Hunting Hitler (2015–…): Season 2, Episode 5 - The Factory - full transcript
Holland and Simpson first search for tunnel access to U-boats from a hotel in Cadiz, Spain, and later scour Tangier, Morocco, for a Nazi HQ site. Kennedy and Williams examine an old factory in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Baer and Cencich view evidence of a meeting between Juan Peron and Martin Bormann.
- It's amazing after
the hubbub of Barcelona.
Suddenly you're so kind of
remote, aren't you?
- Wow.
- There literally could not be
a better spot to hide.
- For Hitler to escape,
he needs to get out of Spain
and go to South America.
- You find me a U-boat
base out of Cadiz,
I'll be very happy.
- What was it specifically
that your mother was doing
for Nazi Germany?
- It's still there?
- We have to investigate this.
HUNTING HITLER - SEASON 2
EP - 5 - The Factory
- We're looking for
an exfiltration route
in the Cádiz area
that you could rely on.
CIA veteran Bob Baer
and war crimes investigator
Dr. John Cencich
discuss their investigation
in Southern Spain
where they are in search
of a U-boat loading dock
that Hitler could have used
to make his way
to South America.
They are following
a declassified
Argentinian document
that claims Nazi U-boats
were secretly moving from
Cádiz, Spain to Argentina.
- We have intel telling us
that there were U-boats
leaving in this particular area.
We have a photograph
with a U-boat there
in the Gulf of Cádiz,
and we have an eyewitness
corroborating this.
- On top of it,
we've got this lady
who pulls out clear evidence
of Nazi espionage
in the Cádiz area,
and she's telling us the Nazis
are using this
Reina Cristina Hotel
as a meeting place.
- Spies going in.
Spies coming out.
That's where the U-boats
are coming in and coming out.
It makes sense.
- Question is,
what do you get if you
go Reina Cristina?
- That's what we need
to find out.
- If this hotel leads to
a potential U-boat exfil point,
I'll be very happy.
This will be exciting.
- Well, it'll be interesting
to see inside it.
- Yeah.
In Cádiz, Spain,
World War II historian
James Holland
and U.S. Army recon expert
Mike Simpson
arrive at the hotel
Reina Cristina
in search of evidence
that this location
could have been used
to covertly board onto a U-boat.
- You can see why
you would have
so many spies here
back in the first part
of the 20th century.
- You certainly can.
- Someone up there,
big pair of binos,
looking straight out
over the water.
Oh, yes, you can see a bit
from here, can't you?
- The beach is right there.
- Yes.
- So the fact that we have
the easy access to the beach,
you can almost picture
in your mind, you know,
a U-boat popping up, up there.
- So as long as you could get
someone down to the beach,
it would be
hypothetically possible
to get a U-boat in here.
- I would still always prefer
to do it completely clandestine.
Avoiding visual detection
is ideal.
I'd like to see something that
would get me all the way out
into that U-boat without
ever being detected.
- We're looking for signs
of infrastructure.
What I want to do is
look around the hotel
and see what can I find out
from the people who are there?
- Hola.
- Hey, como estas? Bien.
The team makes
contact with Claudio Cosas,
a hotel employee.
- Okay. Says he knows it well.
- He's gonna show us.
- Oh, fantastic.
- Si, vamos.
Claudio leads the team
to an entrance below
the hotel's pool.
- Oh, my goodness.
So the question's
where does that go?
- I need to take a look at that.
Really cramped in here,
and pretty smelly.
I'm gonna follow this around...
See where it goes.
Really tight.
Sounds like water
flowing up ahead,
and I'm seeing some light.
Wow!
I was not expecting this at all.
So I've got two big wells,
big cisterns,
about 2 1/2 meters across.
It's probably about
30 feet down.
The team has discovered a tunnel
that runs below the hotel's pool
leading to a pair of wells
100 feet from the coast.
- There's water down there.
I can actually smell the salt,
so this is not freshwater
coming down.
And there's a steel ladder
placed in the side.
Definitely somebody had an eye
on making this easily accessible
down to the bottom.
I'm wondering, are these wells
some type of way
to get someone out to link up
with that U-boat without
any detection whatsoever?
We're gonna need some help
to answer this question.
At first light,
Mike and James return
to the hotel Reina Cristina.
They're joined by
a structural engineer
and a team of divers.
They hope to
determine if these wells
could have served
as a clandestine
escape route to the Atlantic.
According to the experts,
these wells were once part of
the hotel's drainage system.
During a downpour,
rain would funnel
into the wells,
travel through
a tunnel at the base,
and drain out into
the open ocean.
But due to rising sea levels
in recent years,
salt water has flooded into
these now-defunct reservoirs.
- Seawater has completely
flooded these wells now,
which is why I smelled
the salt water.
But back in 1945,
unless there was a rain storm,
these would have been wide open.
The question now is,
is this tunnel
at the bottom big enough
for a person to fit through?
Because if it is, that tells me
that they could shuttle people
from right inside
the compound of the hotel,
right out into the ocean
into a waiting U-boat.
There's our baby.
Fortunately,
we have the technology
at our disposal to find out.
Mike and James are armed
with a waterproof
ROVVER X crawler,
which is used to
explore underwater caves
and dangerous pipelines.
It is equipped with
front- and rear-facing
high-definition cameras
on a robotic arm
with full articulation
and rotation.
- James, I'm hooked up
to the cable
if you want to check it
on your end.
How's that picture
looking on your end?
- It's looking
incredibly clear, actually.
- I'm gonna start
lowering it down.
I can see the light
in the water.
- We're underwater now, Mike.
So far that water
is pretty clear.
I'm looking at something.
Okay, Mike.
You got a tunnel.
- A tunnel.
Roger that, James.
I'm looking down at the light.
The light is heading in exactly
the direction of the beach.
How big around does
the tunnel look?
- I can't tell from looking
at the screen
how big the cavity is.
- Control the ROVVER
in the water.
You can drive it.
- Let me give it a go.
It's not going, is it?
I don't know what's
going on here, Mike.
It's not moving along
the sediment.
I don't know quite
what to suggest.
- So rocking the wheels
forward and back,
you're not getting
any traction at all?
- No, it just can't move.
That robot was going
absolutely nowhere.
There's so much silt,
the wheels just can't grip.
The silt is too deep.
So at this point,
there's only one solution,
and that's to get eyes
down there
and see how big this tunnel is.
The divers descend into the well
in hopes of determining
the dimensions
at the base of the tunnel.
- He's in the water.
He's gonna try to free dive it
a little bit.
- The divers going down there...
That's quite brave of them,
to be perfectly honest,
because they are literally
diving down into the unknown.
It goes to the ocean
for 30 meters?
All right, James. He swam it.
It goes for 30 meters
towards the ocean.
How wide is it?
- So 90, 90 centimeters?
- Okay, so 120 centimeters
by 90 centimeters,
so pretty sizable.
- That's not just
a drainage pipe.
You can walk in that.
- The intelligence that
we have has led us here
to the southwestern corner
of all of Europe.
Today we were able to prove
we have a definitive link
from the hotel
to the open ocean,
directly toward Hitler's
ultimate destination,
South America.
- I'm convinced now.
Someone could have come
to this hotel,
gone out the tunnel,
got on a U-boat,
out of sight, no witnesses.
You know, next stop
is Argentina.
Bob and John review the findings
from the hotel Reina Cristina
in Cádiz, Spain
where they have discovered
a clandestine tunnel
leading to the Atlantic Ocean.
- You've got a exfiltration
route here by U-boat,
but we have no idea
who got on that U-boat.
Do we have any evidence
that either Hitler or Bormann
were on a U-boat leaving Cádiz?
- No, we don't.
I think we need to see
if there are
any other intel reports
in the database,
and let's see if either one,
or both, show up
in this particular radius.
Hitler. Bormann.
What I'm going to do is put in
100 miles of Cádiz.
- This is a MI6 report.
August 10, 1949.
Bormann's headquarters:
Tangier, Morocco.
"A former Luftwaffe pilot
asked whether Bormann
"really had the organization
"of which he had been told,
"and received the reply that
"'we National-Socialists'
"were working for
their whole lives
"to prepare a comeback
"for National-Socialism
in Germany
and in the whole world."
It's a huge statement
that Bormann goes to Tangier
to set up the Fourth Reich?
- And that's not speculation.
Earlier in the investigation,
we uncovered Hitler
had plans for the continuation
of his empire
well beyond
the Second World War.
Hitler carried
with him secret plans
for the V-3 Sky Rocket bomb.
- A V-3 could hit
the United States.
Hitler didn't think history
was over for him.
He came here to plan something.
If Hitler was still alive,
he wasn't gonna disappear
to Argentina,
move up in the mountains,
and write poetry.
We're talking about somebody who
had great pretentions of power,
but he's got to have a network
that he trusts,
and Bormann is the guy
that Hitler trusted.
- What's really interesting here
is the proximity.
Tangier is only nine miles
from the hotel.
- And remember that Tangier
was a lot like Spain.
It was never fully
under Allied control.
It's always been a point
of smuggling into Europe.
Tangier's a good place to hide.
- If Hitler and Bormann
were in Spain,
there's every reason to infer
from this that Hitler
got on the U-boat from Spain
to South America,
and Bormann goes to Tangier
and sets up his headquarters
there in view
of their overall ambition
for a Fourth Reich.
- Yeah, I totally agree.
What we got to do
is get the team there,
and all I care
about is some evidence
that Bormann went there.
Headquarters can mean
all sorts of things.
- Tangier's a big city,
but we have to start somewhere.
- Yep. Let's go.
- What do you think we
need to be looking for
if there is such a headquarters?
- Communications and security,
first and foremost.
U.S. Army
recon expert Mike Simpson
and World War II historian
James Holland
are in the Moroccan city
of Tangier.
- So this is
the original ancient port.
They rendezvous
with local translator Stefan.
- And there's Spain,
right there.
Just a little jump to Cádiz.
- Yeah, just across the sea.
- For centuries, Tangier
has been known
as an international city
with strategic importance.
It sits right at the mouth
of the Mediterranean
and the Atlantic.
It's in a key position.
We need to follow this thread
out and see where it leads.
- Mike.
- How do you do? James.
- Rashid.
The team makes contact
with Professor
Rashid Taperssiti,
an expert on Moroccan
20th century history.
- What was the scene here
in the 1940s and 1950s?
- Where you've got spies, that
means you've got safe houses,
knowledge, infrastructure,
which post-war,
if you're a fleeing Nazi,
is all incredibly useful.
So I'm thinking, Mike, you know,
if I'm a German spy
and I'm here,
I can't think of a better place
to spy than the port.
Rashid leads the team
to a lookout point
to better examine the port,
a potential entry
and exit location
for spies in Tangier.
- God, it's amazing.
- It is amazing.
It's an incredible view
from up here.
- So this is where
espionage begins.
But once you've got
your information,
you're then taking that
into the city.
- During the 1940s,
was there any location
where German military officials
were seen moving in and out?
- In the Marshan
neighborhood specifically?
- We started with a really broad
location, the city of Tangier.
Now we've narrowed that down
to a specific
neighborhood, Marshan.
This is a known location
where these Nazis
were interacting
during the time period
that we're interested in.
Now, we just need
to find the brain...
The headquarters,
the nerve center.
- Exactly. That's where
the trail leads us.
- We've gone from
the entire city of Tangier
to one neighborhood, Marshan.
- Yeah, let's...
We have to dig into this
and see what we can find.
- When we look at the evidence,
it's clear that
a Fourth Reich was planned.
Bob and John discuss
their investigation in Tangier,
Morocco, where an MI6 file
reports Martin Bormann
was setting up
a headquarters for Hitler
to reenter the world stage
after World War II.
- We're talking about
the Fourth Reich.
It reminds me of another
one of the documents
that we had earlier
in the investigation.
Here we have a U.S. military
intelligence document
dated 7th of November, 1944,
where a French
intelligence officer
infiltrated a Nazi meeting.
These are the things that
he was able to discern.
"Existing financial reserves
in foreign countries
"must be placed
at the disposal of the party
"so that a strong German Empire
"can be created
after the defeat.
"These bureaus will
receive plans
and drawings of new weapons."
- The Fourth Reich depended
on armed force.
If Hitler is gonna come back,
weapons are absolutely crucial.
- If you're really going
to become involved
with the manufacture
or distribution of arms,
what do you need?
You need a munitions expert.
You know who comes to mind?
None other than Fritz Mandl.
- What can Francisco tell us
about how Mandl
made his money while
he was in Argentina?
- He used to own
an ammunition factory.
- So he was making arms
while he was here?
- Yes.
- And here we have Hitler
meeting with him
after World War II.
This paints a picture of a man
who's trying to set up
an army in Argentina...
A Nazi army.
Austrian. Munitions maker.
Big time money.
- And he's in Argentina.
- What's important here
is that Mandl
was a trusted member
of Hitler's inner circle.
He's a dyed-in-the-wool Nazi,
and he's somebody
that Hitler could trust.
- I think we need to look
a little bit
closer at Fritz Mandl.
Okay, we got a hit.
U.S. War Department
report in 1943:
"Mandl's bicycle
and plastic plants began
"to produce machine guns,
airplanes,
bullets, and bombs."
This is the perfect cover.
- Yeah.
- The raw materials,
the machinery that's needed
to produce bicycles,
is the same as what's needed
for machine guns,
bullets, and bombs.
He owned a number
of companies in Argentina.
One of particular note
is a bicycle factory
in Buenos Aires.
If we could go to this
so-called bicycle factory
in Buenos Aires,
and if I could get some forensic
evidence to munitions...
Weapons, explosives...
Circumstantially,
a conspiracy has been proved.
- We are doing the investigation
that should have been done
70 years ago.
- Kind of a weird location
for him to have a factory,
downtown Buenos Aires.
Investigative
journalist Gerrard Williams
and U.S. Army Special Forces'
Tim Kennedy
along with
local translator Nicole
arrive at the location
that was once Fritz Mandl's
bicycle factory.
- You ready?
We're coming to
the Mandl factory
to see if they were
making munitions.
Munitions can be so many things.
They could be grenades.
It could be ammunition.
It could be explosives.
Bombs. Artillery.
The spectrum of what
a munition can be is diverse.
It just has to do one thing,
hurt people.
The team meets with Margarita,
a long-time employee
of the factory.
- The era that we're
the most interested in is
when Mandl was working
at this factory.
- Somewhere around '43,
he started appearing in
the books as vice president,
but it's still a mystery exactly
how long he was here for.
- What were they able to make
with the machines
that they were using?
- They could make from really,
really thin aluminum items
and really thick
aluminum objects.
- Yeah.
- The versatility
of those machines,
if you have the right engineer...
You can make almost
anything metal
right here in this factory.
They have the equipment
to be able
to execute from start to finish,
not only a gun,
but also the ammunition.
- Tim?
- A German machine
imported here?
- Yeah, it has to be.
And the size of this stuff...
The size that reminds me
of nothing more
than artillery shells.
Or mortar rounds.
- This is all 1940s.
German design.
German manufactured.
Just in downtown
Buenos Aires, Argentina.
- This place is filthy.
Tim Kennedy and Gerrard Williams
have gained access to a factory
once owned by Nazi sympathizer
Fritz Mandl
that, according
to a declassified
U.S. War Department file,
was secretly
manufacturing munitions.
- One thing's for sure,
it hasn't had
a deep clean
in the last 75 years.
They're investigating
a now-defunct section
of the factory
that was in use
during the 1940s.
- There's inches of dirt
in the corners, on the floor,
in the center where we walk.
It could be a blessing
in disguise
because if they were
making bullets here,
if they were making explosives
here, whenever they stopped,
it doesn't look like
they started cleaning up.
- No.
- So this could be
the environment
that could protect
those residues.
- Residues, yeah. It's not going
to have decayed over 70 years.
- No.
We're looking for trace elements
of the things that
they used in explosives
and ammunitions back
during World War II.
This factory's dirty,
but dirt actually would have
protected those traces
that we're looking
for over the course of time.
And the technology that we have
could still be able
to identify them.
These are explosive test cards.
- Okay.
- So I go. I find a sample.
I get a little bit of residue.
Put it on the card.
Take the card.
Put it into the SEEKERe.
If there's explosive residues
on the card,
the SEEKERe will tell me that
this is what you found,
and this is the material
that's being used here.
The team is armed
with a SEEKERe,
a state-of-the-art munitions
detection device
used by military forces
around the world.
To minimize false positives,
a test card is inserted
into the SEEKERe,
which releases a chemical
solution
that causes explosive material
to change color when detected.
- I got to go get some samples.
Those things are sketchy.
I want to test those.
A bunch of black residue
at the bottom of this still.
3, 2, 1... done.
Finalizing test results.
No explosives detected.
- Okay, clean.
- All right, let's keep looking.
See anything that's test-worthy?
- There's not
a lot up here, Tim.
- Hey, Gerrard!
- Yes?
- Oh, there's definitely stuff
in here, Gerrard.
So we have multiple bits
of equipment here
for measuring chemicals,
I mean, down to the gram.
This is what I'm
testing right now.
You can still see residue
in the bottom.
- Mm-hmm.
- Analyzing explosive test card.
Ten seconds.
I have a positive hit.
I have explosive detected.
Group one TNT, TNB.
- It's detected TNT,
Tim, up here?
- Yeah.
The stuff that was used
after World War I,
during World War II,
to build ammunition,
to build explosives?
- Mm-hmm.
- We have two of the ingredients
they used then right here.
If we found other stuff,
it would indicate
a different era
of manufacturing,
but the sample
in here is materials
that they used back then.
We came here for evidence.
It looks like we found it.
If Hitler and Bormann
were planning a Fourth Reich,
they're gonna have munition
factories just like this.
They're gonna have partners
like Mandl.
I think that this factory,
what they're making here,
could have been
part of the Fourth Reich.
- If I were a spy operating
in this area,
these are exactly
the types of streets
that I would want if I had
to move from point A to point B.
Lots of places to duck off.
In Tangier, Morocco,
Mike and James investigate
the Marshan neighborhood,
a reported hotbed
of Nazi activity in the area.
They are in search of a location
that could have been used
as Martin Bormann's headquarters
for the planning
of the Fourth Reich
as reported by
a declassified MI6 file.
- There would have been expats
from all these
European countries here
from the early days of the war,
maybe fleeing, on through
the war and post-war.
- This really is a kind
of a confluence
of all sorts of different
people, isn't it?
- We started with a really
broad location,
the city of Tangier.
We've narrowed that down
to a neighborhood, Marshan.
Now what we're looking for
is a headquarters building
that is supposed to have
existed 70 years ago.
It might not even
be standing today.
So we need to look around
a little bit,
start to elicit
human intelligence,
and try to locate it
on the ground.
- Is there a house or a business
where Germans would be located?
- Yeah, okay.
- It's very easy
to lose your bearings.
- Yeah.
- If you're off looking
for headquarters,
this is your area, because
you want somewhere discreet,
out of the way,
that people aren't
going to notice.
Look at that.
I want to see what
that's got to offer.
Mike and James
discover an abandoned building
on the outskirts
of the Marshan neighborhood.
What is this place?
- The first thing I think of is,
like, a fortress.
I mean, these walls
are so thick.
They don't build them
like this anymore.
- This feels like a hideout,
doesn't it?
- There's things I like
about this place
for, like, a meeting place?
- Right.
- Not necessarily
as a hiding place.
- Right.
- Unlike a lot of the streets
that we've been on it's,
like, a triple-wide street,
so that's a lot of prying eyes.
I don't like
the front entrance at all.
It's basically in a large plaza.
That tells me that
there's a lot of eyes
that can watch this.
In hopes of zeroing
in on a location
that could have been used
as a Nazi headquarters
in the Marshan neighborhood,
their local contact has
convinced Shamzi Mohammed,
a lifetime resident of the area,
to speak with them.
- So with the known presence of
all the spies here in Tangier,
does he know if this building
had any connection
to that in any way,
specifically the Nazi spies?
- The period we are particularly
interested in is 1945,
'cause we're looking to find
any signs of Germans,
Nazis, escaping Europe,
fleeing to Tangier.
- Is there any specific location
that he knows for sure
or that was rumored
to be a location
that the German spies
would particularly use
or operate out of in the area?
- Where is this?
- We need to check that out.
This is a very
positive development
in the investigation.
Through our intelligence
sources, we've been able
to narrow this down
from the entire city of Tangier,
to a neighborhood, to a single
street, Calle Imam Mouslim.
If Martin Bormann's headquarters
can be found somewhere
in the city,
thankfully our search grid has
been significantly narrowed.
- Look, we have the team
in Tangier.
I think we should really run
down the team in Argentina.
With the investigation
moving forward in Tangier,
Bob and John review
the team's findings
in Buenos Aires,
where a bicycle factory
once owned by Fritz Mandl,
a suspected Nazi
munitions dealer,
returned positive results
for explosive materials.
- The forensic test
produced results
showing numerous ingredients
of various types of explosives,
including TNT.
That's a heavy discovery,
because those ingredients
aren't necessarily the type
that are being used now,
but they were during
the Second World War.
- There's only one way
that Mandl
could set up a munitions factory
in Buenos Aires,
and that's with the support
of the government.
You simply can't do it
on your own.
- It's interesting
that you say that.
Something that is
quite interesting
is this man right here
by the name
of Jorge Silvio Colotto.
Colotto was Juan Perón's
aide de camp,
his right hand man,
the same way Bormann
was to Adolf Hitler.
What we've uncovered
is the last known
videotaped interview of Colotto.
Colotto also puts
the caveat in here
that he doesn't
want this interview
to be disclosed to the public
or to anybody else
until after he dies.
We are the first
to delve into this tape.
He says that in 1945,
after the end
of the Second World War,
there was a meeting
between Juan Perón,
the president of Argentina,
and Martin Bormann
in Buenos Aires.
- And this guy
isn't just anybody.
I mean, he is in Perón's office,
a trusted aide.
Jorge Colotto is important
because all along we have
been looking for witnesses.
This guy was there,
saw the way stuff went down,
and this is the closest
you're gonna get
to a human source
describing this relationship
between Perón and the Nazis.
- So let's look
at the interview.
Let's subject it to
some forensic analysis.
Let's see if he's
telling the truth.
Bob and John
are joined by Al Brooks.
His state-of-the-art
CVSA technology
measures minute changes
in a person's vocal chords
to uncover
if they're telling the truth.
- Traditionally speaking,
an individual that might be
lying is under stress.
The Computer Voice
Stress Analyzer technology
will identify that via
the microtremors in the voice.
The more stress, the more
the microtremors are tight,
and they're depicted on the
screen as a deceptive pattern.
- The polygraph...
I've seen people beat it
over and over again.
Voice stress analysis,
not so much.
- Let's look at the video.
- What we'll do now
is grab the audio
off of the bottom,
and using the software,
capture those voice patterns
and put them on the screen.
The relevant question was...
Did Perón actually
have a meeting
with the Nazi, Martin Bormann?
So based on these patterns,
the results of the audio
are truthful.
- You'd take this to the bank?
- The results are the results.
- This is huge.
We've got munitions.
We've got thousands
and thousands
of Nazi war criminals
living in Argentina,
and now we've got
government support.
We have Bormann meeting with
the president of Argentina,
and you have this talk
of a Fourth Reich.
All of the evidence is pointing
to that there was a plan afoot
to establish the Fourth Reich
and base it in Argentina.
- The evidence is getting
stronger and stronger.
- The deeper we get into
a Fourth Reich in Argentina,
the more I'm convinced.
So we narrowed it down to here.
In Tangier, Morocco,
James Holland and Mike Simpson
head for the street known
as Calle Imam Mouslim,
which could be the location of
Martin Bormann's headquarters
to plan a Nazi Fourth Reich,
as reported by
a declassified MI6 file.
- If Bormann's gonna
set up a headquarters,
he wants security
and communications.
You want to keep
those leaders safe.
Through our
intelligence sources,
we've been able to narrow
the location of Martin Bormann's
potential headquarters down
from the entire city of Tangier,
to a neighborhood,
and finally to a street.
The next step is for me
to get up on the high ground,
and I want to see what I can
see in the neighborhood.
Hello.
See this white structure
right there?
Just to the right of it,
does that look like
an antenna to you?
- And an old one at that.
- That's not a TV antenna.
That's not a hobby radio
operator antenna.
That looks military grade.
- Do you think that's it?
- It's definitely number one
on our priority list
right now to check out.
Going into this street
to actually conduct
a ground reconnaissance,
something that's just
a little bit out of place,
anything that's just
a little bit different...
All these little clues are what
I have been trained to look for.
Oh, look at this.
- Yeah.
- It connects right
to the house.
Look how thick that concrete is!
- Yeah.
- That's ridiculously thick.
That's like a defensive
position; it really is.
Two things that Bormann
would have to have
for a headquarters:
security and communications.
Both of them are right there.
It's literally like he built it
to withstand an attack.
- You know, this place
has got a tower,
and it's just such an oddity.
It looks so incongruous
compared to all the other
buildings on that street.
All the kind of construct,
the way it was put together,
absolutely reminded me
of a German bunker.
They approach the front gate,
hoping to gain
entry into the home.
- Hola.
- Hola.
- No.
- She's saying no.
- We're really sorry,
but just for a minute?
- Yeah.
- What year did you
move in here?
- You don't have any idea
who the original owner was?
- The German built the tower?
- This German not only
built the tower,
but also in the bathroom,
in the basement...
Like, exits a ways.
- A ways, a ways to exit.
- Passages, yeah.
- Oh, my goodness.
- The original owner, he left
very quick and very fast,
so he sell it to someone else.
- Is there any chance
we could have a look
in the house as well?
- Well, that you are here...
- So there's a small compartment
connect to all the house.
Through this tunnel, you can go
to every room in this house.
- Well, I'd love to see
where it comes out.
- Oh, my goodness me.
So much space up here.
You could definitely
hide up here.
You get up into the loft,
and then you can go out
a different route.
It's got a number
of little ways in and out.
Feels like a house with secrets,
I have to say.
- Oh, and it gets even better.
I mean, this is like
a fortification here,
what I'm looking at.
Somebody put a lot
of thought into this.
This is really impressive.
So the ocean's right that way.
All this is new.
None of these houses were here.
None of these
buildings were here.
So these were
just two mountainsides,
and you could see right
between the two of them
into the open ocean right there.
A U-boat could surface right out
there just off the coast.
And I put this
antenna up high enough,
I can go all the way out
to where they are.
This has all the markings
of a military command center.
Martin Bormann can
control his finances.
He can control personnel,
arms, ammunition, supply lines...
All from right here.
If the Nazis had a headquarters
for the Fourth Reich,
it's here.
- This map depicts a plan
to bomb the United States,
and more specifically,
Manhattan Island.
- This is chilling.
There's no reason
to believe the Nazis
would not entertain
a weapon of mass destruction.
- We need to know everything
about a Nazi scientist
called Dr. Richter.
- He got himself an island?
- It's this way. Come.
- Oh, my God.
- This is to prevent
radiation from escaping.
That's how close they were.
- Hitler would dream
of New York in flames,
and a new Fourth Reich.
And it seems to be coming
together, here, in Bariloche.
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the hubbub of Barcelona.
Suddenly you're so kind of
remote, aren't you?
- Wow.
- There literally could not be
a better spot to hide.
- For Hitler to escape,
he needs to get out of Spain
and go to South America.
- You find me a U-boat
base out of Cadiz,
I'll be very happy.
- What was it specifically
that your mother was doing
for Nazi Germany?
- It's still there?
- We have to investigate this.
HUNTING HITLER - SEASON 2
EP - 5 - The Factory
- We're looking for
an exfiltration route
in the Cádiz area
that you could rely on.
CIA veteran Bob Baer
and war crimes investigator
Dr. John Cencich
discuss their investigation
in Southern Spain
where they are in search
of a U-boat loading dock
that Hitler could have used
to make his way
to South America.
They are following
a declassified
Argentinian document
that claims Nazi U-boats
were secretly moving from
Cádiz, Spain to Argentina.
- We have intel telling us
that there were U-boats
leaving in this particular area.
We have a photograph
with a U-boat there
in the Gulf of Cádiz,
and we have an eyewitness
corroborating this.
- On top of it,
we've got this lady
who pulls out clear evidence
of Nazi espionage
in the Cádiz area,
and she's telling us the Nazis
are using this
Reina Cristina Hotel
as a meeting place.
- Spies going in.
Spies coming out.
That's where the U-boats
are coming in and coming out.
It makes sense.
- Question is,
what do you get if you
go Reina Cristina?
- That's what we need
to find out.
- If this hotel leads to
a potential U-boat exfil point,
I'll be very happy.
This will be exciting.
- Well, it'll be interesting
to see inside it.
- Yeah.
In Cádiz, Spain,
World War II historian
James Holland
and U.S. Army recon expert
Mike Simpson
arrive at the hotel
Reina Cristina
in search of evidence
that this location
could have been used
to covertly board onto a U-boat.
- You can see why
you would have
so many spies here
back in the first part
of the 20th century.
- You certainly can.
- Someone up there,
big pair of binos,
looking straight out
over the water.
Oh, yes, you can see a bit
from here, can't you?
- The beach is right there.
- Yes.
- So the fact that we have
the easy access to the beach,
you can almost picture
in your mind, you know,
a U-boat popping up, up there.
- So as long as you could get
someone down to the beach,
it would be
hypothetically possible
to get a U-boat in here.
- I would still always prefer
to do it completely clandestine.
Avoiding visual detection
is ideal.
I'd like to see something that
would get me all the way out
into that U-boat without
ever being detected.
- We're looking for signs
of infrastructure.
What I want to do is
look around the hotel
and see what can I find out
from the people who are there?
- Hola.
- Hey, como estas? Bien.
The team makes
contact with Claudio Cosas,
a hotel employee.
- Okay. Says he knows it well.
- He's gonna show us.
- Oh, fantastic.
- Si, vamos.
Claudio leads the team
to an entrance below
the hotel's pool.
- Oh, my goodness.
So the question's
where does that go?
- I need to take a look at that.
Really cramped in here,
and pretty smelly.
I'm gonna follow this around...
See where it goes.
Really tight.
Sounds like water
flowing up ahead,
and I'm seeing some light.
Wow!
I was not expecting this at all.
So I've got two big wells,
big cisterns,
about 2 1/2 meters across.
It's probably about
30 feet down.
The team has discovered a tunnel
that runs below the hotel's pool
leading to a pair of wells
100 feet from the coast.
- There's water down there.
I can actually smell the salt,
so this is not freshwater
coming down.
And there's a steel ladder
placed in the side.
Definitely somebody had an eye
on making this easily accessible
down to the bottom.
I'm wondering, are these wells
some type of way
to get someone out to link up
with that U-boat without
any detection whatsoever?
We're gonna need some help
to answer this question.
At first light,
Mike and James return
to the hotel Reina Cristina.
They're joined by
a structural engineer
and a team of divers.
They hope to
determine if these wells
could have served
as a clandestine
escape route to the Atlantic.
According to the experts,
these wells were once part of
the hotel's drainage system.
During a downpour,
rain would funnel
into the wells,
travel through
a tunnel at the base,
and drain out into
the open ocean.
But due to rising sea levels
in recent years,
salt water has flooded into
these now-defunct reservoirs.
- Seawater has completely
flooded these wells now,
which is why I smelled
the salt water.
But back in 1945,
unless there was a rain storm,
these would have been wide open.
The question now is,
is this tunnel
at the bottom big enough
for a person to fit through?
Because if it is, that tells me
that they could shuttle people
from right inside
the compound of the hotel,
right out into the ocean
into a waiting U-boat.
There's our baby.
Fortunately,
we have the technology
at our disposal to find out.
Mike and James are armed
with a waterproof
ROVVER X crawler,
which is used to
explore underwater caves
and dangerous pipelines.
It is equipped with
front- and rear-facing
high-definition cameras
on a robotic arm
with full articulation
and rotation.
- James, I'm hooked up
to the cable
if you want to check it
on your end.
How's that picture
looking on your end?
- It's looking
incredibly clear, actually.
- I'm gonna start
lowering it down.
I can see the light
in the water.
- We're underwater now, Mike.
So far that water
is pretty clear.
I'm looking at something.
Okay, Mike.
You got a tunnel.
- A tunnel.
Roger that, James.
I'm looking down at the light.
The light is heading in exactly
the direction of the beach.
How big around does
the tunnel look?
- I can't tell from looking
at the screen
how big the cavity is.
- Control the ROVVER
in the water.
You can drive it.
- Let me give it a go.
It's not going, is it?
I don't know what's
going on here, Mike.
It's not moving along
the sediment.
I don't know quite
what to suggest.
- So rocking the wheels
forward and back,
you're not getting
any traction at all?
- No, it just can't move.
That robot was going
absolutely nowhere.
There's so much silt,
the wheels just can't grip.
The silt is too deep.
So at this point,
there's only one solution,
and that's to get eyes
down there
and see how big this tunnel is.
The divers descend into the well
in hopes of determining
the dimensions
at the base of the tunnel.
- He's in the water.
He's gonna try to free dive it
a little bit.
- The divers going down there...
That's quite brave of them,
to be perfectly honest,
because they are literally
diving down into the unknown.
It goes to the ocean
for 30 meters?
All right, James. He swam it.
It goes for 30 meters
towards the ocean.
How wide is it?
- So 90, 90 centimeters?
- Okay, so 120 centimeters
by 90 centimeters,
so pretty sizable.
- That's not just
a drainage pipe.
You can walk in that.
- The intelligence that
we have has led us here
to the southwestern corner
of all of Europe.
Today we were able to prove
we have a definitive link
from the hotel
to the open ocean,
directly toward Hitler's
ultimate destination,
South America.
- I'm convinced now.
Someone could have come
to this hotel,
gone out the tunnel,
got on a U-boat,
out of sight, no witnesses.
You know, next stop
is Argentina.
Bob and John review the findings
from the hotel Reina Cristina
in Cádiz, Spain
where they have discovered
a clandestine tunnel
leading to the Atlantic Ocean.
- You've got a exfiltration
route here by U-boat,
but we have no idea
who got on that U-boat.
Do we have any evidence
that either Hitler or Bormann
were on a U-boat leaving Cádiz?
- No, we don't.
I think we need to see
if there are
any other intel reports
in the database,
and let's see if either one,
or both, show up
in this particular radius.
Hitler. Bormann.
What I'm going to do is put in
100 miles of Cádiz.
- This is a MI6 report.
August 10, 1949.
Bormann's headquarters:
Tangier, Morocco.
"A former Luftwaffe pilot
asked whether Bormann
"really had the organization
"of which he had been told,
"and received the reply that
"'we National-Socialists'
"were working for
their whole lives
"to prepare a comeback
"for National-Socialism
in Germany
and in the whole world."
It's a huge statement
that Bormann goes to Tangier
to set up the Fourth Reich?
- And that's not speculation.
Earlier in the investigation,
we uncovered Hitler
had plans for the continuation
of his empire
well beyond
the Second World War.
Hitler carried
with him secret plans
for the V-3 Sky Rocket bomb.
- A V-3 could hit
the United States.
Hitler didn't think history
was over for him.
He came here to plan something.
If Hitler was still alive,
he wasn't gonna disappear
to Argentina,
move up in the mountains,
and write poetry.
We're talking about somebody who
had great pretentions of power,
but he's got to have a network
that he trusts,
and Bormann is the guy
that Hitler trusted.
- What's really interesting here
is the proximity.
Tangier is only nine miles
from the hotel.
- And remember that Tangier
was a lot like Spain.
It was never fully
under Allied control.
It's always been a point
of smuggling into Europe.
Tangier's a good place to hide.
- If Hitler and Bormann
were in Spain,
there's every reason to infer
from this that Hitler
got on the U-boat from Spain
to South America,
and Bormann goes to Tangier
and sets up his headquarters
there in view
of their overall ambition
for a Fourth Reich.
- Yeah, I totally agree.
What we got to do
is get the team there,
and all I care
about is some evidence
that Bormann went there.
Headquarters can mean
all sorts of things.
- Tangier's a big city,
but we have to start somewhere.
- Yep. Let's go.
- What do you think we
need to be looking for
if there is such a headquarters?
- Communications and security,
first and foremost.
U.S. Army
recon expert Mike Simpson
and World War II historian
James Holland
are in the Moroccan city
of Tangier.
- So this is
the original ancient port.
They rendezvous
with local translator Stefan.
- And there's Spain,
right there.
Just a little jump to Cádiz.
- Yeah, just across the sea.
- For centuries, Tangier
has been known
as an international city
with strategic importance.
It sits right at the mouth
of the Mediterranean
and the Atlantic.
It's in a key position.
We need to follow this thread
out and see where it leads.
- Mike.
- How do you do? James.
- Rashid.
The team makes contact
with Professor
Rashid Taperssiti,
an expert on Moroccan
20th century history.
- What was the scene here
in the 1940s and 1950s?
- Where you've got spies, that
means you've got safe houses,
knowledge, infrastructure,
which post-war,
if you're a fleeing Nazi,
is all incredibly useful.
So I'm thinking, Mike, you know,
if I'm a German spy
and I'm here,
I can't think of a better place
to spy than the port.
Rashid leads the team
to a lookout point
to better examine the port,
a potential entry
and exit location
for spies in Tangier.
- God, it's amazing.
- It is amazing.
It's an incredible view
from up here.
- So this is where
espionage begins.
But once you've got
your information,
you're then taking that
into the city.
- During the 1940s,
was there any location
where German military officials
were seen moving in and out?
- In the Marshan
neighborhood specifically?
- We started with a really broad
location, the city of Tangier.
Now we've narrowed that down
to a specific
neighborhood, Marshan.
This is a known location
where these Nazis
were interacting
during the time period
that we're interested in.
Now, we just need
to find the brain...
The headquarters,
the nerve center.
- Exactly. That's where
the trail leads us.
- We've gone from
the entire city of Tangier
to one neighborhood, Marshan.
- Yeah, let's...
We have to dig into this
and see what we can find.
- When we look at the evidence,
it's clear that
a Fourth Reich was planned.
Bob and John discuss
their investigation in Tangier,
Morocco, where an MI6 file
reports Martin Bormann
was setting up
a headquarters for Hitler
to reenter the world stage
after World War II.
- We're talking about
the Fourth Reich.
It reminds me of another
one of the documents
that we had earlier
in the investigation.
Here we have a U.S. military
intelligence document
dated 7th of November, 1944,
where a French
intelligence officer
infiltrated a Nazi meeting.
These are the things that
he was able to discern.
"Existing financial reserves
in foreign countries
"must be placed
at the disposal of the party
"so that a strong German Empire
"can be created
after the defeat.
"These bureaus will
receive plans
and drawings of new weapons."
- The Fourth Reich depended
on armed force.
If Hitler is gonna come back,
weapons are absolutely crucial.
- If you're really going
to become involved
with the manufacture
or distribution of arms,
what do you need?
You need a munitions expert.
You know who comes to mind?
None other than Fritz Mandl.
- What can Francisco tell us
about how Mandl
made his money while
he was in Argentina?
- He used to own
an ammunition factory.
- So he was making arms
while he was here?
- Yes.
- And here we have Hitler
meeting with him
after World War II.
This paints a picture of a man
who's trying to set up
an army in Argentina...
A Nazi army.
Austrian. Munitions maker.
Big time money.
- And he's in Argentina.
- What's important here
is that Mandl
was a trusted member
of Hitler's inner circle.
He's a dyed-in-the-wool Nazi,
and he's somebody
that Hitler could trust.
- I think we need to look
a little bit
closer at Fritz Mandl.
Okay, we got a hit.
U.S. War Department
report in 1943:
"Mandl's bicycle
and plastic plants began
"to produce machine guns,
airplanes,
bullets, and bombs."
This is the perfect cover.
- Yeah.
- The raw materials,
the machinery that's needed
to produce bicycles,
is the same as what's needed
for machine guns,
bullets, and bombs.
He owned a number
of companies in Argentina.
One of particular note
is a bicycle factory
in Buenos Aires.
If we could go to this
so-called bicycle factory
in Buenos Aires,
and if I could get some forensic
evidence to munitions...
Weapons, explosives...
Circumstantially,
a conspiracy has been proved.
- We are doing the investigation
that should have been done
70 years ago.
- Kind of a weird location
for him to have a factory,
downtown Buenos Aires.
Investigative
journalist Gerrard Williams
and U.S. Army Special Forces'
Tim Kennedy
along with
local translator Nicole
arrive at the location
that was once Fritz Mandl's
bicycle factory.
- You ready?
We're coming to
the Mandl factory
to see if they were
making munitions.
Munitions can be so many things.
They could be grenades.
It could be ammunition.
It could be explosives.
Bombs. Artillery.
The spectrum of what
a munition can be is diverse.
It just has to do one thing,
hurt people.
The team meets with Margarita,
a long-time employee
of the factory.
- The era that we're
the most interested in is
when Mandl was working
at this factory.
- Somewhere around '43,
he started appearing in
the books as vice president,
but it's still a mystery exactly
how long he was here for.
- What were they able to make
with the machines
that they were using?
- They could make from really,
really thin aluminum items
and really thick
aluminum objects.
- Yeah.
- The versatility
of those machines,
if you have the right engineer...
You can make almost
anything metal
right here in this factory.
They have the equipment
to be able
to execute from start to finish,
not only a gun,
but also the ammunition.
- Tim?
- A German machine
imported here?
- Yeah, it has to be.
And the size of this stuff...
The size that reminds me
of nothing more
than artillery shells.
Or mortar rounds.
- This is all 1940s.
German design.
German manufactured.
Just in downtown
Buenos Aires, Argentina.
- This place is filthy.
Tim Kennedy and Gerrard Williams
have gained access to a factory
once owned by Nazi sympathizer
Fritz Mandl
that, according
to a declassified
U.S. War Department file,
was secretly
manufacturing munitions.
- One thing's for sure,
it hasn't had
a deep clean
in the last 75 years.
They're investigating
a now-defunct section
of the factory
that was in use
during the 1940s.
- There's inches of dirt
in the corners, on the floor,
in the center where we walk.
It could be a blessing
in disguise
because if they were
making bullets here,
if they were making explosives
here, whenever they stopped,
it doesn't look like
they started cleaning up.
- No.
- So this could be
the environment
that could protect
those residues.
- Residues, yeah. It's not going
to have decayed over 70 years.
- No.
We're looking for trace elements
of the things that
they used in explosives
and ammunitions back
during World War II.
This factory's dirty,
but dirt actually would have
protected those traces
that we're looking
for over the course of time.
And the technology that we have
could still be able
to identify them.
These are explosive test cards.
- Okay.
- So I go. I find a sample.
I get a little bit of residue.
Put it on the card.
Take the card.
Put it into the SEEKERe.
If there's explosive residues
on the card,
the SEEKERe will tell me that
this is what you found,
and this is the material
that's being used here.
The team is armed
with a SEEKERe,
a state-of-the-art munitions
detection device
used by military forces
around the world.
To minimize false positives,
a test card is inserted
into the SEEKERe,
which releases a chemical
solution
that causes explosive material
to change color when detected.
- I got to go get some samples.
Those things are sketchy.
I want to test those.
A bunch of black residue
at the bottom of this still.
3, 2, 1... done.
Finalizing test results.
No explosives detected.
- Okay, clean.
- All right, let's keep looking.
See anything that's test-worthy?
- There's not
a lot up here, Tim.
- Hey, Gerrard!
- Yes?
- Oh, there's definitely stuff
in here, Gerrard.
So we have multiple bits
of equipment here
for measuring chemicals,
I mean, down to the gram.
This is what I'm
testing right now.
You can still see residue
in the bottom.
- Mm-hmm.
- Analyzing explosive test card.
Ten seconds.
I have a positive hit.
I have explosive detected.
Group one TNT, TNB.
- It's detected TNT,
Tim, up here?
- Yeah.
The stuff that was used
after World War I,
during World War II,
to build ammunition,
to build explosives?
- Mm-hmm.
- We have two of the ingredients
they used then right here.
If we found other stuff,
it would indicate
a different era
of manufacturing,
but the sample
in here is materials
that they used back then.
We came here for evidence.
It looks like we found it.
If Hitler and Bormann
were planning a Fourth Reich,
they're gonna have munition
factories just like this.
They're gonna have partners
like Mandl.
I think that this factory,
what they're making here,
could have been
part of the Fourth Reich.
- If I were a spy operating
in this area,
these are exactly
the types of streets
that I would want if I had
to move from point A to point B.
Lots of places to duck off.
In Tangier, Morocco,
Mike and James investigate
the Marshan neighborhood,
a reported hotbed
of Nazi activity in the area.
They are in search of a location
that could have been used
as Martin Bormann's headquarters
for the planning
of the Fourth Reich
as reported by
a declassified MI6 file.
- There would have been expats
from all these
European countries here
from the early days of the war,
maybe fleeing, on through
the war and post-war.
- This really is a kind
of a confluence
of all sorts of different
people, isn't it?
- We started with a really
broad location,
the city of Tangier.
We've narrowed that down
to a neighborhood, Marshan.
Now what we're looking for
is a headquarters building
that is supposed to have
existed 70 years ago.
It might not even
be standing today.
So we need to look around
a little bit,
start to elicit
human intelligence,
and try to locate it
on the ground.
- Is there a house or a business
where Germans would be located?
- Yeah, okay.
- It's very easy
to lose your bearings.
- Yeah.
- If you're off looking
for headquarters,
this is your area, because
you want somewhere discreet,
out of the way,
that people aren't
going to notice.
Look at that.
I want to see what
that's got to offer.
Mike and James
discover an abandoned building
on the outskirts
of the Marshan neighborhood.
What is this place?
- The first thing I think of is,
like, a fortress.
I mean, these walls
are so thick.
They don't build them
like this anymore.
- This feels like a hideout,
doesn't it?
- There's things I like
about this place
for, like, a meeting place?
- Right.
- Not necessarily
as a hiding place.
- Right.
- Unlike a lot of the streets
that we've been on it's,
like, a triple-wide street,
so that's a lot of prying eyes.
I don't like
the front entrance at all.
It's basically in a large plaza.
That tells me that
there's a lot of eyes
that can watch this.
In hopes of zeroing
in on a location
that could have been used
as a Nazi headquarters
in the Marshan neighborhood,
their local contact has
convinced Shamzi Mohammed,
a lifetime resident of the area,
to speak with them.
- So with the known presence of
all the spies here in Tangier,
does he know if this building
had any connection
to that in any way,
specifically the Nazi spies?
- The period we are particularly
interested in is 1945,
'cause we're looking to find
any signs of Germans,
Nazis, escaping Europe,
fleeing to Tangier.
- Is there any specific location
that he knows for sure
or that was rumored
to be a location
that the German spies
would particularly use
or operate out of in the area?
- Where is this?
- We need to check that out.
This is a very
positive development
in the investigation.
Through our intelligence
sources, we've been able
to narrow this down
from the entire city of Tangier,
to a neighborhood, to a single
street, Calle Imam Mouslim.
If Martin Bormann's headquarters
can be found somewhere
in the city,
thankfully our search grid has
been significantly narrowed.
- Look, we have the team
in Tangier.
I think we should really run
down the team in Argentina.
With the investigation
moving forward in Tangier,
Bob and John review
the team's findings
in Buenos Aires,
where a bicycle factory
once owned by Fritz Mandl,
a suspected Nazi
munitions dealer,
returned positive results
for explosive materials.
- The forensic test
produced results
showing numerous ingredients
of various types of explosives,
including TNT.
That's a heavy discovery,
because those ingredients
aren't necessarily the type
that are being used now,
but they were during
the Second World War.
- There's only one way
that Mandl
could set up a munitions factory
in Buenos Aires,
and that's with the support
of the government.
You simply can't do it
on your own.
- It's interesting
that you say that.
Something that is
quite interesting
is this man right here
by the name
of Jorge Silvio Colotto.
Colotto was Juan Perón's
aide de camp,
his right hand man,
the same way Bormann
was to Adolf Hitler.
What we've uncovered
is the last known
videotaped interview of Colotto.
Colotto also puts
the caveat in here
that he doesn't
want this interview
to be disclosed to the public
or to anybody else
until after he dies.
We are the first
to delve into this tape.
He says that in 1945,
after the end
of the Second World War,
there was a meeting
between Juan Perón,
the president of Argentina,
and Martin Bormann
in Buenos Aires.
- And this guy
isn't just anybody.
I mean, he is in Perón's office,
a trusted aide.
Jorge Colotto is important
because all along we have
been looking for witnesses.
This guy was there,
saw the way stuff went down,
and this is the closest
you're gonna get
to a human source
describing this relationship
between Perón and the Nazis.
- So let's look
at the interview.
Let's subject it to
some forensic analysis.
Let's see if he's
telling the truth.
Bob and John
are joined by Al Brooks.
His state-of-the-art
CVSA technology
measures minute changes
in a person's vocal chords
to uncover
if they're telling the truth.
- Traditionally speaking,
an individual that might be
lying is under stress.
The Computer Voice
Stress Analyzer technology
will identify that via
the microtremors in the voice.
The more stress, the more
the microtremors are tight,
and they're depicted on the
screen as a deceptive pattern.
- The polygraph...
I've seen people beat it
over and over again.
Voice stress analysis,
not so much.
- Let's look at the video.
- What we'll do now
is grab the audio
off of the bottom,
and using the software,
capture those voice patterns
and put them on the screen.
The relevant question was...
Did Perón actually
have a meeting
with the Nazi, Martin Bormann?
So based on these patterns,
the results of the audio
are truthful.
- You'd take this to the bank?
- The results are the results.
- This is huge.
We've got munitions.
We've got thousands
and thousands
of Nazi war criminals
living in Argentina,
and now we've got
government support.
We have Bormann meeting with
the president of Argentina,
and you have this talk
of a Fourth Reich.
All of the evidence is pointing
to that there was a plan afoot
to establish the Fourth Reich
and base it in Argentina.
- The evidence is getting
stronger and stronger.
- The deeper we get into
a Fourth Reich in Argentina,
the more I'm convinced.
So we narrowed it down to here.
In Tangier, Morocco,
James Holland and Mike Simpson
head for the street known
as Calle Imam Mouslim,
which could be the location of
Martin Bormann's headquarters
to plan a Nazi Fourth Reich,
as reported by
a declassified MI6 file.
- If Bormann's gonna
set up a headquarters,
he wants security
and communications.
You want to keep
those leaders safe.
Through our
intelligence sources,
we've been able to narrow
the location of Martin Bormann's
potential headquarters down
from the entire city of Tangier,
to a neighborhood,
and finally to a street.
The next step is for me
to get up on the high ground,
and I want to see what I can
see in the neighborhood.
Hello.
See this white structure
right there?
Just to the right of it,
does that look like
an antenna to you?
- And an old one at that.
- That's not a TV antenna.
That's not a hobby radio
operator antenna.
That looks military grade.
- Do you think that's it?
- It's definitely number one
on our priority list
right now to check out.
Going into this street
to actually conduct
a ground reconnaissance,
something that's just
a little bit out of place,
anything that's just
a little bit different...
All these little clues are what
I have been trained to look for.
Oh, look at this.
- Yeah.
- It connects right
to the house.
Look how thick that concrete is!
- Yeah.
- That's ridiculously thick.
That's like a defensive
position; it really is.
Two things that Bormann
would have to have
for a headquarters:
security and communications.
Both of them are right there.
It's literally like he built it
to withstand an attack.
- You know, this place
has got a tower,
and it's just such an oddity.
It looks so incongruous
compared to all the other
buildings on that street.
All the kind of construct,
the way it was put together,
absolutely reminded me
of a German bunker.
They approach the front gate,
hoping to gain
entry into the home.
- Hola.
- Hola.
- No.
- She's saying no.
- We're really sorry,
but just for a minute?
- Yeah.
- What year did you
move in here?
- You don't have any idea
who the original owner was?
- The German built the tower?
- This German not only
built the tower,
but also in the bathroom,
in the basement...
Like, exits a ways.
- A ways, a ways to exit.
- Passages, yeah.
- Oh, my goodness.
- The original owner, he left
very quick and very fast,
so he sell it to someone else.
- Is there any chance
we could have a look
in the house as well?
- Well, that you are here...
- So there's a small compartment
connect to all the house.
Through this tunnel, you can go
to every room in this house.
- Well, I'd love to see
where it comes out.
- Oh, my goodness me.
So much space up here.
You could definitely
hide up here.
You get up into the loft,
and then you can go out
a different route.
It's got a number
of little ways in and out.
Feels like a house with secrets,
I have to say.
- Oh, and it gets even better.
I mean, this is like
a fortification here,
what I'm looking at.
Somebody put a lot
of thought into this.
This is really impressive.
So the ocean's right that way.
All this is new.
None of these houses were here.
None of these
buildings were here.
So these were
just two mountainsides,
and you could see right
between the two of them
into the open ocean right there.
A U-boat could surface right out
there just off the coast.
And I put this
antenna up high enough,
I can go all the way out
to where they are.
This has all the markings
of a military command center.
Martin Bormann can
control his finances.
He can control personnel,
arms, ammunition, supply lines...
All from right here.
If the Nazis had a headquarters
for the Fourth Reich,
it's here.
- This map depicts a plan
to bomb the United States,
and more specifically,
Manhattan Island.
- This is chilling.
There's no reason
to believe the Nazis
would not entertain
a weapon of mass destruction.
- We need to know everything
about a Nazi scientist
called Dr. Richter.
- He got himself an island?
- It's this way. Come.
- Oh, my God.
- This is to prevent
radiation from escaping.
That's how close they were.
- Hitler would dream
of New York in flames,
and a new Fourth Reich.
And it seems to be coming
together, here, in Bariloche.
Subtitles Diego Moraes
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