For years, theories have existed that the leadership of Nazi Germany, including infamous German leader Adolf Hitler, saw the oncoming destruction of Germany at the hands of the Soviet Union and Allied forces, and attempted to flee to South America before it was too late. Germany had a somewhat positive relationship with Argentina, and many Germans did escape there (as well as to Spain and other states that would hide them from the Allied trials that followed the war). The theory has been that Hitler faked his death with a body double, then escaped via a very powerful submarine to live out his days in a remote area of Argentina. Much of this hinged on one very large, powerful German submarine that was capable of making the transatlantic journey non-stop (as Germany would have been unable to refuel anywhere else), the Type XXI U-3523. This submarine was allegedly sunk while attempting an escape, but was never located to verify it's destruction, fueling rumors and theories for decades thereafter.
Well, we now know where the submarine that many have thought ferried the Nazi leader to safety, but it is not in Argentina.
About 9 miles off the coast of Denmark, approximately where the British Royal Navy claimed a submarine was sunk, the wreckage of infamous U-3523 has been found speared into the seafloor, largely intact judging by the scans released by the Sea War Museum of Denmark. They are interested in some form of recovery, but how that may be possible, and what artifacts may be discovered is impossible to say for sure.
What is certain, is that like the Nazis that tried to escape their fate at the hands of the Allies; this old mystery is now dead.
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