(30 and 31 January)

These were travel days with not much going on, so we combined them here.  There is however, an important reason we use the cover of our Best Selling book in this spot.

When we got to the Atlanta Airport on 30 January, I was rolled in the courtesy wheelchair to the Delta Sky Lounge to relax.  During my conversation with the waitress, I mentioned my Best Selling book “Hitler in Argentina” and gave her my card with the photo of the book on it.  She left to continue her work but in five minutes she was back and had a young waiter with her.  He shook my hand and acted as if he were meeting the Pope!  He is in his Masters Program in history and last year he did a book report on this very book!  His grade on the project was 98.5 which is very good.  He said that he would have received a grade of 100 but he was 50 words short of the required number of words.  Too bad……or maybe he should have planned better?

We landed in the early morning and Delta had a wheelchair waiting for me with a beautiful young lady attendant.  For some reason, maybe only God can understand – but we had to clear security, complete with full body X-Ray, now to go OUT of the airport.  Who ever heard of that?  Maybe they thought I had a middle eastern family of six hidden in my one suitcase?  She got me to the car to take me to the hotel and as previously stated, speed limits are merely suggestions.  He was going a solid 125 kph where the posted speed limit was 80 kph.  The lines on the pavement, if anything, give the drivers a reference point and they have the line going down the middle of their car!  It is almost like an “E” ticket ride at Disneyland!

Once into my room at the Hotel Centro Naval (the Central Navy Hotel) I noticed that they had done some remodeling and now the windows have been replaced with the German style windows we see in Europe.  I was not all that happy that my window opened wide when my room was on the 8th floor.  That would be the possibility of an easy “accident” or “suicide” so I kept the window closed and locked.  It has been less than a week since I got out of the hospital from my fall off the roof so the peace and quiet with nothing to do was welcome.

Since this is the beginning of the expedition and I am doing nothing but getting acclimated, there were not too many photos taken.  Later in the expedition, there are tons of photos…..and new information.  Watch for it.

In the beautiful breakfast room of the Hotel Centro Naval I told Rosa, the girl in charge there, why I was in Argentina.  Without batting an eye, she said:

“Of course.  We all know that Hitler lived out his life in Argentina; the same as Bormann, Mengele and thousands of others.”

She is only 35 years of age – how could she know this?  Maybe most people there do.

(1 and 2 February)
These first few days in Buenos Aires were used primarily to call our contacts, arrange meetings and do some resting after just getting out of the hospital.  On the 2nd, HECTOR SPINELLI, Member #7940 and I enjoyed lunch in a nice Buenos Aires restaurant.  HECTOR (photo below) has translated our books “Hitler in Argentina” and also “Hitler and the Secret Alliance” into Spanish and also into Portuguese.  He and I are working on various projects down there that we cannot talk about just yet.

Do not click on these photos as they are not linked to anything.

It was time to get down to work and do some researching so I spent some time with LAURENCE deMELLO whom we consider the world’s top researcher on Martin Bormann.  What a fine lady!  She rode for hours on a train with no air conditioning in the 100º heat to meet me in Buenos Aires so we could take the train together back to her ranch.  If left on my own. I would still be on an Argentinean train going……..God knows where?

She knew I had just gotten out of the hospital and couldn’t do enough for me.  I was given the guest house overlooking the pool and she showed me around the estancia and told me that anything I wanted or needed, I should just get it myself; that I was free to go anywhere and eat anything I wanted, that this was no “Nanny House” then she quickly made sure I had anything I needed because I was still in pain from the fall.

We accomplished a lot with many more photos, which we will cover in our KTB Magazine later.  She is not only a superb researcher, she is also a fine lady and a class act.

Here we see the world’s top expert on Bormann with the world’s top expert on the U-Bootwaffe and on the escape of Adolf Hitler together in research.

Martin learned that Dr. Josef Mengele had come to this village in 1958.  He arrived on 25 July and stayed for eight days as it was necessary for him to marry his brother’s wife when his brother died.  This was purely for financial reasons we are told.  We went to the house where Mengele stayed on the outskirts of town.  The owner bought the house years ago and one of the reasons was that it is where Mengele stayed for that time in 1958.  Mengele fled soon after into Paraguay because fortunes were turning against him.  Perón was out of power and Eichmann had been kidnapped.  He felt that this area was not safe for him.

We counted a total of thirteen dogs in the yard of this house but Martin got the attention of the owner, who let him inside the house.  The owner refused to let us take photos inside the house.  I took many photos of the outside of the house but the chip that held those photos was defective and so those photos do not exist.  In the town plaza stands a beautiful monument, erected in 1937 and Omar told us there is a Swastika Flag in the cornerstone of this monument.  Again – sadly, that photo was destroyed too.

This day we drove down to Montevideo, a very modern city and we wanted to look at the artifacts that were taken from the Panzerschiff GRAF SPEE.  It is not as easy as it might seem.  One does not merely walk up to these items and start photographing. These pieces of history are on the grounds of the Admiralty – the headquarters of the Uruguay Navy and the sign ‘NO PASAR‘ is backed up by armed sentries so even though we know that ‘NO PASAR‘ means Sharkhunters are welcome, there is no sneaking past the guards.

Actually we are told that this is a political hot potato between Germany, England and a few other nations with Uruguay caught in the middle and so, until the situation is sorted out and solved, this artifact is REALLY ‘NO PASAR‘.  In fact, it is not even here on the grounds of the Uruguay Navy HQ.  It is in another building, in a locked room with an armed sentry at the door.  They would not even tell us the location of this building.  Oh well……….

It is not difficult to find buildings with tunnels and bunkers in Germany, Austria and other parts of Europe – but in South America?  Note that we are not revealing the village and that the name of the hotel has been obliterated.

It is bad enough when someone plagiarizes our books; we are not going to tell them all our sources so they can go there and claim that they made these discoveries.

Click on the photo of the old hotel and see for yourself.

We visited the Uruguay Navy Museum and about half of it had to do with GRAF SPEE; I even bought a copy of the logbook of this ship.  There was a Marine in the museum and he tried for two hours to get permission for us to view the giant eagle and Swastika from the bow of GRAF SPEE but no luck.

We spoke with a wonderful old gentleman who was 95 years of age; looked like maybe 65.  Jose Rossas was 18 years old in December 1939 so he and his friends rode their bicycles to the waterfront to watch the anticipated naval battle.  He said; “All of a sudden, there was this massive explosion and she ship was on fire all over!”  At 95 years of age, he still drives his car.

UPDATE 14 March 2016 – We have been informed that this man was Herbert Curcurs.  Mossad operatives killed him and placed his body in a trunk with a dossier of his activities.  It is the only murder of a German admitted by the Mossad.  The title ‘Butcher of Riga‘ was made by Frederick Forsyth in his book “The Odessa File“.

There is quite a story here.  Click on the photo of the strange house to the left and prepare to be amazed.

Day 13     11 February (continued)

No, we are not in the USA – we are still in Puente del Este and yes, that is a picture of Donald Trump at the Trump Tower of Uruguay.  We, however, did not come to Puente del Este to look at buildings under construction.

In case you cannot read the sign, it says:
“Ultra Exclusive Residences”

Click on the photo on the right to ride with us to a lagoon far outside Puente del Este where a seaplane landed 31 October 1945.

Today was a tough one – we drove about 450 kilometers (almost 300 miles) across some pretty desolate wilderness but at least, unlike Argentina, Uruguay is made up largely of rolling hills.

We stopped for lunch here then continued on to a dam and hydroelectric plant built by Germany.  Even today this is in the middle of no damn place.  One can only imagine what it was like when it was built in 1938.

Click on the photo on the left to go back in history with us.

Day 16     14 February

The day is overcast but quickly becomes very hot and muggy.  If I may borrow a line from my old buddy Duane Sweeney, the Flagman at the superspeedways I used to race, I was sweating like a June bride.  In this area at this time of year, it is hot, HOT – really HOT!

In the USA and some other countries, today is St. Valentine’s Day, the day lovers spend together.  Unfortunately, I am here in Uruguay and my family is back in Florida and no, this is not my Valentine.  So why do we feature her in this space?  Click on her photo to see.

What can we learn inside this house?  Whose house is it?

Click on the photo of this neatly kept house and learn from the daughter of Herr von Metzker, daughter of the man who owned the estancia that figures so prominently in the history of the JU 390-V2 that landed in this area more than seven decades ago.

Come inside and meet Herta von Metzker.

Inside you will also read an important update from S.E.I.G. Agent PIZZARRO.

OOPS!  It looks like we grabbed the wrong film chip and inserted a photo that does not belong.  Trust me – it does belong here.

Today will be a rugged day as we must drive some 700 kilometers back into Argentina to the Missiones area.  There is something of great importance to our research there – and it is also the area where the Zika and the Dengues viruses began.  The Minister of Health is considering closing the entire area in quarantine but we must go here.  History is waiting for us.

Click on this photo at the right and join us in pure history.

As previously stated, we have a very long way to go to get to the area we need for this part of the expedition so we stop along the way and learn some history other than that of World War Two and the spy stuff that went along with it.

Click on this photo to see who we are talking with.

We have finally reached the area in TBA, the Tri-Border area where the ruins of the super secret house are to be found.  What?  It is not so super-secret?  Not even a little bit secret?  Isn’t that the impression we got from that TV series?  That this was Hitler’s home?  That it was super secret?  Click on the sign and come with us into the jungle and learn the truth.

Make no mistake – this is a really rugged trek.  It is summer and we are in the jungle with temperatures above 120º, 100% humidity and millions of mosquitoes carrying Zika and Dengues virus.

Click on the photo & join us.  You do not need insect repellant.

This is another long day of hard travel; we must put many
miles under the wheels.  Climb in the car, get comfortable, buckle your seat belts and let’s go.

Click on either of these flags.

This is a day of incredible discovery.  Dr. F & Dr. C have uncovered another mystery of World War Two and the fall of the Third Reich.  They have also found people dead in the Führerbunker – who were not really dead at all!

We have seen with the photos of a dead Adolf Hitler that photos are not always what they are purported to be and so it was with Hitler; he did not commit suicide in the Führerbunker but lived out his life in Argentina.  Others whose bodies were found really were not dead at all; it was all an elaborate ruse and not their bodies.

Here is a clue – look at the photos of the two women in this photo.

CLICK ON THIS PHOTO FOR REAL HISTORY

Stalingrad was a disaster for the German military and an even bigger disaster for the men who were surrendered.  About 5,000 of the 195,000 POWs survived Soviet imprisonment to return home.

On this day we met a 95 year old veteran of that fateful moment in history and we hear his story.

We also tour a very interesting building with many tunnels.

     CLICK ON THIS PHOTO TO MEET
HIM AND TOUR THE TUNNELS

Click on the beautiful angel here and learn how.

What a magnificent hotel, right?  It is a very large facility with many rooms and built a long time ago.  It is puzzling however, that this large hotel is in a very remote village – actually outside the little village, in the middle of nowhere.  If you look closely at these photos as we saw the place itself, it will become apparent that there are no guests staying there.  We saw no sign of anyone except the lady who owned the hotel and her daughter.

Prior to 1976 when the lady’s father bought the place, it was a convent run by the Catholic Church.  Maybe that explains why it is so far removed from any traces of civilization……and of course, the Catholic Church would never help anyone escaping from the crumbled Third Reich – would they?

Damn right they would – and as we know, they did.

If you are in the correct room and if you know the secret, you slide the big overstuffed white sofa and footstool out of the way, fold up the carpet – and look what you find!

In the photo left we are standing on the main level looking down the steps into the bunker.

In the photo right we are already down the first set of steps and going into the main rooms in this small bunker system.  This is a well planned and well constructed set of bunkers and tunnels……excellent planning.

     But why?  Why do you think?????

Why does he have such an interest in this history?  He has a friend in this village whose grandfather was in the Luftwaffe.  He gave us the impression that his friend’s grandfather was a mechanic.  We asked if we could talk with his friend, so while Martin and I were at lunch, this man called his friend who said he was happy to meet with us.

As we were soon to learn, his grandfather was anything BUT a mechanic!

He invited us into his home and pulled out a lot of blueprints, photographs and letters etc. about his grandfather.  It quickly became clear that his grandfather was not a simple mechanic but much more.  Then he told us the name of his grandfather.

His grandfather was Reimar Horten!

Reimar Horten and his brother were the famed Horten Brothers who designed the HO 229 jet powered flying wing bomber for the Luftwaffe.  From Roy and later from the son of Reimar we learned that he was also instrumental in the design of the B-2 bomber and the F-117 stealth aircraft for the US Air Force.  The son and the grandson of Reimar Horten have said they will work with Sharkhunters with any information we need.  We thank them and look forward to very informative communications in the future.

When you get back to the 2016 South America Tour page you can proceed to a page about this……house.  What is it?  When and why was it built?  What purpose did it REALLY serve?

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