Photo: The grave of an Aryan in the jungle. Further photographs from the archive of that expedition.
In Brazil, the burial place of a Nazi who participated in the mission of creating a stronghold of the dominant race in the Amazon jungle in the 1930s was discovered, The Daily Mail writes today
The burial and other traces left by the fanatical Nazis are described in a new book called The Guayana-Projekt. Adventures of Germans in the Amazon Valley”. The book tells about convinced Nazis who believed that they were called to build their own world here, like the pioneers of the Wild West in America.
On one of the islands formed by a tributary of the Jari River in Brazil, the author of the book Jens Glessing discovered a wooden cross decorated with swastikas on the grave of one of the jungle explorers. The inscription on the grave reads: "Joseph Greiner died here of fever on 2.1.1936 while carrying out a German research mission."
Locals call this place a "Nazi burial", although it was originally supposed to be part of a chain of German settlements in the Amazon Valley, which Hitler's missionaries were going to use as bases to spread their totalitarian beliefs.
In the archives of the Brazilian State Department and at the National Museum in Rio de Janeiro, Glessing discovered details of Greiner's mission.
Greiner arrived in Brazil in 1935 on orders from the Nazi government and died of yellow fever or malaria. He was one of three specialists sent here by the SS as the main link in the future settler colony.
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Geiner and his compatriots were accompanied by dozens of assistants who studied the region bordering French Guiana from the point of view of its development by the Reich. They also watched over the neighboring British and Danish colonies.
Settlers sent their thoughts to Berlin about how German soldiers should live in Brazil, although, according to the official version, they collected samples of fauna and wildlife.
It has long been known that after the war the Nazis found refuge in remote regions of South America, the newspaper reminds. The 1978 film Boys from Brazil tells the story of Josef Mengele's crazy plans to clone Hitler in his jungle hideout.