Declassified CIA secrets drop a jaw-dropping truth: for a full decade after Adolf Hitler’s so-called death in a Berlin bunker, the agency hunted him across South America, convinced he’d slipped into the shadows, declassified files reveal.

The documents, dating from 1945 to 1955 and recently declassified by the CIA, were analyzed by the Washington Post this week.

They show that field agents suspected Hitler may have escaped to South America under an alias, even though the agency had received an autopsy report supposedly confirming his death.

According to MI5 files, Hitler and his longtime companion Eva Braun, whom he had married the day before, killed themselves on April 30, 1945, in his Berlin bunker to avoid capture.

Their partially burned bodies were later discovered by Soviet soldiers outside the Reich Chancellery. Yet CIA agents had also intelligence that confirmed this was a fabricated story; and they continued to chase leads into the mid-1950’s.

One 1945 file said US War Department agents told the FBI that a spa hotel in La Falda, Argentina, had been prepared as a potential hideout.

The hotel’s owners, who had donated to propaganda chief Joseph Goebbels, had close ties to Hitler. US intelligence kind of also believed they had made all necessary preparations to shelter Hitler after Germany’s defeat in WWII.

Another document from October 1955 included a photo of a man believed to be Hitler sitting with a friend in Colombia. The man, using the name Adolf Schrittelmayor, reportedly left Colombia for Argentina in January 1955.

The CIA briefly authorized an investigation into Schrittelmayor’s background but later dropped it, noting that enormous efforts could be expended on this matter with remote possibilities of establishing anything concrete.

No further CIA documents made public suggest that agents continued searching for Hitler after 1955, the WaPo reported.

The revelations come as Argentina – long known as a hideout for Nazi fugitives – prepares to declassify government documents related to those who found sanctuary there after WWII.

As many as 10,000 war criminals are believed to have used so-called ‘ratlines’ to escape Europe. Roughly half reportedly settled in Argentina, which was known for its reluctance to grant extradition requests.

Among them were Adolf Eichmann, a key architect of the Holocaust, and Josef Mengele, the notorious Auschwitz doctor. Eichmann was captured by Israeli agents in 1960 and taken to Israel for trial.

Mengele evaded capture and died in Brazil in 1979 after suffering a heart attack while swimming.

News Punch / ABC Flash Point News 2025.

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Twisted Sister
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April 16, 2025 17:01

Discovery Channel documentary shows what really happened, showing Bavarian fortresses in Bariloche and the AH mansion at the lake.

UkraineGF
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April 17, 2025 07:49

Hitler tore up Europe for Rome to build public support for the United Nations. They rewarded him with secret retirement in South America.

Drag a Log along
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April 17, 2025 07:50

He caused the mass murder of possibly hundreds of millions of Jews Orthodox Lutherans Protestants. Estimated 9 million Greek Orthodox civilians were starved to death by the allies food blockades on Europe alone. The Dutch were eating their horses and then their dogs.

America Spectator
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April 17, 2025 07:55

The Vatican “rat lines” helped many many Nazis escape. The top brass were Catholics. It’s common knowledge. South America is Catholic Everyone knows.

Karl not telling You
Karl not telling You
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April 17, 2025 08:04

US companies supported the Nazi war against Russia. Hugo Boss designed the SS uniforms, Ford supplied engines for the troops transportation trucks, IBM helped with the bookkeeping, AT&T supplied communication equipment and Coca Cola provided beverage drinks for General Rommel’s Africa desert Corps

GoneFishing
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April 17, 2025 08:06

Hitler and Eva Braun left the Berlin Bunker on April 28, 1945 at 3 A.M. and walked to a street 2,000 feet away, boarded a JU-52 airplane and flew to Denmark over United States military lines landing in Denmark and giving speech to German troops. Then taking off to Spain on a 4 engine German transport. Arriving at the Azores Islands to board submarine number U-518 for a 53 day voyage underwater to Argentina. Then getting on a Curtis airplane and flying to the west of Argentina to the Andes mountains to his new home, until Adolf Hitler died there… Read more »

Zionism is Terrorism
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April 20, 2025 02:04

Most Nazi style Khazarica Jews changed that their name and were shipped into America and became Hollywood actors, producers and broadcasters, in order to the Zionist plot and wipe out the opposite global population.