CIA files reveal search for Hitler in South America 10 years after his suicide

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CIA documents show agents were on the hunt for Adolf Hitler in South America for 10 years after the world believed he was dead as Argentina prepares to declassify government files on Nazi fugitives who fled to the country at the end of World War II.

As Soviet troops battled their way into the heart of Berlin on April 30, 1945, Hitler and longtime girlfriend Eva Braun, who he had married the day prior, killed themselves in his underground führerbunker to avoid capture.

Their bodies were partially burned and buried in a shallow bomb crater. Soviet soldiers later exhumed the remains, which the USSR identified through dental records, and held them in East Germany until KGB agents destroyed Hitler’s body in April 1970, preserving only a jawbone and skull that was taken to Moscow, according to Mi5.

However, immediately after reports of Hitler’s death, conspiracy theories that he survived the war and fled Germany through Nazi “ratlines” began.

While the CIA has an autopsy report confirming Hitler’s death, other documents show field agents suspected Hitler may have taken refuge in South America under an alias and obtained a photo of a man with a striking resemblance to the Nazi leader.

https://nypost.com/2025/04/09/us-news/c ... fugitives/