The Tennessean
Declassified CIA files have revealed a secret mission in which the agency attempted to find Adolf Hitler, 10 years after he was supposed to have died. CIA agents working in South America at the time believed the dictator had faked his death and was still alive, using an assumed name.
According to the documents, a man named Adolf Schrittelmayor, who bore a strong resemblance to Adolf Hitler, was photographed sitting on a bench in Tunja, Colombia in the 1950s. The report also claims former Nazi soldiers said Hitler had moved to Argentina in January of 1955.
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Adolf Hitler supposedly committed suicide in a German bunker in April of 1945. However, the CIA documents covering the search for Hitler do not end until November of 1955.
Last month, Argentina’s President Javier Milei ordered all government-held records related to Nazis who fled to or were protected by Argentina after World War II to be declassified. Numerous Nazi fugitives have already been confirmed to have made their post World War II homes in South America. Historians have estimated that Argentina offered refuge to approximately 5,000 Nazi war criminals, including notorious Adolf Eichmann and Josef Mengele, according to The Jewish Chronicle.
The Daily Mail now reports that the declassified CIA documents show the U.S. War Department reported to the FBI that Adolf Hitler may have a secret hideout at a spa hotel in La Falda, Argentina. The documents state that the owners of the hotel were major supporters of the Nazi party and were close friends with Hitler, sharing vacations with him in Germany.
The declassified CIA documents also state that an informant known as CIMELODY-3 said a former SS trooper named Phillip Citroen claimed that he spoke with the former Nazi leader on a monthly basis. Citroen was also in the photograph of the man resembling Hitler in Colombia.
Either the search for Adolf Hitler by the CIA ended shortly thereafter or those documents have not yet been declassified. Perhaps Argentina declassifying its own secret files on the Nazis who took refuge there after World War II will shed some more light on what happened after November 1955.
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