The leading Argentine daily, El Mundo, published a report today from a correspondent who asserted he had seen Martin Bormann, long-sought deputy to Hitler, near Bariloche, a noted ski resort in southern Argentina.
The report appeared under the by-line of Meyer Gleizer, who said he had learned that Bormann was living in an isolated hut on a snow-covered mountain, called Tronador. Gleizer wrote that the person he identified as Bormann was living under the name of “Mervin” and that he kept himself isolated from the rest of the world except for one or two visits annually. Gleizer did not indicate where the supposed former Number 2 Nazi went on the visits.
Gleizer also reported, in the same dispatch, that he visited a camp of German youths where, he asserted, he met and talked to Hans Rudel, Hitler’s one-time top-ranking aviation leader. After talking to Rudel, Gleizer reported, he was called by the German “hororary” consul in Barilocte and asked to hand over all the pictures he had taken, which Gleizer said he did. He quoted the consul as then telling him: “Leave us with our peace. These documents you possess could involve many people and create problems.”
The report was one of many which have come from various points in South America in the years since the collapse of the Hitler regime about Bormann having been seen. None of these reports has ever been verified.
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