The Real Story of Hitler in Argentina... 

I think this is the first time I've ever seen Simon's arms

Seeing Simon in a t-shirt is like seeing your teacher at the grocery store

The part about the skull top you had wrong, they claimed it was his but when tested it was revealed to be the skull of a much younger woman. When that discovery was made the Russians abruptly took the skull top back and it hasn't been examined by anyone since.

The skull the Soviets had isn't Hitler's. They ran a DNA test and it was female. We have no idea if it was Eva and they just grabbed the wrong skull, because Eva's family refused to provide dna for comparison

I dare say we need a channel called “Tangents.” Simon tells stories from his life, reads letters from unhinged fans, read letters from hinged fans, and of course we need Danny’s hometown stories. It would be a blast. Allegedly.

I live in Argentina. Haven't seen him yet. I'll keep my eyes open.

The biggest issue I have with the whole "Hitler escaped to Argentia" idea is that he would be well enough to do so. The bastard was in terrible health. Slow, shuffling, left hand behind his back twitching and twirling from Parkinson's, suffering from intense withdrawal after kicking out his supplier...I mean doctor, and the general stress of sucking so bad at commanding an army had left him an old man before his time. He was a fifty something year old that moved around like he was seventy.

I was born in a small town in Brazil with a high number of German and German descendants, a lot of Nazi soldiers and officers went there after the war, one was even accused of being that disappeared Nazi High Officer (Martin Borgman if I remember correctly) even the Federal Police went there to check, but he was to young to be him. There are even legends that Hitler hid there a few weeks before going to Argentina

It's even funnier knowing that there's a 0% chance Simon would have seen The Big Lebowski. 😂

Arnaldo, some of us appreciated your Big Lebowski references. Even if they went right over Simon’s head. Thank you. 😂

Well done, Simon and Arnaldo. By a strange coincidence, historian Dr. Mark Felton (who knows a lot more about this stuff than the History Channel) uploaded a very similar video today about Hitler's final hours and the Soviet investigation afterwards, built on solid real-world research. I highly recommend that video for anyone who wants more information on this topic.

The sad truth about the "24-year-old captain and his even younger crew": He was probably just the oldest marine left, when the sub left the docks. After all, war always kills the young men of your nation first.

If you have a general idea of the war in general, some of the military decisions; Hitler was very much a "No step back!" " We're only losing because my generals are cowards who aren't trying hard enough, we can still win" kind of leader. So yeah, him holding on till the Soviets are literally in Berlin and then blowing his brains out rather than being captured does fit his general pattern of behaviour, which alone makes the official history quite plausible.

The reason U Boat crews were so young is because so few boats returned from even their first tour. By the end of the war, they had no experienced crews left alive.

Your writer should probably include information provided by Dr. Mark Felton, member of the Royal Historical Society, RU-vidr, and Author of a recent series that point out all the problems with the identification of the 2 bodies as being those of Eva and Hitler.

Bonus points to Danny for using the character list from the Big Lebowski in a story and sliding it right past Simon.

Simon should make a channel just showing the absolutely batshit insane messages he gets from some people. I'd watch the hell out of that. 😂

As a Frenchman (partial anyway) living in Austria, who has always been "fascinated" by food, I feel uniquely qualified to comment on this very serious issue: While it is true the Austrians have invented the proto-croissant, as they did with the cappucino, the Kipferl, is a completely different beast to the modern croissant. The dough is more like regular bread, it had the basic shape of the croissaint. But the dough is completely different. The French Kipferl, is made with much more butter. It has that soft cloud like buttery texture, that manages to create the highest calorie to density ratio known to man. A single croissant has as many calories as an entire baguette. It feels very light but anyone on a diet should choose a Kipferl over a croissant (sigh).

I actually watched at least 3 seasons of that History Channel "Hunting Hitler" show. In some ways its not as much of a waste of time as it might seem. They present a lot of history and archeology about the networks of bunkers the Nazis built, and ways the Germans used South America and Franco's "neutral" Spain as kind of a back door to the rest of the world, even during the war, and they explain a lot of stuff the U-boats were doing. They find some pretty conclusive proof that some Nazis did escape to South America and live there, and they find a lot of crazy ways that Nazi diplomats and agents were moving in and out of Berlin, right up to the end of the war. I haven't kept track in detail, but i think most of the stuff they presented that wasn't about Hitler himself, Ive seen corroborated elsewhere. And actually, seeing them flail around and try so hard to prove the remains from Berlin wasn't him, and still fail, kind of proved to me that he did in fact die exactly as conventional history relates. I feel like the show would get more respect if they just called it "Hunting Nazis" and didn't keep flogging on about old Adolf himself at the beginning and end of every single episode. I would have still watched it, but I'm a nerd after all, and I guess they thought it needed that extra hook to get viewers. But yeah, spoiler alert: they don't find him lol.

The most convincing argument agaisnt hitler living for 16 years in argentina is the fact that Hitler remained absolutely 100% silent in all that time. There is absolutely no way he would have been able to do that even if he was fused with a chair, had his vocal cords removed, and amputated all his limbs. He would still have, somehow, managed to dictate at least 100 books in that state. He did not even fucking manage to not dictate half a book minutes before his death, so no fucking way he would remain radio silent for 16 years and beyond his death. At the latest when stalin died in 53 he would have wrote at least 1000 pages on how to destroy the soviets with no being in existence capable of stopping him.

The Dude, Walter, and Donnie are all references to 'The Big Lebowski' which is a movie containing a "Ringer" which is a fake item hidden in a bag, assumed to be something else. I like the writer for using this as foreshadowing. 😂

21:47 there's something so hilarious about Simon totally missing the reference and still laughing because The Dude, Walter and Donnie don't sound Argentinian.

I don't think Simon got The Big Lebowski reference in the story with "the dude" walter and donny, lol. We love you Simon, never change.

My granddad served in the war and always thought Hitler had survived, but I reckon that was more out of a feeling of: this person was evil and unless I see his dead body with my own eyes, I can't say without a shadow of a doubt that he's really dead. Less, I have secret intelligence of the fact and more, traumatised by six years of warfare. I think a huge part as to why this one persists is because there *were* definitely nazi's that managed to escape to South America, so it's obviously possible that Hitler might have too. As you say, there's always a kernal of truth to a story.

Apparently my partner has been watching another Whistler channel, and made me watch. The lack of tangents disturbed me. Not one story about the kids.

There are striking parallels between the conspiracy theories about Hitler's death and those surrounding the death of Roman emperor Nero in 68 CE. Nero died while attempting to flee Italy after the rest of the Roman government declared him an enemy of the state. It seems that his plan was to seek refuge in the Parthian Empire (Persia) and use there support to eventually retake his throne. However, when it became clear that his enemies were going to catch him, Nero decided to kill himself at a house where he and his close companions stopped for the night. Like Hitler, his body was also burned almost immediately. Therefore, at first there was some uncertainty about what actually happened to him. It took a few days for people in Rome to hear that he was dead. Almost immediately after his death, conspiracy theories started about how the whole suicide story was just a hoax used by Nero's enemies so they could claim the throne for themselves. This conspiracy theory had some real world effects as over the next ~30 years there were at least 3 different people who claimed to be Nero led rebellions against Rome.

Always appreciate a Big Lebowski reference, Arnaldo, cheers! Not surprised Simon skated by it, whether he’s seen the movie or not! To paraphrase slightly “[Simon] you’re out of your element!”

Never asks a man his salary, a woman his age and argentinians what their grandfathers did in Germany in the 40s

One of my uncles who served in Intelligence during the war received a handwritten letter from President Truman thanking him for his extraordinary service in South America. The uncle never spoke of his service and took it to his grave. No one in the family has ever thought he was involved in anything regarding hitler, but always curious as to just what he did.

I'm sad the editor didn't put in more Big Lebowski pics when Simon definitely wasn't getting it.

Simon not getting the Big Lebowski reference to The Dude Walter and Donny is hilarious 😂

I'm not sure how, after 100's of videos, I'm just realizing the music change when Simon goes off the rails on tangents lol

I love how Simon is saying ‘The Dude, Walter and Donnie’ with absolutely zero awareness to the significance of the names 😂 It really ties the whole piece together 🥛🎳

Anyone else suddenly feel like watching " The Big Lebowski?"

As someone who doesn’t have cable tv and therefore doesn’t watch “regular news”, I would encourage you to still do the declassified channel! Just because the news covers it doesn’t mean a lot of people (especially the younger generations) are hearing about it!

I was waiting for Maude, Jesus and Sam Elliott to turn up 😂😂😂😂 Very slick Arnaldo 😂😂 Was just watching a reaction to The Big Labowski today. 👌🏻👌🏻👌🏻

Simon, have you ever looked at the casualty rates in U-boats? A 24 year-old captain is an old man in the U-boats.

Last time i was this early Simon was still on topic.

7:40 Bingo. After Hitler saw what happened to Mussolini, he decided that he wanted to avoid the indignity of his corpse getting desecrated and opted to have his body already too damaged to have anything done to him after death.

“The Dude” abides Simon, “The Dude” abides - Your writer is an absolute legend for that “Big Lebowski” tie in. Well played sir, well played 🙌🏼

My grandfather was pretty certain Hitler was still alive. He was a slave worker for most of the war and he said he was working outside one time and saw multiple cars over the course of one day pull up to a building across the street and a Hitler came out of each one. I believe his story since Hitler had many assassination attempts so having body doubles sounds right. So I could imagine at least some of his body doubles escaped down to Argentina.

I love the turn of phrase "Stalin you have enough bad marks"

There is no shot Simon was catching Arnaldo's Lebowski reference. It was glorious. Slick writing.

You know you're old when you used to watch the history channel for history shows...

Poor Simon... Missing all the great big Lebowski references. Thank Arnaldo!

Thats kind of sad about Stalin. He didn't want to lose war time allies. He'd miss his friends, his buddies, and his pals.

The reason for the young ages of higher ranking officers during ww2 was due to well the war, war and battlefield action gives plenty of chances for promotions, while peace times doesn't, thus it takes years of peace time practice and tests and hoping someone above you retire or gets promoted leaving a space open for you, it's a big thing soldiers in the current peace era complain about, you put in 15 years of hard work and you still stuck where you where 15 years ago. Also during war time death and injury is quite common leaving gaps that need filling, and plenty of young men to force into those roles until their time is up and they need replacing. Form what I recall the officers that stormed Normandy where at their oldest late 30's, yet today during peace times having those higher ranks at late 30's is considered pretty young to have it.

I lived in Milwaukee for over twenty years and every now and then they'd discover that some mild-mannered grandpa had been a Nazi, usually having served as a guard at one of the concentration camps. Because Milwaukee has a large German population *and* a large Jewish population, such events inevitably created a minor uproar.

I would love to see Simon, do a weekly news channel where he just spits out the facts that are available and gives no editorial. I feel like he do a perfect job.

I've got one for y'all to cover: The story of how a witch cursed the Sheriff of Salem, Massachusetts, following which every Salem sheriff died under very mysterious and rare circumstances to the point that they had to dismantle the position to break the curse. That's the story I heard, anyway.... I'd love for it to be decoded!

This might be a stupid question but if Hitler was in fact still alive and tried to cover up his death with a staged suicide then would it not had just been easier to alter his dental records to match that of the skull recovered in the garden as opposed to physically altering himself or have I missed a key element here that would prevent this from being a possibility? I would appreciate any thoughts on the matter. Simon and Company please keep up the wonderful work entertaining and educating all of us with your numerous RU-vid channels. The pride that you put into everything you do and the joy by which you seem to do it really shines through the quality of every production. As a fan I just wanted to express my gratitude and say thank you. Wishing you and your loved ones a lifetime of health and happiness all the way from Smithfield, Virginia in the US. Take care and please keep up the great work.

For Declassified stories, the idea is to really amp up the fiction around it; pick a topic with potentially crazy rumors and conspiracy theories and delve into all the history surrounding the classified info, then have the released declassified info at the end as a small part to show how even boring information can get out of hand when it is a government secret.

As an Argentinian I would like to clarify: infobae is like a mild version of The Daily Mail… I wouldn’t put too much trust in any article posted there. Also, everybody knows no report / investigation done or published during Menem’s period can be reliable. Simon could create a new RU-vid channel completely made of stories about the corruption and irregularities that characterized the 90s in Argentina.

Simon I would say Egypt had skilled workers so did Africa.. for all time. This is because some of these people could turn rock into sculptures, metal to knifes, or obsidian into knives and arrow heads and I bet that most of us would have a hard time accomplishing these task without years of training.

There’s a whole touristic industry in Argentina about the supposed places where Hitler lived in Patagonia, books and “documentaries” about it, etc.

So happy to see an Arnaldo written script! It feels like ages since we’ve seen his wonderful work!

I don’t think I’ve ever seen the bare naked flesh of Simon’s arms before. What a memorable moment.

I'd say Declassified might be a good series of RU-vid shorts for Decoding the Unknown or maybe they could be a subset of decoding the unknown episodes where theres an episode with a bunch of declassified information from different countries.

It was a woman's skull not his

This demonetization of actual history using the actual names is insane. I get it, in theory, RU-vid can choose what they allow. However, dumbing down podcasts so that we don't hear "bad" words is wild.

I wouldn't want to encourage them, but a channel where Simon reads aloud emails that crazy people have sent him would be great entertainment!

The failed Austrian painter saying "Hello there, Old Bean!" is a rather interesting mental image. Thank you(?) Simon.

Here's an idea for Declassified: do it Internet's Deepest Mystery style, where the writer presents a declassified case with several solutions and Simon has to guess the real answer. I'm sure the fine writers of the Whistlerverse can find some case files with solutions that are normal enough to not be thumb tacks and string worthy but are funny and weird.

That skull the Russians had was a female's skull.

Simon’s mini rant about Stalin. 😆

Hitler's health was 100% shot by 1945. His doctor described him as a "living corpse." He had been a hardcore druggie for years, and the stress of the assassination attempt and losing WWII would have been pretty rough. He could not have survived a trip to Argentina.

Am I the only one waiting for the decoding the unknown: the American UAP whistleblower, and Simon having to be like so Aliens are real? And the tangents that it could cause 🤣

The Dude, Walter, & Donny. 🤔 🤔 🤔 Anyone wanna go bowling???

Bell music way too loud, made Simon hard to hear. Great episode otherwise!

I mean, the 24 year old captain probably got fast tracked seeing as most higher officers were in Nuremberg.😂

Simon not catching the Big Lebowski reference is gold

Addressing simons "declassified" idea. I feel a mini series on this channel of things that were mysteries that were later explained by declassified documents could be cool. Could do it the format of an epic blaze, where he talks about several cases in one long video

This video is exactly how long I have left at work 😂

If only we had his body confirmed by all sides. Not to keep it, burn and then dump the ashes; but just so everyone knows he is dead

Eichmann was the one who was caught in South America, others were also tracked down around the Continent and it has been somewhat confirmed that Mengele died in Brazil. Martin Bormann, Hitler's secretary was also said to have lived in Argentina. There is an Island off the South American coast which also has strong connections to the Nazi's, and they had apparently made plans to set up a fourth Reich of sorts there.

When the first ad rolls and I know Simon will actually get paid for his excellent work on this video

To spice up any channel: 1) Add custom neon sign in background with your initials (a blue SW would look great) 2) Print out script on actual paper 3) Stand and read the script. Begin to pace and smack the script multiple times (assert your dominance) 4) Yell at your plants and lock all your employees in the basement (AM I RIGHT, PETER!?)

these videos are always much more quiet than almost anything else i watch. please crank up simon's audio in the final mix

I have arrived within a minute of the post. Decoding the Unknown is too good to wait for RU-vid to remember its job and notify me. Edit: Now that I've finished the video, I did want to say that I at least "get" this one. Several other high ranking Nazis *did* flee, some of which went to Argentina. Given the evidence it's pretty silly to think Hitler did, but it's only like a 3/10 on the crazy scale.

My grandfather was detained in Detroit due to the haircut,mustache, (very common style then) and vague likeness of Hitler. As many others were. A credible sighting would be near impossible to find.

Always love watching your vids and your tangents \but please have whoever edits to turn your volume up or maybe its something on your input that needs turning up a bit. It's really hard to hear while I have a game going (even at low volume) and the music could be turned down a smidge too so that your voice is maybe about 25% or more up from your speaking/mic audio :) just an AV nerd trying to kindly help is all :)

Simon, if you ever decide to do that "Declassified" channel, I already have about three episodes in mind that I could write for you. In fact, one of them is an old term paper I wrote in grad school that I would just have to polish up a bit...I might be a bit of an archive nerd.

Regarding the Declassified channel idea: sometimes they do just declassify fascinating stuff. There's a documentary I watched called Bugging Hitler's Soldiers, which details recordings made by MI19 (yes, there used to be a LOT of MI units) of German POW generals during WWII. The scheme was that an MI19 officer commandeered Trent Park, one of those classic old manor houses, and posed as a British gentleman who felt that regardless of all else in the war, generals were to be treated as gentlemen, and basically gave them free reign of his house and grounds, with minimum levels of supervision except at the borders of the property. And the entire mansion and its grounds were wired with thousands of microphones. Theory being, make them feel like they're at a country retreat and they'll relax enough to talk among themselves. People there from earlier would ask for news of the war from new inmates. Newspapers printed specially for the camp would provide articles intended to provoke conversations about things that were of interest. Etc. Absolutely fascinating system, and similar to the Enigma decoding systems, was considered so supremely useful as a military intelligence tool that they put the lockdown on *anyone* including the US and other allies knowing about it...and lessons learned in setting up that camp went on to inform spycraft in the cold war. All of this was quietly declassified in one of those giant infodumps when stuff from its era came up for review. By this point the idea of "plant microphone in place, listen to person talk, thus get secrets" was a pretty mundane idea even in spy fiction, so they didn't have any reason to keep it secret anymore. So, eventually some historian or student thereof is doing a deep dive into this random uboat captain's life. He thinks he has all the documents available, but to be sure, he runs a very broad search of the British national archive on this guy, and it comes back with some 8000 pages of transcripts where this guy was either talking or talked about. (They did the same thing with uboat captains and luftwaffe officers who were captured at a couple of other facilities.) All brand new stuff that nobody seemed to know the source of. So he does a bunch more digging and comes up with documents on this whole scheme that by this point in the 90s or something has been forgotten by pretty much *everyone.* So...yeah, the absolute gold in these batch declassifications is hard to find, but there's at least one case of someone just bumping into the declassified records of a completely forgotten aspect of WWII British spycraft. I'm sure there's other nuggets of cool history just buried forgotten in the massive databases that are national archives. Though despite my enthusiasm for the idea, I totally understand not being willing to do the digging yourself. I'm not up for doing it either. And...this is a thing people do. Those people are archivists and historians.

All I can think is "Stalin got bad Marx"

Hey, Simon! I'm getting frozen when I die, too! Looking forward to seeing Decoding the Unknown 2455 AD!

Anything is "plausible" within universal laws. One just needs to investigate if something actually happened. So, while it was plausible that he escaped from germany, it was proven that he did not.

Simon is actually the funniest dude ever. this level of cynical sarcasm is so fucking hilarious in these serious topics. 10/10

Attention NETFLIX I'm currently watching [Treason] because of Simon.....editor please get rid of the music box audio or turn it way down

43:13 If Hitler had body doubles seeing the same dentist, the dentist just needs to switch the names on the records. 46:13 Also, I think that it's more of a case of Hitler's followers wanting to believe he survived, and his enemies wanting to make sure he's dead.

Everytime I go to Uruguay for New Years, they always show "the house where Hitler died" in Argentina on the news. 😂

Finally, The Whistler has come to Argentina. I’ve waited on this.

I watched an episode of expedition unknown about this and it fully convinced me that Hitler escaped to Argentina

Hey Simon, my ears are sending an SOS! Can we please have a ceasefire on the music box mayhem? Your show's my jam, a daily auditory delight, but halfway through each episode, I find myself teetering on the edge of the sound effect abyss. I'm all for creative flair, but some of these sound effects are plotting world domination in my headspace. No fibs here, just plain honesty. And don't even get me started when those headphone ninjas are at play. Your voice? It's the superstar of my listening universe!

RU-vid, please just let poor Simon get paid, and say what he wants wherever he wants, on any channel he wants. Thanks.

Stalin knew the Americans were prone to conspiratorial and magical thinking. He did it for the lulz.

The "Simon got sidetracked music" tickles me.

The bit about the pyramids at the beginning, no one is saying they were too stupid to build the pyramids, they are right there so someone obviously built them. What most people are questioning is how they did it, and how so many cuts into the very hard types of stone were made so incredibly precisely and to a degree that according to a lot of stonemasons would be hard to replicate even today with computerized machining tools. I know that playing the skeptical naysayer is your thing but come on, it doesn't hurt to look into stuff before you completely dismiss it. Watch some unchartedx and see for yourself, it's really interesting

Your tangents are more than HALF the run-time of most of your uploads, Simon. FOCUS!

Ahhhh yes the Big Laboski reference

"Arnaldo Teodorani" sounds like it should be the name of a famous sculptor, or painter, or perhaps a dictator, or... wait, I'm going to stop now...