All language subtitles for H.H.S02E04.The.Web.1080p.AMZN.WEB-DL.DD2.0.H.264-playWEB_track4_[eng]

- In May, 1945,

Adolf Hitler may have landed
in San Sebastian, Spain.

[suspenseful music]

- If you're an escaping Nazi,
this would be

a good place to come,
clearly.

- And the team has found
a communication center.

- In a matter of moments,
that information

would have been sent
to any U-boat or plane.

Piece of cake.

- The team in Argentina
established

a couple miles from the Nazi
compound in Misiones,

there was an active hunt
for Hitler.

- Your father, did he ever
mention any senior Nazi

that he may have met?

- Bormann?

- Martin Bormann, who is
the second most important man

in the Nazi world.

This is history changing.

- Bormann is sort of the key
for Hitler's fate.

Martin Bormann
may take us

one step closer
to Adolf Hitler.

♪

- The thing is, is people
don't like to talk

because they have
something to hide.

♪

- Who's this?

♪

- We have an alleged picture

of an aged Adolf Hitler.

♪

- Okay, John,
we got our two teams.

We got one
in San Sebastian

and we've got the team
in Argentina

looking into the compound.

male narrator:
21-year CIA veteran, Bob Baer

and war crimes investigator,
Dr. John Cencich

are overseeing
a dual-pronged investigation.

While the European team
investigates how Hitler

could have moved
from Germany

to San Sebastian
in northern Spain,

they focus in
on the South American leg

of their investigation,
where they have uncovered

a potential piece
of forensic evidence

from a small town
in Misiones, Argentina,

just 50 miles from a reported
Nazi militarized complex

in the jungle.

- The investigative team,

they were able
to uncover this photograph

that is ostensibly

one of Adolf Hitler
from 1961.

- Frankly, if this were
really a picture of Hitler,

it would change history.

I mean, this is
potential proof positive

that the guy got
to Argentina.

But as soon as we get
something like a picture,

my antennae go up like, "Uh-oh.

Gotta look into this."

A photo of Hitler in 1960--

I approach that
with complete skepticism.

Until we can confirm--
get some sort of confirmation

on this picture,

it would be irresponsible

to show it on air.

- It certainly looks like
it could be Adolf Hitler,

but we have to be
really careful with this.

We have
great responsibility

that comes with this
investigative undertaking.

- My major problem
with the photo is,

we just know
so little about this.

- Just because the photograph
is found in Argentina

doesn't mean that's where
the photograph was taken.

We don't know what it is.

It's our job
to get to the bottom

of this particular
photograph.

So I've ordered a forensic
analysis of the photograph,

also to undertake
the facial recognition.

[suspenseful music]

narrator:
Over the last 72 hours,

Animetrics Technologies
has analyzed

the potential photograph of
Adolf Hitler in Argentina

after World War II.

Their state-of-the-art
facial recognition software

is used by law enforcement
and military agencies

around the world.

- They're scanning the images.

There's an algorithm

and it gives a percentage
of what are the odds

that the two images match.

narrator:
They have shared the results

of their examination
with the team.

- What we're able to learn

from undertaking that type of
forensic examination,

as well as
our own reconnaissance,

our own independent research,

we determined that

this is not a photograph
of Adolf Hitler.

As someone who's done
a lot of work--

forensic work with photographs,
I can tell you,

this wasn't Adolf Hitler
that was taken in the 1960s.

That's okay.
That's what we do.

We had to investigate it.

We did investigate it.
We move on from there.

- All I can do
is deal with the evidence

as it comes across my desk.

It's like I'm sitting
back at Langley.

We're trying to figure out
what's going on.

Now, we don't know the origin
of this photograph,

but on the surface,
it absolutely looks like

an aged Adolf Hitler.

So I completely understand how
if you were in a small town

in Argentina and all these
sightings of Hitler

are happening
all around the world,

and you come across this photo,

of course you'd think
it was Hitler.

But at the end of the day,

we have to separate
the good evidence from the bad.

Okay, John, let's go to Spain,
San Sebastian.

narrator: Bob shifts focus
to the European leg

of their investigation.

In San Sebastian, Spain,
they have uncovered evidence

that suggests
high ranking Nazis

were fleeing to the area
after World War II,

including a close associate
of Adolf Hitler

arriving by plane in May, 1945,
after being spotted

by the Fuhrer's side
just one day earlier.

- If you're flying
out of Nazi Germany in May, '45,

you're not gonna just,
you know,

land in some airport
anywhere in the world

hoping you'll be okay.

You got to go someplace
where you got a network.

- This is a place that had
the infrastructure,

the personnel,
the communication equipment.

If Hitler had lived,
the answer to the question

as to whether or not
San Sebastian

would have been a place
for him to arrive by plane

is unquestionably yes.

The next question is, "Well,
where did he go from there?"

So let's take a look
in the database

and see if we can find
some intelligence

that intersects Hitler

and San Sebastian
or just Spain in general.

"Hitler."
"Spain."

Enter.

- Here we go.

This is a German document.

"Special order prepared
by Heinrich Mueller."

Chief of the Gestapo.

"20 April, 1945.

"Subject: Fuhrer's
special trip to Barcelona.

"The members
of the Fuhrer's entourage are:

"The Fuhrer,
Reichsleiter Bormann."

There's something
going on here.

- You know, what's unique
about this document,

it's an internal German
military order

issued ten days
before Adolf Hitler

is alleged to have
committed suicide.

It's an incredible find.

- For me, this is
a huge piece of evidence.

The head of the Gestapo
was clearly planning

an exfiltration of Hitler
and his closest advisors.

Internal documents belong
to a government.

It's something
very secret.

So I think
right through April,

the whole system is geared
to get Hitler out.

- We've always theorized that if
Bormann indeed escaped Berlin,

and if Hitler didn't
commit suicide

on April 30, 1945,

perhaps they would be
together.

This document does show
the intent to the people,

and that intent is
for the Fuhrer

and Martin Bormann to flee
to Barcelona together.

- You're right,
and what is in Barcelona?

Is this even credible that
you would send Hitler there?

- Let's go to Barcelona and
find out what type of evidence

we might be able
to generate

in relation to this
"Fuhrer's special trip."

- Oh, I think absolutely.

[suspenseful music]

♪

- I'm really intrigued
to know

what the German setup
was here.

narrator:
World War II historian,

James Holland,

and U.S. Army Reconnaissance
expert, Mike Simpson,

arrive in Barcelona.

- Talking
about every aspect,

there's a lot to like
about Barcelona--

location wise,
population center wise.

Infrastructure.

- If there was an existing
escape plan for Hitler,

it would have almost certainly
been set up by Bormann.

- Absolutely.

[suspenseful music]

narrator: The team meets
with David Rodriguez,

a local expert
on Nazi movement in Spain,

at the Gran Teatre del Liceu,
originally built in 1847.

- I'm really intrigued
to know why we're

in this particular theater.

- [speaking Spanish]

- [speaking Spanish]

- 20,000 Germans, and he said
they know for a fact

that at least 500 of them

were known and active spies
of the Nazis.

- Oh. 500?
- Right.

Okay, so I think we're
in the right place.

- It seems clear that, yes,
there was definitely

organization
here in Barcelona.

There were 500 spies
and leading Nazis.

You know,
that's an awful lot.

Clearly something big
was going on here.

Oh, look at this.

[ominous music]

♪

Look at it.

- [speaking Spanish]

- Where we're looking down,
the high ranking Nazis

that would be here, this is
where you would see them.

Specifically, they would have
the honored seats up front.

This was
a very permissive environment

for those Nazi expats
living here at that time,

and we're talking about
a population of 20,000,

ten times what we were talking
about up in San Sebastian.

If this is what's going on
above the water,

it's anybody's guess what's
going on below the surface.

- [speaking Spanish]

- Whew.

- Gosh, it's stunning,
isn't it?

♪

Absolutely stunning.

- Where there any
really notable Nazis

that came here
to Barcelona?

[suspenseful music]

- Bormann's plan was
to set up infrastructure

to support
fleeing Nazi officials

should the Third Reich
lose the war.

- They were prepared
to support them,

they were prepared
to support Hitler,

they had prepared
false documentation,

and Franco had even designated
members of his own guard

that would work
in a security capacity.

- Right. So let me just
get this absolutely clear.

Before the end of the war,

Bormann had set up a plan
for Hitler's escape.

- The more we peel back
the layers,

the more this is looking like
exactly what we're looking for.

Martin Bormann was scouting out
locations for a ratline

to get the Fuhrer out of Germany
and into a safe haven.

He says
on the 10th of August, 1944,

many wealthy German expats
as well as many Nazi officials

under the supervision
of Martin Bormann met

to plan
the formation of--

- [speaking German]

- Die Spinne--
literally the translation

in German is
"the spider,"

and it was an escape
and evasion network

with absolutely the top
of the Nazi chain.

There were lots of rumors
and stories about it.

That's a massive eye opener.

This is adding up
very nicely for me.

♪

[suspenseful music]

- Our team has uncovered
that Martin Bormann

was in contact
with people in Barcelona

relative to this secret
organization,

Die Spinne,
the Spider Network.

narrator: Bob and John review
the findings from Spain,

where they are following
a declassified Nazi document

outlining a secret trip
for Adolf Hitler

and Martin Bormann
to Barcelona

days before they were
believed dead.

- This Die Spinne network
was set up

to facilitate the exfiltration
of Nazi war criminals.

What really strikes me is
they have this plan

before the end of the war.

Die Spinne is the mother
of all ratlines.

It had
a massive infrastructure

to support the elite members
of the Nazi party.

The question remains is

how far did this network
actually reach?

- Let's find out.

Look up "Die Spinne."

- Well, here we have
a CIA document.

"Eichmann was
in close contact

"with the underground group
Die Spinne.

"It is believed
that he also financed

"from his stocks
this underground movement

"and paid for the international
travel expenses

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.

During the war,
Eichmann was responsible

for facilitating
the mass deportation of Jews

to concentration camps
throughout Europe.

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.

In 1960, he was captured
by the Israeli Mossad

and sentenced to death.

- If somebody
like Eichmann,

one of the most wanted men
in the world,

actually got out using
the web, Die Spinne,

I think we just have to consider
that network

was also intended for Hitler
to use in his escape.

- Absolutely.

Everybody knows that Eichmann
lived in Buenos Aires,

but here we have a document
that says there's rumors

that Eichmann actually
lived in a safe house

in northern Argentina
in a province called Tucumán

prior to moving
to Buenos Aires.

- "Tucumán."

Tucumán is
out in the middle of nowhere,

and then you go across--

in a equally remote area
is Misiones.

We have to consider
the possibility

that Tucumán was
simply a staging area

while the compound in Misiones
was being built.

This compound in Misiones,
very complicated.

This took a lot of time
and money, but in the meantime,

you can't wait
for Misiones to be built,

you got to go
to a place like Tucumán.

- What I think we need to do is
to get the team into Tucumán.

If he had
a safe house there,

there's potential evidence
there.

- The sooner they get there,
the better.

[suspenseful music]

♪

- Well, we're 1,400 miles
from Buenos Aires,

up in the northwest province
of Argentina.

- This is--this is
a whole new level of isolated.

narrator: Investigative
journalist, Gerrard Williams,

and U.S. Army Special Forces,
Tim Kennedy,

make their way
through the winding roads

of Northern Argentina.

♪

- So Eichmann manages
a whole ten years in Argentina

before he's picked up.

He lives under the name
Ricardo Klement.

There's no way
that Adolf Eichmann on his own

would have decided to come
to this part of Argentina.

He must have been sent here
by Die Spinne.

Could this house be
a safe house

where people are dropped off
before they moved on?

That's what we've got to go
find out.

- We are coming close now, guys.
Almost there.

narrator:
Their local contact, Rune,

has uncovered
what could be the location

of Eichmann's
rumored safe house in the area.

[ominous music]

- Here we are.

♪

Creeps me out.

- Let's see
what we can see.

- It's locked,
but it's vacant.

♪

narrator: With the team
unable to gain access

to the potential safe house,

they make contact
with neighbor Francisco Valdez.

- Do you know the family
that lived in this house

in the '50s?

- [speaking Spanish]

- [speaking Spanish]

- He lived here, yes,
with his family.

- Does he know
the name of the family?

- Adolf Eichmann.

- Why was he here?

- Who put him here?
Who did he work for?

- Does that ring
any bells?

- It's German owned,
partly Argentine staffed.

Company that's involved in
major infrastructure projects.

- In Argentina?
- Yeah.

CAPRI is a company that is owned
by a former SS captain,

except you're never
a former SS anything.

You are SS until you die.

They run huge infrastructure
projects all over the world

in exactly the same way
as they did for the Nazis.

What was CAPRI doing here?

- They made tunnels,
he said.

[ominous music]

- They were, like,
cutting out in the mountains.

- They were making tunnels
in the mountains?

- Yeah, they were making
some tunnels.

- Adolf Eichmann's up here
tunneling into mountains?

What the hell's
all that about?

- Do you know
if these tunnels still exist?

- Okay.

- Eichmann was here
digging tunnels

into the side of the mountains
in secluded Northwest Argentina.

If Hitler would have come here
and used this as a safe house,

he would need
multiple routes for evasion.

Look at these mountains.
Look at that view.

- It's quite incredible.

- Maybe these tunnels were
built as an escape route.

That's where
I have to go next.

♪

[suspenseful music]

- I feel good about Barcelona,
you know,

we've got documents
related to it.

Bormann was intimately tied
to Die Spinne.

narrator: While the team
continues to investigate

the Eichmann safe house
in Tucumán, Argentina,

Bob and John discuss
the Spanish leg

of their investigation,

where a declassified
Nazi document outlines

a secret trip
for Adolf Hitler

and Martin Bormann
to Barcelona

days before they were
believed dead.

- In Barcelona we know
there were Nazis there,

and we know there's
a German culture there.

It was open for Hitler,

but where do you go
in Barcelona?

You just don't show up there
and walk around the streets.

- We need to find out
which safe houses, which routes,

which infrastructure
was used

to facilitate
the fleeing war criminals.

I think we need to dig
into the database

and see if we can find
some information.

[dramatic music]

♪

- There we go.

♪

This is coming
out of an MI6 file

reported
in October 22, 1950.

"Bormann is without a doubt
the brain behind Die Spinne.

"He is known, rather ironically,
as The Great Eminence

"because of the robes worn
by the monks

at his monastery hideout
in Spain."

Hey, look,
it's been documented totally

that the Vatican
helped the Nazis.

So, I mean, we are within
the parameters of reality here

narrator:
After World War II,

an intricate system
of escape routes

throughout Spain,
known as the ratlines,

were established to help
Nazi war criminals flee Europe.

According to a 1947
American embassy memo,

these ratlines were
allegedly supported

by the Catholic Church

by providing
false documentation

in places of refuge
at local monasteries.

- You know, the question is
which monastery?

We've got hundreds of them
around Barcelona,

but which one
would he go to?

- Let's see if we can find
an answer to that.

[dramatic music]

♪

Look at this.

It's coming from the Federal
Minister of Justice,

West Germany,

and it goes on to say,
"Martin Bormann is living

"in the Saint Benedict monastery
at Montserrat near Barcelona

where he found sanctuary
with the Vatican's consent."

- I mean, John,
when you look at this,

you got Barcelona here,
right on the coast.

And then you go
up to here is Montserrat.

- Montserrat is approximately
25 miles from Barcelona.

- You are really
in the mountains here.

We need to know
whether Montserrat,

this particular monastery,
had any Nazi connection.

Number two is can you
actually hide out there?

Because it's a monastery doesn't
mean you can just move in.

I mean,
was there a place

that he would feel
comfortable and safe?

- I agree.
Next stop is Montserrat.

[ominous music]

♪

- Well, this is
spectacular scenery, isn't it?

- It's beautiful.

narrator: James Holland
and Mike Simpson head

for the Montserrat monastery

deep in the mountains,
an hour's drive from Barcelona.

- And it's amazing,
after the hubbub of Barcelona,

suddenly you're
so kind of remote, aren't you?

- On the drive up
I think tactical advantage

right off the bat.

One road alone
provides access.

Very easy to control.

Look at that.

[dramatic music]

♪

- Oh, it's
such an amazing view.

The monastery was
absolutely stunning.

These beautiful mountains,
strange rock formations,

and there's
this Benedictine monastery

kind of sort of tucked away
beneath this kind of rock face.

A Nazi war criminal would want
somewhere discreet,

out of the way,
and very well protected.

Frankly, he couldn't ask
for a better place.

- Hola, Padre.
Me llamo Mike.

[indistinct chatter]

narrator:
The team makes contact

with Friar Hilari Raguer,
the monastery's historian.

- [speaking Spanish]

- [speaking Spanish]

- [speaking Spanish]

- Himmler is
one of the absolute top Nazis.

He is the head of the SS.

He's incredibly important.
Why would he come here?

- Ah.
Himmler said

to one of the monks,
"We want to see the mountain.

We're interested
in the mountain."

- These are extensive?

- Very extensive.

Before the Nazis would have
fully committed

to using this site,
they would have had to do

what's known
as a site survey

and assess
the value of this site.

Normally,
this could have been performed

by any mid-level
military officer,

but in this case
it was Himmler himself.

That tells me that this place
was very important.

- Look at this.
- Yeah, we're there.

[dramatic music]

♪

[chuckles]

- Gosh, look at this.
- Look at that.

- That's pretty big,
isn't it?

- When he said expansive,

he really, really meant
expansive.

If you're in Spain
and the war's over,

the monastery itself

would have been
a perfect location

to keep people
on a temporary basis.

And now, added bonus
of these caves.

Wow.

- Well, you could easily hide
someone in here, couldn't you?

- There literally could not be
a better spot to hide

safely away from the eyes
and ears of your enemies.

You want to have that out,
and the caves are that out.

[dramatic music]

♪

[dramatic music]

♪

narrator:
At Tucumán, Argentina...

- He said this direction,
but it's vague.

narrator:
Tim Kennedy investigates

the area surrounding
Adolf Eichmann's safe house

in search
of rumored tunnels

that could be connected
to Die Spinne,

an organization
to support the escape

of the highest ranking
Nazi war criminals,

as reported
by a declassified CIA file.

- When I heard the Nazis were
in the mountains

digging tunnels,
immediately,

especially considering
that this could be a safe house,

I'm thinking
of escape routes.

I need to get
inside of these tunnels

at night to really try
to discern

what they were doing here.

narrator:
While Tim scouts the mountain

for a tunnel entrance...

- We found the key.
- Ah, good stuff.

- Here we go.
- Okay, muchas gracias.

narrator:
Gerrard Williams gains access

to the interior
of Eichmann's safe house.

[ominous music]

♪

- Here we are in a kitchen

where the man
who facilitated the deaths,

industrial mass murder,
of--

[groans]
Close to 11 million people,

would make
his morning coffee.

And that's chilling,
even if he was

only here
for a couple of years,

I still find it chilling.

Ugh!
Don't want to stay in here.

♪

- The old man said
that the tunnel entrance was

in the valley.

[suspenseful music]

♪

Where is this thing?

I can see something.

We might have something
right here.

Holy [bleep].

We got a tunnel.

I have no idea
what's back there.

It could be treacherous
in there, truly dangerous.

In tunnels
there's pockets of gasses

that we can't control.
Some of those are toxic,

but I have to find out
where it goes,

so I brought a self-contained
breathing apparatus with me

and enough air
that I at least know

I can get in and out.

I'm lead.
You guys stay behind me.

♪

Looks like a wall
right in front of us.

I can see a little bit of light
popping through.

I'm gonna go check that out
and see where that goes.

[groaning]

We got a couple of chambers.

They're cutting off
multiple tunnels.

All right,
we have--

at this intersection right here
you can see,

right here,
these archways.

This is a corridor.
This was planned.

This was built specifically
for the movement of people.

A massive tunnel system.

narrator:
Roughly 200 meters

from the mountain base
entrance,

Tim runs
into an intersection

leading to three distinct,
man-made pathways.

- Tunnels like this,
going straight into bedrock.

That takes time.

That takes money.
That takes backing.

If these tunnels were built
as an escape route,

they did it well.

We're a few hundred meters
from that intersection,

you know, maybe 500--400 or
500 meters from the entrance,

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

[groans]

Straight ahead.

Oh, I see
some light up there.

[sighs]

It looks like
it's filled in.

Oh, we're gonna
have to switch back.

We won't be able
to go much further.

It's starting to smell bad.

I'm not sure I want to go
much further like this.

Man, we're gonna--
I'm gonna put my mask on.

I don't want to go any further
breathing this air.

This is
a complex tunnel system.

[air escaping]

You're trying to track
a fugitive that's evading you,

and he runs in that tunnel,
if you try to follow him,

that's dangerous.

[dramatic music]

I have tunnels
that are dropping off.

I have tunnels that are
going to dead ends.

If you don't know where you're
going through that tunnel,

you could be lost.

[inhales deeply]

Watch your footing right here.
Slow down.

This goes straight down,

but right here,
we got an opening.

Whoa.

[dramatic music]

♪

We have an entrance
near the Eichmann house

and an exit on the opposite
side of the mountain

at a lower elevation
by the water.

That's an escape tunnel.

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

We found it.
That's what this is.

♪

[dramatic music]

- Well, we sent the team
up to Tucumán,

looking for this
potential safe house

Eichmann was
supposed to have lived in.

The team was able
to locate this house,

and they learned
Eichmann was working

for a company
called CAPRI,

and that they were digging
tunnels through a mountain,

and the team was able
to go through the tunnel.

What did they find on the other
side of that mountain?

An opening that goes
down to lower elevation

and right there's a river,
a method of escape.

- So these guys
built this tunnel

for a damn important reason.

In Tucumán
we found a tunnel.

A place to go
underground.

Clearly, Eichmann intended
to make an escape route.

So while Misiones was
being constructed,

Tucumán could be the perfect
staging area for Hitler.

Let's go
back to Barcelona.

narrator: Bob and John
discuss the other leg

of their investigation
in Barcelona, Spain.

- You certainly have
the possibility of hiding out

in the mountains in, like,
these caves, the monastery.

Himmler was at this monastery.
He would have known about it.

They're Nazis.

- We determine that
Barcelona's interesting

for a safe house
and for meetings,

but for Hitler to escape,
he needs to get

out of Spain and
go to South America.

What is the point of exit
or egress from Spain?

That's where we have to go, find
the most likely place for that.

- Yeah, I agree.
I mean, it's you know--

Look, we looked at Vigo.
It was a possibility.

- But you simply can't narrow it
down to one particular base.

What if in the meantime
you're in Vigo

and there was
an American battleship

parked off the coast?

You have to have
multiple exit routes.

You have to,
in the middle of a plan,

be able to alternate.

You do not have
one exit.

You have to have a second exit,
and a third, and a fourth.

You're always worried
about an ambush.

- If Vigo is plan A
or plan B,

what's plan C
or plan D?

- I, you know, I think
we should, you know,

start getting
into the documents and look

and see if there are
any other U-boat bases

and whether they were active
in May of '45.

"U-boat."

"Spain."

All right, we've got
something here,

a now declassified Argentinean
intelligence document.

We see here
that Ludwig Freud,

an agent
of the Third Reich,

stated that,
"on 7, February, 1945,

"a U-boat brought to Argentina
huge funds

"to help in the reconstruction
of the Nazi empire,

having sailed
from Cádiz, Spain."

[dramatic music]

- They're saying money here,
but just as easily

you could have been
putting people

on a U-boat out of Cádiz.

- Yeah, what's going on
at the Gulf of Cádiz?

We're no longer
in the Mediterranean.

It gives a clear shot
to the Atlantic.

- Yeah, it's
the only other way out.

- The question is, though,
are there any U-boat bases here?

- Yeah, yeah, you find me
a U-boat dock here,

I'll be very happy.

- That'll make two of us.

♪

- Look at all
these bunkers, Mike.

- Yeah, look at this.
You got here, here--

- There's lots of them.
Lots and lots.

narrator: In the province
of Cádiz, Spain...

- That's amazing.

narrator:
James Holland and Mike Simpson

are joined by local historian,
Alfonso Escuadra.

♪

- You know,
from down on the ground,

you don't really realize
how important it is.

this is
a maritime choke point,

so you control access
in and out of the Mediterranean

from right here.

- What I'm really intrigued
to know, Alfonso,

is how much of a foothold
have the Nazis

got here
during World War II?

- [speaking Spanish]

- Really?
- Yeah.

- Amazing.

This is huge.

We have photographic evidence

of a German U-boat
in the port of Cádiz.

That means that Hitler could
have had a support network

operating in the area,
as well as bases

to service U-boats.

That's what
we need to find out--

where exactly
these locations are

and to what extent
they were used.

Do you know of any place
that might have been used

as a clandestine base
for the U-boats?

- Can you think of anybody
who might have

more information
about U-boats

and about their operation
in the area?

- Well, we should definitely
try and talk to her.

This is looking quite tasty.

- This looks like the place.

narrator: In the province
of Cádiz in southern Spain,

James Holland and Mike Simpson
are investigating

a declassified
Argentinian document

that reports German U-boats
were sailing from this area

to Argentina in the final
months of the war.

♪

- German U-boats were operating
in Cádiz

but we still don't have
an exact location yet.

We're definitely
in the right area,

but that's what we need
to pin down.

narrator: In search of
a possible location

that Hitler could have used
to load onto a U-boat in Cádiz,

the team arrives
at the home of Liana Romero,

whose mother was rumored
to be connected

to Germans in the area.

- We've been told
that your mother had

a very interesting time here
during World War II.

- Oh, really?
So she was Russian?

- Si.

- So she signed up
as an agent for the Abwehr?

- Correct.
- Which is the German

secret intelligence service.

- And in what year?

- '41.

- And what was it
specifically

that your mother was doing
for Nazi Germany?

- Did your mother keep anything
from her years as an operative?

Did she keep any communiqués
or notebooks,

or anything like that
that we could take a look at?

- Liana's mother was placed
in the time period

that I am interested in
and in the exact location

that I am interested in,

but we need an actual point

that you could put
a high value target

such as Adolf Hitler
onto a U-boat.

- So this is your mother?
- Si.

- So striking, isn't she?

- Gosh, it's tiny.

- So this is a Minox camera.
I'm familiar with these.

Minox is a German company,
and these were great

because they could focus
not only on documents,

but you could also
take pictures of objects,

you know, a ship going by
or something like that.

This is basically
the original spy camera.

Really, this is
the first time

I've seen one
outside of a museum.

[both speaking Spanish]

- So what we're looking at
here, James,

this is an Astra 400
9 millimeter pistol.

- Mm-hmm.
- These were manufactured

here in Spain,
late '30s early '40s.

Oddly enough, most of these
were actually exported.

- Right.
- And guess where

they were exported to?

- I don't know.
- Germany.

This was a very preferred
Luftwaffesidearm.

These fit perfectly
with everything I know

about the tradecraft.

It was exactly
what spies of that time used

and makes the fact that Liana's
mother was a Nazi spy

very reliable indeed.

- So, Liana,
was there anyone here

that your mother became
acquainted with or knew

who had contact
with the highest Nazis?

- Yeah.

- Really?
- Whoa.

- He--
- He was a camp doctor?

And he was a German?

- Ah, okay.

- Do you have any
specific knowledge,

or even just rumors

of him helping German officials
who were fleeing?

- N--not that I know.

- James and I are looking
for specifically someplace

that could facilitate
clandestine U-boats.

Is there anything
you might be aware of?

- Reina Christina.

- It's still there?

- We're in Cádiz
specifically to find a location

that Hitler could have used
as a U-boat exfiltration point.

Now we have a hotel
crawling with spies.

We have to investigate this.

- You could see why
you would have

so many spies here.

- So the question's
where does that go?

Wow.
I was not expecting this at all.

- If Hitler and Bormann were
planning a Fourth Reich,

they're gonna have munition
factories just like this.

- It's clear that a Fourth Reich
was planned.

- Now we just need to find
the brain--

the headquarters
for the Fourth Reich.

Look at this.

- If they were making
explosives here,

whenever they stopped,
doesn't look like

they started cleaning up.

Analyzing explosive test card...

[beeping]

Holy [bleep].