I was a CIA agent. There is growing proof Hitler faked his death… and I think I know where he was hiding

A former CIA agent claims there is a growing body of evidence showing Adolf Hitler faked his own death in Germany and actually escaped to Argentina, where followers tried to reboot his fallen Nazi empire.

Bob Baer, who spent his 21-year career in espionage, says the official version of history – with Hitler dying by suicide in 1945 – might need rethinking once anticipated bombshell evidence is released.

He expects a forthcoming set of documents out of Argentina to reveal possible entanglements between the fascist dictator and the South American government that may have been hiding him.

Baer, 72, believes the archives on Nazis who fled to Argentina after the war may spotlight efforts to build a Fourth Reich in South America, and implicate Argentinian officials in the support of Nazis, money laundering schemes and more.

He’s anticipating a paper or money trail pointing to both Argentinian government involvement in the construction of a possible Nazi hideout in the Misiones province (which was uncovered in a 2015 archaeological dig), and President Juan Perón’s backing of a 1950s nuclear fusion lab headed by a Nazi scientist on a remote island.

We don’t yet know when Argentinian officials plan to release the findings, but we do know this idea of Hitler’s escape has been examined for decades.

Even the Eisenhower administration took the toppled führer’s possible survival seriously, Baer says.

In the 2015 History Channel show Hunting Hitler, Baer and others floated theories about Hitler’s escape and of Nazi stragglers regrouping with the help of sympathetic South American leaders.

Did newlyweds Adolf Hitler and Eva Braun kill themselves in the underground bunker? Ex-spy Bob Baer says’we’ll never get a complete answer’

University of Buenos Aires archaeologists unearthed the remains of what they called a hideout for top Nazi officers in 2015

The remains of the three building Nazi hideout is in Teyu Cuare Park near San Ignacio in the northeastern province of Misione

Archaeologists found this German coin from 1938 in the remains of a house built inside Teyu Cuare Park

He pointed to the Misiones discovery as ‘the most interesting find’ related to the story so far. 

‘Lots of money was spent on a compound with plumbing and electricity in the middle of nowhere,’ Baer told the Daily Mail, adding Nazi memorabilia – including German World War II-era coins – was found in the area.

‘If you were going to hide Hitler, that’s where you’d do it.’

Historians broadly agree that newlyweds Hitler and Eva Braun died by suicide in the leader’s underground Führerbunker in April 1945 as Soviet forces advanced on Berlin.

Their bodies were partially burned and buried in a shallow bomb crater. Once exhumed, Soviet officials identified both Hitler and Braun through dental records. 

Both of their remains were held in East Germany before the Soviet Union’s Committee for State Security (KGB) destroyed Hitler’s in 1970. They saved only a jawbone and skull, which were taken to Moscow.

Meanwhile, thousands of Nazi war criminals and collaborators – including Holocaust planner Adolf Eichman and ‘Angel of death’ Josef Mengele – fled to South America along ‘ratlines’ (escape routes).

Shortly after Hitler’s death, theories emerged that the he had actually escaped instead – perhaps through a tunnel, a flight to the Canary Islands and then aboard a submarine to South America.

While the theories were initially largely dismissed, they were taken more seriously in 2009, when DNA tests showed the skull fragment that was thought to have belonged to Hitler, and was preserved in Moscow for decades, actually belonged to a woman between 20 and 40 years old.

Baer calls this confusion ‘one of those great mysteries in history that we’ll never get a complete answer for.’

Ex-spy Bob Baer says the official narrative of Hitler’s death in Berlin has been called into question 

The home of Nazi war criminal, Adolf Eichmann, in San Fernando, a suburb of Buenos Aires, around the time of his capture in 1960 

Israeli spies captured Eichman in Argentina and took him for his trial and ultimately execution in Israel  

This statue was among the finds in a house near Buenos Aries, where police discovered in 2017 the biggest collection of Nazi artifacts in the country’s history

They also found these busts of Hitler in the cache in a secret room behind a bookcase 

Separately, in early April, CIA files that were declassified in 2017 resurfaced.

One shows how, in 1955, the agency was sent a photo of a Hitler lookalike taken in Columbia. It suggested Hitler may have been living in South America under an assumed identity a decade after the fall of Nazi Germany.

A second file, titled ‘Hitler hideout in Argentina’ from 1945, describes a spa hotel in La Falda, Argentina, owned by friends and supporters of Hitler, where he could have fled had he survived the war. 

Still, the CIA has also released an autopsy that confirms Hitler’s death by suicide in the bunker.

While skeptical agents in 1955 said they could spend ‘enormous efforts’ probing the Colombia sighting with only ‘remote possibilities of establishing anything concrete,’ Baer thinks the fact that it was even probed at all suggests his survival was, at the very least, considered possible by officials in Washington. 

‘The CIA is not run by the curiosity of officers in the field,’ Baer said. 

‘If 10 years after the end of the war the CIA is considering these reports, whether people believe them or not, it shows there was a belief in the executive branch of the US government that Hitler may have gotten away.’

Baer hopes there will be more questions answered by the upcoming archive release. 

One document stated that officials were convinced Hitler would seek refuge in Argentina if he ever left Germany

A photo secretly stolen by US agents revealed a man who former Nazis claimed was Hitler still alive in 1954 in Colombia

US intelligence agents followed this trail for 10 years, despite evidence that Hitler allegedly killed himself and had his body burned in 1945

Argentine president Javier Milei said he would release the Nazi archives after meeting with officials from the Simon Wiesenthal Center officials and others in Buenos Aires, in February 

President Javier Milei authorized the documents’ declassification after a February meeting with officials at the Simon Wiesenthal Center who want records on the ratlines used by some 10,000 fleeing Nazis and other fascist war criminals. 

Many are known to have escaped through Germany into Spain and Italy before crossing the Atlantic to the Americas.

In some cases, US spies plucked Nazi scientists from the ratlines to join their military research programs in the Cold War.  

Baer also hopes to see information on a nuclear lab on Huemul Island, near Bariloche, where Nazi scientists tried to harness fusion energy for Peron.

The ex-CIA agent thinks it’s possible there were legitimate attempts at a Fourth Reich with plans including a nuclear weapon strike on Manhattan.

Dr. John Cencich, a former UN war crimes investigator who worked with Baer on the TV series, is more cautious. 

Dr. Cencich said he doubts the relocated Nazis ever got close to resurrecting their Reich.

‘Many of them were still marching to the tune of Hitler, and maybe didn’t believe that Hitler was dead,’ he told the Daily Mail.

‘But these were just demoralized former Nazis who were living in the past and who’d fled there for safety from criminal prosecution.’

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