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{\an1}(tense music)
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{\an1}- Tonight, one of the most
notorious dictators in history.
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{\an1}A man who led Germany
into World War II.
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{\an1}- You could go down the line.
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{\an1}Mass murderer,
destroyer of cities,
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{\an1}destroyer of life.
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{\an1}Basically, anything terrible
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{\an1}you wanna say about Hitler
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{\an1}would probably
be accurate.
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{\an1}- Most historians agree
that Hitler perished
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{\an1}as the War in Europe
came to an end.
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{\an1}Some claim there is not
sufficient proof of his death.
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{\an1}- Right from the outset,
lies were being spread
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{\an1}about how Hitler actually died.
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{\an1}- They've never produced
anything that can convince us.
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{\an1}The human remains are
not convincingly
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{\an1}Adolf Hitler's human remains.
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{\an1}- Now we uncover
the top theories
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{\an1}about Hitler's end.
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{\an1}Did the Nazi leader
really die in Berlin,
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{\an1}or was he able to escape?
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{\an1}- If Hitler can get to Spain,
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{\an1}then Franco will welcome him
with open arms
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{\an1}and keep him cozy in secret.
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{\an1}- There's a reason that we look
suspiciously at Argentina,
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{\an1}and that's because people did
escape and make their way there
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{\an1}in the aftermath of
the Second World War.
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{\an1}- Could Hitler have survived
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{\an1}the last days
of World War II?
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{\an1}And if so, where did he go?
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{\an1}(theme music)
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{\an1}(tense music)
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{\an1}May 1, 1945...
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{\an1}- [Newscaster]
The war is over.
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{\an1}Six years of suffering,
sacrifice, and death...
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{\an1}- [Laurence]
After 12 years in power
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{\an1}and six years of war,
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{\an1}the Nazi regime
has come to an end.
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{\an1}According to news reports,
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{\an1}Adolf Hitler commits suicide
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{\an1}as Soviet forces close in
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{\an1}on his underground bunker
in Berlin.
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{\an1}- [Man] On April 30, 1945,
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{\an1}the final fall of
the last pocket
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{\an1}of holdout Soviet troops
move into the bunker
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{\an1}and they confirm not just
the fall of the Third Reich,
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{\an1}but the death of
Adolf Hitler himself.
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{\an1}- Thanks to the work of
Hugh Trevor-Roper,
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{\an1}a British intelligence
officer from MI5,
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{\an1}we have a very good timeline
of the events in the bunker.
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{\an1}On April 26th,
Hitler was briefed
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{\an1}that his army could not
counterattack,
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{\an1}that the war
was essentially lost,
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{\an1}and he had a complete meltdown
in the bunker.
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{\an1}By April 29th,
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{\an1}he was clearly
contemplating suicide.
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{\an1}- There had to be
a Hitler legacy--
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{\an1}if Hitler wasn't gonna
survive the war,
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{\an1}he needed to sort of martyr
himself for the Nazi cause.
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{\an1}- On the night of April 29th,
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{\an1}probably slightly
after midnight,
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{\an1}he married Eva Braun,
and then they had
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{\an1}a celebratory breakfast before
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{\an1}going on to kill themselves
the next morning.
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{\an1}- [Man] Shortly afterwards,
newspapers worldwide
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{\an1}printed the announcement
that Hitler is dead.
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{\an1}- International reaction
to the news of Hitler's death
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{\an1}is at first joyous.
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{\an1}- [Newscaster] The sights
and sounds of victory
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{\an1}in Europe echo
across the Atlantic
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{\an1}and around the world.
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{\an1}- [Martin] That gave way rather
quickly to suspicion.
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{\an1}And that suspicion
was based on the fact
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{\an1}that there was no body.
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{\an1}- [Laurence] The first
Soviet troops into the bunker
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{\an1}are allegedly more interested
in trophies than evidence.
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{\an1}- The Soviets, in taking Berlin,
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{\an1}they're gonna shell
the city to basically rubble.
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{\an1}So by the time the Russians
get to the bunker,
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{\an1}they're not going in
with scientific teams.
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{\an1}It's really being discovered
by frontline troops.
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{\an1}- [Man] The Soviet troops
who found Hitler's bunker
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{\an1}weren't looking for evidence
that Hitler shot himself.
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{\an1}What they were actually
looking for were mementos,
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{\an1}were trophies that they could
take home at the end of the war.
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{\an1}So the people who were there,
who could have provided us
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{\an1}the evidence that
Hitler shot himself,
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{\an1}weren't looking for it.
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{\an1}- [Martin] It's very
difficult to contain
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{\an1}the exuberant energy
of a conquering army
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{\an1}because the Soviet people
had suffered
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{\an1}brutally under
the German invasion.
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{\an1}No one is treating
Hitler's bunker
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{\an1}the way that it
should be treated.
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{\an1}- They weren't doing it with
any kind of great caution.
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{\an1}People were just
digging everywhere.
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{\an1}People were tramping through
the bunker,
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{\an1}they were going into the rooms,
grabbing souvenirs.
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{\an1}But it's done in
a very ad hoc way.
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{\an1}- [Laurence] Despite
the chaos in the bunker,
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{\an1}the Soviets are initially
confident that they have found
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{\an1}the dead bodies of Hitler
and Eva Braun.
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{\an1}- That confidence then
erodes pretty quickly.
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{\an1}Within weeks,
Joseph Stalin himself
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{\an1}is commenting that Adolf Hitler
escaped from Europe.
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{\an1}- Most historians think
that Stalin was basically
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{\an1}playing a political game.
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{\an1}It was a way to strengthen
Stalin's hand
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{\an1}in territorial negotiations
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{\an1}by suggesting that the threat
of Hitler could mean
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{\an1}that it's safer for
Red Army soldiers
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{\an1}to remain in disputed areas.
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{\an1}- He was almost certain that
they had Hitler's remains,
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{\an1}but he was gonna keep it
ambiguous to be able to wield it
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{\an1}like a cudgel against
the Western Allies.
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{\an1}- [Laurence] The United States
is one of several countries
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{\an1}that quietly tries to ascertain
the truth about Hitler's death.
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{\an1}- In the aftermath
of the conflict,
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{\an1}the United States military
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{\an1}is not allowed immediate
access to Berlin.
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{\an1}The Soviets eventually
allow us there,
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{\an1}but it's nearly
two months later.
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{\an1}What that leads to
is, within months,
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{\an1}nearly half of America
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{\an1}believes that Adolf Hitler
did not die in Berlin.
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{\an1}- When General Eisenhower
is asked about it,
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{\an1}he honestly responds,
we don't have tangible proof.
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{\an1}We have not seen anything.
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{\an1}We're just relying on what
the Soviets are giving us.
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{\an1}J. Edgar Hoover at the FBI,
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{\an1}He looks into it and he says,
I don't have any evidence
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{\an1}that Hitler's remains
were found,
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{\an1}because he didn't.
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{\an1}The Soviets kept this stuff
very secret.
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{\an1}- [Martin] These narratives
about the death of Hitler--
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{\an1}we must remember at all times
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{\an1}that what information
we do have
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{\an1}went through a Russian filter.
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{\an1}Ooh, and it's worse than.
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{\an1}It was a Stalinist filter.
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{\an1}The worst one of them all.
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{\an1}- Hitler is so iconic that any
inconsistency is going to be
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{\an1}examined or exploited.
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{\an1}- [Laurence] As the world
recovers from the war,
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{\an1}confidential investigations
begin, and no one can quite
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{\an1}find the answers
they're looking for.
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{\an1}- [Kevin] Adolf Hitler's death
certificate is not issued
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{\an1}until 1956, 11 years
after his death.
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{\an1}And that's really because
there wasn't a body to identify,
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{\an1}and there was a lot of confusion
in Berlin at that time
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{\an1}and in Germany as it's
trying to rebuild,
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{\an1}so it wasn't a priority.
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{\an1}- This death certificate is
produced without the presence
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{\an1}of physical evidence
because in 1956,
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{\an1}there was no dead body
to stand over.
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{\an1}- [Jesse] What we see is that
the prevailing theory
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{\an1}among most historians,
most governments,
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{\an1}is that Hitler shot himself
in the bunker.
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{\an1}- [Martin] The official story
looks like this:
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{\an1}Adolf Hitler was aware
he wasn't going to escape.
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{\an1}- He had promised that he would
never be captured alive.
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{\an1}He also said he was
not going to leave Berlin,
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{\an1}that he realized
this was his fate.
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{\an1}- [Laurence]
Those convinced Hitler died
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{\an1}by his own hand point
to the dramatic death
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{\an1}of Italian dictator
Benito Mussolini
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{\an1}two days earlier.
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{\an1}- The word comes into the bunker
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{\an1}that Mussolini
and his mistress
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{\an1}were captured,
hung upside down, killed.
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{\an1}And Hitler decides he does not
want this for himself.
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{\an1}He is gonna control
his own death.
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{\an1}- [Martin]
And so a decision was made
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{\an1}that he would kill himself,
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{\an1}that Eva would kill
herself as well.
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{\an1}The bodies would then be burned
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{\an1}so that they could not
be recovered,
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{\an1}so that no spectacle
could be made of
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{\an1}Adolf Hitler's dead body
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{\an1}the way that it was made of
Benito Mussolini's dead body.
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{\an1}- [Robert] On April 30th,
Hitler calls his staff together
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{\an1}and says goodbye to them,
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{\an1}shaking hands with each of them
as he goes around the room.
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{\an1}One of his secretaries noted
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{\an1}that he wasn't even
looking at her.
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{\an1}Rather, he was
looking through her.
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{\an1}- Otto Gunsche, one of
Hitler's senior officials,
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{\an1}stands outside the door
while Hitler
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{\an1}goes in with his wife, Eva,
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{\an1}Eva Hitler now,
and at about 3:15,
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{\an1}he opens the door,
and there's Eva,
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{\an1}she had taken her shoes off,
she's laying peacefully.
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{\an1}Hitler, however,
had put a gun in his mouth...
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{\an1}(cocking gun)
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{\an1}...and blew his brains out.
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{\an1}(gunshot)
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{\an1}- [Laurence] Gunsche is captured
by the Soviets on May 2nd.
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{\an1}He claims to be one of just
a few people who handled
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{\an1}the bodies of Hitler and Braun.
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{\an1}- The witnesses,
Gunsche especially,
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{\an1}report that there was
also the smell
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{\an1}of burnt almonds in the room.
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{\an1}Now, that's a sign
of cyanide.
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{\an1}- The Soviets,
when they interview Gunsche
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{\an1}about Hitler's suicide,
they ask him,
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{\an1}is there any other access
to this room besides
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{\an1}the one door you stood by?
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{\an1}And he said, no,
there was not.
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{\an1}This was the one,
and that Adolf Hitler
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{\an1}and Eva Braun did
commit suicide.
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{\an1}- Hitler had already instructed
his adjuncts to gather petrol
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{\an1}to burn his body,
he was very clear on that.
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{\an1}Otto Gunsche,
along with a couple
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{\an1}of the other people present,
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{\an1}will wrap Hitler's body
in carpet.
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{\an1}Gunsche will carry them out
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{\an1}into the Chancellery Garden.
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{\an1}They place their bodies
in a shell crater,
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{\an1}douse them with petrol...
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{\an1}(fire crackling)
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{\an1}And then they will
light them on fire
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{\an1}and their bodies
will begin to burn.
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{\an1}- [Laurence] According to Soviet
soldiers, Hitler's body
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{\an1}was unrecognizable
and reduced nearly to ash.
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{\an1}- [Luke] The Soviets dug up
two really badly
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{\an1}fire-damaged sets
of human remains.
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{\an1}And from these remains,
they took Hitler's
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{\an1}jaw and teeth and
they sent it back to Moscow.
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{\an1}- The jaw is intact enough
that they can examine the teeth
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{\an1}and what they do is they
find the two dentists
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{\an1}that worked on Hitler's teeth,
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{\an1}and they were able to point out
specifically a bridge
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{\an1}that they had done
in the upper right jaw.
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{\an1}- Dental assistants.
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{\an1}That's how little
the Soviets have.
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{\an1}They've got nothing,
they've got a couple
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{\an1}of fragments of a jawbone
with some teeth.
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{\an1}- Stalin is so paranoid
that he starts to think
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{\an1}there's real doubt about
basically the remains
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{\an1}of Hitler that had been verified
by the dental assistant.
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{\an1}So he sends another group of
military intelligence officers
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{\an1}back to Berlin in 1946,
a year after the war.
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{\an1}That's when they find
the skull.
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{\an1}The skull with
a bullet hole in it.
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{\an1}(gunshot)
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{\an1}- [Laurence] In 1946, a year
after the end of World War II,
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{\an1}Stalin sends a team to Berlin
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{\an1}to search for further proof
of Hitler's death.
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{\an1}- He says, I want you
to go through that
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{\an1}Reich Chancellery Garden again
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{\an1}and look for remains
of Hitler.
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{\an1}And that's when
they find the skull.
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{\an1}They couldn't know that
was Hitler's skull.
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{\an1}They weren't doing DNA testing,
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{\an1}but it was in the same area
where they found the teeth,
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{\an1}it had a hole, and he'd been
shot in the head.
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{\an1}- [Laurence]
The skull fragment is filed away
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{\an1}in Soviet archives.
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{\an1}It's not until 2009,
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{\an1}well after the fall of
the Soviet Union,
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{\an1}that this 1946 discovery can be
properly examined.
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{\an1}- [Luke] In 2009,
Nick Bellantoni led a team
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{\an1}of scientists to conduct
DNA analysis
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{\an1}on this skull fragment
with the bullet hole in it.
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{\an1}And what they found was that
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{\an1}the skull was actually
that of a female,
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{\an1}and that it was the wrong age
to be Eva Brown.
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{\an1}- There's a bullet wound
in the skull,
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{\an1}and we know from
eyewitness accounts
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{\an1}that she poisoned herself.
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{\an1}That skull fragment cannot
have belonged to Eva.
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{\an1}There were over
150 bodies surrounding
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{\an1}the Chancellery building,
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{\an1}so there were human remains
everywhere.
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{\an1}And the skull fragment,
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{\an1}it's irrelevant because
of the jawbone
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{\an1}in the dental work that almost
definitely confirms his death.
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{\an1}- The evidence for Hitler's
suicide in the bunker
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{\an1}on the 30th of April, 1945,
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{\an1}is forensic evidence,
it's eyewitness evidence,
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{\an1}and it's documentary evidence,
and it all adds up.
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{\an1}- [Laurence]
Nonetheless, some question
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{\an1}the identity of those bodies
in the bunker.
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{\an1}Thanks to information gleaned at
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{\an1}the Nuremberg War Crime Trials.
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{\an1}- [Man]
The United States of America,
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{\an1}presents count one
of the indictment.
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{\an1}That all the defendants
participated as organizers
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{\an1}or accomplices in
a common plan or conspiracy
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{\an1}to commit crimes
against peace,
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{\an1}war crimes,
and crimes against humanity.
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{\an1}- The Nuremberg Trials
were the first
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{\an1}large scale war crimes trials
in international history.
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{\an1}It was an effort to hold
Nazi leadership responsible
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{\an1}for the horrors, the crimes
against humanity that had been
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{\an1}perpetrated during
World War II.
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{\an1}- What quickly emerges at
Nuremberg is this realization
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{\an1}that there were a large number
of people that we thought
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{\an1}were eyewitnesses,
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{\an1}but they didn't actually
see a thing.
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{\an1}(tense music)
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{\an1}"Did you actually see
Adolf Hitler?"
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{\an1}Was it definitely him?"
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{\an1}"Yeah, well, I saw a person
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{\an1}"that was rolled up in a carpet,
and we set that on fire.
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{\an1}I saw that happen."
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{\an1}- Hitler's body from the head
was covered in blood,
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{\an1}so it made sense
to wrap that body up.
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{\an1}These people were
close to Hitler
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{\an1}and they wanted to preserve
dignity of the dead bodies.
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{\an1}- [Laurence] The eyewitness
evidence is divisive.
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{\an1}Does it prove Hitler's death,
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{\an1}or suggest something else
entirely?
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{\an1}- [Martin] Adolf Hitler was also
a little bit pragmatic,
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{\an1}every now and then,
when he absolutely had to be.
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{\an1}As a result of the war,
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{\an1}Germans were forced
to recognize that
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{\an1}they might have to retreat
and continue fighting
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{\an1}from some other location.
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{\an1}They'd establish
a headquarters complex elsewhere
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{\an1}where the Reich would live on.
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{\an1}And so Hitler is the one
who approved plans
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{\an1}for continuity of government
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{\an1}in the event of
the fall of Berlin.
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{\an1}- [Laurence]
But if Hitler somehow escaped,
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{\an1}where would he go?
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{\an1}- [Geoffrey] If you're trying
to escape Nazi Germany,
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{\an1}you needed to get into
a neutral country
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{\an1}that can shelter you.
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{\an1}If you can get
to the Spanish border,
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{\an1}you will get asylum
from Franco.
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{\an1}- [Kevin]
Throughout World War II,
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{\an1}Hitler wanted Franco
to come on board
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{\an1}to join the Axis Powers.
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{\an1}Franco holds back,
stays neutral,
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{\an1}but is friendly with Hitler.
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{\an1}- Was it possible for him
to slip away?
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{\an1}Yes, and he could have done it
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{\an1}without ever seeing
the light of day.
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{\an1}- Underneath Berlin,
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{\an1}like a lot of major
European cities,
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{\an1}you have a complex
tunnel system.
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{\an1}- [Laurence] Early in the war,
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{\an1}Hitler expanded Berlin's
subway system.
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{\an1}Some of these tunnels
were converted into bunkers
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{\an1}and air raid shelters.
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{\an1}Together, they made up
a vast underground network
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{\an1}that might allow travel through
the entire city.
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{\an1}- A number of people
are able to get out at
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{\an1}the bitter end
using the tunnel system.
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{\an1}Famously, Martin Bormann,
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{\an1}the chairman of
the National Socialist Party,
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{\an1}makes an attempt to get out,
and doesn't make it in the end,
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{\an1}and is killed by Soviet troops.
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{\an1}- So the theory is that Hitler
could have used that same
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{\an1}bunker system to get out
of Berlin himself.
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{\an1}- [Laurence] Some speculate
that Hitler fled
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{\an1}via a tunnel
to Tempelhof Airport,
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{\an1}a fortified airfield
in Berlin.
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{\an1}- Tempelhof Airport
is the last exit
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{\an1}out for the Nazi hierarchy.
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{\an1}- [Robert] There are some people
who have theorized
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{\an1}that Hitler escaped by air.
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{\an1}Now, that seems somewhat
plausible in that there were
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{\an1}some planes that made
emergency escapes
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{\an1}while under Soviet fire.
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{\an1}Hannah Reitsch, the famous
German female pilot,
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{\an1}flew into Berlin
on April 26th
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{\an1}in the company of
Robert Ritter von Greim,
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{\an1}a high ranking officer in
the German Luftwaffe.
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{\an1}They flew out on April 29th
in the middle of the night,
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{\an1}so they were able to escape.
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{\an1}Because of that,
it does seem plausible
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{\an1}to some people that Hitler may
have also flown out of Berlin.
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{\an1}- One of the many stories
about Hitler's escape
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{\an1}from Berlin was that he,
and Eva Braun, and some others,
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{\an1}they flew out of Berlin
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{\an1}and they made their way
to a monastery
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{\an1}called the Monasterio de Samos
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{\an1}in Galicia, in the northwestern
corner of Spain.
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{\an1}- [Kevin]
Francisco Franco is a fascist
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{\an1}who rises to power
in Spain
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{\an1}through a large civil war.
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{\an1}Because of his victory
and his rise to power,
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{\an1}he really owes it
to Adolf Hitler
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{\an1}and German equipment,
and therefore stays
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{\an1}friendly with Hitler
throughout World War II,
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{\an1}even though he holds back
and never joins the Axis Powers
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{\an1}like Hitler wants him to.
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{\an1}- [Robert] Franco was
a deeply religious,
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{\an1}deeply conservative leader.
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{\an1}He saw in the Nazis and
in the Italian Fascists
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{\an1}these rigorous systems
worthy of emulation.
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{\an1}There's no question that if
Hitler had wanted to escape
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{\an1}into Spain, he would certainly
have allowed it to happen,
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{\an1}and allowed Hitler to go
into hiding in Spain
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{\an1}and then denied all knowledge
of Hitler's whereabouts.
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{\an1}The view of the Catholic Church
was that we need to protect
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{\an1}the Nazis because we've got
this godless Bolshevik,
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{\an1}Joseph Stalin,
and he's subsidizing
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{\an1}Communist parties in
Italy and in France.
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{\an1}He's trying to make
the revolution everywhere.
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{\an1}"The enemy of my enemy
is my friend."
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{\an1}- From a political standpoint,
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{\an1}that made a certain amount
of sense that there would be
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{\an1}elements within Spain's
Catholic Church
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{\an1}that were sympathetic in
some ways to the German regime.
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{\an1}- The Roman Catholic Church
was really thick as thieves
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{\an1}with the Nazis after the war.
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{\an1}They were the ones who basically
got travel documents, passports,
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{\an1}visas for thousands
of Nazi war criminals,
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{\an1}and they would pass through
monasteries,
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{\an1}like the one in Spain.
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{\an1}This monastery of Samos,
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{\an1}along the Atlantic
and the Bay of Biscay
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{\an1}would've been a perfect
rat line for Nazi leaders,
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{\an1}because they could've gone
in there and then they
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{\an1}could've had safe haven
in neutral Spain.
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{\an1}The abbot of
the Samos monastery
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{\an1}was a close friend of
Francisco Franco,
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{\an1}the Spanish leader,
so he could have made
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{\an1}himself available to host
Hitler there secretly.
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{\an1}- [Laurence] The monastery
in Samos may be part of
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{\an1}a vast escape network.
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{\an1}These overland routes
are known as "rat lines."
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{\an1}They connect escaping Nazis
with sympathizers who provide
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{\an1}falsified documents
and identities.
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{\an1}- The rat line itself
had people who understood
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{\an1}what they were doing and
who they were helping
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{\an1}slipping through gaps
in the line
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{\an1}and escaping
to another country.
436
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{\an1}- There are some monasteries
that are used as waypoints
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{\an1}in the escape
from Nazi Germany.
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{\an1}They're a good place to
conceal yourself short term
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{\an1}as you're transitioning to your
next mode of transportation.
440
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{\an1}- If you were trying
to escape Germany,
441
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{\an1}it wasn't that hard,
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{\an1}because there were something
like 12 million ethnic Germans
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{\an1}who'd all been expelled
by the Soviets.
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{\an1}These people were
all going west as well.
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{\an1}If you were senior
a Nazi official,
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{\an1}you could kind of
disguise your appearance
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{\an1}and you could just say,
hey, I'm a German
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{\an1}from Romania,
and I have no documents
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{\an1}because I was expelled from
my country by the Red Army.
450
00:19:36,042 --> 00:19:39,583
{\an1}- So you've got these rat lines,
which are really a way to get
451
00:19:39,667 --> 00:19:43,708
{\an1}Nazis, or Germans
out of Germany
452
00:19:43,792 --> 00:19:47,333
{\an1}by having friendly folks
along the way helping you out,
453
00:19:47,375 --> 00:19:50,333
{\an1}providing you money,
clothes, food.
454
00:19:50,500 --> 00:19:52,500
{\an1}And so the idea was that Hitler
was going to make his way
455
00:19:52,583 --> 00:19:55,750
{\an1}to this monastery
and stay there,
456
00:19:55,875 --> 00:19:57,292
{\an1}I don't know, as a monk,
457
00:19:57,375 --> 00:19:59,417
{\an1}until he was ready
to go further.
458
00:20:04,375 --> 00:20:07,542
{\an1}- [Laurence] The 1945 fall
of Berlin means the end
459
00:20:07,625 --> 00:20:09,792
{\an1}of the Nazi regime in Germany.
460
00:20:09,875 --> 00:20:11,625
{\an1}But at the end of World War II,
461
00:20:11,708 --> 00:20:14,333
{\an1}did Hitler really
commit suicide,
462
00:20:14,417 --> 00:20:18,292
{\an1}as most historians agree,
or did he somehow escape?
463
00:20:20,125 --> 00:20:22,208
{\an1}- If you were going to try
to escape in 1945,
464
00:20:22,333 --> 00:20:24,750
{\an1}the best place to go
would be Spain.
465
00:20:24,833 --> 00:20:27,167
{\an1}- The theory here is that if
Hitler could make it to Spain,
466
00:20:27,250 --> 00:20:30,375
{\an1}there's a monastery,
the Samos Monastery,
467
00:20:30,542 --> 00:20:33,792
{\an1}that was very friendly
to Nazis escaping Germany.
468
00:20:35,583 --> 00:20:37,125
{\an1}- [Geoffrey]
There was one guy who was
469
00:20:37,208 --> 00:20:39,792
{\an1}a stonemason's apprentice,
a teenager,
470
00:20:39,875 --> 00:20:42,625
{\an1}and then he told
the story when he was 80,
471
00:20:42,708 --> 00:20:46,292
{\an1}"I was at Samos, and I remember
when Hitler arrived
472
00:20:46,375 --> 00:20:48,542
{\an1}"and he was hiding in
the monastery with Eva Braun.
473
00:20:48,625 --> 00:20:51,167
{\an1}They were both so kind to me.
They tipped me so well."
474
00:20:51,250 --> 00:20:52,500
{\an1}None of it could be true.
475
00:20:52,542 --> 00:20:54,000
{\an1}None of it could,
but he talked about it
476
00:20:54,083 --> 00:20:56,250
{\an1}with absolute and
utter conviction.
477
00:20:56,375 --> 00:20:59,417
{\an1}- [Laurence] Many believe
this theory is flawed.
478
00:20:59,500 --> 00:21:03,167
{\an1}- A lot of this is
a lot of stretched reality.
479
00:21:03,208 --> 00:21:05,333
{\an1}The belief that they had
gone through tunnels,
480
00:21:05,375 --> 00:21:07,667
{\an1}the Tempelhof Airport,
and flown out of there
481
00:21:07,708 --> 00:21:11,500
{\an1}over occupied Allied territory
and landed in Spain.
482
00:21:13,417 --> 00:21:16,292
{\an1}Historically speaking,
this idea of Hitler
483
00:21:16,375 --> 00:21:18,667
{\an1}being content with
staying in a monastery
484
00:21:18,750 --> 00:21:22,000
{\an1}and living the life of a monk
is pretty preposterous.
485
00:21:22,083 --> 00:21:23,917
{\an1}This guy's a megalomaniac.
486
00:21:24,000 --> 00:21:27,500
{\an1}He's pretty much insane by
the end of World War II,
487
00:21:27,583 --> 00:21:31,125
{\an1}and we're expecting him
to keep a low profile?
488
00:21:31,208 --> 00:21:32,458
{\an1}Ain't going to happen.
489
00:21:34,042 --> 00:21:35,375
{\an1}- [Laurence] But is it possible
490
00:21:35,458 --> 00:21:39,500
{\an1}Hitler moved on
to another destination?
491
00:21:39,542 --> 00:21:42,875
{\an1}- The idea is that if Hitler
can get himself out of Berlin,
492
00:21:43,000 --> 00:21:45,458
{\an1}get himself into Spain,
Hitler's going to be safe
493
00:21:45,542 --> 00:21:48,125
{\an1}for maybe the next leg
of his journey.
494
00:21:48,208 --> 00:21:50,792
{\an1}(tense music)
495
00:21:53,208 --> 00:21:57,750
{\an1}- Then a number of noteworthy
cases emerge of war criminals
496
00:21:57,833 --> 00:22:00,542
{\an1}who escape justice in Europe,
and they flee to South America,
497
00:22:00,625 --> 00:22:02,375
{\an1}and they find a home
in Argentina.
498
00:22:02,500 --> 00:22:05,583
{\an1}Argentina ultimately joins
the Allies during World War II,
499
00:22:05,667 --> 00:22:07,583
{\an1}but does so very late
in the game.
500
00:22:07,667 --> 00:22:09,708
{\an1}There were those in the country
501
00:22:09,833 --> 00:22:12,042
{\an1}who were sympathetic
to Nazi Germany,
502
00:22:12,125 --> 00:22:15,917
{\an1}and it's because of these
sympathies that we have
503
00:22:16,042 --> 00:22:17,833
{\an1}to recognize the possibility
504
00:22:17,917 --> 00:22:19,917
{\an1}that Adolf Hitler could
have gotten there himself.
505
00:22:21,667 --> 00:22:23,625
{\an1}- [Robert] Germans had migrated
into Argentina
506
00:22:23,708 --> 00:22:27,167
{\an1}in significant numbers,
in different waves.
507
00:22:27,250 --> 00:22:29,042
{\an1}They were able
to build communities,
508
00:22:29,125 --> 00:22:31,333
{\an1}particularly in the southern
part of the country,
509
00:22:31,458 --> 00:22:34,000
{\an1}where they concentrated
slightly more.
510
00:22:34,083 --> 00:22:37,083
{\an1}- [Newscaster] The symbol of
tyranny began to appear
511
00:22:37,167 --> 00:22:39,083
{\an1}in the large
South American cities
512
00:22:39,167 --> 00:22:41,667
{\an1}and in the backwoods
of Patagonia.
513
00:22:41,708 --> 00:22:45,000
{\an1}- So would Hitler have found
a welcome reception there?
514
00:22:45,083 --> 00:22:46,792
{\an1}Could he have hidden there?
515
00:22:46,792 --> 00:22:48,500
{\an1}Most likely.
516
00:22:48,583 --> 00:22:51,333
{\an1}So the theory that Hitler
escaped to Argentina
517
00:22:51,417 --> 00:22:53,708
{\an1}seems plausible
to some theorists,
518
00:22:53,792 --> 00:22:55,958
{\an1}partly because it is plausible.
519
00:22:56,042 --> 00:22:58,458
{\an1}- [Laurence] But if Hitler
did escape to Argentina,
520
00:22:58,542 --> 00:23:01,667
{\an1}how did he get there?
521
00:23:01,792 --> 00:23:04,042
{\an1}- [Jesse] During the war,
Germany had a group
522
00:23:04,167 --> 00:23:06,208
{\an1}of submarines called U-boats.
523
00:23:06,333 --> 00:23:09,167
{\an1}They were incredibly lethal,
524
00:23:09,250 --> 00:23:10,667
{\an1}and they were far ranging,
525
00:23:10,708 --> 00:23:13,000
{\an1}really traveling
all around the world.
526
00:23:13,000 --> 00:23:16,208
{\an1}- German U-boats could
certainly range
527
00:23:16,292 --> 00:23:18,625
{\an1}across the Atlantic
into Argentinian waters.
528
00:23:18,708 --> 00:23:21,167
{\an1}They frequently attacked
Allied shipping.
529
00:23:21,250 --> 00:23:23,792
{\an1}They had an incredibly
dangerous fleet.
530
00:23:23,875 --> 00:23:25,667
{\an1}They were sinking
Allied shipping
531
00:23:25,708 --> 00:23:27,708
{\an1}almost as fast
as it could be built.
532
00:23:27,833 --> 00:23:31,667
{\an1}- [Newscaster] Ordered out from
Atlantic bases to destroy
533
00:23:31,708 --> 00:23:33,542
{\an1}or be destroyed themselves,
534
00:23:33,625 --> 00:23:36,208
{\an1}hundreds of newly built
Nazi submarines
535
00:23:36,292 --> 00:23:37,958
{\an1}take to the open sea.
536
00:23:38,042 --> 00:23:40,333
{\an1}- [Laurence]
When the Allies declare victory,
537
00:23:40,417 --> 00:23:42,500
{\an1}all German submarines
or U-boats
538
00:23:42,583 --> 00:23:45,958
{\an1}are ordered to give themselves
up to the Allied forces.
539
00:23:46,042 --> 00:23:48,083
{\an1}Most do so, but not all.
540
00:23:48,167 --> 00:23:50,667
{\an1}In fact, the U-530 submarine
541
00:23:50,750 --> 00:23:54,125
{\an1}resurfaces in
a surprising place.
542
00:23:54,208 --> 00:23:58,000
{\an1}- On July 10, 1945,
you actually have a U-boat
543
00:23:58,083 --> 00:23:59,500
{\an1}showing up at
544
00:23:59,542 --> 00:24:01,375
{\an1}an Argentinian naval base
545
00:24:01,458 --> 00:24:03,292
{\an1}called Mar de Plata.
546
00:24:03,375 --> 00:24:05,833
{\an1}- It's impossible not
to recognize that
547
00:24:05,917 --> 00:24:09,167
{\an1}U-530 could have
potentially carried
548
00:24:09,208 --> 00:24:12,167
{\an1}very important cargo in the form
of Eva Braun and Adolf Hitler.
549
00:24:12,208 --> 00:24:14,792
{\an1}The timing works out.
550
00:24:14,875 --> 00:24:16,583
{\an1}- [Kevin] With this U-boat
show up at Mar de Plata
551
00:24:16,667 --> 00:24:19,500
{\an1}on July 10, 1945,
552
00:24:19,500 --> 00:24:21,542
{\an1}that's almost
two months to the day
553
00:24:21,625 --> 00:24:23,333
{\an1}that Hitler commits suicide,
554
00:24:23,458 --> 00:24:25,167
{\an1}and it takes two months
for a U-boat
555
00:24:25,250 --> 00:24:28,917
{\an1}to get from Spain to Argentina.
556
00:24:29,042 --> 00:24:30,167
{\an1}- [Martin]
There's a reason that we look
557
00:24:30,292 --> 00:24:32,167
{\an1}suspiciously at Argentina,
558
00:24:32,208 --> 00:24:34,667
{\an1}and that's because people did
escape and make their way there
559
00:24:34,750 --> 00:24:36,333
{\an1}in the aftermath of
the Second World War.
560
00:24:36,458 --> 00:24:39,750
{\an1}Most notoriously,
Adolf Eichmann is living on
561
00:24:39,833 --> 00:24:43,083
{\an1}a house on Garibaldi Street
in Buenos Aires.
562
00:24:43,167 --> 00:24:44,833
{\an1}- [Laurence] Eichmann,
one of the main architects
563
00:24:44,875 --> 00:24:46,750
{\an1}of the Holocaust,
escapes Europe
564
00:24:46,833 --> 00:24:49,667
{\an1}and reinvents himself
in Argentina.
565
00:24:49,750 --> 00:24:52,708
{\an1}He changes his name
to Ricardo Clement,
566
00:24:52,792 --> 00:24:54,750
{\an1}and works as a mechanic
567
00:24:54,833 --> 00:24:58,167
{\an1}at the Mercedes-Benz factory
in Buenos Aires before
568
00:24:58,208 --> 00:25:02,792
{\an1}being captured and hanged by
Israel's Mossad agents in 1960.
569
00:25:04,958 --> 00:25:08,500
{\an1}- In 1954, the US
Federal Bureau of Investigations
570
00:25:08,542 --> 00:25:11,583
{\an1}conducts an investigation
about sightings,
571
00:25:11,667 --> 00:25:14,500
{\an1}supposed sightings of
Adolf Hitler in Argentina.
572
00:25:14,583 --> 00:25:17,708
{\an1}The FBI files include
material about
573
00:25:17,792 --> 00:25:21,667
{\an1}an unnamed German expatriate
who is living in Argentina
574
00:25:21,750 --> 00:25:24,833
{\an1}and exchanging correspondence
with an Adolf Hitler
575
00:25:24,875 --> 00:25:29,292
{\an1}who is alive and well and
living somewhere in Argentina.
576
00:25:29,375 --> 00:25:31,750
{\an1}- [Laurence] If he could somehow
make it to Argentina,
577
00:25:31,833 --> 00:25:34,167
{\an1}is it possible Hitler would have
gone further than the coast?
578
00:25:36,083 --> 00:25:38,500
{\an1}Archaeologists have recently
unearthed something astounding
579
00:25:38,583 --> 00:25:40,667
{\an1}deep in the Argentine jungle.
580
00:25:40,750 --> 00:25:42,542
{\an1}- This could be an answer
581
00:25:42,625 --> 00:25:44,500
{\an1}to what happened to Hitler
after World War II.
582
00:25:48,542 --> 00:25:50,375
{\an1}- In 1945, the Soviet Union
583
00:25:50,500 --> 00:25:52,208
{\an1}told the world it had evidence
584
00:25:52,208 --> 00:25:56,125
{\an1}that Hitler committed suicide
in a bunker in Berlin.
585
00:25:56,208 --> 00:26:01,500
{\an1}FBI documents declassified
in 2014 bolster that fact.
586
00:26:01,583 --> 00:26:04,375
{\an1}But there are those
who speculate
587
00:26:04,458 --> 00:26:06,417
{\an1}a different end, and believe
588
00:26:06,542 --> 00:26:08,625
{\an1}a remote location
in Argentina
589
00:26:08,708 --> 00:26:11,250
{\an1}holds important new clues.
590
00:26:13,042 --> 00:26:15,917
{\an1}- Destination number one
for Nazi war criminals
591
00:26:16,000 --> 00:26:17,542
{\an1}was Argentina.
592
00:26:17,625 --> 00:26:19,333
{\an1}These guys came ashore,
593
00:26:19,417 --> 00:26:20,625
{\an1}and there was no attempt by
594
00:26:20,708 --> 00:26:22,625
{\an1}the Argentine government
to punish this,
595
00:26:22,708 --> 00:26:25,625
{\an1}they were welcomed
into the country.
596
00:26:25,708 --> 00:26:28,250
{\an1}- [Laurence]
In 2015, a team led by
597
00:26:28,333 --> 00:26:31,458
{\an1}former CIA agent Bob Baer
travels to Argentina
598
00:26:31,542 --> 00:26:33,875
{\an1}to pressure test 700 pages
599
00:26:33,958 --> 00:26:38,083
{\an1}of recently declassified
FBI documents.
600
00:26:38,167 --> 00:26:40,417
{\an1}- Bob Baer goes down to
Argentina to sorta
601
00:26:40,542 --> 00:26:43,458
{\an1}check this out in 2015,
602
00:26:43,542 --> 00:26:44,583
{\an1}and what he finds
603
00:26:44,667 --> 00:26:46,125
{\an1}is a big school,
604
00:26:46,208 --> 00:26:48,042
{\an1}a Hitler Youth school,
605
00:26:48,042 --> 00:26:51,500
{\an1}and finds out it was used to
teach Nazi doctrine to children,
606
00:26:51,542 --> 00:26:55,167
{\an1}just like the Hitler Youth in
Germany in the '30s and '40s.
607
00:26:55,250 --> 00:26:58,667
{\an1}- What he was finding
was evidence of a colony
608
00:26:58,750 --> 00:27:00,917
{\an1}where they flew
the Swastika flag,
609
00:27:01,000 --> 00:27:02,542
{\an1}where they were raising youth
610
00:27:02,667 --> 00:27:04,042
{\an1}and teaching them in the ways
611
00:27:04,125 --> 00:27:05,625
{\an1}of National Socialism,
and teaching them
612
00:27:05,625 --> 00:27:08,000
{\an1}about the history
of Adolf Hitler.
613
00:27:08,042 --> 00:27:10,333
{\an1}It appears that
a colony lived on
614
00:27:10,458 --> 00:27:12,458
{\an1}that kept the torch going
615
00:27:12,542 --> 00:27:14,333
{\an1}about National Socialism
616
00:27:14,417 --> 00:27:16,958
{\an1}even after the fall of Berlin.
617
00:27:17,042 --> 00:27:19,500
{\an1}- This is almost like
a cult waiting for its leader
618
00:27:19,583 --> 00:27:21,750
{\an1}to come back to lead them
to power.
619
00:27:23,625 --> 00:27:25,583
{\an1}- [Laurence]
But Bear's team doesn't stop
620
00:27:25,708 --> 00:27:27,875
{\an1}at San Antonio Oeste.
621
00:27:27,958 --> 00:27:30,500
{\an1}The trail takes them from
the coastal town
622
00:27:30,583 --> 00:27:32,458
{\an1}to areas that
would be much harder
623
00:27:32,542 --> 00:27:34,500
{\an1}for prying eyes to find.
624
00:27:34,625 --> 00:27:35,875
{\an1}- [Kevin]
In the Argentinian jungle
625
00:27:35,958 --> 00:27:38,042
{\an1}in Missiones,
there's a compound,
626
00:27:38,125 --> 00:27:40,708
{\an1}and farmers there
discover a bunker
627
00:27:40,792 --> 00:27:42,875
{\an1}but it's not wood and dirt.
628
00:27:42,958 --> 00:27:45,125
{\an1}It's tiled,
looks rather fancy,
629
00:27:45,208 --> 00:27:47,958
{\an1}they find Nazi coins
and other Nazi memorabilia.
630
00:27:49,875 --> 00:27:51,583
{\an1}- [Laurence] To Bob Baer,
the complex seems
631
00:27:51,583 --> 00:27:54,417
{\an1}intended for use
by someone important.
632
00:27:54,500 --> 00:27:56,500
{\an1}- Also in the FBI files,
633
00:27:56,542 --> 00:27:58,708
{\an1}the locals have noted
a network of roads
634
00:27:58,792 --> 00:28:01,208
{\an1}that are controlled by
the local German community.
635
00:28:01,292 --> 00:28:03,583
{\an1}These roads, which are small
and run through jungle towns
636
00:28:03,708 --> 00:28:05,250
{\an1}and rural communities,
637
00:28:05,333 --> 00:28:07,292
{\an1}could be used to move anyone,
638
00:28:07,375 --> 00:28:09,500
{\an1}or anything anonymously.
639
00:28:09,625 --> 00:28:11,417
{\an1}- Simple military engineering.
640
00:28:11,500 --> 00:28:12,875
{\an1}If you have one way out,
one way in,
641
00:28:12,958 --> 00:28:14,875
{\an1}It's very easy to control
642
00:28:14,875 --> 00:28:17,167
{\an1}who moves back and forth
on that road complex.
643
00:28:17,250 --> 00:28:19,667
{\an1}If anyone approached
and began snooping,
644
00:28:19,750 --> 00:28:21,833
{\an1}there would be plenty of warning
645
00:28:21,917 --> 00:28:25,042
{\an1}whereby you could skirt off
to someplace else.
646
00:28:25,125 --> 00:28:28,542
{\an1}- [Schug] The Missiones complex
does seem like a place where
647
00:28:28,625 --> 00:28:30,667
{\an1}Hitler could survive
safely and comfortably,
648
00:28:30,750 --> 00:28:32,750
{\an1}and Argentina itself
does seem like
649
00:28:32,875 --> 00:28:35,042
{\an1}an ideal place
for Hitler to be.
650
00:28:35,167 --> 00:28:38,000
{\an1}But Germans have a strong
presence in Argentina
651
00:28:38,083 --> 00:28:40,542
{\an1}after the war,
so having Hitler exist
652
00:28:40,625 --> 00:28:44,333
{\an1}secretly among them seems like
it would be a tall order.
653
00:28:44,458 --> 00:28:46,083
{\an1}- [Martin] There's always
the possibility that Argentina
654
00:28:46,167 --> 00:28:48,000
{\an1}wasn't a great place
to go because
655
00:28:48,125 --> 00:28:49,875
{\an1}we were looking there
after the war.
656
00:28:49,958 --> 00:28:53,417
{\an1}Certainly U-530 provided us
with a big fat arrow
657
00:28:53,500 --> 00:28:55,000
{\an1}pointing directly at Argentina.
658
00:28:55,083 --> 00:28:56,667
{\an1}If people are looking,
maybe it's not
659
00:28:56,792 --> 00:28:58,875
{\an1}the best place to hide,
660
00:28:59,000 --> 00:29:02,000
{\an1}maybe someplace else more remote
would be a better place to hide.
661
00:29:02,083 --> 00:29:04,750
{\an1}- It's a hop, skip, and a jump
662
00:29:04,833 --> 00:29:07,500
{\an1}from the southern tip of
Argentina to the South Pole.
663
00:29:07,583 --> 00:29:09,458
{\an1}(tense music)
664
00:29:12,875 --> 00:29:14,792
{\an1}- There's a possibility
that Adolf Hitler may have
665
00:29:14,875 --> 00:29:17,208
{\an1}ended up in Antarctica.
666
00:29:17,292 --> 00:29:20,750
{\an1}- There's been a lot of
exploration of Antarctica
667
00:29:20,875 --> 00:29:23,167
{\an1}by Germany even before
World War I.
668
00:29:23,292 --> 00:29:27,000
{\an1}- The first of two
German Antarctic expeditions
669
00:29:27,083 --> 00:29:30,917
{\an1}occurs between 1901 and 1903.
670
00:29:31,000 --> 00:29:34,083
{\an1}The goal of this expedition
was to survey a part of
671
00:29:34,167 --> 00:29:36,833
{\an1}the Antarctic continent
and to determine
672
00:29:36,875 --> 00:29:38,875
{\an1}if it had strategic value.
673
00:29:38,875 --> 00:29:41,333
{\an1}- The German industry
needs fuel,
674
00:29:41,417 --> 00:29:45,083
{\an1}and the concept is that
the answer to this is whale oil.
675
00:29:45,167 --> 00:29:48,375
{\an1}And so these German patrols
go down to Antarctica.
676
00:29:48,458 --> 00:29:49,792
{\an1}They survey the grounds.
677
00:29:49,875 --> 00:29:51,833
{\an1}The idea is to build a plant
678
00:29:51,917 --> 00:29:54,292
{\an1}to produce whale fat
into fuel.
679
00:29:54,375 --> 00:29:56,917
{\an1}- During the National Socialist
period, there was an actual
680
00:29:57,042 --> 00:29:59,375
{\an1}Nazi Antarctic expedition
681
00:29:59,500 --> 00:30:02,625
{\an1}that carved out a slot
of the Antarctic continent
682
00:30:02,708 --> 00:30:05,833
{\an1}that was for National
Socialist Germany.
683
00:30:05,958 --> 00:30:09,125
{\an1}- [Kevin] In 1947,
a book comes out claiming
684
00:30:09,208 --> 00:30:11,500
{\an1}that German U-boats after
the war were actually
685
00:30:11,583 --> 00:30:13,667
{\an1}delivering ex-Nazis
686
00:30:13,708 --> 00:30:15,875
{\an1}to Antarctica and
the South Pole.
687
00:30:16,000 --> 00:30:18,750
{\an1}But later, one of
the German U-boat commanders,
688
00:30:18,833 --> 00:30:20,375
{\an1}a guy named Heinz Schaeffer,
689
00:30:20,458 --> 00:30:23,000
{\an1}he comes out and denies
the whole thing.
690
00:30:23,125 --> 00:30:26,500
{\an1}- The captain denies that
they proceeded to Antarctica.
691
00:30:26,583 --> 00:30:27,958
{\an1}But, of course,
if he was trusted
692
00:30:28,042 --> 00:30:31,167
{\an1}with moving the German
head of state
693
00:30:31,250 --> 00:30:34,542
{\an1}to an unidentified,
undisclosed location,
694
00:30:34,625 --> 00:30:35,542
{\an1}wouldn't that be the story
he tells?
695
00:30:41,042 --> 00:30:43,417
{\an1}- [Laurence]
By the spring of 1945,
696
00:30:43,500 --> 00:30:45,000
{\an1}Nazi Germany has fallen.
697
00:30:45,125 --> 00:30:47,500
{\an1}But some international
intelligence reports
698
00:30:47,583 --> 00:30:52,042
{\an1}suggest that Hitler may have
escaped and is on the run.
699
00:30:52,125 --> 00:30:54,125
{\an1}Some theorists
raise the possibility
700
00:30:54,208 --> 00:30:57,458
{\an1}that his ultimate destination
is Antarctica.
701
00:30:57,542 --> 00:31:01,167
{\an1}- Prior to World War II,
Nazi Germany is actually
702
00:31:01,250 --> 00:31:04,000
{\an1}looking to establish bases to
support its whaling fleet.
703
00:31:05,958 --> 00:31:10,000
{\an1}- In 1938, the Germans
take possession of an area
704
00:31:10,042 --> 00:31:12,833
{\an1}of Antarctica called
Neuschwabenland.
705
00:31:12,917 --> 00:31:15,333
{\an1}This actually
belonged to Norway,
706
00:31:15,417 --> 00:31:17,458
{\an1}and the Germans basically
just plucked up
707
00:31:17,542 --> 00:31:20,333
{\an1}the Norwegian flag
and put down their own.
708
00:31:20,417 --> 00:31:23,042
{\an1}- [Jesse] Now, it sounds strange
that Germany would send
709
00:31:23,125 --> 00:31:26,500
{\an1}U-boats to Antarctica,
but at that time,
710
00:31:26,583 --> 00:31:27,917
{\an1}the continent was considered
711
00:31:28,000 --> 00:31:31,167
{\an1}to be a treasure trove
of resources,
712
00:31:31,208 --> 00:31:33,000
{\an1}especially for countries
that were looking
713
00:31:33,042 --> 00:31:35,042
{\an1}to expand their empires.
714
00:31:35,167 --> 00:31:36,833
{\an1}- [Newscaster]
A season's catch may be valued
715
00:31:36,875 --> 00:31:39,625
{\an1}at over 2 million pounds.
716
00:31:39,708 --> 00:31:42,083
{\an1}- [Martin] The purpose of these
bases was to get Germany in
717
00:31:42,167 --> 00:31:44,000
{\an1}on the whale oil game,
718
00:31:44,000 --> 00:31:47,417
{\an1}when whale oil was as good
as gold or as good as oil.
719
00:31:47,500 --> 00:31:49,500
{\an1}But those same bases
could also be used
720
00:31:49,583 --> 00:31:52,458
{\an1}at the end of the war
to harbor fugitives.
721
00:31:52,542 --> 00:31:56,250
{\an1}In 1943, Grand Admiral
Karl Donitz claims
722
00:31:56,333 --> 00:31:57,875
{\an1}that Germany's submarine fleet
723
00:31:57,958 --> 00:32:00,583
{\an1}has created
an unassailable fortress
724
00:32:00,583 --> 00:32:01,625
{\an1}on the other end
of the world.
725
00:32:03,542 --> 00:32:06,000
{\an1}- Now, while this sounds like,
oh, there's obviously
726
00:32:06,042 --> 00:32:08,500
{\an1}a fortress down there,
this is what he would have said
727
00:32:08,625 --> 00:32:10,583
{\an1}about any locations
the Germans possessed
728
00:32:10,708 --> 00:32:12,167
{\an1}during World War II.
729
00:32:12,250 --> 00:32:14,333
{\an1}He understands the power
of propaganda
730
00:32:14,375 --> 00:32:16,250
{\an1}and what to use
against the enemy.
731
00:32:16,333 --> 00:32:18,208
{\an1}(tense music)
732
00:32:18,292 --> 00:32:20,250
{\an1}- The German U-boat fleet
was also known
733
00:32:20,333 --> 00:32:22,292
{\an1}for sneaking off
and doing secretive things
734
00:32:22,375 --> 00:32:23,917
{\an1}and conducting secretive
landings that we don't
735
00:32:23,917 --> 00:32:25,750
{\an1}find out about
until years later.
736
00:32:25,833 --> 00:32:28,375
{\an1}In the example of U-537,
it actually sails
737
00:32:28,458 --> 00:32:33,000
{\an1}to what would eventually
become part of Canada in 1943
738
00:32:33,083 --> 00:32:34,792
{\an1}and it establishes
a weather station that
739
00:32:34,875 --> 00:32:38,167
{\an1}nobody knows a thing about
until the 1970s.
740
00:32:38,250 --> 00:32:40,292
{\an1}So we're not writing
science fiction
741
00:32:40,375 --> 00:32:43,583
{\an1}when we imagine the Germans
using a U-boat to sail
742
00:32:43,583 --> 00:32:45,625
{\an1}to a remote and very cold place
743
00:32:45,708 --> 00:32:49,250
{\an1}to conduct a landing
and put structures ashore.
744
00:32:49,250 --> 00:32:51,500
{\an1}- Articles come out
with this theory
745
00:32:51,583 --> 00:32:54,000
{\an1}that months after
the capitulation of Germany,
746
00:32:54,083 --> 00:32:56,208
{\an1}April of 1945,
747
00:32:56,333 --> 00:33:00,458
{\an1}a German U-boat shows up
in Antarctica,
748
00:33:00,542 --> 00:33:03,167
{\an1}and the crew gets off
and they don't get back on.
749
00:33:03,250 --> 00:33:04,708
{\an1}They stay and they
start building
750
00:33:04,792 --> 00:33:07,125
{\an1}shelters for themselves.
751
00:33:07,208 --> 00:33:10,083
{\an1}- That leads to this
tantalizing possibility
752
00:33:10,167 --> 00:33:12,417
{\an1}that they may have been
laying the infrastructure
753
00:33:12,500 --> 00:33:15,000
{\an1}for the Fuhrer himself
to come there
754
00:33:15,083 --> 00:33:17,667
{\an1}and to begin this continuity
of government program
755
00:33:17,708 --> 00:33:20,542
{\an1}from Antarctica.
756
00:33:20,625 --> 00:33:23,542
{\an1}- [Luke] Nazi Germany definitely
had interest in Antarctica,
757
00:33:23,625 --> 00:33:25,458
{\an1}but there's absolutely
no evidence to suggest
758
00:33:25,542 --> 00:33:27,375
{\an1}that Hitler escaped
to Antarctica.
759
00:33:27,458 --> 00:33:29,292
{\an1}Hitler wouldn't want
to have lived in Antarctica.
760
00:33:29,375 --> 00:33:31,333
{\an1}He would have hated living
in Antarctica.
761
00:33:31,417 --> 00:33:34,042
{\an1}- From a psychological
perspective,
762
00:33:34,167 --> 00:33:35,417
{\an1}it would seem odd
for a person
763
00:33:35,500 --> 00:33:37,500
{\an1}who's used to having
all of this power
764
00:33:37,542 --> 00:33:40,833
{\an1}and control to end up
at the bottom of the world
765
00:33:40,958 --> 00:33:42,333
{\an1}with no one around him.
766
00:33:42,417 --> 00:33:45,000
{\an1}Doesn't seem like a good fit.
767
00:33:45,042 --> 00:33:46,583
{\an1}- [Laurence]
But talk of a German
768
00:33:46,667 --> 00:33:48,500
{\an1}Antarctic base persists,
769
00:33:48,583 --> 00:33:51,208
{\an1}and the international
search continues.
770
00:33:51,333 --> 00:33:54,833
{\an1}- Down the road, articles,
books come out saying
771
00:33:54,917 --> 00:33:58,167
{\an1}that after World War II,
in August of 1945,
772
00:33:58,250 --> 00:34:00,333
{\an1}just months after
Germany's surrender,
773
00:34:00,458 --> 00:34:03,042
{\an1}the British launched
Operation Tabarin,
774
00:34:03,125 --> 00:34:06,583
{\an1}the idea being that they
sent troops down to Antarctica
775
00:34:06,667 --> 00:34:08,333
{\an1}to take this fortress,
776
00:34:08,375 --> 00:34:10,292
{\an1}but were held back
by the Germans,
777
00:34:10,375 --> 00:34:13,292
{\an1}who possessed it
for decades after.
778
00:34:13,375 --> 00:34:16,500
{\an1}So again, every time
they tamp down,
779
00:34:16,583 --> 00:34:20,042
{\an1}one rumor or another
is gonna pop up.
780
00:34:20,125 --> 00:34:22,000
{\an1}- [Paul] As the foremost
maritime power in the world
781
00:34:22,042 --> 00:34:23,500
{\an1}prior to World War II,
782
00:34:23,583 --> 00:34:25,833
{\an1}it's unsurprising
that the British Navy
783
00:34:25,875 --> 00:34:27,708
{\an1}is involved in
a substantial number
784
00:34:27,792 --> 00:34:30,583
{\an1}of expeditions mapping out
the rest of the world
785
00:34:30,667 --> 00:34:32,708
{\an1}and looking for
basing opportunities.
786
00:34:32,792 --> 00:34:34,375
{\an1}However, Operation Tabarin
787
00:34:34,458 --> 00:34:36,042
{\an1}was not a secret
military mission
788
00:34:36,167 --> 00:34:38,875
{\an1}to attack some Nazi base
in Antarctica.
789
00:34:38,958 --> 00:34:40,333
{\an1}It was a scientific mission
790
00:34:40,375 --> 00:34:43,500
{\an1}designed to study
the climate of Antarctica.
791
00:34:43,583 --> 00:34:46,292
{\an1}- [Jesse] It doesn't look like
the theory that Hitler
792
00:34:46,375 --> 00:34:49,000
{\an1}left Germany after
World War II
793
00:34:49,083 --> 00:34:51,208
{\an1}and went to a secret Nazi base
794
00:34:51,292 --> 00:34:53,625
{\an1}in Antarctica
is in any way true.
795
00:34:53,708 --> 00:34:57,250
{\an1}The only evidence that we've
been able to find shows that
796
00:34:57,333 --> 00:35:00,458
{\an1}Germany had a base in
Antarctica for whale oil.
797
00:35:05,167 --> 00:35:07,542
{\an1}- [Laurence] After the fall
of Germany in 1945,
798
00:35:07,625 --> 00:35:11,250
{\an1}some intelligence reports
suggest Hitler may have escaped.
799
00:35:11,333 --> 00:35:14,333
{\an1}Others have made an even more
startling claim,
800
00:35:14,375 --> 00:35:18,500
{\an1}one that boggles
the imagination.
801
00:35:18,542 --> 00:35:20,167
{\an1}- [Martin] There were a lot of
people that didn't like him,
802
00:35:20,208 --> 00:35:21,833
{\an1}and there were a lot of people
who wanted him dead,
803
00:35:21,875 --> 00:35:24,292
{\an1}even in Germany.
804
00:35:24,375 --> 00:35:28,375
{\an1}So there's a possibility that
the person who killed himself
805
00:35:28,458 --> 00:35:30,833
{\an1}in the bunker in Berlin
was somebody
806
00:35:30,875 --> 00:35:32,542
{\an1}who just looked like Hitler,
807
00:35:32,625 --> 00:35:34,833
{\an1}that it wasn't him at all,
that it was a body double.
808
00:35:40,250 --> 00:35:42,958
{\an1}- [Laurence] To support
this theory, some turn to
809
00:35:43,042 --> 00:35:46,250
{\an1}the many assassination attempts
made against the Nazi League.
810
00:35:46,333 --> 00:35:49,292
{\an1}- There were 42 assassination
attempts, if we're counting
811
00:35:49,375 --> 00:35:53,250
{\an1}actual attempts,
and if you add up plots
812
00:35:53,333 --> 00:35:55,375
{\an1}that were foiled before
they could be sprung,
813
00:35:55,500 --> 00:35:58,000
{\an1}the number reaches over 100.
814
00:35:58,042 --> 00:36:00,333
{\an1}- One of them was a general
815
00:36:00,375 --> 00:36:02,458
{\an1}was gonna hug him
with two hand grenades
816
00:36:02,542 --> 00:36:04,500
{\an1}in his hands and blow him up.
817
00:36:04,542 --> 00:36:06,667
{\an1}They also put explosives
on his airplane
818
00:36:06,750 --> 00:36:10,333
{\an1}when he was traveling
to the Russian front.
819
00:36:10,417 --> 00:36:13,667
{\an1}- The most famous one probably
being Operation Valkyrie,
820
00:36:13,792 --> 00:36:17,292
{\an1}which has been immortalized
in the film starring Tom Cruise.
821
00:36:17,292 --> 00:36:19,375
{\an1}(tense music)
822
00:36:19,458 --> 00:36:22,875
{\an1}- [Kevin] Valkyrie becomes
known as the July 20 bomb plot,
823
00:36:22,958 --> 00:36:26,250
{\an1}because it occurs on
July 20, 1944,
824
00:36:26,333 --> 00:36:28,333
{\an1}just a little bit
after D-Day,
825
00:36:28,458 --> 00:36:31,333
{\an1}where the Allies
are coming across France.
826
00:36:31,458 --> 00:36:33,667
{\an1}- [Laurence]
By the summer of 1944,
827
00:36:33,792 --> 00:36:36,167
{\an1}a growing number of Germany's
senior military leaders
828
00:36:36,250 --> 00:36:37,833
{\an1}are losing hope.
829
00:36:37,917 --> 00:36:41,083
{\an1}Many blame Hitler for leading
Germany to disaster.
830
00:36:41,208 --> 00:36:43,625
{\an1}- [Kevin]
One of Hitler's army officers,
831
00:36:43,708 --> 00:36:45,750
{\an1}Von Stauffenberg,
is going to bring
832
00:36:45,833 --> 00:36:47,542
{\an1}a briefcase bomb
833
00:36:47,542 --> 00:36:49,625
{\an1}down into his Wolf's Lair,
834
00:36:49,708 --> 00:36:52,500
{\an1}and he's going to break
two little glass tubes
835
00:36:52,583 --> 00:36:54,708
{\an1}in the briefcase
that will start a timer.
836
00:36:54,792 --> 00:36:57,292
{\an1}He's gonna put the suitcase
under a table
837
00:36:57,375 --> 00:36:58,792
{\an1}and get out of there.
838
00:36:58,875 --> 00:37:00,167
{\an1}(explosion)
839
00:37:00,250 --> 00:37:02,167
{\an1}(tense music)
840
00:37:02,208 --> 00:37:04,125
{\an1}Because of the heavy legs
of the table,
841
00:37:04,208 --> 00:37:06,833
{\an1}one of those legs absorbed
a lot of the blast.
842
00:37:06,917 --> 00:37:08,667
{\an1}Hitler survived it.
843
00:37:08,750 --> 00:37:11,042
{\an1}He actually gets on the phone
and begins calling people,
844
00:37:11,167 --> 00:37:13,292
{\an1}putting down this insurrection,
845
00:37:13,375 --> 00:37:15,500
{\an1}and it's probably
the best known attempt
846
00:37:15,667 --> 00:37:16,833
{\an1}to kill Hitler
847
00:37:16,917 --> 00:37:20,667
{\an1}and restore some degree
of normalcy in Germany.
848
00:37:20,750 --> 00:37:23,333
{\an1}- [Martin] According to Bauer,
he may have been killed
849
00:37:23,375 --> 00:37:25,667
{\an1}in the July 20
assassination plot
850
00:37:25,750 --> 00:37:28,292
{\an1}and they just didn't want
to let Germany know
851
00:37:28,375 --> 00:37:30,375
{\an1}because it was at
a critical moment in the war.
852
00:37:30,458 --> 00:37:32,333
{\an1}This is not a good time to
have to go, oh, yeah, hey,
853
00:37:32,417 --> 00:37:33,667
{\an1}by the way,
somebody killed him,
854
00:37:33,708 --> 00:37:35,000
{\an1}and it was one of our guys
that did it.
855
00:37:35,083 --> 00:37:37,000
{\an1}(tense music)
856
00:37:37,042 --> 00:37:40,625
{\an1}- In 1939, Maximilian Bauer
writes this book called
857
00:37:40,708 --> 00:37:42,792
{\an1}"The Strange Death
of Adolf Hitler"
858
00:37:42,875 --> 00:37:46,292
{\an1}and claims that
Hitler died in 1938.
859
00:37:46,375 --> 00:37:48,375
{\an1}And so all events that
are gonna take place
860
00:37:48,458 --> 00:37:52,625
{\an1}hence on is actually gonna
be from a body double.
861
00:37:52,708 --> 00:37:55,083
{\an1}- [Martin] According to Bauer,
Adolf Hitler is dining with
862
00:37:55,167 --> 00:37:56,625
{\an1}some of his critical leaders,
863
00:37:56,708 --> 00:37:59,000
{\an1}and he's poisoned during
the meal.
864
00:37:59,125 --> 00:38:01,708
{\an1}So the senior leadership,
they felt like that would
865
00:38:01,792 --> 00:38:03,667
{\an1}just be too much of
a blow to morale.
866
00:38:03,792 --> 00:38:06,333
{\an1}And so what they did
was replace him
867
00:38:06,417 --> 00:38:08,667
{\an1}with a series of body doubles.
868
00:38:08,708 --> 00:38:11,958
{\an1}(tense music)
869
00:38:12,042 --> 00:38:13,458
{\an1}- The Nazi propaganda machine
870
00:38:13,542 --> 00:38:16,708
{\an1}is one of the most well-oiled
machines there is.
871
00:38:16,792 --> 00:38:20,458
{\an1}Joseph Goebbels is using
every incident, everything,
872
00:38:20,458 --> 00:38:23,625
{\an1}to churn out language
of the Nazi Party.
873
00:38:23,708 --> 00:38:25,500
{\an1}And so if anybody's going
to be able to cover up
874
00:38:25,542 --> 00:38:27,250
{\an1}the death of Adolf Hitler
875
00:38:27,333 --> 00:38:29,083
{\an1}and convince everyone
876
00:38:29,167 --> 00:38:30,583
{\an1}that this other person is him,
877
00:38:30,667 --> 00:38:32,375
{\an1}it's gonna be
Joseph Goebbels.
878
00:38:32,458 --> 00:38:33,542
{\an1}(explosion)
879
00:38:33,625 --> 00:38:35,000
{\an1}- [Laurence] If Hitler was dead
880
00:38:35,042 --> 00:38:36,542
{\an1}long before the end
of the war,
881
00:38:36,625 --> 00:38:39,833
{\an1}is it possible he was
replaced by a body double?
882
00:38:39,917 --> 00:38:42,500
{\an1}As proof, some turn
to a body found
883
00:38:42,583 --> 00:38:44,958
{\an1}in the wreckage of
the Reich Chancellery.
884
00:38:46,542 --> 00:38:48,833
{\an1}- And he looks so much
like Adolf Hitler
885
00:38:48,875 --> 00:38:51,458
{\an1}that all these Soviet soldiers
kind of pile in around him.
886
00:38:51,542 --> 00:38:53,667
{\an1}They're taking photos of him.
887
00:38:53,792 --> 00:38:56,625
{\an1}It actually belongs to
a man named Gustav Weller,
888
00:38:56,708 --> 00:38:58,333
{\an1}but he looks so much
like Adolf Hitler,
889
00:38:58,417 --> 00:39:00,333
{\an1}they at first thought,
"Oh, my gosh,
890
00:39:00,375 --> 00:39:01,458
{\an1}here's his dead body,
we found him."
891
00:39:01,542 --> 00:39:03,375
{\an1}They even placed
a painted portrait
892
00:39:03,500 --> 00:39:06,333
{\an1}of Adolf Hitler on the chest
of the dead body,
893
00:39:06,375 --> 00:39:08,667
{\an1}as if to confirm, see,
it's the guy in the painting.
894
00:39:10,333 --> 00:39:11,833
{\an1}- [Schug] Is this a coincidence?
895
00:39:11,917 --> 00:39:14,333
{\an1}A man who looks exactly
like Adolf Hitler is found
896
00:39:14,375 --> 00:39:16,500
{\an1}just feet away from where
he's cremated?
897
00:39:16,583 --> 00:39:18,625
{\an1}- Maybe Weller is exactly
898
00:39:18,708 --> 00:39:21,500
{\an1}what they wanted
the Russians to find.
899
00:39:21,583 --> 00:39:23,750
{\an1}You have personal accounts
describing the bitter end.
900
00:39:23,833 --> 00:39:26,750
{\an1}You have a body double that
looks like Adolf Hitler
901
00:39:26,750 --> 00:39:29,125
{\an1}with a bullet wound
to the head.
902
00:39:29,208 --> 00:39:30,792
{\an1}- [Laurence]
Detractors of this theory
903
00:39:30,875 --> 00:39:33,500
{\an1}point out that a body double
would be unlikely to fool
904
00:39:33,542 --> 00:39:36,333
{\an1}those who knew Hitler well.
905
00:39:36,417 --> 00:39:38,875
{\an1}- [Luke] Hitler first met
Mussolini in 1934,
906
00:39:38,958 --> 00:39:40,708
{\an1}and although Mussolini
was a very bad man,
907
00:39:40,792 --> 00:39:42,500
{\an1}he wasn't an idiot,
and I think
908
00:39:42,583 --> 00:39:45,125
{\an1}he would notice if Hitler
was replaced by a double.
909
00:39:45,208 --> 00:39:49,208
{\an1}Similarly, Hitler was dating
Eva Braun since 1932,
910
00:39:49,208 --> 00:39:51,125
{\an1}and I think she would
definitely tell the difference
911
00:39:51,125 --> 00:39:54,625
{\an1}if Hitler had been replaced
by a double in 1938.
912
00:39:54,750 --> 00:39:58,500
{\an1}- There is no evidence, there is
nothing written by Adolf Hitler,
913
00:39:58,583 --> 00:40:00,542
{\an1}by anybody in his inner circle
914
00:40:00,625 --> 00:40:02,792
{\an1}that said there
was a doppelganger,
915
00:40:02,875 --> 00:40:04,500
{\an1}there was a person
looking like Hitler
916
00:40:04,583 --> 00:40:06,333
{\an1}that we used to trick people.
917
00:40:06,458 --> 00:40:07,917
{\an1}There's nothing like it.
918
00:40:08,000 --> 00:40:11,083
{\an1}It was simply people found
that look like Hitler,
919
00:40:11,167 --> 00:40:12,625
{\an1}that this assumption was made
920
00:40:12,708 --> 00:40:14,875
{\an1}that there was a doppelganger.
921
00:40:14,958 --> 00:40:18,500
{\an1}- The idea of Hitler living
anonymously as a Mr. X
922
00:40:18,583 --> 00:40:20,917
{\an1}somewhere in Spain
or in Argentina,
923
00:40:21,000 --> 00:40:23,375
{\an1}in Antarctica,
it's not Hitler's style.
924
00:40:23,458 --> 00:40:25,250
{\an1}He was the Fuhrer of Germany,
925
00:40:25,333 --> 00:40:26,958
{\an1}he wanted to go down
as such.
926
00:40:27,042 --> 00:40:29,292
{\an1}And one of the reasons why
he killed himself
927
00:40:29,375 --> 00:40:30,667
{\an1}is because he wanted to avoid
928
00:40:30,792 --> 00:40:32,750
{\an1}the shame of overthrow
or surrender.
929
00:40:35,542 --> 00:40:38,375
{\an1}- [Jesse] Thousands of
historians have spent decades
930
00:40:38,458 --> 00:40:40,083
{\an1}looking at all of the theories
931
00:40:40,167 --> 00:40:42,750
{\an1}of what possibly could've
happened to Hitler
932
00:40:42,833 --> 00:40:45,000
{\an1}at the end of World War II,
933
00:40:45,125 --> 00:40:47,500
{\an1}and more outlandish theories
934
00:40:47,583 --> 00:40:49,625
{\an1}seem to come out
every day.
935
00:40:51,208 --> 00:40:52,750
{\an1}- Hitler's death is a mystery
936
00:40:52,833 --> 00:40:55,625
{\an1}that's really
deliberately fanned by
937
00:40:55,625 --> 00:40:59,042
{\an1}the specific circumstances
of Hitler's demise
938
00:40:59,167 --> 00:41:01,792
{\an1}in Berlin on April 30, 1945.
939
00:41:01,875 --> 00:41:03,750
{\an1}And really, Stalin did
his work too well.
940
00:41:03,875 --> 00:41:06,292
{\an1}He clouded the issue
so much at the outset that
941
00:41:06,375 --> 00:41:07,708
{\an1}he left the mystery alive,
942
00:41:07,792 --> 00:41:09,167
{\an1}and then the mystery
just festered
943
00:41:09,250 --> 00:41:10,917
{\an1}and persists down to this day.
944
00:41:14,583 --> 00:41:18,167
{\an1}- Nazi Germany's downfall
remains a source of fascination
945
00:41:18,167 --> 00:41:20,542
{\an1}nearly 80 years later.
946
00:41:20,667 --> 00:41:22,917
{\an1}The overwhelming majority agree
947
00:41:23,042 --> 00:41:24,167
{\an1}that the official story
948
00:41:24,208 --> 00:41:25,292
{\an1}is the true one.
949
00:41:25,375 --> 00:41:27,083
{\an1}Hitler committed suicide
950
00:41:27,167 --> 00:41:28,542
{\an1}in Berlin.
951
00:41:28,625 --> 00:41:30,542
{\an1}But why is the idea
952
00:41:30,667 --> 00:41:32,167
{\an1}of Hitler escaping
953
00:41:32,208 --> 00:41:34,583
{\an1}such a long lasting theory?
954
00:41:34,708 --> 00:41:36,333
{\an1}Perhaps it's the quest
955
00:41:36,375 --> 00:41:38,000
{\an1}for justice that appeals
956
00:41:38,083 --> 00:41:39,292
{\an1}to many of us.
957
00:41:39,375 --> 00:41:41,333
{\an1}Regardless, Hitler's death
958
00:41:41,417 --> 00:41:43,167
{\an1}may remain the subject
of investigation
959
00:41:43,292 --> 00:41:44,583
{\an1}for many years to come.
960
00:41:44,667 --> 00:41:46,583
{\an1}I'm Laurence Fishburne.
961
00:41:46,667 --> 00:41:48,167
{\an1}Thank you for watching
962
00:41:48,292 --> 00:41:50,750
{\an1}"History's Greatest Mysteries."
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