
Despite all the evidence in this regard, many refused to accept that the Führer had died. Shortly after the war and for several years, rumors of a live Hitler shook the front pages of newspapers around the world, especially during the 1950s, denied the facts and even today there are people who continue to deny. "Hitler did not die in the Bunker," they say. "He managed to escape just before the Russians arrived. He hid. He stayed away from everything and - last but not least - he lived in Argentina for many years".
Gradually, major newspapers relegated the story to the inside pages, devoting less and less space and attention to it. The story was taken over by sensationalist magazines that continued to exploit it story with relative success.
As a result of this, Hitler ceased to be in a particular place and began to be seen everywhere. The dream world soared, becoming infinite, inexhaustible.
When World War II ended in 1945, the Legend that Adolf Hitler had escaped Berlin were spread far and wide. The collective imagination began to work on all kinds of rumors and Allied Intelligence services were added to the disinformation campaign, leaving open the possibility that such escape were true. They did not lack "reliable witnesses" who swore they had seen the Führer in different parts of the world, but especially in Argentina, a country that was labeled by the American ambassador Spruille Braden as a "Nazi Nest" in the mid-1940s.
That rumor turned out to be powerful and durable. Even now, in the early twenty-first century books are still published that talk about it; Abel Basti wrote "Bariloche Nazi. Related to National Historic Sites", a travel guide where on a map are marked "Nazi"' sites. The book explicitly announces, in a subtitle: '"t includes the places where they lived Adolf Hitler and Eva Braun lived after they escaped from Berlin".
The Legend of a South American escape of the Führer sells well. It generates an atmosphere of mystery that attracts people. And it is at this point that comes the well-known Viena Grand Hotel Miramar, Cordoba, comes in.
But before penetrating that world of masquerades and deception, the causes and mechanisms behind the rumors and stories like that needs to be analyzed.
When the German Emperor Frederick Barbarossa drowned on 10 June 1190, while trying to cross the river Kydnos, in Asia Minor, after having won substantial military victories over the Muslims, his death was not accepted by his subjects.
They rejected the "dumb" way to die of such a famous warrior who, in the name of God, marched into a Crusade. They had awaited his return for years and dozens of stories were told that the Emperor would return one day to rid the world of heretics. There was no shortage of people saying "I have seen, or have been told them that he had seen". Frederick was defending Christianity. It could not be otherwise.

Frederick I [German: Friedrich I, Italian: Federico I], also known as Frederick Barbarossa [Italian: Federico Barbarossa], was the Holy Roman Emperor from 1155 until his death. He was elected King of Germany at Frankfurt on 4 March 1152 and crowned in Aachen on 9 March 1152. He became King of Italy in 1155 and was crowned Roman Emperor by Pope Adrian IV on 18 June 1155. Two years later, the term sacrum [holy] first appeared in a document in connection with his Empire.He was later formally crowned King of Burgundy, at Arles on 30 June 1178. He was named Barbarossa by the northern Italian cities which he attempted to rule: Barbarossa means "red beard" in Italian;In German, he was known as Kaiser Rotbart, which has the same meaning.
Historians consider him among the Holy Roman Empire's greatest medieval emperors. He combined qualities that made him appear almost superhuman to his contemporaries: his longevity, his ambition, his extraordinary skills at organization, his battlefield acumen and his political perspicuity.
On 10 June 1190, Emperor Frederick Barbarossa drowned near Silifke Castle in the Saleph river.
Accounts of the event are conflicting. Frederick was thrown from his horse and the shock of the cold water caused him to have a heart attack. Weighed down by his armour, he drowned in water that was barely hip-deep, according to the chronicler Ibn al-Athir. Some of Frederick's men put him in a barrel of vinegar to preserve his body.
Barbarossa's son, Frederick VI of Swabia, carried on with the remnants of the German army, only 5,000 soldiers, a small fraction of the original force, along with the Hungarian army under the command of Prince Géza, with the aim of burying the emperor in Jerusalem, but efforts to conserve his body in vinegar failed. Hence, his flesh was interred in the Church of St Peter in Antioch, his bones in the cathedral of Tyre, and his heart and inner organs in Tarsus.
Frederick is the subject of many legends, including that of a sleeping hero, like the much older British Celtic legends of Arthur or Bran the Blessed. Legend says he is not dead, but asleep with his knights in a cave in the Kyffhäuser mountain in Thuringia or Mount Untersberg in Bavaria, Germany, and that when the ravens cease to fly around the mountain he will awake and restore Germany to its ancient greatness. According to the story, his red beard has grown through the table at which he sits. His eyes are half closed in sleep, but now and then he raises his hand and sends a boy out to see if the ravens have stopped flying. A similar story, set in Sicily, was earlier attested about his grandson, Frederick II.
Hitler spent many hours gazing of the Untersberg mountain from his study in the Berghof. Some historians guess that, like King Arthur, Frederick Barbarossa is buried there, waiting for a call to arise from the dead to come to his country's aid in its hour of need.
That is not the legend of the Untersberg, though.
In 1220, Templar Komtur Hubertus Koch, returning with a small party from the Crusades, passed through Mesopotamia, and near the old city of Nineveh in modern Iraq, received an apparition of the goddess Isais [first child of goddess Isis and god Set]. She told him to withdraw to the Untersberg mountain, build a house there and await her next apparition.
In 1221, Koch erected his first Komturei at the foot of Ettenberg near Markt Schellenberg. A second, larger structure followed. It is believed that over the next few years, underground galleries were excavated into various areas of the Untersberg, and in one of them a temple to Isais was built.
A second apparition occurred in 1226 and were repeated on occasions until 1238. During this period the Templars received "Die Isais Offenbarung", a series of prophesies and information concerning the Holy Grail. The Templars at Jerusalem had knowledge of these visitations, over which the Church drew a veil of silence.
It is the German tradition that the Templars were ordered to form a secret scientific sect in southern Germany, Austria and northern Italy to be known as "Die Herren vom Schwarzen Stein" - The Lords of the Black Stone - or DHvSS for short, and this is said to be the true, hidden meaning of SS.
The Holy Grail ["Ghral" is holy stone, Persian-Arabic] was said to be a black-violet crystal, half quartz, half amethyst, through which Higher Powers communicated with humanity. It was given into the safe-keeping of the Cathars, and smuggled out of the last stronghold at Montsegur, France, and hidden, by four Cathar women on the night of 14 March 1244. There is a Cathar legend that 700 years after the destruction of the Cathar religion the Holy Grail would be returned to its rightful holders, DHvSS, or the SS?
It may be of interest to note in this connection that the Tea House designed by Hitler and built atop the Mooslahnerkopf at Obersalzberg, the stone pavillion still standing today, bears a striking resemblance to Montsegur when viewed at certain angles from the foot of the great rocky outcrop. Whether this was a coincidence remains in the mind of the beholder.
The name "Eagle's Nest" was coined by Francois Poncet the French ambassador after a visit there in 1938. It was never known as a Teahouse but today gets confused with the actual teahouse Hitler used, the Mooslahnerkopf Teehaus, situated not far from his residence, the Berghof.
This masterpiece of construction was built on the summit of the 6,017 ft wooded Kehlstein mountain high above Berchtesgaden. Officially known as the Kehlsteinhaus, the hexagon-shaped building was built as a conference and entertainment canter for visiting diplomats at the request of Martin Bormann and presented to Hitler on his 50th birthday.
Hitler made 14 official visits to the Kehlsteinhaus including his first visit on 16 September 1938 and his last visit on 17 October 1940. He also made at least 3 unofficial visits. His fear of heights caused him to avoid visiting this fabulous mountain retreat more frequently, but it was a favorite hangout for his mistress, Eva Braun, who often went there
The Berghof was connected to the Platterhof Hotel by a series of complex Bunkers deep inside the mountain. The tunnel system was an outstanding piece of underground engineering with a subterranean engine that provided power to run the elevator. Yet strangely enough, Hitler's favorite place was neither the Berghof nor the Eagle's Nest, but a cozy Tea House built on the northern boundary of the area. The pleasant walk to the "Teehaus" often became the scene for important political decisions.

Aerial photograph of the promenade from the Berghof to the Teehaus
Hitler preferred to relax, and even nap, in the Teehaus itself, while surrounded by his closest friends and associates.
To garner political support the German Empire built atop the Kyffhäuser the Kyffhäuser Monument, which declared Kaiser Wilhelm I the reincarnation of Frederick; the 1896 dedication occurred on 18 June, the day of Frederick's coronation.
In medieval Europe, the Golden Legend became refined by Jacopo da Voragine. This was a popularized interpretation of the Biblical end of the world. It consisted of three things: (1) terrible natural disasters; (2) the arrival of the Antichrist; (3) the establishment of a good king to combat the anti-Christ. German propaganda played into the exaggerated fables believed by the common people by characterizing Frederick Barbarossa and Frederick II as personification of the "good king".
Closer in time, something similar happened with Elvis Presley. When he died on 16 August 1977 at his mansion in Memphis, Conspiracy Theories spread worldwide. Once again, fans of the singer refused to accept his death and Elvis, the King of Rock became a secret agent for the CIA or the DEA, thwarting a powerful Mafia group, he had to change his identity to save his skin and that of his family. There was no shortage of tabloids that published for years that the old idol was still alive, supposed photos of the composer and singer [all, of course, blurry and taken from away] were edited to certify the theory.
The Legend of Hitler wandering in the world has fueled the imagination since the moment when he shot himself. Oral Tradition locates him in different places. Some argue he fled to Bolivia fled, others Paraguay or Chile. There are those who have seen him in Tibet or in Antarctica and, of course, there are those who placed him in Argentina.