GRGR Argentinians bound for Germany

[Dave Monroe]

... recall some sort of labyrinthine reference nearby, allusion to
preeminent Argentinian Jorge Luis Borges.  Can anyone confirm?  But,
certainly, riffing on the ol' Nazis-to-Argentina stereotype, which indeed
has no small basis in fact (Martin Bormann comes to mind, first off) ...

Doug Millison wrote:

> This has probably come up on Pynchon-L before, but a friend of mine
> said something to me today that makes me wonder if the U-boat full of
> Argentinian anarchists headed towards the Zone might be, among other
> things, Pynchon's comment on the ratline that carried Nazis from
> Germany to safety in Argentina and other South American countries.