I have said it before, but it is amazing that things dating back to Nazi Germany still continue to make active news headlines today, almost fully seven decades after the final collapse of Hitler and his Nazi empire. But every now and then, we hear about someone being charged for war crimes dating back to those days, or we hear about some other odd piece of related news.
The most recent now is that an apparent hideout for powerful Nazis has recently been discovered in Argentina, near the border with Paraguay. The border could be reached within ten minutes, and this proximity to another country offered additional potential escape routes.
According to some reports, this house may have been designed for high-ranking Nazi Martin Bormann, one of Hitler's right hand men.
We all know the rumors and myths of scores of Nazis fleeing Europe as things were completely falling apart for them there. Many of them fled to the United States, Canada, or even South Africa. But a lot of them - perhaps the majority of them - fled to small dictatorships in South America, where they seemed to be embraced and admired on many levels. Look at footage of Argentinian military parades from the 1940's, and you will be hard pressed to differentiate these from Nazi military parades, except that the swastika is nowhere to be found. Otherwise, they look identical.
Also, South American countries, by and large, seemed to join the war effort quite late, once the outcome was already decided.
So, the suspicions definitely were there already, even if there was no definitive proof for some widespread effort to help escaped Nazis. It does seem, however, that these escaped Nazis generally had a relatively easy time of things once they managed to get to some of these South American countries, and perhaps particularly Argentina.
Here is a link to an article that I recently wrote on the subject about an apparent safe house for Nazis in Argentina, but very near the border with Paraguay, which was convenient as it offered yet another escape route if things turned sour once again. Some German porcelain and coins dating back to the era of Nazi Germany were also discovered at the site. Please take a look!
Nazi Hideout Discovered in Argentina
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