Adolf Hitler did not commit suicide in 1945, but hid in South America, according to CIA documents recently declassified by Trump, conspiracy media claim.
NEWS: CIA documents declassified by the US President Donald Trump have sparked a major shock about Adolf Hitler, contradicting the official version of his death. Although history records that Hitler committed suicide in a Berlin bunker in 1945, new information suggests a completely different story.
According to CIA documents, the US agency conducted a large-scale covert operation in 1955 to search for Hitler, having credible information that the Nazi leader had survived and was hiding in Argentina, along with other former Nazi leaders. One of the important clues the CIA found was a man, Adolf Schrittelmayor, who bore a striking resemblance to Hitler and was photographed in the 1950s sitting on a bench in Tunja, Colombia. In addition, former soldiers of the Nazi regime claimed that Adolf Hitler had fled to Argentina in January 1955, which contradicts the official historical version.
In parallel, another report from the US War Department indicated to the FBI that Hitler had found refuge in a spa hotel in La Falda, Argentina. The owners of the hotel were said to be supporters of the Nazi regime and close friends of Hitler’s, and they traveled frequently to Germany. The information suggests that Adolf Hitler was not just a simple exile, but had close ties to Nazi circles in South America. [...]
Moreover, a CIA informant known as CIMELODY-3 reported that a former SS soldier, Phillip Citroen, claimed to have spoken regularly with Hitler while he was in hiding. Citroen is also featured in a photograph of the man in Colombia who resembled Hitler. This new information calls into question previously known historical events and deepens the mystery surrounding Adolf Hitler's disappearance.
NARRATIVE: Adolf Hitler did not commit suicide in 1945, managing to hide for years in South American states.
PURPOSE: To promote and self-validate a conspiracy discourse, to provoke and amplify social tensions.
Scientific studies have proven that Hitler committed suicide in 1945
WHY THE NARRATIVE IS FALSE: We must first mention that the images on the basis of which the theory of Hitler's survival was brought back into the public attention are not recent and have no connection to the declassification of the files on the assassination of US President John F. Kennedy They come from files declassified by the CIA starting in July 2017, during Donald Trump’s first term in the White House, and do not represent in any way evidence that the Nazi leader survived World War II, fleeing to South America. In reality, the files in question present a series of information gathered by the CIA from "shady" sources, which the agency rejected because it could not be verified. For example, an early CIA report from 1945 did indeed state that the owner of a hotel in La Falda, Argentina, was overheard offering his property as a possible hideout for the German leader should he need it, but the agency stated that the reliability of the report could not be verified.
Returning to the documents presented in the analyzed material, a memo from September 1955 states, indeed, that “CIMELODY-3” is the code name of a CIA agent, but according to the agency’s Caracas station chief, his source is not reliable, largely because it does not come from a direct report. The CIA agent had received the information from a friend who spoke with an alleged former German soldier. Therefore, the CIA questioned the claims, noting that “neither CIMELODY-3 nor the station were in a position to provide a pertinent assessment of the information”, which was transmitted only for the potential interest of the CIA central office. The last paragraph of the report analyzes the photo provided by the “German soldier” next to “Hitler”, stating that the CIA agent came into its possession through the same channel, but is not in a position to confirm its veracity or the identity of the people in the image.
In a second memo from October 1955, the CIA explained that the negative of the photograph, which it had acquired in the meantime, was too damaged to be copied, concluding that the whole story was a "fantasy", and in another memo from November 1955, addressed to the station chief in Bogota, the official CIA conclusion was that in order to establish concrete data, "enormous efforts" were required, which were neither logistically nor financially justified. Therefore, the CIA leadership suggested that "this matter be abandoned".
Moreover, in 2000, the CIA made public an official autopsy report , drawn up in 1945, confirming Hitler's death. In addition, historians and British intelligence officials have also presented evidence confirming the death of the Nazi leader. Also, in 1980, a German citizen, Heinz Linge, published his memoirs that recalled the time when he served as Hitler's valet. In the book, Linge said that he stood at the door of the room where Hitler committed suicide and saw his body.
More recently, in 2018, a group of French researchers confirmed that Hitler had died in 1945 in Berlin, by cyanide poisoning and shooting, after Russian authorities made available to scientists, in a rare gesture of diplomatic openness, several fragments of the German dictator's teeth, held in Moscow.
The narrative was later enriched with the news that Argentine President Javier Milei had ordered the declassification of all government documents concerning Nazis who were sheltered by Argentina after World War II, claiming that new evidence in support of the theory of Hitler's survival would appear in the public domain. However, experts say that in fact the documents promised by Milei will not provide any spectacular new information, but will only clarify details related to the conspiratorial routes and networks used by the Nazis to reach South America, as well as those related to their sources of financing, once they fled the European continent.
Conspiracy theory about Hitler's death, launched by the Soviets
CONTEXT: Like other important events in world history, the death of Adolf Hitler could not be avoided by conspiracy theorists, with several theories related to a hypothetical survival of the Nazi leader appearing practically instantly, just a few weeks after his suicide, alongside his wife, Eva Braun, in a Berlin bunker, on the night of April 30 to May 1, 1945. The narrative according to which Hitler did not commit suicide, but escaped from Berlin, was first presented to the general public by Soviet Marshal Georgy Zhukov, in a press conference on June 9, 1945. Later, during the Potsdam Conference in July 1945, even Stalin, when questioned about how Hitler had died, said that he lived either "in Spain or Argentina." Why the Soviets chose to start such a rumor can only be explained by Moscow's desire to discredit the Western powers - alleged to have helped the former Führer escape - during the very negotiations on peace treaties and zones of influence in Europe.
Based on these statements, most theories about Hitler's survival claim that he and his wife took refuge in South America, leading to several investigations by the FBI and CIA, as well as by British and, most importantly, Soviet secret services in the years after the war. However, there were other versions of the story, which placed the two in Denmark, Australia, or even the United States of America. The most phantasmagoric ones talked about Hitler's escape to a Nazi military base hidden under the ice of Antarctica or even on the far side of the Moon. These theories still enjoy some exposure in popular culture, and are periodically brought back to public attention, although they have been definitively refuted by solid evidence brought by most historians and scientists, in addition to eyewitness accounts.
As in 2017, they resurfaced on social media in April 2025, claiming that the CIA had “just” declassified documents proving that Nazi leader Adolf Hitler had survived World War II. A series of posts on X shared images of old documents quoting a former German soldier who had claimed in 1955 that Hitler was “still alive” and that he was in contact with him “about once a month in Colombia.” The same soldier also claimed to have taken a photo of the dictator, who had left Colombia for Argentina in January 1955. The soldier who made these revelations to a CIA agent codenamed CIMELODY-3 was named Phillip Citroen, and was allegedly a member of the German SS, the military branch of the Nazi party. Citroen claimed to regularly visit Hitler at his residence in the Colombian town of Tunja, north of the capital Bogota, where he traveled periodically as an employee of a shipping company. At the same time, Citroen also claimed that Hitler lived in a residential complex "inhabited by former Nazis" who followed and idolized the former dictator with "nostalgia for the Nazi past."
GRAIN OF TRUTH: Several prominent members of the Nazi regime and their sympathizers fled to South America after Germany lost the war. Among them were Adolf Eichmann, the “mastermind,” organizer, and leader of the Final Solution—the Nazi plan to carry out the genocide against the Jews—and Josef Mengele, nicknamed the “Angel of Death,” the German doctor who initiated and conducted several heinous experiments on Jews in Nazi concentration camps, particularly on sets of twins.
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