A massive event in Las Palmas and soon in southern Gran Canaria was held with the German community that permanently resides there and has also been a victim of this oft-repeated lie. Much has been said. Rumors have circulated. The Casa Winter in Cofete, Fuerteventura, is now on land owned by Lopesan, and conspiracy theorists have been generating fake news for the sake of internet clicks and the spectacular TV ratings this issue has consistently generated. In 2023, in an unprecedented and courageous move, journalists began work in the town of Morro Jable to debunk the dark legend. Two years later, a packed event in Las Palmas allows us to address those who have sought to place this area of the Canary Islands at the dark spot of World War II in the Canary Islands.
A Nazi nest. A secret base. For submarines. During the Great War. A dirty story. Fake news, that's what they call it now. An old and persistent lie. This July 2025, the truth has emerged. Gustavo Winter Althaus, the son of that German engineer, presented his book in Las Palmas in the presence of his brother Carlos. At the State Public Library. An event to erase the poison of fabrication. To clear a name. To shed light on his father's life.
The book, 'Casa Winter Cofete,' isn't a short story. It's a statement. It seeks to recover Gustav Winter's biography and "dismantle the entire dark legend" that surrounded him. That fantasy of spies and hidden bases that has been repeated so often. The hoax. A well-woven lie. But weak compared to the facts. The son, Gustavo, hasn't mince words. He's laid out the family archives on the table. Documents from Germany, France, England. Studies by historians. Everything. Everything there, in the book. So that the truth may be clear.
Carlos Winter, Gustavo's brother, also participated. He spoke about a certificate from the Berlin state archive. A piece of paper. Clean. It says Gustav Winter was never a member of the Nazi Party. A simple document. Stronger than years of gossip. The book is history. Authentic. The real life of Winter. A man who left Germany at 19 for Argentina. To earn a living. Like many others. He did electrical installation work in Spain. He designed and built the electrical plant for the Las Palmas power plant. A man who lived in 25 different places, in six different countries. In 1948, he finally arrived in Fuerteventura. To put down roots. Not to hide submarines.
Winter's legacy wasn't one of conspiracies. It was one of hard work. Commercial, industrial, fishing, tourism, and charitable activities in Morro Jable. This is how his son has told it. That was the man. Not the specter created by legends. Winter's Casa Cofete project is also a key piece in understanding the history of Morro Jable. A truth for a place. The lie fades. The paper remains. The simple and hard-working life of a man. That's what matters. That's what has been said and settled. The Winters can now sleep soundly with the documents provided. Anyone who persists in the false theory will already be embarking on the path of bad faith, as has been the case until now.
