The first question concerning the conspiracy theory put forward in "Grey Wolf" is: Why Argentina? Unless you are familiar with German history before the 20th century, it may appear that the country was chosen at random — a far-flung region where a runaway Nazi might hope to avoid capture by the Allied Forces seeking to bring them to justice. But the truth is that German links to South America went back far longer than that. As a 1946 article in The Atlantic notes, the continent had long been a focus of attention for the German imperialists, who made several colonies there throughout the 19th century. Even today, Argentina has a sizeable minority population of German immigrants, and at the end of World War II, Nazis may have hoped to hide among them without arousing suspicion.
Indeed, thousands of prominent Nazis were confirmed as having made the voyage to South America after the Third Reich crumbled, among them the SS Lieutenant Colonel Adolf Eichmann, senior Auschwitz doctor Josef Mengele, and SS Colonel Walter Rauff. While many figures were eventually captured, others lived to a ripe old age without ever facing justice for their crimes. It is no wonder then that conspiracy theorists and others concerned with the details of the final days of the war have questioned whether the true story of Hitler's demise is credible — or if something else happened entirely.
