Postcard from Argentina

The title may sound like sent from holidays but it is much more interesting to write from the southern hemisphere, where I am now, studying one interesting plot, which has been haunting me for years. There are holidays anyway, so this entry will be a bit different. However, it concerns matters that I have mentioned on my blog seweral times. This topic which is bothering me for a while is what hapenned with Adolf Hitler and his personal guard after leaving Europe. I have already written why I do not believe in Hitler’s death at the Reich Chancellery. I have also put a thesis that Antarctica was a real place of the III Reich’s leader death (more information about this soon). Argentina was still a country that played (maybe plays?) a crucial role. 

San Carlos de Bariloche
source: Wikipedia.org

Contrary to what can it seems to be on these pictures, this is not a village hidden among the Alpine peaks, but San Carlos de Bariloche which is located in the Rio Negro province in Argentina. According to the Argentinian journalist, Abel Basti, it was actually a place where Adolf Hitler stayed with Ewa Braun. They were supposed to be taken to the Argentinian businessman’s estate - Jorge Antonio, one of the trusted partners of a three times president of Argentina, Juan Domingo Perón. The estate was isolated from the outside world. The only way to get there was by boat or by plane. 

San Carlos de Bariloche
source: Wikipedia.org

In his book, a guide, which Basti published few years ago, he presented a number of places, where SS-men were supposed to live and work. These were often high-ranking people in the Nazi hierarchy, such as Josef Mengele or Adolf Eichmann who was later captured by Mossad. They were sought after in Europe and Israel. They were guilty of war crimes they committed. However, in Argentina, they worked normally without hiding their identity for local companies that in majority were created thanks to the gold brought from Europe.

San Carlos de Bariloche
source: Wikipedia.org

Nazis in Argentina, which stayed out of the war theatre, were not treated like criminals. Even more, many of them, educated and rich, were valuable citizens for this South American country. Did such citizens have influence on the Argentinian government? It is very probable. After all, people who governed this country knew that the nazis’ escape there. In such town like Bariloche, a lot of Germans could surely feel like they were at home, and live calmly till the end of their life without fear that somebody would bother them. I hope that I will manage to encounter another trace in America.