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TIL the German submarine U-530 surrendered to the Argentine Navy on 10 July 1945 at Mar del Plata, an Argentine reporter claimed that he had seen a police report to the effect that the submarine was transporting a officer and a civilian who might have been Adolf Hitler and Eva Braun in disguise.

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