SOURCE: Las Ultimas Noticias (Santiago de Chile)
DATE: January 2, 2004
BARILOCHE WAS HITLER AND EVA BRAUN'S FINAL REFUGE
Statement made by author of a Nazi guidebook**
German submarines rescued Nazi officials and brought them to the
Americas. The same was done for Hitler**
BUENOS AIRES (EFE news agency -- Adolf Hitler lived in Patagonia after
fleeing Germany in 1945, claims Argentinean journalist Abel Basti in a
tour-guide style book which discloses the locations in the Andean foothills
which served as a refuge for several former Nazi leaders.
Hitler and his lover Eva Braun did not commit suicide--rather, they fled to
Argentinean shores aboard a submarine and lived for many years in the
vicinity of San Carlos de Bariloche, a tourist site and ski haven some 1350
km southwest of Buenos Aires, according to the journalist.
In his book "Bariloche Nazi-Guí¡ Turí³´ica", which shall go on sale next
week, Basti reproduces documents, affidavits, photogrpahs and blueprints
aimed at steering the reader (or visitor) to the sites that sheltered
Hitler, Martin Bormann, Joseph Mengele and Adolf Eichman. He is displeased
when asked if his book challenges the official story on the Hitler/Braun
suicide, arguing that the corpses of Hitler and his lover were never found,
as is the case with other Nazis who allegedly committed suicide. "The only
official story is the report made General Zhukov (commander of the Soviet
army that occupied Berlin) to the Kremlin, stating that Hitler and several
Nazi leaders had escaped, presumably to Spain or Argentina, and this is what
Stalin advised the U.S. government," he retorted.
Basti's book includes a photo of the Incalco Ranch, which means in the
native dialect "near the water", located in Villa la Angostura on the shores
of Lake Nahuel Huapi, 80 km north of Bariloche. This was the refuge chosen
by Argentinean Nazis to hide Hitler and Eva Braun. This residence, set amid
a pine forest and which can only be reached by boat or hydroplane, belonged
to Argentine businessman Jorge Antonio, one of the most trusted men of
three-times president Juan Domingo Peró®¼¢r> (1946-1955 and 1973-1974).
Basti makes mention of Rudolph Fraude, son of Ludwig Fraude, the German
millionaire, as a key player -- in his capacity as Per󮧳 secretary -- in
placing former Nazis in Argentina, among them Eichmann, who was captured in
1960 outside Buenos Aires by Israeli commandos. He was executed 2 years
later in Israel.
The book's author, having worked on several Nazi-related investigations for
European television networks, claims that Hitler also lived at Hacienda San
Ramon, 10 km east of Bariloche, which belonged at the time to
Schaumberg-Lippe principality.
The epic distance that exists between the likelihood of Hitler and his
lieutenants having escaped Berlin and taken refuge in Patagonia is
shortened, accoridng to Basti, by the wave of German submarines that reached
the shores of Southern Argentina after the 2nd World War. "There is numerous
and reliable evidence that Nazis fled to Argentina, coinciding with the
arrival of Nazi subs in Patagonia," he noted, recalling the "vital
assistance" offered by Per󮧳 government at the time to "shelter the
Fuhrer's henchmen in the country."
Basti, who lives in Bariloche and initiated his research on the relocation
of Nazis to this picturesque city, claims to have accounts of passengers
aboard the Nazi subs that reached Patagonia -- accounts which shall
consitute the basis of a second book in the works.
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Translation (C) 2003. Scott Corrales, Institute of Hispanic Ufology. Special
thanks to Liliana N?Orellana.
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