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...Eichmann. According to Farago, Bormann later used clerical clothes supplied by an Austrian bishop to reach Bavaria, then moved on to Northern Italy to visit his fatally ill wife in Merano. After his wife died, Bormann lived in a Dominican monastery in Bolzano, awaiting a chance to flee to Argentina where he had stored a fortune in currency, precious stones and gold, much of which had been extracted from the teeth of gas-chamber victims. Bormann, said Farago, had consigned the hoard to Argentina by U-boat before the war ended. The fugitive Nazi finally reached Argentina in 1948 through...
According to Farago, Bormann lived comfortably in Argentina for seven years, acting as a sort of "Godfather" to other Nazi refugees, including Eichmann. But in 1955, when Perón lost power, Bormann no longer felt safe. He fled to Brazil and Bolivia, where he seemed to lead a checkered existence. At one stage, Farago had him visiting "prurient nightclubs"; at another, the fugitive Nazi posed as a priest and took part in baptisms, weddings and funerals. In 1960, Bormann moved again-this time to Chile. He bought a farm near Valdivia or Linares (Farago varied the location), close...
...bodyguard, "a German-speaking Chilean of Irish descent," Jorge O'Higgins. Bormann wears plastic gloves, said Farago, so that his fingerprints can never be taken, and had a mistress in Santiago who bore him four children. As of a few weeks ago, Farago contended, Bormann was back in Argentina, in Salta province, living in "a cottage on the Rancho Grande, the vast estate of Arndt von Bohlen und Halbach, last scion of the Krupp family." Like so much of Farago's other material, this episode included authentic-sounding detail, stating, for instance, that Bormann's attentive host...
...including even the half a dozen or so who had been forced into exile or imprisoned by Perón-were willing to endure the five-hour meeting (in which Perón talked for an hour). Ricardo Balbín, whose Radical party is the second largest in Argentina after Perón's Justicialista party, had been hooted and cursed as he entered the old man's home for a preliminary meeting. But on leaving, he remarked calmly that Peronistas would probably have received the same kind of welcome had they attended a Radical party meeting...
There had been little indication earlier that Perón would achieve so much so quickly. The Lanusse government had treated his arrival in Argentina like the coming of the bubonic plague. Some 30,000 troops, backed by tanks, sealed off Buenos Aires' Ezeiza Airport to all but a few carefully screened Peronistas and newsmen. Later, as troops continued to surround the airport hotel where Perón had taken a suite of rooms, his supporters began to grumble that he was being held prisoner. Perhaps fearing riots, the government removed the troops and allowed...