Posted on 12/30/2012 4:51:05 PM PST by Borges
According to director/producer Noam Shalev and researcher Pablo Weschler, Adolf Hitler lived out his last days in an luxurious Argentinian hotel, instead of committing suicide in a Berlin bunker as previously thought. Their new documentary, Hitler in Argentina, attempts to make their case and is set to be released next year.
Shalev doesn’t claim to be 100 percent certain about his theory. “We will never know the truth,” he says. “But there is enough evidence to build an alternative theory about what happened to Hitler.”
Weschler adds, “No one believed the Russians’ story of Hitler’s suicide in the bunker. As early as the summer of 1945, there were headlines asking, ‘Where is Hitler?’ all over the world.”
Recently declassified FBI documents were the push to Shalev and Weschler to begin their film. They long believed that British intelligence officer and historian Hugh Trevor-Roper’s investigation into Hitler’s death was “unprofessional,” because Russian troops did not allow access to many forensic investigators.
“In those days, the FBI, not the CIA, was responsible for South America,” says Weschler. “And in declassified documents, we see that the FBI took very seriously the possibility that Hitler fled to Argentina.”
In fact, the FBI was so convinced of this possibility that they set up a special unit to investigate. Shalev and Weschler believe they can determine Hitler’s exact whereabouts after WWII. Italian journalist Patrick Burnside wrote a book entitled Hitler’s Escape about the dictator’s journey, and the pair used it as a guide.
“The Eden Hotel in La Falda, Cordoba [in Argentina] was owned by Ida and Walter Eichhorn, who were close friends of Hitler,” Weschler explains. “Hitler sent them a Mercedes Benz as a gift. It was the first Benz in Argentina.”
According to an FBI letter from September 1945, it was believed the Eichhorns would provide Hitler shelter if he ever needed it. Weschler also claims to have found former hotel employees who say they met Hitler and waited on him after the war.
The most important evidence to Shalev and Weschler comes in the form of DNA testing done on Hitler’s skill fragments in 2009, fragments that were recovered from the Berlin bunker.
“They showed that they couldn’t have been Hitler’s skull because they were from a woman under 40,” Weschler says. “The more you look into it, the less credible the official version becomes, and the more plausible an alternative theory seems.”
Is he related to Irish journalist Pietro Bianchi?
My dad knew him when we were living (in exile) in Paraguay. Now it can be told.
Newspapers in Mexico run stories like this two or three times a year.
You can find a picture of Elvis and Michael Jackson living in a single wide.
http://www.datehookup.com/Thread-333321.htm
As if it’s not strange enough that an unidentified muslim was elected for a second term as POTUS?
Robot Hitler’s on the Moon now? Well, he threatened to go there and set up rocket bases and then blow up all of Earth’s non-Aryan races, and we did nothing to stop him.
I favor the north minehead scenario myself as well documented by Monty Python.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vlmGknvr_Pg
%%% Hitler blew his brains out in that bunker. Stalin used what was left of his skull as an ashtray.
End of story. %%%
Please cite a veritable source, else it is less believable than the documentary
I was just watching HELLBOY and the old dude explained to the young FBI agent that Hitler died in 1965.
FBI agent: ‘Hitler died in 1945..”
OLD DUDE: ‘did he now?’
I’ll go with the Soviet’s (Stalin’s) obsession ....
He was NOT going to leave Berlin alive.
On the other hand, I don’t understand the “obsession” with certain neo-liberals (re-writers ??) of history who seem almost determined to “want” him alive.
You’ve got to be joking on this one, right?
They had to ‘kill off’ Hitler so that the Nazi’s would give up.
Did you two not read the article? The skull that was claimed to be Hitler’s was found out to be a 40 year old woman.
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