All language subtitles for Hunting Hitler - S01E03 - Escape from Berlin

FBI documents,
eyewitness interviews,

all arrows pointed
to this direction.

The big question is:
did a U-boat cruise

into these waters and drop
perhaps the most evil person

in generations off
onto this shore right here?

We need to find out.

male narrator: In 2014,
an executive order

declassified over 700 pages
of secret FBI documents

revealing that
the U.S. Government

was investigating
Adolf Hitler's whereabouts

months and years
after he was believed dead.

In these files,
there are thousands of leads.

This is report after report
after report.

They had an active investigation
looking for this guy.

narrator: Bob Baer,
21-year CIA veteran

and one of the most renowned
intelligence minds

in the world, has reopened
a 70-year-old cold case:

the death of Adolf Hitler.

All the witnesses are dead.

There's no fingerprints.
There's no decent forensics.

It's the biggest mystery
of the 20th century.

narrator: Armed with the newly
declassified FBI documents

and the most
cutting-edge technology,

Bob has assembled a team

of the most respected experts
in the world

to execute
an international investigation.

We are not going to make
our conclusions in advance.

I just want to do the definitive
investigation on Hitler,

for once and all,
settle this damn thing.

There's not sufficient
evidence, in my view,

to simply say that Hitler died
in the Fuhrerbunker

on April 30, 1945.

So I think we just all
assumed he died there,

but there's no evidence for it.

narrator: Bob Baer
and war crimes investigator

John Cencich have determined

that Hitler could have
faked his death,

escaped from his bunker,
and landed in a compound

in Argentina just 3 1/2 months
after being reported dead.

This revelation
opens a new phase

in their investigation.

Right now, what we need to do

is go back and look
at those choke points.

"Choke points" are locations
where people who are fleeing

the scene of a crime
have to make it past

in order to succeed.

If the suspect didn't
get past that area,

then the inquiry is
shut down there.

But the other reason is that,
if any fugitive

does encounter
these choke points,

there will be activity
where evidence is generated.

We need to really take a look
at these two points

very closely.

Choke point one,
how did he get out of Germany?

And choke point number two,

how he could have entered
Argentina.

Now, we can't go and piece
all of his footsteps together.

Not right now--
right now, we need to focus

on choke point number one:
how he got out of Germany.

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

The needle is Russian forces.

The Red Army
is surrounding Berlin.

narrator: In January 1945,

Nazi Germany was on the brink
of defeat.

Hitler retreated to his bunker
in the center of Berlin

as the Soviet Army began their
assault on the Nazi capital.

German soldiers
battled desperately

to hold on to the city
but surrendered on May 2nd,

just two days
after Hitler was believed

to have committed suicide.

We need Lenny to keep on
looking at the possible routes

from the bunker, keep looking,
see how he could have possibly

gotten out of that city
under siege.

narrator: Lenny DePaul, one
of the most skilled man hunters

in the world
and a former commander

of the U.S. Marshals
Fugitive Task Force,

continues his investigation
in Berlin.

When I'm tracking a fugitive,
I want to know everything.

I want to get
inside this fugitive's mind.

I want to know
what his every thought is.

I want to know
what his next step's gonna be.

The choke point right now
in Berlin is critical.

Could Adolf Hitler have gotten
out of Berlin,

and how did he do it?

All right.

- Take a seat.
- This is good.

narrator: Lenny rejoins
Sascha Keil,

an expert on Berlin
during World War II.

Keil has access
to key documents

from Hitler's final days.

If he escaped
the Fuhrerbunker,

what was his plan
to get out of Berlin?

- Okay.
- It's...

Okay.

Yeah, that wouldn't work.

Okay.

So...

narrator:
Hanna Reitsch was

one of the world's
first female test pilots,

flying
Nazi prototype helicopters

and a rocket-powered jet,

earning her a place
in Hitler's inner circle.

On April 28, 1945, Reitsch
flew Robert Ritter von Greim,

the general
of the Nazi Air Force,

out of
the Soviet-controlled city.

She completed
this daring escape

just two days
before Hitler was believed

to have committed suicide.

Wow, that'd certainly send
a strong message to Hitler

that if she could do it,
he certainly could.

Yes.

Could we open this
database back up?

I want to do a search.
- Yeah.

narrator: Sascha's database
is the first ever

searchable collection
of hundreds of hours

of interrogations of
Hitler's inner circle

conducted by Michael Musmanno,

a judge at
the Nuremberg trials.

In a case with no eyewitnesses,
this is the next best thing.

Throw these words in there:
escape, plans,

fly, plane.

And cross-reference that
with Berlin.

Searching.

There we go, we got hits.
Here, look at this.

Wow.
Okay, let's see.

Why is Lieutenant Olmes saying,

"I was deeply convinced
that one day

"I would have to take off
in a plane.

"Hitler and Himmler
would be on it.

I know about his plans,
and I know his psychology."

It's a good hint to
the personality of Hitler.

He has bigger plans.

Right.

And they planned
two years to escape

before the war was over.

- Can I see the next one?
- Yeah.

So, let's see,
the quote is,

"In the conference on 20 April,
on his birthday..."

Hmm.

narrator: On April 20, 1945,
Hitler made

his final public appearance,
ten days before

he was said to have
committed suicide.

- Can I see the next one?
- Yeah.

All right, let's see,
what do we got?

Oh, here's a Nazi Admiral,
Karl von Puttkamer.

He says, "We left Berlin by air

in the early morning
of 21 of April."

That's the day after
Hitler's birthday.

"We were about
eight or ten aircraft."

April 20, 1945
was the last day

anybody saw Adolf Hitler
in public.

That was his birthday.

April 21st, the day after,
there was a mass exodus

that flew out of
Tempelhof airport.

That's direct evidence that
Nazis were escaping Germany

at the end of the war.

What do we know about
these aircraft?

Do we have a flight log?
- Yeah.

Can we get access
to a flight log?

- I can show you.
- Okay, yeah, let me see.

narrator: Sascha pulls up
flight records

from the planes that escaped
from Tempelhof airport

on April 21st, the day after
Hitler was last seen in public.

All right, so let's see.

"They hastily loaded
with baggage,

16 passengers with 5 crew."

Oh, that's interesting.

The first plane was loaded with
Hitler's private property.

What?

Why would Hitler load an
airplane with his property

if he wasn't going to be on it

or wasn't gonna
meet up with it later?

What do we know about Tempelhof?

- You see this?
- Yeah, hold on.

That's Tempelhof airport.

Okay, so here's--all right,
that's the airport.

Where were the Russians on, uh,
April 21st?

This airport was free.
21st was not a problem.

Every day later, the risk...

- Got higher, yeah.
- Was higher.

narrator: In February 1945,
Hitler fortified Berlin

with rings of
anti-tank defenses,

a last-ditch effort to hold off
advancing Soviet troops.

This allowed the Nazis to hold
on to the capital city

for months rather than weeks.

Tempelhof was located within
the inner ring of defense,

preventing the Soviets from
capturing the airport

until April 28, 1945.

Four days later, the Nazis
surrendered Berlin.

This Tempelhof airport,

can he get there
from the Fuhrerbunker?

- The Fuhrerbunker, here.
- Okay.

That's Tempelhof airport,
and the shortest way

is to use the subway tunnel.

That is definitely worth
taking a look at.

If Adolf Hitler was able to make
it to Tempelhof airport

to board one of those airplanes,
specifically on April 21st,

he could've been long gone.

I need to get
to the bottom of that.

Lenny's making great progress
on the ground.

He's determined there was
a mass exodus out of Berlin,

by air, on the 21st of April.

That was the day after
Hitler was last seen.

narrator: Bob Baer,
21-year CIA veteran,

and John Cencich,
war crimes investigator,

review the on-the-ground
findings from Berlin

where they are investigating
a critical choke point.

Could Hitler have escaped
Soviet-controlled Germany?

The time-line fits.

He could have made it out
on the 21st.

That's very clear to me.

I think that's a crucial piece
of evidence.

On the other hand,
if we're looking at

the second choke point, how did
he get to Argentina?

You look at the miles.

You've got thousands and
thousands of miles.

You can't fly an airplane
there directly.

There's multiple modes of
transportation.

Multiple stopping points.

Take a look at this document.

This is a report written
by the FBI,

the source,
who claims to have aided

six top Argentine officials
in hiding Adolf Hitler

upon his landing by submarine
in Argentina.

It says that the submarines
landed along the tip

of the Valdes Peninsula, along
the southern tip of Argentina.

We're talking about a U-boat
landing here, which--

that's
the way I'd get there.

We know, in those days, you
couldn't track 'em.

You go deep enough--go right
across the Atlantic.

narrator: When the Nazis
surrendered on May 5, 1945,

all U-boats were
ordered to report

to their nearest ports
to surrender.

Most captains followed
these orders.

But 46 U-boats continued to
operate in unknown locations.

Two of these rogue subs
surfaced off the coast

of Argentina and surrendered
three months later.

Here's what we gotta do, is
we have to establish,

first of all, how far
a U-boat can go.

- About 9,000 miles.
- And that's without refueling.

- That's correct.
- And how far is it from Europe?

It's definitely less.
Maybe around 7,500?

I've spent a career
hiding people

and getting them to escape.

I mean, I--I know how it's done.

You had U-boats
all over the Atlantic.

Hitler traveling to Argentina
in a U-boat, long range,

underwater--that's the way
I would do it.

I think really the only
resolution at this point

is that we do send a team
to the Valdes Peninsula.

We need to determine,
by a review of the area,

is this credible?

Completely.

narrator: Famed Nazi hunter
Steven Rambam,

U.S. Army Special Forces
Tim Kennedy,

and acclaimed investigative
journalist Gerrard Williams

head for the reported location

of Hitler's submarine landing
in Argentina.

What interests me
about this is,

if you want to go somewhere
incredibly far from anything

and anybody, this would be
the place to come.

You know, a place like this
seems suitable.

Who's gonna look here?
Who can look here?

narrator: After driving
for hours,

the team reaches the tip
of the Valdes Peninsula

at the precise landing location
given in the FBI files.

Holey moley, look at this.

There's a lighthouse.

Observation-wise,
this is remarkable.

The highest point...
- Of the Valdes Peninsula.

Driving here this morning,
I was thinking,

we've come
to the middle of nowhere,

but then you see the
lighthouse, and you think,

maybe, just maybe,
there's something in this.

This is where the file
has sent us to.

This is a navigation point now.

This is important for people
coming from that place:

the big sea.

It's old.

I mean, this could have
been here in '45.

I mean, my feeling is,
you know,

this is such an important
navigation point

for anything coming down
the south Atlantic,

that there's probably been
a lighthouse here

of some sorts
for a very long time.

In 1945, they didn't have the
sophisticated navigation tools

that we have now.

So having a point of reference,
how easily identifiable

is that for a link-up point?

- Yeah, yeah.
- Let's do this systematically.

The first question is,
could a sub have landed here?

Tim, you want to investigate the
beach a little closer?

- Absolutely.
- All right. Let's go.

narrator: The team
scours the peninsula

for any possible
U-boat landing sites.

I'm looking on the land.
There is zero cover.

There is nowhere to hide
on this peninsula.

I look around.

I can see for miles,
but I feel as if

everything can see me.

I am just prey.
It's a horrible feeling.

It's a feeling I despise.

I never want to feel
like the prey.

I want to be the predator.

I had rocks falling out from
under me--brutal.

I wouldn't try to land
a special forces unit here.

- No.
- Right.

Let alone
a 56-year-old Hitler.

He's 56. He's not well.

The other thing is,
imagine you land there

or you land there,
then what do you do?

All right, you hump up this
hill, and then what do you do?

Yeah, well, there's nothing
for a long way inland.

It's not enough to get here.

It's where he can go to
from that location.

I mean, Adolf Hitler
is not John Wayne.

He's not getting on a horse and
riding off into the sunset.

There's no roads.
There's no support structure.

There's no food.
There's no water.

Not every FBI report's
gonna have

all the information
we need in it.

- I think we're done here.
- I think so too.

- Yeah?
- Yeah.

Okay.
We've gotta change our approach.

We wasted a lot of time
on the peninsula.

Hitting a whole bunch more

potential U-boat landing sites
seems kind of ineffective.

That's right.

We need to focus on areas

where there are supporters,

where there's a potential place
of refuge.

There's a joke in
the investigative community,

it's called
the black hole method.

You never see a black hole,
but you see the activity

of all the stars around it.

We were successful in finding
Bin Laden that way.

The way that we found him was
tracking any finances,

any contacts, and start
narrowing it down,

and it ended up coming down
to just one person.

When you're hiding,
you can't exist in a bubble.

There has to be connections.

So, you start looking at
your known associates.

You're like, "Who in this
network of people

could support a person
existing in asylum?"

If we're gonna look at who could
facilitate, um, hiding Hitler

from the moment that he lands
and enabling him

to disappear into Argentina,
link analysis is probably

one of the most efficient ways
to do it.

narrator: Tim uses
special military software

to perform the link analysis.

It scans the hundreds of pages
of FBI documents

and highlights persons of
interest in the area

of the Valdes Peninsula
based on

their frequency of association
and their connection to Hitler.

The name's gonna be stronger
with how many connections

that person has
with other names.

- Okay.
- Hit it.

Oh, holy cow.
Look at this thing go.

It's identifying names
and connections

of everyone and locations,dates,

and here are the hotspots.

Lahusen.

Looking back into the FBI files,

the German company Lahusen...

After World War II,
when the Reich failed,

Argentina was the place to come
if you wanted to disappear.

But you need an organization
on the ground.

Something like Lahusen
gives them an infrastructure

which they can rely on.

They're all party members,
and as such,

they're all oath-bound
to Adolf Hitler,

and that means you can
make the man disappear.

Do you have any locations
on Lahusen?

Does he have anything
in this area?

So, Lahusen has properties
all over,

but most of them seems to be
centered in San Antonio Oeste.

Here's where we were yesterday.
- Right.

Peninsula Valdes, and this
is San Antonio Oeste.

So it's literally just
right across the gulf.

Yeah.

We need to go
to San Antonio Oeste.

This is our next target.

Rock and roll.

Focus is going to be
San Antonio Oeste.

At the same time,
we have Lenny

doing
his analysis of Berlin.

narrator:
Bob Baer and John Cencich

review the findings from both
legs of their investigation

while the team in Argentina
continues to search

for a U-boat landing site

that could have shuttled Hitler
to South America

as reported by the FBI files.

What we have to do
is to see

how would you get out of
Tempelhof airport.

narrator: They now turn
to how Hitler

could have escaped
Soviet-controlled Berlin

in late April 1945.

Lenny's making great progress
on the ground.

He's determined there was a mass
exodus out of Berlin

by air on the 21st of April.

There's a possibility that
Hitler escaped from the bunker

and made it out of Berlin.

It's not conjecture at all
that these planes left

because that's--that's a fact.

Now what we
have to figure out is

whether he could have gotten
from the bunker to Tempelhof.

Let's just keep on strengthening
our investigations

of both places.

narrator: In Berlin,
Lenny DePaul and Sascha Keil

head underground to retrace the
steps Hitler could have taken

from his bunker
to Tempelhof airport.

- You see the tunnel?
- Yeah.

In this direction,
400 meters,

this is the line
to Tempelhof airport.

So they would have been
underground

until they reached
Tempelhof airport?

Completely.

narrator: In 1945,
as Soviet troops decimated

the city above, the metro
system remained untouched.

93 miles of tunnels were
converted into a tool of war,

allowing Nazi troops
to move to nearly every point

in the city
below the Soviets' feet.

Now, it houses
the U6 subway line,

which follows the identical
path to Tempelhof airport.

Wow, they were up against itin 1945.

They had to walk it.

This was close to 2 1/2 miles

for him to travel, by foot,
on a terrain that was

filled with rocks,
railroad tracks...

Any individual
that's on the run,

they're gonna do
whatever it takes

to stay out of
the line of fire.

And that's what Adolf Hitler,
I'm sure, was doing.

His mindset was,
"Escape, escape, escape."

He's gonna do whatever it takes.

- This is our station.
- Okay.

narrator: Lenny and Sascha's
two-mile journey

comes to an end at the subway's
closest point to Tempelhof.

- What direction's the airport?
- Look over there.

This is the shortest way
to the first building.

That's quite a distance
between there,

about a couple hundred meters?

Yeah.

He showed me where
Tempelhof airport was.

I was shocked.

I didn't think it was
that big of a distance

between the U6 and the entrance
to the airport.

I thought, when he come
out of that tunnel,

within feet,
he was in the front door,

but that wasn't the case.

You know what I don't believe,
Sascha, I mean,

as an investigator,
I don't see him

coming above ground,
risking anything.

I can't see him being exposed
for that long.

I mean, do you think Hitler
would've traveled the U6 line

all the way here,
come above ground,

and then run 200 to 300 meters?

It's a risk.

He woulda had a tunnel built
from the airport

to the subway system.

Once a fugitive pops his head
out of anywhere,

he becomes extremely vulnerable.

In Hitler's case,
he's got the Russian army

after him all over the place.

Desperate people
do desperate things,

but I don't see him
risking that chance

of being seen above ground.

Better to stay in the
underground as long as you can.

Yeah, if there is
an underground.

Do you think
there's tunnels here?

We found a map, that they
planned a direct connection.

We never found
a clear connection...

Never built, as we know.

Let's go.
Let's walk here. Come on.

narrator: Lenny and Sascha
head to the airport

to search for any evidence
that the Nazi plans

for a tunnel connection
ever became reality.

I gotta find out if there's
any underground tunnels

that go from the U6
into the front doors

of that Tempelhof airport.

There's gotta be a tunnel.
Let's go find out.

What's critical here is
this name, Lahusen,

is showing up from
these FBI files.

There's thousands of names
in there, but this is the name

that comes up most prominently.

Look at that.

narrator:
Bob Baer and John Cencich

have mounted a two-pronged
investigation

into the possibility

Hitler may have have escaped
the bunker

and fled to South America.

While the investigation
in Berlin continues,

the field team in Argentina
has used a technique

called link analysis to uncover
a crucial clue--

the name of Geraldo Lahusen.

And what do we know
about Lahusen?

The German Lahusen company
"is extremely active

in the wool trade"...

A spearhead?
That's--that's a cover company.

We're basically talking about a
Nazi cover company in Argentina.

I mean, look, a wool company,
they've got trucks,

they've got infrastructure,
they've got people

working for them,
which would be able to cover

the landing of Adolf Hitler
and relocating him.

Hitler, if he had landed
in the Valdes Peninsula,

would've needed
an immediate infrastructure.

He would need protection.
He would need money.

Where there's smoke,
there's fire.

The FBI report puts us here,
Valdes Peninsula.

Link analysis puts us in
San Antonio Oeste.

What we want to find out
is did Hitler go

to San Antonio Oeste?

Are there documents?
Is there oral tradition?

On paper, Lahusen is exactly
what Hitler,

or any other high-ranking Nazi,
would have needed.

But, that's only on paper.

I say we send the team into
San Antonio Oeste

and see if they can cultivate
that information into evidence.

Yeah--no, I agree
with you totally.

Let's do it.

narrator: The team arrives
in San Antonio Oeste.

Gerrard Williams digs into
the local naval archives.

Tim Kennedy searches the coast

for potential U-boat
landing sites.

And Steven Rambam
hits the streets

to dig into
the Lahusen connection.

If Hitler came to Argentina,
we need to find out

if Lahusen had enough resources
to set something up for him.

Let's see if it's even
remotely credible.

Don't mention the name Hitler.

narrator: With the help
of a local translator,

Steven canvasses the town.

He knows of a house
which is very near here.

narrator: They uncover
a nearby property

once owned
by the Lahusen family.

Ask him, "Does somebody
live here?"

Says he doesn't think
anyone lives here,

but the new door...

Hola.

Check this out.
This is marble, yeah?

This used to be
a real mansion, huh?

It was probably the most
important house

in San Antonio Oeste.

Okay, now we really
have to look.

I want to knock on a few doors.

You know what?
Let's try this house.

Buenas.

Does he know anything
about this house?

We were told this was the house
of Lahusen.

And he says the--the
middle one,

there, was a bank.

It didn't formally belong
to the Lahusen family.

- Comprendo.
- But--

He was the secret
controlling person.

Okay.

Lahusen is the central figure.

The man had his own bank.

This is a guy who could do
anything he wanted.

If Hitler smuggled to
this area to escape,

you need money,
you need shelter,

you need security.

He'd have to have somebody
like a Lahusen.

Hold on a second.
We gotta stop.

Who's this guy?

Uh, he's, uh--this gentleman
has heard

that you're in town looking,
you know, for Germans, and...

A German submarine?

Out of nowhere,
an elderly gentleman

comes up to us with information
about submarine sightings

and associations.

Who the heck knows what
we're gonna find?

He's a diver.
Tony Brochado was a diver.

Okay.

And he's here
in San Antonio Oeste?

- He lives here in San Antonio.
- Okay, so we can find him.

He told us about a gentleman
by the name of Tony Brochado.

He's an expert on German
activity in this general area.

Huh.

narrator: While their local
contact reaches out

to Tony Brochado to see if
he'll speak with the team,

Steve meets up with Gerrard,
who has uncovered

valuable information
in the local navy archives.

There's a cluster
of submarine sightings

from the coast guard,
from police,

all along this coast line.

Listen, I just want to get
this clear in my mind.

Germany surrenders,
and on May 2nd,

Admiral Donitz broadcasts
to all the ships at sea,

including the U-boats,
that's it, we're done,

we've lost, we've surrendered,

turn yourselves in.

And most U-boats
do exactly that.

Okay.

But there are
46 U-boats missing

at the end of World War II.

There's no obvious reason why
submarines would be

coming to Argentina.

It's a long way to come
to surrender

when they could've surrendered
in Portugal or Spain

and been closer to their
families back in Germany.

They had to be on a mission.
They had to be doing something.

And there's no
strategic mission,

there's no destructive
mission here,

but there is the mission to
deliver Adolf Hitler safely

to friends in the south.

narrator: One file Gerrard
uncovers

in the Argentine Naval Archives
lends credence to this theory.

I've had a look at the files
on the Mendoza

off the San Matías gulf.

narrator: Three months after
the end of the war,

the Argentine warship,
theMendoza,

encountered a mysterious
German U-boat

operating in these very waters.

Three crew members clearly saw
a submarine emerge

and submerge, and, um,
it depth charged them.

- What happened to the sub?
- They don't know.

We have sightings.
We have supporters.

All of the information
that we're receiving,

all of the documents,
points us to here.

If I was a sub captain looking
to infiltrate somebody

into Argentina, boy, oh, boy,

this is certainly prime
territory.

narrator: In Berlin,
Lenny DePaul and Sascha Keil

have uncovered eyewitness
testimony of a Nazi exodus

of planes from
Tempelhof airport the day after

Hitler was last seen in public.

Yeah, so they could
easily have gotten here

in a subway--boom,
right to the airport.

narrator: They have also
found that Hitler

would have had
the underground infrastructure

to escape from his bunker
and travel

within striking distance
of the airport.

- What direction's the airport?
- Look over there.

narrator: a 300-yard gap
between the subway

and the entrance to Tempelhof
stands in their way.

We found rumors that they
planned a direct connection.

narrator: Lenny and Sascha
head into the airport

to investigate if this
suspected tunnel connection

was actually ever built.

Mm-hmm.

Wow.
It's unbelievably big.

When they planned
this building,

it was planned as a completely
independent isolated complex.

Later, when they thought about
escape plans for Hitler,

it is possible, within weeks,
that they built a tunnel

from Tempelhof Airport
to the subway station.

Hundreds of rooms--it was part
of Hitler's plannings

to let Berlin be
the capital of the world.

narrator: Tempelhof was the key
to the Nazis' military strategy

and contained
an underground factory

where planes were built

and then flown
directly into battle.

Tempelhof was one of the final
Nazi strongholds,

and did not fall to the Soviets
until April 28, 1945,

a week after Hitler was last
seen in public.

The airport is
no longer active

but still houses six stories
of tunnels, bunkers,

and underground passageways.

We're now in the heart
of this airport.

I want to see the tunnel
that's gonna take me

to the city subway.

Oh, Sascha, we're coming
to a dead end here.

This doesn't look good.

Okay, let's go back down.

Hold on a second.
Let me get this compass out.

We want to be what, north?

Northwest is the station.

So north-northwest is where

the U6
would have stopped, right?

Yeah.

This way.

This is where we gotta go.

Wait a minute.
What's this?

Look at this.

That's big enough for somebody
to crawl through.

It's a small tunnel, but yes.

If you go on your knees?

narrator: on the deepest level
of the underground complex,

Sascha and Lenny find
a suspicious blocked-up passage

that appears to have once
been a tunnel.

Give me your GPS
for a second.

Let me lock
these coordinates in.

Okay, let's lock it in here.

All right, I want to go
back up top

and see where we are
on the street level

in relation to
the U6 subway train,

and see if there's
any possibility at all

that this tunnel
could've led there.

Right about here.

This is where we were,
down about 20 feet.

This is where it stops.

Why would a tunnel stop right
here in the middle of a park?

Just 50 meters away
is the train station.

Adolf Hitler had a pretty
good idea what he was doing.

He didn't wake up Monday morning
and say,

"Hey, I think I'm gonna
try to escape."

There's gotta be a connection
underground

to the U6 subway train.

narrator: In the small
Argentine port town

of San Antonio Oeste...

Where is it?

Okay.

narrator: After uncovering
an Argentine naval file

describing an unknown
German U-boat

operating in this area,
Steven, Gerrard,

and their translator
make contact

with local legend
Tony Brochado,

who has been diving
in these waters for decades.

Buenos Dias.

Can we take
15 minutes of your time?

Gracias.

Tony Brochado--this is the guy
who's going to be able

to give us credible,
objective information.

Does he think that U-boats
came to this area?

Si.

Does he think that these subs
were delivering people?

Important German people?

What's his evidence of this?

From her kitchen window,
she saw a submarine,

in a place called
Caleta de los Loros.

During the war
or after the war?

After the war.

And what does he think happened
to the sub?

- Once they disembark--
- Uh-huh.

The people, they had to leave
the submarine somewhere.

They had nowhere to go back to.
The war was lost.

So, it was scuttled.

Yes.
- Okay.

We came to San Antonio Oeste
to search for more information

about possible landings.

What we didn't expect to find
is information

suggesting that there's possibly
a scuttled U-boat

off this coast.

Has anyone ever made an effort
to find this submarine?

The first navy expedition,
the first real search

for the German U-boat,
Tony was part of it,

and it was back in 1997.

Okay, so he was actually
part of the expedition

to look for it?

Yes.

The Argentinean navy
considered it so likely

that subs were scuttled in this
area that they mounted

a very expensive expedition.

How satisfied is he with the
search that he was involved in?

One of the facts is that there
never was enough search time.

Because of bad weather?

Yes.

We now have a very specific
location near here.

A place called
Caleta de los Loros.

The cove of the parrots.

I hate to use big words like
actionable intelligence,

but that's exactly
what we have.

Do you think Adolf Hitler was
on one of these submarines?

So he's satisfied that there
were supporters of Hitler

in this area who,
if he landed on a sub,

would have received him
and supported him

and moved him to
a secure location?

As if a king had arrived.

We may have an opportunity
to prove that Hitler

could have been transported
to Argentina.

That is a giant chunk
of this investigation.

As if a king...

We're making good headway on
both our choke points.

It looks like, in Berlin,
we're halfway there.

Okay, Argentina.
Second choke point.

narrator: Following
a declassified FBI file

placing Hitler arriving in
Argentina aboard a U-boat,

Bob and John ruled out
the Valdes Peninsula

due to its treacherous
coastline and isolation

from Nazi supporters.

After uncovering
Geraldo Lahusen,

a prominent Nazi
operating nearby,

their U-boat landing
investigation

has shifted to a new location.

What we've found so far
is a secret bank

owned by Lahusen
in San Antonio.

Looks like a front company,
a Nazi front company.

The Mendoza file shows that the
Argentine navy was up there

in '45, dropping depth charges,
and we have 1997,

the Argentine navy was looking
for a scuttled U-boat.

I mean, this is really
authoritative sources.

We have this new area where
the information is vectoring--

Caleta de los Loros.

This is a cove that's north of
the Valdes Peninsula.

What's most interesting for me
is it was perfectly possible

they brought the U-boat in here,
delivered Hitler,

and then scuttled the boat
off the coast.

Let's do the recon and see
what we can find.

- Let's look at it from the air.
- Right.

We need a drone.

What we need to do
is to get a drone,

do a reconnaissance,
get some photography

of the coast line,
and see if those data

take us one or more steps
closer to proving

that Hitler was on the submarine
right there

at Caleta de los Loros.

I think this is our place.
Let's put some up in the air.

Let's do it.

The FBI files brought us
to this general area.

If we find evidence,
something tangible,

our theory about
Hitler coming here

is even that much more possible.

narrator: Tim is armed with
a state-of-the-art

self-flying aerial drone that
captures tens of thousands

of high-resolution
overhead images.

Once the flight path
is completed,

the computer's software
pieces the images together

to recreate a 3-D model
of the landscape

that can reveal details
mere centimeters in size.

I am immediately impressed by
this area of the coast.

It's protected from
all of the weather

and wind and swells
of the big dangerous ocean.

This is pretty much
the perfect spot

if you want to land a U-boat.

They could anchor somewhere
right out there,

and a boat could bring someone

the rest of the way
to the beach.

Let's see what we have here.

Yeah, see, little spots like
this would be ideal--

no clear line of sight,
easy access...

From the survey, we have
a few anomalies.

What is this?

That I'm going to go
check out for sure.

A perfectly circular,
black--looks like, hole.

In the middle of nothingness.

Really, really, really curious.

I'm gonna go check this out.

Oh, man, I think, uh,

we got something right here.

Holy [bleep].

Hey, whoa, whoa,
whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa.

We got a freaking well
in the middle of nowhere.

This makes no sense to be here.
This is unbelievable.

Holy crap.

narrator: Next,
on "Hunting Hitler"...

Whoa, stop right there, Jeorg.
What's that?

There's definitely
something there.

- 100%?
- 100%.

Adolf Hitler supposedly, uh,
took off 70 years ago.

But right now, I feel like
I'm right behind him.

Let's go find a U-boat.

If there's something here, we
are absolutely gonna find it.

- We're good to go.
- All right.

Drop it in.
Perfect.

Ah, there we go.
We've got something man-made.

No way.

Is that a swastika
carved in there?

You gotta be kidding me.