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FBI documents, eyewitness interviews,

all arrows pointed to this direction.

The big question is: did a U-boat cruise

into these waters and drop perhaps the most evil person

in generations off onto this shore right here?

We need to find out.

male narrator: In 2014, an executive order

declassified over 700 pages of secret FBI documents

revealing that the U.S. Government

was investigating Adolf Hitler's whereabouts

months and years after he was believed dead.

In these files, there are thousands of leads.

This is report after report after report.

They had an active investigation looking for this guy.

narrator: Bob Baer, 21-year CIA veteran

and one of the most renowned intelligence minds

in the world, has reopened a 70-year-old cold case:

the death of Adolf Hitler.

All the witnesses are dead.

There's no fingerprints. There's no decent forensics.

It's the biggest mystery of the 20th century.

narrator: Armed with the newly declassified FBI documents

and the most cutting-edge technology,

Bob has assembled a team

of the most respected experts in the world

to execute an international investigation.

We are not going to make our conclusions in advance.

I just want to do the definitive investigation on Hitler,

for once and all, settle this damn thing.

There's not sufficient evidence, in my view,

to simply say that Hitler died in the Fuhrerbunker

on April 30, 1945.

So I think we just all assumed he died there,

but there's no evidence for it.

narrator: Bob Baer and war crimes investigator

John Cencich have determined

that Hitler could have faked his death,

escaped from his bunker, and landed in a compound

in Argentina just 3 1/2 months after being reported dead.

This revelation opens a new phase

in their investigation.

Right now, what we need to do

is go back and look at those choke points.

"Choke points" are locations where people who are fleeing

the scene of a crime have to make it past

in order to succeed.

If the suspect didn't get past that area,

then the inquiry is shut down there.

But the other reason is that, if any fugitive

does encounter these choke points,

there will be activity where evidence is generated.

We need to really take a look at these two points

very closely.

Choke point one, how did he get out of Germany?

And choke point number two,

how he could have entered Argentina.

Now, we can't go and piece all of his footsteps together.

Not right now-- right now, we need to focus

on choke point number one: how he got out of Germany.

If you're getting out, you have to thread the needle.

The needle is Russian forces.

The Red Army is surrounding Berlin.

narrator: In January 1945,

Nazi Germany was on the brink of defeat.

Hitler retreated to his bunker in the center of Berlin

as the Soviet Army began their assault on the Nazi capital.

German soldiers battled desperately

to hold on to the city but surrendered on May 2nd,

just two days after Hitler was believed

to have committed suicide.

We need Lenny to keep on looking at the possible routes

from the bunker, keep looking, see how he could have possibly

gotten out of that city under siege.

narrator: Lenny DePaul, one of the most skilled man hunters

in the world and a former commander

of the U.S. Marshals Fugitive Task Force,

continues his investigation in Berlin.

When I'm tracking a fugitive, I want to know everything.

I want to get inside this fugitive's mind.

I want to know what his every thought is.

I want to know what his next step's gonna be.

The choke point right now in Berlin is critical.

Could Adolf Hitler have gotten out of Berlin,

and how did he do it?

All right.

- Take a seat. - This is good.

narrator: Lenny rejoins Sascha Keil,

an expert on Berlin during World War II.

Keil has access to key documents

from Hitler's final days.

If he escaped the Fuhrerbunker,

what was his plan to get out of Berlin?

- Okay. - It's...

Okay.

Yeah, that wouldn't work.

Okay.

So...

narrator: Hanna Reitsch was

one of the world's first female test pilots,

flying Nazi prototype helicopters

and a rocket-powered jet,

earning her a place in Hitler's inner circle.

On April 28, 1945, Reitsch flew Robert Ritter von Greim,

the general of the Nazi Air Force,

out of the Soviet-controlled city.

She completed this daring escape

just two days before Hitler was believed

to have committed suicide.

Wow, that'd certainly send a strong message to Hitler

that if she could do it, he certainly could.

Yes.

Could we open this database back up?

I want to do a search. - Yeah.

narrator: Sascha's database is the first ever

searchable collection of hundreds of hours

of interrogations of Hitler's inner circle

conducted by Michael Musmanno,

a judge at the Nuremberg trials.

In a case with no eyewitnesses, this is the next best thing.

Throw these words in there: escape, plans,

fly, plane.

And cross-reference that with Berlin.

Searching.

There we go, we got hits. Here, look at this.

Wow. Okay, let's see.

Why is Lieutenant Olmes saying,

"I was deeply convinced that one day

"I would have to take off in a plane.

"Hitler and Himmler would be on it.

I know about his plans, and I know his psychology."

It's a good hint to the personality of Hitler.

He has bigger plans.

Right.

And they planned two years to escape

before the war was over.

- Can I see the next one? - Yeah.

So, let's see, the quote is,

"In the conference on 20 April, on his birthday..."

Hmm.

narrator: On April 20, 1945, Hitler made

his final public appearance, ten days before

he was said to have committed suicide.

- Can I see the next one? - Yeah.

All right, let's see, what do we got?

Oh, here's a Nazi Admiral, Karl von Puttkamer.

He says, "We left Berlin by air

in the early morning of 21 of April."

That's the day after Hitler's birthday.

"We were about eight or ten aircraft."

April 20, 1945 was the last day

anybody saw Adolf Hitler in public.

That was his birthday.

April 21st, the day after, there was a mass exodus

that flew out of Tempelhof airport.

That's direct evidence that Nazis were escaping Germany

at the end of the war.

What do we know about these aircraft?

Do we have a flight log? - Yeah.

Can we get access to a flight log?

- I can show you. - Okay, yeah, let me see.

narrator: Sascha pulls up flight records

from the planes that escaped from Tempelhof airport

on April 21st, the day after Hitler was last seen in public.

All right, so let's see.

"They hastily loaded with baggage,

16 passengers with 5 crew."

Oh, that's interesting.

The first plane was loaded with Hitler's private property.

What?

Why would Hitler load an airplane with his property

if he wasn't going to be on it

or wasn't gonna meet up with it later?

What do we know about Tempelhof?

- You see this? - Yeah, hold on.

That's Tempelhof airport.

Okay, so here's--all right, that's the airport.

Where were the Russians on, uh, April 21st?

This airport was free. 21st was not a problem.

Every day later, the risk...

- Got higher, yeah. - Was higher.

narrator: In February 1945, Hitler fortified Berlin

with rings of anti-tank defenses,

a last-ditch effort to hold off advancing Soviet troops.

This allowed the Nazis to hold on to the capital city

for months rather than weeks.

Tempelhof was located within the inner ring of defense,

preventing the Soviets from capturing the airport

until April 28, 1945.

Four days later, the Nazis surrendered Berlin.

This Tempelhof airport,

can he get there from the Fuhrerbunker?

- The Fuhrerbunker, here. - Okay.

That's Tempelhof airport, and the shortest way

is to use the subway tunnel.

That is definitely worth taking a look at.

If Adolf Hitler was able to make it to Tempelhof airport

to board one of those airplanes, specifically on April 21st,

he could've been long gone.

I need to get to the bottom of that.

Lenny's making great progress on the ground.

He's determined there was a mass exodus out of Berlin,

by air, on the 21st of April.

That was the day after Hitler was last seen.

narrator: Bob Baer, 21-year CIA veteran,

and John Cencich, war crimes investigator,

review the on-the-ground findings from Berlin

where they are investigating a critical choke point.

Could Hitler have escaped Soviet-controlled Germany?

The time-line fits.

He could have made it out on the 21st.

That's very clear to me.

I think that's a crucial piece of evidence.

On the other hand, if we're looking at

the second choke point, how did he get to Argentina?

You look at the miles.

You've got thousands and thousands of miles.

You can't fly an airplane there directly.

There's multiple modes of transportation.

Multiple stopping points.

Take a look at this document.

This is a report written by the FBI,

the source, who claims to have aided

six top Argentine officials in hiding Adolf Hitler

upon his landing by submarine in Argentina.

It says that the submarines landed along the tip

of the Valdes Peninsula, along the southern tip of Argentina.

We're talking about a U-boat landing here, which--

that's the way I'd get there.

We know, in those days, you couldn't track 'em.

You go deep enough--go right across the Atlantic.

narrator: When the Nazis surrendered on May 5, 1945,

all U-boats were ordered to report

to their nearest ports to surrender.

Most captains followed these orders.

But 46 U-boats continued to operate in unknown locations.

Two of these rogue subs surfaced off the coast

of Argentina and surrendered three months later.

Here's what we gotta do, is we have to establish,

first of all, how far a U-boat can go.

- About 9,000 miles. - And that's without refueling.

- That's correct. - And how far is it from Europe?

It's definitely less. Maybe around 7,500?

I've spent a career hiding people

and getting them to escape.

I mean, I--I know how it's done.

You had U-boats all over the Atlantic.

Hitler traveling to Argentina in a U-boat, long range,

underwater--that's the way I would do it.

I think really the only resolution at this point

is that we do send a team to the Valdes Peninsula.

We need to determine, by a review of the area,

is this credible?

Completely.

narrator: Famed Nazi hunter Steven Rambam,

U.S. Army Special Forces Tim Kennedy,

and acclaimed investigative journalist Gerrard Williams

head for the reported location

of Hitler's submarine landing in Argentina.

What interests me about this is,

if you want to go somewhere incredibly far from anything

and anybody, this would be the place to come.

You know, a place like this seems suitable.

Who's gonna look here? Who can look here?

narrator: After driving for hours,

the team reaches the tip of the Valdes Peninsula

at the precise landing location given in the FBI files.

Holey moley, look at this.

There's a lighthouse.

Observation-wise, this is remarkable.

The highest point... - Of the Valdes Peninsula.

Driving here this morning, I was thinking,

we've come to the middle of nowhere,

but then you see the lighthouse, and you think,

maybe, just maybe, there's something in this.

This is where the file has sent us to.

This is a navigation point now.

This is important for people coming from that place:

the big sea.

It's old.

I mean, this could have been here in '45.

I mean, my feeling is, you know,

this is such an important navigation point

for anything coming down the south Atlantic,

that there's probably been a lighthouse here

of some sorts for a very long time.

In 1945, they didn't have the sophisticated navigation tools

that we have now.

So having a point of reference, how easily identifiable

is that for a link-up point?

- Yeah, yeah. - Let's do this systematically.

The first question is, could a sub have landed here?

Tim, you want to investigate the beach a little closer?

- Absolutely. - All right. Let's go.

narrator: The team scours the peninsula

for any possible U-boat landing sites.

I'm looking on the land. There is zero cover.

There is nowhere to hide on this peninsula.

I look around.

I can see for miles, but I feel as if

everything can see me.

I am just prey. It's a horrible feeling.

It's a feeling I despise.

I never want to feel like the prey.

I want to be the predator.

I had rocks falling out from under me--brutal.

I wouldn't try to land a special forces unit here.

- No. - Right.

Let alone a 56-year-old Hitler.

He's 56. He's not well.

The other thing is, imagine you land there

or you land there, then what do you do?

All right, you hump up this hill, and then what do you do?

Yeah, well, there's nothing for a long way inland.

It's not enough to get here.

It's where he can go to from that location.

I mean, Adolf Hitler is not John Wayne.

He's not getting on a horse and riding off into the sunset.

There's no roads. There's no support structure.

There's no food. There's no water.

Not every FBI report's gonna have

all the information we need in it.

- I think we're done here. - I think so too.

- Yeah? - Yeah.

Okay. We've gotta change our approach.

We wasted a lot of time on the peninsula.

Hitting a whole bunch more

potential U-boat landing sites seems kind of ineffective.

That's right.

We need to focus on areas

where there are supporters,

where there's a potential place of refuge.

There's a joke in the investigative community,

it's called the black hole method.

You never see a black hole, but you see the activity

of all the stars around it.

We were successful in finding Bin Laden that way.

The way that we found him was tracking any finances,

any contacts, and start narrowing it down,

and it ended up coming down to just one person.

When you're hiding, you can't exist in a bubble.

There has to be connections.

So, you start looking at your known associates.

You're like, "Who in this network of people

could support a person existing in asylum?"

If we're gonna look at who could facilitate, um, hiding Hitler

from the moment that he lands and enabling him

to disappear into Argentina, link analysis is probably

one of the most efficient ways to do it.

narrator: Tim uses special military software

to perform the link analysis.

It scans the hundreds of pages of FBI documents

and highlights persons of interest in the area

of the Valdes Peninsula based on

their frequency of association and their connection to Hitler.

The name's gonna be stronger with how many connections

that person has with other names.

- Okay. - Hit it.

Oh, holy cow. Look at this thing go.

It's identifying names and connections

of everyone and locations,dates,

and here are the hotspots.

Lahusen.

Looking back into the FBI files,

the German company Lahusen...

After World War II, when the Reich failed,

Argentina was the place to come if you wanted to disappear.

But you need an organization on the ground.

Something like Lahusen gives them an infrastructure

which they can rely on.

They're all party members, and as such,

they're all oath-bound to Adolf Hitler,

and that means you can make the man disappear.

Do you have any locations on Lahusen?

Does he have anything in this area?

So, Lahusen has properties all over,

but most of them seems to be centered in San Antonio Oeste.

Here's where we were yesterday. - Right.

Peninsula Valdes, and this is San Antonio Oeste.

So it's literally just right across the gulf.

Yeah.

We need to go to San Antonio Oeste.

This is our next target.

Rock and roll.

Focus is going to be San Antonio Oeste.

At the same time, we have Lenny

doing his analysis of Berlin.

narrator: Bob Baer and John Cencich

review the findings from both legs of their investigation

while the team in Argentina continues to search

for a U-boat landing site

that could have shuttled Hitler to South America

as reported by the FBI files.

What we have to do is to see

how would you get out of Tempelhof airport.

narrator: They now turn to how Hitler

could have escaped Soviet-controlled Berlin

in late April 1945.

Lenny's making great progress on the ground.

He's determined there was a mass exodus out of Berlin

by air on the 21st of April.

There's a possibility that Hitler escaped from the bunker

and made it out of Berlin.

It's not conjecture at all that these planes left

because that's--that's a fact.

Now what we have to figure out is

whether he could have gotten from the bunker to Tempelhof.

Let's just keep on strengthening our investigations

of both places.

narrator: In Berlin, Lenny DePaul and Sascha Keil

head underground to retrace the steps Hitler could have taken

from his bunker to Tempelhof airport.

- You see the tunnel? - Yeah.

In this direction, 400 meters,

this is the line to Tempelhof airport.

So they would have been underground

until they reached Tempelhof airport?

Completely.

narrator: In 1945, as Soviet troops decimated

the city above, the metro system remained untouched.

93 miles of tunnels were converted into a tool of war,

allowing Nazi troops to move to nearly every point

in the city below the Soviets' feet.

Now, it houses the U6 subway line,

which follows the identical path to Tempelhof airport.

Wow, they were up against itin 1945.

They had to walk it.

This was close to 2 1/2 miles

for him to travel, by foot, on a terrain that was

filled with rocks, railroad tracks...

Any individual that's on the run,

they're gonna do whatever it takes

to stay out of the line of fire.

And that's what Adolf Hitler, I'm sure, was doing.

His mindset was, "Escape, escape, escape."

He's gonna do whatever it takes.

- This is our station. - Okay.

narrator: Lenny and Sascha's two-mile journey

comes to an end at the subway's closest point to Tempelhof.

- What direction's the airport? - Look over there.

This is the shortest way to the first building.

That's quite a distance between there,

about a couple hundred meters?

Yeah.

He showed me where Tempelhof airport was.

I was shocked.

I didn't think it was that big of a distance

between the U6 and the entrance to the airport.

I thought, when he come out of that tunnel,

within feet, he was in the front door,

but that wasn't the case.

You know what I don't believe, Sascha, I mean,

as an investigator, I don't see him

coming above ground, risking anything.

I can't see him being exposed for that long.

I mean, do you think Hitler would've traveled the U6 line

all the way here, come above ground,

and then run 200 to 300 meters?

It's a risk.

He woulda had a tunnel built from the airport

to the subway system.

Once a fugitive pops his head out of anywhere,

he becomes extremely vulnerable.

In Hitler's case, he's got the Russian army

after him all over the place.

Desperate people do desperate things,

but I don't see him risking that chance

of being seen above ground.

Better to stay in the underground as long as you can.

Yeah, if there is an underground.

Do you think there's tunnels here?

We found a map, that they planned a direct connection.

We never found a clear connection...

Never built, as we know.

Let's go. Let's walk here. Come on.

narrator: Lenny and Sascha head to the airport

to search for any evidence that the Nazi plans

for a tunnel connection ever became reality.

I gotta find out if there's any underground tunnels

that go from the U6 into the front doors

of that Tempelhof airport.

There's gotta be a tunnel. Let's go find out.

What's critical here is this name, Lahusen,

is showing up from these FBI files.

There's thousands of names in there, but this is the name

that comes up most prominently.

Look at that.

narrator: Bob Baer and John Cencich

have mounted a two-pronged investigation

into the possibility

Hitler may have have escaped the bunker

and fled to South America.

While the investigation in Berlin continues,

the field team in Argentina has used a technique

called link analysis to uncover a crucial clue--

the name of Geraldo Lahusen.

And what do we know about Lahusen?

The German Lahusen company "is extremely active

in the wool trade"...

A spearhead? That's--that's a cover company.

We're basically talking about a Nazi cover company in Argentina.

I mean, look, a wool company, they've got trucks,

they've got infrastructure, they've got people

working for them, which would be able to cover

the landing of Adolf Hitler and relocating him.

Hitler, if he had landed in the Valdes Peninsula,

would've needed an immediate infrastructure.

He would need protection. He would need money.

Where there's smoke, there's fire.

The FBI report puts us here, Valdes Peninsula.

Link analysis puts us in San Antonio Oeste.

What we want to find out is did Hitler go

to San Antonio Oeste?

Are there documents? Is there oral tradition?

On paper, Lahusen is exactly what Hitler,

or any other high-ranking Nazi, would have needed.

But, that's only on paper.

I say we send the team into San Antonio Oeste

and see if they can cultivate that information into evidence.

Yeah--no, I agree with you totally.

Let's do it.

narrator: The team arrives in San Antonio Oeste.

Gerrard Williams digs into the local naval archives.

Tim Kennedy searches the coast

for potential U-boat landing sites.

And Steven Rambam hits the streets

to dig into the Lahusen connection.

If Hitler came to Argentina, we need to find out

if Lahusen had enough resources to set something up for him.

Let's see if it's even remotely credible.

Don't mention the name Hitler.

narrator: With the help of a local translator,

Steven canvasses the town.

He knows of a house which is very near here.

narrator: They uncover a nearby property

once owned by the Lahusen family.

Ask him, "Does somebody live here?"

Says he doesn't think anyone lives here,

but the new door...

Hola.

Check this out. This is marble, yeah?

This used to be a real mansion, huh?

It was probably the most important house

in San Antonio Oeste.

Okay, now we really have to look.

I want to knock on a few doors.

You know what? Let's try this house.

Buenas.

Does he know anything about this house?

We were told this was the house of Lahusen.

And he says the--the middle one,

there, was a bank.

It didn't formally belong to the Lahusen family.

- Comprendo. - But--

He was the secret controlling person.

Okay.

Lahusen is the central figure.

The man had his own bank.

This is a guy who could do anything he wanted.

If Hitler smuggled to this area to escape,

you need money, you need shelter,

you need security.

He'd have to have somebody like a Lahusen.

Hold on a second. We gotta stop.

Who's this guy?

Uh, he's, uh--this gentleman has heard

that you're in town looking, you know, for Germans, and...

A German submarine?

Out of nowhere, an elderly gentleman

comes up to us with information about submarine sightings

and associations.

Who the heck knows what we're gonna find?

He's a diver. Tony Brochado was a diver.

Okay.

And he's here in San Antonio Oeste?

- He lives here in San Antonio. - Okay, so we can find him.

He told us about a gentleman by the name of Tony Brochado.

He's an expert on German activity in this general area.

Huh.

narrator: While their local contact reaches out

to Tony Brochado to see if he'll speak with the team,

Steve meets up with Gerrard, who has uncovered

valuable information in the local navy archives.

There's a cluster of submarine sightings

from the coast guard, from police,

all along this coast line.

Listen, I just want to get this clear in my mind.

Germany surrenders, and on May 2nd,

Admiral Donitz broadcasts to all the ships at sea,

including the U-boats, that's it, we're done,

we've lost, we've surrendered,

turn yourselves in.

And most U-boats do exactly that.

Okay.

But there are 46 U-boats missing

at the end of World War II.

There's no obvious reason why submarines would be

coming to Argentina.

It's a long way to come to surrender

when they could've surrendered in Portugal or Spain

and been closer to their families back in Germany.

They had to be on a mission. They had to be doing something.

And there's no strategic mission,

there's no destructive mission here,

but there is the mission to deliver Adolf Hitler safely

to friends in the south.

narrator: One file Gerrard uncovers

in the Argentine Naval Archives lends credence to this theory.

I've had a look at the files on the Mendoza

off the San Matías gulf.

narrator: Three months after the end of the war,

the Argentine warship, theMendoza,

encountered a mysterious German U-boat

operating in these very waters.

Three crew members clearly saw a submarine emerge

and submerge, and, um, it depth charged them.

- What happened to the sub? - They don't know.

We have sightings. We have supporters.

All of the information that we're receiving,

all of the documents, points us to here.

If I was a sub captain looking to infiltrate somebody

into Argentina, boy, oh, boy,

this is certainly prime territory.

narrator: In Berlin, Lenny DePaul and Sascha Keil

have uncovered eyewitness testimony of a Nazi exodus

of planes from Tempelhof airport the day after

Hitler was last seen in public.

Yeah, so they could easily have gotten here

in a subway--boom, right to the airport.

narrator: They have also found that Hitler

would have had the underground infrastructure

to escape from his bunker and travel

within striking distance of the airport.

- What direction's the airport? - Look over there.

narrator: a 300-yard gap between the subway

and the entrance to Tempelhof stands in their way.

We found rumors that they planned a direct connection.

narrator: Lenny and Sascha head into the airport

to investigate if this suspected tunnel connection

was actually ever built.

Mm-hmm.

Wow. It's unbelievably big.

When they planned this building,

it was planned as a completely independent isolated complex.

Later, when they thought about escape plans for Hitler,

it is possible, within weeks, that they built a tunnel

from Tempelhof Airport to the subway station.

Hundreds of rooms--it was part of Hitler's plannings

to let Berlin be the capital of the world.

narrator: Tempelhof was the key to the Nazis' military strategy

and contained an underground factory

where planes were built

and then flown directly into battle.

Tempelhof was one of the final Nazi strongholds,

and did not fall to the Soviets until April 28, 1945,

a week after Hitler was last seen in public.

The airport is no longer active

but still houses six stories of tunnels, bunkers,

and underground passageways.

We're now in the heart of this airport.

I want to see the tunnel that's gonna take me

to the city subway.

Oh, Sascha, we're coming to a dead end here.

This doesn't look good.

Okay, let's go back down.

Hold on a second. Let me get this compass out.

We want to be what, north?

Northwest is the station.

So north-northwest is where

the U6 would have stopped, right?

Yeah.

This way.

This is where we gotta go.

Wait a minute. What's this?

Look at this.

That's big enough for somebody to crawl through.

It's a small tunnel, but yes.

If you go on your knees?

narrator: on the deepest level of the underground complex,

Sascha and Lenny find a suspicious blocked-up passage

that appears to have once been a tunnel.

Give me your GPS for a second.

Let me lock these coordinates in.

Okay, let's lock it in here.

All right, I want to go back up top

and see where we are on the street level

in relation to the U6 subway train,

and see if there's any possibility at all

that this tunnel could've led there.

Right about here.

This is where we were, down about 20 feet.

This is where it stops.

Why would a tunnel stop right here in the middle of a park?

Just 50 meters away is the train station.

Adolf Hitler had a pretty good idea what he was doing.

He didn't wake up Monday morning and say,

"Hey, I think I'm gonna try to escape."

There's gotta be a connection underground

to the U6 subway train.

narrator: In the small Argentine port town

of San Antonio Oeste...

Where is it?

Okay.

narrator: After uncovering an Argentine naval file

describing an unknown German U-boat

operating in this area, Steven, Gerrard,

and their translator make contact

with local legend Tony Brochado,

who has been diving in these waters for decades.

Buenos Dias.

Can we take 15 minutes of your time?

Gracias.

Tony Brochado--this is the guy who's going to be able

to give us credible, objective information.

Does he think that U-boats came to this area?

Si.

Does he think that these subs were delivering people?

Important German people?

What's his evidence of this?

From her kitchen window, she saw a submarine,

in a place called Caleta de los Loros.

During the war or after the war?

After the war.

And what does he think happened to the sub?

- Once they disembark-- - Uh-huh.

The people, they had to leave the submarine somewhere.

They had nowhere to go back to. The war was lost.

So, it was scuttled.

Yes. - Okay.

We came to San Antonio Oeste to search for more information

about possible landings.

What we didn't expect to find is information

suggesting that there's possibly a scuttled U-boat

off this coast.

Has anyone ever made an effort to find this submarine?

The first navy expedition, the first real search

for the German U-boat, Tony was part of it,

and it was back in 1997.

Okay, so he was actually part of the expedition

to look for it?

Yes.

The Argentinean navy considered it so likely

that subs were scuttled in this area that they mounted

a very expensive expedition.

How satisfied is he with the search that he was involved in?

One of the facts is that there never was enough search time.

Because of bad weather?

Yes.

We now have a very specific location near here.

A place called Caleta de los Loros.

The cove of the parrots.

I hate to use big words like actionable intelligence,

but that's exactly what we have.

Do you think Adolf Hitler was on one of these submarines?

So he's satisfied that there were supporters of Hitler

in this area who, if he landed on a sub,

would have received him and supported him

and moved him to a secure location?

As if a king had arrived.

We may have an opportunity to prove that Hitler

could have been transported to Argentina.

That is a giant chunk of this investigation.

As if a king...

We're making good headway on both our choke points.

It looks like, in Berlin, we're halfway there.

Okay, Argentina. Second choke point.

narrator: Following a declassified FBI file

placing Hitler arriving in Argentina aboard a U-boat,

Bob and John ruled out the Valdes Peninsula

due to its treacherous coastline and isolation

from Nazi supporters.

After uncovering Geraldo Lahusen,

a prominent Nazi operating nearby,

their U-boat landing investigation

has shifted to a new location.

What we've found so far is a secret bank

owned by Lahusen in San Antonio.

Looks like a front company, a Nazi front company.

The Mendoza file shows that the Argentine navy was up there

in '45, dropping depth charges, and we have 1997,

the Argentine navy was looking for a scuttled U-boat.

I mean, this is really authoritative sources.

We have this new area where the information is vectoring--

Caleta de los Loros.

This is a cove that's north of the Valdes Peninsula.

What's most interesting for me is it was perfectly possible

they brought the U-boat in here, delivered Hitler,

and then scuttled the boat off the coast.

Let's do the recon and see what we can find.

- Let's look at it from the air. - Right.

We need a drone.

What we need to do is to get a drone,

do a reconnaissance, get some photography

of the coast line, and see if those data

take us one or more steps closer to proving

that Hitler was on the submarine right there

at Caleta de los Loros.

I think this is our place. Let's put some up in the air.

Let's do it.

The FBI files brought us to this general area.

If we find evidence, something tangible,

our theory about Hitler coming here

is even that much more possible.

narrator: Tim is armed with a state-of-the-art

self-flying aerial drone that captures tens of thousands

of high-resolution overhead images.

Once the flight path is completed,

the computer's software pieces the images together

to recreate a 3-D model of the landscape

that can reveal details mere centimeters in size.

I am immediately impressed by this area of the coast.

It's protected from all of the weather

and wind and swells of the big dangerous ocean.

This is pretty much the perfect spot

if you want to land a U-boat.

They could anchor somewhere right out there,

and a boat could bring someone

the rest of the way to the beach.

Let's see what we have here.

Yeah, see, little spots like this would be ideal--

no clear line of sight, easy access...

From the survey, we have a few anomalies.

What is this?

That I'm going to go check out for sure.

A perfectly circular, black--looks like, hole.

In the middle of nothingness.

Really, really, really curious.

I'm gonna go check this out.

Oh, man, I think, uh,

we got something right here.

Holy [bleep].

Hey, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa.

We got a freaking well in the middle of nowhere.

This makes no sense to be here. This is unbelievable.

Holy crap.

narrator: Next, on "Hunting Hitler"...

Whoa, stop right there, Jeorg. What's that?

There's definitely something there.

- 100%? - 100%.

Adolf Hitler supposedly, uh, took off 70 years ago.

But right now, I feel like I'm right behind him.

Let's go find a U-boat.

If there's something here, we are absolutely gonna find it.

- We're good to go. - All right.

Drop it in. Perfect.

Ah, there we go. We've got something man-made.

No way.

Is that a swastika carved in there?

You gotta be kidding me.