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  The second communique added:

  “The German submarine now lying at anchor in the port of Mar del Plata is the U-977 of 600 tons. Its crew is made up of 32 men, including four officers. The boat was commanded by Lt. Commander Heinz Schaeffer who at present is aboard the S.S. Belgrano.”

  During the next 48 hours it was revealed that the U-977 had been spotted approximately eight miles east of the port of Mar del Plata. It was sighted by Argentine Naval Units on patrol in this area as well as by a local fishing boat. The S.S. Commodore Py and other vessels approached the sub and ascertained that it was German. Thereupon the sub’s commander indicated his readiness to surrender. The ship was then escorted to the base where officers and enlisted men were immediately interned and subjected to preliminary questioning.

  Important contrasts were observed between the new arrival and the U-530 which had surrendered over a month earlier.

  The U-977, seemingly of the latest design and equipped with the latest type of navigating and other instruments, was not disarmed. It even possessed equipment in the form of a chemical substances which, when released into the water, would stay submerged and there create subsurface bubbles so as to lend the impression that the submarine had sunk.

  Concerning the itinerary of the U-977 as recorded in the ship’s log book, the Argentine Naval Ministry on the eve of August 18 issued the following communique:

  “Documents found aboard the German U-boat U-977 seem to indicate that the ship left Kiel on April 13, made Oslo and left there on April 22, then touched Christiansund and left there on May 2. On the Norwegian Coast it disembarked 16 men, all noncommissioned officers, who were married and had families in Germany. Next the ship traversed the blockaded zone of the Atlantic by slipping through the Faroe Islands and Iceland. From there it traveled a southerly course, passed to the west of the Charies and in between the Cape Verde Islands. Thereafter it surfaced, passed near the cliffs of San Pablo, then followed the Brazilian coast, but out of sight from the latter and at an average distance of 180 miles, and made for Mar del Plata.”

  From the above communique it would appear that the U-977 had been on the high seas for more than three and a half months, without engaging in any belligerent act, just like the U-530.

  Now Commandant Schaeffer of the U-977 stated that he had no personal acquaintance of Capt. Otto Wermutt of the U-530 and his officers.

  But he DID admit that he knew about the surrender of the U-530 to the Argentine naval authorities at Mar del Plata. This news had been received by the radio on board the U-977.

  Now arises this question: why did Captain Wermutt and the U-977 wait five additional weeks before following the example of the U-530 in surrendering at Mar del Plata?

  The rest of the story of the U-977 is comparatively uneventful. The crew was taken to Garcia Island and from there transferred by planes to the US As in the case of the U-530, the results of their interrogations were never published.

  An Unknown Mission

  Despite the official silence cloaked around these two mysterious Nazi subs, the following conclusions are self-evident:

  (1) After leaving Germany, both the U-530 as well as the U-977 touched Norwegian ports, then set their course for the South Atlantic, both traveling almost identical routes.

  (2) Both boats were on the high seas for approximately three and a half months, without their officers being able to account satisfactorily for their activities during that period.

  (3) Both commandants failed to comply with the surrender orders issued by Admiral Doenitz. Nevertheless, they did not engage in any acts of war.

  (4) No satisfactory explanations were given by either sub for their motives to surrender. Although Capt. Schaeffer of the U-977 had received the news of the surrender of the U-530, he elected to remain at sea for another 5 weeks prior to surrendering HIS ship.

  (5) Despite the U-977 being fully armed, both submarines apparently had been used for transport instead of combat. This is also borne out by their rather full complements and by the surprisingly large food stores on board.

  (6) In both submarines, officers as well as enlisted men were young and had no families.

  (7) The ship headed by Commandant Wermutt obviously was not the original U-530, as seen from the statements of Admiral Godt and Capt. Langer.

  (8) Actually—and we again stress the point—not only the U-530 and the U-977 were prowling the Atlantic after Doenitz’s surrender orders. There was a third sub—or, chronologically speaking, a first one.

  As early as June 4, 1945 it had been announced by the British Admiralty that a German submarine had appeared that day off Leixoes, Portugal. The crew, numbering 47, disarmed and scuttled their ship and then surrendered to the Portuguese authorities. Its commander stated that the ship had followed a course which later on was traveled by the U-530 and U-977, but had decided upon surrender to the Portuguese authorities because its hull and engines were badly in need of repairs.

  The above seems to indicate that at the time of Germany’s collapse, a number of subs had left German ports, their identity either real or faked, in order to touch first Norwegian ports of call and then to embark for the South Atlantic on missions of mystery.

  Nevertheless, the mystery of these Nazi subs prowling the Atlantic even after the end of the War is bound up with the greatest mystery of all time: the survival and hiding place of Adolf Hitler, in whose death neither the highest diplomat in America nor England nor Russia believes.

  As a matter of fact, the strange story of these German subs which surrendered in Argentina and Portugal starts in the underground fortresses of the Nazi Chancellery.

  In the Bunker of Adolf Hitler whose criminal hand seven years earlier had set the torch of war to the world, there was hatched one of the supreme hoaxes of all times.

  HITLER IS ALIVE!

  Third of a Series

  “I shall die defending Berlin,” boasted Adolf. But the FANTASTIC EVIDENCE proves that HE LIVED!

  Editor’s Note: During the summer of 1945, a few months after the supposed death of Hitler in the ruins of Berlin, two Nazi submarines appeared at the Argentine naval base of Mar Del Plata and surrendered to the local authorities.

  The officers were unable to account for the purpose of their voyage across the Atlantic which they claimed had taken several months. Also, the subs carried aboard abundant food supplies and their crews were made up of mere youths.

  Investigation was launched immediately, but the mystery surrounding these submarines still persists. Allegedly these strange craft play a part in the survival of Hitler.

  On April 30, 1945 the battle for Berlin entered its last stage. The entire city was in flames and the ground trembled under salvos of 15,000 cannon with which Soviet General Yukov had ringed Hitler’s Capital. Illuminated by flickering flames, combat continued throughout the night with a ferocity seldom witnessed. At dawn the Russian flag was fluttering over the hollow, ruined shell that remained of what once had been the Reichstag, Germany’s Capital.

  Where was Hitler? He was said to be directing the defense of Berlin from his underground shelter below the Nazi Chancellory. But the Allies doubted this.

  Nevertheless, in the early morning hours of April 30, the London Daily Mail blared forth in giant headlines:

  Hitler Dying; War May Be Over Today

  This prediction was based on a piece of news received by Wilson Broadbent, diplomatic editor of the paper, who quoted a high Whitehall official as having told him: “Hitler is dying and may already be dead.” The official had added that in his opinion the European war had come to an end. The Times, generally considered the most reserved newspaper in the world, ran the following news item: “Hitler is on the brink of death as the result of a cerebral hemorrhage.” The paper added that this news was based on information supposedly released by Himmler.

  A Piece of Clever Staging

  During the afternoon of May 1, 1945 the Hamburg Radio Station suddenly interrupted its program and began transmis
sion of solemn Wagnerian music. After the funereal strains of Twilight of the Gods, the announcer stated:

  “Attention: In a few seconds we are going to broadcast a grave, but important message addressed to the German people. But first, the Seventh Symphony by Bruckner.”

  The Bruckner piece concluded, the announcer resumed:

  “German men and women: Our Fuehrer Adolf Hitler died this afternoon at his post of command in the Chancellory of the Reich, fighting to his last breath against Bolshevism.”

  Later, the same German radio station announced that Admiral Doenitz, Commander in Chief of the Reich Navy, had assumed Hitler’s functions. Thereupon, the radio transmitted a proclamation by the new Chief of State, exhorting the German people to “keep the oath they had sworn to the Fuehrer while the German Army fought on to save the Reich from deadly peril!”

  Thus, everything seemed to jibe perfectly. Hitler, falling amidst the burning ruins of Berlin, had already written what was to become the first chapter of the Fuehrer Myth.

  But suspicions already were rife Many observers doubted that the Nazis’ own story of Hitler’s death could be accepted without reservations.

  The Russians displayed frank skepticism in the face of the melodramatic announcement. Tass, the official Soviet news agency, termed the news of Hitler’s death “just another Fascist trick,” and Moscow promptly stated that “in propagandizing the news of Hitler’s death, the Nazis schemed to make it possible for the Fuehrer to leave the stage and retire into the wings.”

  On the morning of May 2, 1945, Allied General Headquarters published the following communique:

  “On April 24 a conference took place at Luebeck between Count Bernadotte, President of the International Red Cross, and Heinrich Himmler. In the course of this talk Himmler acknowledged that Hitler was mortally ill, perhaps already dead.

  “General Schillenburg who also participated in these talks, added that Hitler had suffered a brain stroke.”

  Thus, the announcement by Doenitz that Hitler had died a hero’s death in contradiction to the statement made by Himmler and Schillenburg.

  By May 2, 1945, however, both British and American leaders were fully convinced that Hitler was dead. They discarded the Doenitz version of Hitler’s heroic death, but they nevertheless were certain Hitler was no longer alive.

  With respect to Himmler and Schillenburg, how did they know what occurred in Berlin at the critical hour? Either they may have been uninformed—or they may have lied, a possibility which emerged a few days later.

  In an order of the day released in the afternoon of May 2, 1945, Marshal Stalin announced the fall of Berlin.

  At the same time, the victorious troops began to search systematically among the ruins of Berlin for the body of Hitler. Starting from the Reich Chancellory where the General underground Headquarters of the Fuehrer had been located, they fanned out in all directions.

  They also searched for the body of Goebbels.

  Faint or Suicide

  According to a news item broadcast by Radio Moscow on May 3, the Director General of Nazi Propaganda, Dr. Hans Fritsche, who had been captured by the Russians, had stated that Goebbels had committed suicide. As the fall of the capital seemed imminent, Fritsche related, Goebbels had first killed his wife and children and then taken his own life. Fritsche also asserted that Hitler had died as the result of Soviet shells and that his body was entombed in a place which it would be impossible to locate.

  While the world enthusiastically celebrated the fall of Germany, hopes of finding the principal culprit or at least his body soon waned. It seemed as if developments bore out Fritsche. Despite systematic searching, the body of Hitler failed to turn up.

  On May 8, a communique issued from Headquarters of the 2nd British Army announced that according to information furnished by a Soviet General, the Russians had found under the ruins of the Chancellory a corpse which seemed to be Hitler’s. Furthermore, all the servants attached to the Chancellory asserted that the corpse was Hitler’s, except one who said that it was a chef’s who had been killed because he was mistaken for the Fuehrer. He also said that Hitler wasn’t dead, but had fled from Berlin.

  On May 7, the theory that Hitler had suffered a brain stroke was categorically denied by Dr. Erwin Giensing, a German Army doctor and nose, ear and throat specialist. Interrogated by the Americans, Giensing said he had examined Hitler thoroughly on February 15, 1945 and that there was not the slightest probability that Hitler had died from a cerebral stroke.

  Giensing stated also that in the course of his last examination he found Hitler’s blood pressure normal, his lungs healthy, and that, in general, his health for a man of his age was exceptionally good.

  Soon the Russians began to show indications of skepticism with respect to Hitler’s cadaver. On May 10 a Soviet spokesman stated curtly: “At least four corpses were found in the ruins of Berlin, any one of which could be Hitler’s. However, none has been identified in a manner which would establish Hitler’s identity beyond reasonable doubt.”

  Meanwhile Erich Heinz Kempke, ex-chauffeur of the Nazi Dictator, declared that he had assisted at the cremation of the corpses of Adolf Hitler and Eva Braun.

  Kempke told his story on June 20 at Berchtesgaden to the United Press which quoted him as stating in effect that Hitler and Eva Braun had been married April 11 and committed suicide on April 13 in an underground apartment in back of the Chancellory at Berlin. Kempke claimed that shortly before dawn on April 13 he had carried the body of Eva Braun from that apartment after she and Hitler had died from shots with a Walther pistol.

  According to the United Press, Kempke named as witnesses to the cremation of the bodies of Hitler and Eva in the Chancellory, in addition to himself, Bormann, Goebbels, Otto Guesche and Heinz Linge, two personal aides to Hitler, as well as two others whose names he did not recall. He also said that shortly before Hitler’s and Eva’s suicides, the Fuehrer personally ordered Guesche to attend to the cremation of their bodies so that they would not fall into Russian hands.

  Thus, according to Kempke, Hitler and Eva died on April 13. Yet, there seems to exist indisputable proof that they were still alive on April 22 when the last Council of War was held in Hitler’s subterranean Fortress with Marshal Keitel, General Jodl and Martin Borman participating.

  Stenographer’s Story

  Hitler’s personal stenographer, Gerhardt Herrgeselle, who had surrendered himself and his notebook to the Americans, provided the Allies with a seemingly accurate description of the stormy underground meeting of April 22.

  According to Herrgeselle, Hitler retired to his quarters in the Chancellory on January 16, and from April 1 on all meetings of importance were held in his underground bunker. Hitler and Eva lived in two tiny apartments adjoining the meeting chamber. The apartments were lit and heated by electricity.

  A few weeks prior to April 22 Hitler declared: “We shall fight to the last square foot of German soil.”

  As a result, it was generally expected that he would fix the date for exchanging his headquarters in the underground bunker for the comparative safety of the “National Retreat” in the Bavarian Alps.

  “On April 20, around noon,” Herrgeselle stated, “Chief of Staff Krebs who had succeeded Guerian, declared that the situation of Berlin was critical. As a result, Hitler gave orders for the majority of his Headquarters staff to be evacuated to Berchtesgaden. Only a small part remained behind in Berlin.”

  On April 21, Russian shells began to fall among the Government buildings in Berlin.

  The Last Council

  “On April 20, around noon,” Herrgeselle stated, explosions of Russian shells could be heard clearly in Hitler’s underground shelter. Half an hour later the Fuehrer sent word to Keitel, Jodl and Bormann that he wanted to see them in the meeting chamber. Herrgeselle too was ordered to report for taking notes.

  The meeting, which was to be the last War Council of the Nazi High Command, began with Hitler saying:

  “I realize t
hat all is lost. I shall stay in Berlin. I shall die here in the Chancellory because I believe that in this way I can best serve the German people. They must be inspired to continue the struggle.”

  His listeners repeatedly urged him to evacuate and reminded him of his own statement that, “we shall fight to the last square foot of German soil.”

  But Hitler remained firm: “I shall stay here,” he said.

  Keitel, Jodl and Bormann then told him that they would not leave him in this hour.

  But Hitler ordered: “Go to South Germany.”

  Thereupon he arose, indicating the Council was ended.

  Thus, according to Herrgeselle, Hitler decided to die in Berlin. The Fuehrer’s personal stenographer was convinced that he and Eva Braun had died under the ruins of the Chancellory. He discounted both the theory of Hitler’s brain stroke and that of his and Eva’s suicide. In accordance with the Fuehrer’s orders, Herrgeselle and another stenographer were evacuated by plane from the Gatow airdrome near Berlin on April 22.

  Herrgeselle concluded by stating that a few minutes before he left Berlin for the airport, Eva Braun Handed him a small package to deliver. He believed it contained a ring as well as a long letter, to whom he didn’t know. The package was addressed to one Lt. Mueller, an aide to Martin Bormann.

  Herrgeselle’s story, which was in effect corroborated by both Keitel and Jodl, confirms the fact that Hitler and Eva were still alive on the 22nd of April.

  As to Kempke’s tale, he admitted under questioning that at the “cremation” he had seen only a casket draped over by a Nazi war flag. He had not seen the Fuehrer’s body.

  We believe that the Wagnerian music, the sensational communiques and “eyewitness stories”, the many corpses and the “cremation” are but bits of Hitler’s plan to simulate his death.

  He would have succeeded in the deception except for one detail which he overlooked.