Is that a Nazi U-Boat submerged off the coast of Argentina?
The camera records as the man dons a bulky diving helmet, part of a pressurized suit used in deep sea dives, and drops into the water. A powerful flashlight beam lances the gloom of the deep. Out of the darkness looms a rusty metal skeleton, clearly the remains of a boat.
Then out of the spindly wreckage, emerges a long structure — a submarine’s periscope. While the oceans are littered with the ghostly wreckage of once-proud ships, this is something else. What would an old submarine be doing in the waters off the shores of Buenos Aires?
The grainy footage of the dive that aired recently in Argentina drew widespread interest, but there was one man who wasn’t surprised by the finding.
Journalist and researcher Abel Basti, the man in charge of the underwater expedition, is convinced that the mysterious craft is none other than a German U-boat. He’s spent decades building the case that the dirty secret of cooperation between South America’s right-wing regimes and the Nazis is dirtier than suspected. The evidence, he claims, suggests that the war criminals such as Eichmann and Mengele who found refuge in Latin America were not simply isolated cases, but part of a massive operation to aid fleeing Nazis.
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