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I decided to do this investigation

because the United States government,

the British government, and Joseph Stalin

all believed

there's a good possibility that Hitler got away.

♪♪

DePaul: The body that was wrapped up in that blanket...

was not him.

That's a problem.

So we are taking evidence

collected around the world...

This is report after report.

Government documents,

trails, leads,

and we are following them to the very end.

We got an escape tunnel.

♪♪

Oh, my God.

Narrator: In this special episode

of "Hunting Hitler,"

21-year CIA veteran Bob Baer

and his team of experts

offer a first-hand look inside

the definitive investigation

into the true fate of Adolf Hitler.

Williams: Every piece of evidence we've uncovered

as a team has brought us closer and closer

to the truth about what happened to Adolf Hitler.

No way. - Is that a swastika?

Baer: When I started this investigation,

it was just a curiosity for me.

Seeing the evidence...

it's no longer a curiosity.

We're looking to put together the last pieces of this puzzle.

♪♪

So what we have to do is keep looking.

Narrator: Now along with exclusive previews

of the next stage of the investigation...

This what Hitler's room. - Wow!

Narrator: the team reviews their most explosive evidence...

Kennedy: Holy [bleep]

Williams: I've not had bits fall into place like this,

and I've been doing this story a long time.

Narrator: and the strategies and methods they've employed...

Simpson: The single most important thing

as an investigator...

You can't let a locked door get in your way.

Baer: With or without their cooperation,

we will get to the truth.

Narrator: to reveal a behind-the-scenes look

into the previous seasons of "Hunting Hitler,"

and the anatomy of a manhunt.

Look at this. - This is final chapter.

[ Beeping ]

Kennedy: I have explosive detected.

We are throwing everything we can at this case,

and we will stop at nothing.

Holy [bleep].

It's no joke.

We're going to find out what happened to Adolf Hitler...

♪♪

Once and for all.

Baer: This is sounding, to me,

closer than we've been to the truth

since we started this.

No question about it.

Narrator: Nearly three years ago,

Bob and his team began a multi-phase investigation,

and are now on the brink of putting an end

to one of the greatest mysteries in modern history.

Could Adolf Hitler have survived World War II?

The simple narrative for most people,

what lets them go to bed at night,

is that Hitler died in the bunker.

But the problem is,

when we looked for the evidence, it didn't exist.

♪♪

Narrator: On April 30, 1945,

with Soviet troops closing in on Berlin,

Hitler and his wife, Eva Braun,

were reported to have committed suicide

in his Fuhrerbunker.

On May 2nd, Soviet troops stormed Hitler's bunker,

contaminating the crime scene, and eventually shipped

Hitler's supposed remains back to Moscow.

Baer: Stalin says, "I want proof he's dead."

They find a cranium with a bullet in it.

The one piece of forensics available to us

turns out not to be Hitler's.

Bellantoni: We did have an opportunity to examine

the cranial vault fragment.

Narrator: When American scientist Nick Bellantoni

conducted a DNA analysis on the skull

the Soviets claimed was Hitler's,

it was determined that the remains

belonged to a woman.

We are now in a position to say

we don't have a clue what happened to Hitler.

Baer: For the biggest criminal in modern history,

we have no DNA, nothing.

Until we actually produce a corpse,

it's an open investigation.

Every intelligence agency in the world is looking at this.

It's incredible.

I mean, you have a full-on international manhunt

for Adolf Hitler.

Narrator: The mounting evidence in the case

led to a global manhunt

that has spanned three years, thousands of miles,

and created a picture

of how Hitler and high-ranking Nazis

could have fled Germany.

Baer: The first part of our investigation,

we established he could've gotten out of Berlin.

DePaul: How many of these tunnels

exist under Berlin? - Hundreds of kilometers.

Boy, what a perfect escape route.

Not only could he have gotten out of the bunker...

he could've made it to Spain.

And from there,

he could've made his way to Argentina.

In the next phase of the investigation,

we establish he had an infrastructure

he could rely on, with resources,

money, protection, multiple safe houses,

and a massive network of thousands of loyal Nazis

set up to escape and disappear.

So, Bormann set up a plan for Hitler's escape?

Hitler on his own could've never made it out.

Narrator: Now in the upcoming third season,

the team zeroes in on Hitler's actual footsteps

after World War II,

initiating a new investigative approach,

asset mapping... The same tactic that

intelligence communities all over the world

enact as the final step

in capturing a high-value target.

They'll map every inch of Hitler's network,

tracking his top associates

and analyzing their link to Hitler's escape.

You've got to follow these guys because you have to figure

that when Hitler gets up and leaves,

he's going to rely on these people.

Your target no longer is Hitler, but the network.

Narrator: With access to an expanded

worldwide file database...

Ooh, ooh, whoa whoa whoa. - Oh, hello.

Narrator: and an array of cutting-edge technology...

Right there, right there! Bob Baer and his team

look to determine what really happened...

That's got to be it!

To the most reprehensible mass murderer

of the twentieth century, once and for all.

You want corroborating evidence?

This is it right here.

This is explosive.

DePaul: Somebody didn't want somebody else

to know what was in here.

Baer: In any investigation,

the first thing you do is build the team.

You're picking the best people to do a manhunt.

Narrator: To begin the investigation,

Bob joined forces with

U.N. war-crimes investigator, John Cencich.

I can't wait to get the team down there

and start looking at this.

Joining the hunt were former

U.S. Marshall's commander Lenny DePaul...

Germany's fingerprints are all over this place.

Investigative journalist Gerrard Williams...

People don't like to talk

because they have something to hide.

And U.S. Special Forces, Tim Kennedy.

I was put on this earth to fight evil.

There's nothing else I'm good at.

And in all of the manhunts... Right there.

All of the people that I've tracked down,

this is by far the hardest.

Narrator: Then in season two,

as the investigation expanded, so did the team.

Really cramped in here.

Baer: Mike Simpson we brought because he understands

moving people through hostile areas.

James Holland is a very serious historian.

He understands World War II.

I can't reconstruct what Spain was like in 1945,

but he can.

We've got a team in place,

and now we go back to the crime scene.

If you're going to look for Hitler,

you first want to look at the crime scene...

One, to establish we have no proof he died there.

Number two is, did he have a safe way out of the bunker?

Maybe there really is a plan B, a plan C, and a plan D

that we don't know about.

The M.O. for Hitler...

Anything he's ever done was multiple options.

We had to look into it.

The problem, of course, is we don't have

the crime scene anymore.

Ideally, we would've liked to have gone to the bunker,

but it's plowed under... It's gone.

And that's why went and looked at the next best thing.

Narrator: Lenny DePaul and Sascha Keil travel to Berlin

to visit forensic historian and 3D artist,

Christoph Neubauer...

Christoph? How are you?

Narrator: who has spent the last decade combing

through historical evidence to create the world's

most accurate simulation of Hitler's bunker.

Neubauer: So far, there are known

four main exits out of the bunker.

But recently,

I've found an exit into a new tunnel.

♪♪

Are you kidding me?

That's exit number five. We've only known about four.

So for us to get our hands on this is unbelievable.

That's a game-changer.

Now Hitler's got another way out.

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There were multiple exits out of the bunker he could've taken.

And a good planner would also have multiple ways

for Hitler to get out of Berlin.

Do we really know for certain that he was in the bunker?

Maybe we're looking in the wrong place.

Narrator: In the upcoming third season,

the team uncovers

two additional escape routes out of Berlin.

Baer: We've got one going north and one south.

I think this warrants splitting the investigation.

Narrator: The escape route to the north leads through

head of the SS Heinrich Himmler's

clandestine headquarters.

DePaul: This is definitely a perfect cover

to hide some high-value target.

And the other route through Southern Germany...

There has to be a bunker

or a tunnel complex here.

Leads to a Nazi compound pointing to Hitler being

450 miles away from the Fuhrerbunker

when the Soviets took Berlin,

despite the historical record stating otherwise.

Holy [bleep].

They have everything that they need

to live in these mountains for as long as they want.

Adolf Hitler could come here and know that he was safe.

Yeah!

Now we're talking.

♪♪

Narrator: In this special episode of "Hunting Hitler,"

Bob Baer and his team of experts

offer a behind-the-scenes look

at the definitive investigation

into the true fate of Adolf Hitler.

♪♪

Recently, I've found an exit into a new tunnel.

In Berlin... Are you kidding me?

Bob and his team discovered a fifth tunnel

Hitler could've used to escape the Fuhrerbunker.

DePaul: If Adolf Hitler decided to take that route

out of the Fuhrerbunker,

why is he heading in this direction?

What's his end game? Where's he going?

Was it feasible to get out of the bunker?

100%. It was doable.

Now the question is, once you get out of the bunker,

where do you go?

If you're going to look for a high-value target,

a wanted criminal, you go to the escape route.

The less time Hitler had above ground,

the better for him.

If he did surface, it would be risky.

So, where could you go that you were unnoticed?

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

The needle is Russian forces.

The Red Army is surrounding Berlin.

Berlin in May '45, it's surrounded.

So he's not going to drive out in a convoy.

If I'm planning this escape, I do it with a small airplane.

Narrator: The team uncovered two possible departure points

Hitler may have used to fly out of Berlin.

First, they uncovered one at Tempelhof Airport.

By George, I believe we've got a tunnel here

that takes me right to the airport.

Later, they found a second route from an improvised airstrip

next to the Brandenburg Gate.

DePaul: Makes sense from this vantage point.

You got a makeshift runway right here.

Boom, he's on this makeshift runway and he's gone.

Baer: Two potential runways he could've taken out of Berlin.

In the spy business, you do not go into a plan

without contingencies.

If Hitler's fleeing Berlin,

where would you go this late in the game?

It's certainly possible that he would've gone to Spain.

There's one man that Hitler could go to

for salvation... The leader of Spain,

the dictator, Franco.

Franco was a dyed-in-the-wool fascist, pro-Nazi.

He would've been honored to help Hitler out.

But he's not going to stay in Spain

because he would be sighted there,

so he's got to get out of Europe.

If you're talking about getting him out of Europe,

we're talking about U-boats.

Narrator: At the close of World War II,

45 German U-boats were unaccounted for.

Because of their long range and the ability

to move across the Atlantic undetected,

the team believes that a U-boat

would've been the safest way for Nazis to escape Europe.

♪♪

The team discovered a possible port of departure

for U-boat submarines in Vigo, Spain.

Were the Nazi criminals using Vigo

to escape from Europe?

Without any kind of doubt.

Then, they uncovered another possible exit point

from the port of Cádiz.

♪♪

Simpson: Amazing.

Seeing the photograph of the U-boat

in the port of Cádiz is huge.

From an intelligence standpoint,

that tells me that the port was accessible.

Now the key is in finding that link from the ground

that Adolf Hitler could have used to board that U-boat.

Narrator: Following a declassified

Argentine intelligence report

that placed U-boats in the Gulf of Cádiz

and an eye-witness report of a U-boat landing site

at the Hotel Renia Cristina...

the team headed to the hotel

in hopes of discovering a place

Hitler could've used to board a U-boat undetected.

Holland: Oh, my goodness.

Simpson: So the question's, where does that go?

I need to take a look at that.

I'm going to follow this around, see where it goes.

Wow.

So, I've got two big wells, big cisterns,

about 2 1/2 meters across.

Narrator: At the end of a tunnel beneath the hotel's pool,

the team discovered two large wells located

just 100 feet from the coast.

That tells me that they could shuttle people

from right inside the compound of the hotel

right out into the ocean and to a waiting U-boat.

Baer: We have shown multiple ways

Hitler could've passed through Spain unobserved

and got out.

Then the question is, where does Hitler go from there?

We have to go find the most likely place for that.

♪♪

As an investigator, you're always looking at

where's the logical place the guy could go,

some place he feels comfortable and safe,

In 1945, there was Juan Perón,

the President of Argentina.

Narrator: In 1945,

Argentina was ruled by fascist dictator Juan Perón,

who provided refuge to thousands of Nazi war criminals

after World War II.

Baer: In Argentina,

there was government support for the Nazis.

Argentines were perfectly happy to hide Nazis.

We know that. It's just a fact.

Narrator: Bob and John found evidence that

Hitler may have landed a U-boat

in the city of San Antonio Oeste.

He's not going to sit here, where he got off the U-boat.

We have assume that he's going into the interior of Argentina,

as remote as possible but liveable.

He's going to need full facilities,

and it's securable.

We were looking for a place where he could be protected,

a compound meant to defend against an assault.

I want to show you a document that I...

That I just came across.

Narrator: Armed with new evidence,

a newly-discovered international file

led to team to dive deeper into a Nazi compound

they'd uncovered previously.

Look at what they've got here.

Nazis upon arriving to Argentina,

took refuge in a militarized outpost

in Misiones.

Baer: You know, when we first went to Misiones,

I was picturing it as sort of a hideout,

getaway from communication.

Kennedy: This could've been a real hideout location

for somebody on the run.

But this file is something entirely different.

I'd like to find out on the ground,

is there anything that would indicate

that it was militarized?

♪♪

Kennedy: This rock's going to be slippery.

Narrator: Tim Kennedy,

accompanied by historical archeologist

Dr. Alasdair Brooks,

travelled to the jungles of Misiones, Argentina,

where they met with site director Daniel Chavelzone

who led them to a mysterious new structure

less than a mile from the previously-discovered buildings.

Kennedy: Everything feels powerful, thick,

durable, and industrial.

This isn't for residential use.

If I were to envision what this use was,

this feels like a military barracks.

This is where you line up bunk beds and put soldiers.

It is remarkable finding a military structure

in the center of a triple-canopy jungle,

and frightening to think what still is

yet to be discovered.

♪♪

♪♪

Narrator: In this special episode of "Hunting Hitler,"

Bob Baer and his team of experts

offer an exclusive look into the manhunt

for history's most evil dictator.

♪♪

U.S. Special Forces Tim Kennedy,

archeologist Dr. Alasdair Brooks,

and site director Daniel Chavelzone

investigate a jungle hideaway

in Misiones, Argentina...

That is huge. - Oh.

Narrator: where the discovery of a new building

indicates the location could be more than just a safe house.

Hey, guys!

Have something? - Yeah.

If you're coming up and you get to this,

this is going to slow you down long enough for you to die.

This is them setting themselves up for success.

When I'm looking at a location for military involvement,

you have to imagine what it would be like

to defend that from an attacking force.

Yes!

Come up here. Check this out.

This is the exact spot I would have put a guard shack.

This feels like another layer of defense.

Misiones was remarkable...

Concentric layers of security, observation posts,

machine gun positions.

You could shoot straight across this.

There's no possible way

that somebody could get across this body of water alive.

It was piece by piece stacking on top of each other

for me to realize that it was actually a military outpost

designed to protect a high-value target.

Baer: This was a Nazi compound.

We have to complete the picture here.

Baer: In planning Hitler's escape,

you're going to have four or five alternatives.

There's a pattern of redundancies.

That's why we took another look at Bariloche.

It was hotbed for Nazis in Argentina.

Narrator: Bob's team discovered

a Nazi community in Bariloche.

If I'm going to hide a high-value target,

this is perfect.

Nearby, they also discovered the Inalco house...

a possible safe house for Adolf Hitler.

German-owned estate, a Nazi collapsed bunker...

This house has got red flags all over it.

If we could find evidence of security measures,

I think it's a major leap in this investigation.

Yep.

♪♪

Narrator: Tim Kennedy, along with investigative

journalist Gerrard Williams, landed in Bariloche, Argentina,

to search the area surrounding the Inalco house

for fortifications that may have protected Adolf Hitler.

How you doing? - Good. Alan?

Narrator: They made contact with Alan Juice,

a local expert in post-war architecture in the area.

Are there any military structures

or a built network?

Man: At the northern tip of this peninsula,

there's a tower.

♪♪

Oh, there it is... Gerrard.

Narrator: The team headed to a tower

built by the same architect that designed the Inalco house...

The architect that built Adolf Hitler's home...

Built this thing.

Positioned on a cliff

between the town of Bariloche

and Hitler's possible safe house.

This is the Nazis raising a flag, saying that,

"We're here and we own the lake."

Williams: Alan, are there any other structures like this?

Yeah.

Narrator: Across the lake,

they investigated a possible Nazi bunker.

The size of this, you could base

20, 30 people in it.

Kennedy: At least.

And we have Inalco over here.

The only way to Inalco is coming by this

or by the tower.

So a machine gun here with a machine gun there...

Killing field... Complete killing field.

Kennedy: It appears that the same people that

designed and built the Misiones

applied that blueprint to Bariloche.

They have controlled access points.

They have concentric layers of security.

And that entire blueprint was for the design

of protecting and hiding a central figure...

Adolf Hitler.

♪♪

We're on the road to Hell.

Narrator: In season three...

Gerrard, you're not going to believe what I just found.

Narrator: the team uncovers another remote safe house...

This isn't a country home.

Protected by Hitler's network.

There's only one way in and one way out.

Kennedy: This is explosive.

♪♪

Narrator: In this special episode of "Hunting Hitler,"

Bob Baer and his team of experts

offer a first-hand look into their search

to uncover what really happened to Adolf Hitler.

Baer: The question is, what is the next place

that Hitler would go?

What sort of evidence do we have?

Where could he have gone?

If you're on the run,

there's very few people you would trust.

Baer: Every political fugitive that I've been after,

that America's been after,

goes some place where they can count on local support.

Hitler would've done that.

Our team has uncovered die Spinne,

this spider network.

This network was set up to facilitate

the exfiltration of Nazi war criminals.

How far did this network actually reach?

Baer: Let's find out.

Narrator: Bob and John search

the worldwide database in hopes

of discovering the full scope of die Spinne,

a secret international organization

dedicated to helping fleeing Nazi war criminals.

"Eichmann was in close contact

with the underground group die Spinne."

It is believed that he also paid

for the international travel of wanted war criminals.

Eichmann is a new piece of this puzzle.

Narrator: Adolf Eichmann was one of Hitler's closest allies,

and a major organizer of the Holocaust.

In 1950, he fled to Buenos Aires, Argentina,

where he lived in a modest house

and worked for Mercedes Benz

under the alias Ricardo Klement.

One of the most wanted men in the world

actually got out using the web.

I think we just have to consider that network

was also intended for Hitler to use in his escape.

Cencich: Absolutely.

Narrator: Following Eichmann's trail,

the team uncovered rumors of a possible safe house

he used in Tucamán, Argentina.

Tucamán, which is out in the middle of nowhere.

Was this safe house set up for Hitler?

We had to look at that.

♪♪

Narrator: Bob dispatched the team to investigate

Eichmann's reported safe house.

Does he know the name of the family?

They were making tunnels in the mountains? Yeah.

You have to question why Adolf Eichmann

is in a remote area burrowing tunnels

into the side of a mountain.

We had to know the purpose of why they were built.

Narrator: The team investigated the tunnels

in the area of the safe house

to see if they could determine why Eichmann had created them.

Holy [bleep].

Kennedy: We got a tunnel.

We got a couple of chambers off multiple tunnels,

400 or 500 meters from the entrance,

and we still don't even have a way out.

Crawling through an incomplete tunnel system

that potentially could not be structurally sound...

It's dangerous.

We got an opening.

But we need to know where those tunnels went.

Whoa.

We have an entrance near the Eichmann house

and the exit on the opposite side of the mountain.

That's an escape tunnel.

You know, I came here to find evidence of infrastructure.

We found it.

These guys built this tunnel for a damn important reason.

Clearly, Eichmann intended to make an escape route for Hitler.

This justifies us to continue the mission in this region.

I agree with you.

Any place that die Spinne's been

is a potential place that Hitler would go to.

Narrator: Furthering their investigation

of die Spinne's network in Argentina,

Gerrard Williams travelled to Misiones

to speak with the son of Guillermo Zuhair,

a Nazi soldier who relocated to the area after World War II.

Your father... Did he ever mention

any senior Nazi that he may have met?

Martin Bormann.

Martin Bormann, Emilio, is meant to be dead.

Are you sure your father worked

for Martin Bormann in Argentina?

Well, let me say it's an extraordinary statement.

Historical record has it that Bormann died in Berlin.

He never made it out.

Narrator: During the final days of the war,

Martin Bormann, Hitler's right-hand man,

was by his side in the Fuhrerbunker.

On May 1, 1945,

a day after Hitler's alleged suicide,

Bormann and the leader of the Nazi Youth

attempted to escape Berlin.

Bormann was reported killed.

However, some experts believe his death was faked.

It doesn't matter whether Bormann got out of Berlin

in May of 1945.

Any place that Bormann has reported to be

is important for our investigation.

That's the bottom line, isn't it?

Martin Bormann very well may take us one step closer

to Adolf Hitler.

Narrator: Bob and John search the worldwide database

for evidence that Bormann was operating after the war.

What've we got, Bob?

"Martin Bormann was travelling in Latin American

under the name of Keller."

Narrator: In order to learn

whether Hitler's most trusted associate

escaped to Latin America under an alias...

You ready? - Yeah.

Narrator: Tim and Gerrard made contact with a historian

who had spent his career collecting information

about Nazis in South America.

Kennedy: Will you tell us everything that you know

about what Juan Keller was doing here?

Legally, he was known as Juan Keller.

But it is said he was a higher position of Nazi.

He was a person who lived in the shadows.

Did he meet this man himself?

Sí, senior.

He was just a kid when he saw him the first time.

He was riding a horse.

He had a huge leather jacket, boots.

And he could see the bump of a gun sticking out of his back.

There were people with guns guarding the perimeter.

Armed guards?

Exactly. Can't believe it.

But... So, this is what, in the 1950s?

Yes.

Which puts him snap in the timeline here.

With all the other information we have, for me,

it was final confirmation that Martin Bormann had escaped

and was running a large Nazi network after the war.

♪♪

Narrator: In this special episode of "Hunting Hitler,"

Bob Baer and his team of experts offer a behind-the-scenes look

into the worldwide manhunt

for history's most notorious dictator, Adolf Hitler.

♪♪

In South America, Bob and his team uncovered

evidence of a vast network

put in place to facilitate

the escape of high-level Nazis.

Kennedy: Holy [bleep].

♪♪

Baer: We know they got away.

The question is, any time a high-value target

gets up and moves,

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

You know, I think Hitler, at this point,

has gone operational.

Baer: For me, what's important

when you're looking for somebody on the run is,

what were they after?

Once they arrived in these safe havens,

what was the end game?

Cencich: We have a declassified document

that states that here, "From now on,

German industry must realize that the war cannot be won.

German industrialists must, through their exports,

prepare themselves to finance the Nazi Party,

which would be forced to go underground.

Baer: They were planning something.

Cencich: When we look at the evidence,

it's clear that a Fourth Reich was planned.

Baer: People will listen to this and say,

"It was never possible for Adolf Hitler

to reassemble his team and start the Fourth Reich.

It's crazy." That's the whole point.

These people were crazy.

This map came from an engineer in the Nazi Air Force.

It depicts a plan to bomb the United States,

and more specifically, Manhattan Island.

Baer: This is chilling.

I mean, they had a plan for mass destruction

in the United States.

That's a scary thought.

Baer: They had no illusions that

they could attack the United States

with a conventional military.

But if the Nazis were to get weapons of mass destruction,

they could strike back at the United States.

And this was absolutely key to their strategy.

See what we can find here.

Narrator: The team made a ground-breaking discovery

in the worldwide database, uncovering a file

detailing an atomic energy plan in Bariloche,

run by former Nazi scientist Dr. Ronald Richter,

funded by the President of Argentina, Juan Perón.

Here's a Nazi nuclear scientist invited, officially,

to Argentina to develop a nuclear facility.

♪♪

Williams: That's incredible.

He's hiding in plain sight.

After arriving in Bariloche, Argentina,

Tim Kennedy and Gerrard Williams,

along with local historian Frederico Palma,

investigated Huemul Island,

the location of Dr. Richter's nuclear research facility,

located just 30 miles south of the Inalco house,

a site the team previously investigated

as Hitler's potential safe house.

Oh, my God.

♪♪

Kennedy: What was inside of here?

Williams: How many more of these are there?

How many more buildings like this?

Kennedy: This is solid cement.

3, 4 feet thick.

With view holes.

This is to prevent radiation from escaping.

This is a huge industrial complex.

I mean, he has everything that he needs to do,

I think, anything that he wants.

And that's scary.

Baer: This clearly was a secret nuclear site,

as secret as Iraq's or Iran's or anybody else.

When you have a nuclear facility run by a Nazi,

and Hitler could be down the lake,

it's starting to tell a story...

A bigger story than we started.

To think that in Argentina,

that he could make nuclear weapons,

I think, is terrifying.

Perón is overthrown in '55.

If Hitler made it to Argentina,

he would've been obligated to get up and move.

Where do they go at that point?

From Bariloche, Chile is right over the mountain range.

Baer: When we started looking at Chile,

we found Colonia Dignidad.

What do we know about this place?

It is a secretive place in the middle of nowhere.

It started with this guy right here,

Paul Schaefer.

Narrator: Paul Schaefer was a Nazi corporal

during World War II.

In 1961, he surfaced in Chile

with 300 German followers,

where they formed a secretive community

in the Andes Mountains

known as Colonia Dignidad.

Rumors of torture, homicide,

and sexual abuse within the compound

are still debated to this day.

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While investigating the former Nazi hideout,

Tim Kennedy and Mike Simpson

met a previous resident of the colony,

Winfred Hempel... Simpson: Good morning.

Who agreed to guide them in their investigation

of the private compound.

Seeing the defensive measures

that had been taken at Colonia Dignidad,

it was crystal clear to me

that this was something much more diabolical

than just an agricultural community

in the middle of the Andes.

Wow.

Narrator: The team initiated a reconnaissance

of the colony's defensive capabilities.

We have right here the watchtower.

It's the first line of defense.

Standing right here, I'm able to see absolutely everything.

Nothing could go in or out of Colonia Dignidad for 100 miles

without somebody seeing it from here.

Second line of defense, you've got infrared trips.

The hell is that?

Basically, an infrared tripwire.

So anything coming through here is going to trip it.

And what you have here at the core

are tunnels and bunkers.

Good place to hide, out of the center of things.

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Kennedy: Holy [bleep].

We have a massive room.

There's so much [bleep] in here I didn't expect.

Oh, my God.

Look at that.

Baer: Communications, security towers...

It was all a layer.

So with Colonia Dignidad,

we have to consider that something sinister was going on.

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After establishing a complex defensive perimeter

at former Nazi colony Colonia Dignidad...

the team's guide, Winfred Hempel,

led them to a mysterious warehouse

located in the heart of the compound.

Simpson: What went on here?

They built guns here?

This is major.

This is like a country within a country

where they can do anything they want.

It's terrifying.

You couldn't write a fictional story like this.

Nobody would believe it.

If this base was being used for the Fourth Reich,

we need to know what kind of weapons

were being made in this warehouse.

And that will tell us what this whole place was really about.

Narrator: In hopes of determining the type of weapons

formerly manufactured at Colonia Dignidad...

Senor Fernandez, Gerrard.

Gerrard Williams. Nice to meet you.

Gerrard Williams met with Hernon Fernandez,

a lawyer who was representing former residents

in a 20-year-long civil case against the colony's leadership.

What can you tell me about the colony making guns?

Man: There was also chemical weapons,

like the sarin gas.

Sarin gas?

We knew that Hitler, whether he lived or died,

had this vision for the continuation of his empire

in Colonia Dignidad.

The leads pan out.

Exactly. Look, you could've got sarin.

You've got weapons manufacturing,

and for all we know, Adolf Hitler.

This isn't the Fourth Reich in theory.

This is the Fourth Reich in act.

Baer: I look at this facility in Chile...

I think what we're looking at

is really the foundations of the Fourth Reich.

What's disturbing is what we don't know.

And we're just seeing the tip of the iceberg.

Perón, essentially, was giving Dr. Richter

anything he wanted money-wise.

Through this investigation, we've uncovered so, so much.

There were a lot of deaths happening around him.

We have changed the historical narrative.

They had the ability

to make weapons of mass destruction,

and we were sort of clueless of what they were up to.

I think it's pretty damn scary.

This was a massive network planning for Hitler's escape

and coordinating the Fourth Reich.

If we look at these networks,

we're going to get a lot closer to the truth.

Narrator: Now, in season three,

to deconstruct Hitler's network

and zero in on exactly what happened to Hitler

after the war,

Bob adds a new member of the team

to work closely with him in the situation room.

From 2000 to 2011, Nada Bakos was at the heart

of the CIA task force responsible for dismantling

the Al-Qaeda network

and its biggest targets...

Osama Bin Laden and Abu Musab al-Zarqawi.

Bakos: In order to do this investigation,

we can't leave any stone unturned.

This is a 70-year-old cold case.

We're going to have to look for information

that has been underground for a long time.

This makes it much more challenging.

But at the same time, everybody leaves a trail,

and I'm confident we'll be able to find the evidence.

This is what I've done

throughout my whole career at the CIA...

Looking at networks to track down high-value terrorists.

Nada Bakos was recommended to me

by the Chief of Station in Baghdad.

He said, "She's one of the best.

If you want to hunt for somebody...

you go to Nada Bakos."

I want her to reconstruct these networks for me.

This network will lead us to Hitler.

[ Hitler shouting indistinctly ]

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Holland: Three...

two...

one...

drop.

Narrator: Now three years into the greatest

cold case in history...

Simpson: You ready?

Bob Baer and his team

of elite investigators embark

on the next phase of the investigation...

Kennedy: Ah, [bleep]. Tim, hang on.

This is the most dangerous thing that we've done.

Tracing every inch of the Nazi network,

their paths of escape...

Kennedy: We know that the Nazis were in South America,

but this is at a level that I've never seen before.

And their plans for a Fourth Reich,

to ultimately reveal the true fate

of history's greatest villain. Oh, my God!

If Adolf Hitler was going to be here, this would be the place.

If these walls could talk, Gerrard, they'd be saying a lot.

They'd probably be screaming at us.

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We are throwing everything we can at this case

to find out what happened to Adolf Hitler.

He doesn't want this to be filmed,

what he's about to say.

Holland: What a find!

We will get answers.

I promise you that.

That's Adolf Hitler with a nuclear weapon.

This goes much deeper than I realized.

Kennedy: We got something!

This could lead us to Adolf Hitler.

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Kennedy: Are you seeing this?

Are you seeing what I'm seeing?

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