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Would you like to inspect the original subtitles? These are the user uploaded subtitles that are being translated: 1 00:00:09,477 --> 00:00:11,779 Holy 2 00:00:11,812 --> 00:00:13,381 Is this aluminum? 3 00:00:13,414 --> 00:00:15,483 This is an airplane propeller. 100%. 4 00:00:15,516 --> 00:00:17,718 If you want corroborating evidence, 5 00:00:17,751 --> 00:00:19,520 this is it right here. 6 00:00:19,553 --> 00:00:22,523 Do you think that the commander of the seaplane 7 00:00:22,556 --> 00:00:26,394 was working directly for the Germans after the war 8 00:00:26,427 --> 00:00:28,396 and flying Nazis to Nazi communities? 9 00:00:31,165 --> 00:00:33,301 This plane went to some of these 10 00:00:33,334 --> 00:00:35,803 other designated areas that you've already looked at. 11 00:00:35,836 --> 00:00:39,373 Yeah. All the key areas... Bariloche, 12 00:00:39,407 --> 00:00:41,575 Misiones and Buenos Aires. 13 00:00:41,609 --> 00:00:44,312 To me, this looks like Nazi Air. 14 00:00:44,345 --> 00:00:47,348 These routes were planned to perfection, 15 00:00:47,381 --> 00:00:50,184 and they were all organized to get Hitler 16 00:00:50,218 --> 00:00:52,086 and senior Nazis to Buenos Aires. 17 00:00:55,256 --> 00:00:57,625 This is a ship manifesto. 18 00:00:57,658 --> 00:01:01,429 Last name on the list, Helmut Gregor, Tim. 19 00:01:01,462 --> 00:01:04,432 Is Josef Mengele. 20 00:01:04,465 --> 00:01:06,667 And Josef Mengele 21 00:01:06,700 --> 00:01:07,811 is one of the most foul creatures 22 00:01:07,835 --> 00:01:09,137 the world has ever produced. 23 00:01:10,761 --> 00:01:14,561 HUNTING HITLER - SEASON 3 EP - 7 - Target: United States 24 00:01:16,744 --> 00:01:20,181 This is the first time I've ever seen a document 25 00:01:20,214 --> 00:01:23,284 related to Mengele coming in to Argentina. 26 00:01:23,317 --> 00:01:24,594 We've heard people talk about it... 27 00:01:24,618 --> 00:01:26,220 Yeah. 28 00:01:26,254 --> 00:01:28,222 ...but we've had no paper until now. 29 00:01:28,256 --> 00:01:31,125 21-year CIA veteran Bob Baer 30 00:01:31,159 --> 00:01:34,362 and former terrorist targeting officer Nada Bakos 31 00:01:34,395 --> 00:01:37,198 are utilizing an asset-mapping strategy, 32 00:01:37,231 --> 00:01:40,468 tracking Adolf Hitler's known associates to determine 33 00:01:40,501 --> 00:01:44,272 exactly where he could have gone after World War II. 34 00:01:44,305 --> 00:01:46,640 Mengele was a well-known Nazi, 35 00:01:46,674 --> 00:01:48,209 but this is the first time 36 00:01:48,242 --> 00:01:49,910 he's come up in our investigation. 37 00:01:49,943 --> 00:01:51,579 This is a big breakthrough. 38 00:01:51,612 --> 00:01:55,816 Captain in the SS, Iron Cross First Class, 39 00:01:55,849 --> 00:01:58,386 but here's really what he's known as... 40 00:01:58,419 --> 00:01:59,687 The Angel of Death. 41 00:01:59,720 --> 00:02:01,422 Dr. Josef Mengele 42 00:02:01,455 --> 00:02:03,524 was a member or Hitler's inner circle 43 00:02:03,557 --> 00:02:07,228 and the key physician at the Auschwitz concentration camp, 44 00:02:07,261 --> 00:02:11,632 where over 1 million prisoners were executed during the war. 45 00:02:11,665 --> 00:02:14,935 Mengele oversaw deadly medical experiments 46 00:02:14,968 --> 00:02:18,306 and was personally responsible for the selection of prisoners 47 00:02:18,339 --> 00:02:21,409 killed in the camp's gas chambers. 48 00:02:21,442 --> 00:02:24,612 After the war, Mengele evaded capture 49 00:02:24,645 --> 00:02:27,448 and lived out his life in South America 50 00:02:27,481 --> 00:02:30,851 until he reportedly died of natural causes in Brazil 51 00:02:30,884 --> 00:02:33,521 in 1979. 52 00:02:33,554 --> 00:02:36,690 He certainly would have been a part of Hitler's network. 53 00:02:36,724 --> 00:02:39,960 Josef Mengele was one of the most wanted war criminals 54 00:02:39,993 --> 00:02:41,662 in modern history, 55 00:02:41,695 --> 00:02:43,797 but he makes it to South America 56 00:02:43,831 --> 00:02:47,301 and spends his natural life there. 57 00:02:47,335 --> 00:02:49,670 He was never arrested, and what that tells me 58 00:02:49,703 --> 00:02:53,307 is that he had a network that was successful. 59 00:02:53,341 --> 00:02:57,345 Tracking Mengele is the best way to get to Hitler. 60 00:02:57,378 --> 00:02:58,946 Bob and Nada utilize 61 00:02:58,979 --> 00:03:01,382 state-of-the-art link analysis software 62 00:03:01,415 --> 00:03:04,818 to scan their 15,000 declassified documents 63 00:03:04,852 --> 00:03:07,821 and map all sightings of Mengele in South America 64 00:03:07,855 --> 00:03:10,358 after the war. 65 00:03:10,391 --> 00:03:13,461 Look at all these sightings... 66 00:03:13,494 --> 00:03:15,729 Peru, Bolivia, Paraguay, 67 00:03:15,763 --> 00:03:19,333 21 locations, 7 countries. 68 00:03:19,367 --> 00:03:23,437 Mengele was everywhere in South America, basically. 69 00:03:23,471 --> 00:03:25,973 You would only cross borders 70 00:03:26,006 --> 00:03:27,841 if you thought you could get away with it. 71 00:03:27,875 --> 00:03:31,512 He could go where he wanted when he wanted, 72 00:03:31,545 --> 00:03:32,713 but the question is, 73 00:03:32,746 --> 00:03:35,749 are all these sightings accurate? 74 00:03:35,783 --> 00:03:38,619 It could be a lot of disinformation. 75 00:03:38,652 --> 00:03:41,422 So much of what the Nazis do 76 00:03:41,455 --> 00:03:45,259 was put out disinformation, false leads, false clues. 77 00:03:45,293 --> 00:03:46,727 It's just a matter of trade craft. 78 00:03:46,760 --> 00:03:49,397 We've got Mengele in seven countries 79 00:03:49,430 --> 00:03:51,332 and dozens of locations. 80 00:03:51,365 --> 00:03:52,800 We need to find out what's important 81 00:03:52,833 --> 00:03:55,035 and what's not, what you can trust. 82 00:03:55,068 --> 00:03:56,637 We need to corroborate 83 00:03:56,670 --> 00:03:58,506 either with official government documents 84 00:03:58,539 --> 00:04:00,408 or if we could find other documents 85 00:04:00,441 --> 00:04:02,310 from other intel organizations 86 00:04:02,343 --> 00:04:04,845 just to see if any of those sighting reports are accurate. 87 00:04:04,878 --> 00:04:06,447 Yeah. I want to see 88 00:04:06,480 --> 00:04:08,248 some hard intelligence on these sightings. 89 00:04:11,652 --> 00:04:14,388 Here we go. 90 00:04:14,422 --> 00:04:16,724 U.S. Department of Justice, 91 00:04:16,757 --> 00:04:20,294 report from agent, trip to Montevideo. 92 00:04:20,328 --> 00:04:24,532 "Martha Mengele married Josef Mengele in 1958 93 00:04:24,565 --> 00:04:28,702 in Nueva Helvecia, Uruguay." 94 00:04:28,736 --> 00:04:32,306 We now have a small town in Uruguay 95 00:04:32,340 --> 00:04:34,808 where he supposedly got married. 96 00:04:34,842 --> 00:04:37,845 Nueva Helvecia is right here. 97 00:04:37,878 --> 00:04:41,081 It's only 70 miles from Buenos Aires 98 00:04:41,114 --> 00:04:42,916 across the water, 99 00:04:42,950 --> 00:04:45,886 but Uruguay is not a place we've really looked at. 100 00:04:45,919 --> 00:04:48,021 Was there actually some sort 101 00:04:48,055 --> 00:04:50,591 of Nazi infrastructure in Uruguay? 102 00:04:50,624 --> 00:04:51,925 What did they have there? 103 00:04:51,959 --> 00:04:53,727 It's our job to figure out, 104 00:04:53,761 --> 00:04:56,730 was Josef Mengele actually in Uruguay, 105 00:04:56,764 --> 00:04:57,807 and what was he doing there? 106 00:05:08,942 --> 00:05:10,878 We know after the war, 107 00:05:10,911 --> 00:05:13,681 Nazis were pouring into South America. 108 00:05:13,714 --> 00:05:14,915 Yes. 109 00:05:14,948 --> 00:05:17,017 We know they went to Argentina. 110 00:05:17,050 --> 00:05:19,052 We know they went to Chile. 111 00:05:19,086 --> 00:05:21,989 What we haven't looked into is Uruguay. 112 00:05:22,022 --> 00:05:24,425 U.S. Army special forces Tim Kennedy, 113 00:05:24,458 --> 00:05:26,894 U.S. Army Green Beret Mike Simpson 114 00:05:26,927 --> 00:05:31,765 and their translator, Dante, land in Nueva Helvecia, Uruguay, 115 00:05:31,799 --> 00:05:34,034 in hopes of placing Josef Mengele 116 00:05:34,067 --> 00:05:37,705 in this area after the war. 117 00:05:37,738 --> 00:05:39,973 This way, guys. 118 00:05:40,007 --> 00:05:41,809 If you're a war criminal on the run, 119 00:05:41,842 --> 00:05:44,111 each and every time you come up aboveground, 120 00:05:44,144 --> 00:05:45,913 you risk being compromised. 121 00:05:45,946 --> 00:05:49,750 For someone like Mengele to move around that much, 122 00:05:49,783 --> 00:05:53,487 to be in 21 different locations in 7 different countries, 123 00:05:53,521 --> 00:05:58,058 to me that implies he was doing something very suspicious. 124 00:06:07,100 --> 00:06:08,836 The team makes contact with Juan Durante... 125 00:06:10,471 --> 00:06:12,039 ...the head researcher 126 00:06:12,072 --> 00:06:14,074 at the Nueva Helvecia Regional Archives, 127 00:06:14,107 --> 00:06:16,710 which houses hundreds of thousands of documents 128 00:06:16,744 --> 00:06:19,947 chronicling the history of the town. 129 00:06:19,980 --> 00:06:22,450 Wow. 130 00:06:24,985 --> 00:06:26,854 So we're looking for marriage certificates 131 00:06:26,887 --> 00:06:29,890 in the late '50s. 132 00:06:38,732 --> 00:06:40,133 Let's divide and conquer. 133 00:06:52,212 --> 00:06:53,614 All right, Tim. Here we go. 134 00:06:53,647 --> 00:06:58,051 '57, '58, and there's a ledger here. 135 00:06:58,085 --> 00:06:59,920 Hey, Tim. 136 00:06:59,953 --> 00:07:02,055 I got something I think will narrow this down for us. 137 00:07:02,089 --> 00:07:03,089 Let's look at it. 138 00:07:06,193 --> 00:07:08,929 All right. So let's start looking at names. 139 00:07:08,962 --> 00:07:10,097 Yeah. So this is January. 140 00:07:10,130 --> 00:07:11,231 These names here... 141 00:07:11,264 --> 00:07:13,934 - No Mengele here. - Adolfo... 142 00:07:13,967 --> 00:07:15,836 Adolfo Wittendorf. 143 00:07:15,869 --> 00:07:20,941 22 of July, 22nd... 144 00:07:20,974 --> 00:07:22,676 - Right here. - Mengele. 145 00:07:22,710 --> 00:07:23,777 "Mengele, Jose." 146 00:07:23,811 --> 00:07:25,145 That's him. 147 00:07:25,178 --> 00:07:26,680 Look at this. 148 00:07:26,714 --> 00:07:27,724 "Marriage of Josef Mengele 149 00:07:27,748 --> 00:07:31,018 and Martha Maria Will." 150 00:07:31,051 --> 00:07:34,722 So we've got some official stamps here. 151 00:07:34,755 --> 00:07:36,857 Look at this. 152 00:07:36,890 --> 00:07:38,926 That's Mengele's signature. 153 00:07:38,959 --> 00:07:40,794 Oh, God. 154 00:07:40,828 --> 00:07:44,197 He physically stood here and signed his name. 155 00:07:44,231 --> 00:07:46,166 Thing of how brazen this is. 156 00:07:46,199 --> 00:07:47,701 He's putting his real name 157 00:07:47,735 --> 00:07:50,070 on an official marriage certificate in Uruguay. 158 00:07:50,103 --> 00:07:51,872 This guy was never underground. 159 00:07:51,905 --> 00:07:54,842 He just lived out in the open the whole time. 160 00:07:54,875 --> 00:07:56,944 Juan, we need more information specifically about 161 00:07:56,977 --> 00:07:59,780 what Nazis were doing in Nueva Helvecia, 162 00:07:59,813 --> 00:08:03,150 anything that would tell us why Josef Mengele was in Uruguay 163 00:08:03,183 --> 00:08:05,719 and what he was doing. 164 00:08:05,753 --> 00:08:07,755 If Mengele was that comfortable in this environment 165 00:08:07,788 --> 00:08:10,290 that he could get married right out in the open, 166 00:08:10,323 --> 00:08:12,560 that means there were much deeper Nazi ties here 167 00:08:12,593 --> 00:08:15,563 than anyone had ever thought before. 168 00:08:18,866 --> 00:08:21,034 It's basically from Paraguay, Uruguay. 169 00:08:23,704 --> 00:08:25,806 This one is in English. 170 00:08:25,839 --> 00:08:27,808 "The Gazette Montreal," 171 00:08:27,841 --> 00:08:30,978 June 6, 1940, 172 00:08:31,011 --> 00:08:34,147 "Uruguay invasion seen as a Nazi plan. 173 00:08:34,181 --> 00:08:37,217 The German agricultural colony at Nuevo Helvecia 174 00:08:37,250 --> 00:08:39,086 dominates the entire region." 175 00:08:39,119 --> 00:08:40,788 There's a Nazi presence here. 176 00:08:40,821 --> 00:08:42,556 A massive Nazi presence. 177 00:08:42,590 --> 00:08:44,224 This article also says there is, 178 00:08:44,257 --> 00:08:46,727 "Another important support point at 179 00:08:46,760 --> 00:08:49,997 Paso de la Toros near the Rio Negro hydroelectric project 180 00:08:50,030 --> 00:08:52,099 now being built by the Germans." 181 00:08:52,132 --> 00:08:53,309 Do you know anything about that? 182 00:08:53,333 --> 00:08:55,168 Paso de la Toros is in Uruguay. 183 00:08:55,202 --> 00:08:56,870 Is it reasonably close to here? 184 00:08:56,904 --> 00:08:58,739 Three hours away, yeah. 185 00:08:58,772 --> 00:09:00,240 We know what they were doing 186 00:09:00,273 --> 00:09:02,943 at the hydroelectric power plant in Norway. 187 00:09:02,976 --> 00:09:05,646 They're making heavy water. 188 00:09:05,679 --> 00:09:07,615 Heavy water is... It was made here? 189 00:09:07,648 --> 00:09:08,749 It was made here, yes. 190 00:09:12,886 --> 00:09:15,188 This is Adolf Hitler developing a component 191 00:09:15,222 --> 00:09:16,857 for a nuclear weapon. 192 00:09:16,890 --> 00:09:18,134 Now we have a hydroelectric power plant 193 00:09:18,158 --> 00:09:20,360 being built in Uruguay by the Germans. 194 00:09:20,393 --> 00:09:22,763 If they're making heavy water here in Uruguay, 195 00:09:22,796 --> 00:09:24,364 we have a real problem. 196 00:09:24,397 --> 00:09:26,634 We have proof that Josef Mengele is here. 197 00:09:26,667 --> 00:09:28,211 Now we're going to find out what he was doing here, 198 00:09:28,235 --> 00:09:30,070 and that could be it. 199 00:09:30,103 --> 00:09:36,644 Pasa de la Toros, that's where we got to go. 200 00:09:43,316 --> 00:09:47,921 We have Nazis building a hydroelectric power plant 201 00:09:47,955 --> 00:09:49,389 in the middle of nowhere. 202 00:09:49,422 --> 00:09:51,625 Now we just need to know what they're doing. 203 00:09:51,659 --> 00:09:54,261 In Rincon del Bonete, Uruguay, 204 00:09:54,294 --> 00:09:56,129 Tim Kennedy, Mike Simpson 205 00:09:56,163 --> 00:09:58,331 and their local contact Dante 206 00:09:58,365 --> 00:10:02,035 land at a possible Nazi hydroelectric plant 207 00:10:02,069 --> 00:10:03,804 that is in the same area that, 208 00:10:03,837 --> 00:10:05,973 according to reports, Josef Mengele, 209 00:10:06,006 --> 00:10:11,645 a top associate in Hitler's network, was operating. 210 00:10:11,679 --> 00:10:14,047 We know the Nazis liked to use hydroelectric facilities 211 00:10:14,081 --> 00:10:15,382 for making heavy water, 212 00:10:15,415 --> 00:10:17,417 one of the most important components 213 00:10:17,450 --> 00:10:19,352 to a nuclear weapon. 214 00:10:19,386 --> 00:10:21,030 Mike and I need to case this hydroelectric facility. 215 00:10:21,054 --> 00:10:22,890 We need to determine if it was, 216 00:10:22,923 --> 00:10:26,293 in fact, a support location for Nazis in the area, 217 00:10:26,326 --> 00:10:28,295 and if s is this a point 218 00:10:28,328 --> 00:10:31,198 that Josef Mengele would come and operate out of? 219 00:10:34,067 --> 00:10:37,204 - Tim. - Mike. 220 00:10:37,237 --> 00:10:38,305 The team makes contact 221 00:10:38,338 --> 00:10:40,240 with Santiago Tricanico, 222 00:10:40,273 --> 00:10:42,075 a journalist with extensive knowledge 223 00:10:42,109 --> 00:10:43,811 on the history of this massive, 224 00:10:43,844 --> 00:10:46,213 400-acre hydroelectric facility. 225 00:10:56,089 --> 00:11:00,894 He says that no doubt, this was a Nazi place. 226 00:11:00,928 --> 00:11:02,129 Were they here after the war? 227 00:11:03,764 --> 00:11:06,266 Okay. What were they doing here? 228 00:11:06,299 --> 00:11:10,270 They constructed a hydroelectric dam. 229 00:11:10,303 --> 00:11:12,706 All the engineering team was Nazi. 230 00:11:21,915 --> 00:11:25,719 And that's why this also was planned to work 231 00:11:25,753 --> 00:11:28,421 as a lighthouse for aircrafts. 232 00:11:28,455 --> 00:11:29,833 The only reason that you're going to be 233 00:11:29,857 --> 00:11:31,191 putting an airport here 234 00:11:31,224 --> 00:11:33,426 is if you're moving something valuable 235 00:11:33,460 --> 00:11:35,328 or people that are valuable. 236 00:11:35,362 --> 00:11:37,397 You know, I think we need to get up there 237 00:11:37,430 --> 00:11:39,499 and see what exactly, what they're doing here. 238 00:11:39,532 --> 00:11:40,868 Yeah. I agree. 239 00:11:53,146 --> 00:11:56,383 From here, you can see the river. 240 00:11:56,416 --> 00:12:00,387 You can see the proposed location of the airstrip. 241 00:12:00,420 --> 00:12:04,157 You can see the dam itself. 242 00:12:04,191 --> 00:12:06,459 Yeah. This is a great vantage point. 243 00:12:06,493 --> 00:12:07,961 Can you enumerate exactly, 244 00:12:07,995 --> 00:12:09,529 you know, how many people were here, 245 00:12:09,562 --> 00:12:11,164 what kind of buildings they had? 246 00:12:11,198 --> 00:12:15,502 Population was around 250 employees, 247 00:12:15,535 --> 00:12:20,173 and mostly everything was dedicated to the dam. 248 00:12:20,207 --> 00:12:23,844 There were also ships and boats 249 00:12:23,877 --> 00:12:26,947 bringing in materials. 250 00:12:26,980 --> 00:12:29,549 They have everything they need here. 251 00:12:29,582 --> 00:12:32,085 Building an airport, they can land seaplanes. 252 00:12:32,119 --> 00:12:33,520 They can bring boats. 253 00:12:33,553 --> 00:12:36,156 They have energy with the hydroelectric dam. 254 00:12:36,189 --> 00:12:38,959 This could be their Manhattan Project of South America. 255 00:12:38,992 --> 00:12:40,160 This place scares me. 256 00:12:40,193 --> 00:12:42,362 Yeah. It's really sinister. 257 00:12:42,395 --> 00:12:44,073 I want to get a better look at that lighthouse. 258 00:12:44,097 --> 00:12:45,198 Yeah. 259 00:12:52,439 --> 00:12:54,207 What do you got? 260 00:12:54,241 --> 00:12:56,243 So the lighthouse itself is powerful. 261 00:12:56,276 --> 00:12:58,545 The way that they were using this to refract light, 262 00:12:58,578 --> 00:13:00,580 you know, these are layers of magnifying glasses. 263 00:13:00,613 --> 00:13:02,282 Oh, those are thick. 264 00:13:02,315 --> 00:13:04,060 And behind it, they have reflectors and mirrors, 265 00:13:04,084 --> 00:13:07,520 so that light bulb is being condensed into here 266 00:13:07,554 --> 00:13:10,457 and shot for miles like a laser beam. 267 00:13:10,490 --> 00:13:12,259 But this right here, 268 00:13:12,292 --> 00:13:14,962 you can preprogram Morse code. 269 00:13:14,995 --> 00:13:16,529 So you could shoot messages 270 00:13:16,563 --> 00:13:18,598 for as far as it could be seen. 271 00:13:18,631 --> 00:13:22,002 This could be a lot more complex than we imagine it. 272 00:13:22,035 --> 00:13:23,346 Everything about this place says it was 273 00:13:23,370 --> 00:13:25,405 a nexus of transportation. 274 00:13:25,438 --> 00:13:26,907 If you're only making electricity, 275 00:13:26,940 --> 00:13:28,208 none of that makes sense. 276 00:13:28,241 --> 00:13:29,442 Everything that we see says 277 00:13:29,476 --> 00:13:32,545 there's something more going on here. 278 00:13:32,579 --> 00:13:34,381 He's got the original light bulb 279 00:13:34,414 --> 00:13:35,515 if you want to see it. 280 00:13:35,548 --> 00:13:36,668 - Yeah. - Yeah. Let's see it. 281 00:13:39,887 --> 00:13:44,124 Oh, wow. Holy 282 00:13:44,157 --> 00:13:45,492 Look at that light bulb. 283 00:13:45,525 --> 00:13:47,394 Oh. 284 00:13:47,427 --> 00:13:49,629 The filament is set up in the shape of a swastika. 285 00:13:49,662 --> 00:13:53,500 It is a swastika. It's a beacon. 286 00:13:53,533 --> 00:13:56,904 This is letting everyone know that there are Nazis here 287 00:13:56,937 --> 00:13:58,238 and they're not scared, 288 00:13:58,271 --> 00:14:00,407 and they're going to operate in the open. 289 00:14:00,440 --> 00:14:03,010 Now things are different 290 00:14:03,043 --> 00:14:05,012 than it was 75, 80 years ago. 291 00:14:05,045 --> 00:14:06,546 It's going to be very difficult 292 00:14:06,579 --> 00:14:08,281 to find out what they were doing 293 00:14:08,315 --> 00:14:11,118 here at this hydroelectric facility. 294 00:14:11,151 --> 00:14:13,053 Mike, can you read me, over? 295 00:14:13,086 --> 00:14:15,288 Roger that, Tim. I read you. 296 00:14:15,322 --> 00:14:16,532 I'm inside of that massive building 297 00:14:16,556 --> 00:14:18,959 on the back side of the dam. 298 00:14:18,992 --> 00:14:22,662 The components that I see are 21st century. 299 00:14:22,695 --> 00:14:25,165 Definitely not what the Germans built here. 300 00:14:25,198 --> 00:14:28,168 You know, I have covered a ton of ground at this facility, 301 00:14:28,201 --> 00:14:31,104 and I have not found any indication 302 00:14:31,138 --> 00:14:33,573 that they are making heavy water here. 303 00:14:33,606 --> 00:14:37,210 We need to find somebody that could have more information 304 00:14:37,244 --> 00:14:38,524 about what they were doing here. 305 00:14:41,514 --> 00:14:43,083 The team is able to get a meeting 306 00:14:43,116 --> 00:14:46,453 with the plant's chief engineer, Pablo Tomasile, 307 00:14:46,486 --> 00:14:48,588 who is intimately familiar with the machinery 308 00:14:48,621 --> 00:14:50,423 that has been present at this location 309 00:14:50,457 --> 00:14:53,060 since it was built in 1937. 310 00:14:53,093 --> 00:14:55,195 The Nazis that were working here, 311 00:14:55,228 --> 00:14:57,965 were any of them experts in heavy water? 312 00:14:57,998 --> 00:14:59,933 Did they have any of that equipment here? 313 00:15:08,008 --> 00:15:10,543 What they have is the plans of a machine 314 00:15:10,577 --> 00:15:12,545 called water resistance 315 00:15:12,579 --> 00:15:15,115 related to for the use in heavy water. 316 00:15:28,395 --> 00:15:32,099 Your understanding is that their intent 317 00:15:32,132 --> 00:15:33,967 was the production of heavy water? 318 00:15:38,671 --> 00:15:40,073 We're trying to find out the reason 319 00:15:40,107 --> 00:15:42,475 why Josef Mengele came here. 320 00:15:42,509 --> 00:15:44,311 I believe that we found it. 321 00:15:44,344 --> 00:15:46,980 There was a plan in place to make heavy water. 322 00:15:47,014 --> 00:15:48,291 They had the means to move it anywhere 323 00:15:48,315 --> 00:15:50,283 in the world from right here. 324 00:15:50,317 --> 00:15:52,319 There's no doubt in my mind. 325 00:15:52,352 --> 00:15:54,721 This hydroelectric facility would be absolutely necessary 326 00:15:54,754 --> 00:15:57,557 to facilitate the rise of the Fourth Reich. 327 00:15:57,590 --> 00:15:59,459 They're planning on making nuclear energy 328 00:15:59,492 --> 00:16:04,031 in South America. 329 00:16:08,801 --> 00:16:11,638 All these pieces are coming together very nicely. 330 00:16:11,671 --> 00:16:16,176 Uruguay was central to Nazi plans for South America. 331 00:16:16,209 --> 00:16:19,279 Bob and Nada review the findings from Uruguay, 332 00:16:19,312 --> 00:16:22,215 where a declassified CIA document 333 00:16:22,249 --> 00:16:27,320 claims notorious Nazi war criminal Josef Mengele 334 00:16:27,354 --> 00:16:29,722 was married in 1958. 335 00:16:29,756 --> 00:16:32,259 So the team found this hydroelectric plant 336 00:16:32,292 --> 00:16:34,461 where they have a lighthouse where they can use 337 00:16:34,494 --> 00:16:36,296 Morse code and communicate. 338 00:16:36,329 --> 00:16:38,031 You know, they found light bulbs 339 00:16:38,065 --> 00:16:39,399 with the Nazi insignia, 340 00:16:39,432 --> 00:16:41,668 so it's clearly putting their mark on the plant, 341 00:16:41,701 --> 00:16:45,438 and there were even plans for an airstrip to be built. 342 00:16:45,472 --> 00:16:47,540 This hydroelectric plant, 343 00:16:47,574 --> 00:16:50,443 which may have been in the process of converted 344 00:16:50,477 --> 00:16:52,412 to making heavy water... 345 00:16:52,445 --> 00:16:55,415 If you need infrastructure for a Fourth Reich, 346 00:16:55,448 --> 00:16:58,151 this would be ideal for it. 347 00:16:58,185 --> 00:17:00,520 Now we know why Mengele was in Uruguay. 348 00:17:00,553 --> 00:17:03,156 He wasn't just moving around randomly. 349 00:17:03,190 --> 00:17:04,691 He was operational. 350 00:17:04,724 --> 00:17:08,661 He was on a mission for the Fourth Reich. 351 00:17:08,695 --> 00:17:12,165 What intrigues me is Paraguay. 352 00:17:12,199 --> 00:17:15,835 Why do we have so many sightings of him in that region? 353 00:17:15,868 --> 00:17:18,838 We don't know, but we have to remember that Paraguay 354 00:17:18,871 --> 00:17:21,141 was the perfect place for Nazis, 355 00:17:21,174 --> 00:17:25,145 especially Nazis building the Fourth Reich. 356 00:17:25,178 --> 00:17:27,647 In 1954, military officer 357 00:17:27,680 --> 00:17:30,717 Alfredo Stroessner staged a successful coup 358 00:17:30,750 --> 00:17:33,286 to take control of Paraguay. 359 00:17:33,320 --> 00:17:35,288 A known Nazi sympathizer, 360 00:17:35,322 --> 00:17:39,292 Stroessner served as President of Paraguay for 35 years, 361 00:17:39,326 --> 00:17:41,794 leading a notoriously oppressive regime 362 00:17:41,828 --> 00:17:46,399 that tortured and killed all political opposition. 363 00:17:46,433 --> 00:17:50,303 In 1955, Perón is overthrown. 364 00:17:50,337 --> 00:17:52,672 Argentina is no longer a safe haven. 365 00:17:52,705 --> 00:17:55,242 The Nazis are going to have to shift base, 366 00:17:55,275 --> 00:17:58,311 and Paraguay is the perfect place, 367 00:17:58,345 --> 00:18:00,713 and it's right on the border of Argentina. 368 00:18:00,747 --> 00:18:03,450 Even if half of those sightings are accurate, 369 00:18:03,483 --> 00:18:05,118 he's doing something up there. 370 00:18:05,152 --> 00:18:07,620 The question is, what's he doing? 371 00:18:07,654 --> 00:18:10,557 Let's do a search and see what we got. 372 00:18:10,590 --> 00:18:14,294 Okay, Mengele, Paraguay. 373 00:18:17,497 --> 00:18:19,332 We got something. 374 00:18:19,366 --> 00:18:20,567 Look at this. 375 00:18:20,600 --> 00:18:22,535 It's a CIA report. 376 00:18:22,569 --> 00:18:24,471 "Dr. Josef Mengele is living on the outskirts 377 00:18:24,504 --> 00:18:26,306 of Colonia Independencia. 378 00:18:26,339 --> 00:18:28,908 He speaks good Spanish but with a German accent. 379 00:18:28,941 --> 00:18:30,577 He doesn't touch anything as though 380 00:18:30,610 --> 00:18:33,813 he's afraid of leaving fingerprints." 381 00:18:33,846 --> 00:18:35,415 So this file is claiming that Mengele 382 00:18:35,448 --> 00:18:39,686 is in Colonia Independencia in Paraguay. 383 00:18:39,719 --> 00:18:41,921 This is Colonia Independencia. 384 00:18:41,954 --> 00:18:44,491 It's out of the way. It's remote. 385 00:18:44,524 --> 00:18:47,394 It's mountainous jungle. 386 00:18:47,427 --> 00:18:50,263 Operating out of this area, it makes total sense. 387 00:18:50,297 --> 00:18:51,764 Is it a refuge? 388 00:18:51,798 --> 00:18:56,369 Was he organizing something, maintaining a network? 389 00:18:56,403 --> 00:18:59,339 We've got to get up there and find some sort of facts. 390 00:19:09,616 --> 00:19:12,919 We're trying to find any firsthand information 391 00:19:12,952 --> 00:19:15,722 or evidence Josef Mengele might have been 392 00:19:15,755 --> 00:19:17,557 here in Paraguay. - Yep. 393 00:19:17,590 --> 00:19:20,360 Tim Kennedy, Gerrard Williams 394 00:19:20,393 --> 00:19:22,429 and their local contact Laura 395 00:19:22,462 --> 00:19:25,398 land in Colonia Independencia, Paraguay. 396 00:19:25,432 --> 00:19:27,667 If we can confirm that Josef Mengele was here, 397 00:19:27,700 --> 00:19:29,402 maybe we can get more details 398 00:19:29,436 --> 00:19:30,970 about what his activities were 399 00:19:31,003 --> 00:19:33,473 and if he's trying to move the agenda 400 00:19:33,506 --> 00:19:36,576 of the Fourth Reich here in South America forward. 401 00:19:36,609 --> 00:19:37,844 - This is it. - Okay. 402 00:19:37,877 --> 00:19:40,247 It's over here, over there. 403 00:19:40,280 --> 00:19:41,314 This is the one. Yes. 404 00:19:41,348 --> 00:19:42,982 All right. 405 00:19:43,015 --> 00:19:45,418 The team makes contact with Walter Menzell, 406 00:19:45,452 --> 00:19:47,387 a man who claims to have information 407 00:19:47,420 --> 00:19:49,522 on Nazi activity in the area. 408 00:19:49,556 --> 00:19:51,324 Hi, Walter. Nice to meet you. Mucho gusto. 409 00:19:55,728 --> 00:19:57,264 Thank you very much 410 00:19:57,297 --> 00:19:58,865 for taking the time to talk to us. 411 00:19:58,898 --> 00:20:01,434 We're under the impression that you have information 412 00:20:01,468 --> 00:20:03,303 about Nazis here. 413 00:20:03,336 --> 00:20:08,908 Were there a lot of Nazi-supporting people 414 00:20:08,941 --> 00:20:11,311 that were living in Colonia Independencia? 415 00:20:20,453 --> 00:20:23,756 If a war criminal from Europe fled 416 00:20:23,790 --> 00:20:27,927 and came to Paraguay in the 1950s, 417 00:20:27,960 --> 00:20:29,796 do you think they could find refuge? 418 00:20:39,472 --> 00:20:41,240 What sort of year are we talking? 419 00:21:09,436 --> 00:21:11,371 How was he introduced to the family? 420 00:21:11,404 --> 00:21:13,706 What was his name? 421 00:21:24,551 --> 00:21:27,920 Josef Mengele came and stayed with you? 422 00:21:27,954 --> 00:21:29,622 That's amazing. 423 00:21:35,695 --> 00:21:36,929 This community, 424 00:21:36,963 --> 00:21:38,831 right here in Colonia Independencia, 425 00:21:38,865 --> 00:21:42,469 was harboring and protecting one of the worst Nazis in history. 426 00:21:42,502 --> 00:21:44,337 If you're a fugitive on the run, 427 00:21:44,371 --> 00:21:48,841 you have to go to known areas that would protect you. 428 00:21:48,875 --> 00:21:51,344 That's exactly what we have here. 429 00:21:51,378 --> 00:21:53,045 What I want to try and understand 430 00:21:53,079 --> 00:21:58,017 is if his father knows that this is Josef Mengele, 431 00:21:58,050 --> 00:22:01,654 why would his father bring him to a house with two children? 432 00:22:08,828 --> 00:22:11,931 What do you think Josef Mengele was doing in this area? 433 00:22:33,986 --> 00:22:36,923 So the consulate is Nazi? 434 00:22:36,956 --> 00:22:38,124 It has to be. 435 00:22:40,192 --> 00:22:41,628 Is that close by? 436 00:22:43,496 --> 00:22:45,398 We got to find this place. 437 00:22:45,432 --> 00:22:47,434 If there's a Nazi consulate that was operating 438 00:22:47,467 --> 00:22:49,969 in Colonia Independencia, that's important. 439 00:22:50,002 --> 00:22:52,071 Not only could they be protected and safe here, 440 00:22:52,104 --> 00:22:54,841 the Germans here could have the protection 441 00:22:54,874 --> 00:22:57,076 and the support of the government. 442 00:22:57,109 --> 00:22:59,111 Thank you very much for your time. 443 00:22:59,145 --> 00:23:00,647 Thank you so much. 444 00:23:00,680 --> 00:23:02,048 With support of the government, 445 00:23:02,081 --> 00:23:04,083 there's no telling what the Nazis 446 00:23:04,116 --> 00:23:06,118 could have done here in Paraguay. 447 00:23:16,529 --> 00:23:18,040 The fact that they have a German consulate here 448 00:23:18,064 --> 00:23:21,934 is very telling about the potential network 449 00:23:21,968 --> 00:23:23,736 that the Nazis had here. 450 00:23:23,770 --> 00:23:27,139 In Colonia Independencia, Paraguay, 451 00:23:27,173 --> 00:23:29,909 Tim and Gerrard are investigating 452 00:23:29,942 --> 00:23:31,944 a declassified CIA file, 453 00:23:31,978 --> 00:23:35,848 an eyewitness testimony claiming that Nazi war criminal 454 00:23:35,882 --> 00:23:39,218 Josef Mengele was operating in this remote town. 455 00:23:39,251 --> 00:23:40,787 Well, if we just split up, 456 00:23:40,820 --> 00:23:42,655 we can do more damage that way. 457 00:23:42,689 --> 00:23:45,858 While Gerrard scours local archives for more information 458 00:23:45,892 --> 00:23:49,128 on Mengele's activities in the area, 459 00:23:49,161 --> 00:23:51,831 Tim and his translator Alejandro 460 00:23:51,864 --> 00:23:56,769 arrive at a building rumored to be a former Nazi consulate. 461 00:23:56,803 --> 00:23:59,939 Look at that place. Wow. 462 00:23:59,972 --> 00:24:03,075 We have Josef Mengele in this region multiple times. 463 00:24:03,109 --> 00:24:04,953 Was he, in fact, trying to set up a headquarters, 464 00:24:04,977 --> 00:24:06,846 establish a network? 465 00:24:06,879 --> 00:24:08,891 Maybe he's trying to move the agenda of the Fourth Reich 466 00:24:08,915 --> 00:24:11,117 here in South America forward. 467 00:24:11,150 --> 00:24:12,819 He's here for a reason. 468 00:24:12,852 --> 00:24:16,255 We need to figure out exactly what that was. 469 00:24:16,288 --> 00:24:19,025 The team makes contact with Benjamin Cabral, 470 00:24:19,058 --> 00:24:20,860 the building's current owner. 471 00:24:20,893 --> 00:24:22,695 He bought this place from a German. 472 00:24:22,729 --> 00:24:24,564 Okay. 473 00:24:24,597 --> 00:24:26,597 So he knows some background history from the place. 474 00:24:31,904 --> 00:24:33,906 Can you tell me a little bit about this building? 475 00:24:39,912 --> 00:24:41,180 When we say "German consulate," 476 00:24:41,213 --> 00:24:42,949 we're talking the Nazis. 477 00:24:42,982 --> 00:24:45,017 This was the Nazi consulate? 478 00:24:47,820 --> 00:24:49,088 This is a Nazi embassy. 479 00:24:51,724 --> 00:24:53,826 Local Nazi supporters, 480 00:24:53,860 --> 00:24:57,263 this place would be like a gathering spot. 481 00:24:57,296 --> 00:25:01,033 People from Germany would come to recruit other Germans 482 00:25:01,067 --> 00:25:04,103 to take them to battle. 483 00:25:04,136 --> 00:25:09,008 This is a very strategic, powerful center point. 484 00:25:09,041 --> 00:25:10,977 Were the Nazis able to operate 485 00:25:11,010 --> 00:25:14,146 after the war freely in this area? 486 00:25:14,180 --> 00:25:17,750 The German people here had a privileged position. 487 00:25:17,784 --> 00:25:20,987 It is known that former President Alfredo Stroessner 488 00:25:21,020 --> 00:25:23,189 would give protection to the Nazi supporters 489 00:25:23,222 --> 00:25:25,191 in this consulate. 490 00:25:25,224 --> 00:25:27,202 Who were some of the people that he was protecting? 491 00:25:27,226 --> 00:25:30,697 Were any of them working or operating out of this house? 492 00:25:35,101 --> 00:25:36,869 That's amazing. 493 00:25:36,903 --> 00:25:38,871 We have Josef Mengele. 494 00:25:38,905 --> 00:25:41,874 We have the headquarters for all Nazi activity in this region. 495 00:25:41,908 --> 00:25:44,210 Most importantly, he has President Stroessner 496 00:25:44,243 --> 00:25:46,145 protecting him. He has government support. 497 00:25:46,178 --> 00:25:48,014 This is massive infrastructure, 498 00:25:48,047 --> 00:25:51,050 and it's frightening to think what they're capable of. 499 00:25:51,083 --> 00:25:53,620 With Josef Mengele, who is one of the most 500 00:25:53,653 --> 00:25:55,688 sought-after war criminals of World War II, 501 00:25:55,722 --> 00:25:58,324 if he was able to move around, 502 00:25:58,357 --> 00:26:01,861 could other high-level Nazis 503 00:26:01,894 --> 00:26:03,996 move throughout this region just as easily? 504 00:26:23,382 --> 00:26:25,217 This is incredible. 505 00:26:34,126 --> 00:26:38,698 Colonia Independencia is a German community. 506 00:26:38,731 --> 00:26:40,299 Look at this place. 507 00:26:40,332 --> 00:26:43,803 Who is ever going to find Mengele or Hitler out here? 508 00:26:43,836 --> 00:26:46,038 Bob and Nada review the findings 509 00:26:46,072 --> 00:26:47,807 from the field team in Paraguay. 510 00:26:47,840 --> 00:26:50,276 I think this is a big breakthrough. 511 00:26:50,309 --> 00:26:52,378 We found Mengele in Paraguay, 512 00:26:52,411 --> 00:26:55,081 and there are even rumors of Hitler coming through. 513 00:26:55,114 --> 00:26:58,250 The team found a German consulate for the Nazis 514 00:26:58,284 --> 00:27:00,653 in Colonia Independencia. 515 00:27:00,687 --> 00:27:02,655 This is a fairly active consulate 516 00:27:02,689 --> 00:27:04,190 in this small community. 517 00:27:04,223 --> 00:27:06,358 Mengele clearly had a role 518 00:27:06,392 --> 00:27:09,228 in the government in Paraguay. 519 00:27:09,261 --> 00:27:12,164 And then you have a sympathetic president. 520 00:27:12,198 --> 00:27:14,801 So that if Mengele is showing up 521 00:27:14,834 --> 00:27:16,669 here in this village, 522 00:27:16,703 --> 00:27:19,672 he can count on the implicit support 523 00:27:19,706 --> 00:27:21,708 of the Paraguayan government. 524 00:27:21,741 --> 00:27:26,178 It tells you what kind of protection 525 00:27:26,212 --> 00:27:27,780 Mengele would have had here, 526 00:27:27,814 --> 00:27:30,449 and now we have a Hitler sighting. 527 00:27:30,482 --> 00:27:35,788 I have no doubt that Mengele could have hid him somewhere. 528 00:27:35,822 --> 00:27:39,759 We have had multiple sightings putting Mengele in Paraguay 529 00:27:39,792 --> 00:27:41,861 because Mengele's on a mission. 530 00:27:41,894 --> 00:27:44,697 He's protecting Adolf Hitler. 531 00:27:44,731 --> 00:27:48,267 Now the question is, where could you hide Hitler in Paraguay? 532 00:27:51,037 --> 00:27:54,306 Go. All right. 533 00:27:54,340 --> 00:27:56,943 Here we've got a report from Paraguay. 534 00:27:56,976 --> 00:28:01,047 "Vestiges of Nazi military presence in Paraguay. 535 00:28:01,080 --> 00:28:04,751 Having detected remains of military buildings 536 00:28:04,784 --> 00:28:06,285 in the vicinity 537 00:28:06,318 --> 00:28:10,156 of Bavarian-style houses in Salto Suizo, 538 00:28:10,189 --> 00:28:13,793 there is a high probability that the use was to house 539 00:28:13,826 --> 00:28:17,029 personnel for protection of personalities 540 00:28:17,063 --> 00:28:20,399 of the defeated Nazi regime." 541 00:28:20,432 --> 00:28:22,101 This file is telling us 542 00:28:22,134 --> 00:28:24,270 that there was a military facility in Paraguay, 543 00:28:24,303 --> 00:28:26,472 a Nazi military facility. 544 00:28:26,505 --> 00:28:29,141 This is exactly what I was looking for. 545 00:28:29,175 --> 00:28:31,243 Sounds like Misiones, doesn't it? 546 00:28:31,277 --> 00:28:33,412 Earlier in the investigation, 547 00:28:33,445 --> 00:28:37,349 the team determined that a compound in Misiones, Argentina, 548 00:28:37,383 --> 00:28:40,219 could have been the ideal safe house for Adolf Hitler. 549 00:28:40,252 --> 00:28:41,353 This is way more 550 00:28:41,387 --> 00:28:42,922 than a hideout in the jungle. 551 00:28:42,955 --> 00:28:44,991 With extensive security measures, 552 00:28:45,024 --> 00:28:47,393 including multiple lines of defense... 553 00:28:47,426 --> 00:28:49,929 This is them setting themselves up for success. 554 00:28:49,962 --> 00:28:51,230 ...machine-gun posts... 555 00:28:51,263 --> 00:28:52,965 You could shoot straight across this. 556 00:28:52,999 --> 00:28:55,101 This is going to give you an elevated position 557 00:28:55,134 --> 00:28:56,903 to rain down hell. 558 00:28:56,936 --> 00:29:00,940 ...guard houses and military barracks. 559 00:29:00,973 --> 00:29:04,143 This is where you line up bunk beds and put soldiers. 560 00:29:05,878 --> 00:29:08,414 But in 1955, Nazi sympathizer 561 00:29:08,447 --> 00:29:13,152 and President of Argentina Juan Perón was overthrown 562 00:29:13,185 --> 00:29:15,454 and Nazis no longer had the support 563 00:29:15,487 --> 00:29:18,858 of the Argentinean government. 564 00:29:18,891 --> 00:29:21,894 Look. Here's Salto Suizo. 565 00:29:21,928 --> 00:29:25,297 You're only 100 miles north of Misiones. 566 00:29:25,331 --> 00:29:28,067 Look. If we can find a compound 567 00:29:28,100 --> 00:29:30,970 in Paraguay that matches Misiones, 568 00:29:31,003 --> 00:29:33,039 that's the key. 569 00:29:33,072 --> 00:29:34,440 I think this is great. 570 00:29:34,473 --> 00:29:37,443 This sounds like Misioines, but in Paraguay, 571 00:29:37,476 --> 00:29:39,478 and I love the chronology. 572 00:29:39,511 --> 00:29:42,982 Argentina closes down, Paraguay opens up. 573 00:29:43,015 --> 00:29:47,119 If we can find the military compound in Paraguay, 574 00:29:47,153 --> 00:29:50,122 I mean, this is like chasing the holy grail, 575 00:29:50,156 --> 00:29:52,825 the last pieces of this puzzle that could tell us 576 00:29:52,859 --> 00:29:55,427 exactly where Hitler ended up. 577 00:29:55,461 --> 00:29:57,029 Let's get the team out there 578 00:29:57,063 --> 00:29:58,540 to see what we can find in Salto Suizo. 579 00:29:58,564 --> 00:30:04,837 We absolutely have to go look at this place. 580 00:30:13,946 --> 00:30:16,916 We can disappear into this city, gone. 581 00:30:16,949 --> 00:30:19,185 Then you can go back 60 years, 582 00:30:19,218 --> 00:30:21,087 I can't even imagine how easy it would be, 583 00:30:21,120 --> 00:30:24,490 especially when you have presidential cover. 584 00:30:24,523 --> 00:30:27,559 U.S. Army special forces Tim Kennedy, 585 00:30:27,593 --> 00:30:30,162 investigative journalist Gerrard Williams 586 00:30:30,196 --> 00:30:32,298 and their local contact Laura 587 00:30:32,331 --> 00:30:35,968 continue their investigation into Colonia Independencia, 588 00:30:36,002 --> 00:30:39,405 Paraguay, following a declassified report 589 00:30:39,438 --> 00:30:41,440 claiming that high-ranking Nazis 590 00:30:41,473 --> 00:30:44,543 were hiding in a compound in the nearby jungle 591 00:30:44,576 --> 00:30:47,346 of Salto Suizo after the war. 592 00:30:50,649 --> 00:30:53,452 The team makes contact with Robert Hugo, 593 00:30:53,485 --> 00:30:55,922 a man from a prominent German family 594 00:30:55,955 --> 00:30:58,590 that has lived in the area for generations. 595 00:30:58,624 --> 00:31:00,459 He claims to have inside knowledge 596 00:31:00,492 --> 00:31:03,362 of Nazi movements in the area. 597 00:31:03,395 --> 00:31:05,364 We have a document that says there were Nazi 598 00:31:05,397 --> 00:31:08,334 military structures at Salto Suizo, 599 00:31:08,367 --> 00:31:10,202 but we need more information. 600 00:31:10,236 --> 00:31:13,139 We need to know who was there and what they're doing. 601 00:31:13,172 --> 00:31:16,075 We're here to find out as much as we can 602 00:31:16,108 --> 00:31:18,978 about the compound in Salto Suizo. 603 00:31:26,052 --> 00:31:27,686 Okay. He said, "No problem," 604 00:31:27,719 --> 00:31:30,189 that anything he knows that is of interest to people, 605 00:31:30,222 --> 00:31:31,924 to humanity, he's going to help us. 606 00:31:39,231 --> 00:31:40,666 There were rumors 607 00:31:40,699 --> 00:31:45,037 Hitler got here in Paraguay through Misiones 608 00:31:45,071 --> 00:31:49,241 and that he was always living in hidden places. 609 00:31:52,111 --> 00:31:53,679 He was 17 years old. 610 00:31:53,712 --> 00:31:56,248 He had already started working as an electrician, 611 00:31:56,282 --> 00:31:59,285 supervising electrical installations. 612 00:31:59,318 --> 00:32:00,953 He's telling me he got to a house 613 00:32:00,987 --> 00:32:04,090 where a couple welcomed him. 614 00:32:04,123 --> 00:32:07,326 When he got there, he saw a person 615 00:32:07,359 --> 00:32:09,962 with the physical appearance of Hitler. 616 00:32:13,432 --> 00:32:15,567 He asked somebody else 617 00:32:15,601 --> 00:32:18,637 if this man was Adolf Hitler. 618 00:32:18,670 --> 00:32:22,174 His co-worker looked at him and did this, like... 619 00:32:25,177 --> 00:32:29,681 And that man, you believe, was Adolf Hitler. 620 00:32:33,152 --> 00:32:35,454 Try and go back to that exact moment 621 00:32:35,487 --> 00:32:38,424 and tell me every single thing he remembers. 622 00:32:38,457 --> 00:32:39,992 Okay. 623 00:32:40,026 --> 00:32:42,628 This man had a very thick mustache, 624 00:32:42,661 --> 00:32:44,230 but not very tidy. 625 00:32:44,263 --> 00:32:45,397 Tidy, yeah. 626 00:32:45,431 --> 00:32:46,665 Right, and also, 627 00:32:46,698 --> 00:32:49,135 the clothes were, like, old. 628 00:32:49,168 --> 00:32:53,639 He wore, like, old German coats and, like... 629 00:32:53,672 --> 00:32:56,142 How tall was this man? 630 00:32:58,544 --> 00:33:00,146 He wasn't very tall. 631 00:33:03,682 --> 00:33:05,317 You know, listening to Robert, 632 00:33:05,351 --> 00:33:08,220 every one of these details perfectly matches 633 00:33:08,254 --> 00:33:10,622 what we know to be true about Adolf Hitler. 634 00:33:10,656 --> 00:33:12,691 He said that he came through Misiones 635 00:33:12,724 --> 00:33:14,526 and landed here in Paraguay 636 00:33:14,560 --> 00:33:16,728 and that he saw him with his own eyes, 637 00:33:16,762 --> 00:33:19,265 the exact same place where we have a document 638 00:33:19,298 --> 00:33:22,434 that says there's a Nazi compound at Salto Suizo. 639 00:33:22,468 --> 00:33:24,670 This is massive. 640 00:33:24,703 --> 00:33:27,139 This house at Salto Suizo, 641 00:33:27,173 --> 00:33:30,376 the house that you saw Adolf Hitler, 642 00:33:30,409 --> 00:33:32,511 I just need a little bit of help 643 00:33:32,544 --> 00:33:34,646 geographically being able to locate it. 644 00:33:34,680 --> 00:33:37,216 He's saying this was, like, a wild area, 645 00:33:37,249 --> 00:33:38,617 not many houses, 646 00:33:38,650 --> 00:33:42,054 very beautiful place with a small waterfall. 647 00:33:42,088 --> 00:33:44,390 We got to find this place. 648 00:33:49,628 --> 00:33:51,397 Robert said it was on the backside 649 00:33:51,430 --> 00:33:54,733 through these mountains near the waterfall. 650 00:33:54,766 --> 00:33:57,503 Following detailed directions 651 00:33:57,536 --> 00:34:00,672 provided by the eyewitness, Tim, Gerrard and Laura 652 00:34:00,706 --> 00:34:03,375 travel 3 1/2 hours from the closest city 653 00:34:03,409 --> 00:34:05,377 to the location of a remote house 654 00:34:05,411 --> 00:34:07,479 in the jungle of Salto Suizo. 655 00:34:10,249 --> 00:34:11,759 It's been a hell of a drive to get up here. 656 00:34:17,556 --> 00:34:20,792 Look at this fence. 657 00:34:20,826 --> 00:34:25,364 Barbed wire, 6, 7 feet tall, 658 00:34:25,397 --> 00:34:28,134 why do you need that out here? 659 00:34:31,470 --> 00:34:34,840 This fence, this is reminiscent of countless places. 660 00:34:34,873 --> 00:34:37,443 I've seen it in Europe. 661 00:34:37,476 --> 00:34:39,511 I've seen it in Chile. 662 00:34:39,545 --> 00:34:41,847 The last time I saw a fence like that, 663 00:34:41,880 --> 00:34:43,349 I was on a military base. 664 00:34:43,382 --> 00:34:45,317 The almost quintessential embodiment 665 00:34:45,351 --> 00:34:49,155 of what the Nazis do for security. 666 00:34:49,188 --> 00:34:54,560 To me, there's no doubting who built this fence. 667 00:34:54,593 --> 00:34:56,628 This is somebody that is intimately familiar 668 00:34:56,662 --> 00:34:59,198 with the way that Nazis protect things. 669 00:34:59,231 --> 00:35:01,767 We don't know what we're going to find on the other side, 670 00:35:01,800 --> 00:35:04,703 but I'm starting to think this is big. 671 00:35:16,748 --> 00:35:18,784 Look at this fence. 672 00:35:18,817 --> 00:35:20,686 Why do you need that out here? 673 00:35:20,719 --> 00:35:23,789 Deep in the jungle of Salto Suizo, Paraguay, 674 00:35:23,822 --> 00:35:26,225 100 miles from the nearest city, 675 00:35:26,258 --> 00:35:29,428 Tim, Gerrard and their local contact Laura 676 00:35:29,461 --> 00:35:31,530 begin their investigation 677 00:35:31,563 --> 00:35:34,333 of a remote mountain compound that, 678 00:35:34,366 --> 00:35:37,403 according to a declassified Paraguayan file 679 00:35:37,436 --> 00:35:39,471 and an eyewitness account, 680 00:35:39,505 --> 00:35:42,374 could have been home to a safe house for Adolf Hitler. 681 00:35:44,943 --> 00:35:49,615 The team makes contact with Ricaso Gutierrez, 682 00:35:49,648 --> 00:35:51,217 the property's caretaker. 683 00:35:55,287 --> 00:35:57,656 Who owns this house? 684 00:35:57,689 --> 00:36:00,259 Okay. He's saying around 1930, 685 00:36:00,292 --> 00:36:02,561 a German man built this house, 686 00:36:02,594 --> 00:36:05,364 and he also owned all that land. 687 00:36:05,397 --> 00:36:06,541 - Oh. - That's a big parcel of land. 688 00:36:06,565 --> 00:36:08,334 It's huge. 689 00:36:08,367 --> 00:36:09,477 Someone's gone to a lot of trouble here, 690 00:36:09,501 --> 00:36:11,403 though, many years ago. 691 00:36:11,437 --> 00:36:12,747 Built a German home on the top of a mountain? 692 00:36:12,771 --> 00:36:16,208 Right, to live a quiet life. 693 00:36:16,242 --> 00:36:18,777 This fence, why do you have this fence here? 694 00:36:30,356 --> 00:36:33,392 To separate his private property 695 00:36:33,425 --> 00:36:35,927 from people and animals. 696 00:36:35,961 --> 00:36:37,596 Wandering cows. 697 00:36:37,629 --> 00:36:40,599 Yeah, a 7-foot-tall fence with wire at the top. 698 00:36:40,632 --> 00:36:42,534 I've seen fences like this. 699 00:36:42,568 --> 00:36:45,337 It wasn't for cows. 700 00:36:45,371 --> 00:36:47,806 Everything that we have seen thus far is a good sign. 701 00:36:47,839 --> 00:36:50,576 It's isolated. It is remote. 702 00:36:50,609 --> 00:36:53,545 You have a 7-foot-tall barbed-wire fence, 703 00:36:53,579 --> 00:36:57,883 the quintessential embodiment of what the Nazis do for security. 704 00:36:57,916 --> 00:37:00,252 But if Adolf Hitler is in Salto Suizo, 705 00:37:00,286 --> 00:37:01,753 it has to be defendable. 706 00:37:01,787 --> 00:37:03,522 I need to know if they had 707 00:37:03,555 --> 00:37:05,824 any other defensive measures in place 708 00:37:05,857 --> 00:37:07,559 on this property. 709 00:37:07,593 --> 00:37:09,393 Gerrard and I have to go check this place out. 710 00:37:12,431 --> 00:37:15,267 So the one road in and the one road out. 711 00:37:15,301 --> 00:37:16,835 The potential safe house 712 00:37:16,868 --> 00:37:18,604 is located at the top of a mountain 713 00:37:18,637 --> 00:37:20,706 with only two points of entry. 714 00:37:20,739 --> 00:37:25,411 The first, a 2-mile-long access road that was built in 1930. 715 00:37:25,444 --> 00:37:28,847 The second, a 100-acre swath of dense jungle 716 00:37:28,880 --> 00:37:32,418 covering the surrounding valley floor. 717 00:37:32,451 --> 00:37:34,420 In order to uncover whether this property 718 00:37:34,453 --> 00:37:36,555 could have been properly secured, 719 00:37:36,588 --> 00:37:39,725 the team begins by investigating the first entry point, 720 00:37:39,758 --> 00:37:42,260 the access road. 721 00:37:46,031 --> 00:37:48,266 See that? - Mm-hmm. 722 00:37:51,903 --> 00:37:53,038 Okay. 723 00:37:56,041 --> 00:37:59,645 What is this doing out here? 724 00:37:59,678 --> 00:38:01,847 Two miles below the safe house, 725 00:38:01,880 --> 00:38:03,715 at the entry to the access road, 726 00:38:03,749 --> 00:38:07,018 the team discovers the remains of a mysterious structure. 727 00:38:09,688 --> 00:38:10,889 Walls are pretty thick. 728 00:38:10,922 --> 00:38:13,792 Yeah. The walls are very thick. 729 00:38:13,825 --> 00:38:15,994 They're thick enough to stop a bullet. 730 00:38:16,027 --> 00:38:19,365 This might be a guard shack. 731 00:38:19,398 --> 00:38:22,067 These ruins trigger a memory. 732 00:38:22,100 --> 00:38:24,970 I've seen this type of construction before. 733 00:38:25,003 --> 00:38:27,005 Man, this is very similar 734 00:38:27,038 --> 00:38:29,608 to those houses in Misiones. 735 00:38:29,641 --> 00:38:31,877 Note the size of the structure... 736 00:38:37,583 --> 00:38:39,183 ...the way that the windows were built... 737 00:38:44,856 --> 00:38:46,358 ...the type of nails that they used... 738 00:38:49,060 --> 00:38:51,730 ...it is identical to Misiones. 739 00:38:51,763 --> 00:38:53,465 But if Adolf Hitler is living here, 740 00:38:53,499 --> 00:38:55,667 he's going to have more than just a guard shack. 741 00:38:55,701 --> 00:38:57,736 I need to go deeper into the jungle. 742 00:38:57,769 --> 00:38:59,571 I need to see what other defensive measures 743 00:38:59,605 --> 00:39:01,440 they had in place. 744 00:39:01,473 --> 00:39:03,575 Having found evidence of a guard shack 745 00:39:03,609 --> 00:39:05,911 controlling entry to the access road, 746 00:39:05,944 --> 00:39:08,013 Tim sets off on foot to uncover 747 00:39:08,046 --> 00:39:10,716 whether defensive measures were in place 748 00:39:10,749 --> 00:39:13,619 at the only other means of entry to the compound, 749 00:39:13,652 --> 00:39:17,523 a 100-acre swath of jungle along the valley floor. 750 00:39:21,827 --> 00:39:25,631 There's a small waterfall here with a rope bridge across it. 751 00:39:25,664 --> 00:39:30,702 Looks like it would have been here 75 years ago. 752 00:39:30,736 --> 00:39:33,605 If you want to stop somebody's ability to move through this, 753 00:39:33,639 --> 00:39:37,142 a water crossing is the perfect opportunity. 754 00:39:37,175 --> 00:39:39,044 This could be a perfect spot for an ambush, 755 00:39:39,077 --> 00:39:40,946 a couple of snips of a wire, 756 00:39:40,979 --> 00:39:42,714 a couple of guys with machine guns, 757 00:39:42,748 --> 00:39:44,082 nobody is getting through. 758 00:39:44,115 --> 00:39:47,018 This is, without a doubt, a choke point. 759 00:39:47,052 --> 00:39:49,821 All right. I'm going to keep pushing. 760 00:39:49,855 --> 00:39:51,757 Tim has now found a rope bridge 761 00:39:51,790 --> 00:39:54,826 that could have controlled any access to the compound 762 00:39:54,860 --> 00:39:57,162 through the jungle along the valley floor. 763 00:39:59,998 --> 00:40:01,900 Holy 764 00:40:08,173 --> 00:40:10,208 Gerrard, I got to the base of the waterfall. 765 00:40:10,241 --> 00:40:11,843 It's about 100 feet up. 766 00:40:11,877 --> 00:40:14,513 I'm inspecting the right and left sides of it. 767 00:40:14,546 --> 00:40:17,015 On the left side, I see a ledge sticking out. 768 00:40:17,048 --> 00:40:19,618 It looks like you can almost walk right out onto it 769 00:40:19,651 --> 00:40:21,028 even though you're 100 feet above the floor. 770 00:40:21,052 --> 00:40:23,522 It would be an amazing vantage point 771 00:40:23,555 --> 00:40:25,491 to see back into the valley. 772 00:40:25,524 --> 00:40:28,093 I'm going to try to get up and see precisely what that is. 773 00:40:28,126 --> 00:40:29,661 Understood. Okay. 774 00:40:29,695 --> 00:40:31,963 Be safe climbing up. 775 00:40:31,997 --> 00:40:34,933 Tim makes his way to a ledge along the waterfall 776 00:40:34,966 --> 00:40:38,604 that sits just 50 yards below the safe house. 777 00:40:45,210 --> 00:40:46,478 Go this way. 778 00:40:49,915 --> 00:40:52,250 We've got a wall, maybe. 779 00:40:52,283 --> 00:40:54,152 This right here... 780 00:40:58,790 --> 00:41:01,627 Oh, this is clearly man-made, 781 00:41:01,660 --> 00:41:03,128 chunks of metal sticking out of it. 782 00:41:10,669 --> 00:41:12,037 Looks like a chair. 783 00:41:14,906 --> 00:41:17,075 Somebody's sitting up here? 784 00:41:17,108 --> 00:41:18,844 Why would you stick somebody up here, 785 00:41:18,877 --> 00:41:24,015 put a chair, a flat floor on the side of a cliff? 786 00:41:26,752 --> 00:41:31,757 A chair, walls, flat floor, perfect points of view, 787 00:41:31,790 --> 00:41:36,695 you know, if I had fuel for a fire, this is it right here. 788 00:41:36,728 --> 00:41:39,064 Nobody is getting up this valley. 789 00:41:39,097 --> 00:41:41,032 From this one position alone, 790 00:41:41,066 --> 00:41:45,170 you could just walk down this valley. 791 00:41:45,203 --> 00:41:47,272 This wasn't just a building just randomly located 792 00:41:47,305 --> 00:41:48,740 in the middle of a jungle. 793 00:41:48,774 --> 00:41:50,709 This is strategic. It's isolated. 794 00:41:50,742 --> 00:41:52,110 It's protected. 795 00:41:52,143 --> 00:41:54,079 You have a guard shack. 796 00:41:54,112 --> 00:41:58,216 You have dense vegetation and you have a security sentry point 797 00:41:58,249 --> 00:42:00,318 on top of the waterfall. 798 00:42:00,351 --> 00:42:03,989 This is where Adolf Hitler can stay safe and secure 799 00:42:04,022 --> 00:42:05,824 and live out his old age 800 00:42:05,857 --> 00:42:08,093 and move his plans forward for the Fourth Reich. 801 00:42:13,832 --> 00:42:16,167 What were so many Nazis doing in Chile? 802 00:42:16,201 --> 00:42:17,869 They were setting the table for something. 803 00:42:25,010 --> 00:42:27,679 Wow. 804 00:42:27,713 --> 00:42:28,923 This is like a black-site prison 805 00:42:28,947 --> 00:42:31,149 where you send people to disappear. 806 00:42:31,182 --> 00:42:34,152 The ultimate price for noncooperation. 807 00:42:34,185 --> 00:42:38,657 A Nazi-style concentration camp flying a Nazi flag. 808 00:42:46,197 --> 00:42:48,834 Oh. This is the last will of Adolf Hitler. 809 00:42:48,867 --> 00:42:51,269 It's here for a reason. 810 00:42:51,302 --> 00:42:53,304 This is the final piece of the puzzle. 811 00:42:53,338 --> 00:42:56,007 I've chased a lot of fugitives in my career. 812 00:42:56,041 --> 00:42:57,809 This is no longer a cold case. 813 00:42:57,843 --> 00:42:59,277 You're right on his trail. 814 00:42:59,310 --> 00:43:03,348 We've blown holes in this thing from "A" to "Z." 815 00:43:03,381 --> 00:43:04,381 Find me a body. 816 00:43:04,405 --> 00:43:07,405 Subtitles Diego Moraes www.oakisland.tk 61613

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