06-01-2016, 11:10 AM
Drew Phipps Wrote:The general end of Corsi's story about Hitler's escape (IIRC) was the house on the lake in Barriloche, Argentina, which our intrepid History Channel detective team visited. However, they then went to Columbia and found evidence that he arrived there, in the midst of civil unrest, in the company of a couple rocket scientists and some sort of plans....and the series ended. Perhaps following Corsi's story was planned, perhaps the extra bit about Columbia caused the series to fold...
That's the strange thing Drew, because the Gerard Williams book also almost concludes at Bariloche too. I have Hunting Hitler and it is quite slim at 135 pages. Whereas Williams and Dunstin's Grey Wolf, which was published 3 years earlier at nearly 400 pages is more in depth and is very well footnoted. Whereas Corsi's has none.
Where the two books diverge is what happened after Bariloche and also the role Bormann played in Hitler's escape and how the latter went on to run the Organization, whereas Hitler gradually faded in importance and died a lonely old man. That and the fact that Bormann, after Peron's overthrow, arranged in 1955 for Hitler to be moved from Bariloche to a smaller residence deeper in the countryside of Patagonia with just his two closest aides, his doctor, Otto Lehman and Heinrich Beth. The house they moved to was La Clara - which the documentary team touch on in one episode, but in no way wished to conclude with it.
Lastly, Grey Wolf concludes with an observation that whereas there were many FBI reports, albeit somewhat fragmentary, there were very little CIA documents that had ever come to light. But one did and that was dated 1955, which they reproduce, and which shows that Hitler had fled to Colombia and has a photograph of Hitler - still with his classic moustache. The authors conclude that it is an obvious fake. For me, this is probably another plant with another fake photograph aimed at deflecting attention away from reality.
The fact that the documentary makers end their series in Colombia, where Hitler didn't go and didn't live out his last years in failing health is telling. As we saw with the Ladislas Farago episode, all it takes is one wrong step to fold an otherwise substantial story.
The shadow is a moral problem that challenges the whole ego-personality, for no one can become conscious of the shadow without considerable moral effort. To become conscious of it involves recognizing the dark aspects of the personality as present and real. This act is the essential condition for any kind of self-knowledge.
Carl Jung - Aion (1951). CW 9, Part II: P.14