Part 16 (1/2)

241 ”wonderful sunsets”: Researcher's conversations with Claudio Correa, Argentina, 2008.

241 ”would return to plague him”: Dr. Otto Lehmann, quoted by Kristenssen (Manuel Monasterio), Hitler murio en la Argentina.

241 ”huge tracts of land”: Researcher's conversations with Mrs. M., Argentina, 2008.

241 ”saw him there in October 1945”: Meskil, Hitler's Heirs.

241 ”saw his old boss in a car”: The a.s.sociated Press, Nuremberg, July 29, 1946.

242 ”Frenchman claimed”: Letter to Director Hoover, FBI, from Los Angeles bureau, June 5, 1947; see page 293.

242 ”more detail”: Letter, EX 39, from Director Hoover, FBI, to Legal Attache, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, dated July 9, 1947.

246 ”even more positive”: Report marked ”Secret-Air Courier from Legal Attache, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, to Director Hoover,” dated August 6, 1947. Released FBI files are available from vault.fbi.gov/adolf-hitler.

Chapter 20: ADOLF HITLER'S VALLEY.

247 ”Donitz had declared”: Bar-Zohar, The Avengers.

247 ”The following year Donitz told”: Tim Swartz, Evil Agenda of the Secret Government (New Brunswick, NJ: Global Communications, 1999).

247 ”The region extends”: Authors' travels through Chilean and Argentine Patagonia, 20078.

24748 ”barren, wind-swept ... other-planetary”: Philip Hamburger, ”Winds across the Pampas,” New Yorker, December 1948.

249 Schmidt's” account: Quoted from ”Hitler's Valley in Argentina,” in the Polish weekly news magazine Przekroj, March 1995.

249 ”described by Heinrich Bethe”: Kristenssen (Manuel Monasterio), Hitler murio en la Argentina.

249 ”Martin Bormann's hideout in Patagonia”: Manning, Martin Bormann: n.a.z.i in Exile.

249 ”Adolf Hitler's Valley”: ”Hitler's Valley,” Przekroj magazine.

250 ”described his more modest dwelling”: Kristenssen (Manuel Monasterio), Hitler murio en la Argentina.

250 ”sent to the German school”: ”Hitler's Valley,” Przekroj magazine.

251 ”a large black truck”: Hamburger, ”Winds across the Pampas.”

251 ”He fled with his family”: BBC Television doc.u.mentary ”Children of the Master Race,” part of the series The Last n.a.z.is, Minnow Films, London, broadcast 2010. Various halfhearted attempts were made by the West German government to extradite Alvensleben on charges of murdering 4,247 people in the autumn of 1939. These approaches were spurned by the Argentine government, and the SS general lived undisturbed in Argentina until his death in 1970.

252 ”Inalco, their new mansion”: Abel Basti, Bariloche n.a.z.i: Sitios historicos relacianados al Nationalsocialismo (San Carlos de Bariloche, Argentina, privately published, 2005); Burnside, El escape de Hitler.

252 ”boathouse next to the jetty”: Authors' research trips to Inalco, Bariloche, and Villa La Angostura, 20078, including Argentine Civil Aviation records.

253 ”along unmade roads and tracks”: ”Hitler's Valley,” Przekroj magazine; Kristenssen (Manuel Monasterio), Hitler murio en la Argentina.

253 ”now covered with trees”: Authors' multiple visits to Inalco, 20078.

253 ”underground steel-lined chambers”: Authors' conversations with ”Jeff Kristenssen” (Manuel Monasterio), Buenos Aires, 20078.

253 ”caretaker on the property”: ”Hitler's Valley,” Przekroj magazine.

253 ”Bustillo also designed”: for Alejandro Bustillo, see biography in Revista arquitectura Andina 4, .ar/anterior.php. The ”Saracen tower”: Researcher conversation with Rio Negro province minister of tourism Omar Contreras, Buenos Aires, 2008.

253 Friedrich Lantschner: Joachim Lilla, Statisten in Uniform: Die Mitglieder des Reichstages 19331945 (Dusseldorf: Droste Verlag, 2004); Andreas Schulz and Gunter Wegmann, Die Generale der Waffen-SS und der Polizei, Band 1 (Bissendorf: Biblio-Verlag, 2003); Ruth Bettina Birn, Die Hoheren SS- und Polizeifuhrer: Himmlers Vertreter im Reich und in den besetzten Gebieten (Dusseldorf: Droste Verlag, 1986). Lantschner, implicated for his involvement in the 1938 Kristallnacht pogroms against the Jews, was a senior n.a.z.i Party official in the Tyrol. In 1945 he fled with his brother Gustav (”Guzzi”-a silver medalist at the 1936 Winter Olympics) along the Vatican ratline run by Cardinal Alois Hudal. Installed in San Carlos de Bariloche, Lantschner set up a thriving building business to which the Peron regime awarded many government contracts.

254 ”Hitler's main residence”: Kristenssen (Manuel Monasterior), Hitler murio en la Argentina. As part of our research in 2008, Capt. Monasterio asked the widow of an old friend, Oswaldo R., if she had kept any of her husband's papers. Oswaldo, a key figure in the ratline operation based in Genoa, had once shown Monasterio a postwar letter from Martin Bormann thanking him for his help. Monasterio's and Oswaldo's wives had been friends and neighbors for years, living next to each other in a small town in the province of Chubut in Patagonia. Mrs. R. agreed to look for the papers. That night the eighty-three-year-old Monasterio received a telephone call from an unknown man, who threatened to kill him and his family and burn down his home unless he dropped this line of enquiry. When Monasterio tried to contact Mrs. R. the next day, he was told that she had gone overseas, to Germany. Capt. Monasterio's book exposed him to a number of death threats over the years; he has also been interviewed by the FBI.

254 Club Andino Bariloche: Authors' visits to San Carlos de Bariloche, 20078. See Seamus Mirodan, ”n.a.z.is' Argentine Village Hide-Out Pulls in Tourists,” London Daily Telegraph, February 14, 2004, panied by”: ”Wiesenthal Says Evita Likely Stashed n.a.z.i Loot,” Reuters, June 26, 1997, published in Pagina 12 newspaper, Buenos Aires; U.S. News & World Report, ”Cry for Them, Argentina, n.a.z.i Loot from Holocaust Victims Enriched Eva Peron,” November 15, 1999; Chesnoff, Pack of Thieves. See also Nicholas Fraser and Marysa Navarro, Evita: The Real Life of Eva Peron (London: Andre Deutsch, 2003; New York: W. W. Norton, 1996).

256 Alberto Dodero: Time magazine, ”Abdication of a Tyc.o.o.n,” May 16, 1949, /time/magazine/article/0,9171,853719,00.html. See also Jane Shuter, Aftermath of the Holocaust (Chicago: Heinemann Library, 2003); Holger M. Meding, Ruta de los n.a.z.is en los Tiempos de Peron (Buenos Aires: Emece Editores, 1999). See also references to Eichmann and Meding's status in ”The Long Road to Eichmann's Arrest,” Spiegel Online, April 1, 2011, .ar/202464.

257 ”French war criminals”: Uki Goni, The Real Odessa: How Peron Brought the n.a.z.i War Criminals to Argentina (London: Granta Books, 2002).

257 Benitez in Rome: Alicia Dujovne Ortiz, Eva Peron: A Biography (New York: St. Martin's Griffin, 1997).

257 Papal Commission of a.s.sistance: Karlheinz Deschner, Ein Jahrhundert Heilsgeschichte, vol. 2 (Cologne: Leck, 1983); Peter G.o.dman, Hitler and the Vatican (New York: Free Press/Simon & Schuster, 2004).

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

257 ”through the n.a.z.i bishop's hands”: Michael Phayer, Pius XII, the Holocaust and the Cold War (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2007); Goni, Real Odessa. See also Shuter, Aftermath of the Holocaust; Meding, Ruta de los n.a.z.is; also see references to Eichmann and Meding's status in .ar/202464.

258 ”Hudal wrote to President Peron”: 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.

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

258 ”arranged to meet Bormann”: Santander, Tecnica de una Traicion.

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

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