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We could be on the verge of uncovering evidence

that will change this case forever.

We're looking for an Armundo

We have never been closer.

Right here. Right now.

Was your father a Nazi?

This is his father.

Luftwaffe wings.

yeah

He has some medals, he says yeah.

It's the Iron Cross

It's the higest award of bravery.

And he seems to have two of 'em.

This is one very brave man.

Is there any information that you have of people that

your father would have known that could have been

high level Nazis.

We're looking for names,

documents, dates.

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

because they have something to hide,

and I know that your father is part of it.

Who's this?

My heart is racing a little bit.

We have an alleged picture of an aged Adolph Hitler post-war.

If there was any evidence of his death,

why haven't they produced it?

This is Adolph Hitler.

male narrator: Bob Baer, a 21-year CIA veteran

and one of the most respected intelligence minds in the world

has dedicated his career

to tracking some of the most notorious criminals,

including Sadam Hussein.

I've spent so much time in the White House

and know first-hand what the government tells us

is rarely true,

and from the moment I started looking into this case,

it didn't add up.

Ignorance is bliss.

The public does not want to believe

that we lost Adolph Hitler.

narrator: In 2014,

the FBI declassified over 700 pages of documents,

placing Adolph Hitler around the globe

after World War II,

leading Bob to reopen this 70-year-old cold case

deploying dozens of experts, historians,

and military man hunters armed with the most

cutting edge technology to investigate the truth.

By investigating the FBI files,

we are the first ones

to put together facts about what really happened.

In Berlin, we found no scientific evidence

that he died in that bunker.

We don't have a witness. We don't have a body.

- Searching. - Kemka cannot tell whether

he really had seen that Hitler was dead

because he had not seen the body.

Nobody sees his face and said, "That's him!"

- Yep. - Unless it wasn't Hitler.

Hitler's bunker was connected with tunnels

which could have taken him to an airport.

Flying's the way you want out of Berlin.

In Spain, we have a witness

at the monastery placing Hitler there.

He saw here, with his eyes, Hitler. Here.

- Hitler here? - Yeah.

As well as Nazi infrastructure,

communications, and also escape routes.

Germans fingerprints are all over this place.

From Spain he could have boarded

a U-boat and got away from Europe.

- What happened to this sub? - I don't know.

In Argentina, clue after clue pointed

to the possibility he escaped into the countryside

and set up multiple Nazi safe houses.

This could have been completely built in secret.

If I'm gonna hide a high value target,

this is perfect.

You got all this [bleep] damn evidence everywhere,

you've got all these possibilities,

but the FBI files were not the final story

on the hunt for Hitler.

narrator: After a year-long investigation

across six countries and thousands of miles,

Bob prepares to broaden the scope of his investigation.

The FBI has a very, very narrow aperture in the world.

We need to open up the aperture.

Look at that.

14,621 international files

on Hitler alive.

narrator: Bob has now gotten unprecedented access

to over 14,000 pages of declassified documents

from every major intelligence agency around the world.

The Germans, the Argentinians, the Russians, the MI-6.

Every intelligence agency in the world is looking for this.

It's incredible. I mean, you have a full-on

international man hunt for Adolph Hitler.

We are completely in uncharted waters.

For the first time, we are opening up these files

and putting them all together,

and they all had a different piece of the pie.

And it's only when you put them all together

are you gonna come to the truth.

We were the first ones that did it after

the FBI documents were declassified.

Now we're the first ones that are acting

on these declassified documents.

narrator: Bob is joined by the UN's premier

War Crimes Investigator, Dr. John Cencich.

They have integrated thousands of U.S.

and international documents

into a state-of-the-art computerized database.

This database is powerful.

It looks at the relationships between information.

Finding patterns. Finding words.

Finding evidence.

This is an amazing opportunity

to help us get to the answer of these questions

that have been looming for decades.

So we're starting a whole new phase of this investigation.

Now that we have these files,

I want to go back to the beginning,

Hitler's last known location, April, 1945 in Berlin.

And we're gonna carry it forward.

Look, John, we've established

that a bunch of airplanes left Tempelhof on the 21st of April.

Others left from Tempelhof.

We were about eight or ten aircraft.

We know that he could have been on one of those airplanes.

It's still feasible that he could have used Tempelhof,

but we were looking at this

through the documents of the United States government.

Maybe there really is a plan B, a plan C, and a plan D

that we don't know about.

If you're a world leader,

you've got to have contingencies.

You simply do not have one way out

because if you have one way out,

that's how you end up in an ambush.

We've got the database,

and to establish the specifics

to move from theory to real evidence,

I think that's where we got to go next.

Let's look into it. Start looking at this stuff.

Hitler. Plane. Worldwide.

Berlin. Date, 1945.

Soviet Union. CIA.

Hey, look at this.

This is an MI-6 file.

A certain ex-Luftwaffe pilot,

Captain Baumgart, swore under oath

that he flew Hitler

from Berlin on 29, April, 1945.

Hitler was supposed to have committed suicide on the 30th.

So this is the day before.

He says he swears under oath,

but we all know there are people that swear under oath

that don't tell the truth.

What we need to do now is to look into this database

and find out if there is any other evidence

or leads we can track down

that would corroborate his statement.

Let's see what we got.

Here we go. Look at this one.

This is coming from the U.S. Army

on the day Hitler left Berlin.

The Germans made a counter attack

in order to clear a strip

from which the plane could take off.

The two reports go hand in hand

and they lend credence to one another.

It sound like to me this a makeshift air strip.

Clear a roadway, whatever you have, take off.

The tenor of this completely changes

when you have a name,

and a plane, and a day, and a makeshift runway,

and we're gonna paint a complete picture for the first time.

In the context of looking for Hitler's escape route,

we are now getting into specifics for the first time.

I want to touch something, feel something.

If we can determine where that makeshift runway was,

that's powerful information.

We need to send a team out there to explore

all of those possibilities.

Right now we've got good leads.

Let's see if we can turn this into some type of evidence.

This is a huge breakthrough. Let's do it.

Peter Baumgart was consistent every time he told the story.

To me, as an investigator,

you know, that's curiosity right there.

narrator: Lenny DePaul, former commander

of the U.S. Marshals Fugitive Task Force,

is on the ground in Berlin.

I've been hunting fugitives for a long time.

I continue to look at things until that case is over.

You know, in my world there's no more exciting news

that you can get than discovering new intel

in a 70-year-old cold case.

I'm not gonna give up.

I need to get to the bottom of this thing.

narrator: Lenny is joined by Sascha Keil,

expert on Berlin during World War II.

- This it? - Number 10.

In any investigation you have to go back

to the scene of the crime and work your way forward.

If Peter Baumgart flew Hitler out on a makeshift runway,

then we'll find out.

Christoph? How are you?

narrator: The team makes contact

with Christoph Neubauer, forensic reconstructionist

and the world's leading expert on Hitler's bunker.

I'll use this to show you something here.

Christoph Neubauer is a valuable person to me.

This guy, over the years,

has studied the Fuhrerbunker better than anybody.

He's able to develop the state-of-the-art technology

to give us a 3-D look at the Fuhrerbunker.

He can bring me back 70 years to the scene of the crime.

So basically we are having here the chancellery

where Hitler used to live

and what used to be his headquarters,

and it's like a whole city block.

- It's huge. - So--and inside

you'll find the Fuhrerbunker.

This is allegedly where Adolph Hitler kills himself.

Exactly.

So far there are known four main exits out of the bunker.

These were the exits that we thought took him

to Tempelhof Airport.

But, recently I found very close to the bunker,

another one.

Another one what?

I found an exit very close to the bunker.

Are you kidding me?

If you have here the Fuhrerbunker,

just 20 to 25 meters away

you could walk into a new tunnel.

Okay.

And you see here

a very small entrance here.

Steps going down, one door, and a cover.

And all this would have been invisible.

Why all of a sudden we find a tunnel?

How did you stumble onto this?

I check in archives a lot,

and there is a photograph

I came across taken by American soldiers

after the Second World War.

Look at that.

Do you see how close this is?

So the Fuhrerbunker's here.

It's gonna be here, and now I'm walking 75 feet

and I go back down underground.

You know, it thought I had some pretty hot leads

the last time I was here.

This is the hottest. That's actually number five.

We've only known about four for the past 70 years.

So for us to get our hands on this is unbelievable.

It could lead me right to this makeshift runway.

Now Hitler's got another way out.

ide.

Our association is working 15, 20 years on this area,

and we never found any documented photo

or archive such a tunnel.

This is a breakthrough, even in my work,

for the last 15 years,

we never knew there could be another exit from the bunker.

This is a complete shock.

The big questions is if Adolph Hitler

decided to take that route

out of the Fuhrerbunker, where does he go?

The tunnel leads to someplace.

The East German Seet Service, the Stasi,

in 1973, they started a big investigation.

They were interested in tunnels exactly in the same location

because on top of the tunnel,

exactly there, was the Berlin Wall.

narrator: At the end of World War II,

Berlin was turned over to the Allied Forces.

The French, British, and Americans

occupied the Western section of the city,

and the Soviets controlled the East.

As the Cold War intensified,

the Soviets built the Berlin Wall,

a 96-mile barrier

to prevent defectors from fleeing to West Berlin.

The Stasi, the East German Secret Police,

generated hundreds of maps

and eyewitness accounts of escape routes

that were built during Hitler's regime

that could be used to escape under the Berlin Wall.

I went through all the thousands of secret files there.

I actually found one

which specifically relates to this tunnel.

We see this would have gone all the way to the Tiergarten,

the Brandenburg Gate.

What is the Tiergarten? What exactly is the Tiergartens?

Yeah, for you probably the best explanation

is the Central Park of New York,

this is the Tiergarten for Berlin.

From my perspective, I got somebody

that's the most wanted man in the world.

He's not gonna pop up in the middle of Central Park.

It does not fit. It doesn't fit.

I want you to show me visually

on the map of the compound

where these tunnels would have been.

All right, here's the Tiergartens, correct?

- Exactly. - So here's the big question,

why is he heading in this direction?

What's his end game? What's he thinking about?

Where's he going?

That's what I need to know.

There's got to be a destination.

Hitler, once again, has got a way out.

This is a fantastic find.

This here, at this location,

is the entrance to what we now call Exit Number 5.

narrator: Bob Baer and Dr. John Cencich review

the findings from the team's investigation in Berlin.

You know what strikes me as so interesting is

that they had taken the time to build these tunnels.

I mean, it's not something you, you know,

when the Russians are approaching 100 miles

away you start building.

I mean, they were planning this years in advance,

with a purpose.

This is the great thing about the files

that we're going from the realm of speculation

to the real possibility

of a clandestine exfiltration

to a makeshift runway.

I want to show you a document that I just came across.

We didn't find this before

because we were only looking at the FBI files.

This document is an Argentinian document.

Look what they've got here.

"Nazis, upon arriving to Argentina,

took refuge in a militarized outpost in Misiones."

That's great. I love it.

Earlier in this investigation we found three structures

that are completely isolated in the middle of the jungle,

Misiones in Argentina.

This could have been a real hideout location

for somebody on the run.

And we already know that at the compound the team's been to,

they found photographs, Nazi paraphernalia,

the photographs were people wearing their Nazi uniforms,

the medicine.

That was consistent

with the type of medicine used by Hitler

for his own particular ailment.

It's pretty suspicious.

Whoever was living in this residence

had a lot of money,

a lot of connections to Nazis,

and the number one suspect is Adolph Hitler.

You know, when we first went to Misiones,

I was picturing it as sort of a lair,

you know, get away from the police.

Hide out. Get away from communications.

But this file is something entirely different.

You're actually talking about a defensible militarized zone.

It's amazing.

Yeah, they describe it as an outpost and, you know,

if you really stop and think about the military component,

if it's militarized,

it's militarized for one purpose only,

and that's to defend a very important figure.

Militarized outpost is telling me

that we have guards, weapons, supplies,

anything you need to protect somebody like Hitler.

Well, I'd like to find out from an archaeologist

on the ground there is there anything

that would indicate that it indeed was militarized.

I think we should call Daniel up.

narrator: The team makes contact with Daniel Schavelzon,

the head archaeologist who has continued to excavate

the Nazi site in Misiones, Argentina for the last year.

- Hello. - Daniel, this is

Bob Baer and John.

Yeah, we've come across a report

that says that there was a military compound in Misiones.

This militarized zone in Misiones very well

could be no different than what Bin Laden did in Afghanistan,

set up a base in a country that's fairly friendly.

We got to get Tim back there.

I mean, he spent his career building bases

that are defensible.

I want his opinion.

I can't really wait to get the team down here

and start looking at this

and seeing what type of concrete evidence we can develop from it.

If we find an extensive Nazi base in Argentina,

we are really breaking new ground.

This rock's gonna be slippery.

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

returns to the jungles of Misiones, Argentina,

to follow a declassified Argentinian document

that reports this area was once home

to a Nazi militarized outpost.

I've spent the majority of my career

working in military mind-sets.

If this was a military compound,

just taking that lens and looking at it

with a different perspective

might tell us everything we need to know.

We might find nothing, but we might get lucky.

narrator: Tim is joined by Dr. Alasdair Brooks,

a historical archaeologist

who spent his career unraveling

the mysteries of the early 20th century.

Archaeology's always about the extent of discovery.

Looking at those objects coming out of the ground.

Looking at how they relate to the site,

the artefactual evidence

will tell us who wanted this built here and why.

- You got a step here. - Thanks.

narrator: They head for a new fourth structure

less than a mile from the three previously

discovered stone structures

that could have housed a high value

Nazi target on the run.

- Daniel. - Hey.

narrator: They make contact with Daniel Schavelzon,

who has been working around the clock

to uncover artifacts from the area

around the fourth structure.

We found what we think is a belt.

- It's a belt? - A belt, yeah.

It's heavy.

It's not the normal, you know. - It was cut clean.

It had very clean lines.

I mean, it looked more military.

If you look at my belt, this is a military issue belt

that I got 15 years ago.

That belt looks stunningly similar to my belt.

- Yeah. - This is our first clue

that there could have been a military complex here.

We're not done yet.

I need to get my eyes on this new building.

Watch your foot through here.

Here we are. That's the building.

That is so huge.

Bigger than I expected.

It's massive. both: Yes.

Why is this in the middle of the jungle?

- Is this typical? - No, absolutely not.

That's quite a large structure.

We could potentially look at these fittings around the doors

and the windows for a preliminary date for this.

Yes. Sure.

I'm interested in these nails.

Historical archaeologists call these wire nails.

They're industrially mass produced,

so we're getting 20th century architecture here

rather than something earlier.

This structure dates to the 1940s,

that much is fairly clear.

Standing here I see similarities to buildings

one, two, and three.

Are these stones the same as the other buildings?

Oh, yes.

The stone, the plaster, the windows, the frames,

there are lots of similarities,

but there are lots of differences.

These doors aren't really wide.

Absolutely.

Here you see there was a door of two parts,

you know, to open all.

This is not normal in your house.

Absolutely not normal. This isn't for residential use.

This isn't for a family moving in and out.

Everything feels powerful, thick, durable, and industrial.

The first thing that stands out to me

about this is the open floor layout.

If I were to envision what this use was,

this feels like military barracks.

This is where you line up bunk beds and put soldiers.

One floor, two floor. Wide open.

If you had heavy equipment you're obviously going

to be putting it on the ground floor.

You're gonna have people sleeping on the floor above it.

This is built like a military support structure.

Four-feet thick walls with doors

that you can push pallets of ammunition through.

If this is a military complex,

you have to have a place to house your personnel.

This could be just that.

You're going to be limiting access to protect

what you're storing in here.

If you're going to be hiding and protecting Adolph Hitler,

you're gonna have to have a building like this.

This information has the potential

to really change the entire course of our investigation.

narrator: While the field team continue to explore

the jungles of Argentina,

Bob and John review the findings

from the German leg of their investigation

where a declassified MI-6 document

reported that Adolph Hitler

was flown from a makeshift runway

in Berlin on April 29, 1945,

led the team to uncover a never before known

fifth exit from Hitler's Fuhrerbunker.

Well, for me the most mysterious part is exit 5.

Here's the entry.

From there it goes into a tunnel.

Precisely at this point,

the East German Secret Police, the Stasi,

were conducting their own investigation.

narrator: A declassified Stasi file reveals

that this fifth exit would have connected

to a 2,000 foot long tunnel,

ending at the base of the Brandenburg gate.

This iconic monument marks

the beginning of Tiergarten Park

which was redesigned by Hitler

to be the crown jewel of his capital city.

So what did it get him,

getting in the middle of the Tiergarten

at the Brandenburg gate?

Brandenburg Gate. Hitler. Plane.

Let's take a look at this document here.

So this is dated December 29, 1949.

The reporting agency is the Soviet Union.

A plane which was piloted by Hanna Reitsch

on the 28th of April flew out of Berlin

from the Brandenburg Gate.

According to this document it looks like it was a runway.

It was a makeshift runway,

and they're flying out as late as the 28th of April.

Which is only one day before Captain Baumgart flew Hitler

from perhaps the same location.

If Hanna Reitsch leaves on the 28th,

makes it out successfully,

a test run if you like, that means Hitler

could have gotten out of Berlin the day after.

Where there's smoke there's fire.

Could this be the makeshift runway Hitler

used to escape from Berlin?

Is it even reasonable to fly in

and get out on the 29th of April--

- Right. - When the Russians

were circling the city?

If we can go in and we can corroborate

that there was indeed this makeshift airstrip,

we may really have something.

Hanna Reitsch, she's able to fly a plane in

and out of here on April 28th.

Allegedly, on April 29th,

Baumgart flies Hitler out of here.

narrator: Lenny DePaul and Sascha Keil

investigate the avenue

running from the Brandenburg Gate

through Tiergarten Park in search of evidence

that it could have been used as a makeshift runway.

Sascha take me back.

April, let's say April 20th through the 30th.

Did the Nazis occupy this area right here?

From the Brandenburg Gate to the Victory Column,

this was defended to the last hours

of the Third Reich.

This was the last stronghold

controlled by the German Army and by Hitler.

All the other air strips and airports were down

and forced by the Russians in these days.

And the Victory Column was what?

Can we get in the Victory Column?

Yes.

- You can get me up top? - Yeah.

Let's go.

I got to see this.

What a vantage point that would be.

It was a kind of jewel, a gem of the government.

It was a hot spot for the fighting in the last war days.

Wow, this whole place is shot up.

The Russians with General Konev,

the troops were just over there a few hundred meters

and they knew that German soldiers were inside.

Look at the bullet holes, Sascha.

I can't believe this.

This was pretty much the last stand for the Germans.

This place was held up for a reason.

narrator: By April 24, 1945,

the advancing Soviet Army

encircled the once pristine capital of the Third Reich.

With each passing day the Soviets tightened

their grip around the heart of Berlin,

forcing nearly all remaining Nazi troops

to retreat and defend a four square mile area

of the inner government district,

which included the Fuhrerbunker, Tiergarten Park,

and the Victory Column.

I got chills just thinking about the Russians

are outside shooting at us with everything they got.

The Russians were 100 meters out.

High ranking Nazi officials,

they knew they were signing their death warrant right there.

Why would they be here?

Oh, wow. Holy cow, look at this.

You got to be kidding me.

You can see any Russian aircrafts coming in.

Yeah.

It makes sense from this vantage point.

You got a makeshift runway right here.

There's only one reason that the Nazis

would be held up here in this tower.

This is basically an air traffic control tower.

Where's the Fuhrerbunker from here? 600 meters?

- 600 to 700, not more. - He could have jumped

in the tunnels, through the Tiergarten to here.

narrator: The team has now uncovered a new exit

from Hitler's Fuhrerbunker

that would have led to a tunnel below Tiergarten Park

and connected directly to a massive boulevard

extending from the Brandenburg Gate.

I get the length of this as a makeshift runway,

but width wise, it doesn't make sense to me.

I mean, look at the length it's perfect.

But what about these lamp posts?

How are you gonna get wings of an airplane down here,

like, every 15, 20 yards apart, right?

Hundreds. The whole line.

Taking a look at the lamp posts

that were every 10 meters apart,

it would have been very risky to accommodate an aircraft.

Not only was Adolph Hitler tactically sound,

he was a forward thinker.

I mean, those lampposts could have easily clipped a wing.

That whole escape plan would have been grounded.

And it's just a gut feeling, but as a criminal investigator,

it just doesn't add up.

The way it looks right now,

for the wingspan of this aircraft to be able

to get up and down this runway, it's a death trap.

That's an eerie looking building.

I can just imagine what had occurred there.

narrator: While waiting for an update

from the German leg of their investigation,

Bob and John focus their attention to the findings

from the jungles of Misiones, Argentina,

where they have discovered a new,

fourth structure in the same area

that a declassified Argentinian document reports a Nazi

militarized outpost after World War II.

I think this is just an anomaly.

It's just like glaring huge.

Who builds a two-story structure

with reinforced walls,

very thick bolts in the middle of the jungle?

I mean, it looks like somebody took a plan

from maybe a barracks and said,

"All right, go put this in Misiones,

out in the jungle when nobody could see it."

The more we get into the Misiones site,

the more it starts looking like something military related.

According to the Argentine report,

this was a military zone,

and voila, what do we have here?

A military type structure.

You put soldiers there, supplies,

and then that would protect the main residences.

I truly think this is huge.

I mean, I think it is huge.

Always lingered in my mind in the first part

of our investigation was, okay, if it was Hitler

that's in that building or some other high value target--

- Yeah. - Where are the people

that are providing security for him?

Are they living in the same building?

Yeah, no, exactly. I mean, he just didn't go out there

and sit up in his mansion,

you know, and do everything himself,

but now we're talking about someplace

you could put personnel

that would be right in wherever you lived.

I'd like to see artifacts that relate to soldiers,

soldiers that would be used

for the protection of a high-value target.

If this was a militarized outpost,

you need soldiers to fortify it,

and so they would have left evidence behind.

I think we're clever enough to...

Find out who was in that building.

Exactly.

These are the artifacts?

Yeah.

Here are all the artifacts.

narrator: Deep in the jungles of Misiones,

niel Schavelzon has granted Tim Kennedy

and Alasdair Brooks access to his base camp,

the home for thousands of artifacts

Daniel has uncovered from the four structures

that make up this Nazi jungle hideout.

This is from all the sites you've been working on.

Yes, absolutely all came from inside the site.

I find the two-story building significant.

We need to find clues in these artifacts

that will tell me who the people are that were using it

and what they were doing here.

How many artifacts have you found in your excavation work?

For the moment,

over 4,000 fragments and items,

but we keep digging.

As you'd likely expect,

my eyes were caught by the ceramics.

Yeah, you're an expert on that.

This one's particularly interesting to me,

a gravy boat in the middle of the jungle?

That suggests a certain level of dining activity,

and these structures are in the middle of nowhere.

Why would you have a level of formal of dining,

a level of that aspiration

to gentility in these households?

I don't think there's any question anybody could doubt

that somebody was prepared to stay here

for as long as they wanted

and can feel safe.

This is particularly interesting

because it has a German maker's mark.

That's Villeroy & Boch.

If I were to find this in, say, Buenos Aires,

I might not be too surprised.

Here in Misiones, on the banks of the Parana River,

in these sites, this complex of sites

that are hidden away, that's more remarkable.

This is highly breakable,

highly fragile materials made in Germany.

Excepting that Hitler's style of living was higher end,

there is connection,

an unexpected level of formal dining here in the jungle.

This doesn't look like somebody is there to hide.

This is like somebody is there to live comfortably.

And to me, for a high value target like Adolph Hitler

to be comfortable and safe,

that means military type protection.

That means that they have soldiers around them.

Have you found anything that is military

or that would be used to protect somebody

that could live this comfortably?

Yes, we have some other things.

Here you have, for example, bullets.

And this is obviously 9 millimeter bullets.

This bullet has been used historically to protect

the most important people on the planet,

and is still used today for that exact same reason.

Of all of the different things they had found,

of all the different fragments of bottles, medicine,

trash cans,

the military items were the least frequent.

That made a lot of sense to me.

These are not guys who are gonna be losing bullets,

dropping magazines, losing guns.

These are trained soldiers.

They're not gonna leave a trace of what they're doing

or how they do it.

I would almost want to segregate

all of these artifacts, in my mind,

the people that were living comfortably,

the people that were secure,

the people that were being protected,

and then everybody else.

The person who is using this, I think,

is protected by the people that are using that.

The Brandenburg Gate, the Victory Tower,

this avenue cuts right through it.

This is a possible runway.

narrator: Bob and John review the findings

of their investigation to determine

if the street between the Brandenburg Gate

and the Victory Column could have been used

as a makeshift runway to fly Hitler out of Berlin

in the final days of the war

as reported by a declassified MI-6 file.

We've got the Victory Column.

Its height certainly could have been used

for a makeshift air traffic control center.

You've got all the makings of a runway

except problems with the wingspan.

It's getting very convincing

that Hitler left through the Tiergarten.

You know, Hitler bringing his troops in,

you know, sort of the last defense,

circling the wagons.

So Tiergarten is looking really good

except for the lampposts that run down the road,

because that makes it a very hazardous place to take off.

It's not the kind of risk a good planner

would have built into this.

The main thing is the light poles.

How do you get an airplane in there? Is it even doable?

You're right. Is the avenue wide enough?

That's really the question.

Yeah. I think that's key.

Absolutely key.

Alessandro, hey.

narrator: To determine if this avenue

was wide enough to navigate a plane through

in the final days of the war,

Lenny makes contact with Alessandro Nuzzo

and Frederico Uccelli of Leica Geosystems.

I need dimensions. I need the width of the street

from the Brandenburg Gate to the Column.

We can do it.

We will generate a 360 degrees spherical image,

providing 256 megapixels each second.

narrator: With seven laser scanners,

and a 360 degree camera array,

the Leica Pegasus 2 is used by forensic analysts

all over the world to transform crime scenes

into 3-D models with accuracy down to the millimeter.

The result of the scan will allow the investigative team

to examine Hitler's possible escape route

from every angle.

Well, go work your magic.

narrator: While the Leica laser scan gets underway...

Lenny.

Thanks for coming back out, brother.

How you doing, all right?

narrator: Lenny meets with Sascha Keil

who has uncovered evidence from local photo archives.

This is before the war,

and you can compare these lines with the modern lampposts.

Yeah, right, right.

As you can see, it's the same line.

So the second one,

this is from April and May 1945.

And you see, no lampposts.

Wow. The German troops,

they cut them at the ground level here

and had more space.

You're telling me they eliminated

these poles on both sides, right?

- Yeah. - This is unbelievable.

Somebody was under a direct order

to cut these things down for a reason.

So here you got the lampposts, here you don't,

which gave them at least another 20 feet on each side

to get an airplane down there.

It makes absolutely no sense for those lampposts

to be cut down

unless you wanted to accommodate

or fit something down this road.

You can only imagine this was the contingency plan

that was in place by Adolph Hitler.

The place was caving in on him. He was backed into a corner

and he needed to get out of Dodge in a hurry.

Yeah, there's a method to his madness.

I'll give the devil his due.

He thought this thing out.

Boom, he's on this makeshift runway, and he's gone.

To me, the puzzle's been put together.

narrator: This season on "Hunting Hitler"...

- What can you see? - There's something right here!

We're kicking this investigation into high gear.

Oh, look at that. A German Luger, right?

Yeah, we are now getting really, really close.

We've got our hands on hundreds of new leads.

We're gonna hit the ground

and find out the truth behind them.

Holy [bleep].

We're looking for Hitler's escape routes.

They can shuttle people right out

in the ocean into a waiting U-boat.

And we're infiltrating his tunnels and his transit points.

Right here. We got an opening.

That's an escape tunnel.

Whoa.

We're uncovering his web of contacts around the world.

If you were an escaping Nazi,

this would be a good place to come.

This is starting to look a little bit suspicious.

Witnesses for the first time are speaking up.

We're gonna paint a complete picture of the truth.

I have explosives detected.

They'd been planning this for years.

Adolph Hitler was not going to hide forever.

Presumably he was looking to rearm.

That's weaponized nuclear power.

And he dreamed of hitting the United States.

Aw, look at this.

If you're gonna detonate a dirty bomb of some kind,

this is the place to do it.

Ooh.

We're gonna continue this hunt for Hitler

until it's settled absolutely.

- This is ground Zero. - This is Adolph Hitler's home.

These are people who can keep a secret.

We'll get to the bottom of it.