Rosenberg-Band, Erika Mythos Hitler in Argentinien

Since the end of World War II, rumors have persisted that Adolf Hitler fled to Argentina and spent his final years there. Many people believe they saw the dictator in South America. The FBI made significant efforts to locate Hitler in Argentina. Numerous books and documentaries have addressed this subject. Author Erika Rosenberg-Band has been confronted with the topic of "Hitler in Argentina" since childhood. She vividly recounts her experiences and conversations related to this myth, as well as the historical background of National Socialism in Argentina. She examines in depth the historical evidence both supporting and refuting the theories of an escape from the *Führerbunker* in Berlin around April 30, 1945, a flight route via submarine, and Hitlers subsequent stay in Argentina. Erika Rosenberg-Band was born in 1951 in Buenos Aires, Argentina, to German-Jewish parents. Her parentsher father a lawyer and her mother a physicianwere forced to leave Germany in 1936; they fled to Paraguay before settling in Argentina shortly thereafter. Rosenberg-Band gained renown as an author with the 1994 publication of the biography *In Schindlers Schatten. Emilie Schindler erzählt ihre Geschichte* (In Schindlers Shadow: Emilie Schindler Tells Her Story), in which she chronicles the life of Oskar Schindlers wife, whom she had met in 1990.