Hitler Is Alive!

  Commandant Deodor Pletonov, Russian officer in command of the Berlin sector, led the first troops into the “bunker.” He was explicit:

  “The body was not that of Hitler. It was one of his doubles.”

  The hoodwinking plot was complete.

  Hitler’s plane set course for Hamburg, where Admiral Doenitz was still holding out behind the German front lines at Luneburg.

  To this day there is no reliable eyewitness account of how Hitler and Eva Braun were taken from Hamburg to that secret U-boat base hidden in the Norwegian fjords. Although one report states he went by submarine, another believes he escaped in a flying boat.

  “The Allies were blockading the entrance to the Baltic. It would have been impossible for a U-boat to have run the destroyer gauntlet through the North Sea between Germany and Norway.” I was told.

  Whichever way he did leave Germany, Hitler and Eva arrived at the secret port of embarkation sometime in the night of May 1.

  Everything had been planned and prepared to the last detail. The flotilla of 20 U-boats (this is the closest official estimate I have been able to obtain) was fueled and victualled. Within minutes after Hitler’s arrival aboard the lead submarine, the flotilla sailed. This was to be Hitler’s last glimpse of the sky for nearly 50 days.

  Allied naval reports show that it would have been quite possible for a U-boat flotilla to travel submerged through the Denmark Straits between Iceland and Greenland—where the Bismarck was first sighted in the naval action that led to her sinking in mid-Atlantic—and stay submerged through the entire North Atlantic until it reached the comparative safety of South Atlantic waters.

  What happened aboard these U-boats; what route they followed; when and where they surfaced for the first time would be conjecture and I am dealing here solely with facts.

  Until the Police Gazette was given access a few weeks ago to reports from Bogota, Colombia, Hitler’s movements, from the time he left Norway May 2, until he was reported safe in the Antarctic Continent by our exclusive report in March this year, were an official secret.

  Alive in Colombia

  This new evidence was contained in a prosaic brown paper folder marked simply: “Despatch No. 418, Enclosures No. 1, 2 and 3. Date: July 2, 1948.”

  These enclosures are the photostatic copies of eyewitness reports of Hitler’s arrival and stopover in Colombia.

  I was permitted to read these documents and reveal their contents in the Police Gazette.

  These documents comprise the stories of three men who worked to help Hitler hide in Colombia. One of them is still a self-confessed Nazi, who gives as his reason for revealing Hitler’s past whereabouts:

  “My only intention is to inform the world that the Savior of the West is alive, and very much so; ready to assume his leading position against Communism, which threatens to spread over the planet like an enslaving and bloody horde.”

  His Fascist fanaticism is self-evident. But his story is confirmed by one of the other sources—an eyewitness; a man who became disgusted with Hitler methods. This man readily corroborated this initial revelation.

  I read through these reports very carefully. They vary but little and in no fundamental detail. On the contrary they substantiate one another. Only in the operational phases, where the individual was not personally present, are there differences or supplementary details. The main facts are the same. There can be only one conclusion drawn from such evidence:

  Hitler arrived safely in Colombia. Hitler left Colombia in perfect health. Hitler is still alive and preparing his return.

  Naturally enough, the Hitler fanatic does not reveal his name. For the sake of brevity in future reference I shall call him “X”. The other two documents were signed. I may not reveal these names. For obvious reasons all sources working for the American Government must be protected.

  One of these men had been concerned only in the preliminary Nazi espionage network of pre-War days in South America and in a very minor role, indeed, in the early stages of preparations for Hitler’s flight. His story tells us little. The other gives us specific details including:

  The dates of Hitler’s arrival and departure.

  The first document to be received by the government was that of the mysterious Mr. “X”.

  “Hitler landed from the submarine 1048 at Bahia Honda, Colombian coast of Guajira, early in the morning of July 19, 1945. He was accompanied by six men: two radio and precision instrument experts; two lieutenant-colonels, one an infantryman the other an artilleryman; a Luftwaffe major and a naval U-boat expert.

  “All were dressed in civilian clothes, disguised as local Colombians. One of the pieces of baggage contained 3,000,000 American dollars.

  “After landing on a bend of the wide and beautiful bay of Bahia Honda, they were met by two coordinating agents and four strong rustic Indians, who waited to carry baggage for them. Everything had been prepared. Horses were waiting nearby and a little further away stood a tarpaulin-covered truck.”

  Mr. “X” Reveals

  The former Hitler collaborator, who had decided to abandon his Fuehrer and turn to the Allies even at this late date, was shown Mr. “X’s” statement. To safeguard this new informant’s anonymity I shall refer to him as “E.I.S.”

  E.I.S. was one of the masterminds behind the preparations for Hitler’s arrival. His full statement concerning Hitler’s stopover in Colombia is contained in Enclosure No. I of Despatch 418. He stated:

  “I am a Colombian, a well-off man, educated in Europe. I first met Hitler during the 1936 Olympics in Berlin. A former schoolmate, the friend of the German Minister of War, managed to get me an interview with Der Fuehrer. I was enormously impressed by his brilliant and genial personality. I had always thought Hitler scorned the Latin races and the Spanish-Americans especially. The way he received me, his manner toward me and the long conversation we had, changed my viewpoint entirely.

  “Every time I visited Germany I saw the Fuehrer and our friendship grew. More than once I helped him with South American diplomats. I obtained his consent to a German-sponsored industrialization experiment I wished to put into effect on land I possessed in the Narino area of Colombia.

  “I spent the greater part of the War in Europe. Once I was persecuted in a European country (name withheld) by agents of Moscow. I managed to escape into Germany and then to Switzerland.”

  E.I.S. traced how he became an agent for Hitler in Colombia.

  “Jan. 12, 1945, I was visited by a German agent. He asked me to report on the safest place in South America, in my opinion, for a temporary refuge for Hitler and a group of German scientists and officials, in case they should have to ‘disappear temporarily from the world scene.’

  U-Boat Escape Decided

  “I recommended my fatherland, Colombia. Its immense uninhabited territories lend themselves to complete seclusion. Furthermore, I owned isolated lands where absolute secrecy could be maintained. I informed the German agent that the group could easily enter the country either on the Pacific coast of Narino or on the barren shore of Guajira. I advised Bahia Honda on the coast of Guajira.

  “January 15, I was asked to prepare a travel itinerary with details of a possible plan. I did so.

  “January 30, I was informed that the voyage from Germany would be made by U-boat and my suggestion for a landing at Bahia Honda had been adopted. I was instructed to go to Colombia and arrange all details. German agents there would be at my complete disposal. The Nazi added:

  “‘The Fuehrer has full confidence in you.’”

  E.I.S. gave additional details:

  “Once in Colombia I chose my collaborators with care. Two of them were faithful family retainers; the third was a high official in the Colombian army. I needed three more. I picked an Antioquian conservation chief, who knew the land and the natives better than anyone in the country; a liberal, violently anti-Communist newspaper editor and, finally, the sixth was a woman, an intelligent and enormously wealthy export heiress of the Valle de Cau
ca. She was one of Hitler’s best agents in Colombia.”

  “I Met Hitler on Beach”

  Here E.I.S. confirmed the Hitler fanatic’s report of the U-boat landing in Bahia Honda. He altered a few minor details, however, making it apparent, in the opinion of intelligence experts, that Mr. “X” was not present at the beach when Hitler arrived although a member of the party at Hitler’s hideaway ranch.

  “Effectively,” says E.I.S., “Hitler and his group disembarked in Bahia Honda July 19, 1945. But the ‘rustic’ Indians mentioned by Mr. ‘X’ were none other than four of my accomplices. They were wearing peasant garb for ease in traveling and so as not to excite undue comment. We could not take the chance of hiring real ‘Guajiras’ to handle the baggage. They might have sold us out to the Allies.

  “The two ‘coordinating agents’ were the heiress and myself. She was in man’s clothes, even to the sombrero.”

  E.I.S. revealed to the American authorities that he believed he knew the Hitler agent but had never known his name—and at that time personal questions would not be appreciated.

  “I think he is a tall and slender Dutchman, who was part of the group at the ranch-house to which he went finally and which was occupied exclusively by Hitler and his immediate henchmen. This Dutchman had been taken to the ranch by agents before Hitler’s arrival. He can only have gained his information about the Bahia Honda landing second-hand, which would account for the few discrepancies. But, factually and fundamentally, his story is correct about Hitler’s arrival and seclusion at the ranch.”

  E.I.S.’s story of the cross-country flight to the ranch shows the wealth of attention to planning and the inherent suspiciousness of Hitler’s followers.

  “Hitler and his group spent six days on horseback, riding only by night, from Bahia Honda to an airplane landing strip at La Loma. I and three of my accomplices had gone ahead and we waited there at the rendezvous hour. We had procured two small Stinson four-seat planes to ferry the party to my ranch at Narino.

  “Then I was suddenly informed that Hitler had changed his mind. He would not hide out at my ranch. Instead, his agents had picked a destination unknown to me at the time. So secretive were all the moves Hitler made that even I did not know of the other two ranches which had been readied for him.

  “Hitler and five others boarded these planes and flew off. With them went the plans of several German secret weapons, which they would never leave out of their sight for an instant. We and the remainder of the group would travel with the baggage and equipment in trucks towards La Jagua.

  “It was a month later before I saw Hitler again in his ranch-house in the Bogota ‘savanna’ and learned details of the flight.

  “They had landed at dawn on July 26 after a hazardous flight by night across the mountains without radio help. At the ranch three persons, one of them the Colombian ranch owner, waited for Hitler. I had not known that these men were involved in the plot before. Apparently, Hitler’s right arm must not know what the left is doing. Nevertheless, I continued to be a member of his personal staff.”

  Where’s Eva Braun?

  E.I.S. then throws a verbal bombshell in his report.

  “After our arrival at the ranch, I asked a member of Hitler’s U-boat group—‘What about Eva Braun?’

  “He replied: ‘She died aboard the U-boat. It was cerebral hemorrhage. We buried her at sea.’

  “I cannot vouch for the truth of this record. I was not aboard the U-boat. But it might have accounted for the Fuehrer’s unsociable, silent and apathetic attitude. The only enthusiasm I saw him show was during discussions of a worldwide crusade against Communism.”

  E.I.S. revealed that only once, at the beginning of 1946, did Hitler fear his hideout had been discovered.

  “The Russian Embassy in Bogota suddenly expanded its staff. We thought the Russians had heard of our ranch-house. But they had not. The M.V.D. had heard Hitler ‘might be’ in Colombia. They were making a routine check. That was the reason for the influx of Red spies. Hitler had an agent in the Embassy and we soon knew their secrets.”

  Additional details came from Mr. “X”.

  “Hitler visited three different ranches in the Bogota ‘savannas’. He received all the newspapers and the New York Times was translated for him daily. He had three clandestine radio stations on mobile vans and was in constant communication with his agents.

  “Hitler was not known by his own name, nor did his employees ever call him ‘Fuehrer’. Only his closest German servants knew his real identity. The ranch hands thought him a mine operator, fond of rural tranquility and of hunting. He wore a heavy beard and eyeglasses. It was a complete disguise.”

  As mysteriously as he had arrived, Adolf Hitler and his group of scientists, military men and advisors, left Colombia.

  “I have not seen Hitler since April 5, 1946,” states E.I.S. in the document held by the US

  “When I returned to the ranch ten days later on April 15, I found it deserted. The laboratory, all equipment, personal effects had gone. Everyone had faded into thin air. Not a sign of his presence remained. The retreat had been perfect.”

  Hitler had quietly embarked on a U-boat and had gone to his Antarctic hideout.

  Exclusive details of his Antarctic retreat were given by the Police Gazette, in the March, 1952, issue.

  A document in the possession of a government agency in Washington categorically reveals:

  “Hitler has four submarine bases at his disposal, each with six U-boats. Strategically placed along the Antarctic and South American Continents are dumps of fuel, food and medicaments. U-boats can make the longest cruises and return to base without risking discovery.

  “Among the persons with Hitler in his hideaway is an eminent German physician, whose 200-bed hospital is equipped with the latest medical developments in drugs and surgical therapy.”

  Adolf Hitler may be a remote criminal but so long as he lives, he will be a danger to world peace. He is perfecting his weapons and they may well prove more destructive and further advanced, even in the domain of nuclear development, than those possessed by the Allies.

  IS PERON HIDING HITLER?

  by GEORGE McGRATH

  Police Gazette Staff Investigator

  Ex-US Ambassador to Argentina Spruille Braden told Police Gazette: “Hitler could very well be hiding somewhere in South America.”

  The springboard for a renewed Nazi attempt at domination of the world lies in the Argentine. More than 75,000 Germans, many of them “wanted” by the Allied Intelligence Services, are living openly under Col. Juan Peron’s protection, preparing for the “triumphant” return of their Fuehrer Adolf Hitler.

  Is Hitler himself at their head in the Argentine?

  Has the defeated Fuehrer moved his headquarters from the Shangri-La he had established in the Antarctic, to the Argentine?

  Is fascist dictator Juan Peron hiding the onetime overlord of the Third Reich and deliberately hoodwinking the Allies? And—Does this Argentine disciple of Hitler and Franco plan to help Hitler engineer his return to Germany from this South American base?

  These questions are uppermost today in the minds of anxious politicians who are well aware of the dangerous potentialities of such a situation and who are convinced that Hitler is not dead; that he succeeded in escaping from Berlin, and is ALIVE today.

  Evidence in the hands of American and British Intelligence Services points damningly to the fact that Col. Juan Peron, the Argentine military attache who marched behind Hitler during the Fuehrer’s entry into conquered Paris in 1940, is giving the deposed German Nazis his personal protection.

  There is absolute proof that many of Hitler’s immediate aides, a number of his trusted lieutenants in the dread Gestapo, and his evil genius and close confidant Martin Bormann, sought refuge in the Argentine from Allied courts of justice and the hangman’s noose.

  There is absolute proof that these men form the backbone of the new Nazi International, and are at the root of all the neo-Naz
i parties now operating in Germany, where they are undermining Premier Konrad Adenauer’s efforts to establish a sound democratic government.

  These men will stop at nothing; they are preparing to overthrow the Bonn government while secretly negotiating with the Russians in the Eastern Soviet-controlled Germany. The blueprint of asylum in the Argentine had been drawn up by Martin Bormann, as exclusively revealed by the Police Gazette. Bormann had actively encouraged General Farrell and Colonel Peron in their successful rise to power and had “loaned” them Nazi money for their campaign.

  A grateful Peron opened wide the doors of the South American fascist state. Germany’s interest in the Argentine became paramount; they took precedence over all other foreign interests, including those of the United States. Nazis took over control of nearly every important industry in the nation. This is not hearsay. It is established and unassailable fact. The American government knew it and was powerless to act.

  Assistant Secretary of State William L. Clayton, testifying before the sub-committee of the Senate Military Committee on June 25, 1945—only a few days after the surrender of Germany—stated that 108 major Nazi economic enterprises were operating in the Argentine as Nazi spearheads for a future comeback.

  Even before the end of the War, at a time when the Allied invasion of Hitler’s Fortress of Europe was an accomplished fact and the defeat of the Germans but a question of a few months, President Franklin D. Roosevelt knew that Hitler and his top aides would try to seek refuge in the Argentine, which was rapidly becoming the new world center of fascism. On September 29, 1944, the President publicly referred to:

  “The extraordinary paradox of the growth of Nazi-fascist influence and the increasing use of Nazi-fascist methods in the Argentine.”

  German money had bought a huge slice of Argentine territory—nearly 100,000 square miles of ranchland in the hinterland provinces of Rio Negro and Chubut, in Patagonia. These ranches, which surpassed even the vast holdings of the richest Texas cattlemen, were policed by Germans. Allied agents never succeeded in penetrating their confines.