German U-530 did not surrender at World War II's end; instead the crew and passengers headed for Argentina.

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http://www.magicalrealism.us/2014/06/16/unterseeboot-u-530/ HISTORY Unterseeboot U-530 did not initially surrender at World War II’s end, as ordered by Admiral Dönitz; instead the crew headed for Argentina and ultimately surrendered to the Argentine Navy on 10 July 1945 at Mar del Plata. Her captain, Oberleutnant Otto Wermuth, had decided to surrender at Mar del Plata. He did not explain why it had taken him more than two months to reach there, nor why the submarine had jettisoned its deck gun, or why the crew carried no identification, nor what had happened to the ship’s log. The arrival of U-530 started many rumors. Brazilian Admiral Jorge Dodsworth Martins said he believed that U-530 could have sunk the cruiser Bahia, NOT TRUE. Admiral Dudal Teixeira, also a Brazilian, believed that the U-530 had come from Japan, NOT TRUE. An Argentine reporter claimed that he had seen a Buenos Aires provincial police report to the effect that a strange submarine had surfaced off the lower Argentine coast and had landed a high-ranking officer and a civilian who might have been Adolf Hitler and Eva Braun in disguise. ALMOST TRUE! There were rumors of tons of Nazi gold brought to Argentina to finance major Nazi figures. This is undoubtably TRUE. The Argentine Naval Ministry issued an official communiqué in which they stated that U-530 was not responsible for the sinking of the Bahia; no Nazi leader or high-ranking military officers were aboard; and the U-530 had landed no one on the coast of Argentina before surrendering. DRAMATIZATION OF EVENTS This screenplay is a dramatization of the machinations high ranking Nazi officials on board when the submarine left for Argentina. It is also the story of rats fleeing a sinking ship. In the last days of the War, a mysterious man, sick and catatonic and on a stretcher, is flown by Jet to Trondheim Norway. With a young blonde, the man is put on a submarine to Argentina. Joseph Stalin told Western leaders at the Potsdam Conference in 1945 that he believed Hitler may have escaped to Spain or South America. The voyage toward South America is redirected to Spain at the outset by a depth-bomb attack which throws the catatonic man from his bunk. The doctor then commits. U-530 lands in Spain; a party went ashore in Spain and kidnapped a Spanish doctor. On board the submarine is a sick and isolated man and a woman presumably Eva Braun. Also there is a bi-sexual Nazi general, a high-ranking officer and his aide board a U-boat in a pen at Oslo. Also there is a German industrialist, his wife, who also happens to be the general’s mistress. There is a renegade Nazi newspaper man and a timorous German scientist and his teen-aged daughter. The young Spanish doctor is warned by the teen-age girl that they Nazi’s plan to kill him as soon as his medical services are no longer needed. The submarine evolves into a symbol of the claustrophobic Nazi mind, most comfortable in crowds of single minded German’s marching in step. The U-boat is clearly a setting to study this claustrophobic mind. Especially when it is submerged, the U-boat seems shut off from the air and light of life. It is the same with the passengers themselves who are choking for air. Their vicious ideology, as well as their increasingly fearful desperation, marks their course of self- and mutual destruction. The only passengers to arrive in Argentina are the Spanish doctor and the 17 year-old girl. The cargo and the two passengers are landed ashore south of Mar del Plata. The crew then turn themselves into the Argentinian navy.

UNTERSEEBOOT U-530

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