South
America's
Relationship to the Third Reich
South
America's
Relationship to the Third Reich
In January 2008, Sharkhunters President HARRY
COOPER (1-LIFE-1983), spent several weeks in Argentina, looking into the old
rumors that many survivors of the
Reich, many of very high rank, had escaped to the various countries of South
America.
What follows is a story told with the aid of many, many photographs that will
bring this time in history into crisp, sharp focus.
We begin with some of the sights and people in Buenos Aires. This is a
modern, cosmopolitan city, as you will see in photos here.
HARRY with Sharkhunters Member EDUARDO GERDING
at the seat of Government
A "must see" is the final resting place of Evita!
And a Somber Memorial to those who fell in the Malvinas War
Friendly Argentineans greet HARRY (the Hat)
- they sure make you feel welcome!
This sure is a friendly place, but you didn't
click on here to see all this about Buenos Aires - there are about a zillion
websites with fantastic photos of BsAs......well, maybe not so many that were as much
fun, but really nice.
REMEMBER! A great many photos
will be posted on this page because there are just far too many to be included
in our monthly KTB Magazine - but the secret files are ONLY
in our KTB Magazine, either the printed paper issue or the eKTB
that comes to Members via the Internet. This data is only sent to Members.
CLICK HERE for details how to join and
Membership rewards including a FREE hand-signed photo of a
veteran.
Some of the secret files that were in KTB #207 include:
* German Communications Centers in South America
between 1939 - 1946 with agents' names and assigned countries;
* "Black Boats" coming from..............well,
from a port in Europe;
* Detailed report by a radioman aboard a "Black
Boat"...............and a great deal more.
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Goodbye to Buenos Aires for now and down to
the Navy Base Mar del Platte
EDUARDO had secured a bus ticket for HARRY to ride to the Navy
Base where two U-Boats surrendered months after the end of the war. The
thought of riding a bus through the pampas of Argentina conjured up thoughts of
that shabby old bus in the movie "Romancing the Stone" filled with
pigs, chickens and goats among the passengers.
HARRY is pleased to
report that these busses are nothing like that! They were like airliners -
really new busses with wide reclining seats, movies, snacks, upper deck, toilets plus a
smooth and quiet ride for hundreds of miles across some beautiful countryside.
This is THE way to see Argentina!
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won't find anywhere else. Get a head start on this upcoming information;
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The two boats that surrendered at this base were U-530 (under
command of Sharkhunters Member OTTO WERMUTH) that surrendered late July
1945 and U-977 under command of Heinz Schaeffer surrendered
early August 1945.....the surrender order came early May 1945! One must
wonder why these boats took so long to surrender and why both in this same place
but we will get to that later - and the other U-Boats that made the run to various
South American ports during - and AFTER - WW II. But first, a look
at this beautiful city of Mar del Plate.
Above -
Sunrise views of the beach out of the window of HARRY's hotel room.
The hotel is right at the beach, and it operated by the Argentine Navy.
Let's look at more of the city................
A beautiful city to be sure - but we are here to visit the Argentine Navy
Base....in specifics, the SubBase
Above left - entrance to the Submarine Museum
Above right - bell from USS CHIVO (SS-341), given to the Argentine
Navy by the U.S. Navy.
Upper left - they remember the submarines they received from the United States Navy
Upper right - This Navy has their UDT as well
AS YOU KNOW - A great many
photos will be posted on this page because there are just far too many to be
included in our monthly KTB Magazine - but the secret files are
ONLY in our KTB Magazine, either the printed paper issue or the
eKTB that comes to Members via the Internet. This data is only sent
to Members. CLICK HERE for details how to
join and Membership rewards including a FREE hand-signed photo of
a veteran.
Some of the secret files that were in KTB #208 include:
* Comments by an Abwehr agent on the ships that went to
Argentina, how they avoided close inspection;
* Secret documents tossed overboard from U-530;
* Two Type IX-B "Black Boats" were in a Spanish
port - one went to South America AFTER May 1945;
* We list the many GRAF SPEE officers who
returned to Germany to continue their duty;
(some remained in various South American countries for clandestine work)
* There is data on the special LILA 2
Code and the KROKODIL mobile radio transmitted at the end of the
war;
* We check into two "Black Boats"
scuttled in an Argentinean bay
RIGHT WHERE Don Angel said at least one would be in his
book;
* Click on the link above for details.
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This area and this country is also known for some major drama of World War II -
and a lot of clandestine operations before and during the war - and after
the war. All these
files are being released in the KTB Magazine of Sharkhunters, available
only to Members. Only our Members will read this extremely volatile and
never before seen historical information.
Upper left - the panzerschiff GRAF SPEE left her mark on this
country, and her secret files are here as we see in the photo upper right.
All the files from U-530 and U-977 are here as well,
and HARRY looked them over.
More secret files from the U-Boats U-977
looked pretty bad at her surrender.
On Board SANTA
CRUZ
Some random photos aboard the
Argentine submarine SANTA CRUZ
Above left - this is a HUGE torpedo room (fwd.)
Above right - the cook is ordering supplies - or talking with his girlfriend...
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After a superb visit where HARRY was warmly welcomed by the main Staff
at the Submarine Base, it was time to leave.
Above left - The Admiral Commanding the Flotilla meets HARRY;
Above right, from the left:
* Submarine Petty Officer, HARRY's guide;
* Captain Sanchez, ComSub;
* Admiral Commanding the Flotilla;
* HARRY COOPER, Sharkhunters President;
* Lt. Cdr. Sambucetti, Skipper of SANTA CRUZ.
AS WE REPORTED - A great many
photos will be posted on this page because there are just far too many to be
included in our monthly KTB Magazine - but the secret files are
ONLY in our KTB Magazine, either the printed paper issue or the
eKTB that comes to Members via the Internet. This data is only sent
to Members. CLICK HERE for details how to
join and Membership rewards including a FREE hand-signed photo of
a veteran.
Some of the secret files that were in KTB #209 include:
* How Wilhelm Canaris found a place in 1915 that
Großadmiral Dönitz later referred to as:
"The Shangri-La for the Führer"
* We refer back to the "U-Plätze" in the Magellan
Straits where ships could hide;
* We identify the German Baron who cared for this "Shangri-La"
early on;
* Why is there a German School and a German Cultural
center in a tiny town in Argentina?
* Why was a magnificent 5 Star hotel built in 1938 in a
tiny Argentinean town?
* Why was General Eisenhower at that hotel sometime
before 1952?
* Why was a large plastic surgery clinic built in 1945
in a tiny Argentinean town?
* We are running a file from another country's Intel
Agency on Mengele - did he really die in the ocean?
* A crewman off one of the "Black Boats"
comments on the book by Don Angel;
* We begin information on the house
where.............someone of great importance, lived after the war;
* Data on 'Operation HIGH JUMP' and the
dis-information there;
* German presence off - and OVER - Antarctica in 1938;
Into the town we call 'Stadt'
But before we go to 'Stadt', we must first understand how and why it was
selected for....................well, we'll get to that later. After the
'Battle of the Falkland Islands' in World War One where the cruiser squadron of
Admiral Graf von Spee was all but wiped out, only the cruiser DRESDEN
(photo below) survived, and she went through the Straits of Magellan - through
what is called in German "Feuerland"; in Spanish it is Tierra del
Fuego............it is the Land of Fire - and the land of mystery.
There was a young officer on board who seized this opportunity, and he charted
many "U-Plätze" along the route. "U-Plätze" are hidden harbors, little
coves where a ship or ships could hide from searching ships of an enemy navy.
In true German fashion, he noted the precise information about each one of these
hidden harbors - sailing directions to the entrance, how large and dimensions of
the harbor, how deep the water, what kind of bottom for anchoring, how tall the
trees to mask ships, how many ships of what size could be hidden, the prevailing
winds, distance from any civilization, distance from shipping channels -
everything a Skipper would need to know to enter and hide his ship while
transiting the Straits.
This officer was young Oberleutnant zur See Wilhelm Canaris - later Admiral
Canaris, head of the Abwehr who was executed along with hundreds, a result of
the plot to bomb Hitler at Wolfsschanze. Sharkhunters Members know the
meaning of these charts as this was in our KTB Magazine recently.
Not a Member? Sorry, you won't know the meanings and no, the charts were
not marked over in our KTB Magazine. They are marked over on this
page because this information is for Members only.
In 1938, the old linienschiff SCHLESWIG-HOLSTEIN retraced this
route and updated the charts and the specifics for each of these many "U-Plätze"
- it is easy to understand why this was done. We remember that, during the
famed 'Battle of the River Plate' the panzerschiff GRAF SPEE
(photo below) was trapped in Montevideo, Uruguay and sailed out to her doom -
but prior to her coming into Montevideo, she radioed to Navy High Command,
asking permission to run for one of these "U-Plätze". High Command was
concerned that the British cruisers would follow GRAF SPEE and
learn of the existence of these hidden harbors and so permission was denied.
With her fate sealed, GRAF SPEE went into Montevideo - but where was her supply ship ALTMARK? That ship
unexplainably disappeared for a couple months - can you guess where she was?
Back to 1915 and Oberleutnant zur See Canaris. When DRESDEN
was overtaken, her engines shot and unable to defend herself, many of the crew
including Canaris, were interned in Chile. Canaris was able to escape -
possibly bribed his captors - in any event, he departed Chile and on horseback,
he went over the Andes mountains. He came close to being killed more than
once on this trek, but what he found on the other side of the Andes made his
troubles and dangers well worthwhile. It was just like Bavaria!
Could this be the place that Großadmiral Karl Dönitz called the "Shangri
La for the Führer"?
Perhaps one may think it strange that, in this little town in the far reaches of
Patagonia hundreds of miles from any really large towns, one would find a large
German Cultural Center (above left), a large German School (above center) and
while HARRY loves his Warsteiner beer.....in Germany, he was really surprised to find it
readily available at just about every restaurant in this little town. Good beer
- but out here? In Argentina?
Check back periodically for more photos - and more breaking historical news you
won't find anywhere else. Get a head start on this upcoming information;
get the book "Escape from the Bunker" and you will see
where this is going.
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High Above the town we call 'Stadt'
Above left - after driving for what seems hours, they arrived at a little place
called "the Berghof" built before the war and situated VERY high above the town of "Stadt", seen far
below in the photo above right.
Above left - a building at "the Berghof";
Above center - one of the sleeping rooms in the upper
floors of "the Berghof" - quite Spartan indeed;
Above right - the man who
built "the Berghof" long before there was a road. This guy was
tough!
Let's Get Fancy for a Moment.....
What a beautiful hotel! But why are we wasting your time looking at a
hotel that, today, has a rating ABOVE Five Star and Five Diamonds? Wait -
let's look at more of this fantastic place..............
We look down a long hallway (upper left) and into the main room (upper right).
Really beautiful! But why are we here?
We really aren't sure of the history of this place - the REAL history, but it
was built in 1938.....the year before World War Two began. This is a
magnificent hotel and it is huge with hundreds of rooms - so why was it built
just outside 'Stadt' which, in 1938 probably didn't have 500 inhabitants?
And it was hundreds of miles away from any towns of any size? We know of
some German veterans from WW II who were here after the end of the war.
Probably the biggest question that we could not answer - why was Five Star
General Dwight Eisenhower here sometime after the end of the war? A photo
of General Eisenhower standing in front of this hotel hangs on the wall in one
of the long hallways - what was he doing here?
Check back periodically for more photos - and more breaking historical news you
won't find anywhere else. Get a head start on this upcoming information;
get the book "Escape from the Bunker" and you will see
where this is going.
We will return to Argentina & Chile in January 2009.
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Another Magnificent Hotel
HARRY and Sharkhunters Member NAHUEL COCA crossed the Andes in
search of another hotel of great grandeur - out in the middle of nowhere.
One must wonder why these magnificent hotels were built so far away from
anything - and like the other hotel mentioned above, this was also built in the
late 1930's..............just before the outbreak of World War II.
Coincidence?
They must wait while some wild horses cross the highway, then they arrive at the
gate and must identify themselves to the security personnel in the guard shack
before proceeding to the hotel complex.
It sure is a beautiful hotel - far out in the middle of nowhere. We are
told by locals that a great many German veterans would gather in this hotel
every year for a huge celebration on 20 April. You MUST know the
significance of that date!
Up these stairs and inside - it is indeed beautiful. Okay - maybe not
everyone knows the significance of 20 April and why there was a big annual
celebration here, so we will tell you. 20 April was the birthday of Adolf
Hitler.
We are informed that the celebrations ceased a few years ago partly due to the
advancing age of the participants and partly because one of them (a prominent SS
Colonel) was found, grabbed and sent back to Europe where he remains today under
house arrest for the rest of his life.
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The "Estancia"
We have written about the place we call "Estancia" which was at the far western
end of a rail line direct from a secluded bay on Argentina's east coast
where.................well, it was a busy place for a remote bay during the war
and for a couple years after. It was actually to "Estancia" that young
Wilhelm Canaris came by horseback over the Andes. This ranch, comprising
millions of acres, had long been the property of the German princely house of
Schaumberg-Lippe and the man who managed this massive empire was Ludwig Baron
von Bülow. If that name appears familiar, our friend Kapitän zur See
OTTO von BÜLOW, Skipper of U-404 and holder of the
Knights Cross with
Oak Leaf was of the same family.
Sharkhunters Member OTTO von BÜLOW in white hat, lighting up a cigar with
his Obersteuermann after returning from a mission. Photo on the right is
the Knights Cross with
Oak Leaf. Only 28 Skippers were so decorated.
On the dusty road which led to - well, nowhere..............HARRY and
NAHUEL stopped at a lonely hill in the middle of nowhere, and visited the
grave of Ludwig Baron von Bülow. The view from the gravesite is fantastic
but it does not appear that anyone has tended to this grave in many long decades
or maybe the giant Argentine pine is rapidly overtaking the area.
One last look around the Baron's grave, and the two Sharkhunters Members set off
down this road (photo below left) which is paved with......actually, it isn't
paved! Soon they turn off onto the road that leads to the main part of
"Estancia". Look closely at the photo lower right and you'll see the sign
over the road.
Okay, so the road is paved (?) with something like crushed pumice - great on the
tires! After passing beneath the sign, they went on for quite a ways and
eventually came to a house which appeared to be an outbuilding from the main
house. They parked and walked to within perhaps 100 feet of this house and
NAHUEL clapped his hands together loudly, as is the local custom, to
alert anyone in the house that they had visitors.
Suddenly there was a thunder of hoofbeats and two guanaco (sort of a short-haired version of a llama) raced up
to the guys.
Before NAHUEL could turn to face them, the male guanaco slammed him hard
in the back with his head then kept advancing toward him. These animals
apparently are quite territorial and aggressive.....watchdogs without teeth -
they just spit! Gooey and nasty slimy green stuff comes at you in a
high-speed blob if they are angry. Fortunately for NAHUEL, not today.
A lady came out of this small house and was answering questions when the manager
of "Estancia" came from the main house. He was a young man, perhaps 40 and
he spoke both Spanish and English - and both with a German accent. He
answered all their questions easily and without hesitation, until they asked
about the man who lived here in 1945.....................but we will get to that
later.
Two Very Special Destinations
There were two very special places they needed to visit, both accessible only by
water and on this day they are blessed with wonderful weather - clear skies,
calm water and warm temperatures as they headed out on this
Alpine............sorry, this Argentine Lake. It was sometimes difficult
for HARRY to remember that this is Argentina and not Bavaria - the
scenery is the same.
Didn't we already read that this was the impression by young Oberleutnant zur
See Wilhelm Canaris when he came over the Andes on horseback in 1915? He
thought this area was just like Bavaria.
Above left - NAHUEL heads for the Zodiac inflatable they hired for the
day.
Above right - NAHUEL and HARRY during the
hour-long boat ride to..................well, that comes later.
But to reach their destination, they must pass under the scrutiny of this
watchtower. Well, not much scrutiny in these days but this tower was built
in this very remote and primitive area around the time of the war and anyone
coming to the place this expedition was going was forced through a narrow neck
of water and right past this tower.
In the 1930's, 1940's and even into the 1950's the only way to reach the nearby
town of 'Stadt' was by rail to 'Estancia' then by car, truck, wagon etc. the
next 20 or so miles to the town. Then to reach.............well, to reach
where HARRY and NAHUEL are going - was by boat or by seaplane.
In this closer photo of the tower, we see its size. It had sleeping
quarters for ten men with cooking facilities etc. Any boat that was headed
for.............where they are going this day, had to pass within a very few
meters of the tower and naturally, occupants of such a boat would come under
close scrutiny by the men in the tower. Naturally, this information was
immediately sent on by radio to..................to where they are going.
Photo upper right HARRY looks back at the tower they have just passed.
The tower is now on private property next to the owner's home and used by the
owner for whatever, probably relaxation.
While that tower was the main watch station for boats coming from that
direction, there were other places along the shore where a boat's progress could
be watched as it went toward...............where they are going today.
NAHUEL used his 'long lens' to take this photo of an abandoned shelter on
the hillside along the shore almost to...........where they were going this day.
The photo upper right - they are at their destination and HARRY, who
cannot speak Spanish at all, assumed that 'No Pasar' is the same
as the German 'Eingang Verboten' which we all know means 'Sharkhunters
Are Welcome Here!'
This place they went was not only far, far out along a lake but then up a long
bay of this lake that, back in the 1930's and well through the 1950's was
extremely remote and far removed from anything. Keep this fact in mind as
we more forward.
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From the Other direction.....
We have seen already, how the approach to.............well, where these two
Sharkhunters were going, was protected by the watchtower and some of those
photos are just above on this page. But what if an intruder would come
from the other direction on this lake?
We walk through the heavily overgrown path made many decades past - what's at
the end?
A bunker! Out here on a lake in the middle of nowhere in Patagonia?
NAHUEL is pointing at the lake and in the photos below, we see that this
bunker was situated on a point by a narrow passage on this lake. The
positions of the tower at one approach and this bunker at the opposite approach
to.................well, that's later but these two locations are tactically
perfect.
Photos left above and below - we see how far this bunker commands the lake in
this direction.....
Photos right above and below - we see how far this bunker commands the lake in
the other direction.....
It was impossible for any boat to approach either of the two critically
important locations on this lake without passing beneath the watchful eyes of
the watchtower from one direction or this bunker from the other direction.
Let's have a look at this bunker.
At the entrance to the bunker (above left) and down into the bunker (above
right)
This bunker was not built like those at Lorient, France with seven meter (24
feet) thick steel reinforced walls capable of withstanding multiple bomb
attacks. These walls were about one meter thick and probably constructed
more for a small group of look-outs to live rather than for heavy combat.
There were bunk and cooking facilities here.
What was the watchtower and this bunker protecting? HARRY (photo
below) points in the direction we go next.
Okay - it is time to move on to two very important and critical phases of this
expedition. We have already seen the two security points on this very
large lake. To reach either of the two places we are going on this
expedition, one can only approach by boat or by seaplane. And as we have
also seen, to reach either of these places, the boat would have to pass the
watch tower from the one direction or the bunker from the other. These
were very secure locations.
the Estate
First is this estate, which was built just before the war by.............we'll
come to that later. Its most interesting resident was - well, that comes
later as well. But here are photos of this estate taken in January
2008.
This estate is tucked away at the end of a very long finger of this very long
lake which, until recently, was extremely remote.
As they near the beach, the size and complexity of the estate becomes more clear
as you will see in other photos.
The boat approaches the little strip of sand and our explorers are ready to 'hit
the beach'.........
............and they are on the march toward their objective.
They have reached their objective for today!
Here is the main house - let's go!
Heading for the main house.
"Knock! Knock!" Nobody answers the door. Of
course not - the estate is abandoned. We cannot reveal how HARRY
got into the house, but he said that picking those old fashioned locks was
difficult. Don't know what he meant by that.........
Who slept in this room?
Who took their meals in this dining room?
.............and who relaxed in this parlor?
A great location - the mountains with no road behind the estate - the lake in
front - impossible to reach here undetected.
Naturally, being so far away from the prying eyes of civilization - the
residents of this estate had no electricity other than what could be provided on
the premises - and in a little building near the main house we locate the source
of the electricity. This small building with the sign that says "Sharkhunters
Welcome Here!" is perhaps 50 yards from the main house - far enough
away so the noise of the diesel engine turning the generator would not disturb
the residents but apparently the diesel powered generator was merely the back-up
electrical generating system.
In the photo above right and also below right, we see the generator still in
place but the small diesel motor has long since been removed. In the photo
below left we see the very clever main method of generating electric power -
hydroelectric! The mechanism under the circular housing is a water wheel
and, although difficult to make out, the dark area under the name is actually a
water pipe that allows water to come in and turn the turbine. A fast
running little creek runs directly beneath this building. Drinking water
most likely came from this fresh mountain spring, as it is quite pure.
It gets very cold in this region in winter and being this far removed from
civilization, they had to create their own heat.
No, this is not where Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs lived...............this
is the little building where the heating was generated for the main house.
Like the little building with the electric generating equipment, this is also
removed a little way from the main house to cut down on noise and smoke.
Above right we see the actual furnace but what we can't see in this photo is the
pipes that go into the ground from the furnace and carry the heat to the main
house. Pretty good engineering for the time.
Guest House
There were several small cottages within a few hundred yards the main house, but
this one was right next to it.
It is really
a nice place, isn't it? Ramon, our small boat handler, also inspects.
Who slept in this room? Who put their uniforms clothes in
this locker?
........and who enjoyed a warm fire here over a cold Argentine winter?
If you remember in the book by Sharkhunters Member DON ANGEL ALCAZAR de
VELASCO, former agent working for the SS Intelligence, he stayed in just
such a place when he was summoned to South America in August 1953. In the
book he stated that he thought he was over Antarctica because everything below
was totally white, covered with snow. But our friends in this area of
Argentina tell us that the Argentine winters here are bitterly cold and usually
have a great deal of snow. Did DON ANGEL go to Antarctica?
Did he really come here and only think he was at Antarctica? Or did he
know that he was here and only write that he was landed in Antarctica as typical
"Spook" dis-information?
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and read about it.
Is this really the place where he was met by the man in the uniform of an SS
colonel? All the answers, questions and suppositions will be covered in
the KTB Magazine of Sharkhunters over the next many issues.
the Boathouse
Remember we said the only way to and from this estate was by boat or in rare
occasions, by seaplane. It is still here.
Ramon, their small boat operator, tells HARRY and NAHUEL not to go
into the boathouse because it is overrun with rats - and when you have rats, you
have rat................well, you know - rat poop and Ramon warns that the very
air in the boathouse is toxic.
Well, they are explorers and upper left, NAHUEL heads right into the
boathouse and (photo upper right) they discover - what IS this
stuff, anyway? They held their breath as long as possible, but eventually
it seemed like a good idea to breath so they covered nose and mouth with sleeves
and remained in the dilapidated boathouse for a short time, exploring and taking
photos.
Okay - inside is pretty much a mess............and from the outside, it doesn't
look much better.
Standing on the boat ramp, the nearby dock doesn't look any better maintained
than the one HARRY fell through at the atomic research laboratories that
were...................sorry, we are getting ahead of ourselves here.
NAHUEL checks out the ramp as HARRY shoots some photos. And
what is next for us on this voyage back more than six decades? You already
have a hint in the lines above.............more photos to be added soon.
Don't miss this next section!
That water sure is clear, isn't it? It is quite cold and sweet for
drinking - really pure.
YES - There WILL BE a Sharkhunters "Patrol"
to this area in January 2009. Do YOU want to participate?
Keep reading.
We see what this estate looks like today - these photos were shot in January
2008. But what did it look like decades ago when it was an operating
estate with an occupied home and related buildings on the property? Look
at the photo below. Interesting, eh?
Who built this estate? When was it built? For whom was it built and
who lived here from 1945 until 1955?
Those questions will be answered in the KTB Magazine of Sharkhunters for
our Members.........but let's not dwell on this too long. Ramon has the
boat waiting and we depart this enigma and head out again onto the clear, cold
lake. Where to now?
Deserted Island
Once again, they are on their way across this huge, crystal clear lake.
The explorers heading out on the lake - NAHUEL on the left, HARRY
on the right.
They draw near the dock - on a deserted island - in the middle of a
lake in the middle of nowhere.
Whose boat was this? Who built the dock - and didn't bother to maintain
it. The first one off the boat, HARRY dropped sort of through the
dilapidated dock, leaving some skin and blood there in Patagonia.
Step Aside, Indiana
Jones!
The two explorers head off into the brush
and what they find is just like an Indiana Jones movie!
Pretty spooky? It gets better.............MUCH better!
Doesn't this just send shivers up your spine? But wait - there's more!
Sounds like a television commercial, but there IS more.
Spooky alright.............but what is this place?
We'll chop through this foliage
and get inside this building - but what is it?
This was solid construction, as NAHUEL checks out the rebars (steel reinforcing
bars) in the cement. Only the stone, steel and brick part of the
construction of this first building remains. The wood has long since
rotted away - or was taken away.
Well - maybe not ALL the wood is gone. One end of the first building looks
like a porcupine with all these timbers protruding and
and we were unable to determine what was their purpose. Any ideas?
Now we go on to
the second building
NAHUEL finds
the way into the second building through this partially open door.
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January 2009? If you want to be part of our return expedition, please
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We go through the door that NAHUEL is holding open in the photo above -
here is what we found.
Entering through this door we find....................a very large empty room.
This building was one of the laboratories.
Laboratory? But what kind of laboratory? When was this entire
facility built? Built by WHOM? All these answers and many more will
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As we continue, we find another building nearby.
This building, like the others, has been abandoned for decades. And what
is this that they found outside this building?
No, we are not going to tell you what this is.............because we have no
idea what it is. This thing, whatever it is, measures about two and a half feet
across and the inside appears to be made up of some kind of
fibrous........stuff. How's that for scientific. Maybe when the
group returns in January 2009, they will figure this out. Will you be with
the group? We are only taking a handful.
What does one suppose this is?
This is what HARRY and NAHUEL found (photos above) when they
climbed about twenty feet up the side of a cliff. This was on the top -
but why would anyone pave a parking lot up here? This is a small island -
no roads, no vehicles - a parking lot? And one might wonder why (photos
below) there are air vents at this "parking lot".
They are not sure - but underground bunker is a possibility. When the
group returns in January, they will look into this closely to determine exactly
what this large area of pavement really is.
Yep - more air vents (upper left). NAHUEL climbs the stairs
to..............to what? Let's go and see what's there. Are you
ready for a surprise? I mean a REAL surprise? The next group
of photos to be added will rock your beliefs of the end of World War II.
We come to the third building in this complex and we must ask ourselves - why is
this..................
...................................the only one of the
five major buildings that was blown up?
Maybe one these photos might give a clue when you see what they found outside
this building.
At the time they were here, they had no idea what these cylinders were, so they
had no worries about putting their water bottles on them, leaning on them
sitting on them - to them, they were nothing but giant steel cylinders.
They would figure them out later.
Upper right - idiots go in where angels fear to tread, and HARRY goes in
the main hallway - under the sagging cement roof. We do indeed believe
that God protects people to dumb to look out for themselves.
And these cylinders....................they learned some weeks later, that they
are called...............
Control Rod Refuelling Ports!
You figure it out.................but so far, neither HARRY nor NAHUEL
glow in the dark - yet!
And like the television commercials say - "But
wait! There's more!"
More photos to be added soon - please check back.
We will be adding photos to this page BUT we will add them slowly and they will
be very carefully selected. We will not do anything, write anything or
release any photos that will cause damage to anyone living.
Check back periodically for more photos - and more breaking historical news you
won't find anywhere else. Get a head start on this upcoming information;
get the book "Escape from the Bunker" and you will see
where this is going.
We will return to Argentina and Chile in January 2009. You can help and
possibly go with us.
We need your TAX
DEDUCTIBLE donations to help. Click here, download the form,
fill it out and mail it to Sharkhunters at P. O. Box 1539, Hernando, Florida,
USA 34442. Make your check or charge out to Sharkhunters International
Submarine Research Institute (SISRI) to make sure you receive your tax
deduction. Now let's look at more of these fantastic photos!
(more photos to be added soon - keep checking back)