The submarine took Hitler and Eva Braun to the Argentine coast in the vicinity of San Clemente del Tuya. Accompanied by armed guards, Hitler and Eva went to a prearranged retreat in the wilds of Patagonia. US intelligence agents are convinced that Hitler is still there.
Frau Riedmann was no more than a child at the time of Hitler’s flight. She has never seen Bormann since the end of the war, she said in the interview, and she is sure he is dead.
“His image still lives in my memory, though,” she confided. “I have a fond memory of that sturdy man with the strong neck, the eyes a little cold, that only lit up when he was surrounded by the tribe of his children, in the villa at Obersalzberg in Bavaria.
“My brothers and I were almost always alone there with our mother. Papa was always away. Sometimes he didn’t come home for months. I always saw him with gentlemen, in uniforms like his, that often came to visit us.
“One of them, especially in the last months we lived in Obersalzberg, was very attentive to us and brought us presents. I think, but I can’t be sure, that he was the Fuehrer.”
The woman gazed off into space as she offered this insight into the Bormanns’ home life of nearly 20 years ago:
“My father was good, perhaps the best father that a girl would want to have. He showered me with presents and talked to me for a long time about things that I couldn’t understand at that time, of course.
“With my oldest brother, Martin Jr., who was then in the Hitler youth movement, his relations were cooler, as if more official, although cordial. They thought of themselves as both in the same army and there was no room for anything else.
Father Was Worried
“Mama was sick already by then. She was never in good health. Papa was very worried, although he tried to hide it. But he didn’t have much time for us. Nazism had him so full of the idea of Greater Germany that everything else was pushed into the background.
“I realized this much later, when everything was finished, and I also realized that my father was a great idealist, maybe the only one among all the leaders that Hitler had surrounded himself with.
“He had an idea—it was not for me to judge whether it was right or wrong—and he followed it out to the end, like a man, taking all the consequences. That is one more reason why I can’t have a bad memory of my father.”
Frau Riedmann’s reference to Hitler’s “will” is another element of her story that fits in with the jigsaw puzzle assembled by Allied investigators. Besides naming gaunt, grimfaced Karl Doenitz as his successor, Hitler’s will was designed to keep the fires of hate burning in the hearts of his followers. The will was a blueprint for the perpetuation of the Nazi Ideology after Hitler himself had gone under cover.
Part of the tirade went this way:
“It is not true that I or anybody else in Germany wanted the war in the year 1939. It was desired and provoked entirely by those international statesmen who were either of Jewish origin or who worked in the Jewish interest … Centuries may pass, but out of the ruins of our cities and art monuments the hatred will arise and be constantly renewed against the people who are alone ultimately responsible: International Jewry and Its assistants.
“As late as three days before the outbreak of the German-Polish war, I proposed to the British ambassador in Berlin a solution of the German-Polish problem—similar to the case of the Saar area, under international control. This offer cannot be explained away, either. It was only rejected because the responsible circles in English politics wanted war, partly because of the expected business, partly driven by a propaganda arranged by international Jewry.
“But I left no doubt about the fact that the real culprit in this murderous struggle, Jewry, would also have to pay for it, if the people of Europe were again to be treated as so many packages of shares by these international money and finance conspirators.
“Furthermore, I left no doubt that it would not be tolerated this time that millions of European children of the Aryan people should starve to death, that millions of grown-up men should suffer death, and that hundreds of thousands of women and children should be burned and bombed to death in the cities, without the real culprit suffering his due punishment, even through more humane methods. …
“Above all, I obligate the leadership of the nation and its followers to the most minute observation of the racial laws and to pitiless resistance against the universal poisoner of all people, international Judaism.”
Hitler left this blueprint behind in hopes it would pave the way for a Nazi comeback.
He has never been able to stage this comeback, but as long as he is alive he remains one of the most dangerous men in the world. Riedmann’s disclosures again show that Hitler escaped from the flaming ruins of Berlin.
HITLER IS ALIVE!
New Eyewitness Report of Nazi Hideout …
by HARVEY WILSON
Reporter confirms Police Gazette articles revealing existence of secret Nazi outpost in Argentina
For the first time, an outsider has seen Adolf Hitler’s super-secret hideout in the wilds of Argentina.
His eyewitness account of the impenetrable Nazi stronghold, confirms the startling facts first unearthed and published by the Police Gazette, twelve years ago.
Traveling through the mountainous region of Rio Negro province—a sprawling wilderness of lakes, waterfalls, gigantic glacier caves and forested Islands—Jack Comben, correspondent of the London Daily Express, discovered the last secret outpost of Hitler’s Germany, 100 miles north of San Carlos de Bariloche.
It was in 1952 that the Police Gazette, after having obtained top secret Allied Intelligence reports and information based on Interviews with former members of the Wehrmacht, revealed that Hitler and his mistress, Eva Braun, had escaped from the ruins of Berlin.
When the defeat of the Third Reich loomed imminent, plans for Hitler’s escape were drawn up by Martin Bormann, the Dictator’s closest confident. The project was entrusted to Admiral Karl Doenitz, Nazi U-boat specialist and Commander-in-Chief of the German Navy, who was later to boast:
“The German submarine fleet is proud of having built for Der Fuehrer in another part of the world a Shangri-La on Land—an impregnable fortress.”
This “impregnable fortress” to which Admiral Doenitz had alluded was in the heart of a huge slice of Argentina territory that had been purchased by Nazi agents in South America. This “Little Nazi Germany” covered over 10,000 square miles of ranchland (the size of the state of Massachusetts) in the provinces of Rio Negro and Chubut. And the armed camp, that was to become Hitler’s hideout, was in a region north of San Carlos de Bariloche.
Visits Nazi Outpost
Recently, in January, 1964, correspondent Jack Comben, journeyed to Bariloche to investigate reports of the Nazi outpost. Here is his report:
“I have come back from visiting the most extraordinary surviving outpost of Hitler’s Germany in the world today.
“In a camp on the bank of the swift-flowing Limay River, 2,500 miles south of the Equator, in the heart of the Argentine, German men, women and children are living a strange and secret existence under steely discipline.
“Local people cannot penetrate into the camp, which lies at Paso Flores, 100 miles north of San Carlos de Bariloche. The inmates of the camp are forbidden to talk to strangers. All men in the camp wear Afrika Korps-style uniforms, with the same peaked caps that Field Marshal Rommel’s elite army wore in the Western desert.”
The camp is sealed off to all non-Nazis. No person without the proper credentials can set foot in it. Armed guards make sure of that. To further ensure secrecy, every piece of mail entering or leaving the camp is subjected to the most rigorous censorship.
“The camp,” reported Comben, “seems to be completely under the control of the camp commandant, a gray-haired man called Walther Ochner, who is known as Der Hauptmann. I have been able to establish that Ochner was a high official in Hitler’s communications organization. His right-hand man is Edgar Fiess, a
former SS officer.”
Fake Suicide
When victorious Allied troops took over Berlin, the first reports out of the beleaguered city were that Hitler had killed himself in his bunker beneath the Reichchancellory. These reports said that Hitler and Eva Braun, whom he had married just before the fall of Berlin, took their lives in a suicide pact and that their bodies were then removed by trusted friends to the courtyard, drenched with gasoline and burned.
This version of what happened to Hitler and Eva was circulated throughout the entire world—but Allied Intelligence soon disclosed that the “suicide” was a hoax.
Members of Hitler’s staff, who saw him a few minutes before his alleged death, contradicted each other as far as the suicide report was concerned. They all pointed out that Hitler, when he called them in to say “goodbye,” didn’t act like a man about to take his own life.
“He seemed more like a man about to take a trip than a man who was going to die,” declared one.
And all members of Hitler’s staff conceded that they hadn’t actually seen their Fuehrer die.
Col. W. F. Heimlich, former Chief of US Army Intelligence in Berlin, who was in charge of the official investigation into Hitler’s disappearance, in an exclusive interview told the Police Gazette:
“I could find no evidence of Hitler’s death. He had ample opportunity to escape. There was an airfield and many planes available at his disposal.”
Scientific Tests
Furthermore, scientific tests made by Col. Heimlich and his probers proved that the suicide story was a hoax.
“Analysis of the blood stains on the couch where Hitler reportedly killed himself,” said Heimlich, “revealed that the stains were not the blood type of Hitler, or Eva Braun. There were no bullet holes in the couch, or in the wall behind it.”
What’s more, Col. Heimlich had obtained X-ray photographs of Hitler’s teeth from the Dictator’s personal dentist. These would establish beyond doubt if any teeth found at the burning site were that of Hitler’s. But no such evidence could be found.
Determined to leave no stone unturned in his quest to learn Hitler’s fate, Col. Heimlich had a crack US Intelligence team make a needle-in-the-haystack search of the Reichchancellory area. “First,” he said, “all debris was cleared up. Such items as broken machine guns, ammunition, helmets, uniforms and bits of wood were examined.
No Clues Found
“A bomb crater, located about four yards from the entrance to the bunker, was the prime target,” Col. Heimlich explained. “Two screens were erected, one of wire mesh similar to chicken wire and behind it a second one much finer with half inch holes. Every shovelful of dirt from the bomb crater went through the small screen in the hope that any small piece of evidence showing the presence of a human body might be quickly detected.
“The X-ray photographs of Hitler’s head gave us expert clues as to his dental structure and even one tooth might have been sufficient to identify his body. But after days of excavation in an ever-widening area, we found no signs of any bodies and—more significantly—no evidence of burning.
“On the basis of this on-the-spot investigation, I sent my report to Supreme Headquarters at Frankfurt, together with pictures and supporting evidence, stating that there was nothing to support the theory of Hitler’s death.”
And furthermore, no corpse of a female was found in the ruins, although Eva Braun was supposed to have died with Hitler and their bodies burned side by side in the courtyard.
How Hitler Escaped
The Police Gazette, was told by unimpeachable sources, that Hitler flew out of Berlin on the night of April 30, 1945. He fled the city in company with a woman and they made their departure in a Fieseler-Storch plane. They reportedly carried several suitcases and proceeded to a secluded Nazi submarine base in Norway. There a fully-stocked U-boat was already awaiting them.
On July 10 of the same year, Spruille Braden, American Ambassador in Buenos Aires, received a phone tip that two German U-boats had just put into Mar del Plata.
“I acted immediately,” he later told the Police Gazette in an exclusive interview. “Within the hour I dispatched two of our ace intelligence officers to Mar del Plata. They phoned me and said there was only one U-boat in the harbor—but they confirmed that two German submarines had arrived.
“For 24 hours the Argentine authorities refused to allow our agents to board the remaining U-boat. Nor were they permitted to speak to any member of the crew. When Capt. Otto Wermutt, 22-year-old commander, was finally questioned, he stated it was just an ordinary ‘routine cruise.’
“But he would not explain why he had not surrendered on May 2 to the Allies when Germany had surrendered. He would not disclose why he had 54 men on board instead of a normal crew of 18 or 19. He would not discuss his cargo, which had been landed before my men got there. Nor would he explain the luxuries aboard—there were 540 cartons of cigarettes (U-boat men do not smoke aboard), a cellar full of champagne, wine, Scotch whiskey and German schnapps.”
Was this the U-boat that brought Hitler and Eva to Argentina?
That mystery still remains unsolved.
Mysterious Cargo
A month later another U-boat landed in the same port, the Ambassador disclosed to the Police Gazette, and again he dispatched Intelligence agents to the scene. “Again,” he said, “they got a runaround. This time men and freight had disappeared into thin air.”
“I know these U-boats came from Norway. I firmly believe they also carried highly secret component parts of Germany’s secret weapons as well as the nuclear developments of Nazi scientists. I don’t think they had an atom bomb yet but I’m sure they were close to it.
“Our intelligence officers were handicapped in their mission in Argentina by complete lack of cooperation from the government. In fact, the Argentine authorities protected the Nazis and consistently concealed information that would have been of assistance to us.
“We were never able to ascertain the full scope of Nazi infiltration in the country. We traced four hundred million dollars of Nazi funds to Buenos Aires. Then it just disappeared.
“One of Hitler’s principal agents was Ludwig Freude, who was entrusted with secret funds. He was our Number 1 target since we knew him to be liaison man for General Freidrich Wolfe, Nazi military attache in Argentina. Freude’s son was one of Peron’s intimate friends and acted as his personal secretary for many years.
“I tried to have Freude deported to Germany, where we could arrest and try him. To no avail. On Sept. 15, 1945, Argentine Foreign Minister Cooke informed me that despite the gravity of the charges against Freude, the Foreign Ministry was powerless to deport him.
Subsequently Braden reported to Washington that the Nazis had built a virtual fortress in the San Carlos de Bariloche area as an escape haven for Hitler and his close clique of Nazi henchmen.
“I sent our intelligence agents there to check,” Braden recalled ruefully. “They were spotted by the German guards and ordered to leave. We were never permitted free movement in that territory.”
That was in 1945. Since then various efforts of investigators to penetrate the Nazi stronghold failed, until recently, when the London Daily Express correspondent obtained the first eyewitness report—a report that confirms the expose that first appeared in the Police Gazette, 12 years ago.
THE NEW MANHUNT FOR HITLER AND BORMANN
by HARVEY WILSON
The fact that the Fuhrer and his number one aide are alive is conceded by the West German Government …
The conviction that Adolf Hitler and his top aide, Martin Bormann, are still alive now has the support of German officials.
The West German Government, which for 19 years stubbornly rejected any theory but the one that the dictator took his own life, reluctantly did an about-face under the overwhelming pressure of new evidence.
It conceded that Hitler’s well-dramatized “suicide” in a bunker in Berlin’s Reich Chancellery was Hitler’s biggest lie, a hoax
that fooled almost the entire world. It made the concession when its Justice Ministry launched a worldwide hunt for Der Fuehrer, as well as for another supposedly dead man, the notorious Martin Bormann.
A few months ago, Werner Naumann, who was the state secretary of the Nazi Propaganda Ministry, confessed to West Germany Justice Ministry officials that he was with Bormann when he escaped. He debunked as “completely false” the report that Bormann was killed when a German tank blew up near him after being hit by a Russian shell. “Bormann made his escape,” Naumann now finally admits.
“Bormann is indeed alive,” Dr. Fritz Bauer, prosecutor of the State of Hesse, unequivocally declared. “We now have conclusive evidence that he is hiding in South America.”
Hitler himself was last reported holed up in a South American wilderness camp guarded by Nazi fanatics, a hideaway to which he assertedly fled by U-boat when the Third Reich tumbled in ruins under Allied bombing and Russian artillery. But there was every likelihood, once the story of the manhunt leaked out, that the elusive Hitler, to say nothing of his pal Bormann, would escape elsewhere.
New proof that Hitler’s suicide was a monumental fraud came from none other than a son of Adolf Eichmann, who was seized in Argentina, tried in Israel for the deaths of 6 million Jews, and executed. The son admitted to Dr. Bauer that his father had confided to him that both Hitler and Bormann were still alive.
Hitler’s Fake Suicide
Allied intelligence agents have long admitted that Hitler’s suicide and Bormann’s death were both fakes, but few believed them. Their theory was based, first, on the lack of physical evidence—no corpse to prove either death. And there was the statement of a member of Hitler’s staff who saw the Fuhrer minutes before he supposedly committed suicide.
“He seemed more like a man about to take a trip than a man who was going to commit suicide,” this witness said.
Ironically the elder Eichmann was captured by Israeli agents seeking not him but Hitler and Bormann. They had followed an intricate trail that led to a remote area of the Argentina’s San Carlos de Bariloche, site of the Nazi-guarded camp. There were so many heavily armed storm troopers around the Israelis were unable to penetrate the camp. They grabbed Eichmann in Buenos Aires as a kind of consolation prize.
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