Monday, March 23, 2015, 10:17 AM 1stopnews.com
Suspected Nazi hideout discovered in Argentinian jungle

German coins dating to the Nazi regime were discovered inside the stone lair in a remote section of Argentina.

A group of Argentinian archaeologists have discovered a suspected secret Nazi hideout built in a remote jungle in a northern panhandle of the South American country known as a safe haven for war criminals after the atrocities committed during the Holocaust.

The outpost of some three different buildings discovered in the Teyu Cuare park outside San Ignacio in the Misiones province contain German coins dated from 1938 to 1944 and porcelain from the country created during the same time period, Clarin reported.

Built in an inaccessible area just across the Rio Parana from Paraguay and not too much further to the Brazilian border to the east, researchers believe the lair, featuring thick walls and lookout-like buildings, were built for top Nazis fleeing Germany in the event of defeat during World War II.

The building’s were likely never used, but were built to be hideouts for top Nazi officials in the event of defeat during World War II.

“Apparently, halfway through World War II, the Nazis had a secret project to build shelters for top leaders in the event of defeat – inaccessible sites in the middle of deserts, in the mountains, on a cliff or in the middle of the jungle like this,” archaeologist team leader Daniel Schavelzon told Clarin.

Researchers do not believe the structures were ever used by Nazis, though local legend has it that Martin Bormann, Hitler’s private secretary, built a different hideout somewhere in the Misiones region.

 

Argentina was one of several South American countries known as safe havens for Nazi war criminals in the aftermath of World War II.

Bormann would never get a chance to use the shelter: He committed suicide as the Soviets closed in on Berlin in May 1945.

Argentina was one of several South American countries that took in Nazis fleeing persecution in post-war Europe. Criminals like Dr. Josef Mengele and Adolf Eichmann found refuge in the country, where President Juan Domingo Peron allowed them to live in with full citizenship, often under false names.

Eichmann was captured in 1960 by Israel’s Mossad, the Nazi-hunting intelligence service, and hanged in Israel.

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