Argentina To Declassify Nazi Archives… But Did Hitler Escape There Too? Authored by Jon Fleetwood, In a move both hailed and questioned, Argentine President Javier Milei has ordered the full declassification of secret government files related to Nazis who fled to Argentina after World War II—along with archives from the country’s own military dictatorship. The promise of disclosure follows a broader global trend toward transparency, including the U.S. government’s recent release of long-classified files related to the assassination of President John F. Kennedy—documents that, for decades, were withheld from the public under claims of national security. WATCH: I break down Argentina’s move to declassify Nazi files—and the FBI docs claiming Hitler survived WWII and escaped to Argentina. “Hitler was landed in Argentina approximately June 20 [1945]… his face was disfigured.” Full story in the video: 🎥👇#Hitler #Argentina… pic.twitter.com/Q6eq2z8Yz3 — Jon Fleetwood (@JonMFleetwood) March 31, 2025 But with reports of 5,000 Nazis escaping to South America—including top convicted war criminals like Adolf Eichmann and Josef Mengele—some are asking a more explosive question: did Hitler himself survive the war and escape to Argentina? Cabinet Chief Guillermo Francos confirmed that Milei’s order, made after a meeting with U.S. Senator Steve Daines, applies to all Nazi-related documents across state agencies, including Defense Ministry files and financial records long shrouded in secrecy. “President Milei has ordered the publication and declassification of the archives,” Francos said. “These files concern Nazis who sought refuge in Argentina and were protected for many years. These are historical documents that should be accessible to the public.” “There is no reason to continue safeguarding that information,” he added. “These are archives of a part of Argentine history and they have to be public.” The move also revives a long-held claim—dismissed by mainstream historians but not by everyone—that Adolf Hitler didn’t die in Berlin in 1945, but instead fled via Spain and ended up living out his days under protection in South America. The Escape Route Nobody Was Supposed to Talk About Historians have documented the escape of high-profile Nazis to Argentina—Eichmann was captured by Israeli Mossad agents in Buenos Aires in 1960; Mengele died decades later under a false identity in Brazil. So why wouldn’t the same network that protected them also protect Hitler? That’s the question Argentine journalist and author Abel Basti has spent his career trying to answer. In books like Hitler in Exile and Hitler in Argentina, Basti argues that Hitler escaped through a tunnel under Berlin to Tempelhof Airport, fled to Spain, then traveled by submarine to Argentina, where he lived with SS support and the help of sympathetic German immigrants. He cites declassified FBI reports, alleged sightings in Patagonia, and photos he claims show Hitler with known Nazi sympathizers in Argentina. The Eden Hotel in La Falda—a hotspot for Nazi activity in the mid-20th century—is at the center of many of these claims. Basti believes Hitler stayed there with Walter and Ida Eichorn, well-known Nazi loyalists who ran the property. U.S. intel files from the era include dozens of unverified tips about Hitler sightings across South America. Now, Milei’s declassification order may allow researchers—and skeptics—to comb through those files firsthand. FBI Document Reveals Escape Rumors After Hitler’s Death: National Archives As part of a National Archives blog series titled ‘Hunting Hitler,’ two FBI reports released in 2015 revisit mysterious rumors from 1945 suggesting Hitler escaped to Argentina. One report, sent from Buenos Aires on July 14, 1945, claimed that “a source of unknown reliability” said “Hitler was landed in Argentina approximately June 20, that his face was disfigured,” and that an Argentine army major was preparing to escort him to a “secret hiding place in Chaco territory.” The report added, “All rumors being investigated.” A second document, dated August 14 from the FBI in Los Angeles, recounted a claim made by a Hollywood actor, who said a man at a club told him he had a “tremendous problem that was bothering him.” That man allegedly said he “was one of four men who met Hitler and his party when they landed from submarines in Argentina two and a half weeks after the fall of Berlin.” Both documents appear in ‘Hunting Hitler Part VII: The search continues June–September 1945,’ authored by National Archives historian Greg Bradsher. Argentina Wasn’t the Only One Harboring Nazis It’s worth noting that Argentina was not alone in giving shelter to Nazi officials. The United States government—through a covert program known as Operation Paperclip—smuggled more than 1,600 German scientists, engineers, and technicians into the country after the war. Many of these individuals had direct ties to the Nazi regime, and some were connected with war crimes. One of the most famous Paperclip recruits was Wernher von Braun, former SS officer and architect of the Nazi V-2 rocket program, who later became a leading figure in NASA’s Apollo program. U.S. intelligence scrubbed their records and gave them new lives in American institutions of research, military development, and space exploration. If the U.S. was willing to overlook Nazi atrocities in the name of national interest, it raises the question: how many other countries did the same—and what information still hasn’t been revealed? Publicity Stunt or Historic Breakthrough? Critics argue the announcement is little more than political theater. The Libertarian government has already laid off many of the archivists and staff who would handle the release. “So who’s going to do it?” opposition lawmakers asked. “The announcements are pure demagogy,” one local outlet reported. Milei made the announcement last week on Argentina’s National Day of Memory, Truth, and Justice—a holiday marking the start of the country’s 1976-1983 military dictatorship. His administration also vowed to declassify intelligence files from that era, saying “telling the whole story is a crucial task.” Yet, the most consequential revelations may not be about Argentina’s dictatorship—but what the country knew about one of the darkest chapters in world history, and when. Fringe, Fiction, or Classified Fact? Mainstream historians like Richard J. Evans reject the Hitler escape theory as fiction. They point to forensic evidence like Hitler’s dental remains, which match his known records and were confirmed in 2018 by a French-led team examining Soviet archives. Still, questions remain. Why did U.S. intelligence keep thousands of pages of Nazi-related sightings and investigations classified for decades? Why did Argentina offer safe haven to so many convicted war criminals? And why, nearly 80 years later, does the full story remain locked in government vaults? Whether the release of Argentina’s Nazi files will finally put the escape theory to rest—or breathe new life into it—remains to be seen. But for the first time in decades, the files may finally see daylight. And if Milei makes good on his promise, the world may discover just how deep the rabbit hole goes. Tyler Durden Wed, 04/02/2025 – 06:30

German Politicians Worry About Their Gold In US Vaults For decades, the idea that Germany’s gold reserves – some of the largest in the world – might not be safe in the vaults of the New York Federal Reserve would have seemed like the stuff of conspiracy theories. But as the political landscape shifts in Washington – and questions have been raised as to what’s actually in US vaults, some German lawmakers are beginning to wonder aloud: Is their gold still secure? Germany holds the second-largest hoard of gold on the planet, surpassed only by the United States itself. Roughly 37 percent of that treasure – some 1,236 metric tons, currently valued at around €113 billion – supposedly lies deep beneath the streets of Manhattan, stored with America’s central bank. For decades, the arrangement was seen as a prudent hedge, offering Germany immediate access to dollar liquidity in the event of a crisis. Now, some in Berlin are rethinking that assumption. “Of course, the question now arises again,” Marco Wanderwitz, an outgoing lawmaker from the center-right Christian Democratic Union (CDU), told the German tabloid Bild (owned by POLITICO parent company Axel Springer) last week. Wanderwitz has long harbored doubts about the wisdom of keeping such a significant portion of the country’s wealth abroad. In 2012, he made an unsuccessful push to personally inspect the gold, urging the Bundesbank to act more transparently – or bring the bullion home. Fellow CDU member Markus Ferber, a member of the European Parliament, echoed those sentiments, calling for more rigorous oversight. “Official representatives of the Bundesbank must personally count the bars and document their results,” Ferber told the outlet. These calls come at a time of deepening skepticism toward the institutions that once underpinned Germany’s postwar confidence. The recent decision to discard the so-called “debt brake,” a long-sacrosanct cap on public borrowing, signaled a willingness to rethink long-standing fiscal orthodoxy. The logic behind storing Germany’s gold in New York, once assumed to be self-evident, is now coming under similar scrutiny. Adding to the speculation is Elon Musk and DOGE, who have questioned the authenticity of stated U.S. gold holdings – recently calling for a formal audit of America’s reserves. For the Deutsche Bundesbank, which oversees the management of Germany’s reserves, any suggestion of instability is unwelcome. The central bank has maintained a quiet and resolute stance, rebuffing insinuations of risk. “We have a trustworthy and reliable partner in the Fed in New York for the storage of our gold holdings,” Bundesbank President Joachim Nagel said at a press conference in February, a line the bank reiterated when asked for comment on Friday. “It does not keep me awake at night. I have complete confidence in our colleagues at the American central bank.” Famous last words… In 2013, amid a populist outcry and growing eurozone instability, the ‘completely confident’ Bundesbank repatriated hundreds of tons of gold previously held in Paris – a move that was seen at the time as a symbolic reassertion of sovereignty. The bank argued that, with France and Germany sharing the euro, the strategic rationale for keeping reserves in Paris had faded. Now, more than half of Germany’s gold sits safely in Frankfurt. Thirteen percent is held in London. But it is the tranche in New York – once a monument to transatlantic trust – that is drawing the most anxious of glances. *  *  * One question… GOT GOLD? Click pic, buy ZeroHedge gold bars, puzzle future historians… Only 40 left in stock! These have been flying. Tyler Durden Wed, 04/02/2025 – 05:45

“Evil People”: Organized ‘Bankrupt Tesla’ Group Tied To Formerly USAID-Funded Disinfo Queen On Tuesday morning, former Biden administration “disinformation czar” Nina Jankowicz repeatedly refused to disclose who’s funding her new gig – the ‘American Sunlight Project’ – which cropped up after a stint at the USAID-funded UK-based Centre for Information Resilience (CIR) – for which she registered as a foreign agent while serving as their Vice President. To review – Jankowicz, who previously served as a disinformation fellow at the Wilson Center, advised the Ukrainian Foreign Ministry as part of the Fulbright-Clinton Public Policy Fellowship, and was then selected to head the Biden DHS’s newly formed Disinformation Governance Board – which was quickly dismantled amid criticism over censorship under the guise of fighting disinformation.  Four months later, she launched “The Hypatia Project” for CIR – where she was the Vice President until April 2024, at which point she co-founded the American Sunlight Project. Fast forward to this morning, Jankowicz was evasive when asked by Republicans during a congressional hearing on disinformation about her funding… Nina Jankowicz, the short-lived head of Biden’s Disinformation Governance Board aka Disinformation Czar refuses to say if her new org, The American Sunlight Projegt, is funded by George Soros. “So sunlight for other people but not for your donors” @RepBaumgartner quips… pic.twitter.com/2RIiI1VU16 — Rob (@RobMcGravytrain) April 1, 2025 Well, Well, Well As it turns out, Jankowicz’s co-founder at the American Sunlight Project is Carlos Alvarez-Aranyos, a “communications professional” who worked for the Biden DoD, and is “one of the people who launched the call for a boycott of Tesla.” Alvarez-Aranyos comes from a wealthy and prominent family in the Dominican Republic. His father, Luis Álvarez Renta, is a well-known Dominican financier. Carlos is a nephew of the renowned fashion designer Oscar de la Renta. Biden’s censorship queen Nina Jankowicz currently works at the American Sunlight Project (ASP), and previously worked at USAID-funded Center for Information Resilience. The ASP was co-founded by Carlos Alvarez-Aranyos is a “communications professional” who worked for Biden’s… https://t.co/uIgDszSDKL pic.twitter.com/x60Ju2wzYh — zerohedge (@zerohedge) April 1, 2025 “I need to have on my resume, so I can get a job when this thing is over, that I bankrupted Tesla.” This is an outright admission the top Tesla boycott organizers’ personal financial prospects depend on taking down Tesla, and they must succeed in order to get paid. https://t.co/CJnQDX38rC pic.twitter.com/Ti775yTplt — Mike Benz (@MikeBenzCyber) March 30, 2025 Alvarez-Aranyos has been scrubbed from the American Sunlight Project’s website, which is why the internet archive exists. Early organizers of the “Tesla Takedown” protests said last month that the organization’s goal is to drive down the price of Tesla stock. Another “Tesla Takedown” organizer, Edward Niedermeyer, told Fortune Magazine that dropping Musk’s wealth is exactly their aim. “The goal, I would say, is to bankrupt Elon Musk—bring down his empire,” he said. Read more on the Tesla Takedown organizers here… Musk chimed in, calling the organizers “Evil people…” Evil people https://t.co/6NCHAzZC9B — Elon Musk (@elonmusk) April 1, 2025 *  *  * Best sellers at ZH Store: IQ Biologix Colostrum (25% IgG from first milking of grassfed cows) IQ Astaxanthin Ultimate Antioxidant (6,000x stronger than vitamin C) ZeroHedge Multitool (Extremely solid, very sharp, comes with ZH Logo belt pouch) Anza Red-Black Infinity Handle Knife (Made in the USA from carbon steel)   Tyler Durden Wed, 04/02/2025 – 05:44

Russia Halts Large Chunk Of Kazakhstan’s Oil Export Capacity By Tsvetana Paraskova of OilPrice.com Russia has ordered shut two of the three moorings of the main oil export terminal on the Black Sea handling Kazakhstan’s oil exports, which could seriously disrupt Kazakh crude shipments if the suspension lasts more than a few days. Following snap safety inspections by Russia’s Federal Agency for Transport Supervision, prompted by the Kerch Strait oil spill in December 2024, Russia ordered on Monday that the SPM-1 and SPM-2 moorings of the terminal of the Caspian Pipeline Consortium (CPC) be shut immediately, CPC said in a statement. The consortium operates the pipeline from the Caspian coast in northwest Kazakhstan to the Novorossiysk port on Russia’s Black Sea coast. The port handles most of Kazakhstan’s crude exports from giant oilfields in Kazakhstan operated by international oil firms, including U.S. supermajor Chevron. Affiliates of Chevron and ExxonMobil are also minority shareholders in CPC, whose biggest shareholder is the Russian Federation with a 24% stake. CPC complied with the order for a temporary ban of operations at the SPM-1 and SPM-2 moorings and took them out of service “until the identified deficiencies have been addressed.” Until then, all transshipment operations at the CPC Marine Terminal will be delivered using the SPM-3 mooring commissioned in 2014, the consortium said. The suspension of part of the export capacity could more than halve the crude oil exports of Kazakhstan if it drags on for more than a week, trading sources told Reuters on Tuesday. The potential disruption to Kazakhstan’s oil exports comes as the country part of the OPEC+ pact saw its crude production hit a record high in March despite continued pledges to start complying with its OPEC+ quota that it has been exceeding for years. Kazakhstan appears to find it hard to convince Chevron and the other supermajors operating in the country to limit production now after years of investing billions of U.S. dollars in oilfield expansions. Amid tensions with OPEC+ and the oil majors, Kazakhstan said last month that energy minister Almassadam Satkaliyev would step down from the role and lead a newly minted atomic energy agency. Tyler Durden Wed, 04/02/2025 – 05:00

Which AI Chatbots Collect The Most Data About You? The harbinger of the AI revolution, ChatGPT, remains the most popular AI tool on the market, with more than 200 million weekly active users. But amongst all its competitors, which AI chatbots are collecting the most user data? And why does that matter? Visual Capitalist’s Marcus Lu visualizes data from Surfshark which identified the most popular AI chatbots and analyzed their privacy details on the Apple App Store. Their findings are as of February 18th, 2025. Gemini, the Data Collection King At first place, Google’s Gemini (released March, 2023) collects 22 different data points across 10 categories, from its users. Data collected ranges from general diagnostics (that all bots in this study collect) to access to contacts (that no other bot identified collects). Note: The Number of data points collected in each category vary per bot, leading to different totals. xAI’s Grok (released November, 2023) collects the least unique data points (7). China’s DeepSeek (released Jan 2025), sits comfortably in the middle of the pack at 11 points. The kind of data collected by each of these AI tools varies. All of them collected general diagnostics information. However, only Gemini and Perplexity look at purchases. And then, nearly all but Perplexity.ai and Grok collect user content. User content is the kind of information that is usually linked to third party data and then sold to advertisers for targeted ads on the platform. The general rule of thumb when it comes to data privacy is true for AI chatbots also. After all, information is stored on their servers, and those can be breached. Want to stay up to date on the AI revolution? Check out: Ranked: Jobs Where AI is Most Used for quick insights into the shifting workplace. Tyler Durden Wed, 04/02/2025 – 04:15