Hidden in the depths of the Argentine jungle, the secret Nazi bolthole for fleeing war criminals

Hidden in the depths of the Argentine jungle, the secret Nazi bolthole for fleeing war criminals

Daniel Schavelzon, from the University of Buenos Aires, led a team which spent months exploring the site in the Teyu Cuare provincial park, in the Misiones region of northern Argentina. The group of stone structures still hold piles of German coins from the late 1930s, porcelain bearing the 'Made in Germany' stamp, and Nazi insignia is scrawled across the walls. Locals believe that a house in the forest belonged to Hitler's right-hand man Martin Bormann (top left), but Daniel Schavelzon, from the University of Buenos Aires, dismissed this as 'an urban myth'