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TomatoBubble.com: Over the past 15 years or so, a new industry has emerged to target the 'conspiracy theory' community. It appears as though a quick dollar can be made by peddling "Hitler and Eva escaped to Argentina" books to some of the more vulnerable contrarians who have, understandably, developed the habit of doubting everything that we were ever taught about history or are being told about current events. Napoleon was absolutely spot-on when he observed: "History is the fables that men have agreed upon." However, just because so much of what we have been taught about history is false, it does not logically follow that everything is false, and that every counter-claim must be accepted at face value. The same rules of evidence must apply to 'conspiracy theories' as do towards 'official stories'.
It's a fantastic story, told (and sold) with great passion, but is there any logical basis to it?
In reviewing the "evidence" to support the Hitler & Eva in Argentina hypothesis, one of the things that immediately struck your humble author was the grand pronouncements of the various authors or their publicists. (Sound & Fury Syndrome) The teaser for the 2005 book, Hitler's Escape, by Ron T. Hansig assures us: "In this magisterial study Ron T. Hansig has for the first time brought together and examined all of the available published material, together with some new and some previously overlooked source documents. Ron T. Hansig is not a conspiracy theorist; he sets out his evidence, clearly and logically - and invites the reader to make up their own mind."
In 2010 came, El Exilio de Hitler / Hitler's Exile by Abel Basti, which purported to present "new documents" to prove that Hitler escaped to Argentina. The 2013 Grey Wolf: The Escape of Adolf Hitler by Simon Dunstan and Gerrard Williams, boasts: "In a riveting scenario that has never been fully investigated until now, international journalist Gerrard Williams and military historian Simon Dunstan make a powerful case for the Führer's escape to a remote enclave in Argentina-along with other key Nazis—where he is believed to have lived comfortably until 1962. Following years of meticulous research, the authors reconstruct the dramatic plot-including astonishing evidence and compelling testimony." British Historian Guy Walters, described Grey Wolf as "2,000 per cent rubbish" adding: "It's an absolute disgrace. There's no substance to it at all. It appeals to the deluded fantasies of conspiracy theorists and has no place whatsoever in historical research. "There were many people in the bunker and it takes a giant leap of the imagination to get from a museum in Russia to him living a life in Argentina. The idea that everybody in the bunker was in on the plan is infeasible. It just would not have happened." Though generally loathe to concur with Establishment court-historians, and personally hoping to discover that the deserving Fuhrer did finally get to live out a peaceful life with the lovely Eva, I have arrived at the same conclusion as Walters and will provide the reasons.
Walters, King and Sugar the Cat are in agreement. The Hitler-in-Argentina tale is B.S.
Adding to the criticism of Grey Wolf were the angry accusations of plagiarism made by the aforementioned Abel Basti of Argentina. Co-author Williams fired back, "Basti did in no way invent the idea of Hitler being alive in Argentina. Dunstan added, "Books on the subject existed as far back as 1953 and 1987. I have never plagiarised anyone's work." Brazilian Jew Simoni Renee Guerreiro Dias, who wrote, Hitler in Brazil - His Life and His Death claims that Hitler escaped to Brazil, not Argentina, where he married a Black woman and lived incognito until 1984. "I am convinced this is true", says Ms. Dias. In November 2014, best-selling neo-con author Jerome Corsi got into the act with, Hunting Hitler: New Scientific Evidence That Hitler Escaped Nazi Germany, which hysterically boasts of "DNA evidence" to make his case.
The 'Argentinists' make bold claims supported by logical fallacies, verbosity, hearsay and wild conjecture.
And on and on the literary genre of Hitler-in-Argentina rolls. Bold claims with each subsequent "historian" adding a new and improved, "never seen before" twist to the fictional saga. In addition to the trumpeted claims of "overwhelming evidence", each of these accounts relies exclusively upon unexamined "witnesses", 3rd party, and even 4th party hearsay, along with wild, and I do mean wild, conjecture. The authors start with a pre-determined conclusion in mind, and then bend data to suit their purposes while ignoring inconvenient facts which contradict them. Insignificant Soviet quips regarding Hitler's body are breathlessly hailed as smoking-gun evidence of a plot to escape Berlin. Massive holes in the Argentina theory are filled with imaginative scenarios which leave the reader with the daunting challenge of disproving a negative. It all makes for riveting drama, but so do all works of good fiction. Before we deconstruct the Argentina hypothesis, let us briefly review the key data-points of the official story of Hitler's suicide in Berlin. THEORY # 1: HITLER COMMITTED SUICIDE IN BERLIN
DOCUMENTARY EVIDENCE As the Soviet hordes advanced upon his Berlin bunker, Hitler penned his 'Final Political Testament' on April 29, 1945. - a document whose authenticity is unquestioned. In it, he wrote of his intention to commit suicide: "I should like, by remaining in this town, to share my fate with those, the millions of others, who have also taken upon themselves to do so. Moreover I do not wish to fall into the hands of an enemy who requires a new spectacle organized by the Jews for the amusement of their hysterical masses. I have decided therefore to remain in Berlin and there of my own free will to choose death at the moment when I believe the position of the Fuehrer and Chancellor itself can no longer be held." I die with a happy heart, aware of the immeasurable deeds and achievements of our soldiers at the front, our women at home, the achievements of our farmers and workers and the work, unique in history, of our youth who bear my name." Hitler and Eva took their lives on the 30th; he by poison and gunshot; she by poison. The bodies were then taken outside and burned.
Hitler dictated his 'suicide note'. Traudl Junge (above) typed it.
EYE OR EAR WITNESS EVIDENCE Some of the others who were either present in the bunker when this event took place, or arrived soon afterwards to watch the bodies burn, include:
Mr. & Mrs. Goebbels would later commit suicide and Borman was said to have been killed while trying to escape Berlin. Manziarly disappeared after last being seen in the custody of two Soviets. Rattenhuber lived until 1957, Kempka until 1975, Gunsche until 2003, Schenck until 1998, Junge until 2002, and Misch actually lived until 2013. All of them confirmed the suicide story under interogation and never altered their stories.
Said Misch:
"I saw Hitler slumped with his head on the table. I saw Eva Braun sitting dead in the corner of the sofa, her head turned to Hitler her knees pulled up to her chest. She had a dark blue dress on and a white frill on her collar."
And Gunsche: "The Russian troops were only a few hundred metres from the walls of the Chancellery and could storm the garden at any moment. Carrying the bodies out into the garden and the immediate preparations for the cremations had been done in great haste."
And Traudl Junge: "Suddenly there is the sound of a shot, so loud, so close, that we all fall silent. It echoes on through all the rooms. 'That was a direct hit,' cried Helmut [Goebbels] with no idea how right he is. The Führer is dead now." Bunker witnesses Misch, Junge, Schenck lived to old age. Their consistent testimonies are recklessly ignored or waved aside by the book-selling Argentinists.
The testimonies of Gunsche and Kempka also refute the Argentinists
FORENSIC EVIDENCE In spite of the Soviet Union's unexplained desire to allow a certain amount of uncertainty to remain about Hitler's death, the fact remains that they also claimed to have examined the body and determined it to be that of Hitler. Soviet ambiguity thus neither proves nor disproves anything. However, examination of what were known to be Hitler's actual dental records, obtained by the Americans from Hitler's dentist, revealed elaborate dental work that perfectly matched the results of the original Russian autopsy. During the 1970's, world renown dental experts, Sognnaes & Strom, on their own initiative, published a definitive report that has been internationally peer-reviewed and universally recognized. (Here)
The Argentinists ignore the fact that Hitler's dental bridge work records match-up perfectly to the Soviet autopsy. Dr. Reidar Sognnaes (right) was Dean of the Harvard School of Dental Medicine and founding Dean of the UCLA School of Dentistry. Sognnaes & Strom were scholars of the first rank in the field of oral pathology. In light of Hitler's uncontested 'suicide note', the numerous people in the
bunker till the very end, and the forensic evidence, the Argentinists (or is it Brazil?), have got a lot of work
to do in both destroying the official story, and in proving the Argentina hypothesis. The burden of proof rests squarely
on the shoulders of Mssrs. Hansig, Basti, Dunstan, Williams, Dias, and Corsi. The Argentinists must prove the following:
Well, guess what? None of the above scenarios have been proven; and that's a fact! Instead, all the Argentinists have to offer us are speculative scenarios of how elements of the conventional narrative could have been faked. The entire Argentina case can be summed up by one of Sherlock Holmes proverbs regarding investigative work:
Like Global Warmists, Holohoaxers and Evolutionists, the Argentinists begin with a conclusion, and then rationalize away all of the documentary, witness, and forensic evidence that Hitler died in Berlin. It's like saying that Elvis Presley could have faked his death by doing this or doing that; and that he could have enlisted the help of this or that person, and that the doctor and the morgue could have been paid off, and so on. One can write page after page of such riveting fiction with that type of baseless theorizing, but the manufactured structure will have no relation to reality. The aforementioned evidence for the Berlin suicide remains intact, and the Argentinists know it. As far as the evidence in favor of the Argentina theory, we must therefore expect it to be so "overwhelming", so indisputable, so "in-your-face", that it renders the Berlin suicide scenario, no matter how compelling its witnesses and data-points may seem, a moot point. And by the way, the mere proclamation of "overwhelming evidence" and "documentation", combined with great verbal and written dexterity, proves nothing. Just the facts, please. Now, lets have a look at the major points of the case for the "escape to Argentina". THEORY
# 2: HITLER ESCAPED TO ARGENTINA DOCUMENTARY EVIDENCE The Argentinists can point to no written counterpart to the known first-person
Final Testament (Suicide Letter) of Adolf Hitler. In spite of their sensational claims, the best "documentary
evidence" that they can muster are a few statements taken from non-cross-examined "witnesses", a newspaper excerpt from the post-war period, and recently disclosed FBI reports about
allegations of Hitler in Argentina. Let's have a close look at some of this "documentation" that has got some of
my dear friends in the Alternative News Community all abuzz about nothing.  The above image from an unnamed
newspaper declares: "Hitler in South America". Well, if it's in a newspaper headline, it must be true, right? Not
so fast! Upon closer inspection, we learn that this ambiguous suggestion originally came from TASS, the same
Soviet mouthpiece that brought us the "gas chambers" fairy tale. The TASS journalist himself cites "an
unnamed source" as saying
that Hitler "may have been" flown to South America. Needless to say, TASS propaganda,
reprinted in a U.S. newspaper, does not constitute "documentation" of anything. It is quite likely that the Soviets may have been toying with the idea of casting Hitler as a coward who abandoned
Berlin. Another piece of alleged "documentation"
comes to us in the form of "de-classified FBI files". Ooooh. Now that sounds like some serious "documentation"
now, doesn't it? Even the "reputable" Daily Express of England ran with this "evidence",
going so far as to reproduce the actual FBI document. 
"The astonishing documents detail how an Argentinean fugitive
claimed he helped Hitler, two women and other Germans disembark from a submarine in the South American country approximately
two and half weeks after the fall of Berlin in April 1945.
Wow! Hoover's FBI is saying this? This really is "astonishing"! Not so fast, my hasty friends. Let's dig deeper into the body of the article. "The Argentinian informant, who gave the information over to the US authorities hoping to get asylum in return, is not named in the papers."
"The informant even gave directions to Hitler's whereabouts, and said: "If you will go to a hotel in San Antonio, Argentina, I will arrange for a man to meet you there and locate the ranch where Hitler is. It is heavily guarded of course, and you will be risking your life to go there." Many high-ranking 'Nazis' did indeed escape to Argentina. How does the unnamed informant know this ranch is Hitler's? He is either trying to pull an immigration fraud, or may have simply bought into some local gossip about "that German on the ranch over there is Hitler". Towards the end of the Express article we read that other "documented" tip-offs to the FBI suggested Hitler was actually living in New York City, without his moustache! Still others claimed he was hiding in Switzerland. You see, the FBI, like any other law enforcement agency, will generally make a record of any claim that anybody submits to it. One can visit an FBI building and falsely report that Mickey Mouse is planning to bomb the Empire State Building. The Bureau will dutifully note the allegation and Voila! A future generation of crackpot "historians" will then have access to "FBI documentation" of Mickey Mouse the terrorist. We should always ignore the psychological effect of government letterhead and focus on the substance. Hearsay put into writing is not "documentation" of the Argentina scenario! The only event that have been legitimately documented are cases of unvetted fruit-loops reporting an unproven allegation to the FBI. Nothing more. This "evidence" would be thrown out of any court before the rest of the letter was even read! Additional dubious "documentation" is presented in Hunting Hitler, Jerome Corsi's latest work of fiction regarding this matter. Below is one of Corsi's puffed-up "shocking" exhibits. Note the single sentence in the middle of the image:
Did you catch that? "Newsmen have also reported the following rumors:" "NEWSMEN" and "RUMORS; aka HEARSAY!
One foolish yellow journalist repeating a rumor until it becomes viral makes for interesting mythology, not evidence. Corsi
really hangs himself with such garbage. Unfortunately, few of his readers will actually take the time to read every sentence
of his "documentation", let alone critically analyize it. Bottom line; there is no real "documentation" of Hitler escaping to Argentina. None!
EYE-WITNESS EVIDENCE In spite of Hitler supposedly living until 1965, the Argentinists can point to no direct eye-witnesses, living or dead, who credibly corroborated, under cross-examination, their case for a dramatic escape. Just like their "documentation", all the "witnesses" turn out to either be people who heard it from a friend who heard it from another friend; or a few Spaniards and Argentinian locals who have never been cross-examined, and would have had no way of knowing if the "important couple" was actually Adolf & Eva or any of the 100's of other escaped "Nazi" officials who really did arrive in Argentina. This type of shoddy investigative work was clearly illustrated during an interview with an Argentine news program in which Abel Basti, the founding father of the Argentinist School of non-thought, put his foot in his mouth:
Romero (Interviewer): “On what basis do you claim that Hitler was in Spain after leaving his Berlin bunker?” Basti: “I was able to confirm the presence of Hitler in Spain thanks to a—now elderly—Jesuit priest, whose family members were friends of the National Socialist leader.
You see, Basti heard it from a unnamed friend who heard it from another friend who... 1- Genre Godfather Abel Basti was never 'able' to come up with any actual direct witnesses. 2-
"He oído que Hitler vive allí." (I heard that Hitler is living over there.)
One can cite unnamed contacts and unnamed, un-cross-examined witnesses from now until Hitler returns. The fact remains, no judge worth his salt would ever admit such nonsensical hearsay into his courtroom, no matter how passionate or articulate the speaker of such falsehoods may appear. Bottom line; there is no real first party "eye-witness evidence" of Hitler escaping to Argentina. None!
FORENSIC EVIDENCE Jerome Corsi, the neo-con newcomer to the 'repackage-your-predecessor' Argentina School of fakery, ups the ante in a big way with a screaming claim of 'DNA Evidence' to prove his case. Upon closer inspection we learn that Corsi is speaking of alleged DNA evidence that some skull fragments said to have been Hitler's turned out to be that of a woman's. We have already acknowledged that the Soviets played mind games with this matter, alternating between definitive statements that Hitler died in Berlin, and ambiguous statements that maybe he didn't. So if some fragments indeed don't add up, how in the hell does that constitute "DNA evidence" that Hitler escaped to Argentina? Perhaps the wrong skull fragments were analyzed? Or maybe Eva's got mixed in? Or maybe the fragments came from the wrong sample? Or maybe the Soviets were still having fun with this? Conjecture much, Dr. Corsi? Of course, Corsi ignores the previously established and peer-reviewed forensic match between Hitler's American-held dental records and the original Russian autopsy results. The only other item that the Argentinists can cite as "forensic evidence" is a very weird and thoroughly inconclusive photograph of an aging Adolf Hitler in Argentina. Have a look:
The
image above, which suddenly appeared online, is believed by some to show
Hitler in his last days. But anyone with basic photo-shop skills can
bring an older version of Julius Caesar or Abe Lincoln back to life. Heck, I've even seen images of First Beast Michelle Obongo
that have surfaced in which he/she "apparently" looks (gulp) moderately attractive. This isn't history,
but it is good fiction that would give Tom Clancey a run for his money. This photo struck your intrepid reporter here as oddly familiar.
Suspicions grew upon the discovery of images from a Hitler movie. The online photo of the man who some believe is old man
Adolf appears to be an altered image of actor Bruno Ganz, from Downfall, the 2004 movie about Hitler's final days.
Have a look at online Hitler vs. Ganz's movie Hitler. What say you, reader? Focus hard on the nose, mouth and distinctive chin.
Whether or not old man Hitler is really an altered image of Ganz is not important. The indisputable point is that the photo proves NOTHING.
Bottom line; there is no "forensic evidence" of Hitler escaping to Argentina. None! Let us review what we have just established by using a simple table.
WHERE'S THE BEEF? Absent any refutation of the historical
evidence for a Berlin suicide, and absent any real documentary, eye-witness, or forensic evidence in favor of the escape to
Argentina theory, what exactly are the Argentinists building their "overwhelming" case upon? Four things:
But the cryptic statements of the Soviets prove nothing. Stalin and his gang were infamous
liars and master players of mind-games. Why do the Argentinists place so much emphasis on a
few innocuous throw-away lines, while ignoring the other Soviet claims which confirmed the suicides. More
importantly, what about the detailed testimony of those who were with Hitler until the end? And the matching dental records?
Was everybody "in on it", or duped? Prove it! Some of the Argentinists appear to be con-men in search of a dollar. Others appear sincere, but are putting the conclusion first and bending the Soviet ambiguity and the hearsay to suit their pre-determined theory. As for the one-liners attributed to General Eisenhower, President Truman and others; well, those men were not present at the bunker, neither on April 30th, nor in the days afterwards. Berlin was owned by the Soviets, which meant that American officials had to rely upon whatever version-of-the-day that Stalin was peddling. Therefore, as convincing as the deceptive name-dropping may sound to the easily impressed, all Eisenhower and Truman were really saying (assuming the quotes are even accurate) is this: "Stalin said this, and then Stalin said that.", which confers no additional credibility, at all, to the Argentina theory.
Truman: "Come on Uncle Joe! Fess up. Did you get Hitler in Berlin or not?" Stalin: Maybe we did.... Maybe we didn't. Ha Ha Ha."
Some of the Argentinists are very passionate, articulate, engaging, interesting, and even quite knowledgeable in certain areas. But the fact remains, none of them, as far as this author is concerned, have cited any real documentary, eye-witness, or forensic evidence whatsoever. Their common answer to the critics (and there are many) is a classic example of 'Negative Proof Fallacy', along the lines of, "prove the book wrong." They often sound like those Global Warmists who love to concoct dazzling mathematical equations and computer models, and then challenge the "deniers" to prove their theory wrong. Jerome Corsi plays this game right in the book itself. On page XIV of Hunting Hitler, Corsi asks, in bold letters: "Where is the proof that Hitler didn't escape?" Time for some Socratic reasoning and logic, Jerry.
Argument: “X is true. You can’t prove that X is false. Therefore X is true.”
Reality: X might be false. Just because one cannot prove X to be false, does not make it true.
You see gentlemen, it is not up to your critics to prove that your books are wrong. The burden is upon YOU to prove that your books is right. Again, absent any real documentary, eye-witness, or forensic evidence, (which the Berlin scenario has plenty of!) you Argentinists have ALL failed to do so. The Argentinists appear to seize upon a few bits of Stalinist ambiguity along with the known fact that many 'Nazis' did indeed escape Germany. They then carelessly (or mischievously?) throw out all documentary, eye-witness and forensic evidence for Hitler's suicide as they weave a fantastic tale of fake suicides, murdered body doubles, submarines, unnamed sources, dead sources, third party hearsay, unsubstantiated online photos of what purports to be old man Hitler, and secret deals between governments. Finally, they throw the whole putrid package at us all at once, challenging us to "prove the book wrong" as they rack up the sales.What a joke! I leave it to the reader to decide which of the Argentinists are merely sincere but shoddy researchers, and which are just just running a game. Either way, these deluded dramas are, in my deeply held opinion, 100% certifiable fecal-fiction, wrapped in academic-sounding shiny packages. Help TomatoBubble.com to KILL this MYTH once and for all!
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