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So, this is
from June 12, 1945.

"At this time, the decision
had been taken

to divide the ministries
in two parts

and establish one government in
the north and one in the south."

What this file tells me
is they're splitting up,

creating multiple
escape routes.

This is big.

We have Hitler spotted
on the 24th of April

in Hohenlychen.

And this is six days
before he supposedly

committed suicide in the bunker.

Four days later, we have
a separate independent witness

identify him
leaving by airplane.

We got to see
what's going on down there.

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Holy...

For the Me 262.

This is the fastest jet
the world has ever seen.

If Hitler himself was here
and boarded one of these things,

he was out of here in a hurry.

BAER: This file tells us

that Kaltenbrunner,
commander-in-chief

of all German forces
in Southern Europe,

crosses the border into Austria

with more than
a ton of paper and dumps it.

This is huge.

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He is saying he is
absolutely positive

Kaltenbrunner would have hid
something in the lake.

Wow.

HOLLAND: It's quite a large,
rectangular object.

This is huge.

And it could be nothing
other than man-made.

Let's get to shore. We need to
get this dive started.

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Kaltenbrunner is the center
of Hitler's network.

If Hitler intended
to escape Berlin,

he would use Kaltenbrunner.

His activities at the end
of the war are gonna tell us

what their
intentions were.

NARRATOR:
21-year CIA veteran Bob Baer

and former terrorist
targeting officer

Nada Bakos are using
asset-mapping,

the strategy used to dismantle
the leadership of Al-Qaeda

and ISIS to track Hitler's known
associates and pinpoint

exactly where he could have gone
after the end of World War II.

The team is investigating
two potential escape routes

for Adolf Hitler
after the war --

a northern route
through Hohenlychen, Germany,

and a southern route
through Altaussee, Austria,

where a declassified
CIA document

claims Hitler's close associate
Ernst Kaltenbrunner

discarded a cache
of secret documents,

including possible Nazi
escape plans in a nearby lake.

I think things probably
collapsed a lot faster

than they expected.

And any time people like this
are on the run,

they're disposing of stuff
any way they can.

This tells me that they
didn't have a lot of time

'cause the proper protocol
for any government

when they're extricating
from a facility

is to burn
the documents.

Throwing things into the lake
is the next best step

if they don't have
time to burn it.

They have to
do something that they think

will get rid of it.

If the plan was to get Hitler
out of Europe,

into South America,
it would be in these documents.

Let's get them diving.

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-Is this my tank?
-This is your tank.

Okay.
Everything's looking good.

Along Hitler's potential
southern escape route

in Altaussee,

World War II historian
James Holland

and U.S. Army Green Beret
Mike Simpson have assembled

an expert dive team
led by Gerhard Kaiser.

The team prepares to dive
on a large manmade object

they identified
using side-scanning sonar.

It's quite a large,
sort of rectangular object.

And it could be nothing
other than manmade.

Worth diving on that?
-Absolutely.

SIMPSON: If this documents cache
is here and we find it,

this could potentially unlock
all of the secrets

to every escaped Nazi
of that time period.

Potentially, this is like
a big water-filled time capsule

that's just been
preserving all this stuff.

Whatever it might have been
could still be out there.

We'll be
right by you, Mike.

-Let's go.
-Let's do it.

NARRATOR: Mike and Gerhard will
swim the 65 feet from shore

to the location
of their sonar hit.

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Mike.
Can you see anything?

Yeah.
It's a vehicle.

-What?
-Yes.

You're kidding.

It looks like a vehicle
was pushed out into the lake.

Looks like some type
of cargo utility vehicle.

The metal frame is
very rusted,

but there's wooden slats
in the roof.

SIMPSON: The fact that
we're able to identify

possibly an abandoned
Nazi vehicle is huge.

It could have been filled
with these documents.

Can you swim around it

and see if you can find
anything from it?

Yeah.

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Mike.

Let me get
a little closer to the boat.

What have you got there?

-You ready for this?
-Yeah.

Looks like a bayonet
of some type.

Yeah, it is a bayonet.

That's a Goebeler German
infantryman's bayonet.

I mean, that's just
standard issue.

This is in amazing
condition, isn't it?

Look at this.

Oh, wow!

Pretty sure
that's an Iron Cross.

And that is a kind
of, like, a wound medal,

or a campaign medal.

HOLLAND: We didn't find quite
what we were looking for,

but we have found this vehicle,
we have found some medals,

and we have found a bayonet.

That means that the Nazis
were dumping stuff.

The question is why.

Why are they doing this?

What we found
was this vehicle,

and then we found medals,
a bayonet, which was thrown in

contemporaneously
with the fleeing Nazis.

NARRATOR: While the team
continues to investigate

Hitler's potential southern
escape route in Austria,

Bob and Nada
turn their attention

to the northern escape
route Reichlin, Germany,

where a declassified file claims

Hitler was taken away
from an airfield two days

before he was believed dead.

The team at Reichlin
found a bunker

that actually
ended up being bombed,

but within that wreckage,

they found a part of
the Messerschmitt Me 262.

This is the fastest jet
the world has ever seen.

At the time, it's flying
100 miles per hour faster

than any jet out there.

Put it simply,

you could just outrun
the Allied Air Force.

This is the flight radius
of an Me 262.

At the end of the war,
everybody's heading south.

The Russians are
heading south.

The Allies are here.

So where do you go?
You go north.

But what do we get
up here?

Well, Sweden, we know,
was neutral during the war.

Norway, on the other hand --
There were still Nazi troops,

and he could have been
perfectly safe for months.

NARRATOR:
On April 9, 1940,

the Nazis
successfully invaded Norway.

The Norwegian government
was forced into exile,

and the Nazis continue
to rule the country

until the end
of World War II.

Allied forces
never landed in Norway,

and the last German soldier
there did not surrender

until four months
after the war had ended.

The Germans looked at Norwegians
as a superior race,

as one of them,
as part of the tribe.

It was a place that the Nazis
felt comfortable.

Here we go,
"Reporting agency -- MI6.

Nazi defensive
strategy Norway."

"The line of coastal fortresses
in Southern Norway

started from Kristiansand

with the Nazi base
of Battery Vara."

This file's telling us that
they've got Nazi bases up there.

If Hitler was flying
up to Norway,

they would have
had support.

Which airfield
would be closest?

This is Southern Norway.

We know that the range of
the Me 262 could cover all this.

And what
do we have here?

Kjevik Airfield --
well-known Nazi air base.

And then going back
to that document,

you've got Battery Vara,
coastal defense.

And this is clearly
in range of Reichlin.

We've got to
check this out.

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KENNEDY:
If you didn't want someone
to get through this pass,

you put one gun there,
and it's locked down.

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

investigative journalist
Gerrard Williams,

and their local contact,
Ashborne,

land in Kristiansand, Norway,

a possible stop along Hitler's
potential northern escape route.

WILLIAMS:
We're heading to Battery Vara,

which is on the tip
of Kristiansand.

We're going there to see
whether or not this huge base

would have been part of
a northern escape route.

If you try and put yourself in
the place of a high-ranking Nazi

trying to flee the collapse
of the Nazi Empire,

you would need
safety and security.

-Tim?
-How are you. Tim. Pleasure.

-Gerrard?
-I'm Gerrard.

NARRATOR: The team makes contact
with Arold Anderson,

the caretaker
at Battery Vara.

KENNEDY: We're interested
in this area to see

if this could have been
a stop-off point

for escaping Nazis.

Who was stationed here?

So, it was 50 houses
with soldiers here.

It was 10,150 land mines
around there.

-Yeah.
-That's a lot of land mines.

Can you tell us
a little bit about the cannon?

So, this is, like,
a German-style cannon.

What's the range of this?

34 miles.

So, on the northern coast
of Denmark,

we have a massive battery --
a cannon.

And on the southern tip
of Norway,

we have these
lining the coast

with interlocking
sectors of fire

that's completely
locking down the coast.

It was a choke point.

Nobody can get in and out
without being

in the effective range
of these massive guns.

You can't successfully invade
Denmark or Norway by sea.

I've been in the military
for 15 years.

I have never seen
a gun that size.

This might have been one of
the largest weapons on Earth.

Why did they
build them here?

What were they protecting?

If this is part
of Adolf Hitler's

northern escape route,

I have to see what else is here.

NARRATOR: 1,000 feet north of
the coastal defense cannon,

the team gets access
to one of Battery Vara's

heavily fortified bunkers.

KENNEDY: All right,
where's the entrance?

Right there.

Wow.
This is massive.

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WILLIAMS: The size of the room
is good.

Oh, my God.

Holy [bleep]

WILLIAMS: "Die treue
ist das mark der ehre."

"Our belief is at the core
of our world,"

or, "the core of us" --
"at the heart of us."

This is -- This is
rich Nazi propaganda.

It's probably straight
out of "Mein Kampf."

What were they doing here?

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So you'd be able to talk
to somebody from here --

somebody in the battery.

This is still
in great shape.

130 land lines are
running directly to here?

-Yeah.
-Yeah.

At Battery Vara,
you have four 15.5-inch cannons,

fortified bunkers,

and a complex system
of communication.

These are all things
that need to be there

if this is part
of Adolf Hitler's

northern escape route.

Why, at the end of the war,
is this so important?

It's to protect the exit point
and the entrance point.

Yeah, but --
but of what?

So, we're talking 1945,
after the fall of Berlin.

So what are they
protecting here?

And what is so important
that you still need 15-inch guns

in a complex,
interconnected battery system?

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He don't want to say it,

but he thinks
it's about special weapons.

Nuclear weapons.

Okay, I mean, that's --
that's massive.

Adolf Hitler -- His only hope
for any significant existence --

Is a vengeance weapon
of some sort.

This is incredibly important
at the end of the war.

He's obsessed with it.

And these guns
are protecting --

A wonder weapon,
a super weapon,

whatever you want
to call the damn things.

WILLIAMS: There are rumors
that Nazi scientists

are working as fast and as hard
as they can to develop

Hitler's vengeance weapons.

He wants to see
New York in flames.

He wants to destroy 4 million
Russians on the Eastern Front.

It would be enough to enable
Nazi Germany to go on to do

what they originally planned
to do -- world domination.

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In the 19th century,
this place was

an absolute hotbed
of Nazis.

NARRATOR: Along Hitler's
potential southern escape route

in Altaussee, Austria,

James and Mike are following
a declassified CIA file

claiming that Nazis
had discarded

potential escape plans
in the nearby lake.

SEEBOHM: Okay.
It's right in there.

NARRATOR: After finding Nazi
artifacts in Lake Altaussee,

the team and their
translator, Katja,

make contact with
Gerhard Zauner,

a local diver and historian.

SIMPSON: During the dive
into Lake Altaussee,

we retrieved some artifacts --

a bayonet and a couple
of German badges.

Gerhard Zauner --

He's been diving these lakes
for over 50 years.

Hopefully he can answer
why two badges

and a bayonet went in the lake.

SIMPSON:
I found these.

And we were hoping
that you could tell us

a little bit more
about them.

SEEBOHM: That's called
the Frozen Medallion

because it's from
the war in Finland.

And that's from a battle
on the Eastern Front.

There were a great many battles,

and for each one,
they created a different medal.

And everyone
was just throwing it away

at the end of the war.

Ja. Ja.

Oh, wow, look at that.

So, what's this one?

An EK1, he says.

That's an Iron Cross,
first class.

SIMPSON: So, these aren't
just dog tags and unit insignia

people are throwing in.

I mean, people are throwing in
the equivalent

of Silver Star,
Distinguished Service Cross.

It must have been difficult
for somebody to let it go.

As someone who's spent
three decades in uniform,

I can say that
your personal identity

is very much entwined
with who you are as a soldier.

The idea that these soldiers
were stripping off

their uniforms entirely,

awards of valor,
campaign medals,

and throwing them into the lake
tells me

they were literally
shedding their identities.

The way
that I look at it --

You're standing on
the edge of the water

throwing all of your insignia
and your medals into the lake.

You're about to start
a new life on the run,

and you're preparing to flee.

SEEBOHM:
Everyone threw everything away

because then no one was a Nazi.

Wow.

He says there was
something more important,

and that was survival.

You have to remember
that you have the Americans

coming from the West.

You have the Russians coming
from the East and Southeast.

You know,
before the Allies come,

you're just gonna
get rid of this.

SIMPSON:
This is a classic tactic

that is used for fugitives
all around the globe.

The Nazis were able to shed
their identities

and freely travel just
about anywhere in the world.

The question now is where
were they going from here?

Hmm.

I find this
really chilling.

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NARRATOR:
The team's local contact has
uncovered a living eyewitness

who may have information
on Nazi war criminals' movements

through the area
at the end of the war.

It's so rare in Austria to find
what we call Zeitzeuge,

time witnesses,
who are still alive today

and are willing
to talk about it.

HOLLAND: Yeah.

NARRATOR: They make contact
with Johan Lidnorner,

one of the oldest living
residents of Altaussee.

HOLLAND: Herr Lidnorner.

What's suddenly becoming
really, really clear

is Nazis in this area
were discarding their identities

and going on the run.

What's less clear is where
they could have escaped to.

We're really hoping he's gonna
be able to cast some light

on those final days of the
Third Reich here in Altaussee.

We've known lots of Nazis
were fleeing here,

but what we're trying to to
is get a picture

of what Altaussee's like
at the very end of the war.

SEEBOHM: There were so many
Nazis here that the

general population didn't really
think about it too much.

Eichmann?
As in Adolf Eichmann?

He said Eichmann.

We all know
what happened to him.

He got away.
-Yeah.

And knowing
that he used Altaussee

potentially as
a stepping-off point, as well,

and got away,
that's interesting.

HOLLAND:
Eichmann is the administrator

who organized
the rounding up of the Jews

and sent millions of them to
their deaths in the death camps

and then eventually made
his escape to South America.

Now we're hearing that Eichmann
was here in Altaussee,

so you have to ask yourself,

"Well, if Eichmann
was in Altaussee,

there has to be
a way out of here."

So he fled from here to the West
with false papers and money

that he'd been given
by Kaltenbrunner.

HOLLAND: What happened
to Kaltenbrunner?

Kaltenbrunner fled from here
to a hunting lodge

that was up in the pasturelands
of the Totes Gebirge --

of the Dead Mountains here.
Do you have a name?

So while Kaltenbrunner was
in the Northeast,

Eichmann fled west.

-Yes.
-Interesting.

Eichmann and Kaltenbrunner were
both here at the same time.

Two people who were
directly tied

into Adolf Hitler's
circle of trust.

But the fact that Eichmann
escaped to the west

while Kaltenbrunner fled in an
entirely different direction --

that raises a question --

What was going on here?

BAKOS: One of the reasons
they went to Austria

was to shed their identity.

What you're getting rid of
is the swastika,

or any campaign medals to show
that you've been a soldier.

NARRATOR: While the team
continues to investigate

Hitler's potential southern
escape route through Austria,

Bob and Nada shift
their focus to the findings

from the northern escape route.

The team's found
a lot in Norway.

It's a fortress.

The bunkers, the communications,
the defense.

This evidence points to the fact
that this could have been

the next stop on
the northern escape route.

Not only that --

They're protecting
a secret weapons operation.

Hitler was obsessed
with the ultimate weapon,

which would allow them
to conquer the world.

We found in South America
the physical evidence

they were making
a secret weapons program.

MAN: This map depicts a plan
to bomb the United States,

and more specifically
Manhattan Island.

This is to prevent
radiation from escaping.

That's how close they were.

BAKOS: Can we find proof of
a weapons operation in Norway?

Let's take a look.

Here we go.

MI6, 1944,
"Intercepted Telegram."

"The most important
technical advance in the war

is the research
on this new type of weapon.

Germany has a large
hydroelectric plant for this

in the vicinity
of Rjukan, Norway.

They've got a special weapons
plant here in Rjukan, Norway.

When ISIS went into Mosul
and captured territory,

they were using
the infrastructure

that the Iraqis had built.

They took over
their oil supply.

Yeah, I mean,
this is what the Nazis did.

Every country
they invaded they used

whatever technology
was predominant.

If the Nazis are taking over
a hydroelectric plant,

it's for a purpose.

They're not doing it
to make money.

They need this facility

to create
weapons of mass destruction.

I want to know how far
they got with this plan.

What's going on in Rjukan
will tell us

what their plans
were for the Fourth Reich.

We've got to find out
what they were doing there.

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KENNEDY: We're getting close
to where we're supposed to be.

It's very rugged.

NARRATOR: Following Hitler's
potential northern escape route,

Tim and Gerrard hit the ground
in Rjukan, Norway,

home of the Vemork
Hydroelectric Plant.

God it's incredibly
well-built.

-Hello.
-Hi.

-Hi.
-Hello, there.

The team makes contact
with facilities manager

Runor Lay and Vemork historian
Frederick Seride.

We have intelligence that
they were making components

of a weapon of mass
destruction here at Vemork.

We need to find out
what they were making

and what happened to it.

WILLIAMS: Huh.
It's impressive. Yeah.

-Made fertilizer.
-Yeah.

-So, phosphate mining here.
-That's right. Yeah.

But you can also make
explosives from fertilizer.

No.

Heavy water --
It was made here.

It was made here, yes.

Heavy water's one of the most
important components

of a nuclear bomb.

Heavy water plus uranium
equals plutonium.

And that's a nuclear bomb.

Heavy water is a form
of water with added mass

and alternate
chemical properties.

It is created by
running large amounts

of electrical current
through normal water.

In the 1940s, heavy-water
reactors fueled by uranium

were used to create plutonium,

the explosive component
in a nuclear bomb.

How much did they make here?

This is scary.

This is Adolf Hitler
developing a component

for a nuclear weapon.

Adolf Hitler could have
a nuclear bomb.

-Before you had.
-Yeah.

And that would have changed
the world completely.

So, this heavy water,
which is what they needed

for their nuclear program...
-Yeah.

Where were they making it,
and where were they storing it?

Does it still exist?

Is there any access into
what that basement area was?

We have to find if there's any
way to get into this basement.

I completely
agree with you.

I need to find out what happened
to that heavy water.

If they had hopes,
any aspirations,

of having a Fourth Reich
in South America,

they're not gonna be
leaving Europe without it.

They're gonna bring it
with them.

Can you get us to that area
where we could maybe

find an access point?

-Let's go see.
-Yeah.

NARRATOR: The team travels to
an overlook a half mile away

from the hydroelectric plant

to gain a better
vantage point of the area

where the heavy-water
factory once stood.

Let me take a look
at those.

Yeah.

KENNEDY:
I can see the power plant.

So, this is our perspective
right here.

At least we can see where
the corner of the factory was,

and the bottom floor --

It's where that
tree line is.

-Yeah.
-Which means the basement

is gonna be even below that.

Now it's figuring out
where to go in.

Where do you think
our best chance

to find an entry point is?

There is something...

right on that cliff face.

That could be our access point.

NARRATOR: Tim has spotted
what could be an entrance

into the factory's
former basement.

We know what Adolf Hitler did
with trains and gas chambers.

Millions of lives were lost.

The thought of him having
a weapon of mass destruction --

a nuclear weapon --
There's nothing scarier.

We need to figure out exactly
how close they really got.

WILLIAMS: So, how the hell
do you get up to it?

We got to climb.

BAKOS:
The team in Rjukan found out

they were manufacturing
heavy water.

They were not using heavy
water for a power reactor.

They were using it
to make a nuclear bomb.

NARRATOR: While the team in
Norway continues investigating

Hitler's potential
northern escape route,

Bob and Nada
turn their attention

to the southern
escape route through

Altaussee, Austria.

The team has actually talked
to a resident in Altaussee

who said that Kaltenbrunner
fled up into the Alps.

Adolf Eichmann is
in Altaussee, too.

Eichmann was one of the most
wanted Nazis after Hitler.

We know he made it
to South America.

So we now know
the southern escape route

was absolutely
a legitimate escape route

for high-ranking Nazis.

We no longer have to prove
this route would have worked.

It's not a hypothetical.

We've got a mass murderer
who takes the route

and gets to Argentina.

Now we have to find out

could Hitler have used
the southern route.

So, we know Eichmannts away to.

But what happens
to Kaltenbrunner?

The witness in Altaussee --

He told us about a hut
up in the mountains

where Kaltenbrunner
was hiding out.

I want to find out
what went on at this hut.

Here we go.

So, this one's
from U.S. Army --

"Last days of
Ernst Kaltenbrunner."

On 12 May 1945,

Kaltenbrunner was arrested
at Altaussee, Austria.

He had been hiding in a mountain
cabin called Wildensee Huette.

So Kaltenbrunner
was captured.

Why is Eichmann getting away
from Altaussee,

and Kaltenbrunner
is not?

If anybody knows his way out
of Austria, it's Kaltenbrunner.

He's got networks.
He's got people.

He knows how to get away.

So why'd he hang out
in this hut?

What was so special
about this hut?

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NARRATOR: Along Hitler's
potential southern escape route

in Altaussee, Mike and James
secured a helicopter to travel

the nearly 5,000 vertical feet
up to the remote Alpine hut

where Ernst Kaltenbrunner
was captured.

SIMPSON: As an investigator,
it's very important

for me to see the location
of the Wildensee Huette.

I know that Kaltenbrunner
was there.

I know he was captured there.

That tells me there's
something going on here.

I need to know why
this location is so important.

What really strikes you
when you're in a helicopter

is just how remote this is.

I mean, you know, there is
nothing else around.

All you can just see is vast
expanse of mountainous terrain.

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HOLLAND:
Let's go and have a look.

SIMPSON: This is exactly
what they saw back then

when they came up here.

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Once on the ground, you can see

what a treacherous
landscape this is.

And then you get into
the actual hut.

It's rustic.
It's roughly made.

This is just a simple
wooden mountain shack.

This is not a place
for long-term habitation.

It's got a stove.

It's got some facilities,
but pretty basic.

If you're trying to flee,
surely he couldn't have gone

all this way to this hut

with no ongoing escape route
already prepared.

What was this guy up to?

We should see where there
is a path out of here.

So we're looking
east-southeast this way.

Okay, that's not a route, is it?
I mean, look at that.

No, not a place
you want to go,

either coming up
or going down.

That way is Altaussee.

That is the route
from which he's just come.

You know, he knows the Americans
are hot on their tails.

He's not gonna go
back down that route.

There's no way
you're gonna escape this way.

This is
what we're looking at.

Here's that ridge
that we're looking at up here.

-Yep.
-It's a monster ridge.

And what's
the other side?

More of the same,
so it just gets higher.

Yeah, look, we're in a nice,
little bowl here...

Yeah.
...but we're literally
surrounded.

Surrounded.
So you're going into
a boxed canyon.

-This is a dead-end spot.
-Terrible.

HOLLAND: Everything about
Kaltenbrunner's capture

just seems slightly
out-of-kilter to me.

You look at the simplicity
of this hut,

you're looking at the difficulty
of the terrain around you,

and you realize that this
is clearly a dead end.

And Kaltenbrunner
must have known this.

So you're starting to think,
"Why did he come up here?"

What if his sole purpose
was drawing somebody up

into the absolute
worst direction

to flee that it's gonna take him
a long time to get up into

and only one way back out

to give somebody else more time
to get out of here?

You know,
if he's up here

kind of waiting
to be the fall guy,

that would give time
for other people

to start moving these
networks elsewhere.

He's gonna draw
all that attention on himself

in this little cabin.

Meanwhile, everyone else,
including Adolf Eichmann,

or possibly
Adolf Hitler, himself,

is using all these better
routes to get out of here.

That basically, he's willing
to give himself up here

at this cabin.

Kaltenbrunner was fiercely
loyal to the Reich,

fiercely loyal to the Fuhrer.

Could it possibly have been
that Kaltenbrunner

was being a sacrificial lamb
to draw suspicion away

and give others time
to escape

and time to plan
the Fourth Reich?

**

So, we know that there's
a subterranean area here.

Without a doubt.

NARRATOR: Along Adolf Hitler's
potential northern escape route

in Rjukan, Norway,

Tim and Gerrard
are investigating

a hydroelectric plant

where a declassified
MI6 telegram

claims the Nazis were running
a secret weapons operation.

-That's hopefully our guy.
-Okay.

To reach a cliff-side location
of a possible entry point

into the basement of a former
heavy-water storage facility,

the team has called in local
climbing guide Hogan Skipper.

-Hogan.
-Hello.

KENNEDY: Tim.
Pleasure to meet you.

The Nazis were making
heavy water in the basement

of a facility that was
destroyed on this property.

No one knows what happened
to the heavy water

that was in that facility.

We have to see
if there's any still here,

or if this heavy water
could have moved

out of Norway to South America.

When we were scouting
and reconning from over there

with binoculars, we could see
that retaining wall,

or what could potentially
have been an entrance.

I want you to get on a radio
with my binoculars,

get on that side,
and you're gonna be my eyes.

You're gonna walk me
into that door.

Okay.

Good luck.

Safety lines first.

NARRATOR: Tim will be
the first person to try

and access the basement since
it was destroyed in 1945.

Gerrard travels to
the other side of the ravine

to guide him
toward their target.

All right,
lock that in right there.

-Locked.
-Okay.

**

Gerrard, this is Tim.
Over.

Understood.

**

**

Tim, I can see the crack
we were talking about earlier.

You seem to be
just on the tree line.

You need to come
maybe 30 feet to your right.

**

**

Stop right there, Tim.

**

Underneath the wall,
it's just rock.

There's two more overhangs,
but there's nothing below it.

This is not a way in.

We're gonna have to scout
this entire mountainside

to see if there is
another access point.

NARRATOR: In order to find
an alternate entry point

into the basement of
the former heavy-water factory,

Tim scours the square mile
of forest

where the facility once stood.

Rather steep here.

This is the area.

There's something
over there.

There's some cement.

All right, here.

This is a space.
This is a hole right here.

It's only a couple inches,
but it goes straight back.

NARRATOR:
200 feet from the main building,

Tim has located what appears
to be a small hole

leading into the basement of
the former heavy-water factory.

This has potential.

Right now this hole
in the ground is our best chance

at finding out what potentially
happened with this heavy water.

I could be just feet away
from real, actual,

physical evidence that the Nazis
were developing a nuclear bomb.

We should be able to lift
some of this off

and then cut one
or two of these bars,

which might give us a big
enough hole to get in there.

-Let's try it out.
-All right.

**

Almost there.

-That's a cave.
-It is.

I think
I can fit in there.

Gerrard, this is Tim.
Over.

Yes, Tim.

Hey, we made about
a ·foot hole

probably big enough
for me to slip down.

I'm gonna go in

to see what exactly's
around this corner.

Roger that.

**

[ Grunts ]

SKIPPER: Tim?

Tim?

Yeah, I'm in.
Hogan?

Yep?

Everything is
just rubble.

It's all rebar
and cement.

Okay.
No way of going further?

No, there's not --

There's no way we're gonna
get one foot deeper.

I can see deeper
through this rubble.

I see a room back there.
There's nothing in there.

It's empty.

KENNEDY: Those barrels of
heavy water are gone.

We have to know where it went

and what they were
gonna do with it.

This was their chance

of making the Fourth Reich
a reality.

HOLLAND:
What was going on in this place?

MAN #2:
At the end of the war, the Nazis
counterfeited British money.

Counterfeit money?

That's incredible.

If you want a system
that can help Nazis

get out of here
and away to freedom,

this is about as good
as it gets.

If we're gonna find
any evidence of heavy water,

one of the necessary components
to making a nuclear weapon,

where should I look?

The best place to look
is in this area under water.

**

This is unbelievable!

We have a U-boat!