Posted on 12/19/2025 2:17:26 PM PST by Words Matter
He believed the truth about Josef Mengele's fate was being buried - he was right. The Israeli police officer who hunted Nazis until his final days suspected a cover-up surrounding Josef Mengele; newly released Argentine documents now confirm what Menachem Russek believed for decades, long after the Nazi's death.
In the shadows of post-Holocaust history, a disturbing convergence emerged between remnants of Nazi ideology and certain strands of Arab nationalism fiercely opposed to the Jewish state's existence. While the world was still confronting the horrors of the Shoah—the systematic murder of six million Jews—some Arab leaders and organizations formed alliances with neo-Nazi groups in Argentina that were actively protecting notorious Nazi war criminals like Adolf Eichmann and Josef Mengele.
Argentina served as a safe haven for many Nazi fugitives after World War II. Eichmann, the logistical mastermind of the Final Solution, lived there until his capture by Israeli agents in 1960. Josef Mengele, the infamous Auschwitz "Angel of Death," also resided in Argentina before moving to Paraguay. Multiple contemporary sources confirm that the Tacuara Nationalist Movement—a violent, antisemitic neo-Nazi organization of Argentine youths—provided direct protection to these fugitives. Tacuara members guarded Mengele's residence on the outskirts of Buenos Aires, prevented police searches of his home, and extended similar protection to Eichmann.
Tacuara was unabashedly fascist, performing Nazi salutes and attacking Jewish students and institutions. A September 16, 1962, New York Times article detailed their drills, ideology, and explicit opposition to "Zionism, Capitalism and Communism."
In the early 1960s, Tacuara developed ties with the Arab League, facilitated particularly by Hussein Triki, a Tunisian diplomat and known Nazi collaborator from the war years. Some Tacuara factions embraced Third-Worldist rhetoric, chanting slogans linking Perónism with Nasser and anti-Zionism.
The most public manifestation of this alliance came from Ahmad Shukeiri, a leading Arab Palestinian figure who served as Saudi Arabia's representative to the United Nations in 1962. As early as 1946—just months after the Holocaust—Shukeiri (as well as Jamal Husseini).had publicly justified the murder of six million Jews, stating that Hitler "could not have been all wrong." In a speech to the UN General Assembly on November 30, 1962, Shukeiri openly praised and saluted Tacuara members, expressed hope that their activities would expand across Latin America, and referenced the recent New York Times exposé on the group.
The Argentine delegate immediately condemned the remarks, denouncing Tacuara as a Nazi organization. The incident caused international outrage and embarrassment, even among some Arab states. Shortly afterward, Shukeiri was dismissed from his UN position, reportedly at the direction of Saudi King Faisal.
This episode reveals a troubling historical nexus: in the immediate post-Holocaust era, as Jewish survivors sought refuge and security in Israel, certain Arab leaders aligned themselves with neo-Nazi groups that were literally shielding the perpetrators of the genocide. Such alliances underscore the extreme antisemitism that animated some early opposition to Jewish self-determination—a painful reminder of the challenges the Jewish people faced in establishing and defending their homeland.
Bar-Zohar, Michael. The Avengers. Hawthorn Books, 1969, p. 242.
https://books.google.com/books/about/The_Avengers.html?id=llYNAAAAIAAJ#%22tacuara%22%20%22mengele%22
Jewish Frontier, Labor Zionist Letters, 1966, p. 19.
https://books.google.com/books?id=OGYeAAAAMAAJ&q=%22members%20prevented%20the%20police%20from%20searching%20Mengele's%20house%22
The National Jewish Monthly, Volume 77, B'nai B'rith, 1962, p. 1.
https://books.google.com/books?&id=OjLnAAAAMAAJ&focus=searchwithinvolume&q=%22removed%22
Rein, Raanan. Cachiporras contra Tacuara: Grupos de autodefensa judíos en América del Sur, 1960-1975. SUDAMERICANA, 2023 (section on Arab League and Hussein Triki).
https://books.google.com/books?id=lhm-EAAAQBAJ&pg=PT181
Additional context on Shukeiri's salute and Third-Worldist links:
"When anti-Israel sentiment meets cancel culture." Israel Hayom, Jan. 4, 2022.
https://www.israelhayom.com/2022/01/04/when-anti-israel-sentiment-meets-cancel-culture/
One of his disciples was Governor of Virginia as a Democrat.
Hitler too made it to South America. The CIA had a picture and account of Hitler there buried with the JFK files. Only if we believe Hitler’s most loyal people can anyone believe he killed himself in the bunker. No bodies have ever tested positive for Hitler’s DNA, and the Nazi loyalists would lie to cover up his escape. Hitler flew out of Berlin to a seaport where a sub took him to Argentina to join many other Nazis in exile. Supposedly he and Eva Braun had a couple of children being protected by the Germans there.
I have never found a confirming source for it but clearly remember a shocking incident in an historical account of Mengele’s life in Latin America after he escaped punishment at the end of WWII.
Under another identity he was one of the Nazis living there hunted by Holocaust survivor Simon Wiesenthal and others.
Dismaying account I can’t verify is Mengele was a passenger in a crowded car in a bad accident. The driver and other passengers were killed. Mengele was shaken up but not badly injured and survived.
That was added to my questions about the religious significance of being good, praying and following Judaic Christian guidance. Along with the gangsters living to old age and good people unfairly killed while young. A constant struggle among us believers.
Just to balance it here. Self help author and Blue Angel pilot and advisor to the Olympic program and astronaut training program, Denis Waitley, wrote that he once wanted badly to get on a waiting plane at the airport despite arriving almost too late.
The staff refused and argued. He said I see the plane sitting right there, just let me on it. He was angry and said he was a frequent customer and he was going to an important speaking engagement. No one budged.
The plane took off, it later crashed and the pilots, crew and all passengers died.
Waitley’s wife saved the ticket on a cork board and every time Waitley started to complain and feel picked on by critics she would quietly take the unused ticket and put it in front of his face as he sat at his computer.
Interesting. Thanks for posting.
Did Martin Bormann make it to South America too?
BUMP!
One of his retainers -- it may have been Heinz Linge -- said very clearly that Hitler killed himself, but the SS put his body in a mass grave with hundreds of others, and put decoy bodies in the Chancellery garden to throw the Russians off the trail. Of course, the bodies that the Russians did get were eventually cremated in the early 1970s anyway.
From here: Earlier thread on Hitler’s death
Then, I posted this: "I always figured hitler murdered some sap his size, burned the corpse, collected all the diamonds he could carry, and went to south america. And his loyal cultists affirmed it was hitler in that ditch."
Then, Freeper Lonesome in Massachussets posted: "The DNA matches his family line. It was almost certainly his blood."
I still believe Hitler escaped.
So: maybe.
There is also the theory that Bormann switched sides, and was a Soviet mole post-Stalingrad (one reason the Germans basically never won another battle on the Eastern Front). If true, it's possible he lived under deep cover in the USSR for a couple of decades after the war.
Minus opposition to communism, isn't that the democrat party platform?
Mengele was a piker compared to Fauci.
Klaus Barbie, "The Butcher of Lyon" was helped by the CIA to escape Europe. They got him and his family settled in South America, paid him to find intelligence on our enemies. When French officials requested help from the CIA finding Barbie so he could be prosecuted for war crimes, the CIA lied to them, and said they had no idea where he was. When the hunt for Barbie heated up, and Nazi hunters Beate and Serge Klarsfeld tracked him down in Bolivia, the CIA dumped him, and he was finally extradited from Bolivia to France. Unfortunately, by that time, France had eliminated the death penalty, so the a-hole sat in prison for four years before dying of leukemia in 1991.
He was but one Nazi out of many that the CIA hired. Hitler's top intelligence officer Reinhard Gehlen was hired early on by the CIA. Despite being told he couldn't hire Nazis, SS, SD, SA or former German police, he set out to do just that. And of course, the CIA put an Army vet who had never worked in intelligence, to oversee Gehlen's organization. The people Gehlen hired, went on to hire other war criminals, and so on down the line. There came a time when Gehlen had no idea who was in his group, or who he was paying with U.S. tax dollars. In 1955, when the CIA realized that the so-called intelligence they were getting was mostly manufactured lies, they disbanded Gehlen's group. In 1956, Gehlen ended up being head of the Federal Intelligence Service (BND) under Chancellor Konrad Adenauer. He lasted until 1968, when he was forced to resign due to the fact that one of his German spies was actually a Russian mole. At one time Gehlen had 16 members of his extended family on the BND payroll.
Your theory of Hitler and Eva escaping to Argentina wouldn’t surprise me. I consider the large number of people who supported and aided him in his atrocities and can see he could have been helped to escape.
Linge was beaten repeatedly by the Soviets to get him to confess that Hitler had survived. He had nothing whatsoever to gain by concealing Hitler's alleged escape at that point. He did, IIRC, tell them the truth that they wouldn't be able to find Hitler's body because it was in a mass grave somewhere in Berlin.
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