Archaeologists may have discovered secret Nazi hideout in jungle location
Archaeologists in Argentina believed a collection of ruins found deep in a remote jungle region might be the remains of a secret hideout built by German Nazis to flee to after the second world war, it was reported.
A team of archaeologists was studying the remains of three buildings located in the Teyu Cuare provincial park in northern Argentina on its border with Paraguay, the newspaper said.
The University of Buenos Aires researchers have found five German coins minted between 1938 and 1941 and a fragment of porcelain plate bearing the inscription 'Made in Germany'.
"Apparently, halfway through the second world war, the Nazis had a secret project of building shelters for top leaders in the event of defeat - inaccessible sites, in the middle of deserts, in the mountains, on a cliff or in the middle of the jungle like this," the archaeologists' team leader Daniel Schavelzon told .
Ultimately, though, the hideout wasn't needed.
Thousands of Nazis, Croatian Ustasha fascists and Italian fascists arrived in Argentina after the war with the blessing of president Juan Peron, who led the nation from 1946 to 1955 and again in the 1970s, according to the Nazi-hunting Simon Wiesenthal Centre.
In 1960, Nazi Adolf Eichmann, who helped organise the Holocaust, was captured in Buenos Aires by an Israeli commando team and tried in Israel, where he was executed.
Among the other Nazis who sought refuge in Argentina was the infamous Dr Joseph Mengele.
The so-called 'Angel of Death', notorious for his horrific experimentation on prisoners at the Auschwitz concentration camp, fled to Argentina, then Paraguay and Brazil, where he died in 1979.
