« The Last Escape of Hitler »: CIA decades research in Argentina

According to multiple reports from the CIA files, agents in South America were convinced that Hitler was still alive in the 1950s and changed his name to stay hidden.

An agent even said they found a photo in Colombia showing a man who looked like the infamous Nazis.

Although the Allied forces found a burnt corpse suggesting that Hitler committed suicide in a German refuge in April 1945, documents declassified in 2020 revealed that officials of US intelligence were trying to locate his « hunt ».

In the next decade, this search never ended and the CIA was still talking with informants allegedly aware of Hitler’s secret escape in 1955.

Although traces of documents appear to end in November 1955, a shocking announcement from Argentina is now restoring the case to the forefront According to the Daily Mail.

The escapes in South America

In March, Argentinean president Javier Miley ordered his government to declassify all the Nazis who sought refuge and protected from the country after World War II.

Argentina was a famous hideout for former members of the Nazi party who fled the punishment for war crimes 80 years ago, and now these documents could fill in the puzzle of an incredible CIA unspeakable case.

The documents revealed describe how the US Ministry of War sent information to the FBI that Hitler might have had a secret hide in a hotel in La Falda, Argentina.

The October 1945 file revealed that the owners of this hotel were large supporters of the Nazi party, making financial contributions to propaganda leader Joseph Gabels, and that Hitler’s close friends had become close.

The Ministry of War told the FBI that they were convinced that Hitler would retire to the hotel if Germany was losing World War II or was exiled as a Nazi leader.

The photo

While Allied forces said they found Hitler’s charred relics, another CIA document published in 2020 contained a photo of a man believed to be the Nazi leader sitting with a friend in Colombia in 1954.

The report of October 3, 1955, clearly stated that a US intelligence operation was being carried out to confirm whether Adolf Hitler had survived and was secretly transferred to South America.

The dossier revealed that an informant known as Cimelody-3 was talking to a trusted friend who served under Hitler’s orders in Europe and had fled to Maracabo, Venezuela.

The friend said a man named Philip Sitroen, a former SS soldier, claimed that Hitler was still alive in Colombia, talking to the former Nazi leader every month and had a recent photo with him.

Cimelody-3’s friend, whose name was not given, managed to steal the photo unknowingly on September 28, 1955.

« Adolf Schrittelmayor »

In the photo, the alleged Hitler referred to as « Adolf Schrittelmayor » and seemed to sit on a bench next to Sitroen in Tuncha, Colombia.

The report added that former Nazi soldiers claimed that Hitler eventually moved to Argentina in January 1955.

By the time the US intelligence agents acquired the photo and made copies, World War II had ended for a decade and the Nazis believed they were now uninvited by persecution.

« Philip Sitroen commented that since ten years have passed since the end of World War II, the allies could no longer expel Hitler as a war criminal, » the document said.

Despite the allegations of the alleged SS soldier, US agents continued Hitler’s hunt, although skeptics in the community of intelligence described the photograph « fantasy ».

On November 4, 1955, the Headquarters of the Secret Service in Washington approved the contact of agents with a person known in the archives as « Girella » in order to further investigate the history of « Adolf Schrittelmayor » in Colombia before 1955.

The end of the investigations

However, the same graded document distributed to agents in South America also suggested that the case be withdrawn.

« It is believed that huge efforts could be spent on this issue with remote chances of finding something specific, » admitted intelligence officials.

No other document in this series of reports appear to be publicly available in the CIA declassified records – suggesting that the issue was abandoned or anything else discovered can still be declassified by the US government.

Argentina’s archives

Argentina’s decision to follow America’s example to declassify piles of old cases could soon open up even more information on Pentagon’s transactions with the Nazis in South America.

The new Argentine documents are expected to describe in detail the country’s involvement with the « rats » – the secret international escape routes used by the Nazis to escape Germany before and after the end of World War II.

It is currently unknown whether any of the reports that will be declassified soon will add more details to the CIA files on Hitler’s supposed escape from death.