Hitler Escaped And Became A Famous Art Collector Called “Father Crespi”

Before he was a tyrant, Hitler was a painter. Could it possible, then, that he escaped from his bunker, fled – just like in so many of these theories – to South America and assumed a new identity as an Argentine art collector named “Father Crespi?”

According to one theory, that’s absolutely what happened. In 1981, a US Army Colonel named Wendell Stephens travelled to Ecuador and encountered a priest who he believed to be Adolf Hitler. Nobody listened to him, of course, because the conviction sounded downright crazy. Stephens also claimed that Crespi – or Hitler – had stashed away a number of priceless paintings. Crespi, as one might expect, denied he was Hitler