Hitler Is Alive!

  HITLER GOES SIGHTSEEING IN PARIS — The famed Eiffel Tower, symbol of the City of Paris, stands in background as Hitler and his party tour the conquered capital of France on July 15, 1940. Col. Juan Peron, dictator of Argentina, was among the foreign military dignitaries who greeted Hitler’s entry.

  Mr. Spruille Braden, who was American Ambassador to the Argentine at the time of the German surrender, and who later became Assistant Secretary of State, immediately recognized the danger of Peron’s open support and covering up of former Nazi leaders.

  “Unless the Nazi element in the Argentine can be extirpated it will remain a serious threat for the future,” said the Ambassador.

  Mr. Braden, who is now chairman of the New York City Anti-Crime Committee, has never ceased to denounce these Nazis in the Argentine. He has repeatedly stressed that these men will be free to return to their own country and reorganize neo-Nazi parties, despite their wartime record of atrocities, once a peace treaty has been signed between the Allies and the Bonn government.

  One of the most notorious Hitler agents in a key position in the Nazi underground movement in the Argentine is Ludwig Freude. Freude figures high up on the blacklist of the United States Intelligence Service and of M.I.5 (the British Military counter-espionage organization).

  Careful investigation by the Police Gazette disclosed startling facts, hitherto dormant in State Department files. One report stated baldly:

  “Facts which have developed since the opening up of sources of information in Germany point to the conclusion that Freude is properly described as the leader of the ‘stay-behind’ organization, which was set up when German official diplomats were compelled to leave Argentina owing to Allied, and particularly American, pressure.”

  Germans Ordered Out

  At this time Peron was playing safe. Ostensibly heeding Allied demands, he ordered the Germans out of the country and issued orders seizing German owned property. In reality, he allowed the few Germans who were forced out of the country, to appoint successors and he left their property untouched and their successors’ operations unrestricted.

  The State Department records referred many times to Freude: “When Counsellor of the Nazi Embassy Wilhelm von Pochhammer was repatriated July 6, 1944, he gave Freude a power of attorney to act on behalf of the Embassy and handed him 45,280 pesos of his own money for ‘safe-keeping.’

  “At this time General Wolf, chief of armed forces in the German Embassy, left the military attache’s fund of 200,000 pesos to Freude for ‘intelligence purposes.’”

  According to State Department records, documents seized in the German Foreign Office, and interrogation of Wilhelmstrasse personnel revealed that Freude had played an important role in handling the “M” funds of the German Reich. These funds were a secret reserve for financing intelligence activities and other concealed Nazi enterprises.

  Cover Up

  As Ambassador Braden told the Police Gazette:

  “We have never been able to ascertain fully the complete scope of Nazi infiltration into the Argentine. Our Intelligence and economic officers traced $400 million of Nazi funds into that country. These were known as ‘M’ funds. The Argentine government flatly refused to cooperate with us in developing further information of Freude’s Nazi activities and took every precaution to cover him up and protect him from our intelligence investigation. Freude’s son,” stressed the Ambassador, “was Peron’s personal secretary.”

  In 1945, when Edelmiro Farrell was still head of the State, Peron halted all investigation into Freude’s activities by the Argentine Committee for Vigilance and Liquidation of Enemy Property. Peron personally vouched for Freude’s integrity and Gen. Farrell ordered Committee Secretary Dr. Carlos Adroque to cease his investigations of this shady Nazi agent, who was a devoted follower of Martin Bormann.

  After Hitler’s escape from Berlin and flight to Colombia, first, and, finally, to his secret Shangri-La in the Antarctic, as revealed exclusively by the Police Gazette, Nazi agents were given almost free access to the Argentine. The doors were opened wide and all pretense thrown to the winds when Peron assumed complete and absolute power.

  The Police Gazette investigator uncovered startling facts which reveal how the Nazis in a few years virtually took over the reins of power in this South American country.

  Dr. H. Theiss, a former Gestapo organizer and official, became special adviser to the Argentine Federal Police and immediately appointed three other Germans as his aides. They were Dr. F. Adam, Herr H. Richner and Herr J. Paecht.

  Men in Power

  Dr. Hans Koch, a notorious Nazi, the behind-the-scenes boss of the Instituto de Promocion de Intercambia, which holds a monopoly over all imports and exports, is another leading Nazi put into power by Martin Bormann through his friend Peron. Still others were Colonel Hans Ulrich Rudel, of the Nazi wartime air force, who became a technical adviser to the Argentine government’s military aviation industry; Rudel went back to Germany, where he now heads a Nazi underground movement; and Otto Skorzeny, the German S.S. pilot who snatched Mussolini from his prison and brought him to Germany.

  These facts are highly significant and fraught with danger for the democratic world. They represent an open renunciation of the Allies and flagrant approval of Hitler and his methods.

  It is no secret in the Argentine that the Nazi spies, Paul Wutke and Kathe Muller, who had been expelled in July, 1946, on the insistence of the US Government, have been allowed to return and live quite openly in the Argentine.

  In the Argentine capital itself, a Nazi newspaper, the Freie Presse, extolls the merits of the fascism. A prime mover on this paper is Robert Kessler, of the German Gestapo. On his staff is Herr Freisler, notorious Hitler agent who worked for some time in Franco’s Foreign Ministry before being ordered to the Argentine.

  There is absolutely no denying the salient facts:

  When the War ended in Hitler’s ignominious fake suicide, there were 60,000 of the finest German brain-trusters and organized by Martin Bormann in the Argentine to form a basis for Hitler’s underground activities and springboard for his return to power.

  Today there are more than 75,000 of these picked men and (this is well known to our State Department) the majority of these postWar arrivals are Nazis who are wanted in the Allied zones of Germany, fled to this Nazi South American refuge.

  How did they elude the American, British and French Intelligence officers?

  It may be comparatively simple for one or even a dozen men to flee to freedom. But for more than 15,000 to have done so shows clearly the existence of a well-organized Nazi pipeline to freedom and, more sinister yet, obvious collusion from the Nazi sympathizers among the personnel among Allied officials.

  Allied secret service agents in Germany and in the Argentine have reported suspicious incidents indicating that Adolf Hitler himself has abandoned his icy Antarctic retreat and moved his entire headquarters to the Patagonian hinterland, probably to the area of Bariluche.

  “It is a vast Nazi stronghold,” Ambassador Braden reported to the State Department some time before. “I sent agents there to check. They were detained and ordered to leave the area. We have never been permitted free movement in this part of the Argentine. We don’t know what is going on there.”

  The Time Is Ripe

  In Germany, General Hermann Bernhard (Papa) Ramcke, 63-year-old Nazi paratrooper, a few months ago considered the time ripe to launch a vicious attack on the “real war criminals”—the Allies. Shouting that President-elect Eisenhower was a “Schweinhund,” he worked himself into a frenzy.

  “Our beloved Fuehrer will return to Germany soon,” he vowed.

  Two Nazi generals, who had organized the meeting—S.S. General Herbert Gills and S.S. General Felix Steiner—passed him frantic notes and he clammed up.

  Again, Heribert von Strempel, former secretary of Hitler’s Embassy in Washington, D.C., and one of the organizers of the Bund 5th column in the United States, has been openly accused in the Bonn Par
liament of “reporting to Nazi authorities overseas concerning the situation in Germany.”

  Who are these Nazi “authorities” overseas but Adolf Hitler and his staff?

  Meanwhile, Hitler’s trusted confidant Martin Bormann has been active in Germany itself within recent months.

  Maj.-General Partridge, Chief of US Military Intelligence, said as recently as a few months ago to this reporter:

  “It is entirely possible that Hitler escaped. We have never received any definite and final proof that he isn’t alive.”

  There is a little doubt that a guiding hand lies behind the carefully coordinated Nazi demonstrations occurring throughout Western Germany.

  Ambassador Braden, among others with inside knowledge of State Department reports, firmly believe that the fountain head of Nazism now lies in the Argentine and that the supposed Nazi leaders in Germany are no more than puppets obeying orders given from the South American stronghold.

  INSIDE HITLER’S SECRET HIDEOUT

  by GEORGE McGRATH

  Police Gazette reveals inside story of Der Fuehrer’s hidden Shangri-La in vast wilderness of the Antarctic.

  Editor’s Note: Hitler is alive! Hitler is plotting to return! These are facts the Police Gazette has investigated and fearlessly revealed during recent months. The Police Gazette has produced evidence to support these facts from important Allied leaders and politicians, from American diplomats, and even from the US Army Intelligence colonel charged with investigating Hitler’s death.

  Why doesn’t the United States Government take immediate action to use our information—track down Hitler, arrest him, and bring him to trial? That is a question we are asked several times daily. The answer is this: Our government’s hands are tied. We are a democratic nation and we cannot trespass upon, invade, or interfere with the territorial integrity of another country.

  Adolf Hitler has been hiding in the Argentine. Our former ambassador to Argentina, Spruille Braden, tracked down seventy-one Nazi war criminals. He asked the Argentine Government to arrest these men and deport them. He asked the Argentine Government to pursue Hitler and his henchman, Martin Bormann. But Juan Peron, dictator of Argentina and fascist admirer of the Fuehrer, refuses to take action. He is the protector of Hitler and his Nazi supporters.

  That is why the US Government is powerless to act.

  Adolf Hitler, defeated Fuehrer of the Third Reich, has once again retreated to his secret Shangri-La in the vast wilderness of the Antarctic Continent—whose existence was first revealed in the Police Gazette in February, 1952. The Fuehrer and his beetle-browed, ruthless henchman, Martin Bormann, have been forced to temporarily abandon their carefully prepared plot to seize power in Germany.

  As revealed exclusively in the Police Gazette, Hitler, using Bormann as his go-between, had reached a sinister agreement with the Red dictator, Joseph Stalin—whose armies were to place the Fuehrer in absolute control of a unified West and East Germany in defiance of the Allies and at the risk of war. Early this year the Hitler-Stalin plans had been completed, and with Stalin’s knowledge and approval Hitler left his Antarctic hideout for the immense Patagonian ranch which the Argentine dictator, Juan Person, had permitted the Nazis to use as a postwar base.

  Then came disaster. Dr. Walter Naumann and his ring of Nazi agents in the Western Zone of Germany were arrested by British Intelligence agents who had heard of the plot to restore Nazism. That setback could have been overcome—but then Stalin died.

  Bormann, who had been in Moscow, flew back to the Argentine and told his Fuehrer that the Kremlin was likely to become the theater for one of the bloodiest “palace revolutions” the world has ever seen. The struggle for Stalin’s crown, he said, would rage between Georgi Malenkov, Lavrenti Beria, Marshal Nicolai Bulganin, and Vyacheslav Molotov, until one emerged as the new tyrant.

  A Change of Plans

  Hitler’s foresight showed him that he could not make his bid for power until he and Bormann could again deal with a Soviet leader who would be the undisputed master of all Russia. Basically, nothing had changed but the time element. At a solemn cabinet meeting, held in the main headquarters building of the Patagonia ranch, Hitler decided to again retreat to that South Polar Shangri-La which had served him so well as a hideaway after the fateful days of April and May. 1945—when he was reported an “ignominious suicide” and Germany finally surrendered in a little schoolroom outside Rheims.

  In the past two years, the Police Gazette spared neither time nor expense in tracing the Fuehrer’s movements from the moment he escaped from shell-rocked Berlin before dawn on April 30. We have sifted hundreds of reports dealing with the Fuehrer’s secret hiding place. Grand Admiral Karl Doenitz first revealed Germany’s plan to save the Nazi superlord from victorious Allied vengeance as far back as 1943, when he publicly announced:

  “The German submarine fleet is proud of having built for the Fuehrer, in another part of the world, a Shangri-La on land—an impregnable fortress.”

  The Police Gazette traced Hitler’s flight with Eva Braun, his newly married wife, and Martin Bormann by U-boat to Colombia and then to Antarctica. But no real description of this Polar hideout could be obtained at that time.

  Now, however, since the Fuehrer has postponed his plan to reconquer Germany, a disgruntled Nazi agent in the Argentine has produced new and detailed information. The Police Gazette checked part of this information with the Hydrographic Office of the United States Navy Department. The Navy confirmed that knowledge of such particular geographic phenomena could be possessed only by someone with personal experience in that area. It could not be faked.

  The Birth of Shangri-La

  A Shangri-La for the Fuehrer was first conceived by Marshal Hermann Goering, obese and lascivious Nazi Minister for Air, and the limping, immoral Josef Goebbels, the Fuehrer’s Minister for Propaganda—who originated the Nazi slogan: “The bigger the lie, the more people will believe it.”

  Only one place in the world still remained ninety percent unexplored, and at that time it was considered almost wholly inaccessible. This was the Antarctic Continent—the sixth and largest continent in the world. Approximately five million square miles in area, it is as large as Europe and North America combined.

  Admiral Doenitz was called in for his naval know-how and asked: “Where in this gigantic continent—the largest, highest, and coldest in the world, surrounded by the stormiest seas in the world—is the best location for a new and last Berchtesgaden Shangri-­La?”

  Admiral Doenitz consulted Germany’s leading Arctic navigator, Captain Alfred Rithscher. Together they picked that part of Queen Maud Land which lies off the Atlantic-Indian Antarctic Basin to the south of the Weddell Sea and astride the Greenwich meridian. Only the coastline of this part of Antarctica had been charted from the sea by Norwegian sailors, who had named the unexplored coastal strips Ragnild Coast, Princess Astrid Coast, and Princess Martha Coast. But its formidable ice cliffs had daunted even these intrepid Norwegians. They had been seeking peaceful exploration only—not a hideaway.

  The German Naval Command—Admiral Doenitz’s command—placed Captain Rithscher in charge of a special expedition. The members of the expedition were reticent and secretive to an unusual degree. No announcement was made at all until Captain Rithscher returned to Germany from the South Pole. Then a singularly terse statement was issued:

  “The Schwabenland, Captain Rithscher in command, sailed from Hamburg on December 17, 1938, and reached the Antarctic Continent in the vicinity of the Greenwich Meridian in January, 1939. A series of aircraft flights were made and the coast was photographed from twenty degrees east to ten degrees west. The vessel retired northward on February 6 and reached Cuxhaven, Germany, on April 11, 1939.”

  New details of this important voyage have fallen into the hands of Police Gazette investigators. The Germans had planned well. The Antarctic area they picked for the Shangri-La lay between seventy and seventy-five degrees south—the farthest “inaccessible” land from the So
uth Pole and unlikely to attract postwar explorers trying to reach the Pole itself. It also offered the best climatic conditions—once the shore had been reached.

  This part of the Antarctic is the most hazardous area in the world. Shipwrecked seamen on pack ice have little hope of escape. In the Arctic, the pack ice moves around or across a comparatively open sea which is shore-bound except for several open straits, where contact with the shore is invariably made. The Arctic pack may be safely traveled upon, and the abundant life in that region has enabled shipwrecked seamen to reach civilization again even after long journeys.

  In the Antarctic, on the contrary, the drift of the pack ice is around and outwards from a central land mass toward the stormiest seas in the world. The wind averages forty-three miles and hour all year round, and gales of eighty to a hundred miles an hour are common.

  Secret Mission Is Successful

  The expedition was well conceived. The Schwabenland reached Queen Maud Land as the shore became ice-free. By February and March, ships have little difficulty in reaching the area, and the water usually remains clear until September. Before the ice closed in again for the winter, Captain Rithscher had completed his surveys and made his secret reports to Admiral Doenitz by air courier from the nearest German consulate in the Argentine. Most important, the Nazi supply ships, with construction materials, supplies, and laborers, were able to sail in.

  Captain Rithscher found few natural harbors. He only sought one. For the most part, he moored to ice floes by sea anchors and kept steam up in readiness to move.

  Ostensibly, the Schwabenland was combining a modicum of exploration with a search for the best whaling areas. Germany needed whale oil, and the Antarctic seas have been famous since the first days of sailing ships for their number and variety of whales—ranging from the thirty-ton “babies” to giant 150-tonners.

  The Schwabenland’s true mission was far different. Specially designed airplanes, launched by new catapult devices that could throw a much heavier and longer-range plane into the air than any ever before carried aboard ship, flew over the area all day. They surveyed and photographed the entire area, and they landed and took off again from the huge natural runways lying along the 2,000-foot-high “foothill plains” to which Captain Rithscher gave his name—the Rithscher Uplands. These Uplands stretched in steadily but gently rising slopes, from the 2,000-foot plateau to the 12,000-foot Kottas Mountains in the west and the Muhlig-­Hoffman Mountains in the east and north.