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AN ARGENTINE ARCHAEOLOGIST has discovered what he thinks was a hideout built for German Nazis to flee to after World War II.
Daniel Schavelzon went public and revived uncomfortable memories for Argentina, a notorious refuge for Nazi war criminals
He claims that the mysterious ruins deep in the jungle were planned as a Nazi hideout.
Excavating at the three stone buildings, his team found a swastika etched in the ruins, German coins stamped with the Nazi symbol and a fragment of porcelain plate bearing the inscription “Made in Germany.”
But research at the site has only just begun, said Schavelzon, head of the urban archaeology centre at the University of Buenos Aires.
“We brought out lots of material to study and there’s more to excavate,” he told AFP.
“Analysing the material could take many months. It’s even possible there are other buildings we still haven’t found. It’s a complicated area to work in, with lots of vegetation, impenetrable.”
He said he needed to find more funding to continue researching the ruins.
Schavelzon spent two weeks excavating at the site in northern Argentina near the border with Paraguay.
He suspects it was part of a project to build shelters for top Nazi leaders in rugged, inaccessible locations with easy escape routes.
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“These buildings date from the mid-20th century. At that time, nobody could reach this spot. It was all jungle. That shows the secrecy of the place,” said Schavelzon.
“In five minutes you can get to another country. You cross the river and you’re in Paraguay. It’s a strategic, very well thought-out site.”
The nearest town, San Ignacio, some 60 km away, did not exist then, he said.
The buildings were made from large stones typical in the area, with high foundations, he said. One, situated higher than the others, appears to have been a lookout post.
Nazi coins were found among the ruins. Youtube / ODNYoutube / ODN / ODN
‘Impunity and protection’
Ultimately, however, Nazi leaders didn’t ever need a remote Argentine hideout.
“They didn’t need to go into hiding deep in the jungle since they ended up living in Argentina with impunity and protection. They had passports and even used their real names,” said Schavelzon.
Thousands of Nazis, Italian fascists and Croatian Ustasha fled to Argentina with the blessing of late president Juan Peron, according to the Nazi-hunting Simon Wiesenthal Center.
In 1960, Adolf Eichmann, one of the masterminds of the Holocaust, was captured in Buenos Aires by an Israeli commando team and tried in Israel, where he was executed.
Other Nazis who sought refuge in Argentina include Joseph Mengele, the Auschwitz death camp doctor who performed atrocious experiments on prisoner.
Josef Schwammberger, a concentration camp commander and Erich Priebke, an SS officer convicted of massacring civilians were also found in Argentina
Argentina also has the largest Jewish community in Latin America, at about 300,000.
I might be mistaken but if a Nazi fled the reich with the family plate wouldn’t it say “hergestellt in Deutschland” or something, instead of “made in Germany”? Or did he pick it up at a local flea market? Wasn’t the swastica backwards in the video? And wasn’t that a “Star of David” etched into the wall too? A lot going on there for such a remote place.
I don’t know what history books you have been reading but the nazis weren’t popular particularly from 1939 onwards – something to do with invading countries , starting wars , exterminating millions of Jews homosexuals intellectuals and enslaving people in
any country they could , I’d say it’s a pretty safe bet that they weren’t that popular
This article is going to bring some Nazi freaks out from u dear their rocks. I’m posting this comment and running off. These Nazi freaks are pure toxic.
They fled to Ireland as well folens books which to my knowledge is still used by every school in Ireland certainly was in my time was founded by Albert folens a Nazi General
Pete, please explaine your comment? As i read it you are pro Nazi. I hope not if so I would drag you by the ears and bring you to places that would horrify you. And than you would never, ever make a comment like that
I am Tim Baber, B.A.,A.L.A. (retired). In 2002 I researched theme parks and recently looked back with a website that mentions Mengele in due proportion to his post war work for the West sublimating trauma based military and civilian brainwashing with indelible but subconscious torture. The ecstatic tradition I followed to get to there is also important and sustained me until this: bhmversusmengele(dot)Tumblr(dot)coandm. I styled my effort panopticonsecurity at Wordpress and as monarch programming since they had no Dotcom site of any direct paternity. Readers who have been informed Borman’s DNA made the Berlin cadaver he should read a book lent me by a submariner, Doug Lewis. It was a successful intel op using canoes into Berlin and a sap as a body double. With that in mind study my websites on Weltanschauunnskrieg Leaks and compare my accounts given a decade after meeting I claim a very alive and working Doctor. Luckily it took a decade before I found a photo so I have since fought back as above as he will be really dead by now and those continuing the “master work” should know Mengele though a trauma queen was a 20th century latecomer to the “master-work”. It is far older…ask Professor Rogan Taylor of his book in 1986 on Shamanism and the performing arts…the ecstatic tradition I favour over the alternative though it can be hidden in plain sight as subliminal dived from real trauma..such as I now have to face as the price of remaining aware thanks to some machievallian deal I cannot remember. It is all on twitter, that, but my story survives by making Asian-Chinese dating agencies rather interesting..this is a global reach business for unknown for sure franchises, states or freelancers?
The good thing is I can support claims Mengele was pretty much identical to his memory until 2002 and that a luxury villa near Cannes is now let out by his notional son (DNA no guarantee anywhere) in Mougins for $4,000 a week.
Interestingly it now has and I should check further the name Villa Almarin. Almarin CAN mean “master work” in Old German and I claim a possible connection and capitalist bolt hole behind bourgeois high walls. Howmany have died through shouting out Vaterchen, Beppo or Schoner Joseph..(he too betrayed love) and after MK Ultra many special forces death cards claim Doctor Green or Greenbaum was there then. Here is something to really savour..and this is where I am nibbling at the edges of a future…Will Filer NSA Psyops and the Extreme Process. A good thing out of all this in a way is I refuse to set my stall out with any nod or support for the supernatural. It is ALL a shill. probably.
If this was to be a Nazi safe haven that surely means they were expecting defeat at that point so why would they take Nazi coins, surely they would have no value and anyone fleeing would have been trying to distance themselves from any connection to Hitler’s Reich. Later they would have discovered just how safe a safe haven Argentina was, but at the time they could not have known this.
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