Hunting Hitler (2015–…): Season 2, Episode 1 - The Hunt Continues - full transcript
- We could be on the verge
of uncovering evidence
that will change
this case forever.
- We're looking
for an Armundo Kicka.
- We have never been closer.
Right here. Right now.
HUNTING HITLER - SEASON 2
EP - 1 - The Hunt Continues
- Was your father a Nazi?
- We're looking for names.
Documents. Dates.
- The thing is, is people
don't like to talk
because they have
something to hide,
and I know that your father
is part of it.
- What's this?
- My heart's racing
a little bit.
- This is the smoking gun
I'd spent the last 12 years
of my life looking for.
- This comes from the FBI.
Here's the 3D model.
Start looking for things
that line up.
In the photo I got an ear lobe.
Look at the shape of the ear.
The shape of the ear here,
very similar.
Look at how that mouth,
they fall right on top.
So all of these things
are lining up,
and then this nasal labial
shape here
is lining up as well.
- It overlays very well.
Adolph Hitler,
he's alive well after 1945.
- I would be pursuing the case.
- If there was any evidence
of his death,
why haven't they produced it?
This is Adolph Hitler.
Bob Baer, a 21-year CIA veteran
and one of the most respected
intelligence minds in the world
has dedicated his career
to tracking some of the most
notorious criminals,
including Sadam Hussein.
- I've spent so much time
in the White House
and know first-hand what
the government tells us
is rarely true,
and from the moment I started
looking into this case,
it didn't add up.
Ignorance is bliss.
The public does not
want to believe
that we lost Adolph Hitler.
In 2014,
the FBI declassified
over 700 pages of documents,
placing Adolph Hitler
around the globe
after World War II,
leading Bob to reopen
this 70-year-old cold case
deploying dozens
of experts, historians,
and military man hunters
armed with the most
cutting edge technology
to investigate the truth.
- By investigating
the FBI files,
we are the first ones
to put together facts
about what really happened.
In Berlin, we found
no scientific evidence
that he died in that bunker.
We don't have a witness.
We don't have a body.
- Searching.
- Kemka cannot tell whether
he really had seen
that Hitler was dead
because he had not
seen the body.
Nobody sees his face
and said, "That's him!"
- Yep.
- Unless it wasn't Hitler.
- Hitler's bunker was connected
with tunnels
which could have taken him
to an airport.
Flying's the way
you want out of Berlin.
In Spain, we have a witness
at the monastery
placing Hitler there.
- He saw here,
with his eyes, Hitler. Here.
- Hitler here?
- Yeah.
- As well as Nazi
infrastructure,
communications,
and also escape routes.
- Germans fingerprints
are all over this place.
- From Spain
he could have boarded
a U-boat
and got away from Europe.
- What happened to this sub?
- I don't know.
- In Argentina,
clue after clue pointed
to the possibility
he escaped into the countryside
and set up multiple
Nazi safe houses.
- This could have been
completely built in secret.
- If I'm gonna hide a high
value target,
this is perfect.
- You got all this damn
evidence everywhere,
but the FBI files were not
the final story
on the hunt for Hitler.
After a year-long investigation
across six countries
and thousands of miles,
Bob prepares to broaden
the scope of his investigation.
- The FBI has a very, very
narrow aperture in the world.
We need to open up the aperture.
Look at that.
14,621 international files
on Hitler alive.
Bob has now
gotten unprecedented access
to over 14,000 pages
of declassified documents
from every major intelligence
agency around the world.
- The Germans, the Argentinians,
the Russians, the MI-6.
- Every intelligence agency in
the world is looking for this.
It's incredible.
I mean, you have a full-on
international man hunt
for Adolph Hitler.
For the first time,
we are opening up these files
and putting them all together,
and they all had
a different piece of the pie.
And it's only when
you put them all together
are you gonna come to the truth.
- We were the first ones
that did it after
the FBI documents
were declassified.
Now we're the first ones
that are acting
on these declassified documents.
Bob is joined
by the UN's premier
War Crimes Investigator,
Dr. John Cencich.
They have integrated
thousands of U.S.
and international documents
into a state-of-the-art
computerized database.
- This database is powerful.
It looks at the relationships
between information.
Finding patterns. Finding words.
Finding evidence.
This is an amazing opportunity
to help us get to the answer
of these questions
that have been looming
for decades.
- So we're starting a whole new
phase of this investigation.
Now that we have these files,
I want to go back
to the beginning,
Hitler's last known location,
April, 1945 in Berlin.
And we're gonna
carry it forward.
Look, John, we've established
that a bunch of airplanes left
Tempelhof on the 21st of April.
- Others left from Tempelhof.
We were about eight
or ten aircraft.
- We know that he could have
been on one of those airplanes.
- It's still feasible that
he could have used Tempelhof,
but we were looking at this
through the documents of
the United States government.
Maybe there really is a plan B,
a plan C, and a plan D
that we don't know about.
- If you're a world leader,
you've got to have
contingencies.
You simply do not
have one way out
because if you have one way out,
that's how you end up
in an ambush.
We've got the database,
and to establish the specifics
to move from theory
to real evidence,
I think that's where
we got to go next.
Let's look into it.
Start looking at this stuff.
Hitler. Plane. Worldwide.
Berlin. Date, 1945.
- Soviet Union. CIA.
- Hey, look at this.
This is an MI-6 file.
A certain ex-Luftwaffe pilot,
Captain Baumgart,
swore under oath
that he flew Hitler
from Berlin on 29, April, 1945.
Hitler was supposed to have
committed suicide on the 30th.
So this is the day before.
- He says he swears under oath,
but we all know there are people
that swear under oath
that don't tell the truth.
What we need to do now
is to look into this database
and find out
if there is any other evidence
or leads we can track down
that would corroborate
his statement.
- Let's see what we got.
.Look at this one.
- This is coming
from the U.S. Army
on the day Hitler left Berlin.
The Germans made
a counter attack
in order to clear a strip
from which the plane
could take off.
The two reports go hand in hand
and they lend credence
to one another.
- It sound like to me this
a makeshift air strip.
Clear a roadway,
whatever you have, take off.
The tenor of this
completely changes
when you have a name,
and a plane, and a day,
and a makeshift runway,
and we're gonna paint a complete
picture for the first time.
In the context of looking
for Hitler's escape route,
we are now getting into
specifics for the first time.
I want to touch something,
feel something.
- If we can determine
where that makeshift runway was,
that's powerful information.
We need to send a team
out there to explore
all of those possibilities.
Right now we've got good leads.
Let's see if we can turn this
into some type of evidence.
- This is a huge breakthrough.
Let's do it.
- Peter Baumgart was consistent
every time he told the story.
To me, as an investigator,
you know,
that's curiosity right there.
Lenny DePaul, former commander
of the U.S. Marshals
Fugitive Task Force,
is on the ground in Berlin.
- I've been hunting fugitives
for a long time.
I continue to look at things
until that case is over.
You know, in my world
there's no more exciting news
that you can get
than discovering new intel
in a 70-year-old cold case.
I'm not gonna give up.
I need to get to the bottom
of this thing.
Lenny is joined by Sascha Keil,
expert on Berlin
during World War II.
- This it?
- Number 10.
- In any investigation
you have to go back
to the scene of the crime
and work your way forward.
If Peter Baumgart flew Hitler
out on a makeshift runway,
then we'll find out.
Christoph? How are you?
The team makes contact
with Christoph Neubauer,
forensic reconstructionist
and the world's leading
expert on Hitler's bunker.
- I'll use this to show
you something here.
- Christoph Neubauer is
a valuable person to me.
This guy, over the years,
has studied the Fuhrerbunker
better than anybody.
He's able to develop the
state-of-the-art technology
to give us a 3-D
look at the Fuhrerbunker.
He can bring me back 70 years
to the scene of the crime.
- So basically we are
having here the chancellery
where Hitler used to live
and what used to be
his headquarters,
and it's like
a whole city block.
- It's huge.
- So... and inside
you'll find the Fuhrerbunker.
- This is allegedly where
Adolph Hitler kills himself.
- Exactly.
So far there are known four
main exits out of the bunker.
- These were the exits
that we thought took him
to Tempelhof Airport.
- But, recently I found
very close to the bunker,
another one.
- Another one what?
- I found an exit
very close to the bunker.
- Are you kidding me?
- If you have here
the Fuhrerbunker,
just 20 to 25 meters away
you could walk
into a new tunnel.
- Okay.
- And you see here
a very small entrance here.
Steps going down, one door,
and a cover.
And all this would
have been invisible.
- Why all of a sudden
we find a tunnel?
How did you stumble onto this?
- I check in archives a lot,
and there is a photograph
I came across taken
by American soldiers
after the Second World War.
- Look at that.
- Do you see how close this is?
- So the Fuhrerbunker's here.
It's gonna be here,
and now I'm walking 75 feet
and I go back down underground.
You know, it thought I had some
pretty hot leads
the last time I was here.
This is the hottest.
That's actually number five.
We've only known about four
for the past 70 years.
So for us to get our hands
on this is unbelievable.
It could lead me right
to this makeshift runway.
Now Hitler's
got another way out.
- So from the Fuhrerbunker we
travel 75 feet into this tunnel.
Lenny DePaul and Sascha Keil
have just made
a shocking discovery.
- So you're telling me
if Hitler himself wanted to,
let's say, exit the Fuhrerbunker
into this tunnel
he'd be back underground again.
With the help of forensic
reconstructionist
Christoph Neubauer,
they have just uncovered
a fifth and never before known,
escape route
from Hitler's Fuhrerbunker.
The team is following
a declassified MI-6 file
that claims Luftwaffe pilot,
Peter Baumgart
flew Hitler out of Berlin
from a makeshift runway
on April 29, 1945,
the day before Hitler
was believed
to have committed suicide.
- Our association is working
15, 20 years on this area,
and we never found
any documented photo
or archive such a tunnel.
This is a breakthrough,
even in my work,
for the last 15 years,
we never knew there could be
another exit from the bunker.
This is a complete shock.
- The big questions
is if Adolph Hitler
decided to take that route
out of the Fuhrerbunker,
where does he go?
- The East German
Secret Service, the Stasi,
in 1973, they started
a big investigation.
They were interested in tunnels
exactly in the same location
because on top of the tunnel,
exactly there,
was the Berlin Wall.
At the end of World War II,
Berlin was turned over
to the Allied Forces.
The French, British,
and Americans
occupied the Western section
of the city,
and the Soviets controlled
the East.
As the Cold War intensified,
the Soviets built
the Berlin Wall,
a 96-mile barrier
to prevent defectors
from fleeing to West Berlin.
The Stasi, the East German
Secret Police,
generated hundreds of maps
and eyewitness accounts
of escape routes
that were built
during Hitler's regime
that could be used to escape
under the Berlin Wall.
- I went through all the
thousands of secret files there.
I actually found one
which specifically relates
to this tunnel.
We see this would have gone
all the way to the Tiergarten,
the Brandenburg Gate.
- What is the Tiergarten?
What exactly is the Tiergartens?
- Yeah, for you probably
the best explanation
is the Central Park of New York,
this is the Tiergarten
for Berlin.
- From my perspective,
I got somebody
that's the most wanted man
in the world.
He's not gonna pop up
in the middle of Central Park.
- It does not fit.
It doesn't fit.
- I want you to show me visually
on the map of the compound
where these tunnels
would have been.
All right,
here's the Tiergartens, correct?
- Exactly.
- So here's the big question,
why is he heading
in this direction?
What's his end game?
What's he thinking about?
Where's he going?
That's what I need to know.
There's got to be a destination.
Hitler, once again,
has got a way out.
- This is a fantastic find.
This here, at this location,
is the entrance to what
we now call Exit Number 5.
Bob Baer and
Dr. John Cencich review
the findings from the team's
investigation in Berlin.
- You know what strikes me
as so interesting is
that they had taken the time
to build these tunnels.
I mean, they were planning
this years in advance,
with a purpose.
This is the great thing
about the files
that we're going from
the realm of speculation
to the real possibility
of a clandestine exfiltration
to a makeshift runway.
- I want to show you a document
that I just came across.
We didn't find this before
because we were only looking
at the FBI files.
This document
is an Argentinian document.
Look what they've got here.
"Nazis, upon arriving
to Argentina,
took refuge in a militarized
outpost in Misiones."
- That's great. I love it.
Earlier in this investigation
we found three structures
that are completely isolated
in the middle of the jungle,
Misiones in Argentina.
This could have been
a real hideout location
for somebody on the run.
- And we already know that at
the compound the team's been to,
they found photographs,
Nazi paraphernalia,
the photographs were people
wearing their Nazi uniforms,
the medicine.
- That was consistent
with the type of medicine
used by Hitler
for his own particular ailment.
It's pretty suspicious.
Whoever was living
in this residence
had a lot of money,
a lot of connections to Nazis,
and the number one suspect
is Adolph Hitler.
- You know, when we
first went to Misiones,
I was picturing it as
sort of a lair,
you know, get away
from the police.
Hide out.
Get away from communications.
But this file is something
entirely different.
You're actually talking about
a defensible militarized zone.
It's amazing.
If it's militarized,
it's militarized
for one purpose only,
and that's to defend
a very important figure.
- Militarized outpost
is telling me
that we have guards,
weapons, supplies,
anything you need to protect
somebody like Hitler.
- Well, I'd like to find out
from an archaeologist
on the ground
there is there anything
that would indicate
that it indeed was militarized.
I think we should
call Daniel up.
The team makes
contact with Daniel Schavelzon,
the head archaeologist
who has continued to excavate
the Nazi site in Misiones,
Argentina for the last year.
- Hello.
- Daniel, this is
Bob Baer and John.
- Yeah, we've come across
a report
that says that there was
a military compound in Misiones.
- This militarized zone
in Misiones very well
could be no different than what
Bin Laden did in Afghanistan,
set up a base in a country
that's fairly friendly.
We got to get Tim back there.
I mean, he spent his career
building bases
that are defensible.
I want his opinion.
- I can't really wait
to get the team down here
and start looking at this
and seeing what type of concrete
evidence we can develop from it.
- If we find an extensive
Nazi base in Argentina,
we are really
breaking new ground.
- This rock's gonna be slippery.
Tim Kennedy,
U.S. Army Special Forces,
returns to the jungles
of Misiones, Argentina,
to follow a declassified
Argentinian document
that reports this area
was once home
to a Nazi militarized outpost.
- I've spent the majority
of my career
working in military mind-sets.
If this was a military compound,
just taking that lens
and looking at it
with a different perspective
might tell us
everything we need to know.
We might find nothing,
but we might get lucky.
Tim is joined
by Dr. Alasdair Brooks,
a historical archaeologist
who spent his career unraveling
the mysteries
of the early 20th century.
- Archaeology's always about
the extent of discovery.
Looking at those objects
coming out of the ground.
Looking at how they
relate to the site,
the artefactual evidence
will tell us who wanted
this built here and why.
- You got a step here.
- Thanks.
They head
for a new fourth structure
less than a mile
from the three previously
discovered stone structures
that could have housed
a high value
Nazi target on the run.
- Daniel.
- Hey.
They make contact
with Daniel Schavelzon,
who has been working
around the clock
to uncover artifacts
from the area
around the fourth structure.
We found what we think
is a belt.
- It's a belt?
- A belt, yeah.
- It's heavy.
It's not the normal, you know.
- It was cut clean.
It had very clean lines.
I mean, it looked more military.
If you look at my belt,
this is a military issue belt
that I got 15 years ago.
That belt looks
stunningly similar to my belt.
- Yeah.
- This is our first clue
that there could have been
a military complex here.
We're not done yet.
I need to get my eyes
on this new building.
Watch your foot through here.
- Here we are.
That's the building.
- It's massive.
- Yes.
- Why is this in the middle
of the jungle?
- Is this typical?
- No, absolutely not.
- That's quite
a large structure.
We could potentially look at
these fittings around the doors
and the windows for
a preliminary date for this.
- Yes. Sure.
- I'm interested in these nails.
Historical archaeologists
call these wire nails.
They're industrially
mass produced,
so we're getting 20th century
architecture here
rather than something earlier.
This structure dates
to the 1940s,
that much is fairly clear.
- Standing here I see
similarities to buildings
one, two, and three.
Are these stones the same
as the other buildings?
- Oh, yes.
The stone, the plaster,
the windows, the frames,
there are lots of similarities,
but there are lots
of differences.
- These doors
aren't really wide.
- Absolutely.
Here you see there
was a door of two parts,
you know, to open all.
This is not normal
in your house.
- Absolutely not normal.
This isn't for residential use.
This isn't for a family
moving in and out.
Everything feels powerful,
thick, durable, and industrial.
The first thing
that stands out to me
about this
is the open floor layout.
If I were to envision
what this use was,
this feels like
military barracks.
This is where you line up
bunk beds and put soldiers.
One floor, two floor. Wide open.
If you had heavy equipment
you're obviously going
to be putting it
on the ground floor.
You're gonna have people
sleeping on the floor above it.
This is built like
a military support structure.
Four-feet thick walls with doors
that you can push pallets
of ammunition through.
If this is a military complex,
you have to have a place
to house your personnel.
This could be just that.
You're going to be
limiting access to protect
what you're storing in here.
If you're going to be hiding
and protecting Adolph Hitler,
you're gonna have to have
a building like this.
- This information
has the potential
to really change the entire
course of our investigation.
While the field team
continue to explore
the jungles of Argentina,
Bob and John review the findings
from the German leg
of their investigation
where a declassified
MI-6 document
reported that Adolph Hitler
was flown from
a makeshift runway
in Berlin on April 29, 1945,
led the team to uncover
a never before known
fifth exit
from Hitler's Fuhrerbunker.
- Well, for me the most
mysterious part is exit 5.
Here's the entry.
- From there it
goes into a tunnel.
Precisely at this point,
the East German Secret Police,
the Stasi,
were conducting
their own investigation.
A declassified
Stasi file reveals
that this fifth exit
would have connected
to a 2,000 foot long tunnel,
ending at the base
of the Brandenburg gate.
This iconic monument marks
the beginning of Tiergarten Park
which was redesigned by Hitler
to be the crown jewel
of his capital city.
- So what did it get him,
getting in the middle
of the Tiergarten
at the Brandenburg gate?
- Brandenburg Gate.
Hitler. Plane.
Let's take a look
at this document here.
So this is dated
December 29, 1949.
The reporting agency
is the Soviet Union.
A plane which was piloted
by Hanna Reitsch
on the 28th of April
flew out of Berlin
from the Brandenburg Gate.
- According to this document
it looks like it was a runway.
It was a makeshift runway,
and they're flying out
as late as the 28th of April.
- Which is only one day before
Captain Baumgart flew Hitler
from perhaps the same location.
- If Hanna Reitsch leaves
on the 28th,
makes it out successfully,
a test run if you like,
that means Hitler
could have gotten out
of Berlin the day after.
Where there's smoke
there's fire.
Could this be
the makeshift runway Hitler
used to escape from Berlin?
Is it even reasonable to fly in
and get out on
the 29th of April...
- Right.
- When the Russians
were circling the city?
- If we can go in
and we can corroborate
that there was indeed
this makeshift airstrip,
we may really have something.
- Hanna Reitsch, she's able
to fly a plane in
and out of here on April 28th.
Allegedly, on April 29th,
Baumgart flies Hitler
out of here.
Lenny DePaul and Sascha Keil
investigate the avenue
running
from the Brandenburg Gate
through Tiergarten Park
in search of evidence
that it could have been used
as a makeshift runway.
- Sascha take me back.
April, let's say April 20th
through the 30th.
Did the Nazis occupy
this area right here?
- From the Brandenburg Gate
to the Victory Column,
this was defended
to the last hours
of the Third Reich.
This was the last stronghold
controlled by
the German Army and by Hitler.
All the other air strips
and airports were down
and forced by the Russians
in these days.
- And the Victory
Column was what?
- Can we get
in the Victory Column?
- Yes.
- You can get me up top?
- Yeah.
- Let's go.
I got to see this.
What a vantage point
that would be.
- It was a kind of jewel,
a gem of the government.
It was a hot spot for the
fighting in the last war days.
- Wow, this whole place
is shot up.
- The Russians
with General Konev,
the troops were just over there
a few hundred meters
and they knew that German
soldiers were inside.
- Look at the bullet holes,
Sascha.
I can't believe this.
This was pretty much
the last stand for the Germans.
This place was held up
for a reason.
By April 24, 1945,
the advancing Soviet Army
encircled the once pristine
capital of the Third Reich.
With each passing day
the Soviets tightened
their grip around
the heart of Berlin,
forcing nearly
all remaining Nazi troops
to retreat and defend
a four square mile area
of the inner
government district,
which included the
Fuhrerbunker, Tiergarten Park,
and the Victory Column.
- I got chills just thinking
about the Russians
are outside shooting at us
with everything they got.
The Russians were
100 meters out.
High ranking Nazi officials,
they knew they were signing
their death warrant right there.
Why would they be here?
Oh, wow. Holy cow, look at this.
You got to be kidding me.
You can see any Russian
aircrafts coming in.
- Yeah.
- It makes sense
from this vantage point.
You got a makeshift runway
right here.
There's only one reason
that the Nazis
would be held up here
in this tower.
This is basically
an air traffic control tower.
Where's the Fuhrerbunker
from here? 600 meters?
- 600 to 700, not more.
- He could have jumped
in the tunnels,
through the Tiergarten to here.
The team has now
uncovered a new exit
from Hitler's Fuhrerbunker
that would have led to a tunnel
below Tiergarten Park
and connected directly
to a massive boulevard
extending from
the Brandenburg Gate.
- I get the length of this
as a makeshift runway,
but width wise,
it doesn't make sense to me.
I mean, look at the length
it's perfect.
But what about these lamp posts?
How are you gonna get wings
of an airplane down here,
like, every 15, 20 yards
apart, right?
- Hundreds. The whole line.
- Taking a look at
the lamp posts
that were every 10 meters apart,
it would have been very risky
to accommodate an aircraft.
Not only was Adolph Hitler
tactically sound,
he was a forward thinker.
I mean, those lampposts could
have easily clipped a wing.
That whole escape plan
would have been grounded.
And it's just a gut feeling,
but as a criminal investigator,
it just doesn't add up.
The way it looks right now,
for the wingspan
of this aircraft to be able
to get up and down this runway,
it's a death trap.
- That's an eerie
looking building.
I can just imagine
what had occurred there.
While waiting for an update
from the German leg
of their investigation,
Bob and John focus
their attention to the findings
from the jungles
of Misiones, Argentina,
where they have discovered
a new,
fourth structure
in the same area
that a declassified Argentinian
document reports a Nazi
militarized outpost
after World War II.
- I think this is
just an anomaly.
It's just like glaring huge.
Who builds a two-story structure
with reinforced walls,
very thick bolts
in the middle of the jungle?
I mean, it looks like
somebody took a plan
from maybe a barracks and said,
"All right, go put this
in Misiones,
out in the jungle
when nobody could see it."
The more we get into
the Misiones site,
the more it starts looking like
something military related.
According to
the Argentine report,
this was a military zone,
and voila, what do we have here?
A military type structure.
You put soldiers there,
supplies,
and then that would protect
the main residences.
I truly think this is huge.
I mean, I think it is huge.
- Always lingered in my mind
in the first part
of our investigation was,
okay, if it was Hitler
that's in that building or
some other high value target...
- Yeah.
- Where are the people
that are providing security
for him?
Are they living
in the same building?
- Yeah, no, exactly. I mean,
he just didn't go out there
and sit up in his mansion,
you know,
and do everything himself,
but now we're talking
about someplace
you could put personnel
that would be right
in wherever you lived.
- I'd like to see artifacts that
relate to soldiers,
soldiers that would be used
for the protection
of a high-value target.
If this was
a militarized outpost,
you need soldiers to fortify it,
and so they would have
left evidence behind.
I think we're clever enough
to...
- Find out who was
in that building.
- Exactly.
- These are the artifacts?
- Yeah.
Here are all the artifacts.
Deep in the jungles of Misiones,
Daniel Schavelzon
has granted Tim Kennedy
and Alasdair Brooks access
to his base camp,
the home for thousands
of artifacts
Daniel has uncovered
from the four structures
that make up this Nazi
jungle hideout.
- This is from all the sites
you've been working on.
- Yes, absolutely all came
from inside the site.
- I find the two-story
building significant.
We need to find clues
in these artifacts
that will tell me who the people
are that were using it
and what they were doing here.
- How many artifacts have you
found in your excavation work?
- For the moment,
over 4,000 fragments and items,
but we keep digging.
- As you'd likely expect,
my eyes were caught
by the ceramics.
- Yeah, you're an expert
on that.
- This one's particularly
interesting to me,
a gravy boat
in the middle of the jungle?
And these structures
are in the middle of nowhere.
Why would you have a level
of formal of dining,
a level of that aspiration
to gentility
in these households?
- I don't think there's
any question anybody could doubt
that somebody was prepared
to stay here
for as long as they wanted
and can feel safe.
- This is particularly
interesting
because it has
a German maker's mark.
That's Villeroy & Boch.
If I were to find this in,
say, Buenos Aires,
I might not be too surprised.
Here in Misiones, on the banks
of the Parana River,
in these sites,
this complex of sites
that are hidden away,
that's more remarkable.
This is highly breakable,
highly fragile materials
made in Germany.
Excepting that Hitler's style
of living was higher end,
there is connection,
an unexpected level of formal
dining here in the jungle.
- This doesn't look like
somebody is there to hide.
This is like somebody
is there to live comfortably.
And to me, for a high value
target like Adolph Hitler
to be comfortable and safe,
That means that they have
soldiers around them.
Have you found anything
that is military
or that would be used
to protect somebody
that could live this
comfortably?
- Yes, we have
some other things.
Here you have,
for example, bullets.
- And this is obviously
9 millimeter bullets.
This bullet has been
used historically to protect
the most important people
on the planet,
and is still used today
for that exact same reason.
Of all of the different things
they had found,
of all the different fragments
of bottles, medicine,
trash cans,
the military items
were the least frequent.
That made a lot of sense to me.
These are not guys who are
gonna be losing bullets,
dropping magazines, losing guns.
These are trained soldiers.
They're not gonna leave
a trace of what they're doing
or how they do it.
I would almost want to segregate
all of these artifacts,
in my mind,
the people that were
living comfortably,
the people that were secure,
the people that were
being protected,
and then everybody else.
The person who is using this,
I think,
is protected by the people
that are using that.
This is a possible runway.
Bob and John review the findings
of their investigation
to determine
if the street between
the Brandenburg Gate
and the Victory Column
could have been used
as a makeshift runway
to fly Hitler out of Berlin
in the final days of the war
as reported by
a declassified MI-6 file.
- We've got the Victory Column.
Its height certainly
could have been used
for a makeshift air
traffic control center.
- You've got all the makings
of a runway
except problems
with the wingspan.
It's getting very convincing
that Hitler left
through the Tiergarten.
You know, Hitler bringing
his troops in,
you know,
sort of the last defense,
circling the wagons.
So Tiergarten
is looking really good
except for the lampposts
that run down the road,
because that makes it a very
hazardous place to take off.
It's not the kind of risk
a good planner
would have built into this.
The main thing
is the light poles.
- You're right.
Is the avenue wide enough?
That's really the question.
- Yeah. I think that's key.
Absolutely key.
essandro, hey.
To determine if this avenue
was wide enough to navigate
a plane through
in the final days of the war,
Lenny makes contact
with Alessandro Nuzzo
and Frederico Uccelli
of Leica Geosystems.
- I need dimensions.
I need the width of the street
from the Brandenburg Gate
to the Column.
- We can do it.
We will generate
a 360 degrees spherical image,
providing 256 megapixels
each second.
With seven laser scanners,
and a 360 degree camera array,
the Leica Pegasus 2
is used by forensic analysts
all over the world
to transform crime scenes
into 3-D models with accuracy
down to the millimeter.
The result of the scan will
allow the investigative team
to examine Hitler's
possible escape route
from every angle.
- Well, go work your magic.
While the Leica
laser scan gets underway...
- Lenny.
- Thanks for coming
back out, brother.
How you doing, all right?
Lenny meets with Sascha Keil
who has uncovered evidence
from local photo archives.
- This is before the war,
and you can compare these lines
with the modern lampposts.
- Yeah, right, right.
- As you can see,
it's the same line.
So the second one,
this is from April and May 1945.
And you see, no lampposts.
- Wow. The German troops,
they cut them
at the ground level here
and had more space.
- You're telling me
they eliminated
these poles
on both sides, right?
- Yeah.
- This is unbelievable.
Somebody was under
a direct order
to cut these things
down for a reason.
So here you got the lampposts,
here you don't,
which gave them at least
another 20 feet on each side
to get an airplane down there.
It makes absolutely no sense
for those lampposts
to be cut down
unless you wanted to accommodate
or fit something down this road.
You can only imagine this was
the contingency plan
that was in place
by Adolph Hitler.
The place was caving in on him.
He was backed into a corner
and he needed to get out
of Dodge in a hurry.
Yeah, there's a method
to his madness.
I'll give the devil his due.
He thought this thing out.
Boom, he's on this makeshift
runway, and he's gone.
To me, the puzzle's been
put together.
This season
on "Hunting Hitler"...
- What can you see?
- There's something right here!
- We're kicking this
investigation into high gear.
- Oh, look at that.
A German Luger, right?
- Yeah, we are now
getting really, really close.
- We've got our hands
on hundreds of new leads.
We're gonna hit the ground
and find out the truth
behind them.
- Holy.
- We're looking
for Hitler's escape routes.
They can shuttle people
right out
in the ocean
into a waiting U-boat.
And we're infiltrating his
tunnels and his transit points.
Right here. We got an opening.
That's an escape tunnel.
Whoa.
We're uncovering his web
of contacts around the world.
- If you were an escaping Nazi,
this would be
a good place to come.
- This is starting to look
a little bit suspicious.
- Witnesses for the first time
are speaking up.
- We're gonna paint a complete
picture of the truth.
- I have explosives detected.
- They'd been planning
this for years.
- Adolph Hitler was not going
to hide forever.
Presumably he was
looking to rearm.
- That's weaponized
nuclear power.
- And he dreamed of hitting
the United States.
- Aw, look at this.
If you're gonna detonate
a dirty bomb of some kind,
this is the place to do it.
- Ooh.
- We're gonna continue
this hunt for Hitler
until it's settled absolutely.
- This is ground Zero.
- This is Adolph Hitler's home.
- These are people
who can keep a secret.
- We'll get to the bottom of it.
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HUNTING HITLER - SEASON 2
EP - 1 - The Hunt Continues
- Was your father a Nazi?
- We're looking for names.
Documents. Dates.
- The thing is, is people
don't like to talk
because they have
something to hide,
and I know that your father
is part of it.
- What's this?
- My heart's racing
a little bit.
- This is the smoking gun
I'd spent the last 12 years
of my life looking for.
- This comes from the FBI.
Here's the 3D model.
Start looking for things
that line up.
In the photo I got an ear lobe.
Look at the shape of the ear.
The shape of the ear here,
very similar.
Look at how that mouth,
they fall right on top.
So all of these things
are lining up,
and then this nasal labial
shape here
is lining up as well.
- It overlays very well.
Adolph Hitler,
he's alive well after 1945.
- I would be pursuing the case.
- If there was any evidence
of his death,
why haven't they produced it?
This is Adolph Hitler.
Bob Baer, a 21-year CIA veteran
and one of the most respected
intelligence minds in the world
has dedicated his career
to tracking some of the most
notorious criminals,
including Sadam Hussein.
- I've spent so much time
in the White House
and know first-hand what
the government tells us
is rarely true,
and from the moment I started
looking into this case,
it didn't add up.
Ignorance is bliss.
The public does not
want to believe
that we lost Adolph Hitler.
In 2014,
the FBI declassified
over 700 pages of documents,
placing Adolph Hitler
around the globe
after World War II,
leading Bob to reopen
this 70-year-old cold case
deploying dozens
of experts, historians,
and military man hunters
armed with the most
cutting edge technology
to investigate the truth.
- By investigating
the FBI files,
we are the first ones
to put together facts
about what really happened.
In Berlin, we found
no scientific evidence
that he died in that bunker.
We don't have a witness.
We don't have a body.
- Searching.
- Kemka cannot tell whether
he really had seen
that Hitler was dead
because he had not
seen the body.
Nobody sees his face
and said, "That's him!"
- Yep.
- Unless it wasn't Hitler.
- Hitler's bunker was connected
with tunnels
which could have taken him
to an airport.
Flying's the way
you want out of Berlin.
In Spain, we have a witness
at the monastery
placing Hitler there.
- He saw here,
with his eyes, Hitler. Here.
- Hitler here?
- Yeah.
- As well as Nazi
infrastructure,
communications,
and also escape routes.
- Germans fingerprints
are all over this place.
- From Spain
he could have boarded
a U-boat
and got away from Europe.
- What happened to this sub?
- I don't know.
- In Argentina,
clue after clue pointed
to the possibility
he escaped into the countryside
and set up multiple
Nazi safe houses.
- This could have been
completely built in secret.
- If I'm gonna hide a high
value target,
this is perfect.
- You got all this damn
evidence everywhere,
but the FBI files were not
the final story
on the hunt for Hitler.
After a year-long investigation
across six countries
and thousands of miles,
Bob prepares to broaden
the scope of his investigation.
- The FBI has a very, very
narrow aperture in the world.
We need to open up the aperture.
Look at that.
14,621 international files
on Hitler alive.
Bob has now
gotten unprecedented access
to over 14,000 pages
of declassified documents
from every major intelligence
agency around the world.
- The Germans, the Argentinians,
the Russians, the MI-6.
- Every intelligence agency in
the world is looking for this.
It's incredible.
I mean, you have a full-on
international man hunt
for Adolph Hitler.
For the first time,
we are opening up these files
and putting them all together,
and they all had
a different piece of the pie.
And it's only when
you put them all together
are you gonna come to the truth.
- We were the first ones
that did it after
the FBI documents
were declassified.
Now we're the first ones
that are acting
on these declassified documents.
Bob is joined
by the UN's premier
War Crimes Investigator,
Dr. John Cencich.
They have integrated
thousands of U.S.
and international documents
into a state-of-the-art
computerized database.
- This database is powerful.
It looks at the relationships
between information.
Finding patterns. Finding words.
Finding evidence.
This is an amazing opportunity
to help us get to the answer
of these questions
that have been looming
for decades.
- So we're starting a whole new
phase of this investigation.
Now that we have these files,
I want to go back
to the beginning,
Hitler's last known location,
April, 1945 in Berlin.
And we're gonna
carry it forward.
Look, John, we've established
that a bunch of airplanes left
Tempelhof on the 21st of April.
- Others left from Tempelhof.
We were about eight
or ten aircraft.
- We know that he could have
been on one of those airplanes.
- It's still feasible that
he could have used Tempelhof,
but we were looking at this
through the documents of
the United States government.
Maybe there really is a plan B,
a plan C, and a plan D
that we don't know about.
- If you're a world leader,
you've got to have
contingencies.
You simply do not
have one way out
because if you have one way out,
that's how you end up
in an ambush.
We've got the database,
and to establish the specifics
to move from theory
to real evidence,
I think that's where
we got to go next.
Let's look into it.
Start looking at this stuff.
Hitler. Plane. Worldwide.
Berlin. Date, 1945.
- Soviet Union. CIA.
- Hey, look at this.
This is an MI-6 file.
A certain ex-Luftwaffe pilot,
Captain Baumgart,
swore under oath
that he flew Hitler
from Berlin on 29, April, 1945.
Hitler was supposed to have
committed suicide on the 30th.
So this is the day before.
- He says he swears under oath,
but we all know there are people
that swear under oath
that don't tell the truth.
What we need to do now
is to look into this database
and find out
if there is any other evidence
or leads we can track down
that would corroborate
his statement.
- Let's see what we got.
.Look at this one.
- This is coming
from the U.S. Army
on the day Hitler left Berlin.
The Germans made
a counter attack
in order to clear a strip
from which the plane
could take off.
The two reports go hand in hand
and they lend credence
to one another.
- It sound like to me this
a makeshift air strip.
Clear a roadway,
whatever you have, take off.
The tenor of this
completely changes
when you have a name,
and a plane, and a day,
and a makeshift runway,
and we're gonna paint a complete
picture for the first time.
In the context of looking
for Hitler's escape route,
we are now getting into
specifics for the first time.
I want to touch something,
feel something.
- If we can determine
where that makeshift runway was,
that's powerful information.
We need to send a team
out there to explore
all of those possibilities.
Right now we've got good leads.
Let's see if we can turn this
into some type of evidence.
- This is a huge breakthrough.
Let's do it.
- Peter Baumgart was consistent
every time he told the story.
To me, as an investigator,
you know,
that's curiosity right there.
Lenny DePaul, former commander
of the U.S. Marshals
Fugitive Task Force,
is on the ground in Berlin.
- I've been hunting fugitives
for a long time.
I continue to look at things
until that case is over.
You know, in my world
there's no more exciting news
that you can get
than discovering new intel
in a 70-year-old cold case.
I'm not gonna give up.
I need to get to the bottom
of this thing.
Lenny is joined by Sascha Keil,
expert on Berlin
during World War II.
- This it?
- Number 10.
- In any investigation
you have to go back
to the scene of the crime
and work your way forward.
If Peter Baumgart flew Hitler
out on a makeshift runway,
then we'll find out.
Christoph? How are you?
The team makes contact
with Christoph Neubauer,
forensic reconstructionist
and the world's leading
expert on Hitler's bunker.
- I'll use this to show
you something here.
- Christoph Neubauer is
a valuable person to me.
This guy, over the years,
has studied the Fuhrerbunker
better than anybody.
He's able to develop the
state-of-the-art technology
to give us a 3-D
look at the Fuhrerbunker.
He can bring me back 70 years
to the scene of the crime.
- So basically we are
having here the chancellery
where Hitler used to live
and what used to be
his headquarters,
and it's like
a whole city block.
- It's huge.
- So... and inside
you'll find the Fuhrerbunker.
- This is allegedly where
Adolph Hitler kills himself.
- Exactly.
So far there are known four
main exits out of the bunker.
- These were the exits
that we thought took him
to Tempelhof Airport.
- But, recently I found
very close to the bunker,
another one.
- Another one what?
- I found an exit
very close to the bunker.
- Are you kidding me?
- If you have here
the Fuhrerbunker,
just 20 to 25 meters away
you could walk
into a new tunnel.
- Okay.
- And you see here
a very small entrance here.
Steps going down, one door,
and a cover.
And all this would
have been invisible.
- Why all of a sudden
we find a tunnel?
How did you stumble onto this?
- I check in archives a lot,
and there is a photograph
I came across taken
by American soldiers
after the Second World War.
- Look at that.
- Do you see how close this is?
- So the Fuhrerbunker's here.
It's gonna be here,
and now I'm walking 75 feet
and I go back down underground.
You know, it thought I had some
pretty hot leads
the last time I was here.
This is the hottest.
That's actually number five.
We've only known about four
for the past 70 years.
So for us to get our hands
on this is unbelievable.
It could lead me right
to this makeshift runway.
Now Hitler's
got another way out.
- So from the Fuhrerbunker we
travel 75 feet into this tunnel.
Lenny DePaul and Sascha Keil
have just made
a shocking discovery.
- So you're telling me
if Hitler himself wanted to,
let's say, exit the Fuhrerbunker
into this tunnel
he'd be back underground again.
With the help of forensic
reconstructionist
Christoph Neubauer,
they have just uncovered
a fifth and never before known,
escape route
from Hitler's Fuhrerbunker.
The team is following
a declassified MI-6 file
that claims Luftwaffe pilot,
Peter Baumgart
flew Hitler out of Berlin
from a makeshift runway
on April 29, 1945,
the day before Hitler
was believed
to have committed suicide.
- Our association is working
15, 20 years on this area,
and we never found
any documented photo
or archive such a tunnel.
This is a breakthrough,
even in my work,
for the last 15 years,
we never knew there could be
another exit from the bunker.
This is a complete shock.
- The big questions
is if Adolph Hitler
decided to take that route
out of the Fuhrerbunker,
where does he go?
- The East German
Secret Service, the Stasi,
in 1973, they started
a big investigation.
They were interested in tunnels
exactly in the same location
because on top of the tunnel,
exactly there,
was the Berlin Wall.
At the end of World War II,
Berlin was turned over
to the Allied Forces.
The French, British,
and Americans
occupied the Western section
of the city,
and the Soviets controlled
the East.
As the Cold War intensified,
the Soviets built
the Berlin Wall,
a 96-mile barrier
to prevent defectors
from fleeing to West Berlin.
The Stasi, the East German
Secret Police,
generated hundreds of maps
and eyewitness accounts
of escape routes
that were built
during Hitler's regime
that could be used to escape
under the Berlin Wall.
- I went through all the
thousands of secret files there.
I actually found one
which specifically relates
to this tunnel.
We see this would have gone
all the way to the Tiergarten,
the Brandenburg Gate.
- What is the Tiergarten?
What exactly is the Tiergartens?
- Yeah, for you probably
the best explanation
is the Central Park of New York,
this is the Tiergarten
for Berlin.
- From my perspective,
I got somebody
that's the most wanted man
in the world.
He's not gonna pop up
in the middle of Central Park.
- It does not fit.
It doesn't fit.
- I want you to show me visually
on the map of the compound
where these tunnels
would have been.
All right,
here's the Tiergartens, correct?
- Exactly.
- So here's the big question,
why is he heading
in this direction?
What's his end game?
What's he thinking about?
Where's he going?
That's what I need to know.
There's got to be a destination.
Hitler, once again,
has got a way out.
- This is a fantastic find.
This here, at this location,
is the entrance to what
we now call Exit Number 5.
Bob Baer and
Dr. John Cencich review
the findings from the team's
investigation in Berlin.
- You know what strikes me
as so interesting is
that they had taken the time
to build these tunnels.
I mean, they were planning
this years in advance,
with a purpose.
This is the great thing
about the files
that we're going from
the realm of speculation
to the real possibility
of a clandestine exfiltration
to a makeshift runway.
- I want to show you a document
that I just came across.
We didn't find this before
because we were only looking
at the FBI files.
This document
is an Argentinian document.
Look what they've got here.
"Nazis, upon arriving
to Argentina,
took refuge in a militarized
outpost in Misiones."
- That's great. I love it.
Earlier in this investigation
we found three structures
that are completely isolated
in the middle of the jungle,
Misiones in Argentina.
This could have been
a real hideout location
for somebody on the run.
- And we already know that at
the compound the team's been to,
they found photographs,
Nazi paraphernalia,
the photographs were people
wearing their Nazi uniforms,
the medicine.
- That was consistent
with the type of medicine
used by Hitler
for his own particular ailment.
It's pretty suspicious.
Whoever was living
in this residence
had a lot of money,
a lot of connections to Nazis,
and the number one suspect
is Adolph Hitler.
- You know, when we
first went to Misiones,
I was picturing it as
sort of a lair,
you know, get away
from the police.
Hide out.
Get away from communications.
But this file is something
entirely different.
You're actually talking about
a defensible militarized zone.
It's amazing.
If it's militarized,
it's militarized
for one purpose only,
and that's to defend
a very important figure.
- Militarized outpost
is telling me
that we have guards,
weapons, supplies,
anything you need to protect
somebody like Hitler.
- Well, I'd like to find out
from an archaeologist
on the ground
there is there anything
that would indicate
that it indeed was militarized.
I think we should
call Daniel up.
The team makes
contact with Daniel Schavelzon,
the head archaeologist
who has continued to excavate
the Nazi site in Misiones,
Argentina for the last year.
- Hello.
- Daniel, this is
Bob Baer and John.
- Yeah, we've come across
a report
that says that there was
a military compound in Misiones.
- This militarized zone
in Misiones very well
could be no different than what
Bin Laden did in Afghanistan,
set up a base in a country
that's fairly friendly.
We got to get Tim back there.
I mean, he spent his career
building bases
that are defensible.
I want his opinion.
- I can't really wait
to get the team down here
and start looking at this
and seeing what type of concrete
evidence we can develop from it.
- If we find an extensive
Nazi base in Argentina,
we are really
breaking new ground.
- This rock's gonna be slippery.
Tim Kennedy,
U.S. Army Special Forces,
returns to the jungles
of Misiones, Argentina,
to follow a declassified
Argentinian document
that reports this area
was once home
to a Nazi militarized outpost.
- I've spent the majority
of my career
working in military mind-sets.
If this was a military compound,
just taking that lens
and looking at it
with a different perspective
might tell us
everything we need to know.
We might find nothing,
but we might get lucky.
Tim is joined
by Dr. Alasdair Brooks,
a historical archaeologist
who spent his career unraveling
the mysteries
of the early 20th century.
- Archaeology's always about
the extent of discovery.
Looking at those objects
coming out of the ground.
Looking at how they
relate to the site,
the artefactual evidence
will tell us who wanted
this built here and why.
- You got a step here.
- Thanks.
They head
for a new fourth structure
less than a mile
from the three previously
discovered stone structures
that could have housed
a high value
Nazi target on the run.
- Daniel.
- Hey.
They make contact
with Daniel Schavelzon,
who has been working
around the clock
to uncover artifacts
from the area
around the fourth structure.
We found what we think
is a belt.
- It's a belt?
- A belt, yeah.
- It's heavy.
It's not the normal, you know.
- It was cut clean.
It had very clean lines.
I mean, it looked more military.
If you look at my belt,
this is a military issue belt
that I got 15 years ago.
That belt looks
stunningly similar to my belt.
- Yeah.
- This is our first clue
that there could have been
a military complex here.
We're not done yet.
I need to get my eyes
on this new building.
Watch your foot through here.
- Here we are.
That's the building.
- It's massive.
- Yes.
- Why is this in the middle
of the jungle?
- Is this typical?
- No, absolutely not.
- That's quite
a large structure.
We could potentially look at
these fittings around the doors
and the windows for
a preliminary date for this.
- Yes. Sure.
- I'm interested in these nails.
Historical archaeologists
call these wire nails.
They're industrially
mass produced,
so we're getting 20th century
architecture here
rather than something earlier.
This structure dates
to the 1940s,
that much is fairly clear.
- Standing here I see
similarities to buildings
one, two, and three.
Are these stones the same
as the other buildings?
- Oh, yes.
The stone, the plaster,
the windows, the frames,
there are lots of similarities,
but there are lots
of differences.
- These doors
aren't really wide.
- Absolutely.
Here you see there
was a door of two parts,
you know, to open all.
This is not normal
in your house.
- Absolutely not normal.
This isn't for residential use.
This isn't for a family
moving in and out.
Everything feels powerful,
thick, durable, and industrial.
The first thing
that stands out to me
about this
is the open floor layout.
If I were to envision
what this use was,
this feels like
military barracks.
This is where you line up
bunk beds and put soldiers.
One floor, two floor. Wide open.
If you had heavy equipment
you're obviously going
to be putting it
on the ground floor.
You're gonna have people
sleeping on the floor above it.
This is built like
a military support structure.
Four-feet thick walls with doors
that you can push pallets
of ammunition through.
If this is a military complex,
you have to have a place
to house your personnel.
This could be just that.
You're going to be
limiting access to protect
what you're storing in here.
If you're going to be hiding
and protecting Adolph Hitler,
you're gonna have to have
a building like this.
- This information
has the potential
to really change the entire
course of our investigation.
While the field team
continue to explore
the jungles of Argentina,
Bob and John review the findings
from the German leg
of their investigation
where a declassified
MI-6 document
reported that Adolph Hitler
was flown from
a makeshift runway
in Berlin on April 29, 1945,
led the team to uncover
a never before known
fifth exit
from Hitler's Fuhrerbunker.
- Well, for me the most
mysterious part is exit 5.
Here's the entry.
- From there it
goes into a tunnel.
Precisely at this point,
the East German Secret Police,
the Stasi,
were conducting
their own investigation.
A declassified
Stasi file reveals
that this fifth exit
would have connected
to a 2,000 foot long tunnel,
ending at the base
of the Brandenburg gate.
This iconic monument marks
the beginning of Tiergarten Park
which was redesigned by Hitler
to be the crown jewel
of his capital city.
- So what did it get him,
getting in the middle
of the Tiergarten
at the Brandenburg gate?
- Brandenburg Gate.
Hitler. Plane.
Let's take a look
at this document here.
So this is dated
December 29, 1949.
The reporting agency
is the Soviet Union.
A plane which was piloted
by Hanna Reitsch
on the 28th of April
flew out of Berlin
from the Brandenburg Gate.
- According to this document
it looks like it was a runway.
It was a makeshift runway,
and they're flying out
as late as the 28th of April.
- Which is only one day before
Captain Baumgart flew Hitler
from perhaps the same location.
- If Hanna Reitsch leaves
on the 28th,
makes it out successfully,
a test run if you like,
that means Hitler
could have gotten out
of Berlin the day after.
Where there's smoke
there's fire.
Could this be
the makeshift runway Hitler
used to escape from Berlin?
Is it even reasonable to fly in
and get out on
the 29th of April...
- Right.
- When the Russians
were circling the city?
- If we can go in
and we can corroborate
that there was indeed
this makeshift airstrip,
we may really have something.
- Hanna Reitsch, she's able
to fly a plane in
and out of here on April 28th.
Allegedly, on April 29th,
Baumgart flies Hitler
out of here.
Lenny DePaul and Sascha Keil
investigate the avenue
running
from the Brandenburg Gate
through Tiergarten Park
in search of evidence
that it could have been used
as a makeshift runway.
- Sascha take me back.
April, let's say April 20th
through the 30th.
Did the Nazis occupy
this area right here?
- From the Brandenburg Gate
to the Victory Column,
this was defended
to the last hours
of the Third Reich.
This was the last stronghold
controlled by
the German Army and by Hitler.
All the other air strips
and airports were down
and forced by the Russians
in these days.
- And the Victory
Column was what?
- Can we get
in the Victory Column?
- Yes.
- You can get me up top?
- Yeah.
- Let's go.
I got to see this.
What a vantage point
that would be.
- It was a kind of jewel,
a gem of the government.
It was a hot spot for the
fighting in the last war days.
- Wow, this whole place
is shot up.
- The Russians
with General Konev,
the troops were just over there
a few hundred meters
and they knew that German
soldiers were inside.
- Look at the bullet holes,
Sascha.
I can't believe this.
This was pretty much
the last stand for the Germans.
This place was held up
for a reason.
By April 24, 1945,
the advancing Soviet Army
encircled the once pristine
capital of the Third Reich.
With each passing day
the Soviets tightened
their grip around
the heart of Berlin,
forcing nearly
all remaining Nazi troops
to retreat and defend
a four square mile area
of the inner
government district,
which included the
Fuhrerbunker, Tiergarten Park,
and the Victory Column.
- I got chills just thinking
about the Russians
are outside shooting at us
with everything they got.
The Russians were
100 meters out.
High ranking Nazi officials,
they knew they were signing
their death warrant right there.
Why would they be here?
Oh, wow. Holy cow, look at this.
You got to be kidding me.
You can see any Russian
aircrafts coming in.
- Yeah.
- It makes sense
from this vantage point.
You got a makeshift runway
right here.
There's only one reason
that the Nazis
would be held up here
in this tower.
This is basically
an air traffic control tower.
Where's the Fuhrerbunker
from here? 600 meters?
- 600 to 700, not more.
- He could have jumped
in the tunnels,
through the Tiergarten to here.
The team has now
uncovered a new exit
from Hitler's Fuhrerbunker
that would have led to a tunnel
below Tiergarten Park
and connected directly
to a massive boulevard
extending from
the Brandenburg Gate.
- I get the length of this
as a makeshift runway,
but width wise,
it doesn't make sense to me.
I mean, look at the length
it's perfect.
But what about these lamp posts?
How are you gonna get wings
of an airplane down here,
like, every 15, 20 yards
apart, right?
- Hundreds. The whole line.
- Taking a look at
the lamp posts
that were every 10 meters apart,
it would have been very risky
to accommodate an aircraft.
Not only was Adolph Hitler
tactically sound,
he was a forward thinker.
I mean, those lampposts could
have easily clipped a wing.
That whole escape plan
would have been grounded.
And it's just a gut feeling,
but as a criminal investigator,
it just doesn't add up.
The way it looks right now,
for the wingspan
of this aircraft to be able
to get up and down this runway,
it's a death trap.
- That's an eerie
looking building.
I can just imagine
what had occurred there.
While waiting for an update
from the German leg
of their investigation,
Bob and John focus
their attention to the findings
from the jungles
of Misiones, Argentina,
where they have discovered
a new,
fourth structure
in the same area
that a declassified Argentinian
document reports a Nazi
militarized outpost
after World War II.
- I think this is
just an anomaly.
It's just like glaring huge.
Who builds a two-story structure
with reinforced walls,
very thick bolts
in the middle of the jungle?
I mean, it looks like
somebody took a plan
from maybe a barracks and said,
"All right, go put this
in Misiones,
out in the jungle
when nobody could see it."
The more we get into
the Misiones site,
the more it starts looking like
something military related.
According to
the Argentine report,
this was a military zone,
and voila, what do we have here?
A military type structure.
You put soldiers there,
supplies,
and then that would protect
the main residences.
I truly think this is huge.
I mean, I think it is huge.
- Always lingered in my mind
in the first part
of our investigation was,
okay, if it was Hitler
that's in that building or
some other high value target...
- Yeah.
- Where are the people
that are providing security
for him?
Are they living
in the same building?
- Yeah, no, exactly. I mean,
he just didn't go out there
and sit up in his mansion,
you know,
and do everything himself,
but now we're talking
about someplace
you could put personnel
that would be right
in wherever you lived.
- I'd like to see artifacts that
relate to soldiers,
soldiers that would be used
for the protection
of a high-value target.
If this was
a militarized outpost,
you need soldiers to fortify it,
and so they would have
left evidence behind.
I think we're clever enough
to...
- Find out who was
in that building.
- Exactly.
- These are the artifacts?
- Yeah.
Here are all the artifacts.
Deep in the jungles of Misiones,
Daniel Schavelzon
has granted Tim Kennedy
and Alasdair Brooks access
to his base camp,
the home for thousands
of artifacts
Daniel has uncovered
from the four structures
that make up this Nazi
jungle hideout.
- This is from all the sites
you've been working on.
- Yes, absolutely all came
from inside the site.
- I find the two-story
building significant.
We need to find clues
in these artifacts
that will tell me who the people
are that were using it
and what they were doing here.
- How many artifacts have you
found in your excavation work?
- For the moment,
over 4,000 fragments and items,
but we keep digging.
- As you'd likely expect,
my eyes were caught
by the ceramics.
- Yeah, you're an expert
on that.
- This one's particularly
interesting to me,
a gravy boat
in the middle of the jungle?
And these structures
are in the middle of nowhere.
Why would you have a level
of formal of dining,
a level of that aspiration
to gentility
in these households?
- I don't think there's
any question anybody could doubt
that somebody was prepared
to stay here
for as long as they wanted
and can feel safe.
- This is particularly
interesting
because it has
a German maker's mark.
That's Villeroy & Boch.
If I were to find this in,
say, Buenos Aires,
I might not be too surprised.
Here in Misiones, on the banks
of the Parana River,
in these sites,
this complex of sites
that are hidden away,
that's more remarkable.
This is highly breakable,
highly fragile materials
made in Germany.
Excepting that Hitler's style
of living was higher end,
there is connection,
an unexpected level of formal
dining here in the jungle.
- This doesn't look like
somebody is there to hide.
This is like somebody
is there to live comfortably.
And to me, for a high value
target like Adolph Hitler
to be comfortable and safe,
That means that they have
soldiers around them.
Have you found anything
that is military
or that would be used
to protect somebody
that could live this
comfortably?
- Yes, we have
some other things.
Here you have,
for example, bullets.
- And this is obviously
9 millimeter bullets.
This bullet has been
used historically to protect
the most important people
on the planet,
and is still used today
for that exact same reason.
Of all of the different things
they had found,
of all the different fragments
of bottles, medicine,
trash cans,
the military items
were the least frequent.
That made a lot of sense to me.
These are not guys who are
gonna be losing bullets,
dropping magazines, losing guns.
These are trained soldiers.
They're not gonna leave
a trace of what they're doing
or how they do it.
I would almost want to segregate
all of these artifacts,
in my mind,
the people that were
living comfortably,
the people that were secure,
the people that were
being protected,
and then everybody else.
The person who is using this,
I think,
is protected by the people
that are using that.
This is a possible runway.
Bob and John review the findings
of their investigation
to determine
if the street between
the Brandenburg Gate
and the Victory Column
could have been used
as a makeshift runway
to fly Hitler out of Berlin
in the final days of the war
as reported by
a declassified MI-6 file.
- We've got the Victory Column.
Its height certainly
could have been used
for a makeshift air
traffic control center.
- You've got all the makings
of a runway
except problems
with the wingspan.
It's getting very convincing
that Hitler left
through the Tiergarten.
You know, Hitler bringing
his troops in,
you know,
sort of the last defense,
circling the wagons.
So Tiergarten
is looking really good
except for the lampposts
that run down the road,
because that makes it a very
hazardous place to take off.
It's not the kind of risk
a good planner
would have built into this.
The main thing
is the light poles.
- You're right.
Is the avenue wide enough?
That's really the question.
- Yeah. I think that's key.
Absolutely key.
essandro, hey.
To determine if this avenue
was wide enough to navigate
a plane through
in the final days of the war,
Lenny makes contact
with Alessandro Nuzzo
and Frederico Uccelli
of Leica Geosystems.
- I need dimensions.
I need the width of the street
from the Brandenburg Gate
to the Column.
- We can do it.
We will generate
a 360 degrees spherical image,
providing 256 megapixels
each second.
With seven laser scanners,
and a 360 degree camera array,
the Leica Pegasus 2
is used by forensic analysts
all over the world
to transform crime scenes
into 3-D models with accuracy
down to the millimeter.
The result of the scan will
allow the investigative team
to examine Hitler's
possible escape route
from every angle.
- Well, go work your magic.
While the Leica
laser scan gets underway...
- Lenny.
- Thanks for coming
back out, brother.
How you doing, all right?
Lenny meets with Sascha Keil
who has uncovered evidence
from local photo archives.
- This is before the war,
and you can compare these lines
with the modern lampposts.
- Yeah, right, right.
- As you can see,
it's the same line.
So the second one,
this is from April and May 1945.
And you see, no lampposts.
- Wow. The German troops,
they cut them
at the ground level here
and had more space.
- You're telling me
they eliminated
these poles
on both sides, right?
- Yeah.
- This is unbelievable.
Somebody was under
a direct order
to cut these things
down for a reason.
So here you got the lampposts,
here you don't,
which gave them at least
another 20 feet on each side
to get an airplane down there.
It makes absolutely no sense
for those lampposts
to be cut down
unless you wanted to accommodate
or fit something down this road.
You can only imagine this was
the contingency plan
that was in place
by Adolph Hitler.
The place was caving in on him.
He was backed into a corner
and he needed to get out
of Dodge in a hurry.
Yeah, there's a method
to his madness.
I'll give the devil his due.
He thought this thing out.
Boom, he's on this makeshift
runway, and he's gone.
To me, the puzzle's been
put together.
This season
on "Hunting Hitler"...
- What can you see?
- There's something right here!
- We're kicking this
investigation into high gear.
- Oh, look at that.
A German Luger, right?
- Yeah, we are now
getting really, really close.
- We've got our hands
on hundreds of new leads.
We're gonna hit the ground
and find out the truth
behind them.
- Holy.
- We're looking
for Hitler's escape routes.
They can shuttle people
right out
in the ocean
into a waiting U-boat.
And we're infiltrating his
tunnels and his transit points.
Right here. We got an opening.
That's an escape tunnel.
Whoa.
We're uncovering his web
of contacts around the world.
- If you were an escaping Nazi,
this would be
a good place to come.
- This is starting to look
a little bit suspicious.
- Witnesses for the first time
are speaking up.
- We're gonna paint a complete
picture of the truth.
- I have explosives detected.
- They'd been planning
this for years.
- Adolph Hitler was not going
to hide forever.
Presumably he was
looking to rearm.
- That's weaponized
nuclear power.
- And he dreamed of hitting
the United States.
- Aw, look at this.
If you're gonna detonate
a dirty bomb of some kind,
this is the place to do it.
- Ooh.
- We're gonna continue
this hunt for Hitler
until it's settled absolutely.
- This is ground Zero.
- This is Adolph Hitler's home.
- These are people
who can keep a secret.
- We'll get to the bottom of it.
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