Grey Wolf: The Escape of Adolf Hitler (67 page)

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Papal Commission of Assistance:
Karlheinz Deschner,
Ein Jahrhundert Heilsgeschichte
, vol. 2 (Cologne: Leck, 1983); Peter Godman,
Hitler and the Vatican
(New York: Free Press/Simon & Schuster, 2004).

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Franz Stangl:
Gitta Sereny,
Into That Darkness
(London: Andre Deutsch, 1974; New York: McGraw-Hill, 1974).

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“through the Nazi bishop’s hands”:
Michael Phayer,
Pius XII, the Holocaust and the Cold War
(Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2007); Goñi,
Real Odessa
. See also Shuter,
Aftermath of the Holocaust
; Meding,
Ruta de los Nazis
; also see references to Eichmann and Meding’s status in
http://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/0,1518,754486,00.html
and
http://www.lanacion.com.ar/202464
.

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“Hudal wrote to President Perón”:
Greg Whitlock, “Alois Hudal: Clero-Fascist Nietzsche Critic,” in
Nietzsche-Studien
32 (2003). Hudal would be the “guardian” of Father Adolf Martin Bormann, the Reichsleiter’s eldest son; Adolf Martin later resigned the priesthood, married a former nun, and became a teacher of theology in South America. See also L. Bezymensky,
Tracing Martin Bormann
(Honolulu: University Press of the Pacific, 2001); Farago,
Aftermath
; and Stevenson,
The Bormann Brotherhood.
Hudal was also the bishop under whose patronage Jesuit father Avery Dulles, son of John Foster Dulles and nephew of Allen, trained at a monastery in Villach, Austria. Avery Dulles became a cardinal in 2001. See Bezymensky,
Tracing Martin Bormann
.

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“Evita left Spain for Rome”:
Fraser and Navarro,
Evita
.

258    
“arranged to meet Bormann”:
Santander,
Técnica de una Traición
.

258    
“no honor among thieves”:
Chesnoff,
Pack of Thieves
, 243.

259    
Ricardo Staudt:
Time
magazine, “Argentina: The Coddled,” December 17, 1945,
http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,776519,00.html
.

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“had no option but to accept”:
Farago,
Aftermath
.

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“far more intelligent than her husband”:
Interview with Araceli Méndez, published in
La Mañana del Sur
, part of the Diario Ambito Financiero news group, Buenos Aires, 1996; also researcher conversations with Araceli Méndez, Buenos Aires, 2008.

259    
“when Müller based himself in Córdoba”:
Personal papers of Hans-Ulrich Rudel, auctioned by Signature House, Lot 236,
www.signaturehouse.net/
.

259    
“a string of untimely deaths”:
Time
magazine, “Milestones,” May 7, 1956,
http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,937348,00.html
; Gérald L. Posner and John Ware,
Mengele: The Complete Story
(Lanham, MD: Cooper Square Press, 2000); Bar-Zohar,
Avengers.

259    
Duarte’s suicide:
Life
magazine, “A Dictator Goes A-Wooing,” May 25, 1953.

260    
“in the morning gave her a substantial check”:
Fraser and Navarro,
Evita
.

260    
Jacques-Albert Cuttat and Instituto Suizo-Argentino:
Grank Garbely,
Evitas Geheimnis: Die Nazis, Die Schweiz, und Perón’s Argentinien
(Zurich: Rotpunktverlag, 2003).

260    
“information the FBI took seriously”:
FBI report, D. M. Ladd to Hoover, May 15, 1948, NA, RA RG 65 65-55639 (1-24) Box 38, cited in Breitman,
U.S. Intelligence and the Nazis
.

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“a guide led him and his bodyguards”:
In August 1961, the West German magazine
Revue
published an interview with an Austrian Alpine guide who claimed he guided Bormann over a secret route through the Alps to Italy on August 16, 1947.

260–63 
“Udine in Italy” and Capt. Bell:
Ian Bell,
No Place to Hide
(London: Minerva Press, 1998). Bell was also interviewed about his work, and sighting of Bormann, in “Nazi Hunter,” a program in the documentary series
War Stories
on Granada Television (a British television network), 1999.

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Giovanna C:
The
Giovanna C
was built in Japan as the
Eastern Trader
for the U.S. Shipping Board in 1919. It was sold in 1922 to the Luckenbach Steamship Company in New York, serving as the
Horace Luckenbach
until bought by Linea C (part of the Costa Crociere S.p.A. shipping line) in 1947. It plied routes to South and North America until 1953. See
http://www.simplonpc.co.uk/CostaPCs.html#anchor559191
and
http://www.theshipslist.com/ships/lines/costa.htm
.

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“Bormann was now known”:
Farago,
Aftermath
. There have been claims that Farago was duped by being shown fake papers. We are not convinced; there is still a complete disinformation operation in Argentina led by staunch Perónists who want nothing to sully the memory of their fascist First Couple. Farago’s documentation came from many sources, including the Catholic Information Agency of Argentina (AICA), Argentine senators Silvano Santander and Julio Busaniche, Argentine naval intelligence, and Spruille Braden, former U.S. ambassador to Argentina.

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Nazi treasure and “major factor in the economic life”:
Farago,
Aftermath.
Separately, the respected French daily newspaper
Le Figaro
published corroborating evidence of the details of the physical treasure and investments in 1970. There are suggestions that, before Perón’s return from exile in 1972, he offered the ruling junta a slice of what was left of the Nazi treasure he controlled as part of what Farago calls his “admission fee” back to power in Argentina.

264    
“Bormann once again met with his Führer”:
Kristenssen (Manuel Monasterio),
Hitler murió en la Argentina.

265    
“the necessary preparations”:
Letter via U.S. Army Courier Service from Legal Attaché, American Embassy London, to Director Hoover, September 17, 1945. Letter from Director Hoover to the American Embassy in Buenos Aires, November 13, 1945. FBI Files on Hitler available online at
http://vault.fbi.gov/adolf-hitler
.

265    
Gold Party Badge:
Research carried out for authors by
www.oocities.com/goldpartypin/index.html
.

265    
“since joining in 1924”:
Documentary film
Hotel Eden
by Cuini Amelio Ortiz, Deutschland 1995 / 3sat / MDR. Ms. Ortiz had suggested the story of Hitler possibly being in Argentina to her German commissioning editors, but they decided not to run with it.

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“when they first met Hitler”:
Ortiz,
Hotel Eden.

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Hotel Eden:
Authors’ visit, 2007, and various articles by historian Carlos Panozzo, La Falda. Also Carlos Panozzo,
El Hotel Edén de La Falda
(La Falda, Argentina: privately published, n.d.). See also Jorge Camarasa, “La Falda tiene también su secreto nazi,”
La Nación
, Buenos Aires, July 27, 1998,
www.lanacion.com.ar/nota.asp?nota_id=104816
; Ortiz,
Hotel Eden.
During this visit, author Gerrard Wiliams spoke to Ida Eichhorn’s great-nephew through the iron gate of the Eichhorns’ old house near the hotel: “He told me that he had burned all of the material shown in Cuini’s film [see note about documentary film
Hotel Eden
by Cuini Amelio Ortiz above] and accused her of betraying his confidence; he also mistakenly accused Catalina Gomero of being paid for her interviews, which both she and her interviewers denied [see note about video interview with Catalina Gomero below]. He denied the stories about Hitler staying with his great-aunt and great-uncle. On turning away to end our conversation, he stopped, looked back at me, and said, ‘One day the truth will come out.’ He has since refused to talk further.”

268    
Prince of Wales:
Simon Edge, “The Nazi King,” London
Daily Express
, May 23, 2011,
http://dailyexpress.co.uk/posts/view/113232
.

268    
“German School in La Falda”:
Various articles by historian Carlos Panozzo, La Falda. Nazi doctrine in schools: Ronald C. Newton,
The “Nazi Menace” in Argentina, 1931–1947
(Palo Alto, CA: Stanford University Press, 1992).

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“commemorative ceremony”:
Various articles by historian Carlos Panozzo.

269    
“police and armed German sailors”:
Ibid.

269    
Acción Argentina:
Lynch,
Young Che
; also authors’ conversations with Dr. Floreal Vajlis, Buenos Aires, 2008. Dr. Vajlis, now in his eighties, was Gerrard Williams’s landlord in Buenos Aires and is still vehemently antifascist. Dr. Vajlis was present outside the Hotel Eden on this occasion.

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“Hotel Eden was seized”:
Various articles by historian Charles Panozzo, La Falda; Panozzo,
El Hotel Edén de La Falda
; Alfredo Ferrarassi,
Eden Hotel y Pueblo La Falda
(Córdoba, Argentina: privately published, 2006). Japanese internment: Ayako Tomii,
A Japanese Diplomat’s Daughter: An Outsider’s Childhood in the 1930s and 1940s
(iUniverse, 2004).