I had come a long way with my research in Colombia. Now he had several stories related to Hitler there and, also, very importantly, he had interviewed witnesses who had seen the F�hrer. The unpublished information that he had found supported the possibility that Hitler had been in Colombia and that, therefore, he could have been photographed according to what was expressed in the CIA documents . It was time to start putting together all the pieces found during years of research: the relationship of the European nobility with the National Socialists, particularly the House of Orange; the characteristics of the evacuation plan of the Third Reich, which especially involved the Catholic Church, the US government and different characters from the allied side; the participation of large German companies, several associated with North American companies, which had transferred and laundered capital in America; arms and drug trafficking deals, which financed a large postwar organization run by Nazi veterans; the role of Philip Citroen and that of Prince Bernardo of the Netherlands, key personalities in this plot; the intelligence documents, which leave no doubt about a Hitler living in exile; the witnesses found, who did not know each other, but whose statements coincide; and the exceptional photo of Hitler in Tunja in 1954, whose true origin is certified by old CIA documents .

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128 Ricardo Motta Vargas (2017). "The educational contribution of the Germans in Tunja". It happened like that. Available at: www.asisucedio.co

129 Javier Ocampo L�pez is a Colombian writer, historian, educator and folklorist. Doctor in History from the Colegio de M�xico, 1968, Doctor Honoris Causa in Social Sciences from the Pedagogical and Technological University of Colombia ( UPTC ), 2007. Author of more than a hundred books and a large number of articles published in different written media. .

130 Abel Basti (2018). Hitler in Columbia . Bogota: Planet, p. 319- SS .

131 ibid . 130, p. 138.

132 ibid . 130, p. 138-139.

133 ibid . 130, p. 139.

134 ibid . 130, p. 139.

135 Diego Becerra and Olga Restrepo (1993). "The sciences in Colombia: 1783-1790, a historical-sociological perspective". Colombian Journal of Education , (26), p. 31.

136 Alin Helg (2001). "Initiation of a process of school reforms between 1924 and 1934" In Education in Colombia: 1918-1957 A social, economic and political history. Bogot�: National Pedagogical University, p.178. More about Rafael Bernal's experience can be found in Rafael Bernal, La r�forme , 40, Escuela Normal Superior de Tunja. boyac� Colombia (Tunja, 1931).

137 Archive Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Report of the head of the Investigations Department of the National Police, Arturo Vallejo S�nchez, to the General Directorate of the Police, January 13, 1942.

138 Javier L�pez Ocampo (2003). Creation and founders of the Pedagogical University of Colombia . Tunja: B�hos, Editorial Pedagogical and Technological University of Colombia.

139 Julius Sieber. Job application submitted to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Colombia. File no. 1808-82-14.

140 Communications with Rafael Bulla Pinto by chat during March 2018.

141 Abel Basti (2018), Hitler in Colombia , p. 327.

142 Julius Sieber. Record, Colombian National Police, Foreigners Section, February 27, 1952.

143 La Vanguardia newspaper , May 9, 2007.

144 Julius Sieber. Job application submitted to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Colombia. File no. 1808-82-14.

145 Julius Sieber. Record, Colombian National Police, Foreigners Section, February 27, 1952.

146 Interview with Carlos Julio Duarte, Paipa, October 24, 2017.

147 Decree 2655, October 10, 1953, by which the Pedagogical University of Colombia is created, with headquarters in the city of Tunja and other provisions are issued.

148 "The Eagle represents power and authority" explains the Technological and Pedagogical University of Tunja when referring to the symbols used in its emblems, according to information published on the website. More information can be found at http://www.uptc.edu.co/infantil/1_ns#:~:text=Logo%20S%C3%ADmbolo&text=El%20%C3%A1guila%3A%20significa%20poder%20y, in%20honour%20%20Cacique%20Goranchacha .

149 Runes are symbols that were used to write in the Germanic languages before the Christianization of part of Europe. The oldest runic inscriptions found date back to 150 AD.

150 Abel Basti (2018), Hitler in Colombia , p. 331.

151 ibid . 150.

152 On how the German diplomatic service was a safe area for the Nazis after the war, see Abel Basti (2018). Hitler in Columbia . Bogota: Planet.

153 Diego Pedraza Runner. �CIME mission in Colombia�. Report prepared especially for this investigation.

154 Laureano G�mez forged a good relationship with the future leaders of the Third Reich during his stay in Germany between 1930 and 1933, as Colombian ambassador to that country. It is even mentioned that he would have had a direct relationship with Adolf Hitler, who, at that time, was beginning his rise to the German Chancellery.

155 Diego Pedraza Runner. "CIME mission in Colombia". Report prepared especially for this investigation.

156 ibid . 155.

157 ibid . 155.

158 From 1932 to 1933 Schwendemann worked at the Reich embassy in Geneva. From 1935 to 1937, he served in the embassies of Paris and Madrid. In 1939 he worked in the political department of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and, from 1941, in the embassy in occupied France, where he directed the Press Department.

159 At the end of the war, Mohmann was arrested by the Soviets who kept him prisoner for nine years. After being released, in 1954, he was appointed as a civil servant in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Federal Republic of Germany. In mid-July 1956 he was granted the agreement as ambassador in Bogot�.

160 On October 1, 1934, Werz joined the NSDAP , with membership number 2,873,248.

161 This diplomat, in 1937, had joined the Nazi party, with membership number 3 810 743 and came to have the rank of Lieutenant Leader of the SS (# 156496). During the Third Reich Ostermann von Roth was appointed representative of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in the High Command of the Army II. In 1941 he was second secretary of the German Embassy in Washington and, in 1944, counselor of the Nazi legation in Lisbon, Portugal.

162 Felipe Gonz�lez Toledo (1911-1991) was a writer in the newspapers El Liberal , La Raz�n , El Espectador , El Tiempo and the magazine Sucesos . He is remembered as the author of anthological police chronicles about the crimes that shook the society of Bogot� in the forties.

163 Engineer Edwin Uma�a Pe�a graduated as a professional in Literary Studies from the Javeriana University of Bogot� and a Master's Degree in Literary Creation from the University of Seville, Spain. He also graduated as a Filmmaker, specializing in screenplay, at the San Antonio de los Ba�os International Film and Television School.

164 Interview with Georg Alexander von Gutzmann, Bogot�, May 20, 2017.

165 Jorge Raphael Gutzmann arrived in Colombia as a baby with his parents in the twenties. He received an engineering degree and in 1936 he was hired by the Organization Todt, founded by Fritz Todt, an eminent engineer member of the Nazi party, to build a sector of the so-called Atlantic Wall, remaining in Germany for that reason until 1940, after which returned to Colombia.

166 The Hot Springs today bears the name of Hotel Colonial.

167 The design of the Termas de Puyehue hotel was made by the German architect Eugenio Freitag who projected a 26,500 square meter building, inspired by the constructions of the Swiss Alps that used native stone and wood. Inaugurated in 1942, the hotel, managed by Germans, formally belonged to the Sociedad Termas de Puyehue, whose majority partner was the Sociedad de Turismo y Hoteles de Chile, represented by Alberto Browne. The background dates back to 1910 when the German Conrado Hubach built a first hotel in that area that allowed you to enjoy thermal baths.

168 Avianca was the company that was created from its predecessor, the Colombian German Air Transport Society ( SCADTA ), founded in 1919.

169 Interview with Carlos Julio Duarte, Paipa, October 24, 2017.

170 Interview with Carlos Julio Duarte, Paipa, October 24, 2017. The filmed video is part of the author's archives.

171 Sanicol functioned as such between 1944 and 1964, when it was acquired by the company AH Robins, a well-known North American pharmaceutical multinational that, in the sixties, began to expand rapidly by buying laboratories in different parts of the world.

172 United States Department of State (1942). The Proclaimed List of Certain Blocked Nationals. Revision III, August 10, 1942. Promulgated Pursuant to Proclamation 2497 of the President of July 17, 1941. Washington: United States Government Printing Office. https://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/webbin/book/lookupid?key=ha001122870

173 Boris Beschiroff married Emile Holzapfel and they had a daughter named Maya, who married Heinrich Karl Mart�n Werner Kausel Schneider. So apparently there was a family relationship between the Beschiroffs and the Kausels. See History and Genealogy � History of Valdivia, Chile : https://historiadevaldivia-chile.blogspot.com.ar/2014/02/familia-schneider.html

174 The Sanitas laboratory was created in the 1920s by medical professors from the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Chile, and its start-up was the result of the work carried out by Eduardo Cruz-Coke as a health official. Lassabe, Chilean doctor and politician, belonging to the conservative party. It functioned as a first clinical laboratory for research and diagnosis of multiple diseases. Initially, work was done on the development of methods for the identification of pathogenic germs and for the measurement of biochemical factors.

175 This German company began by manufacturing tartaric acid salts which, together with bicarbonate, citrate and other salts, made up the so-called "white drug", which were purchased by pharmacies and which also had applications in fabric dyeing. Subsequently, they began using bacteria to produce lactic acid in commercial quantities. The next thing was to make pills and extract alkaloids from plants, such as morphine and codeine. Then they began to develop products for cardiovascular and respiratory diseases, among another range of medicines.

176 Eugen Binkele, Handbook no. � 38 540 Colombian National Police, Foreigners Section, June 16, 1953. Eugen Binkele. Background Colombian Migration, Immigration Department, Code 38 540.

177 Work contract between the Sanicol SA Medical Institute and Eugen Luis Binkele, signed by Binkele and by Walter Blell assistant manager, August 24, 1953.

178 Aguacia's filmed account is online on the YouTube channel in the name of Abel Basti.

179 For more details on the presence of the highest Nazi hierarch in Bogot�, see Abel Basti (2018). Hitler in Columbia . Bogota: Planet.

180 Gustavo Rugeles (2017). "Who is the owner of the house in Teusaquillo where Hitler stayed in Bogot�?" The File , November 1, 2017. Available at: https://elexpediente.co/dueno-la-casa-teusaquillo-donde-se-alojo-hitler-bogota/

181 Ibid ., 180, sp.

182 Ibid ., 180, sp.

At the time of writing this book I have not advanced on the clues given by MB due to lack of time to investigate and adequate resources. I have preferred to concentrate on the investigation of the photo taken in Tunja to see if the character that appears in it is really Hitler or a good impersonator of the Nazi leader. So we are going to analyze this issue, which I think is crucial because if the person who really appears in the image is Hitler �if true, it would be the first known photo of him in exile� this has great implications because it changes history forever. official.

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183 In 1953, Rojas Pinilla ordered the creation of the Administrative Department of the Colombian Intelligence Service ( SIC ) through Decree 2872 of October 31, 1953, with the objective of "ensuring public peace by preventing or avoiding the perpetration of criminal acts and acts attacks against the existence and internal and external security of the State and against its constitutional regime� as well as collaborating with the judges and courts of the country to �Investigate directly, when so provided by the Government, or collaborate with the respective authorities in the clarification of the facts that are reported regarding mismanagement, abuse of authority, breach of duty and other reprehensible acts and omissions of public officials or irregularities of any entity that are observed in the progress of the Administration "see: Decree 2872 of the October 31, 1953, by which the Administrative Department called the Colombian Intelligence Service (SIC) is created. In 1960, during the government of President Alberto Lleras Camargo, the SIC was replaced by the Administrative Department of Security ( DAS ), through Decree 1717 of July 18, 1960.

184 Francisco Benavides Caro was a renowned tiple composer and interpreter, one of his most famous compositions was called �General Rojas�, but he later changed its name.

185 Interview with Robert Benavides Citro�n, carried out throughout 2019.

186 Interview with Philip J�nior Citro�n, carried out throughout 2019.

187 ibid . 186.

188 ibid . 186.

189 ibid . 186.

190 A morganatic marriage is called the union between two people of unequal social rank, such as between a prince and a countess or between a nobleman and a commoner. In royalty, this type of union prevents the spouse and any child of said union from inheriting or obtaining the titles, privileges and properties of the noble.

191 In November 1918 there was a popular revolution in Germany that meant that the monarchy fell to later establish a parliamentary and democratic republic known as the Weimar Republic. The climax of that process of change occurred on August 11, 1919, when the new constitution was voted on at a congress meeting in the city of Weimar.

192 On August 27, 1979, Mountbatten was assassinated by a remote-detonated bomb that the Provisional Irish Republican Army ( IRA ) had planted on a boat he used to go fishing.

193 Photo of the award ceremony in the author's files.

194 Interview with Philip J�nior Citro�n, carried out throughout 2019.

195 One of the professors at the University of Tunja, commanded by Julius Sieber, Hitler's friend, was Prince Theodore Lascaris-Comnenos Micolaw, whom the Greek monarchists considered as Emperor of Constantinople, under the name Theodore IX Lascaris Komnenos, and therefore Grand Master of the Sovereign and Imperial Order of Constantine the Great. This man said that a monarchist envoy to Tunja was the Falangist Marquis Jos� Mar�a de Oriol, an intermediary between General Franco and Don Juan Carlos to restore the monarchy in Spain.

196 At that time the president of Colombia was the politician Alberto Lleras Camargo, first leader of the National Front, a pact between the Liberal and Conservative Parties to alternate power for sixteen years.

We have come a long way from the first page to here. This book would have been much shorter and less complex to read if I had only referred to the photo of Hitler in Tunja, publishing the positive results of the expertise carried out. That would have been enough to meet the expectation that the title of this work can arouse. But if that had been the case, the hidden historical truth would not be revealed, especially the plot of existing complicity, and immediately a host of questions would be opened, initially based on one question: why would Hitler allow himself to be photographed in exile as a persecuted fugitive? by the allied forces?