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

Whoa.

Who builds a fortified compound

in the middle of the jungle?

The evidence

for Hitler landing in Argentina is very strong.

Bariloche is the Berlin of Argentina.

This place is isolated. It's remote. There's no access.

It was protected from the rest of the world.

This house is flashing red.

There's another structure back here.

And that looks to me to be a vent.

There has to be some hidden bunker there.

The only thing that a vent like that

is for is for a bunker.

And why would you destroy a bunker on a piece of property

unless you had something very important to hide?

narrator: 21-year CIA veteran Bob Baer

and war crimes investigator John Cencich

review the findings from Bariloche, Argentina,

where declassified files cite Hitler living

in an isolated compound known as the Inalco House

some two and a half months after he was reported dead.

German owned estate. A Nazi.

Collapsed bunker.

This house has got red flags all over it.

I agree.

One could say the fact that

this bunker has been demolished,

that that's frustrating,

but I find it very invigorating,

because when somebody is trying to erase something,

it means that I'm on to something.

narrator: With the on the ground evidence

pointing to the Inalco House as a potential hideout for Hitler,

Bob pushes forward with the investigation.

Hitler, if he in fact got to Bariloche,

is going to say, "All right, it's time

to move out, to move somewhere else."

He's a fugitive. You don't want to stay in the same place.

No matter how secure the house is, he's got to move out.

Where does he go? I think we need to take a look

at any other locations

that he's been placed in northern Argentina.

narrator: Earlier in the investigation,

the team uncovered an FBI document

that led to a mysterious Nazi compound

deep in the jungles of Misiones,

a place they determined could have been

a safe house for Hitler.

It's a secure location, self-sustained.

It's in the middle of nowhere, with a lot of

Nazi paraphernalia.

How do we get Hitler from Bariloche to Misiones?

It's 700 miles across rural Argentina.

It's a long way. He's going to need help.

He's going to need money. He's going to need provisions.

He would want to re-contact with supporters.

As a fugitive, it's really hard to disappear

for long periods of time.

You need people. You cannot do this alone.

So he's going to have to depend on local Germans.

People who have the money and the local power

to build a tried and true support network.

Let's go back and look at the databases.

The link analysis.

Find out where his potential support was in Argentina.

narrator: The team uses special military software

to perform a link analysis.

It scans hundreds of pages

of FBI documents and highlights persons of interests

based on their frequency of associations and connections

to Adolf Hitler.

And there's Lahusen, but that's nothing new.

Yeah. We've already got through him, Lahusen.

And then there's Karl Buck.

Who are the Eichhorns?

We've got some paper on that, don't we?

You know, that name actually sounds familiar.

narrator: Bob and John did through the dozens

of Eichhorn files identified by the link analysis software.

What we have here is an FBI memorandum.

It talks about a certain Mrs. Eichhorn,

proprietress of the largest spa hotel

in La Falda, Argentina.

And it goes on to say, "even before the Nazis

"came into power, she placed immediately by cable

her entire bank account."

- She had some serious money. - A lot of money.

And most importantly, if the Fuhrer

should at any time get into difficulties,

"he can always find a safe retreat at La Falda,

where they had already made the necessary preparation."

This fits the pattern.

We're talking about somebody with money.

A place where he can stay and known associate.

You know, she was a Nazi.

The Hotel Eden is in La Falda.

It's right outside of Cordoba.

And it's right dead center in the middle

between Bariloche and Misiones.

This is exactly what he would need.

Let's get the team into Cordoba.

This is kind of creepy.

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

Gerrard Williams, investigative journalist,

and JP Cervantes, Green Beret,

arrive at the now-defunct Hotel Eden.

Bienvenido a Hotel Eden.

narrator: The team makes contact with Ariel Monsoni,

a local expert on the hotel's history

to begin the investigation into whether the hotel

could have housed Adolf Hitler during a journey

through central Argentina.

What sort of people came here

when the hotel was at its height?

A lot of nobles came here. You got dukes that came here.

You got presidents that came here.

Albert Einstein came here.

You know, just the best of the best stay here.

This is the jewel in the crown of Argentine hotels.

There would've had to have been security measures,

ways to keep those people safe.

Are you aware of anything planned into the hotel

to protect those important people?

The way that everybody always said they protect people here,

it was using tunnels.

Do you know where any of those tunnels could be here?

They have an idea, because people have always

talked about the tunnels.

The thing is that he cannot tell you exactly

right here there's one.

He knows they're around, but it's something

that he can't say for certain, it's right here.

We need to dig deeper.

JP and I are going to execute the evaluation of Hotel Eden

to see if it's suitable to hold a high value target.

JP goes low, to try to find some tunnels, some safe rooms.

I'm going high. I'm thinking about security measures.

Now that, up there, I think is...

the highest peak in the area.

You know, this is-- this is up there.

We're between them both.

Having those elevated positions behind you is not ideal.

I could sit up on top of there with my.338 Lapua

and I could shut this hotel down.

Nobody could come out this side.

Nobody could come out that side.

Nobody could walk around that corner.

I'd own three corners of this hotel.

That's easy pickings for a good shooter.

This is the most luxurious hotel

in Argentina at that period.

Built 1897, and then bought by the Eichhorns in 1912.

That was the year the Titanic went down,

but they decided that this would become as luxurious

as that great liner was.

The Eichhorns themselves didn't live on site.

They lived in a house over there,

which obviously isn't very far,

but that's where they lived when they were in La Falda.

The Eichhorns weren't your regular

run of the mill Nazis.

Something like 3 million Reichsmarks

comes out of this place and goes to Nazi Germany.

During the '30s,

this is the meeting place in Cordoba for the Nazis.

This is by far the nicest room I've found in the hotel.

The Presidential Suite is really the only room

suitable to put a guy with the clout like Hitler.

This is a super vulnerable room.

Even though we're on the top floor,

it's essentially as if we have ground access

because anybody can crawl from the ground

up on this building and walk along this roof

right into this door right here.

The entire hillside can see me right here.

This has a lot of problems.

narrator: Below ground, JP investigates

the hotel's subterranean wine cellar.

It's interesting.

See how the bricks go up to here?

Then we come to this side.

Now you've got bricks all the way to the top.

And look. They're not even there correctly.

Somebody just slapped them just to cover

whatever was back there.

The side wall here looks like it continues going,

but it's been blocked.

Somebody put a wall back there.

And you can tell that that right there has been added in.

We can see here signs

of what could be a secret passage back there.

Bricks don't match the other bricks.

The side wall looks like it continues to go further back.

So maybe somebody decided to seal the entrance

for the tunnel system.

Wine cellar? Perfect location to hide the fact

that a tunnel system was there.

I don't like the Hotel Eden.

I mean, there's no sense

in putting somebody like Hitler in this hotel.

narrator: CIA veteran Bob Baer

and war crimes investigator John Cencich

go over the findings from La Falda, Argentina,

where declassified FBI files could place Hitler

in contact with two of his closes associates,

Ida and Walter Eichhorn,

at their luxury hotel Eden.

You've got staff. It's a public place.

You've got presumably guests.

Was it closed down while he was there?

That doesn't make sense. - It doesn't fit.

- No, it doesn't fit. - He's an easy target.

What I see as problematic is that if he is exposed

to these other people, that's gonna cause chatter.

And that information is going to get back to the United States,

Germany, and Nazi hunters.

So that's--that's the biggest threat, yeah.

But there is one lead that we're still pursuing,

that there's a possible underground tunnel

that goes from the Hotel Eden to another location.

I'm arranging to get the ground penetrating radar, the GPR out.

Perhaps we can find what this is.

Is this an underground tunnel

where someone could've gone into the hotel?

They could've gone underground, moved to a more secure location,

and stayed there for any number of days.

Yeah.

Everything I've seen, the Nazis like to bury.

Then let's see what they buried here.

GPR.

narrator: Armed with state of the art

ground penetrating radar,

Tim scans for any signs of a secret passage

that could've extended outwards

from the hotel's bricked up wine cellar.

If we find evidence that there were tunnels here--

now that really bolsters the idea that Hitler

could operate out of this hotel.

narrator: GPR creates an image of

what lies up to 30 feet below the surface

by sending a pulse of energy into the ground

and recording the strength and travel time

of the reflected signals.

Obvious disturbance.

This anomaly goes to...

8.39 feet underneath ground.

So its deep.

The GPR doesn't tell us what's underneath the ground.

It just tells us that there's something different.

When everything is the same, and something is different,

something happened there.

narrator: As Tim continues to scan the five acre lot

surrounding the hotel...

The Eichhorns and Hitler seemed to be

very close in the letters he wrote to them.

He calls them, "My dear friends."

narrator: Gerrard and JP dig deeper

into the Eichhorn-Hitler connection

with Ariel, a local expert on the hotel's history.

Did Hitler ever come here to the Hotel Eden?

Here in the hotel, physically? No, but yes,

in the areas around it.

And do you know when and where did he stay?

One of the times is when allegedly he was dead.

So that's the family house?

The Eichhorn family house?

narrator: Just 500 feet from the hotel sits

what was once the Eichhorns' personal residence.

Are there any witnesses still alive

who can remember seeing Hitler at the time?

Catalina Gamero is the one that--

the only witness really that says that she used to go

and leave the food right by the door.

And she asked the driver, "Hey, who's the person in the room?"

He told her that it was Hitler,

but she needed to stay quiet.

Incredible. Incredible. Is Catalina still alive?

She's in bad health, but she is alive.

The main eyewitness to Adolf Hitler's presence

here is a lady called Catalina Gamero,

who is not very well

and we're not gonna push her, because she's an old lady,

but I really want to meet the person

who saw Hitler in La Falda.

Hi there. I'm here to interview Catalina.

In Argentina, people will not talk about this story

even 70 years on because they're still scared.

So to actually get an eyewitness is quite something.

Can she remember how long Hitler stayed in La Falda?

Between nine and ten days. - Okay.

When did Hitler come to La Falda?

He been here after the Second World War...

And he stayed at the Eichhorn's family house.

At the family house.

When Hitler stayed at the house in La Falda,

what do you remember?

She knows that he was there,

because she used to take the breakfast.

Do we know what happened to Hitler

after he left the Eichhorn house?

After he left Eichhorn's house here in La Falda,

he spent a couple of weeks in a castillo.

In a little castle?

Was Senor Mandl a friend of Walter and Ida?

- Yeah, apparently. - Okay.

Well, what she told us is that Hitler came

to stay here at La Falda not in Hotel Eden,

but in the Eichhorn's private property

which is right next to the hotel.

It's confirmation from a real human being

that Adolf Hitler didn't die in the bunker in 1945.

The interesting thing to me, and it always has been,

is that the witnesses I've interviewed

have never wanted any money.

They simply want to get it off their chest.

And they're all dying. They're all in their 90s.

And that's something that we have to take into account.

Why would a woman of this age,

a normal mum who's got grandkids

and everything else-- why would she tell lies?

narrator: Across town, JP tries to get access

to the residence once owned by the Eichhorns.

narrator: But is turned away by the current owner.

narrator: Back at Hotel Eden,

Tim completes his scans of the five acre lot

in search of any underground construction

that could allow for secret access

to the hotel's wine cellar.

You're just marking anomalies,

not really seeing what's going on until you take a step back

and look at, you know,

kind of the picture that you've painted.

Just stroke after stroke, and you see stuff like this.

This is very dense.

And this is in a perfect line.

Really suspicious.

It's like a runway, straight up towards the Eichhorn's house.

That's not random. That's not an accident.

I have to know exactly what it is down there.

These anomalies appear to run in a straight line

from the Eichhorn residence

all the way--500 feet, to the Hotel Eden.

narrator: Bob and John discuss

the ground penetrating radar results

that suggest that there could be a secret passageway

connecting Hotel Eden to the personal residence

of known Nazi associates, the Eichhorns.

This could be a way to hide somebody

who may have come into the hotel,

and then taken to the residence.

What other explanations could there be for a tunnel?

You and I don't build tunnels outside of our houses,

under the ground, across to the neighbor's place.

It's suspicious.

Now suddenly the Eden Hotel is making a lot more sense.

If Hitler is trying to reattach himself to German colonies

in Argentina,

he's got to get out and meet people.

So this gives him the ability to go back and forth,

not to be seen.

Well, who is he meeting?

I mean, it must have been somebody fairly important.

Well, we do have the eyewitness, Catalina.

Did Hitler stay elsewhere in Cordoba?

He spent a couple of weeks in a castillo.

She tells us that Hitler had met with

another known Nazi associate

by the name of Fritz Mandl. - Fritz Mandl? Who was he?

He's in some files, right? - He certainly is.

So here we have a 1944 FBI document.

Then it talks about Fritz Mandl

being a former Austrian munitions king

who "recently converted his bicycle factories

into an Argentine plant for manufacturing of munitions."

- He's an arms dealer. - Absolutely.

There's another file.

In 1944, Mandl and his business combine

were blacklisted by the United States

as being associated with Axis economic interests.

This paints a picture of a man

who's trying to set up an army in Argentina, a Nazi army.

These are real documents, real evidence.

And here we have Hitler meeting with him.

It's quite interesting, because, you know,

the whole notion of Hitler escaping is one thing.

But what was he going to do after he escaped?

If he's going to lay low

and just hide out for the rest of his life.

But when you look at these documents,

it looks like there's a plot that's much more nefarious.

Well, absolutely. He was planning something.

He wanted to re-establish himself.

I just think it's quite clear.

Hitler was not gonna give up.

If he didn't commit suicide,

he didn't disappear over the horizon and die quietly.

I just don't think that man would die quietly.

As fantastical as it is,

I think he would've tried to rebuild his political base.

And where else in the world

was there a political base except in Argentina?

There is evidence,

historically, of preparation for a Fourth Reich.

And I can say that as a criminal investigator,

I'm not going into the realm of conjecture.

Here we have a declassified document

that goes back to 7th of November, 1944.

The source of this information is believed to be a French spy

who had infiltrated a meeting.

It states here, "From now on,

"German industry must realize that the war cannot be won.

"German industrialists must through their exports

"prepare themselves to finance the Nazi Party,

"which would be forced to go underground.

"These bureaus will receive plans and drawings

"of new weapons, which must not be allowed

to fall into the hands of the enemy."

It completely fits in with what was happening in Argentina.

The factories, Nazis,

and making advanced weapons.

We're talking about a maniacal man

who's driven by power.

There's some credibility to these documents.

He may very well be pursuing this Fourth Reich.

The Eichhorns. Lots of money.

We got Fritz Mandl, a munitions king.

We find a tunnel and we're a lot closer to the truth.

Let's get heavy machinery out there.

Let's find out whether or not this is a tunnel

and let's keep digging into Mandl.

Let's do it.

Every job has a tool.

Sometimes you need a scalpel.

Make just precision cuts.

Other times you need a gigantic diesel-powered backhoe.

We're just gonna be going off this way

kind of left through that gate.

narrator: Tim Kennedy prepares to investigate the area

where the ground penetrating radar

revealed a possible underground passage connecting Hotel Eden

to the Eichhorns' personal home.

The team has secured unprecedented permission

to dig on this historic site.

A lot of area to cover. Good.

Had to bring in the big guns.

There it is. El Castillo de Mandl.

El Castillo de Mandl.

narrator: 11 miles away,

Gerrard and JP investigate the residence

of reported Nazi munitions dealer Fritz Mandl.

His father was the biggest munitions

manufacturer in Austria. - Hmm.

It has to be a scary thought

that the leader of the Third Reich wants to contact one

of the major munitions and arms manufacturers in the world.

Well, it's quite a property.

Well, black market guns will get you whatever you want.

narrator: The team connects with Francisco Captavila...

Francisco! Gerrard, JP.

narrator: A local historian who specializes

in the life of Fritz Mandl.

What can Francisco tell us about how Mandl made his money

while he was in Argentina?

He used to own an ammunition factory.

A munitions factory?

So he was making arms while he was here?

Yes.

What sort of people would he bring here as his guests?

One thing that Mandl did is he kept everything a secret.

There's no books that says names or last names

of visitors or anything like that.

But there's rumors that a lot of the Nazi

power players were actually here at some point.

Fritz Mandl had a munitions factory here in Cordoba.

I can't look into Hitler's head and think

maybe he wants to start a Fourth Reich,

but it's a scary concept.

There are reasons the guys are gonna want to meet.

The depths are perfect for where you'd want to tunnel.

Six feet under the surface.

narrator: Tim, Gerrard, and JP prepare to break ground

where their high tech GPR may have uncovered a secret tunnel.

We're in the back quarter of the gardens of Eden Hotel.

The flags seem to point in a line

directly towards properties owned by the Eichhorn family.

And, as we know, the Eichhorns were not run of the mill Nazis.

These were important people.

narrator: An FBI report suggests that the Eichhorns,

the wealthy owners of the Hotel Eden,

could have aided Hitler if he came to this part of Argentina.

The team believes that if the tunnel did exist

under the hotel... - We're good.

narrator: It could have facilitated secret meetings

between Hitler and Fritz Mandl,

a munitions king with Nazi ties operating in the area.

This is the epicenter for Nazism in the entire region.

If Hitler had dreams or aspirations

of rising back to power,

this is the place to do it.

If we find evidence that there were tunnels here,

you know, that might put a little bit of truth to that.

This is the spot.

We know it's six feet down.

So we dig down three feet.

- See if we find anything. - Yeah.

Take some shovels, start snooping.

Don't find anything, go down another foot and continue.

As soon as that bucket started making that hole,

I am pumped up.

We're the first ones to break ground on this historical site.

There's people that been talking

about these tunnels for decades.

If there are tunnels out here, we are gonna find them.

Go deep, baby. Go deep.

That's about three feet right there.

Yeah.

We're digging. We're digging.

There's a lot of anxiety about finding anything at all.

I mean, we're down five foot in the center, right?

Yeah.

Yeah.

Can you pass me a shovel?

- Tim? - Yeah.

- That's not rock. - No?

- This is plaster. - Let me see it.

Really? Let me see.

Oh, no, that's not rock. - No, it's surfaced.

Holy [bleep].

Looking at the stone,

we see it's perfectly smooth, faced plaster.

We're six feet underground,

and we found the first real evidence

that there's something here.

It's crazy. And you can see it right there.

Look at the size of that bit.

This is man-made.

We're on a cold case that nobody's had

an opportunity to explore.

Here we are, breaking ground

and finding significant forensic evidence

that there are hidden tunnels under Hotel Eden.

narrator: The team digs deeper in search

of more physical evidence of tunnel construction.

We're now down about eight feet, aren't we?

Bucket goes down again.

It keeps hitting something big right there.

Then we start finding these gigantic rocks.

Now that, right there.

- That was cut and shaped. - Yeah.

That is cut and shaped,yup.

Another one. Yeah, they're not naturally occurring.

- Really? - Another one. Nope.

- These are stonemason's work. - Here it is.

Oh, wow.

We're finding tons of man-made, chiseled, shaped rock.

And rectangular,

and they're all stacked right on top of each other,

like a wall or a side of the cave.

narrator: The finding suggests the tunnel

was constructed from the larger rectangular stones

and sealed with interior plaster.

The structure most likely collapsed,

causing the stones to disperse and the plaster

to deteriorate with time and exposure to the elements.

- Tim? - Yeah.

They're all coming out in a line with those flags.

- Yeah, exactly. - With the what?

That, those flags that you have going that way.

Those flags that you marked anomalies on earlier.

Look up. Right there.

Look at those flags. - To your right.

Holy [bleep].

Knowing that the Eichhorns' house is straight up the hill

in line with where we're digging,

you know, it's like, "Come on."

You know, this is unreal.

Well, this is great.

The forensic examination of this suspected tunnel

has shown that that's what it was.

A tunnel. - What else could it be?

You've got plaster. You've got chiseled rock.

narrator: Bob and John review the evidence from Hotel Eden

in La Falda, Argentina, where declassified documents

imply Hitler could have met high-level Nazi associates

months after he was presumed dead.

This substantiates the whole idea that Hitler would be here,

meeting in the Eden Hotel

and staying at the Eichhorn house.

You've got a Nazi arms manufacturer.

You've got a secret tunnel all in the same area.

And we have FBI reports putting Hitler at the Eden Hotel.

You know, we put all these pieces together,

and you know, a good explanation is the Hotel Eden

is where he started to consider starting the Fourth Reich.

He brings these people together at La Falda,

gives them orders,

reassures people he's still ahead of this,

and while they're putting their plans together,

he disappears into the jungle.

If you want to hide out while things are coming together,

go to Misiones.

We have dozens upon dozens of sightings of Hitler

throughout 1945, but then everything goes cold.

He seems to drop off the face of the earth.

It's not a coincidence.

narrator: Working under the theory that Hitler

could have laid out his vision for the future at Hotel Eden,

then retreated to the jungle compound in Misiones

for an extended period,

Bob and John scour

the declassified files for any signs

of when and where he might have re-emerged from seclusion.

Oh, here's one, dated July 9, 1947.

It's referring to a Cassino,

a town in Brazil that's about 500 miles from Misiones.

The source of this information is a French secret agent.

He goes on to relay the following.

"There was to be held at the Grand Hotel of Cassino,

"a ballet that was to be given at three performances

in successive evenings."

And then to go on and describe

how he recognized a certain individual.

"One man was definitely Hitler."

1947 comes along, and all of a sudden,

back on the radar.

A sighting of Hitler

occurred during the first alleged performance.

He's back.

The question is, what's he up to?

One thing of unusual interest.

He reported that he had seen a large radio station

near the hotel,

and that the station was peculiar in that the antenna,

which was quite lengthy,

was parallel to the ground instead of perpendicular.

From my area of expertise,

if it is parallel to the ground rather than vertical,

there's actually better gain.

That indicates he certainly could communicate

to many places all over the world.

What it does is

put Hitler back on the scene in '47

and you have what appears to be

a military-like transmitter.

If Hitler were gonna re-enter the world scene,

he would need communications.

You cannot start a Fourth Reich without communications.

We've got some meat here.

On the face of it,

Hitler at the ballet makes no sense at all,

but the source provided details which our team can check out.

Was this hotel in existence?

Did these ballet performances take place?

If we can confirm it,

it will give substance to this report.

Let's get the team into Brazil.

Brazil it is.

This is the longest beach in the world, right?

Yeah, 150 miles.

narrator: Tim Kennedy and Gerrard Williams

arrive in the isolated beach town of Cassino, Brazil,

in search of evidence that could corroborate

the FBI files.

They're joined by their translator,

a local Brazilian, Jose Casimero.

We're looking for a hotel called Hotel Cassino.

Maybe this name's been changed at some stage.

The FBI files in this case are very specific.

We're looking for a hotel that's big enough

to have its own ballroom and a stage that's big enough

to produce even a small ballet.

There can't be that many of them here.

Let's do it. - Yup.

- Hello. - Hello.

narrator: The team makes contact with Allesandra Farina,

the Atlantico's curator

and expert on the history of Cassino's largest hotel.

I'm confused about the hotel name.

It's Hotel Atlantico now, right?

It's the only hotel in--

In 1947, if somebody said,

"Hotel Cassino," there is no way

they could be talking about any other hotel?

Okay.

Would these be mainly Portuguese people?

In 1947, there was a major population

of post-World War II German refugees here.

What sort of refugees we don't know.

But if they fled Germany and they're living in Brazil,

these are guys who don't want to be found in Germany

under the Allies.

Did this hotel have a ballroom?

- Salon? - Yes.

Oh, just behind us. Okay.

Do you know where some of those pictures

are that we could see?

narrator: Allesandra leads them to the dining room,

where she displays her collection

of original hotel photos.

It's very, very, very, very nice.

It's like chic, posh.

There's money in this.

Aha-ha.

What's that? - That's a stage.

That's a stage.

This is the salon here?

That's easily 200 people. - Yeah.

Been here a few hours

and we have a significant informant that is

conclusively corroborating that there was a hotel here.

It was called Hotel Cassino, and it had a ballroom.

And it is the exclusive and most prestigious hotel,

not only in the city but pretty much in the entire region.

This is getting good.

It's very convenient for the people

we think who came here in 1947.

We have a bank, we have all our stuff here.

- This is the center. - Yes. The center.

narrator: Gerrard Williams, Tim Kennedy,

and their translator make their way

through the small town of Cassino, Brazil,

where an FBI report places Hitler attending a ballet

at a local hotel in close proximity

to high-tech communications equipment

two years after he was believed dead.

Let's go by this way.

narrator: After confirming that the Hotel Atlantico

existed at the time and had a ballroom

matching the description in the FBI files,

the team visits the city archives

to confirm whether the three-night ballet

performance happened at all.

This is gorgeous.

Getting access to archives of an event or something

which puts you in that place at that time

is incredibly important.

We know the ballet happened

at a hotel which had a ballroom.

An event like that doesn't go unnoticed.

So an event like that is likely to be recorded

in the social pages of a newspaper.

How many big social events like that

were there in Cassino, right? Not very many.

It doesn't seem like they'd have huge ballets.

If there is information

which tells us accurately that this performance happened here,

then the reliability of that FBI report

goes up in my mind astronomically.

So, January 1947, what are we looking for, date-wise?

Hoover gets this report on his desk in June 1947.

So I think it probably refers to sometime

between February and March.

So February and March 1947.

Hotel Atlantico Cassino.

They're holding dances

and you can get in there for five cruzeiros.

This is a daily advertisement.

The Hotel Atlantico.

Most important places to go socially around here.

They're almost on every single page.

Thumbing through one newspaper,

and page after page after page,

we're seeing it talk about events,

but not anything specific.

All we see is advertisements. Stick with this one.

We'll go grab the other one. - Yeah, sure.

You just keep thumbing through.

- Yeah, yeah. - I got a different newspaper

from 1947.

So I have the Gazette.

This one has a bunch of advertisements in it as well.

Okay.

I'm at 1 February.

Socials.

I have nothing.

I have something right here.

Where?

I have a beautiful girl dancing.

- Yeah, that's definitely it. - Yeah.

That's a ballet dancer.

- Getting us her. - Yes.

What does this say?

"Tomorrow, Hotel Atlantico in Cassino,

stars of the world in ballet."

This is real.

- That is real. - Right on the front page,

we see a picture of this ballerina.

There's an advertisement for it.

"Stars of the world ballet

"in the Hotel Atlantico Cassino.

Days 6 and 7 February."

It's the exact date range

that the FBI files said that there'd be a ballet.

That's incredible.

Turning a page and seeing

in black and white the exact words

that are in a FBI file

takes your breath away for a second.

Does it say how many nights?

- Two nights. - Okay.

The problem is it talks about two nights.

Okay, open to the public.

You can buy tickets.

The FBI guy talks about three nights.

Doesn't make any mention of it being ticketed.

The FBI report is pretty serious

about there being three performances,

and it's the first night of those three performances,

that the file says Hitler and Eva are in the audience.

So it doesn't quite fit.

At a lot of ballets, you have the private events.

- High ticket. High ticket. - Yes.

Those are very prestigious.

I'm going into a closed-door performance.

There's going to be nobody there besides the select invitees.

So we know that this is happening...

- 6th and 7th of February. - 6th and 7th.

So what happened on the 5th? - Yeah.

See if there's a review or a summary.

What is this?

It's French poetry.

He says the "enchanting ballet

of such pure beauty alights a ray of elegance."

narrator: They have uncovered a review of a ballet

in the form of a poem written by Pierre Dumont,

a well-known French dance critic.

We know that he was there

and how do we know that he wrote this poem

because he saw the ballet?

He names the ballet dancer here,

the prima ballerina, Leskova. - Leskova.

The 6th and 7th was the ballet.

Yeah, but he wrote this poem on the 5th of February,

after a performance he had seen on the 5th.

Not a performance on the 6th or the 7th.

And that's the performance the informant saw Hitler at.

We found archive proof

that a ballet took place here in February 1947.

This is for invite only.

These are for people who need to be there.

I can't step inside the mind of Adolf Hitler that day,

when he was sitting at a table

watching a ballet, surrounded by important, wealthy people.

If I'd just ruled the whole of Europe

and just lost militarily,

I doubt whether he's thinking,

"Gosh, that's a lovely prima ballerina."

He's thinking,

"Who amongst these people can I be talking to?

Who amongst these people may be able to help us get back?"

It's amazing.

I'm actually quite blown away.

Doesn't feel like a coincidence to me.

He was here.

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

This is a hotbed of Nazis in Cassino.

It's the right kind of environment

that Hitler would look for.

This FBI document,

it's almost like a treasure map giving us step after step

and which way to turn.

Right here? This house right here?

What can you tell us about the people that owned it?

According to the report, Hitler's moving north.

Once they landed in Bogota, Colombia,

the pilots burned the planes

and the remains were submerged in a nearby marsh.

We're at the end of the story here.

We find this airplane, we're gonna be making history.

That is something

we're definitely going to dive on.

Look at that. Might be the frame of a wing.

Holy crap.