Hitler

Recently declassified CIA files have unveiled a long-standing and little-known chapter of post-WWII history: a covert operation to track down Adolf Hitler, 10 years after he was presumed dead. Contrary to the commonly accepted account of his suicide in a Berlin bunker in April 1945, intelligence agents in the United States and South America continued investigating the possibility that the infamous dictator had faked his death and fled across the Atlantic. The records, originally classified but made public in 2020, reveal that American operatives believed Hitler may have escaped to Argentina, where he was hiding under an assumed name. In fact, as late as 1955—over a decade after the war—CIA informants were still gathering intelligence that suggested the former Nazi