Admiral Karl Dönitz, named his successor, announced on the radio that Hitler had died fighting Bolshevism "to the end." Ignoring the Soviet's own reports certifying his death, Stalin told an American envoy that Hitler was undoubtedly hiding somewhere. His intention, says Evans, was to present him as a coward who had fled before the imminence of collapse and, incidentally, to toughen the treatment of the Germans in the face of the possibility of a return of the Nazi leader. The fear of a reissue of the myth of the king who flees from death (Arthur, Barbarossa) or of the returning chief —the “Napoleon effect”— had the allies on edge, very concerned about finding Hitler's mortal remains.
Beyond the initial uncertainty that Stalin sowed, speculation about his whereabouts multiplied. He had he fled to Colombia or Indonesia? Did he find refuge in an underground base in Antarctica? The most south africa phone number list widespread delusion was that Hitler arrived in Argentina by submarine and ended his days in a secret ranch near the Patagonian town of Bariloche. Had he fled to Colombia or Indonesia? Was refuge found in an underground base in Antarctica? The most widespread delusion was that Hitler arrived in Argentina by submarine and ended his days in a secret ranch near the Patagonian town of Bariloche.
Had he fled to Colombia or Indonesia? Was refuge found in an underground base in Antarctica? The most widespread delusion was that Hitler arrived in Argentina by submarine and ended his days in a secret ranch near the Patagonian town of Bariloche. Not only was an extensive, more or less disparate bibliography produced on the subject over the years. The subject became a profitable business for the entertainment industry, which dedicated chapters of series and even movies to it, several of them produced in our century, even more lavish than the previous one in productions on the subject.