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male narrator: Previously
on "Hunting Hitler"...

- The evidence for Hitler
landing in Argentina

was very strong.

- Hitler had met
with a Nazi associate

by the name of Fritz Mandl.

- He use to own
an ammunition factory.

- So he was making arms
while he was here?

- He may very well be pursuing
this Fourth Reich.

- This French agent,

he had seen a large radio
station near the hotel

in Brazil.

- You cannot start
the Fourth Reich

without communication.

- There was to be held
at the Grand Hotel a ballet,

and one man attending
was definitely Hitler.

[dramatic music]

- I have something.
- What?

- There's an advertisement
for a ballet.

- And that's the performance
he saw Hitler at?

- This is getting good.

[dramatic music]

♪

- Anytime a high-value target
gets up and moves,

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

And I think
what we can say here

is that Hitler at this point
has gone operational.

And it was a matter of finding
an opportunity to come back.

narrator:
CIA veteran Bob Baer

and war crimes investigator
John Cencich

have used hundreds
of declassified files

to track Hitler's
potential movements

from his bunker in Berlin
in April, 1945.

Their findings suggest that
over the course of two years,

Hitler traveled thousands
of miles to Argentina,

and slowly made his way
across South America

before arriving
in a small town in Brazil.

There an FBI report places him
in close proximity

to a high-powered
communications device.

- If Hitler was there,

and there's military-like
antennas in the area,

what was the plan?

This is almost like a piece
of Germany in Brazil.

Just how extensive
was the German network there?

- I have one document here,

an article entitled
"Spies Rounded Up In Brazil."

The Brazilian police
have rounded up 36 Germans,

including a former
German army officer

described as the director
of German espionage

in the state of Rio Grande,

which is where
the town of Cassino is located.

That's extremely interesting.

We see German espionage
in the town of Cassino

during the Second World War.

Even after the war,

the communications system
could continue to be used

for other
Nazi-related activities.

- During World War II,

you had German spies
operating in Cassino.

He's got
an infrastructure here.

If we can find evidence
of a communications site,

it's the perfect place
for him to show up

and go operational again.

narrator:
Bob shifts the investigation

to locating the high-tech
communications equipment

detailed in the declassified
FBI report

that places Hitler
in Cassino, Brazil.

- This FBI document
gives us specificities.

I mean, he's giving us
step after step

on which way to turn.

- Yeah, let's walk that

and find out
what there is there.

Was it possible
that this location

that's described
very specifically in the report,

there was an antenna there?

70 years later, most likely
this thing was destroyed,

but that doesn't mean
we can't follow

the directions in that report
and see what we end up with.

Let's go find that tower.

[suspenseful music]

♪

- There's a route,

about where their
communication tower could be.

To me,
it's like a treasure map.

You know, if we find the X,

you know, X marks the spot.

- Yeah.

- There's gonna be
some serious treasure

at the end of it.

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

and his local translator
prepare to search for evidence

of the high-tech
communications setup

referenced in the FBI files.

- The informant
from the FBI documents

wrote some
very specific directions

about where we could find
this communication.

It says, "when standing
in front of the hotel,

take the first boulevard
to the right."

Cassino is laid out
pretty straightforward.

They build their roads north
and south, and east and west.

So we can take this report
at face value,

and know that these directions
are never gonna change.

- Come out of the hotel,
first left, narrow street.

♪

I'd describe this
as a narrow street.

♪

This says walk this way
for five to seven minutes,

and the equipment
may be observed.

- Yeah.

♪

- We're at five minutes
right now.

- Yeah.

narrator:
The directions lead the team

to a neighborhood block built
up with contemporary houses.

♪

- And walking five to seven
minutes brings us, you know...

- Exactly here.
- To this block.

- We're screwed, because they
wrecked what we're looking for

and built something
on top of it.

Every little secret
is just buried

on another layer
of different permits, leases,

different renters,
different owners.

I got to keep digging.

I want to start
knocking on doors,

and I want to start
talking to people.

- She said that it--
by only one person,

that they then
separated like here,

in small piece.

- Yeah, subdivided.
- Subdivided.

- So this was all owned
by one person?

- [speaks Portuguese]
- Thank you.

Within the first few people
that we talked to...

- Okay, thank you.

- We already started
kind of getting the hint.

- Right here?

This house right here?

There was one person
that we needed to talk to.

narrator: Tim visits
the property whose owners

could have once controlled
the entire block

that the FBI files led them to.

[clapping]

- [speaking Portuguese ]

- His family bought this
from a German family?

- Yeah, yeah.

- Wow.

It was just like a beacon
of, this could be the place.

- That would be fantastic.

♪

- [speaking Portuguese]

narrator:
Gerrard joins Tim

to interview
the current owner's aunt,

who was a young woman

when the property
was originally purchased.

- When your father
bought this property,

what did it look like
around this house?

- No one in your family
ever came across

any cables or wires or antennas

anywhere around this house
or the property?

- Absolutely nothing.

- What can you tell us
about the people

that owned it
before your family?

- So when your family
moved here in the house,

it had Nazi paraphernalia?

- My job, coming to Brazil,

was to corroborate
an eyewitness account.

We did more than that.

The FBI files led me
directly to a house

that was owned by a Nazi.

- Do you remember the name
of the people

who owned the house
before your father bought it?

- [speaking Portuguese]

- Sanders.

- Yep.

- Hi, Tais, can you hear me?

- We're at a house in Cassino

which seems was owned
in the early 1940s

by a family or a man
called Sanders.

narrator: Gerrard
contacts Dr. Tais Campelo,

an historian who
has extensively researched

the Nazi presence in Brazil.

- So you know he was
a member of the Nazi party?

- That's really good
information.

Thank you very much.

At least we know that they guy
who owned this house had links,

serious links,
to Nazi intelligence.

♪

- We now know that the house,

which fits the X marks the spot
bit we've been looking for,

was owned by a Nazi spy.

We've struck gold.

♪

- It's before satellites;
couriers are inefficient

Somebody like Adolf Hitler

needs to set up
reliable communications.

Otherwise, he's nothing.

narrator:
Bob Baer and Dr. John Cencich

review the field team's
investigation

of a declassified FBI file

that places Hitler
in Cassino, Brazil,

in close proximity

to high-powered
communications equipment,

two years after
he was believed dead.

- We followed the directions
in the FBI file.

It took us right to a house.

- The original owners
were not only were Germans,

but were Nazis.

Nazi paraphernalia
was found in the house,

and we find out that
that owner of that house

was arrested for a crime

none other than espionage.

- The evidence
is continuing to pile up.

When you're dealing
on 70-year-old leads

and you find this kind
of confirmation, it's big.

This is a hotbed
of Nazis in Cassino,

an extensive network
of Nazi intelligence officers.

It's the right
kind of environment

that Hitler would look for.

According to the reports,

Hitler's moving north

and has the means
to communicate with people.

But the radio's
never the endgame;

it's the beginning of the game.

This is '47.

The guy, presumably,
is healthy.

He's still not in a position
to show himself publicly,

but what does he do?

You're not gonna launch
a conquest of the world

from Cassino, Brazil.

What's in the plans?

Is there anything
in all the files

which would suggest plausibly
what he was up to?

narrator:
Working off the premise

that Hitler could have been
in Brazil in 1947

and was moving north
with hopes of regaining power,

Bob and John
dig through the hundreds

of declassified documents
for a clue

as to where Hitler
may have headed next.

- You know, we can look
to a document here

dated May 22nd, 1948.

This places Hitler
in Bogota, Colombia.

Hitler, two German physicists,
and two pilots

traveled by a plane.

They carried with them
secret plans

for the V-3 sky rocket bomb

and the complete record

of the German
nuclear investigation.

They landed the planes
in a flying field in Bogota.

Once they landed,
the pilots burned the planes,

and the remains were submerged
in a nearby marsh.

- It does answer
the question:

what a madman would do
to regain power.

Hitler arriving
with nuclear scientists,

burning the airplane.

But they got plans for the V-3
and nuclear warheads.

Talk about, you know,
raising the tone in all of this.

narrator: In 1939, Germany
launched a secret project

to develop Nazi
nuclear weapons.

The scientists given this task

were some of the most skilled
in the world,

with thousands of them
ultimately being recruited

by the United States

to work on American programs
after the war.

Although shrouded in secrecy,

the Nazi Amerika-Bomber
and the V-3 rocket

were believed to be
potential weapons

with an unprecedented range
of thousands of miles.

- Just look at the map.

You've got Colombia,

clearly a V-3
from the designs we know,

could go the 2,000 miles
and hit the United States

in some sort
of Hail Mary attack.

Is it fantastic?

Yeah.

But this is Adolf Hitler,

and his plan
isn't to be the mayor

of some village
in Argentina.

It's to strike the main enemy,
the United States.

It was the United States which
brought down the Third Reich.

And only once the United States
was brought down

could the Fourth Reich come.

This may seem something
out-of-this-world crazy,

but if you and I
had been talking

a couple of years before 9/11

that this was possible,
to hijack American airplanes

and knock down
the World Trade Center,

you would immediately
dismiss it.

In fact, the FBI
did dismiss these reports.

So many of these attacks
on the United States

are aspirational,

and so few of them work.

But that doesn't mean that our
enemies aren't planning them.

This is the one specific thing,

is an airplane
that flew these guys in

and pushed off into the swamp.

I sure the hell
want to be in Colombia.

We go there
and find something,

anything to substantiate
this report.

A big story,
big evidence.

I want to see it myself.

[suspensful music]

♪

This is what it all
comes down to.

- Great to see you.

narrator: 50 stories above
the vast metropolis of Bogota,

Bob and John join U.S. Army
Special Forces Tim Kennedy

and their local translator to
begin their hunt for a plane

that an FBI report
suggests transported Hitler

to within 2,000 miles
of the United States.

♪

- I didn't realize how expansive
and sprawling the city is.

- It has changed a lot.

It was very, very different from
what it was 60, 70 years ago.

All that part, it didn't exist.

I mean, that was green,
absolutely green, okay?

But as the city
started growing,

people would just simply
drain or fill the marshes

to build houses,
roads, and everything,

so it's really difficult
to find that marsh.

- So we're looking for
a needle in a haystack.

We need to dig
into those documents,

at least try to find
a few options,

some possibilities that we can
go either ground proof,

you know, or eliminate.

- And then start looking
for the aircraft.

He had to have
had some infrastructure

that he could have used.

He didn't come here
for tourism,

and he didn't think history
was over for him.

He came here to plan something.

Hitler was an opportunist,

and Colombia was
a great opportunity.

narrator: In 1948,
Colombia was in the throes

of a decade-long period
of chaos, political unrest,

and economic depression
known as La Violencia,

caused by mounting tensions

between the two leading
political parties.

Massive riots erupted
throughout the country,

eventually spreading
to the capital city of Bogota

and claiming
over 180,000 lives.

- It was lunacy at the time,

but he was looking
for that wedge,

which would have been chaos,

which would have been Colombia.

- Frightening.

We just have to find
the forensic evidence

to support that he was here.

- We find that airplane,

and we've broken this thing
completely open.

- We got a lot more
digging to do.

♪

narrator: With over 600 square
miles of land making up Bogota,

the team visits the city
urban planning department.

- This is the spot.

narrator: They make contact
with Javier Rincon,

the senior director,

in hopes of zeroing in
on the marsh

that could have been
the final resting spot

for Hitler's airplane.

- We are looking
for a very specific area.

- We kind of have
characteristics, like landmarks.

The first one was that it was
below 68th Avenue or Street

and in a marsh
called Santa Maria,

in an area called La Florida.

- [speaking Spanish]

- This would be the 68th.

- [speaking Spanish]

- We go down.

- [speaking Spanish]

- And this is the marsh
of Santa Maria de Lago.

- Right here?
- Right here, this one.

- Si.

- Are there any other lakes
or marshes

that are called Santa Maria?

- No.

- It's beneath 68th,
and Santa Maria is--

- It's the exact name
of the lake.

- Yeah.

It's amazing.

- We're on to something
right here.

Who owned this property
in 1948?

- Okay, so near the lake
was the country house

of Alfonso Lopez Pumarejo,

who was the president
of Colombia.

- The way that these Nazis
operate is,

you have wealthy, powerful men,

They're using their leverage
and their power

to facilitate the movement
of Nazi personnel.

It's a playbook that they've
been using

throughout all
of South America,

and now here in Colombia,

we're finding
that exact same standard.

Have you ever heard
any stories

about people trying
to hide things in the marsh?

- [speaking Spanish]

- When I was a kid...

- [speaking Spanish]

- I lived close to the marsh,

and people said that there
was a plane there

that at one time
was submerged.

- What do you mean, a plane?

- Yeah, it was like
a myth, like--

- [speaking Spanish]

- It was a story.

- Yeah, but still,
if it's not a story--

near my house there's lakes,

but we don't say
there's planes in them.

- Till today,
nobody did any research

or tried to investigate.

- You don't land an airplane
in a rural strip

and push it into a lake
for the hell of it.

It just doesn't happen.

Even though this is
a 70-year-old investigation,

this is one hell
of a breakthrough,

the possibility
that Adolf Hitler

arrived in Colombia

and disappeared here in 1948.

There's something here,
seriously.

♪

- It really is a swamp,
isn't it?

- Yeah.

narrator: The team arrives
at the Santa Maria Marsh,

which could be the location

where local rumors
and an FBI report

place Hitler arriving
in a plane,

before the plane was burned
and submerged in the marsh.

- We've heard reports
about planes

being ditched into this marsh.

We are a week's drive
from the American border.

Right here there
was a potential threat

to the United States
of a nuclear attack.

- Have you ever looked
for anything

that's been gone for 50 years?

- Yeah.

I've hunted for planes

that have been gone
for 50 years,

in this same
type of environment.

narrator: Regan Lipinski,
a marine survey expert,

has joined the team.

He is armed with a state-
of-the-art side scan sonar,

which uses acoustics to create

real-time
high-resolution images.

- We're talking about
a small airplane.

- If it's burned, that steel
should have maintained itself.

- Some sort of integrity.
- Right.

- Regan's the best
in the business.

He's truly a specialist
in his field.

He can find things
that are inches in size

in muddy, silt-filled lakes.

He's the go-to guy.

narrator:
While John heads out

to investigate the potential
Nazi network in Colombia

that could have
supported Hitler...

- We'll see you guys later.
- Okay.

narrator: The rest of the team
prepares the sonar

to scan a two-acre section
of the marsh

in search of a sunken airplane.

- Let's do this,
let's get to work.

I have Regan here.

We have the equipment,
we have the technology

to absolutely,
definitively know

if there's something
in a body of water or not.

I want to get out
and find our target.

♪

- All right, tow fish is in.

narrator: The marsh floor is
filled with dense vegetation,

so the team uses ropes,
rather than a motor,

to navigate the waters.

- Speed fine?
- Speed's fine.

- When you're going
to look for something,

there's this certain element
of excitement.

- We have tree roots.

- Some anxiousness,
some anxiety, you know.

There's an energy.

- Maybe a small little
target here.

- We're going to go
find something

at the bottom of this marsh.

♪

narrator:
On the other side of Bogota,

John makes contact
with Dionel Benitez,

an expert on the history
of Colombian aviation.

- Hola. ¿Como esta usted?

- You're not gonna land
a plane into a country

where there isn't
a Nazi infrastructure

that would support,
provide intelligence,

provide logistics,

and through research we
uncovered an aviation company

known as SCADTA,

which is alleged to have had
connections with Germany.

What I'd like to know
a little bit right now,

is about SCADTA.

- [speaking Spanish]

- Colombia had a really serious
transportation problem,

so the Colombian government
set out to start this airline

in order to solve that problem.

narrator:
SCADTA, also known as

the Colombian-German
Air Transport Society,

was formed in 1919
by a group of German pilots

who moved to Colombia
after serving in World War I.

It was established
to help move goods and people

across the country's
vast, road-less,

and rugged countryside,

eventually becoming the world's
second commercial airline,

and the first in the Americas.

- Were members of the Nazi party

involved in this company at all?

- [speaking Spanish]

- Herbert Von--

- Boy.
- Boy.

He was German,
he was accused of being a Nazi.

- What happened to him?

- He had a family here.

He started a family here.

- So he stayed here,
in Colombia?

- Si.

- And when did he die?

- 1973.

His grave is here
in the German cemetery.

- Herbert Boy was involved in
the aviation company,

SCADTA.

He had been suspected
of having been

a member of the Nazi party.

At first blush,
that's a forensic red flag,

and it requires
more investigation.

narrator: The team heads across
town to a German cemetery,

and the final resting place
of Herbert Boy.

[suspensful music]

♪

- Ah, yeah, Colonel.

- So here we have Colonel Boy.

But the question really
remains in my mind,

whether or not he
ever had any contacts

with people who were Nazis
in Germany.

- [speaking Spanish]

- Goebbels?

Joseph Goebbels?

- Si.

- The same Joseph Goebbels

who was in the Fuhrerbunker

with Adolf Hitler?

- Si.

[speaking Spanish]

- There's a clear relation,
because during his childhood

he went to school
with Joseph Goebbels.

- Joseph Goebbels
was the minister of propaganda.

He's basically the person
who was responsible

for enforcing the Holocaust.

That's a critical associate.

Did SCADTA continue
to exist in the 1940s?

- No, the Colombian president

decided to imprison Nazis.

- Just to be clear,
the president was rounding up

and arresting people
that he believed

to be members of the Nazi party,
is that correct?

- Si.
[speaks Spanish]

- In the early 1940s,

Colombia joined
the Allied Powers,

and at that time,

the president of Colombia
was rounding up

people who were suspected
of being Nazis.

One moment, okay?

- Si.
- Permiso.

- The marsh,
the Santa Maria marsh

that Bob and Tim and others
are at right now...

- Yes, yes.

- The president
owned that property.

Why in the world
would they land

on the property or the land
of the president

who's locking them all up
and throwing them in jail?

- That doesn't make senseat all.

- The marshland that we're
searching right now

is not the right location.

The president
was rounding up people

that he suspected
of being Nazis,

and he's locking them up,
he's imprisoning them.

If they were to come in
and land there,

they would have been landing
in a trap.

♪

- We need to be looking
someplace else,

and I think we need
to let the team know

this is not
a logical place.

- Somewhere else,
not here, I mean.

Definitely it's not here.

- Okay, I'll be right back.
- Yeah, Sure.

narrator: While investigating
Nazi supporters

that could have aided
Hitler's arrival in Bogota,

as reported by
a declassified FBI file,

John Cencich has
made a massive discovery

that could change the course
of their hunt for a plane

buried in the nearby
Santa Maria Marsh.

- Bob, it's John.

- Hey, John.

- Look, let me tell you
what we've got over here.

One thing is for sure:

the land that you're at,

and where it's alleged

that Adolf Hitler
and several other Nazis landed,

that property was owned
by the president of Colombia.

But I don't think
that's the location.

What we learned
is that the president

was rounding up Germans,

people who were suspected
of being Nazis.

It does allow us
to open our eyes.

They wouldn't have landed there.

This is not the right location.

- No, I agree with you.

If you're planning on trying to
eliminate all the risk you can,

this isn't the place
you'd do it.

Santa Maria, no, that wasn't
in the initial report.

There are other bodies
of water

underneath 68th Street
which we need to look at.

What I need you to do
is go back to the archives

and take another look,

now that we've eliminated
this marsh,

and see where the other
possible places are,

and let's take 'em
one by one.

- Okay.

All right then, okay.

- Talk to you, bye.

♪

narrator:
John returns to the Bogota

city planning department

in search of other
bodies of water

that could match the marsh

referenced in
the declassified FBI file.

- My job is to be
as thorough as I can be.

This document was translated,

and then it was forwarded
to the FBI,

so I wanted to go back

and take another look
at that document,

the actual Spanish version,
not the translated version.

That way, we know that
we don't really miss anything.

Let me explain to you
that I have a problem

interpreting
or understanding something.

It's probably best
that I read you

the sentence in Spanish.

- Or at the end
of Street 68.

- Okay, so...
wait a second, at the end?

- At the end, yes,
at the end.

- I don't understand.

- So are you saying
that the word "abajo,"

or "abajo de,"

also means "at the end
of the street"?

- Yes, this is
where they end.

- Sometimes words,
when they're translated,

you can have more
than one meaning.

If you look
at the word "tiempo,"

that means "weather,"
and it also means "time."

"Abajo de" in Spanish
doesn't always mean "below."

It could mean "at the end"
of 68th Street.

Okay,

so the way that
I understand this now is,

if we take 68th Street,

take it all the way
down to the end...

- Yes, that's correct.

- It lands directly in the area
of La Florida.

Lo and behold,
when you come out to the end,

we come to another marshland
that's called La Florida.

Well, of course,
that's in the document as well.

Is it possible to put a boat
into this area in La Florida?

- No, it's impossible
to do that

because this is
a protected area

due to its biodiversity.

- But if we are determined--

and we can pretty determined

when we endeavor
to do something--

so would it be possible to--

- No.

- It's impossible to do that.

♪

- Okay, no, no, no.

This isn't gonna be easy.

We need a boat out there.

Whatever it takes.

narrator:
Bob Baer works back channels

to try to get the team
access to investigate

the highly restricted
La Florida marsh,

which could be the final
resting place of a plane

that transported Hitler
to Colombia,

as reported by
a declassified FBI file.

- I know it's a sensitive area,
but let's make this happen.

Thanks.

[suspenseful music]

♪

- Parque La Florida.

- Yeah, there it is.

Park La Florida.

narrator:
Bob, Tim Kennedy,

and marine survey expert
Regan Lipinsky

head for the La Florida marsh.

- This looks like it, right?

♪

- Okay, thanks.

We're in.

narrator: Overnight, they were
granted unprecedented access

from the city's
park administration

to search these waters,

but only for a 12-hour window.

- If we find an airplane,

it's gonna go a hell
of a long way

in substantiating
the U.S. government's reporting

that Hitler arrived in Colombia
and disappeared here in 1948.

♪

- This makes
a lot more sense.

- Yeah.
- Look at the airport.

- We know there are
airstrips around here.

So that might have been
what was an airstrip,

now is an airport,

which, you know,
is close enough

for them to drag a plane
over to this water.

- What I like about it
is, it's remote.

There's no town.

So on the surface,

this is more promising,
as far as I'm concerned.

A small airplane
landing at La Florida

would not have excited
anybody's interest.

Burning an airplane
and pushing it into the water

is something
people would notice.

But what we have here
is clearly a rural area.

And if I had to burn
an airplane

and put it in the water,
it'd be right here.

- How are we gonna
search this?

- You see these three islands,

you can see it makes
a big rectangle.

Now, that's going to be perfect
for a parallel grid search,

back and forth through here.

We'll stay on this side first.

Once we're finished with that,

we'll jump over to the other
side of the islands.

Do another parallel grid search
from this island out,

all the way to the airport
and back.

- Yeah.

Let's get on the water
and start searching.

- Let's go.

narrator:
Tim and Regan prepare

the state-of-the-art
side scan sonar

and hit the water
to begin their pattern search,

while Bob coordinates
from the shore.

♪

- Tow fish in.

Tow fish hooked.

- I got the tow fish
in the water,

we're going to start
our first survey area.

- Copy that.

- I can see shoreline here,

so that's the area
that we're covering,

and we're looking at 65 feet
on either side of the boat.

Look at that one.

- There's barely anything
over here.

- Yeah.

This is part of a tree trunk
on the shore.

- How's it looking?

- Ah, nothing yet.

- Looks actually pretty clean.

- We're conducting our search,

just going back and forth
up those lines,

not finding anything.

But real investigation
is about patient work.

20 meters to end of line.

- You can probably go ahead
and do your turn.

Keep your track line,
and go as far as we can go,

and then turn around,
and we'll cover that.

- We finished the first half
of our search grid.

Now we're starting
the second half

of this search grid.

♪

- There's our first anomaly.

There.

Got it.

I don't want to stop
the search to measure it yet,

but that's definitely man-made.

- Yeah, it's, like,
perfectly round.

♪

- Ah, look at this one
right here.

This, right here,
we might want to dive on.

- Holy crap.

- Keep moving, keep moving.

That's a big target.

Look at that.

We've got--
that is definitely

some type of cage
of some sort.

That's a big target.

It might be the frame
of the fusilage.

- Holy [bleep].

Hey, Bob, we're coming in
to have a face-to-face, man.

We got some good stuff here.

- Yeah, come on in.

- We got something.

It could be a portion of a wing.

This is incredible.

We might have found
exactly what we're looking for.

You're not gonna believe this.

- You ready?
- Yeah, let's go.

- Just keep watching.

- Wow, look at that.
- Look at that.

- Talk about an anomaly.

- It is 20 feet long...

- Yeah?

- And it's 10 feet wide.

- There's nothing else
out there, except this.

This isn't a trash dump.

- No.

The anomaly is just
an anomaly

until it's on your boat.

- But we need to start prepping
to get in the water.

We have to ground proof.

We have to get physical eyes on.

This is what
I've been waiting for.

So you did your job;
it's my turn.

I'm gonna do my job.

♪

- You have to look
at these pictures.

It's just--
it's just amazing.

If you're not a believer now,
you will be.

- There we go.

- Look at that.

narrator: The team reviews
the sonar results

from La Florida Marsh,

which could hide
the remains of an airplane

that shuttled Hitler to Bogota,

as reported by
a declassified FBI file.

- We ready to go?

- Sonar's back up
and running.

The tow fish is off the port.

narrator:
With only four hours left

until their
unprecedented access

to this restricted area is up.

Tim Kennedy
prepares to dive

into the murky waters
of this Colombian marsh.

- And then I'm gonna try
to film it for a second,

so we can see it in place.

- Okay.

narrator: Tim is joined
by support diver Matt Mouraud

and marine survey expert
Regan Lipinsky.

- So that's our tentative plan.

You know, it's already
the afternoon.

The air temperature
is dropping rapidly,

but most importantly,
we're losing daylight.

This is what we're doing.

We'll go identify the object,

and then we're going
to figure out

how we're going to recover it.

- Okay.

- I could go in here
and find real physical evidence

that Hitler
could have been here

and lived out his life
in South America.

It's time to get in the water.

- Three, two, one.

[suspenseful music]

- Right when we dropped
in the water,

it's this very dark brown,
dark yellow tint.

- It's [bleep].

- It goes from being able
to see 3 feet

to zero visibility,
I mean, not even an inch,

the moment that we touch
the bottom.

These are the worst conditions
that you can dive in.

♪

- I'm standing on it.

That's a very big piece.

- Can you feel the shape of it?

- It's a square,
and it's a structure.

It's metal,
but it's not very thick,

because it moves
under my weight.

- So we have
a wing shape?

- I don't know.

The visibility is so bad,

you can't see anything.

We're gonna have to check it out
more thoroughly.

This is enormous.

[suspenseful music]

♪

- You know,
it's covered in muck,

but the visibility
of the water is so limited,

it's gonna be very problematic

to be able to see
or discern what it could be.

- It's aluminum.

- We start finding
pieces of metal, rope,

and you can see pieces

of what looks like riveting.

♪

So we started pulling pieces
to the surface

to try to figure out
exactly what it is down there.

♪

- There's wood.

♪

- So...

[bleep].

[bleep] pissed.

- We got 15 minutes of daylight.

It's time to get out
of the water.

- Obviously, it was
a major disappointment

that it wasn't what we were
looking for or hoping for.

It was a closed door.

It was a dead end,
and that's super frustrating.

Bob, it's Tim.

We dove on the anomaly.

It's not what we're
looking for.

- Yeah, come on back in.

We're losing light, and it looks
like we're getting some weather.

We got to call it off.

But I think the airplane
could be out there.

So much of this stuff
we've looked at

has turned out to be true.

But we have to look

at the totality
of that evidence,

not just one lead.

I'm looking at this from
an intelligence perspective.

I'm looking at the big picture.

There is no evidence

that Hitler died
in the bunker.

But what we do have,

with no doubt
in my mind,

is more evidence that Hitler
could have gotten away

than there is for his death.

In Berlin, we discovered
an unknown tunnel...

- Look at this.

- Connecting his bunker
to Tempelhof Airport,

where there was a mass exodus
of airplanes.

If I had to move Hitler
out of Berlin,

I can guarantee you, 99%,
I could have gotten him out.

I could have gotten him
to Spain.

In Spain,
there was more evidence.

- Is that a swastika
carved in that?

You've got to be kidding me.

- A monastery where there
were eyewitnesses.

- He saw here,
with his eyes, Hitler.

- Here?
- Yeah.

- And then, in Vigo, Spain,

he could have gotten
on a U-boat, no problem.

- What happened to the sub?

- They don't know.

- In Argentina,
the evidence piled up

like I've never seen before.

Scuttled U-boats,

a compound in Bariloche
with a secret bunker,

his presence at the Hotel Eden,

where he came in contact

with a well-known
Nazi munitions king.

From there, it seemed like
he slipped into the jungle,

where we found a compound...

- Whoa.

- Nazi artifacts.

- It was clearly meant
for a high-value target.

- And then, when he came back
on the radar,

he came back with seemingly
incredible plans.

The fall of Berlin
was not the end

of this Nazi ideology.

They weren't gonna stop.

- It's clear; I mean, I'm really
pleased with what we found.

Could he have made it here?

Absolutely.

And the evidence that the team
gathered supported this.

- This is better evidence
than we have from the bunker.

When I began
this investigation,

I was completely skeptical.

I assumed, without any doubt,
that he died in the bunker.

Frankly, I don't think a guy
like Adolf Hitler

gives up that easily.

If he's got a way out,
wouldn't he take it?

He went for the long shots.

He always went
for the long shots.

And, you know, I find this
frankly appalling

that the historians
have left it

at that assumption

that I've lived with
my whole life.

We're fed history

and expected to believe it,
based on what?

History books say,

without a shadow of a doubt,

that Hitler died
in the bunker.

I can safely say,

with the evidence
I've uncovered,

that that's not true.

History is not fixed
as we've received it.

- Yeah.

- I will never stop
looking for the truth.

I never take facts
at face value,

and I never will.

♪