Hitler’s conspiracies and his escape to Argentina

Since Adolf Hitler’s body was never recovered, conspiracy theories about his whereabouts have arisen throughout history.

The most widely reported and repeated by various journalistic investigations is that the Nazi leader escaped to Argentina where he lived and died without being persecuted or facing the crimes he committed.

It is worth noting that hundreds of important officials of the Third Reich, including scientists and military personnel, were supported by countries such as the United States and the United Kingdom to escape from Germany in the face of the Soviet offensive.

In 2011, authors Simon Dunstan and Gerrard Williams published Grey Wolf: The Escape of Adolf Hitler, which suggests that the leader of the Third Reich and his wife Eva Braun did not die in a Berlin bunker as the Red Army advanced on the city at the end of World War II, but that he died in Patagonia in 1962.

Dunstan and Williams note in the preface that they believe that at the end of World War II “the most evil man in the world, Adolf Hitler, escaped from Germany and lived out his life in Argentina.”

They say evidence points to the US and Britain facilitating the escape of hundreds of Nazis, including rocket scientist Wernher von Braun and torturer Klaus Barbie.

This action was called Operation Paperclip.

Regarding Hitler’s fate, after Germany’s surrender, it was reported that the Führer died by suicide in a bunker, along with his wife Eva Braun and the family of Propaganda Minister Joseph Goebbels.

But since the end of World War II, different theories have placed it in Antarctica, Brazil, Argentina and Colombia.

In addition, journalists and curious people have taken up statements and documents that offer possible clues to his real whereabouts.

Since the 1960s, when the Auschwitz Trials began, Germany tried Nazi leaders who had assumed civilian positions after the war, even under their original names, that is, without hiding their identity.

An example of Hitler’s presence is when the magazine Polize Gazette reported that the Führer lived hidden in a secret base in Antarctica.

The book Grey Wolf states that their escape route was from Germany to Denmark, then to Spain, where their Spanish Civil War ally, General Francisco Franco, was in control. That Spain was receiving Nazi refugees was denounced by the Soviet Union.

Meanwhile, two people who were designated as Hitler and Braun’s “doubles” were killed, the first by shooting and the second by poisoning, then their bodies were burned to hide their identities.

From Spain, where there was a fleet of submarines, Hitler’s entourage moved to a Nazi base in the Canary Islands and from there to Argentina, where at least 60 thousand members of the Nazi party lived. “the largest group of National Socialists in Germany.”

There in Argentina he settled in a shelter built by the Nazis near the city of San Carlos Barilocho, with an architectural style of German influence, with Lake Nahuel Huapí and the Andes mountain range.

In his old age, Dunstan and Williams’ book states that he suffered from Parkinson’s disease, as well as migraines and depression, which caused his health to deteriorate until he died on 13 February 1962.

Another version states that the German dictator found refuge in Matto Grosso, Brazil, with the help of the Vatican, dying in 1984.

While another from Argentine journalist Abel Basti claims that he lived in Argentina and was able to travel to other South American countries such as Brazil, Colombia and Paraguay.