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Where the Leaves Darken By Steven Pelcman from Adelaide Books

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WW2 Missing submarine story

Missing sub rumored to have brought Nazis to South America discovered

By Jon Lockett, The Sun

April 18, 2018 | 1:08pm

A missing German submarine said to have taken the defeated Nazi leadership to South America has been discovered after being lost at sea for nearly 73 years.

The U-3523 was one of Hitler’s Type XXI submarines – a new and highly advanced design which came too late to stop an allied victory.

It was the first class of U-boats designed to sail submerged for a prolonged period of time and had a range which allowed it to sail non-stop to South America.

The U-3523 was thought to have been sunk by a British B24 Liberator attack on May 6, 1945, but the inability to locate the wreck fuelled rumors that it had escaped.

Now the wreck has been located ten nautical miles north of Skagen – Denmark’s northernmost town – and nine miles west of the position reported by the British bomber.

Denmark’s Sea War Museum, which found the submarine, said there was no evidence that it was escaping with Nazi leaders or loot.

Gert Normann Andersen, the museum’s director, said: “Rumor has it that the submarine had great valuables from Germany because it was heading away from Germany even though the war ended.”

“I think the rumor developed because U-3523 was a very modern, long-distance U-boat and some Nazis tried to escape with valuables in the last days.”

“But the submarine was going to Norway, and not to South America with Nazis and valuablesThe German Type XXI submarine was so advanced that the US, France, Soviet Union and China would end up copying it.Getty Images

Declassified documents from US intelligence have fuelled claims that the Nazi leadership, including Adolf Hitler himself, escaped to South America in the final days of the war.

One CIA file dated October 3, 1955, carried allegations from a former SS trooper named Phillip Citroen that Hitler had been hiding in Colombia and later Argentina.

The trooper even had a photo taken in 1954 in the Colombian city of Tunja, allegedly showing him with a man said to be Hitler.

For years, the missing submarine was a locus of conspiracy theories. Sea War Museum Jutland

The document stated: “According to Citroen, the Germans residing in Tunja followed this alleged Adolf Hitler with an idolatry of the Nazi past, addressing him as ‘der Fuhrer’ and affording him the Nazi salute and storm-trooper adulation.”

Meanwhile a file from the FBI archives, dated September 21, 1945, detailed eyewitness claims that Hitler had arrived in Argentina via a submarine two-and-a-half weeks after the fall of Berlin.

It said: “By pre-arranged plan with six top Argentine officials, pack horses were waiting for the group and by daylight all supplies were loaded on the horses and an all-day trip inland toward the foothills of the southern Andes was started.”

“At dusk the party arrived at the ranch where Hitler and his party, according to (redacted), are now in hiding.”

Several prominent Nazis are also known to have fled to South America, including Adolf Eichmann – a leading architect of the Holocaust, and the notorious Auschwitz doctor Josef Mengele.

However, the new discovery proves that U-3523 never made the trip and sank with all 58 crewmen.

Andersen also has a copy of the last telegram sent by the submarine, dated May 5, 1945, which makes no mention of any precious cargo or high-ranking passengers.

Nazi Germany would sign the first instrument of unconditional surrender just two days later on May 7, 1945.

Scans of the seabed reveal the U-boat now lies in 403 feet of water, making it very difficult to access.

Unusually, the whole fore of the ship lies buried in the sand, while the stern stands 65 feet above the bottom.

Nazi Germany built 118 Type XXI U-boats but – due to poor quality control – only four were fit for combat before World War II ended and just two were deployed, neither sinking any allied ships.

Their design was later copied by Britain, the US, France and the Soviet Union with Soviet models subsequently inspiring Chinese submarines.

Only one original Type XXI U-boat survives, the Wilhelm Bauer (formerly U-2540), which is now part of the German Maritime Museum in Bremerhaven.

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Gender equality

Gender equality list of countries as of 2016-click on the country of choice

Global Gender Gap Index 2016

The highest possible score is 1 (equality) and the lowest possible score is 0 (inequality)

Rank	Economy	Score
1	Iceland	0.874
2	Finland	0.845
3	Norway	0.842
4	Sweden	0.815
5	Rwanda	0.8
6	Ireland	0.797
7	Philippines	0.786
8	Slovenia	0.786
9	New Zealand	0.781
10	Nicaragua	0.78
11	Switzerland	0.776
12	Burundi	0.768
13	Germany	0.766
14	Namibia	0.765
15	South Africa	0.764
16	Netherlands	0.756
17	France	0.755
18	Latvia	0.755
19	Denmark	0.754
20	United Kingdom	0.752
21	Mozambique	0.75
22	Estonia	0.747
23	Bolivia	0.746
24	Belgium	0.745
25	Lithuania	0.744
26	Moldova	0.741
27	Cuba	0.74
28	Barbados	0.739
29	Spain	0.738
30	Belarus	0.737
31	Portugal	0.737
32	Costa Rica	0.736
33	Argentina	0.735
34	Luxembourg	0.734
35	Canada	0.731
36	Cape Verde	0.729
37	Bahamas	0.729
38	Poland	0.727
39	Colombia	0.727
40	Ecuador	0.726
41	Bulgaria	0.726
42	Jamaica	0.724
43	Lao PDR	0.724
44	Trinidad and Tobago	0.723
45	United States	0.722
46	Australia	0.721
47	Panama	0.721
48	Serbia	0.72
49	Israel	0.719
50	Italy	0.719
51	Kazakhstan	0.718
52	Austria	0.716
53	Tanzania	0.716
54	Botswana	0.715
55	Singapore	0.712
56	Zimbabwe	0.71
57	Lesotho	0.706
58	Mongolia	0.705
59	Ghana	0.705
60	Madagascar	0.704
61	Uganda	0.704
62	Albania	0.704
63	Kenya	0.702
64	El Salvador	0.702
65	Vietnam	0.7
66	Mexico	0.7
67	Malawi	0.7
68	Croatia	0.7
69	Ukraine	0.7
70	Chile	0.699
71	Thailand	0.699
72	Bangladesh	0.698
73	Macedonia, FYR	0.696
74	Venezuela	0.694
75	Russian Federation	0.691
76	Romania	0.69
77	Czech Republic	0.69
78	Honduras	0.69
79	Brazil	0.687
80	Peru	0.687
81	Kyrgyz Republic	0.687
82	Senegal	0.685
83	Bosnia and Herzegovina	0.685
84	Cyprus	0.684
85	Cameroon	0.684
86	Azerbaijan	0.684
87	India	0.683
88	Indonesia	0.682
89	Montenegro	0.681
90	Georgia	0.681
91	Uruguay	0.681
92	Greece	0.68
93	Tajikistan	0.679
94	Slovak Republic	0.679
95	Suriname	0.679
96	Paraguay	0.676
97	Dominican Republic	0.676
98	Belize	0.676
99	China	0.676
100	Sri Lanka	0.673
101	Hungary	0.669
102	Armenia	0.669
103	Brunei Darussalam	0.669
104	Gambia, The	0.667
105	Guatemala	0.666
106	Malaysia	0.666
107	Swaziland	0.665
108	Malta	0.664
109	Ethiopia	0.662
110	Nepal	0.661
111	Japan	0.66
112	Cambodia	0.658
113	Mauritius	0.652
114	Liberia	0.652
115	Maldives	0.65
116	Korea, Rep.	0.649
117	Angola	0.643
118	Nigeria	0.643
119	Qatar	0.643
120	Algeria	0.642
121	Bhutan	0.642
122	Guinea	0.64
123	Burkina Faso	0.64
124	United Arab Emirates	0.639
125	Timor-Leste	0.637
126	Tunisia	0.636
127	Benin	0.636
128	Kuwait	0.624
129	Mauritania	0.624
130	Turkey	0.623
131	Bahrain	0.615
132	Egypt	0.614
133	Oman	0.612
134	Jordan	0.603
135	Lebanon	0.598
136	Cote d’Ivoire	0.597
137	Morocco	0.597
138	Mali	0.591
139	Iran, Islamic Rep.	0.587
140	Chad	0.587
141	Saudi Arabia	0.583
142	Syria	0.567
143	Pakistan	0.556
144	Yemen	0.516