity, a kind of hyper-velocity shotgun that would more than rip apart any Allied aircraft, and do so at great distances. 
The Electro Magnetic Railgun launcher is a long-range weapon that fires projectiles using electricity instead of chemical propellants. Magnetic fields created by high electrical currents accelerate a sliding metal conductor, or armature, between two rails to launch projectiles at 4,500 mph.
In 1944, during World War II, Joachim H�nsler of Germany's Ordnance Office proposed the first theoretically viable railgun. By late 1944, the theory behind his electric anti-aircraft gun had been worked out sufficiently to allow the Luftwaffe's Flak Command to issue a specification, which demanded a muzzle velocity of 2,000 m/s [6,600 ft/s] and a projectile containing 0.5 kg [1.1 lb] of explosive. The guns were to be mounted in batteries of six firing twelve rounds per minute, and it was to fit existing 12.8 cm FlaK 40 mounts.
Although the gun ordered was not delivered before the end of the war, a miniature that actually worked was built and tested. Theoretical calculations, based upon tests made with the miniature gun, led the German scientists to believe it possible to build an electric gun capable of tossing a 14-pound projectile to an altitude of 12 miles in 13 seconds.
To men familiar with the problems of antiaircraft artillery, such a weapon appeared a godsend. The 90-mm anti-aircraft gun of conventional, powder-burning design, can reach only 4.4 miles in altitude in the same length of time.
Although the problem of electrically ejected shells is an old one, it has still to pass the research stages. The chief problem is to obtain a source of sufficient electrical power that will not be all out of proportion to the size of the gun. Designing a gun did not seem to be too great a problem, for the German model appeared logical.
The electric gun deserves further study and experimentation, since it contains, in theory at least, some marked advantages over the conventional antiaircraft artillery of the present day. It is theoretically capable of obtaining muzzle velocities far in excess of what to date has appeared possible for powder-burning weapons. It is noiseless, smokeless, and has no flash. Constructed of materials easily obtainable, it requires comparatively little high-precision machining. Unlike other artillery pieces, the machined surfaces are not subjected to high pressures and intense heat. Moving parts are few, and these can be greased. Recoil is negligible, and range can be adjusted by varying the electric current. The gun has a high efficiency, compared to ordinary pieces, since there is no energy wasted through heat and escaping gases, and the manufacture and handling of cartridges is eliminated. But perhaps most important is the fact that ranges and penetrating power now unattainable may be reached in the electric gun.
Of course, these advantages are in turn offset by the chief problem�power supply�and a myriad of minor electrical wrinkles that would require straightening before a truly efficient gun could be produced. It is one thing to handle large amperages in a power house, and quite another to supply them to, and use them in, a comparatively small piece of machinery which, to be of full military value, must retain the essentials of mobility.
-- Joseph P. Farrell 
According to Wendele, when they were sighted, they were filmed and the film and recorded measurements were spirited way to Washington D.C.  Nothing was ever heard of them afterward.
However, the most intriguing location is at the opposite side of the earth�the South Pole where many Nazis may have been holed up for over five decades, creating their own subterranean ice society. 
Stevens provides this recap:
"UFologists are always describing UFOs as originating in Antarctica. Certainly, the theme is familiar to everyone through science fiction movies.  Some think Atlantis may be buried deep under the ice.  Many nations currently have research bases in Antarctica.  The German base at Neuschwabenland was active, at least on some level, during the Second World War and may have served as a last refuge for Nazi die-hards after the conflict".
 
Not only do these theories exist but there are all sorts of combinations of the theories mentioned above.  Did the Germans locate their base in Antarctica because the Ahnenerbe, the SS racial-archeological organization, found evidence of a lost civilization?  Or did the Germans or any of the other nationalities involved in Antarctica make contact with an extraterrestrial presence located on that continent, a theory recently revamped by Dr. Michael E. Salla?
To unpack this passage, it should be pointed out there is a geological rationale suggesting how humans could survive, albeit with a Spartan existence, at the South Pole.  Stevens explains there rests a very deep warm water lake, heated geothermically, and named Lake Vostok with a depth of over 2,000 feet, 300 miles from the exact spot of the South Pole.  The lake maintains hospitable temperatures in the 60s despite being covered in places by an ice dome reaching 2,500 feet in height.  Volcanic activity heats up the water continuously and provides a natural means to generate energy.
The lake is unique for another very distinct reason:  it is the only lake known to be overseen by the National Security Agency. Why would a U.S. security agency, namely the NSA, care about what is going on at the South Pole? 
Some researchers suggest the reason lies in the fact this area contains far more than ice, snow, and unexpectedly warm water. The intrigue dates back to the famed but short-lived expedition of Admiral Byrd in 1946 where a dramatic magnetic anomaly was discovered measuring "1,000 nanoteslas of variance with the surrounding vicinity. One scientist jumped on this publicly and began to debunk its significance but the fact remains that the best and most probable  answer as to the origin of this vast magnetic disturbance is the presence of a massive amount of metal. Metal as in a buried city".
Then Stevens draws out the enigma associated with this discovery [which happens to be a favorite Nazi myth, the so-called "Secret Doctrine"]: 
�This brings us right back to the mystery-school of Antarctica. Is this metal the remains of Atlantis?  Is it the underground city said by some to have been built by the Germans, Neu-Berlin?  Is this an extraterrestrial base?  With the NSA involved, the only thing for certain is that we learn the answer to this mystery anytime soon�" 
And since the NSA is still there, another thing that is equally certain: we will continue to speculate about it.
To top off the fantastic story, another researcher cited by Stevens suggests that the U.S. finally had had enough trouble from the location and used a new type of atomic weapon, a "boring atomic weapon" at the very time of the Iraq invasion [19-20 March 2003] serving as a perfect cover for such a covert operation at Earth�s "bottom".  While Stevens doesn�t endorse the view of researcher Christian Saal, he does agree the seismological data from this site, coinciding as it did with the opening salvo in Iraq [aka "Shock and Awe"], begs the question of what was then happening at the South Pole, especially given its mysterious history and ongoing scrutiny of the NSA. 
Argentina and the Escape of the German Reich
So much for the extraordinary answer to the question of "where" the flying saucer "base" may have been, to turn to the much more conventional, and certain location of post-war Nazi activity operating independent of U.S. or Soviet control: South America.  With its many German newspapers, German street names, and "Teutonic" influence over the past one hundred years, there are few if any skeptics alive today who continue arguing Nazis never made it there.
There are a number of news accounts from major "news outlets" confirming the "advance planning" of Martin Bormann facilitating the placement of Nazi industrialists into dozens of countries at the end of the War.  Beginning in 1944, Bormann ordered experts from the various key German corporations dispersed along with hundreds of millions in financing.  Bormann was no small lieutenant.  He was head of the party, the Reichsleiter [second in command to Hitler], who all but took over for the F�hrer days before Hitler�s alleged [and much debated] suicide in "the Bunker" on 30 April 1945.
The Argentinian dictator Juan Per�n was strongly fascist in orientation and was cozy with the Nazis before being forced, under political pressure by the Americans only two months before the end of the war, to declare war on Germany [March, 1945].  Later Per�n asserted the declaration of war was a lie with an ulterior motive.  Once identified as an official "Ally", Argentinian planes would be allowed into Europe and could serve as "useful purpose"; namely, flying Nazis out of Europe and to Argentina where they could continue the geopolitical fight for Fascism.
Joseph P. Farrell, in his book "Nazi International" cites Argentinian author Uki Go�a who interviewed Per�n extensively and provides lengthy quotations in his book about "The Real ODESSA"�the term used to describe the "Ratlines" that moved thousands of Nazis out of Germany and into various South American countries, most notably Argentina, Chile, Brazil, Paraguay, and Bolivia.  Argentina was the most frequent destination for the Nazis�since the government was so friendly toward fascists, it was a natural hideout.
This false declaration of war had a clear purpose: "We hadn�t lost contact with Germany, despite the break in diplomatic relations," Per�n would say in 1967. 
Continuing with his assertion:
"Things being so we received an ususual [sic] request. Even though it may seem contradictory at first, Germany benefits from our declaration of war: if Argentina becomes a belligerent country, it has the right to enter Germany when the end arrives; this means that our planes and ships would be in a position to render a great service. At that point we had the commercial planes of the FAMA line [Argentine Merchant Air Fleet] and the ships we had bought from Italy during the war. That is how a great number of people were able to come to Argentina".
"Air Argentina" was not the only means by which the Nazis got to Buenos Aires.  The accounts of daring U-Boat excursions abound; and indeed, constitute some of the most intriguing stories of escape at the end of the war.  However, the assistance of the Argentine Merchant Air Fleet is by far the most feasible method to transport the thousands of persons, documents, and perhaps, advanced technological "devices" to South America. The stories of fantastic tunnels running beneath the towering peaks of Chile are equaled only by the tales of remote cities cut out of the jungles of Argentina, Bolivia, and Paraguay to conceal the secret weapons of the Reich. 
Apparently, if bank robbers Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid could hide out in South America, Nazi war criminals could too.
The Escape of Martin Bormann
How Martin Bormann, the mastermind of the Nazi escape, made his way to South America from Hitler�s Bunker sometime after 21-30  April  1945 remains a highly contentious subject today�a controversy which began over 30 years ago with a book entitled "Aftermath: The Final Search for Martin Bormann", by Hungarian Ladislas Farago. 
Most authorities regard Farago an excellent author and historian.  Indeed, Farago�s book on General George Patton was much acclaimed and became the basis for the movie, "Patton" [1970].  His book, "The Broken Seal", was one of the background books for the movie, "Tora Tora Tora" [1970].  However, a few scholars dispute his storytelling when it comes to where Bormann wound up after the War. And yet, his version of the facts may have been doubted simply because "truth is sometimes stranger than fiction".
The actual escape of Bormann as told by Farrell [citing several sources] involved a German U-Boat carrying Uranium 235, a necessary isotope for the atomic bomb.  Ironically, it was carried on U-Boat 234. 
The argument is as follows: 
The Americans were struggling to gather enough of the necessary ingredients for the atomic bomb through their Manhattan project.  The Nazis had created enough of the isotope to build several such bombs but missed by a few months of being able to mount it on a V-10 rocket [under development] to send it to New York as a deadly greeting card. Consequently, one explanation is that Bormann made a deal to trade the Uranium, surrendering it to the Americans in exchange for his freedom. Another suggests that the Americans and British were most certainly going to protect the U-234 on its mission to help America�s bomb building efforts.  Bormann was well aware of this precious cargo and hitched a ride on the "protected" submarine to Spain, where he holed up for a year, before he moved on to Argentina.
To add insult to injury, according to Farago, when Bormann arrived in Argentina he was in full regalia�as a Catholic priest.  To stretch the facts practically to the point of incredulity, it is stated that he even performed sacred church rites when in Bolivia, after Argentina had become "too hot".  Just how absurd is this idea? 
A Belgian ex-Nazi asserts that the Nazi war criminal Martin Bormann, lived in Paraguay and in Bolivia after the war where he met him, in an interview published in the newspaper, "Derniere Heure".
Paul van Aerschodt, a collaborator sentenced to death in Belgium in 1946, lived under the name of Pablo Simons in San Sebastian, Spain, where he met a journalist, Gilbert Dupont. Paul van Aerschot claims to have met Martin Bormann "four times around 1960" in La Paz, Bolivia, where he had taken refuge in 1947 "thanks to a Visa obtained in a few days by a Claretian father, Mgr Antezana ".
His statements revive the controversy over the death of Adolf Hitler's Deputy, officially declared dead, and revive the controversy over the Church's support for the fugitive Nazi criminals.
"Bormann was also in  Paraguay, where he was preparing with a score of officers a coup to overthrow Peron in Argentina," Aerschodt said. 
"Bormann remained a fanatic [...] Under the name of Augustin von Lembach, he pretended to be a Redemptonist father and wore a black cassock, which made him laugh," he added.
"He celebrated communions, weddings, funerals and administered the last sacraments".
Van Aerschodt frequently visited Belgium, where his death sentence was invalidated in 1976 when Brussels abandoned the penalty.
As it turns out, using the priesthood as a cover was a frequent alias for the fugitive Germans.  Another Nazi war criminal found the priestly frock hospitable.  It was in Bolivia where Klaus Barbie was discovered living with a Croatian war criminal  who had murdered hundreds of thousands of Eastern Orthodox Serbs.  This murderer was also posing as a priest.
Klaus Barbie had escaped to Bolivia after the war aided by the Rat Lines established by the Vatican and by help from US intelligence services. In 1947, Barbie was recruited as an agent by the 66th Detachment of the U.S. Army Counter Intelligence Corps [CIC]. In 1951, he escaped to Argentina by means of the Rat Line organized by U.S. Intelligence services and the Croatian Ustasha Roman Catholic priest Krunoslav Draganovic. Barbie arrived with his family in La Paz, Bolivia on 23 April 1951. A CIC memorandum described the successful outcome of the operation by noting that �the final disposal of an extremely sensitive individual has been handled".
In La Paz, he met with Father Rogue Romac, described as a Draganovic exile, a member of his network, as detailed in "Whiteout: The CIA, Drugs and the Press" by Alexander Cockburn and Jeffrey St. Clair [New York: Verso, 1999]. Romac�s real name was Osvaldo Toth, a Croatian Roman Catholic priest who was himself wanted for war crimes. Toth assisted Barbie in operating saw mills in the rain forests near Santa Cruz and lumber yards in La Paz. He became a successful businessman and entrepreneur.
Therefore, we can be assured that Bormann posing as a Priest would not be the first time a wolf donned sheep�s clothing.
We know that Farago conducted many interviews as documented in his book on Bormann.  He also included Argentinian intelligence documents in his account.  Despite this, a British "historian" Stephen Dorril, in his book, "MI6: Inside the Covert World of Her Majesty�s Secret Intelligence Service" [2000] called Farago "the most successful disinformer or dupe" concerning the presence of Nazis in South America. To him it seemed the notion thousands of Germans riddled with the reprehensible Nazi political philosophy had migrated to South America was just too incredible to accept.
Throw in the accusations against the Catholic Church for playing a pivotal role in the escape and many academics contend we have descended into the realm of insanity. Then again we should remember that with Dorril we have yet another intelligence agent writing "history".  Was he telling the truth or just contributing more disinformation to the already heaping pile of incongruous truths?
Red Cross and Vatican helped thousands of Nazis to escape
Research shows how travel documents ended up in hands of the likes of Adolf Eichmann, Josef Mengele and Klaus Barbie in the postwar chaos
The Guardian
25 May 2011    
 
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 book that pulls together evidence from unpublished documents.
The Red Cross has previously acknowledged that its efforts to help refugees were used by Nazis because administrators were overwhelmed, but the research suggests the numbers were much higher than thought.
Gerald Steinacher, a research fellow at Harvard University, was given access to thousands of internal documents in the archives of the International Committee of the Red Cross [ICRC]. The documents include Red Cross travel documents issued mistakenly to Nazis in the postwar chaos.
 
They throw light on how and why mass murderers such as Adolf Eichmann, Josef Mengele and Klaus Barbie and thousands of others evaded capture by the allies.
By comparing lists of wanted war criminals to travel documents, Steinacher says Britain and Canada alone inadvertently took in around 8,000 former Waffen-SS members in 1947, many on the basis of valid documents issued mistakenly.
The documents �which are discussed in Steinacher's book "Nazis on the Run: How Hitler's henchmen fled justice"- offer a significant insight into Vatican thinking, particularly, because its own archives beyond 1939 are still closed.
The Vatican has consistently refused to comment.
Steinacher believes the Vatican's help was based on a hoped-for revival of European Christianity and dread of the Soviet Union. But through the Vatican Refugee Commission, war criminals were knowingly provided with false identities.
The Red Cross, overwhelmed by millions of refugees, relied substantially on Vatican references and the often cursory Allied military checks in issuing travel papers, known as 10.100s.
It believed it was primarily helping innocent refugees although correspondence between Red Cross delegations in Genoa, Rome and Geneva shows it was aware Nazis were getting through.
"Although the ICRC has publicly apologised, its action went well beyond helping a few people," said Steinacher.
Steinacher says the documents indicate that the Red Cross, mostly in Rome or Genoa, issued at least 120,000 of the 10.100s, and that 90% of ex-Nazis fled via Italy, mostly to Spain, and North and South America � notably Argentina.
Former SS members often mixed with genuine refugees and presented themselves as stateless ethnic Germans to gain transit papers. Jews trying to get to Palestine via Italy were sometimes smuggled over the border with escaping Nazis.
Steinacher says that individual Red Cross delegations issued war criminals with 10.100s "out of sympathy for individuals � political attitude, or simply because they were overburdened". Stolen documents were also used to whisk Nazis to safety. He said: "They were really in a dilemma. It was difficult. It wanted to get rid of the job. Nobody wanted to do it".
The Red Cross refused to comment directly on Steinacher's findings but the organisation says on its website: "The ICRC has previously deplored the fact that Eichmann and other Nazi criminals misused its travel documents to cover their tracks".
Regardless, as time goes by, the evidence mounts that Bormann was a distinct presence in Argentina and later on, in Bolivia.  Joseph Farrell even provides a bank statement facsimile for the joint bank account held by Bormann and Per�n cleared by David Rockefeller�s Chase Manhattan Bank.
Another colorful and noted historian [majoring in the occult] is Peter Levenda who offers this summation of the Catholic connection and Ladislas� account in his book, "Unholy Alliance: A History of Nazi Involvement with the Occult":
"What does seem fantastic, however, is the assistance given to many of these men by what was always believed to be their sworn enemy: the Roman Catholic Church. While Ladislas Farago�mentioned in the Introduction to this [Levenda�s] book�must be credited with bringing this story to worldwide attention, it is useful to know that, since then, it has been corroborated many times over by other authors.
"Why would the Catholic Church help the very men who had vowed to eradicate it, who had participated in pagan rituals designed to replace those of Christianity, who worshipped Baldur and Thor and Freya in candlelit ceremonies in the forests and castles of Bavaria, Thuringia, Westphalia, and the other German L�nder? Men who had caught and imprisoned thousands of Catholic and Protestant clergymen, sent them to the camps, and executed them in cold blood?"
Wewelsburg is a Renaissance castle located near the town of B�ren, Westphalia,
in the Landkreis of Paderborn in the northeast of North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany.
The castle has a triangular layout - three round towers connected by massive walls.
After 1934, it was used by the SS under Heinrich Himmler and was to be expanded into a
complex acting as the central SS cult-site. Work concentrated on conducting basic pseudo-scientific research in the fields of Germanic pre- and early history, medieval history, folklore and genealogy [Sippenforschung], all intended to provide the underpinnings for the racial teachings of the SS.
Levenda supposes that the quid pro quo was the expected future alliance between the two [Fascism and Catholicism] to fight "godless communism".  Others, like evangelical author Dave Hunt, argued a more intriguing case. Hunt contends [arguing from both historical and biblical rationales] the Catholic Church and Fascism shared the view humankind should not be permitted the liberal system of self-government known as democracy�for this system inevitably leads to chaos.  To Hunt, the Catholic Church is "Mystery Babylon"�the whore of Babylon, who is drunk with the blood of the Saints.
-- See Dave Hunt�s "A Woman Rides the Beast", Eugene, OR: Harvest House, 1994, for the historical and biblical arguments associated with this viewpoint
To the Roman Catholic mind, says Hunt, Fascism was merely an evil means to a necessary end.  It was a convenient albeit evil way to return political government back to Theocracy where it originated and place authoritarian rule back in the hands of the Church.  Just as the priesthood of Catholicism had devised an uneasy governing alliance with authoritarian monarchists for over a thousand years, it seemed that teaming with another authoritarian form of government�Fascism in this case�might be the mandated toll reseating the Roman Church back in the political driver�s seat.
Levenda hints the same motive was in play when discussing Hitler�s courtship of the German Church:
"Hitler very carefully sought to cultivate Christian [and especially Catholic] support for the Party as they remained a substantial voting bloc within the country. Indeed, the Catholic Center Party played a pivotal role in Reichstag, elections that catapulted Hitler to power. And just as he wooed the financial support of leading industrialists in contradiction to his personabeliefs concerning the evils of that 'Jewish invention,' Capitalism, he also courted the powerful Catholic and other Christian lobbies in the country. He knew he could not afford to alienate them entirely from his program, at least not until after he had won the war, for this reason he occasionally found it valuable to attack occultism and v�lkisch paganism in his speeches, even while encouraging it among his entourage and condoning its manifestation in the SS".
Perhaps we will never really know why the Vatican felt it was in their best interests to provide an escape path for the Nazis.  But one thing is certain:  the power quest makes for some strange bedfellows.
Both the USA and the Vatican... wished to help the flight of war criminals from Europe, each with its own objectives. Whereas the USA wanted to rescue them to carry out political operations against Soviet Russia and the oncoming Cold War, the Vatican, while thinking upon the same lines, had been motivated by an additional objective. Namely to help former political and religious supporters whom it had blessed during, the reign of terror under the Nazi imperium. The basic motivation of such strange Vatican-USA fellowship... [was] derived by the necessity... to recruit, as energetically and as quickly as possible, trustworthy anti-Russian, anti-communist battalions ready to fight against Bolshevik Russia. And where could Vatican and the State Department find such ready, dedicated, anti-communist recruits, if not in the rank and file of... the fleeing war criminals now seeking asylum in the Americas and the USA? The fugitives... were now ready to... help the USA fight Soviet Russia, her former ally.
The recruitment of proven anti-communist individuals, from the fleeing war criminals, therefore became part and parcel of the USA-Vatican grand postwar strategy.
While Vatican City and its many extraterritorial buildings in Rome turned into the protective semi-official refuge for hundreds of war criminals, the USA State Department became busy integrating many of them within its multi-varied branched subterranean machinery, operating outside official officialdom.
-- Baron Avro Manhattan, "The Vatican's Holocaust"