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male narrator: Previously on "Hunting Hitler"...

The evidence for Hitler landing in Argentina

was very strong.

Hitler had met with a Nazi associate

by the name of Fritz Mandl.

He use to own an ammunition factory.

So he was making arms while he was here?

He may very well be pursuing this Fourth Reich.

This French agent,

he had seen a large radio station near the hotel

in Brazil.

You cannot start the Fourth Reich

without communication.

There was to be held at the Grand Hotel a ballet,

and one man attending was definitely Hitler.

- I have something. - What?

There's an advertisement for a ballet.

And that's the performance he saw Hitler at?

This is getting good.

Anytime a high-value target gets up and moves,

it's either safety or he's going operational.

And I think what we can say here

is that Hitler at this point has gone operational.

And it was a matter of finding an opportunity to come back.

narrator: CIA veteran Bob Baer

and war crimes investigator John Cencich

have used hundreds of declassified files

to track Hitler's potential movements

from his bunker in Berlin in April, 1945.

Their findings suggest that over the course of two years,

Hitler traveled thousands of miles to Argentina,

and slowly made his way across South America

before arriving in a small town in Brazil.

There an FBI report places him in close proximity

to a high-powered communications device.

If Hitler was there,

and there's military-like antennas in the area,

what was the plan?

This is almost like a piece of Germany in Brazil.

Just how extensive was the German network there?

I have one document here,

an article entitled "Spies Rounded Up In Brazil."

The Brazilian police have rounded up 36 Germans,

including a former German army officer

described as the director of German espionage

in the state of Rio Grande,

which is where the town of Cassino is located.

That's extremely interesting.

We see German espionage in the town of Cassino

during the Second World War.

Even after the war,

the communications system could continue to be used

for other Nazi-related activities.

During World War II,

you had German spies operating in Cassino.

He's got an infrastructure here.

If we can find evidence of a communications site,

it's the perfect place for him to show up

and go operational again.

narrator: Bob shifts the investigation

to locating the high-tech communications equipment

detailed in the declassified FBI report

that places Hitler in Cassino, Brazil.

This FBI document gives us specificities.

I mean, he's giving us step after step

on which way to turn.

Yeah, let's walk that

and find out what there is there.

Was it possible that this location

that's described very specifically in the report,

there was an antenna there?

70 years later, most likely this thing was destroyed,

but that doesn't mean we can't follow

the directions in that report and see what we end up with.

Let's go find that tower.

There's a route,

about where their communication tower could be.

To me, it's like a treasure map.

You know, if we find the X,

you know, X marks the spot.

Yeah.

There's gonna be some serious treasure

at the end of it.

narrator: Tim Kennedy, U.S. Army Special Forces,

and his local translator prepare to search for evidence

of the high-tech communications setup

referenced in the FBI files.

The informant from the FBI documents

wrote some very specific directions

about where we could find this communication.

It says, "when standing in front of the hotel,

take the first boulevard to the right."

Cassino is laid out pretty straightforward.

They build their roads north and south, and east and west.

So we can take this report at face value,

and know that these directions are never gonna change.

Come out of the hotel, first left, narrow street.

I'd describe this as a narrow street.

This says walk this way for five to seven minutes,

and the equipment may be observed.

Yeah.

We're at five minutes right now.

Yeah.

narrator: The directions lead the team

to a neighborhood block built up with contemporary houses.

And walking five to seven minutes brings us, you know...

- Exactly here. - To this block.

We're screwed, because they wrecked what we're looking for

and built something on top of it.

Every little secret is just buried

on another layer of different permits, leases,

different renters, different owners.

I got to keep digging.

I want to start knocking on doors,

and I want to start talking to people.

She said that it-- by only one person,

that they then separated like here,

in small piece.

- Yeah, subdivided. - Subdivided.

So this was all owned by one person?

Thank you.

Within the first few people that we talked to...

Okay, thank you.

We already started kind of getting the hint.

Right here?

This house right here?

There was one person that we needed to talk to.

narrator: Tim visits the property whose owners

could have once controlled the entire block

that the FBI files led them to.

His family bought this from a German family?

Yeah, yeah.

Wow.

It was just like a beacon of, this could be the place.

That would be fantastic.

narrator: Gerrard joins Tim

to interview the current owner's aunt,

who was a young woman

when the property was originally purchased.

When your father bought this property,

what did it look like around this house?

No one in your family ever came across

any cables or wires or antennas

anywhere around this house or the property?

Absolutely nothing.

What can you tell us about the people

that owned it before your family?

So when your family moved here in the house,

it had Nazi paraphernalia?

My job, coming to Brazil,

was to corroborate an eyewitness account.

We did more than that.

The FBI files led me directly to a house

that was owned by a Nazi.

Do you remember the name of the people

who owned the house before your father bought it?

Sanders.

Yep.

Hi, Tais, can you hear me?

We're at a house in Cassino

which seems was owned in the early 1940s

by a family or a man called Sanders.

narrator: Gerrard contacts Dr. Tais Campelo,

an historian who has extensively researched

the Nazi presence in Brazil.

So you know he was a member of the Nazi party?

That's really good information.

Thank you very much.

At least we know that they guy who owned this house had links,

serious links, to Nazi intelligence.

We now know that the house,

which fits the X marks the spot bit we've been looking for,

was owned by a Nazi spy.

We've struck gold.

It's before satellites; couriers are inefficient

Somebody like Adolf Hitler

needs to set up reliable communications.

Otherwise, he's nothing.

narrator: Bob Baer and Dr. John Cencich

review the field team's investigation

of a declassified FBI file

that places Hitler in Cassino, Brazil,

in close proximity

to high-powered communications equipment,

two years after he was believed dead.

We followed the directions in the FBI file.

It took us right to a house.

The original owners were not only were Germans,

but were Nazis.

Nazi paraphernalia was found in the house,

and we find out that that owner of that house

was arrested for a crime

none other than espionage.

The evidence is continuing to pile up.

When you're dealing on 70-year-old leads

and you find this kind of confirmation, it's big.

This is a hotbed of Nazis in Cassino,

an extensive network of Nazi intelligence officers.

It's the right kind of environment

that Hitler would look for.

According to the reports,

Hitler's moving north

and has the means to communicate with people.

But the radio's never the endgame;

it's the beginning of the game.

This is '47.

The guy, presumably, is healthy.

He's still not in a position to show himself publicly,

but what does he do?

You're not gonna launch a conquest of the world

from Cassino, Brazil.

What's in the plans?

Is there anything in all the files

which would suggest plausibly what he was up to?

narrator: Working off the premise

that Hitler could have been in Brazil in 1947

and was moving north with hopes of regaining power,

Bob and John dig through the hundreds

of declassified documents for a clue

as to where Hitler may have headed next.

You know, we can look to a document here

dated May 22nd, 1948.

This places Hitler in Bogota, Colombia.

Hitler, two German physicists, and two pilots

traveled by a plane.

They carried with them secret plans

for the V-3 sky rocket bomb

and the complete record

of the German nuclear investigation.

They landed the planes in a flying field in Bogota.

Once they landed, the pilots burned the planes,

and the remains were submerged in a nearby marsh.

It does answer the question:

what a madman would do to regain power.

Hitler arriving with nuclear scientists,

burning the airplane.

But they got plans for the V-3 and nuclear warheads.

Talk about, you know, raising the tone in all of this.

narrator: In 1939, Germany launched a secret project

to develop Nazi nuclear weapons.

The scientists given this task

were some of the most skilled in the world,

with thousands of them ultimately being recruited

by the United States

to work on American programs after the war.

Although shrouded in secrecy,

the Nazi Amerika-Bomber and the V-3 rocket

were believed to be potential weapons

with an unprecedented range of thousands of miles.

Just look at the map.

You've got Colombia,

clearly a V-3 from the designs we know,

could go the 2,000 miles and hit the United States

in some sort of Hail Mary attack.

Is it fantastic?

Yeah.

But this is Adolf Hitler,

and his plan isn't to be the mayor

of some village in Argentina.

It's to strike the main enemy, the United States.

It was the United States which brought down the Third Reich.

And only once the United States was brought down

could the Fourth Reich come.

This may seem something out-of-this-world crazy,

but if you and I had been talking

a couple of years before 9/11

that this was possible, to hijack American airplanes

and knock down the World Trade Center,

you would immediately dismiss it.

In fact, the FBI did dismiss these reports.

So many of these attacks on the United States

are aspirational,

and so few of them work.

But that doesn't mean that our enemies aren't planning them.

This is the one specific thing,

is an airplane that flew these guys in

and pushed off into the swamp.

I sure the hell want to be in Colombia.

We go there and find something,

anything to substantiate this report.

A big story, big evidence.

I want to see it myself.

This is what it all comes down to.

Great to see you.

narrator: 50 stories above the vast metropolis of Bogota,

Bob and John join U.S. Army Special Forces Tim Kennedy

and their local translator to begin their hunt for a plane

that an FBI report suggests transported Hitler

to within 2,000 miles of the United States.

I didn't realize how expansive and sprawling the city is.

It has changed a lot.

It was very, very different from what it was 60, 70 years ago.

All that part, it didn't exist.

I mean, that was green, absolutely green, okay?

But as the city started growing,

people would just simply drain or fill the marshes

to build houses, roads, and everything,

so it's really difficult to find that marsh.

So we're looking for a needle in a haystack.

We need to dig into those documents,

at least try to find a few options,

some possibilities that we can go either ground proof,

you know, or eliminate.

And then start looking for the aircraft.

He had to have had some infrastructure

that he could have used.

He didn't come here for tourism,

and he didn't think history was over for him.

He came here to plan something.

Hitler was an opportunist,

and Colombia was a great opportunity.

narrator: In 1948, Colombia was in the throes

of a decade-long period of chaos, political unrest,

and economic depression known as La Violencia,

caused by mounting tensions

between the two leading political parties.

Massive riots erupted throughout the country,

eventually spreading to the capital city of Bogota

and claiming over 180,000 lives.

It was lunacy at the time,

but he was looking for that wedge,

which would have been chaos,

which would have been Colombia.

Frightening.

We just have to find the forensic evidence

to support that he was here.

We find that airplane,

and we've broken this thing completely open.

We got a lot more digging to do.

narrator: With over 600 square miles of land making up Bogota,

the team visits the city urban planning department.

This is the spot.

narrator: They make contact with Javier Rincon,

the senior director,

in hopes of zeroing in on the marsh

that could have been the final resting spot

for Hitler's airplane.

We are looking for a very specific area.

We kind of have characteristics, like landmarks.

The first one was that it was below 68th Avenue or Street

and in a marsh called Santa Maria,

in an area called La Florida.

This would be the 68th.

We go down.

And this is the marsh of Santa Maria de Lago.

- Right here? - Right here, this one.

Si.

Are there any other lakes or marshes

that are called Santa Maria?

No.

It's beneath 68th, and Santa Maria is--

It's the exact name of the lake.

Yeah.

It's amazing.

We're on to something right here.

Who owned this property in 1948?

Okay, so near the lake was the country house

of Alfonso Lopez Pumarejo,

who was the president of Colombia.

The way that these Nazis operate is,

you have wealthy, powerful men,

They're using their leverage and their power

to facilitate the movement of Nazi personnel.

It's a playbook that they've been using

throughout all of South America,

and now here in Colombia,

we're finding that exact same standard.

Have you ever heard any stories

about people trying to hide things in the marsh?

When I was a kid...

I lived close to the marsh,

and people said that there was a plane there

that at one time was submerged.

What do you mean, a plane?

Yeah, it was like a myth, like--

It was a story.

Yeah, but still, if it's not a story--

near my house there's lakes,

but we don't say there's planes in them.

Till today, nobody did any research

or tried to investigate.

You don't land an airplane in a rural strip

and push it into a lake for the hell of it.

It just doesn't happen.

Even though this is a 70-year-old investigation,

this is one hell of a breakthrough,

the possibility that Adolf Hitler

arrived in Colombia

and disappeared here in 1948.

There's something here, seriously.

It really is a swamp, isn't it?

Yeah.

narrator: The team arrives at the Santa Maria Marsh,

which could be the location

where local rumors and an FBI report

place Hitler arriving in a plane,

before the plane was burned and submerged in the marsh.

We've heard reports about planes

being ditched into this marsh.

We are a week's drive from the American border.

Right here there was a potential threat

to the United States of a nuclear attack.

Have you ever looked for anything

that's been gone for 50 years?

Yeah.

I've hunted for planes

that have been gone for 50 years,

in this same type of environment.

narrator: Regan Lipinski, a marine survey expert,

has joined the team.

He is armed with a state- of-the-art side scan sonar,

which uses acoustics to create

real-time high-resolution images.

We're talking about a small airplane.

If it's burned, that steel should have maintained itself.

- Some sort of integrity. - Right.

Regan's the best in the business.

He's truly a specialist in his field.

He can find things that are inches in size

in muddy, silt-filled lakes.

He's the go-to guy.

narrator: While John heads out

to investigate the potential Nazi network in Colombia

that could have supported Hitler...

- We'll see you guys later. - Okay.

narrator: The rest of the team prepares the sonar

to scan a two-acre section of the marsh

in search of a sunken airplane.

Let's do this, let's get to work.

I have Regan here.

We have the equipment, we have the technology

to absolutely, definitively know

if there's something in a body of water or not.

I want to get out and find our target.

All right, tow fish is in.

narrator: The marsh floor is filled with dense vegetation,

so the team uses ropes, rather than a motor,

to navigate the waters.

- Speed fine? - Speed's fine.

When you're going to look for something,

there's this certain element of excitement.

We have tree roots.

Some anxiousness, some anxiety, you know.

There's an energy.

Maybe a small little target here.

We're going to go find something

at the bottom of this marsh.

narrator: On the other side of Bogota,

John makes contact with Dionel Benitez,

an expert on the history of Colombian aviation.

Hola. ¿Como esta usted?

You're not gonna land a plane into a country

where there isn't a Nazi infrastructure

that would support, provide intelligence,

provide logistics,

and through research we uncovered an aviation company

known as SCADTA,

which is alleged to have had connections with Germany.

What I'd like to know a little bit right now,

is about SCADTA.

Colombia had a really serious transportation problem,

so the Colombian government set out to start this airline

in order to solve that problem.

narrator: SCADTA, also known as

the Colombian-German Air Transport Society,

was formed in 1919 by a group of German pilots

who moved to Colombia after serving in World War I.

It was established to help move goods and people

across the country's vast, road-less,

and rugged countryside,

eventually becoming the world's second commercial airline,

and the first in the Americas.

Were members of the Nazi party

involved in this company at all?

Herbert Von--

- Boy. - Boy.

He was German, he was accused of being a Nazi.

What happened to him?

He had a family here.

He started a family here.

So he stayed here, in Colombia?

Si.

And when did he die?

1973.

His grave is here in the German cemetery.

Herbert Boy was involved in the aviation company,

SCADTA.

He had been suspected of having been

a member of the Nazi party.

At first blush, that's a forensic red flag,

and it requires more investigation.

narrator: The team heads across town to a German cemetery,

and the final resting place of Herbert Boy.

Ah, yeah, Colonel.

So here we have Colonel Boy.

But the question really remains in my mind,

whether or not he ever had any contacts

with people who were Nazis in Germany.

Goebbels?

Joseph Goebbels?

Si.

The same Joseph Goebbels

who was in the Fuhrerbunker

with Adolf Hitler?

Si.

There's a clear relation, because during his childhood

he went to school with Joseph Goebbels.

Joseph Goebbels was the minister of propaganda.

He's basically the person who was responsible

for enforcing the Holocaust.

That's a critical associate.

Did SCADTA continue to exist in the 1940s?

No, the Colombian president

decided to imprison Nazis.

Just to be clear, the president was rounding up

and arresting people that he believed

to be members of the Nazi party, is that correct?

Si.

In the early 1940s,

Colombia joined the Allied Powers,

and at that time,

the president of Colombia was rounding up

people who were suspected of being Nazis.

One moment, okay?

- Si. - Permiso.

The marsh, the Santa Maria marsh

that Bob and Tim and others are at right now...

Yes, yes.

The president owned that property.

Why in the world would they land

on the property or the land of the president

who's locking them all up and throwing them in jail?

That doesn't make senseat all.

The marshland that we're searching right now

is not the right location.

The president was rounding up people

that he suspected of being Nazis,

and he's locking them up, he's imprisoning them.

If they were to come in and land there,

they would have been landing in a trap.

We need to be looking someplace else,

and I think we need to let the team know

this is not a logical place.

Somewhere else, not here, I mean.

Definitely it's not here.

- Okay, I'll be right back. - Yeah, Sure.

narrator: While investigating Nazi supporters

that could have aided Hitler's arrival in Bogota,

as reported by a declassified FBI file,

John Cencich has made a massive discovery

that could change the course of their hunt for a plane

buried in the nearby Santa Maria Marsh.

Bob, it's John.

Hey, John.

Look, let me tell you what we've got over here.

One thing is for sure:

the land that you're at,

and where it's alleged

that Adolf Hitler and several other Nazis landed,

that property was owned by the president of Colombia.

But I don't think that's the location.

What we learned is that the president

was rounding up Germans,

people who were suspected of being Nazis.

It does allow us to open our eyes.

They wouldn't have landed there.

This is not the right location.

No, I agree with you.

If you're planning on trying to eliminate all the risk you can,

this isn't the place you'd do it.

Santa Maria, no, that wasn't in the initial report.

There are other bodies of water

underneath 68th Street which we need to look at.

What I need you to do is go back to the archives

and take another look,

now that we've eliminated this marsh,

and see where the other possible places are,

and let's take 'em one by one.

Okay.

All right then, okay.

Talk to you, bye.

narrator: John returns to the Bogota

city planning department

in search of other bodies of water

that could match the marsh

referenced in the declassified FBI file.

My job is to be as thorough as I can be.

This document was translated,

and then it was forwarded to the FBI,

so I wanted to go back

and take another look at that document,

the actual Spanish version, not the translated version.

That way, we know that we don't really miss anything.

Let me explain to you that I have a problem

interpreting or understanding something.

It's probably best that I read you

the sentence in Spanish.

Or at the end of Street 68.

Okay, so... wait a second, at the end?

At the end, yes, at the end.

I don't understand.

So are you saying that the word "abajo,"

or "abajo de,"

also means "at the end of the street"?

Yes, this is where they end.

Sometimes words, when they're translated,

you can have more than one meaning.

If you look at the word "tiempo,"

that means "weather," and it also means "time."

"Abajo de" in Spanish doesn't always mean "below."

It could mean "at the end" of 68th Street.

Okay,

so the way that I understand this now is,

if we take 68th Street,

take it all the way down to the end...

Yes, that's correct.

It lands directly in the area of La Florida.

Lo and behold, when you come out to the end,

we come to another marshland that's called La Florida.

Well, of course, that's in the document as well.

Is it possible to put a boat into this area in La Florida?

No, it's impossible to do that

because this is a protected area

due to its biodiversity.

But if we are determined--

and we can pretty determined

when we endeavor to do something--

so would it be possible to--

No.

It's impossible to do that.

Okay, no, no, no.

This isn't gonna be easy.

We need a boat out there.

Whatever it takes.

narrator: Bob Baer works back channels

to try to get the team access to investigate

the highly restricted La Florida marsh,

which could be the final resting place of a plane

that transported Hitler to Colombia,

as reported by a declassified FBI file.

I know it's a sensitive area, but let's make this happen.

Thanks.

Parque La Florida.

Yeah, there it is.

Park La Florida.

narrator: Bob, Tim Kennedy,

and marine survey expert Regan Lipinsky

head for the La Florida marsh.

This looks like it, right?

Okay, thanks.

We're in.

narrator: Overnight, they were granted unprecedented access

from the city's park administration

to search these waters,

but only for a 12-hour window.

If we find an airplane,

it's gonna go a hell of a long way

in substantiating the U.S. government's reporting

that Hitler arrived in Colombia and disappeared here in 1948.

This makes a lot more sense.

- Yeah. - Look at the airport.

We know there are airstrips around here.

So that might have been what was an airstrip,

now is an airport,

which, you know, is close enough

for them to drag a plane over to this water.

What I like about it is, it's remote.

There's no town.

So on the surface,

this is more promising, as far as I'm concerned.

A small airplane landing at La Florida

would not have excited anybody's interest.

Burning an airplane and pushing it into the water

is something people would notice.

But what we have here is clearly a rural area.

And if I had to burn an airplane

and put it in the water, it'd be right here.

How are we gonna search this?

You see these three islands,

you can see it makes a big rectangle.

Now, that's going to be perfect for a parallel grid search,

back and forth through here.

We'll stay on this side first.

Once we're finished with that,

we'll jump over to the other side of the islands.

Do another parallel grid search from this island out,

all the way to the airport and back.

Yeah.

Let's get on the water and start searching.

Let's go.

narrator: Tim and Regan prepare

the state-of-the-art side scan sonar

and hit the water to begin their pattern search,

while Bob coordinates from the shore.

Tow fish in.

Tow fish hooked.

I got the tow fish in the water,

we're going to start our first survey area.

Copy that.

I can see shoreline here,

so that's the area that we're covering,

and we're looking at 65 feet on either side of the boat.

Look at that one.

There's barely anything over here.

Yeah.

This is part of a tree trunk on the shore.

How's it looking?

Ah, nothing yet.

Looks actually pretty clean.

We're conducting our search,

just going back and forth up those lines,

not finding anything.

But real investigation is about patient work.

20 meters to end of line.

You can probably go ahead and do your turn.

Keep your track line, and go as far as we can go,

and then turn around, and we'll cover that.

We finished the first half of our search grid.

Now we're starting the second half

of this search grid.

There's our first anomaly.

There.

Got it.

I don't want to stop the search to measure it yet,

but that's definitely man-made.

Yeah, it's, like, perfectly round.

Ah, look at this one right here.

This, right here, we might want to dive on.

Holy crap.

Keep moving, keep moving.

That's a big target.

Look at that.

We've got-- that is definitely

some type of cage of some sort.

That's a big target.

It might be the frame of the fusilage.

Holy [bleep].

Hey, Bob, we're coming in to have a face-to-face, man.

We got some good stuff here.

Yeah, come on in.

We got something.

It could be a portion of a wing.

This is incredible.

We might have found exactly what we're looking for.

You're not gonna believe this.

- You ready? - Yeah, let's go.

Just keep watching.

- Wow, look at that. - Look at that.

Talk about an anomaly.

It is 20 feet long...

Yeah?

And it's 10 feet wide.

There's nothing else out there, except this.

This isn't a trash dump.

No.

The anomaly is just an anomaly

until it's on your boat.

But we need to start prepping to get in the water.

We have to ground proof.

We have to get physical eyes on.

This is what I've been waiting for.

So you did your job; it's my turn.

I'm gonna do my job.

You have to look at these pictures.

It's just-- it's just amazing.

If you're not a believer now, you will be.

There we go.

Look at that.

narrator: The team reviews the sonar results

from La Florida Marsh,

which could hide the remains of an airplane

that shuttled Hitler to Bogota,

as reported by a declassified FBI file.

We ready to go?

Sonar's back up and running.

The tow fish is off the port.

narrator: With only four hours left

until their unprecedented access

to this restricted area is up.

Tim Kennedy prepares to dive

into the murky waters of this Colombian marsh.

And then I'm gonna try to film it for a second,

so we can see it in place.

Okay.

narrator: Tim is joined by support diver Matt Mouraud

and marine survey expert Regan Lipinsky.

So that's our tentative plan.

You know, it's already the afternoon.

The air temperature is dropping rapidly,

but most importantly, we're losing daylight.

This is what we're doing.

We'll go identify the object,

and then we're going to figure out

how we're going to recover it.

Okay.

I could go in here and find real physical evidence

that Hitler could have been here

and lived out his life in South America.

It's time to get in the water.

Three, two, one.

Right when we dropped in the water,

it's this very dark brown, dark yellow tint.

It's [bleep].

It goes from being able to see 3 feet

to zero visibility, I mean, not even an inch,

the moment that we touch the bottom.

These are the worst conditions that you can dive in.

I'm standing on it.

That's a very big piece.

Can you feel the shape of it?

It's a square, and it's a structure.

It's metal, but it's not very thick,

because it moves under my weight.

So we have a wing shape?

I don't know.

The visibility is so bad,

you can't see anything.

We're gonna have to check it out more thoroughly.

This is enormous.

You know, it's covered in muck,

but the visibility of the water is so limited,

it's gonna be very problematic

to be able to see or discern what it could be.

It's aluminum.

We start finding pieces of metal, rope,

and you can see pieces

of what looks like riveting.

So we started pulling pieces to the surface

to try to figure out exactly what it is down there.

There's wood.

So...

.

pissed.

We got 15 minutes of daylight.

It's time to get out of the water.

Obviously, it was a major disappointment

that it wasn't what we were looking for or hoping for.

It was a closed door.

It was a dead end, and that's super frustrating.

Bob, it's Tim.

We dove on the anomaly.

It's not what we're looking for.

Yeah, come on back in.

We're losing light, and it looks like we're getting some weather.

We got to call it off.

But I think the airplane could be out there.

So much of this stuff we've looked at

has turned out to be true.

But we have to look

at the totality of that evidence,

not just one lead.

I'm looking at this from an intelligence perspective.

I'm looking at the big picture.

There is no evidence

that Hitler died in the bunker.

But what we do have,

with no doubt in my mind,

is more evidence that Hitler could have gotten away

than there is for his death.

In Berlin, we discovered an unknown tunnel...

Look at this.

Connecting his bunker to Tempelhof Airport,

where there was a mass exodus of airplanes.

If I had to move Hitler out of Berlin,

I can guarantee you, 99%, I could have gotten him out.

I could have gotten him to Spain.

In Spain, there was more evidence.

Is that a swastika carved in that?

You've got to be kidding me.

A monastery where there were eyewitnesses.

He saw here, with his eyes, Hitler.

- Here? - Yeah.

And then, in Vigo, Spain,

he could have gotten on a U-boat, no problem.

What happened to the sub?

They don't know.

In Argentina, the evidence piled up

like I've never seen before.

Scuttled U-boats,

a compound in Bariloche with a secret bunker,

his presence at the Hotel Eden,

where he came in contact

with a well-known Nazi munitions king.

From there, it seemed like he slipped into the jungle,

where we found a compound...

Whoa.

Nazi artifacts.

It was clearly meant for a high-value target.

And then, when he came back on the radar,

he came back with seemingly incredible plans.

The fall of Berlin was not the end

of this Nazi ideology.

They weren't gonna stop.

It's clear; I mean, I'm really pleased with what we found.

Could he have made it here?

Absolutely.

And the evidence that the team gathered supported this.

This is better evidence than we have from the bunker.

When I began this investigation,

I was completely skeptical.

I assumed, without any doubt, that he died in the bunker.

Frankly, I don't think a guy like Adolf Hitler

gives up that easily.

If he's got a way out, wouldn't he take it?

He went for the long shots.

He always went for the long shots.

And, you know, I find this frankly appalling

that the historians have left it

at that assumption

that I've lived with my whole life.

We're fed history

and expected to believe it, based on what?

History books say,

without a shadow of a doubt,

that Hitler died in the bunker.

I can safely say,

with the evidence I've uncovered,

that that's not true.

History is not fixed as we've received it.

Yeah.

I will never stop looking for the truth.

I never take facts at face value,

and I never will.