Letter to a German Friend in Korea VI
Of an enigmatic Austrian and his curious fate
Letters from Vienna #145
Letter to a German Friend in Korea VI
Dear I.,
There are days when I’m proud to be Austrian and one of them happens to be today, when the FPÖ, the Austrian Freedom Party, turned their backs and walked out on Zelensky[1]; it was both wonderful and amazing to behold. The FPÖ, I have to add, was also opposed to the insane and Fascist “Covid measures”, which were implemented in the course of the Scamdemic.
It’s ironic that the party which was once attacked as being affiliated to Neo-Nazis, and which I honestly (mistakenly) believed to be Neo-Nazi in ideology (and which remains labeled “extreme-right-wing” today), is opposed to both the Neo-Nazi “Covid measures” as well as the Fascist government in the Ukraine.
It is, furthermore, one of the few parties in Austria that is actually active in its search for peace (rather than profit), which is absurd given that Austria is (by virtue of its constitution) a neutral country; perhaps you have forgotten this in distant Korea or never knew it to begin with.
Austria, and particularly Vienna, would be an ideal venue for peace talks. Both the Ukrainians and Russians have a strong presence here and Putin has intimate ties to this country; in fact, rumour has it: he was financed with Austrian money to begin with. Furthermore: he’s said to own quite a chunk of property here; but that is neither here nor there.
The subject of this, my 145th letter, is neither a dubious Ukrainian[2] nor a dubious Russian but an Austrian, who, despite the vast libraries of books written about him, remains something of an enigma. We know very little, which opens the door to quite a bit of speculation.
I will, for the sake of simplicity, focus on a single document and discuss its implications.
The document, a report filed in Los Angeles in September 1945, deals with the subject of “Hitler’s Hideout”: (Redacted) “reports contact with (redacted), claims to have aided six top Argentine officials in hiding Adolf Hitler upon his landing by submarine in Argentina. Hitler reported to be hiding out in foothills of southern Andes. Information obtained by (redacted) from (redacted) unable to be verified because of (redacted) from (redacted) disappearance. Attempts to locate (redacted) negative. No record of him in police of IRS files.”
The report continues: “He was one of four men who met Hitler and his party when they landed from two submarines in Argentina approximately two and one-half weeks after the fall of Berlin. (redacted) continued that the first sub came close to shore about 11.00 p.m. after it had been signaled that it was safe to land and a doctor and several men disembarked. Approximately two hours later the second sub came ashore and Hitler, two women, another doctor, and several more men, making the whole party arriving by submarine approximately 50, were aboard. By pre-arranged plan with six top Argentine officials, pack horses were waiting for the group and by daylight all supplies were loaded on the horses and an all-day trip inland toward the foothills of the southern Andes was started. At dusk the party arrived at the ranch where Hitler and his party, according to (redacted) are now hiding. (redacted) most specifically explained that the subs landed along the tip of the Valdez Peninsula along the southern tip of Argentina in the gulf of San Matias. (redacted) told (redacted) that there are several tiny villages in this area where members of Hitler’s party would, eventually, stay with German families. He named the towns as San Antonio, Viedma, Neuquen, Muster, Carmena, and Rason.”
“(redacted) maintains that he can name the six Argentine officials and also the names of the three other men who helped Hitler inland to his hiding place. (redacted) explained that he was given 15,000 for helping in the deal. (Redacted) explained to (redacted) that he was hiding out in the United States now so that he could later tell how he got out of Argentina. He stated to (redacted) that he would tell his story to the United States officials after Hitler’s capture so that they might keep him from having to return to Argentina. He further explained to (redacted) that the matter was weighing on his mind and that he did not wish to be mixed up in the business any further.”
“According to (redacted) Hitler is suffering from asthma and ulcers, has shaved off his mustache and has a long “but” on his upper lip.”[3]
The most important fact is that the FBI was looking for Hitler in the autumn of 1945, which is in direct contravention of the official narrative: that Hitler committed suicide in Berlin in 1945. Yet, the unhappy fact is that there is little if any evidence to support this assertion, and, more worrying still, the main fabricator of this myth happens to be the unhappy Hugh Trevor Roper whose reputation was obliterated in the wake of the “Hitler Diary” scandal of the 1980s.
If there was no body found in Berlin then what became of Hitler and, more importantly still: what does this tell us about his life and questionable career? Of relevance today are the questions: Can any narrative or “spin” about any public figure be given any credence? Ought any politician or “statesman/woman” be trusted? And, perhaps most importantly of all: Do they all (or merely most) have an origin within the Deep State?
In October 2013 The Observer reported: “The notorious claim that Hitler escaped his Berlin bunker to live incognito in Argentina first gained popular currency in 1945, when Stalin spoke of it…Now the theory that the German dictator followed his fellow Nazis Adolf Eichmann and Josef Mengele to South America is at the centre of a fresh row.”
“The authors of the 2011 book “Grey Wolf: The Escape of Adolf Hitler”, which was made into a documentary film earlier this year, have been accused of plagiarism by a journalist in Argentina. Abel Basti claims his research has been unfairly used to substantiate claims made in the book…Gerrard Williams and Simon Dunstan set out the case for a scenario almost too horrible to contemplate: that the Führer and Eva Braun made a home in the foothills of the Andes and had two daughters.”
“Hitler, they claim, escaped punishment and lived out his life in tranquility in Patagonia until his death in 1962 at the age of 73.”
“…Basti says he signed a contract conferring all rights to his work to Williams’s company in return for substantial payments to come. On this basis, he adds, he introduced Williams to two key witnesses in the case for Hitler’s survival, a Jorge Colotto and Captain Manuel Monasterio.”[4]
Of Jorge Colotto, Williams and Dunstan write: “His (Martin Bormann’s) regular meetings with President Perón were detailed by Jorge Silvio Adeodato Colotto, the head of Perón’s personal police bodyguard from 1951 until the coup against him in September 1955.”[5] Captain Monasterio is more interesting on account of the fact that he interviewed Petty Officer Heinrich Bethe in 1977 “when Bethe was living in the Patagonian coastal town of Caleta Olivia under the pseudonym Pablo Glocknick.”[6]
Basti goes into more detail and is worth quoting in full:
“He told me that at the end of the war he was assigned with a group to unload a submarine. He was a kind of “emissary” of the leaders. The submarine surfaced and people got out. At first he didn’t know that Hitler was coming with this submarine.”
“What happened next?”
“They took Hitler to a ranch.”
“He did not name the exact location. I remember he said “near Bariloche”. Glocknick got the information because he was part of the “team.””
“He knew it was about Hitler?”
“Not at first, he found out later from his boss. In addition, some time later he was ordered to live with the group (with part of the people who had landed by submarine). Then he realized that it was actually (Hitler) who was giving the orders. He said he didn’t have the same face, he looked “slightly different”, but it was Hitler.”[7]
If you look at a map of Argentina you’ll notice that merely eight hundred and twenty-one kilometres separate Viedma from Bariloche; we thus know where Hitler most likely landed and where he later most likely lived.
[3] https://vault.fbi.gov/adolf-hitler/adolf-hitler-part-01-of-04/view
[4] https://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/oct/27/hitler-lived-1962-argentina-plagiarism
[5] p.278 Grey Wolf, Simon Dunstan and Gerrard Williams.
[6] p.223 Ibid
[7] pp.280-281 Hitler überlebte in Argentinien, Abel Basti, Jan van Helsing
I watched a film about Hitler going to Argentina. Also rumors that Merkel was his daughter. As so much of history told is so twisted, nothing surprises me anymore.