Argentina

Adolf Hitler died by suicide in his Führerbunker in Berlin on 30 April 1945. Soviet forces recovered remains; dental records matching Dr. Hugo Blaschke's records for Hitler were confirmed; the Soviet skull cap with a bullet hole was displayed as evidence. A persistent claim holds that Hitler escaped via ratlines to South America — Argentina is most frequently named. FBI files released under FOIA in 2014 reference wartime informant reports of Hitler sightings in Argentina; these are raw intelligence reports, not confirmed findings. The ratlines were real and transported genuine Nazi war criminals including Eichmann and Mengele. Hitler's death in the bunker is confirmed by multiple independent forensic and archival analyses.

Adolf Eichmann, the SS-Obersturmbannführer who administered the logistics of the Holocaust, was captured by a Mossad team led by Isser Harel in Buenos Aires on 11 May 1960. He was transported to Israel, tried publicly, convicted, and executed in 1962. CIA and BND (West German intelligence) files declassified from 2006 onward revealed that both agencies had located Eichmann in Argentina years before the Mossad operation — and chose not to act, in part to protect West German officials with wartime connections. The cover-up claim is substantially true based on the declassified record.