07-05-2014, 11:13 AM
Personally, I don't believe and have good reason to believe that Kammler did not make it to S. America. I have some documents that show he survived the war's end [and his seven semi-official versions of his demise - each mutually exclusive of the others!]. However, my documents and those of one other researcher show that he was in the hands of the Americans in Germany. After that the trail ends and it is my working assumption that after the Americans got what information they wanted from him they either had no further use for him, or he choose to end his own life at that point. I know his family and Kammler was very close to his wife and children - he never contacted them after the war [as promised at his last meeting at home just before the end of it] - something I know he wouldn't do if alive and able to communicate. I'm leaving out a lot in the above summary...there is much more....for a book.
It was Nick Cook's book that started the Kammler rage...and a book called Blunder! before it [though not much noticed]. Most of the Kammler claims are, IMHO, not correct and not based on anything tangible. I worked very hard on this research and to get the documents I have. Despite getting a few authenticated documents [by very back-door means!], the trail of documents ends and the British, Russian, German and American governments all know things they, for their own reasons, do not want to disclose. Despite Kammler's prominence by the end of the war, NARA officially [that is officially!] only claims to have two documents on Kammler and both are unimportant; a list of higher ranked SS officers; and his original SS file [when he enlisted]. Both are useless, and it is not true that they don't have others...but I can't go into how I suspect or know that. What I learned in this research was that NARA either doesn't know what it has or doesn't admit what it has....an important lesson for all researchers.
It was Nick Cook's book that started the Kammler rage...and a book called Blunder! before it [though not much noticed]. Most of the Kammler claims are, IMHO, not correct and not based on anything tangible. I worked very hard on this research and to get the documents I have. Despite getting a few authenticated documents [by very back-door means!], the trail of documents ends and the British, Russian, German and American governments all know things they, for their own reasons, do not want to disclose. Despite Kammler's prominence by the end of the war, NARA officially [that is officially!] only claims to have two documents on Kammler and both are unimportant; a list of higher ranked SS officers; and his original SS file [when he enlisted]. Both are useless, and it is not true that they don't have others...but I can't go into how I suspect or know that. What I learned in this research was that NARA either doesn't know what it has or doesn't admit what it has....an important lesson for all researchers.
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"Civil disobedience is not our problem. Our problem is civil obedience! People are obedient in the face of poverty, starvation, stupidity, war, and cruelty. Our problem is that grand thieves are running the country. That's our problem!" - Howard Zinn
"If there is no struggle there is no progress. Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and never will" - Frederick Douglass