Fwd: Re: GRGR Argentinians bound for Germany
Doug Millison
doug at dougmillison.com
Thu Aug 3 10:01:08 CDT 2000
Peter,
Here's a response to a message I posted yesterday on Pynchon-L; Kurt
lives in Germany. I sent that message after reading your email, of
course. If you'd like, I can put you in touch with him -- he's a
freelance writer.
-Doug
>Delivered-To: millison at dnai.com
>From: KXX4493553 at aol.com
>Date: Thu, 3 Aug 2000 03:31:41 EDT
>Subject: Re: GRGR Argentinians bound for Germany
>To: millison at online-journalist.com, pynchon-l at waste.org
>Status: U
>
>In einer eMail vom 03.08.00 03:29:51 (MEZ) - Mitteleurop. Sommerzeit schreibt
>millison at online-journalist.com:
>
><<
> 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.
> >>
>At spring 1945 (!), a few weeks before unconditional surrender, a German
>U-boat appeared in the harbour of Buenos Aires; but not with unfriendly
>intentions; the Argentine authorities said "Welcome" to the German crew, and
>several boxes were carried from the U-boat into several bank-safes; then the
>U-boat disappeared. Evita Peron, in the years before her early cancer death,
>travelled several times to Switzerland and France in the late forties and
>early fifties; she spoke with politicians and Suisse bank managers. Later her
>brother did the same, and was murdered later in Argentina; his murderer was
>never captured. In 95 oder 96, a bomb exploded in front of the Jewish Center
>in Buenos Aires; 90 people were killed. Some weeks before, an parlamentarian
>investigation comitee was constituted in Buenos Aires which had to
>investigate the Peron-Zürich-Vaticane-Nazi-connection. Some mysterious things
>happened there the most of it unknown until today.
>kwp
>
>Kurt-Werner Pörtner
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