U-977: Escape to Argentina
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German submarine U-977 was a World War II German Type VIIC U-boat which escaped to Argentina after Germany's surrender. The submarine's voyage to Argentina led to many and apocryphal stories: that it had transported Adolf Hitler or Nazi gold to South America, that it had made a 66-day passage without surfacing or that it had made a secret voyage to Antarctica.
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Argentinian rules to live by:
Never ask a woman her weight.
Never ask your grandfather his SS rank.
LOL, same in Ireland.
Lol
You mean Canada ?
the same in germany now. Never ask Berbok's her grandfather SS rank.
Argentina has been a refuge for Germans long long before the 2nd World War! This Video shows how Germans have spread around the world
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Prior to the First WW many Germans settled in Chile mining Saltpeter and Copper . Later there were was a WW1 battle of Colonel or Coronel and they defeated the RN arriving at Valparaiso with Huge crowds of local Germans ( look it up)
I have a book in my collection written by the captain of this boat about his escape to Argentina...
An amazing first hand account..
Could you please reply with the name of the book and where I could get a copy,is it in English
Incredibly cool! Appreciate you watching and have a great week :)
Yeah, but all lies - from capt. Schäffer. The U-977 most likely carried at least some of the gold loot for the Hitlers - who were in another U-boat, possibly part of 3-4 of them in a convoy. The head of the SIDE, secret intel of Argentina, Rodolfo Freude, has confirmed that he was part of a welcoming comittee that received the Hitler couple in July 1945. There is no reason to disbelieve Freude. The U-530 was a decoy sub, full of cigarettes, and was succesful in preventing Hitler from being located. Actually, the Hitlers were spotted on landing at the Necochea beaches in Patagonia - but managed to flee on. Reaching the San Ramón Ranch approx Aug 1, 1945. There are several credible eyewitnesses to the flight and on the San Ramón. 70-80% of populations in South America do not buy into the "official" narrative of a "double suicide" in Bunker Berlin... even today, 2-3 generations after the events. We even have Nazi German eyewitnesses, claiming they did participate in the evacuation operation, f.ex. Reinhard Schabelmann and Heinrich Bethe. There is little doubt, in my view, that the official narrative is based on lies, a massive fraud operation. .. Lead author in the south, Abel Basti, and also professor Llano in Paraguay, claim Adolf Hitler died in Feb 1971, while Eva lived until the age of 100 years and died in 2012 in Buenos Aires. They had 3 children together - and there´s grand children.
This may help book references on bottom of page.
Commanded a U-Boat at 24. Yet this generation can’t get my order right at McDonalds
Lol
Fact
I’ve seen geezers order at McDonalds. They say their order like Trump speaking to illegals, unintelligible, muddled and nonsensical.
Well, if you will insist on dining at McDonalds.
Man isn't that so. Here in California were supposed to tip these people after they get a significant raise.
Well, it definitely was better in Argentina than under Soviet rule in East Germany! So, I wouldn't blame them for that. Quite a number of Germans that were prisoners in the UK and in the US had to return to the Russian ruled part of Germany and had a rather sad end there.
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Did they desrerve better lol?
As crazy as it sounds Argentina sounded like the best deal they thought they could get. This story sounds plausible enough, if you’re on the run you will go where you think you might be safe. No doubt this journey for the U-boat was the grist for the conspiracy mill. What a story.
Conspiracy mill? There was a very large German presence in certain parts of Argentina long before WWII. It has been proven that many high ranking German officers made their way there through France first, then Spain. The churches gave them new papers/identities and off they went. I even worked with an older guy, at sea, who was raised in Argentina, spoke with a German accent and had a copy of Mien Kampf on board. He was likely the son of one of those officers. He despised Jews and blacks. Called them the N word to their faces.
A load of the Nazis got sanctuary in Ireland as well, having said that a lot of the Nazi war criminals got sanctuary in the USA, got well paid and lived a life of luxury for working for the Yanks, the same Yanks put the non tech Nazis to death after the trials, double standards all round.
my father had as an engineering teacher in Argentina, a certain Henrik Fokke. Adolf Heichmann as a neighbor in the late 50s. Their family didnt know who he was until it came on the news. Lots of germans came to Argentina, some war criminals and a lot of regular soldiers, their families, and regular people that had no affiliation with the nazi crimes
I’m so upset that the Americans had an almost completely intact U-Boat with no battle damage and freaking *sunk it in target practice* instead of preserving it for history 😫
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Type 7C had a maximun crew of 48 I believe, not 60. I've read the book about this voyage, amazing mental stamina and great fuel economy. Nice video.
Greatly appreciate it! Thanks for watching and have a fantastic week :)
Still have his book purchased by my father when first published who served throughout W.W.2 in the Royal Navy and briefly on U.S.S. South Dakota in 1943. 👍🏻🏴🇺🇸
Thank you to him for his service!
@@HiddenHistoryYT Thank you for taking the time to message me. I still have all his memorabilia. Including his Blue Nose Certificate signed by the South Dakota’s Captain for sailing North of the Arctic Circle in 1943. ✌️
"Soviet forces liberating the German capital" - so, a foreign army occupying another country's capital means liberation? Well, then, Germans liberated Warsaw, Paris, Copenhagen, Oslo, Brussels, Amsterdam, and other capitals. I'd say, they were one hell of liberators. :D
Well done.
Germans occupied those countries and killed millions, that's not liberaton ,that was Nazi conquest
Just like US military, still occupying Iraq and Syria.
The Soviets did not liberate Berlin they conquered it.
Nazis were criminal conquers.
I once lived in a place called Embu Das Artes, close to Sao Paulo, Brazil, which is famous for having Mengele burried in a cemetery nearby. In the town was a German Resturant run by three borthers, and in the afternoon, there friends would come by sometimes to meet drink etc, and they all spoke German. One day I asked...and they told me that the brothers and their friends were children of a group of young SS officers who were brought to Brazil by U boat near the end of the war.....so these stories are true. I asked one of the brothers, who became my friend if he met Mengele.....he said Uncle Mengee used to come by the house often when I was a kid.....I asked about others, and he said, all I can tell you is that Menegle was not the highest ranking Nazi offical to come by...our families where part of a survival network for people on the run, thats all
Very interesting! Thanks for watching and have a great week :)
You can't get any higher than Hitler. Read Grey Wolf by Simon Dunstan and Gerrard Williams . Hitler and Eva Braun had doubles and the bones that Russia claimed were theirs were proved to not be theirs once they had DNA .
Many thanks. The lives of others is fascinating no matter which ones present themselves. All men are the same. All react to circumstance beyond control. Blows me away how common bravery is.
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Adolf was probably on board. 🤔🇬🇧
No, he probably wasn't as he was already dead
@@jamesflaherty59 Show us the bones with his DNA if you are so sure . You won't find them in Germany nor in Russia.
100% sure! He got 23 years younger wife, dog Blondie, daughter Ursula ( not von der Leyen ) and plenty of gold in RM. Motive for suicide?! I don't think so! And, finally, another 17 good years in post-war world in South America. Be saluted! PS: Read "Grey Wolf ", please and visit Argentina.
Ich kannte ein Besatzungsmitglied persönlich, als kleiner Junge hat er mir seine Geschichte erzählt, die ganze Reise...
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did he told you "deuchland uber alles?"
@eliotness4029 Nein das hat er Nicht getan! Er war Matose , ein U-Bootmann, jeder von den Jungs die es zurück in einen Hafen geschafft haben war spätestens nach der zweiten , " Feindfahrt" von jeglicher Faschistischen Allmachtsfantasie geheilt, Nur ewig gestrige die das Thema unreflektiert Gloriefizieren und selber damit Mediale Aufmerksamkeit erhalten wollen fragen so etwas. Wie viele Amerikanische Soldaten waren den in Vietnam Politisch geformte Menschenschlächter die aus Lust getötet haben?? , stellt uns Deutsche nicht immer als "alles Vollblutnazies" hin. Alle sollten aus der Geschichte lernen , und da sollte nicht die erste Frage sein ob er auch ,so oder so , gesagt hat, nur um sich dann etwas zusammenzustellen was so nie war.
Hitler wasn't found dead in the bunker
Yes he was Russia took the bodies to Moscow and did not tell
Head Russian in Berlin was looking for AH and did not know they had him. Stalin one very bad apple
@chipcook6646 nope wrong again. What they recorded in their version of events was the alleged burnt bodies of hitler and Eva were found outside the bunker in shell blast hole . Not inside the bunker . However if you believe their story you're better off believing in fairies n' goblins pal
There is no evidence he was in the bunker dead. Nor is there any real evidence that his body was burned in the Chancellery courtyard after killing himself. There was a burned male and female body there but they cold not be identified. A lot of speculation is, he made it to Argentina with a lot of his buddies.
@0Zolrender0 my thoughts to . One of the biggest cover-ups of the 20th century
소련 당국이 히틀러가 죽었다고 공식 발표한 것은 1968년이다. 1945년 4월30일엔 히틀러의 生死나 행방 아무것도 확인되지 않았었다.
Perfect length for my morning walk and 😊you nailed the story
Walk it like I talk it
It's a shame that they destroyed the sub. It could have been used as a training vessel or even kept as a museum display like the U 505 in Chicago. I really enjoyed that tour and was so impressed by submariners. Great job as usual HH. Looking forward to all your videos in the new year.
Completely agree! As always, greatly appreciate you watching and have a fantastic week :)
The U Boat at the museum in Chicago is really an experience. It was surprising how small and cramped it is but more amazing that men could spend so much time in it submerged.
They don't like the truth coming out.
@@antoniodelrey164 I was more claustrophobic on the Becuna, but you're so right!
@@TRHARTAmericanArtist I was only on the U 595 I think were it’s numbers at the Museum in Chicago and that was enough for me. If the Becuna was even smaller then I’m sure you were more claustrophobic. Don’t know how those guys did it…
When i was in the nave we did a north Atlantic run where i bacame a Bluenoze for traveling under the Arctic circle, we spent 67 days under water. Much better conditions than these men. Our fast attack sub was built in 1967 ,i served on her 83-86. She was sold for scrap years later,she deserved better
Thank you for your service!
Yeah, U-977 was used to smuggle Hitler to Argentina. I met him there many years ago and aside from being responsible for the murder of millions of people, I found him to be a rather charming fellow, though I did not appreciate his Jewish jokes.
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To: Hidden History ---> Interesting video, but how could the "Americans" have any influence at all over the Argentinian government to demand that German sailors be given to the U.S.A.?!? Why did the Argentina government not keep the U-Boat? It was in their waters, NOT U.S.A. waters.
British did the same when Graf Spee was in Montevideo Harbour
Amazing journey, great sailors.
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*fewer torpedos, not less.
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Great channel, you cover a lot of less well known stories. I would really like to see you cover the IJN Tone and the Behar war crime.
Greatly appreciate it! I will add those to my list!
These guys were nuts if they were spotted in the Atlantic by allied ships they would have been sunk under the surrender terms!
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As a boy growing up in Florida in the 1960s I knew about a U-boat that was scuttled by its crew off the coast of Ft. Pierce. My father was a private pilot and on several occasions we flew over the boat right offshore. You could clearly see the outline of it against the white sandy bottom. As I recall the sub was not completely flooded and the bow had air in it so it would bounce around in a hole in the sand that it had made over the years. My dad had a mason jar filled with mercury that someone had supposedly drained out of its trim tanks. I never could find out what boat it was and today I can find no reference to it but it was there... I saw it.
Incredibly cool, thanks for sharing! Appreciate you watching and have a great week :)
I heard of another Uboat, scuttled, air in the bow, semi buoyant on the bottom.
Interesting video history, thanks! For reference, the French made a movie similar to this sub voyage after the war ended called "The Damned" a 1947 war film.
I will have to check that out! Any good?
Far Right, hahaha, you must be harvard educated 🤣, it's not a compliment it's a curse 😅
Si lo ven su tv permite subtitulo en varios idiomas, soy argentino , coleccionista de u boat 977 y u 530, y escribí un libro sobre submarinos alemanes y el uso de sus armas
Slipping away to Argentina was a temporary escape.
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Quite the amazing journey really. Specially when they were probably running on survival rations with double shifts towards the end of it. I doubt their voyage would have been successful 6 months earlier.
They would have certainly purchased food during their stop at Cape Verde.
It would have been very risky, with a skeleton crew and probably barely enough fuel and rations.
Indeed! Appreciate you watching and have a great week :)
Some Uboat took Hitler to South America. Maybe from coast of Spain.
For what? He died in Berlin
Nein he took ze Die Glocke 🛸
@@chipcook6646 DNA proved the bones were not his.
Of course! Read "Grey Wolf", please!
@@chipcook6646 No! That was a lie from winners of WW2. Simple as that!
Thanks HIDDEN HISTORY for yet another superb video.
Greatly appreciate you!
@HiddenHistoryYT Thank you HIDDEN HISTORY.You are the best.
Who is going to liberate people from the liberators?
😂
USA always libarate people.
Another liberators!
Hitler did escape to Argentina! Even Stalin said he most likely escaped!
'Even Stalin?'
Hitler never escaped
👋Die Glocke 🛸
Where and when did Staling claim such nonsense? Oh wait he didn't.
@@jamesflaherty59 Read 'The Last Days of Hitler' by Hugh Trevor-Roper. Expecially the part where he relates Stalin's allegations that Hitler was still alive and in hiding, probably in the British Sector.
Damn gone to the wrong channel. I thought it was the UBOAT that brought Hitler to Argentina.
Hitler died in Berlin. He never went to Argentina
Hitler was NOT in the bunker
Zero evidence he was able to flee. Lots of evidence he was in the bunker. You know zippo.
@@texaswunderkind
Hitlers body was never identified in or near bunker. And a friend of my father took the surrender of the German navy and was told by Russian officers in Berlin that Hitler was not in bunker. It was said Hitler died in the bunker just so his followers would believe the war was over. My fathers friend, Capt Graubart, told me that when everyone his age was gone, the truth would come out
👋Die Glocke 🛸
@@texaswunderkind DNA proved it was not Hitler in the bunker. If they would have had DNA back then they would have known it was not him. He got away.
That is correct! he was on the board. U - 977 and escaping to Argentina. Simple as that!
They slipped up on arrival. They should have scuttled the sub in deep water after studying Spanish during the voyage and integrated quietly in Argentina with the help of their German colonist buddies. Selling into the harbour in a submarine was a silly stunt given their objective.
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Fascinating
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The Soviets "liberated" Berlin? Give me a break!
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and who else?
Then who?😂 May be you say that americans won the WWII😂😂😂?
Se nota q el autor esta bien documentado,saludos desde argentina, enrique amarante cokeccionista u boarl 530 y u 977
Das gehörte zum sogenannten Führerkonvoi
With Hitler on board
That is correct!
Posiblemejte el u 977 estuvo merodeando varios dias x kas costas cercanas a necochea
I'll bet there was a little guy with a funny mustache on board
nope
@@achimotto-vs2lb How do you know?
You can bet on that information! Simple like that!
Never, never surrender,.
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Hola anda a tu televisor, línea subtitulo y pone idiomas y ahí te salen subtitulo en varios idiomas
Amazing journey using snorkel
With diesel engines must have
Been rather claustrophobic
Submerged for all that time
Uboats werent known for their
Comfort compared to american ones!
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Natseeism isn't Right nor conservitave. It's a far left ideal. Get it correct.
They never found Hitler's body .
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That is correct!
Allied behavior bordered on the ludicrous. Drunk with victory they could do what they pleased.
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That is correct!
I swear you were alive during this time period secretly hopping boat to boat.
The empty tubes stuffed with gold
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Great uniforms😅.
Always!
@@DaliborPerkovic-sw8mh If Ukraine changed their uniforms to that of Germany in WW2 they would have millions of new recruits.
@@perpetualgrin5804 When Germans occupied west part of the USSR, in 1941, fatal mistake was why der Wehrmacht doesn't recruited millions of Ukrainian men power. If they does doing that, WW2 would probably finish different on the East. And, maybe the Third Reich would never been defeated. Be saluted!
A.H seems to have been right
It’s so funny how many people in the comments knows exactly what happened without being there. Argentina is doing great these days that’s why there is a mass exodus back to Argentina now because it’s the only real European country left. 🤧🤣🤣🤣🤣👎🏼
Pity its Bankrupt and rum by a Fascist
LOL, Argentina is bankrupt, now a 3rd world country run as a dictatorship with a GDP not worth a mention.
They aren't doing good at all, economy is in shambles but their new president is their only hope to rebuild it, Argentina has proud people who deserve better
Argentina has been on the skids for decades. The young are leaving like lemmings, so sad.
blimey
Belize
Fascinating story
Appreciate you watching and have a great week :)
The Fuhrer was on the sub..
There were many subs that made this journey. He could have been on board any one of them.
Why would H-man even want to survive the war? It doesn’t make sense
@@FoxWolfWorld He had close friends in Argentina,he wanted to rest and recuperate from the massive physical and psychological toll that the war had taken on him.He began writing another book....
@@FoxWolfWorld He didn’t strike me as a quitter.
Not this one.
My guy 👍👍
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2 weeks unaccounted for! And he USA knew it.
En esos dias, en toda la cost de la prov buenos aires, hubos probables desembarcos en moromar y nas al sur, usa habia avisado elw5 de mayo a argentina q 2 o mas sumarnos se dirigian a argentina y qye probablemente tenian contaxto entre si
Argentina nunca fue pro-Nazi porque sostuvo a Gran Bretaña de alimentos y estafó al reconocer esa deuda comercial. Pro era EEUU que albergo cientos de ellos en sus industrias.
Love that this is in the operation Highjump lore
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@@HiddenHistoryYT you too 🫡 keep up the good work
The soviets never found hitler what u talking about
Adolf would never have survived the trip. He wasn't the bug out type. No.... he blew his false teeth out.
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66 days under water? Did the boat have a snorkel? I always believed that U-boats only had enough power for a few hours under water.
Yes! Thanks for watching and have a great week :)
@@HiddenHistoryYT You did not answer the very good statement / question from mikeh2613 about the snorkeling procedure. Subs from WW2 had to snorkel (surface enough to be above the water line) in order to get fresh air and charge batteries.
@@HiddenHistoryYT thanks. Just as an aside, a friend of mine who was an ex-submariner once told me that boats go under the water whereas ship go on top. Always stuck with me.
Not 66 days in a row!
Running off the batteries to save fuel
It's not Gerbils. It's Goebbels. Pet peeve.
From what I understand she docked with tons with liquid mercury and gold.
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Bravo Deuchland Soldaten, Ljubivoje.
que vehiculos utilizaron los nzis para ir a eeuu, rusia, inglaterra, y otros paises esa es mi pregunta
Ugh, "sustained" not "attained".
> ET en langue francophone . . . ? Merci ! ! ! > Dommage-bon documentaire !
Sorry m8 I’m in America. Thanks for watching and have a great week :)
Outstanding.
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La historia no se puede cambiar
He had to stop for fuel somewhere, uboats don’t have that range!!!!!!
Of course one could.
notsees are lefties, goofy
Bingo.., this clown must have been taught history at Harvard and that is unfortunately not a compliment today...
What is a “double acting” electric motor?
They act as an electric motor or as a generator as well.
@@justanotheraviator2357 ah ha… more commonly know as a motor-generator… I had an 1972 steer-damlier- puch 4wd truck that for starting would back feed the belt driven generator and use it as the starter motor… it made a weird whining sound when used that way!
AT LEAST THE CAPTAIN TOOK CARE OF HIS MEN
BY ALLOWING THE FIRST GROUP TO LEAVE EARLY AS TO THEIR WISHES!
AND WITH ALL THE PROBLEMS GOT HIS SUB TO A SAFE PORT,
WITH SUBMARINE AND CREW INTACT!
THERE WERE NO DOUBT SOME IDIOT CAPTAINS THAT WOULD HAVE ENDED IT ALL IN A LAST MINUTE
REVENGE SUICIDE MISSION!
@@dougmoore4326A lot of your golf carts work like this where the generator that spins to charge the battery to start the gas engine also cranks the gas engine over to start them .
i dont think the big man was on board
He wasn,t dead either
You are so wrong! Simple as that!
A pack of lies
Down with USA!
Uno de los mejores videos que vi en Internet, sobre el u 977, y eso que vi muchísimos, felicitaciones Enrique amarante. Queque argentina, autor el último secreto de eva brau
toptalfjoren rett med bertesbukta
Not worth watching
"Only rats and mice" 🫡
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Amazing story.
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Its BS that a biden ad comes up with nearly every you tube video. FJB
Ya sorry I can’t control that. Appreciate you watching though :)
This is a fake
Huh