Was WW2 a Lie? The Lasting Artifacts of German Ingenuity and the Last Battalion with Harry Cooper (Part 3)
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Part 3 of the TGE call with Harry Cooper resolves the question Part 1 left open: how did roughly 12,000 Wehrmacht soldbücher come to sit in crates beneath Argentina's Supreme Court?
Cooper's answer is a mechanism. He describes a joint accounting run by German officers and Argentine court representatives: arrivals by submarine, ship, and plane surrendered their military passbooks and travel passes, and in exchange received Argentine citizenship and a clean identity. Red passes were soldier books recording pay, postings, and orders. Green passes were travel documents, some bearing numbers instead of names, issued into the 1960s. Twelve thousand soldiers, in his reading, was a workforce sized to build infrastructure for 25 to 30 years, and with families the real arrival figure triples.
The session also closes the series' larger arc: the Versailles thesis, the claim that postwar technology transfers were one side of a bargain with silence as the other, plus Cooper's two new books, including the long-held Delta History Task Force files, and the 501(c)(3) expedition effort to document the wreck sites.
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This session was recorded on August 28, 2026.
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