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Hmm strange how Hunting Hitler can't even do basic research. The secret and isolated compound Colonia Dignidad ("Dignity Colony") was an isolated colony of Germans and Chileans established in post-World War II Chile by emigrant Germans which became infamous for the internment, torture, and murder of dissidents during the military regime of General Augusto Pinochet in the 1970s while under the leadership of German fugitive Paul Schäfer. So I'm sure they would have had fences and guard towers but it doesn't mean Hitler was there. I don't think forgetting the places in history in modern times is hiding history to cover up Hitler being there. Maybe they should have it as a tourist attraction, come see where Pinochet murdered thousands of Chilean students?
True special forces operatives are disciplined, cautious, restrained and not prone to melodramatics but good old Tim doesn't appear to have any of these traits.
The whole envelope of so-call evidence the Hunting Hitler team put forward about Martin Bormann is absolutely laughable.
1. In Season 2, Episode 7 they speak with Eliana Keller alleged adopted daughter of Juan Keller AKA Martin Bormann. In the interview she claims that her father was really worried when he knew about the capture of Adolf Eichmann and that he started to panic.
Also during this episode they show the viewer some evidence found in a government department achives stating that Juan Keller AKA Martin Bormann died in Febuary 1959 of stomach cancer, this was supposedly confirmed by other eye witnesses.
This present some problems.
Adolf Eichmann was captured on 11 May 1960 near his home on Garibaldi Street in San Fernando, Buenos Aires, 20 kilometres north of the centre of Buenos Aires. This is a fact. So Adolf Eichmann was capture over a year after Juan Keller AKA Martin Bormann had died according to this new evidence. So how could Juan Keller AKA Martin Bormann have spoken about Eichmann's capture? Adolf Eichmann's exact location wasn't even know in 1959.
2. They show Eliana Keller photos of Martin Bormann taken prior to 1946 and ask her "is this your father?" in which she replies "yes".
Why didn't they ask her if she had any photos of her father prior to asking her about Martin Bormann? Surely, if he was pretending to be a family man they would have had family photos taken at some point. There was also no mention that the real Martin Bormann was already married with 10 children prior to 1945 and they continued to live in Germany to a ripe old age. These children were never interviewed by the Hunting Hitler team or even get a mention in the plot. She claimed that her father made her speak German, why didn't they ask her to speak in German at some point?
There is another possibility that "someone" was impersonating Martin Bormann in a effort to get something from the German communities in SA which they never explored.
UPDATE
With regards to the so call discovery of a "secret tunnel" in which Hitler made his so-call escape. Well where do I start here? Let's start with the program "Hunting Hitler", the so-call team of expert go into the tunnel system within Templehof Airfield looking for a connection with the subway system. They say they are going to the deepest sections of the tunnels, yet they travel up a flight of stairs and when they are leaving they are going down the stairs, Ok a minor point! When they get to a apparently bricked up section, the FBI guy says "pass me the GPS and I'll get a position fix and we can go up top and see where the end of the tunnel is". Well 2nd lie, because anyone that has used a GPS knows you need line of sight with a number of satellites to get a position fix. Simply put GPS don't work underground.
Then when they use the GPR to look of a entrance in the subway and they get a squiggly line on the monitor they exclaim they have found a hidden tunnel, (Case Closed?) No then they tap on a few ceramic tiles on the wall and get a hollow sound. Gee here is the proof we have found a hidden tunnel Hitler escaped through to get to Argentina.
The world Media is onto this exciting new historical find which will change world history about Hitlers death or escape.
The funny thing is, why didn't someone actually open the entrance to the so- call tunnel and show the world, after all it might have been filled with important relics. Or at the very least put a fibre optic camera or endoscope in to actually confirm it was a tunnel and not just a old cupboard space covered over.
Something else they failed in telling the viewer is that all the subways were used as air raid shelters for the people of Berlin. Also after WW2 and the Berlin Wall there are many escape tunnels from East Berlin, The authorities know of about 1000. There are Gas, water, Sewage, electricity and other utilities all through these areas and get moved about from time to time. No real attempt was made to confirm their statement and conclusively prove it is a escape tunnel or what it actually is, if anything but then again this show is very light on facts that they prove beyond any doubt and full of very slopping expensive television.
Dano1330 states in his review that the show reports "a man who claims his father was the driver for Martin Bormann. He says his father told him that sometimes he would drive Bormann to the edge of the jungle and Bormann would disappear in the jungle."
This just goes to show that this program is lacking real research.
Because two skeletal remains were found on 7 December 1972 near near Lehrter station in West Berlin. The remains of Matin Bormann's were conclusively identified in 1998 when German authorities ordered genetic testing on fragments of the skull of the two bodies found near Lehrter station in West Berlin just 12 m (39 ft) from the spot where Krumnow claimed he had buried them. Upon autopsy, fragments of glass were found in the jaws of both skeletons, suggesting that the men had committed suicide by biting cyanide capsules to avoid capture. Dental records reconstructed from memory in 1945 by Hugo Blaschke identified one skeleton as Bormann's, and damage to the collarbone was consistent with injuries that Bormann's sons reported he had sustained in a riding accident in 1939. Forensic examiners determined that the size of the skeleton and the shape of the skull were identical to Bormann's. Likewise, the second skeleton was deemed to be Stumpfegger's, since it was of similar height to his last known proportions. Composite photographs, where images of the skulls were overlaid on photographs of the men's faces, were completely congruent. Facial reconstruction was undertaken in early 1973 on both skulls to confirm the identities of the bodies. Soon afterwards, the West German government declared Bormann dead. The testing was led by Wolfgang Eisenmenger, Professor of Forensic Science at Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich. Tests using DNA from one of Bormann's relatives identified the skull as that of Bormann. Bormann's remains were cremated and his ashes were scattered in the Baltic Sea on 16 August 1999.
Leftbanker-1 I agree with you a hundred percent. Also why did Hitlers most loyal followers, the Goebbels murder their 6 children and commit suicide if they could have escaped with Hitler?
For all those that believe the So call facts from the FBI Files I ask have you gone and read them yourself? They are available for anyone to read online. If you do take the time to read them, you will see that they are letters from the public, many US citizens writing directly to J Edger Hover stating they have information on where Hitler is. If you read the responses from the FBI you will see they were treated as gossip, Chinese whispers. They are not facts as the show makes out.
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