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These are the user uploaded subtitles that are being translated: 1 00:00:04,004 --> 00:00:06,049 In May, 1945, 2 00:00:06,093 --> 00:00:10,575 Adolf Hitler may have landed in San Sebastian, Spain. 3 00:00:13,100 --> 00:00:14,449 If you're an escaping Nazi, this would be 4 00:00:14,492 --> 00:00:17,017 a good place to come, clearly. 5 00:00:17,060 --> 00:00:21,499 And the team has found a communication center. 6 00:00:21,543 --> 00:00:23,806 In a matter of moments, that information 7 00:00:23,849 --> 00:00:26,417 would have been sent to any U-boat or plane. 8 00:00:26,461 --> 00:00:27,810 Piece of cake. 9 00:00:27,853 --> 00:00:30,291 The team in Argentina established 10 00:00:30,334 --> 00:00:33,642 a couple miles from the Nazi compound in Misiones, 11 00:00:33,685 --> 00:00:35,557 there was an active hunt for Hitler. 12 00:00:35,600 --> 00:00:39,082 Your father, did he ever mention any senior Nazi 13 00:00:39,126 --> 00:00:40,214 that he may have met? 14 00:00:41,258 --> 00:00:43,521 Bormann? 15 00:00:43,565 --> 00:00:46,089 Martin Bormann, who is the second most important man 16 00:00:46,133 --> 00:00:47,395 in the Nazi world. 17 00:00:47,438 --> 00:00:49,223 This is history changing. 18 00:00:49,266 --> 00:00:52,182 Bormann is sort of the key for Hitler's fate. 19 00:00:52,226 --> 00:00:54,054 Martin Bormann may take us 20 00:00:54,097 --> 00:00:56,012 one step closer to Adolf Hitler. 21 00:00:57,840 --> 00:00:59,885 The thing is, is people don't like to talk 22 00:00:59,929 --> 00:01:01,670 because they have something to hide. 23 00:01:05,065 --> 00:01:06,109 Who's this? 24 00:01:11,854 --> 00:01:13,073 We have an alleged picture 25 00:01:13,116 --> 00:01:15,597 of an aged Adolf Hitler. 26 00:01:24,214 --> 00:01:25,302 Okay, John, we got our two teams. 27 00:01:25,346 --> 00:01:27,217 We got one in San Sebastian 28 00:01:27,261 --> 00:01:28,610 and we've got the team in Argentina 29 00:01:28,653 --> 00:01:30,307 looking into the compound. 30 00:01:30,351 --> 00:01:33,093 male narrator: 21-year CIA veteran, Bob Baer 31 00:01:33,136 --> 00:01:35,878 and war crimes investigator, Dr. John Cencich 32 00:01:35,921 --> 00:01:39,664 are overseeing a dual-pronged investigation. 33 00:01:39,708 --> 00:01:42,102 While the European team investigates how Hitler 34 00:01:42,145 --> 00:01:43,538 could have moved from Germany 35 00:01:43,581 --> 00:01:46,062 to San Sebastian in northern Spain, 36 00:01:46,106 --> 00:01:48,412 they focus in on the South American leg 37 00:01:48,456 --> 00:01:50,762 of their investigation, where they have uncovered 38 00:01:50,806 --> 00:01:53,069 a potential piece of forensic evidence 39 00:01:53,113 --> 00:01:55,854 from a small town in Misiones, Argentina, 40 00:01:55,898 --> 00:01:59,293 just 50 miles from a reported Nazi militarized complex 41 00:01:59,336 --> 00:02:01,773 in the jungle. 42 00:02:01,817 --> 00:02:03,253 The investigative team, 43 00:02:03,297 --> 00:02:06,169 they were able to uncover this photograph 44 00:02:06,213 --> 00:02:08,389 that is ostensibly 45 00:02:08,432 --> 00:02:12,480 one of Adolf Hitler from 1961. 46 00:02:12,523 --> 00:02:14,656 Frankly, if this were really a picture of Hitler, 47 00:02:14,699 --> 00:02:15,918 it would change history. 48 00:02:15,961 --> 00:02:18,877 I mean, this is potential proof positive 49 00:02:18,921 --> 00:02:20,792 that the guy got to Argentina. 50 00:02:20,836 --> 00:02:22,751 But as soon as we get something like a picture, 51 00:02:22,794 --> 00:02:25,884 my antennae go up like, "Uh-oh. 52 00:02:25,928 --> 00:02:27,016 Gotta look into this." 53 00:02:27,059 --> 00:02:30,193 A photo of Hitler in 1960-- 54 00:02:30,237 --> 00:02:33,544 I approach that with complete skepticism. 55 00:02:33,588 --> 00:02:36,852 Until we can confirm-- get some sort of confirmation 56 00:02:36,895 --> 00:02:38,070 on this picture, 57 00:02:38,114 --> 00:02:39,898 it would be irresponsible 58 00:02:39,942 --> 00:02:43,293 to show it on air. 59 00:02:43,337 --> 00:02:45,469 It certainly looks like it could be Adolf Hitler, 60 00:02:45,513 --> 00:02:47,776 but we have to be really careful with this. 61 00:02:47,819 --> 00:02:49,473 We have great responsibility 62 00:02:49,517 --> 00:02:52,389 that comes with this investigative undertaking. 63 00:02:52,433 --> 00:02:54,652 My major problem with the photo is, 64 00:02:54,696 --> 00:02:57,264 we just know so little about this. 65 00:02:57,307 --> 00:03:00,919 Just because the photograph is found in Argentina 66 00:03:00,963 --> 00:03:02,878 doesn't mean that's where the photograph was taken. 67 00:03:02,921 --> 00:03:05,837 We don't know what it is. 68 00:03:05,881 --> 00:03:07,926 It's our job to get to the bottom 69 00:03:07,970 --> 00:03:09,841 of this particular photograph. 70 00:03:09,885 --> 00:03:13,758 So I've ordered a forensic analysis of the photograph, 71 00:03:13,802 --> 00:03:16,152 also to undertake the facial recognition. 72 00:03:19,286 --> 00:03:21,723 narrator: Over the last 72 hours, 73 00:03:21,766 --> 00:03:23,942 Animetrics Technologies has analyzed 74 00:03:23,986 --> 00:03:27,163 the potential photograph of Adolf Hitler in Argentina 75 00:03:27,207 --> 00:03:29,252 after World War II. 76 00:03:29,296 --> 00:03:32,037 Their state-of-the-art facial recognition software 77 00:03:32,081 --> 00:03:34,257 is used by law enforcement and military agencies 78 00:03:34,301 --> 00:03:35,737 around the world. 79 00:03:35,780 --> 00:03:37,478 They're scanning the images. 80 00:03:37,521 --> 00:03:39,131 There's an algorithm 81 00:03:39,175 --> 00:03:43,223 and it gives a percentage of what are the odds 82 00:03:43,266 --> 00:03:44,833 that the two images match. 83 00:03:44,876 --> 00:03:47,531 narrator: They have shared the results 84 00:03:47,575 --> 00:03:51,274 of their examination with the team. 85 00:03:51,318 --> 00:03:53,058 What we're able to learn 86 00:03:53,102 --> 00:03:56,279 from undertaking that type of forensic examination, 87 00:03:56,323 --> 00:03:58,760 as well as our own reconnaissance, 88 00:03:58,803 --> 00:04:01,023 our own independent research, 89 00:04:01,066 --> 00:04:03,286 we determined that 90 00:04:03,330 --> 00:04:07,769 this is not a photograph of Adolf Hitler. 91 00:04:07,812 --> 00:04:11,903 As someone who's done a lot of work-- 92 00:04:11,947 --> 00:04:14,079 forensic work with photographs, I can tell you, 93 00:04:14,123 --> 00:04:17,300 this wasn't Adolf Hitler that was taken in the 1960s. 94 00:04:17,344 --> 00:04:18,954 That's okay. That's what we do. 95 00:04:18,997 --> 00:04:20,999 We had to investigate it. 96 00:04:21,043 --> 00:04:23,872 We did investigate it. We move on from there. 97 00:04:23,915 --> 00:04:25,569 All I can do is deal with the evidence 98 00:04:25,613 --> 00:04:27,354 as it comes across my desk. 99 00:04:27,397 --> 00:04:29,356 It's like I'm sitting back at Langley. 100 00:04:29,399 --> 00:04:31,271 We're trying to figure out what's going on. 101 00:04:31,314 --> 00:04:34,274 Now, we don't know the origin of this photograph, 102 00:04:34,317 --> 00:04:36,667 but on the surface, it absolutely looks like 103 00:04:36,711 --> 00:04:38,843 an aged Adolf Hitler. 104 00:04:38,887 --> 00:04:41,629 So I completely understand how if you were in a small town 105 00:04:41,672 --> 00:04:44,762 in Argentina and all these sightings of Hitler 106 00:04:44,806 --> 00:04:46,808 are happening all around the world, 107 00:04:46,851 --> 00:04:48,331 and you come across this photo, 108 00:04:48,375 --> 00:04:49,332 of course you'd think it was Hitler. 109 00:04:49,376 --> 00:04:51,291 But at the end of the day, 110 00:04:51,334 --> 00:04:54,294 we have to separate the good evidence from the bad. 111 00:04:54,337 --> 00:04:58,298 Okay, John, let's go to Spain, San Sebastian. 112 00:04:58,341 --> 00:05:00,648 narrator: Bob shifts focus to the European leg 113 00:05:00,691 --> 00:05:02,606 of their investigation. 114 00:05:02,650 --> 00:05:05,566 In San Sebastian, Spain, they have uncovered evidence 115 00:05:05,609 --> 00:05:07,916 that suggests high ranking Nazis 116 00:05:07,959 --> 00:05:10,919 were fleeing to the area after World War II, 117 00:05:10,962 --> 00:05:13,574 including a close associate of Adolf Hitler 118 00:05:13,617 --> 00:05:17,621 arriving by plane in May, 1945, after being spotted 119 00:05:17,665 --> 00:05:20,842 by the Fuhrer's side just one day earlier. 120 00:05:20,885 --> 00:05:24,759 If you're flying out of Nazi Germany in May, '45, 121 00:05:24,802 --> 00:05:26,151 you're not gonna just, you know, 122 00:05:26,195 --> 00:05:27,718 land in some airport anywhere in the world 123 00:05:27,762 --> 00:05:29,459 hoping you'll be okay. 124 00:05:29,503 --> 00:05:31,505 You got to go someplace where you got a network. 125 00:05:31,548 --> 00:05:34,029 This is a place that had the infrastructure, 126 00:05:34,072 --> 00:05:36,988 the personnel, the communication equipment. 127 00:05:37,032 --> 00:05:40,383 If Hitler had lived, the answer to the question 128 00:05:40,427 --> 00:05:42,559 as to whether or not San Sebastian 129 00:05:42,603 --> 00:05:45,388 would have been a place for him to arrive by plane 130 00:05:45,432 --> 00:05:49,044 is unquestionably yes. 131 00:05:49,087 --> 00:05:52,221 The next question is, "Well, where did he go from there?" 132 00:05:52,264 --> 00:05:54,963 So let's take a look in the database 133 00:05:55,006 --> 00:05:57,400 and see if we can find some intelligence 134 00:05:57,444 --> 00:05:59,402 that intersects Hitler 135 00:05:59,446 --> 00:06:02,100 and San Sebastian or just Spain in general. 136 00:06:02,144 --> 00:06:03,841 "Hitler." "Spain." 137 00:06:03,885 --> 00:06:05,060 Enter. 138 00:06:06,844 --> 00:06:07,845 Here we go. 139 00:06:07,889 --> 00:06:09,586 This is a German document. 140 00:06:09,630 --> 00:06:13,634 "Special order prepared by Heinrich Mueller." 141 00:06:13,677 --> 00:06:14,939 Chief of the Gestapo. 142 00:06:14,983 --> 00:06:16,854 "20 April, 1945. 143 00:06:16,898 --> 00:06:20,467 "Subject: Fuhrer's special trip to Barcelona. 144 00:06:20,510 --> 00:06:23,774 "The members of the Fuhrer's entourage are: 145 00:06:23,818 --> 00:06:26,777 "The Fuhrer, Reichsleiter Bormann." 146 00:06:28,388 --> 00:06:29,911 There's something going on here. 147 00:06:29,954 --> 00:06:31,695 You know, what's unique about this document, 148 00:06:31,739 --> 00:06:35,917 it's an internal German military order 149 00:06:35,960 --> 00:06:39,224 issued ten days before Adolf Hitler 150 00:06:39,268 --> 00:06:41,096 is alleged to have committed suicide. 151 00:06:41,139 --> 00:06:43,185 It's an incredible find. 152 00:06:43,228 --> 00:06:46,362 For me, this is a huge piece of evidence. 153 00:06:46,406 --> 00:06:49,496 The head of the Gestapo was clearly planning 154 00:06:49,539 --> 00:06:53,935 an exfiltration of Hitler and his closest advisors. 155 00:06:53,978 --> 00:06:56,590 Internal documents belong to a government. 156 00:06:56,633 --> 00:06:59,027 It's something very secret. 157 00:06:59,070 --> 00:07:00,898 So I think right through April, 158 00:07:00,942 --> 00:07:04,467 the whole system is geared to get Hitler out. 159 00:07:04,511 --> 00:07:09,167 We've always theorized that if Bormann indeed escaped Berlin, 160 00:07:09,211 --> 00:07:11,866 and if Hitler didn't commit suicide 161 00:07:11,909 --> 00:07:14,477 on April 30, 1945, 162 00:07:14,521 --> 00:07:16,697 perhaps they would be together. 163 00:07:16,740 --> 00:07:20,004 This document does show the intent to the people, 164 00:07:20,048 --> 00:07:22,529 and that intent is for the Fuhrer 165 00:07:22,572 --> 00:07:27,751 and Martin Bormann to flee to Barcelona together. 166 00:07:27,795 --> 00:07:31,363 You're right, and what is in Barcelona? 167 00:07:31,407 --> 00:07:34,497 Is this even credible that you would send Hitler there? 168 00:07:34,541 --> 00:07:37,413 Let's go to Barcelona and find out what type of evidence 169 00:07:37,457 --> 00:07:39,110 we might be able to generate 170 00:07:39,154 --> 00:07:42,200 in relation to this "Fuhrer's special trip." 171 00:07:42,244 --> 00:07:43,854 Oh, I think absolutely. 172 00:08:00,044 --> 00:08:01,263 I'm really intrigued to know 173 00:08:01,306 --> 00:08:03,787 what the German setup was here. 174 00:08:03,831 --> 00:08:04,962 narrator: World War II historian, 175 00:08:05,006 --> 00:08:06,877 James Holland, 176 00:08:06,921 --> 00:08:09,706 and U.S. Army Reconnaissance expert, Mike Simpson, 177 00:08:09,750 --> 00:08:12,274 arrive in Barcelona. 178 00:08:12,317 --> 00:08:13,971 Talking about every aspect, 179 00:08:14,015 --> 00:08:15,320 there's a lot to like about Barcelona-- 180 00:08:15,364 --> 00:08:17,366 location wise, population center wise. 181 00:08:17,409 --> 00:08:18,976 Infrastructure. 182 00:08:19,020 --> 00:08:22,371 If there was an existing escape plan for Hitler, 183 00:08:22,414 --> 00:08:24,895 it would have almost certainly been set up by Bormann. 184 00:08:24,939 --> 00:08:26,070 Absolutely. 185 00:08:28,682 --> 00:08:30,945 narrator: The team meets with David Rodriguez, 186 00:08:30,988 --> 00:08:33,774 a local expert on Nazi movement in Spain, 187 00:08:33,817 --> 00:08:39,301 at the Gran Teatre del Liceu, originally built in 1847. 188 00:08:39,344 --> 00:08:40,998 I'm really intrigued to know why we're 189 00:08:41,042 --> 00:08:42,957 in this particular theater. 190 00:09:07,982 --> 00:09:11,202 20,000 Germans, and he said they know for a fact 191 00:09:11,246 --> 00:09:13,204 that at least 500 of them 192 00:09:13,248 --> 00:09:15,467 were known and active spies of the Nazis. 193 00:09:15,511 --> 00:09:18,383 - Oh. 500? - Right. 194 00:09:18,427 --> 00:09:20,124 Okay, so I think we're in the right place. 195 00:09:20,168 --> 00:09:22,257 It seems clear that, yes, there was definitely 196 00:09:22,300 --> 00:09:24,607 organization here in Barcelona. 197 00:09:24,651 --> 00:09:27,741 There were 500 spies and leading Nazis. 198 00:09:27,784 --> 00:09:29,438 You know, that's an awful lot. 199 00:09:29,481 --> 00:09:32,441 Clearly something big was going on here. 200 00:09:32,484 --> 00:09:33,703 Oh, look at this. 201 00:09:46,455 --> 00:09:49,414 Look at it. 202 00:09:55,682 --> 00:09:58,206 Where we're looking down, the high ranking Nazis 203 00:09:58,249 --> 00:10:01,122 that would be here, this is where you would see them. 204 00:10:01,165 --> 00:10:05,039 Specifically, they would have the honored seats up front. 205 00:10:05,082 --> 00:10:07,519 This was a very permissive environment 206 00:10:07,563 --> 00:10:10,479 for those Nazi expats living here at that time, 207 00:10:10,522 --> 00:10:13,090 and we're talking about a population of 20,000, 208 00:10:13,134 --> 00:10:16,093 ten times what we were talking about up in San Sebastian. 209 00:10:16,137 --> 00:10:18,487 If this is what's going on above the water, 210 00:10:18,530 --> 00:10:21,490 it's anybody's guess what's going on below the surface. 211 00:10:22,883 --> 00:10:24,232 Whew. 212 00:10:24,275 --> 00:10:25,146 Gosh, it's stunning, isn't it? 213 00:10:30,847 --> 00:10:32,109 Absolutely stunning. 214 00:10:41,423 --> 00:10:44,208 Where there any really notable Nazis 215 00:10:44,252 --> 00:10:45,775 that came here to Barcelona? 216 00:10:59,528 --> 00:11:02,270 Bormann's plan was to set up infrastructure 217 00:11:02,313 --> 00:11:05,665 to support fleeing Nazi officials 218 00:11:05,708 --> 00:11:08,189 should the Third Reich lose the war. 219 00:11:16,066 --> 00:11:17,633 They were prepared to support them, 220 00:11:17,677 --> 00:11:19,113 they were prepared to support Hitler, 221 00:11:19,156 --> 00:11:21,724 they had prepared false documentation, 222 00:11:21,768 --> 00:11:24,858 and Franco had even designated members of his own guard 223 00:11:24,901 --> 00:11:27,338 that would work in a security capacity. 224 00:11:27,382 --> 00:11:29,732 Right. So let me just get this absolutely clear. 225 00:11:29,776 --> 00:11:31,865 Before the end of the war, 226 00:11:31,908 --> 00:11:36,130 Bormann had set up a plan for Hitler's escape. 227 00:11:38,610 --> 00:11:40,569 The more we peel back the layers, 228 00:11:40,612 --> 00:11:43,093 the more this is looking like exactly what we're looking for. 229 00:11:43,137 --> 00:11:46,575 Martin Bormann was scouting out locations for a ratline 230 00:11:46,618 --> 00:11:50,013 to get the Fuhrer out of Germany and into a safe haven. 231 00:11:50,057 --> 00:11:53,277 He says on the 10th of August, 1944, 232 00:11:53,321 --> 00:11:58,369 many wealthy German expats as well as many Nazi officials 233 00:11:58,413 --> 00:12:01,024 under the supervision of Martin Bormann met 234 00:12:01,068 --> 00:12:03,026 to plan the formation of-- 235 00:12:05,333 --> 00:12:07,509 Die Spinne-- literally the translation 236 00:12:07,552 --> 00:12:09,816 in German is "the spider," 237 00:12:09,859 --> 00:12:12,166 and it was an escape and evasion network 238 00:12:12,209 --> 00:12:15,169 with absolutely the top of the Nazi chain. 239 00:12:15,212 --> 00:12:18,302 There were lots of rumors and stories about it. 240 00:12:18,346 --> 00:12:21,088 That's a massive eye opener. 241 00:12:21,131 --> 00:12:22,698 This is adding up very nicely for me. 242 00:12:32,229 --> 00:12:35,972 Our team has uncovered that Martin Bormann 243 00:12:36,016 --> 00:12:38,845 was in contact with people in Barcelona 244 00:12:38,888 --> 00:12:41,761 relative to this secret organization, 245 00:12:41,804 --> 00:12:44,764 Die Spinne, the Spider Network. 246 00:12:44,807 --> 00:12:48,724 narrator: Bob and John review the findings from Spain, 247 00:12:48,768 --> 00:12:51,814 where they are following a declassified Nazi document 248 00:12:51,858 --> 00:12:54,034 outlining a secret trip for Adolf Hitler 249 00:12:54,077 --> 00:12:56,253 and Martin Bormann to Barcelona 250 00:12:56,297 --> 00:12:58,081 days before they were believed dead. 251 00:12:58,125 --> 00:13:01,476 This Die Spinne network was set up 252 00:13:01,519 --> 00:13:05,915 to facilitate the exfiltration of Nazi war criminals. 253 00:13:05,959 --> 00:13:09,005 What really strikes me is they have this plan 254 00:13:09,049 --> 00:13:11,094 before the end of the war. 255 00:13:11,138 --> 00:13:14,315 Die Spinne is the mother of all ratlines. 256 00:13:14,358 --> 00:13:16,752 It had a massive infrastructure 257 00:13:16,796 --> 00:13:19,711 to support the elite members of the Nazi party. 258 00:13:19,755 --> 00:13:21,583 The question remains is 259 00:13:21,626 --> 00:13:24,847 how far did this network actually reach? 260 00:13:24,891 --> 00:13:26,022 Let's find out. 261 00:13:26,066 --> 00:13:27,676 Look up "Die Spinne." 262 00:13:30,810 --> 00:13:33,725 Well, here we have a CIA document. 263 00:13:33,769 --> 00:13:36,467 "Eichmann was in close contact 264 00:13:36,511 --> 00:13:40,689 "with the underground group Die Spinne. 265 00:13:40,732 --> 00:13:42,691 "It is believed that he also financed 266 00:13:42,734 --> 00:13:45,563 "from his stocks this underground movement 267 00:13:45,607 --> 00:13:48,436 "and paid for the international travel expenses 268 00:13:48,479 --> 00:13:50,481 of wanted war criminals." 269 00:13:50,525 --> 00:13:54,050 Eichmann is a new piece of this puzzle. 270 00:13:54,094 --> 00:13:55,704 narrator: Adolf Eichmann was one of Hitler's 271 00:13:55,747 --> 00:13:57,445 closest allies 272 00:13:57,488 --> 00:13:59,882 and a major organizer of the Holocaust. 273 00:13:59,926 --> 00:14:02,145 During the war, Eichmann was responsible 274 00:14:02,189 --> 00:14:04,800 for facilitating the mass deportation of Jews 275 00:14:04,844 --> 00:14:07,194 to concentration camps throughout Europe. 276 00:14:07,237 --> 00:14:10,806 In 1950, he fled to Buenos Aires, Argentina, 277 00:14:10,850 --> 00:14:12,590 where he lived in a modest house 278 00:14:12,634 --> 00:14:14,244 and worked for Mercedes-Benz 279 00:14:14,288 --> 00:14:16,899 under the alias Ricardo Klement. 280 00:14:16,943 --> 00:14:20,337 In 1960, he was captured by the Israeli Mossad 281 00:14:20,381 --> 00:14:21,861 and sentenced to death. 282 00:14:21,904 --> 00:14:23,427 If somebody like Eichmann, 283 00:14:23,471 --> 00:14:25,647 one of the most wanted men in the world, 284 00:14:25,690 --> 00:14:28,650 actually got out using the web, Die Spinne, 285 00:14:28,693 --> 00:14:31,783 I think we just have to consider that network 286 00:14:31,827 --> 00:14:34,830 was also intended for Hitler to use in his escape. 287 00:14:34,874 --> 00:14:36,701 Absolutely. 288 00:14:36,745 --> 00:14:39,574 Everybody knows that Eichmann lived in Buenos Aires, 289 00:14:39,617 --> 00:14:42,838 but here we have a document that says there's rumors 290 00:14:42,882 --> 00:14:45,972 that Eichmann actually lived in a safe house 291 00:14:46,015 --> 00:14:49,540 in northern Argentina in a province called Tucumán 292 00:14:49,584 --> 00:14:51,803 prior to moving to Buenos Aires. 293 00:14:51,847 --> 00:14:54,023 "Tucumán." 294 00:14:54,067 --> 00:14:56,983 Tucumán is out in the middle of nowhere, 295 00:14:57,026 --> 00:14:59,246 and then you go across-- 296 00:14:59,289 --> 00:15:03,337 in a equally remote area is Misiones. 297 00:15:03,380 --> 00:15:05,252 We have to consider the possibility 298 00:15:05,295 --> 00:15:08,777 that Tucumán was simply a staging area 299 00:15:08,820 --> 00:15:12,389 while the compound in Misiones was being built. 300 00:15:12,433 --> 00:15:16,524 This compound in Misiones, very complicated. 301 00:15:16,567 --> 00:15:19,440 This took a lot of time and money, but in the meantime, 302 00:15:19,483 --> 00:15:21,964 you can't wait for Misiones to be built, 303 00:15:22,008 --> 00:15:24,140 you got to go to a place like Tucumán. 304 00:15:24,184 --> 00:15:28,753 What I think we need to do is to get the team into Tucumán. 305 00:15:28,797 --> 00:15:30,320 If he had a safe house there, 306 00:15:30,364 --> 00:15:32,105 there's potential evidence there. 307 00:15:32,148 --> 00:15:33,845 The sooner they get there, the better. 308 00:15:48,469 --> 00:15:51,559 Well, we're 1,400 miles from Buenos Aires, 309 00:15:51,602 --> 00:15:54,475 up in the northwest province of Argentina. 310 00:15:54,518 --> 00:15:59,175 This is--this is a whole new level of isolated. 311 00:15:59,219 --> 00:16:01,308 narrator: Investigative journalist, Gerrard Williams, 312 00:16:01,351 --> 00:16:03,788 and U.S. Army Special Forces, Tim Kennedy, 313 00:16:03,832 --> 00:16:05,529 make their way through the winding roads 314 00:16:05,573 --> 00:16:07,792 of Northern Argentina. 315 00:16:09,881 --> 00:16:12,667 So Eichmann manages a whole ten years in Argentina 316 00:16:12,710 --> 00:16:14,712 before he's picked up. 317 00:16:14,756 --> 00:16:18,020 He lives under the name Ricardo Klement. 318 00:16:18,064 --> 00:16:19,979 There's no way that Adolf Eichmann on his own 319 00:16:20,022 --> 00:16:22,285 would have decided to come to this part of Argentina. 320 00:16:22,329 --> 00:16:25,288 He must have been sent here by Die Spinne. 321 00:16:25,332 --> 00:16:27,160 Could this house be a safe house 322 00:16:27,203 --> 00:16:29,466 where people are dropped off before they moved on? 323 00:16:29,510 --> 00:16:31,338 That's what we've got to go find out. 324 00:16:31,381 --> 00:16:35,603 We are coming close now, guys. Almost there. 325 00:16:35,646 --> 00:16:37,605 narrator: Their local contact, Rune, 326 00:16:37,648 --> 00:16:39,520 has uncovered what could be the location 327 00:16:39,563 --> 00:16:42,218 of Eichmann's rumored safe house in the area. 328 00:16:47,615 --> 00:16:49,617 Here we are. 329 00:16:52,924 --> 00:16:55,753 Creeps me out. 330 00:16:59,627 --> 00:17:02,847 Let's see what we can see. 331 00:17:05,067 --> 00:17:06,460 It's locked, but it's vacant. 332 00:17:10,246 --> 00:17:12,118 narrator: With the team unable to gain access 333 00:17:12,161 --> 00:17:14,120 to the potential safe house, 334 00:17:14,163 --> 00:17:17,340 they make contact with neighbor Francisco Valdez. 335 00:17:17,384 --> 00:17:21,083 Do you know the family that lived in this house 336 00:17:21,127 --> 00:17:22,606 in the '50s? 337 00:17:33,226 --> 00:17:34,923 He lived here, yes, with his family. 338 00:17:34,966 --> 00:17:36,098 Does he know the name of the family? 339 00:17:39,928 --> 00:17:41,756 Adolf Eichmann. 340 00:17:41,799 --> 00:17:43,236 Why was he here? 341 00:17:47,718 --> 00:17:49,242 Who put him here? Who did he work for? 342 00:17:53,072 --> 00:17:54,769 Does that ring any bells? 343 00:17:54,812 --> 00:17:58,033 It's German owned, partly Argentine staffed. 344 00:17:58,077 --> 00:18:01,036 Company that's involved in major infrastructure projects. 345 00:18:01,080 --> 00:18:03,125 - In Argentina? - Yeah. 346 00:18:03,169 --> 00:18:06,868 CAPRI is a company that is owned by a former SS captain, 347 00:18:06,911 --> 00:18:08,696 except you're never a former SS anything. 348 00:18:08,739 --> 00:18:11,394 You are SS until you die. 349 00:18:11,438 --> 00:18:14,180 They run huge infrastructure projects all over the world 350 00:18:14,223 --> 00:18:16,704 in exactly the same way as they did for the Nazis. 351 00:18:16,747 --> 00:18:18,227 What was CAPRI doing here? 352 00:18:20,186 --> 00:18:21,709 They made tunnels, he said. 353 00:18:24,973 --> 00:18:27,976 They were, like, cutting out in the mountains. 354 00:18:28,019 --> 00:18:29,325 They were making tunnels in the mountains? 355 00:18:29,369 --> 00:18:31,588 Yeah, they were making some tunnels. 356 00:18:31,632 --> 00:18:34,983 Adolf Eichmann's up here tunneling into mountains? 357 00:18:35,026 --> 00:18:36,767 What the hell's all that about? 358 00:18:36,811 --> 00:18:39,074 Do you know if these tunnels still exist? 359 00:18:41,990 --> 00:18:43,209 Okay. 360 00:18:46,125 --> 00:18:48,866 Eichmann was here digging tunnels 361 00:18:48,910 --> 00:18:52,305 into the side of the mountains in secluded Northwest Argentina. 362 00:18:52,348 --> 00:18:55,090 If Hitler would have come here and used this as a safe house, 363 00:18:55,134 --> 00:18:59,050 he would need multiple routes for evasion. 364 00:18:59,094 --> 00:19:01,052 Look at these mountains. Look at that view. 365 00:19:01,096 --> 00:19:03,011 It's quite incredible. 366 00:19:03,054 --> 00:19:06,362 Maybe these tunnels were built as an escape route. 367 00:19:06,406 --> 00:19:08,103 That's where I have to go next. 368 00:19:15,850 --> 00:19:17,765 I feel good about Barcelona, you know, 369 00:19:17,808 --> 00:19:20,159 we've got documents related to it. 370 00:19:20,202 --> 00:19:24,206 Bormann was intimately tied to Die Spinne. 371 00:19:24,250 --> 00:19:26,208 narrator: While the team continues to investigate 372 00:19:26,252 --> 00:19:29,037 the Eichmann safe house in Tucumán, Argentina, 373 00:19:29,080 --> 00:19:31,605 Bob and John discuss the Spanish leg 374 00:19:31,648 --> 00:19:33,476 of their investigation, 375 00:19:33,520 --> 00:19:36,218 where a declassified Nazi document outlines 376 00:19:36,262 --> 00:19:38,220 a secret trip for Adolf Hitler 377 00:19:38,264 --> 00:19:40,875 and Martin Bormann to Barcelona 378 00:19:40,918 --> 00:19:43,573 days before they were believed dead. 379 00:19:43,617 --> 00:19:46,620 In Barcelona we know there were Nazis there, 380 00:19:46,663 --> 00:19:48,926 and we know there's a German culture there. 381 00:19:48,970 --> 00:19:50,276 It was open for Hitler, 382 00:19:50,319 --> 00:19:53,017 but where do you go in Barcelona? 383 00:19:53,061 --> 00:19:58,153 You just don't show up there and walk around the streets. 384 00:19:58,197 --> 00:20:01,678 We need to find out which safe houses, which routes, 385 00:20:01,722 --> 00:20:03,854 which infrastructure was used 386 00:20:03,898 --> 00:20:06,509 to facilitate the fleeing war criminals. 387 00:20:06,553 --> 00:20:08,250 I think we need to dig into the database 388 00:20:08,294 --> 00:20:11,253 and see if we can find some information. 389 00:20:15,301 --> 00:20:16,780 There we go. 390 00:20:18,217 --> 00:20:21,916 This is coming out of an MI6 file 391 00:20:21,959 --> 00:20:25,049 reported in October 22, 1950. 392 00:20:25,093 --> 00:20:30,490 "Bormann is without a doubt the brain behind Die Spinne. 393 00:20:30,533 --> 00:20:34,711 "He is known, rather ironically, as The Great Eminence 394 00:20:34,755 --> 00:20:38,149 "because of the robes worn by the monks 395 00:20:38,193 --> 00:20:41,892 at his monastery hideout in Spain." 396 00:20:41,936 --> 00:20:44,286 Hey, look, it's been documented totally 397 00:20:44,330 --> 00:20:47,071 that the Vatican helped the Nazis. 398 00:20:47,115 --> 00:20:50,988 So, I mean, we are within the parameters of reality here 399 00:20:51,032 --> 00:20:52,468 narrator: After World War II, 400 00:20:52,512 --> 00:20:54,557 an intricate system of escape routes 401 00:20:54,601 --> 00:20:56,603 throughout Spain, known as the ratlines, 402 00:20:56,646 --> 00:20:59,997 were established to help Nazi war criminals flee Europe. 403 00:21:00,041 --> 00:21:03,653 According to a 1947 American embassy memo, 404 00:21:03,697 --> 00:21:05,699 these ratlines were allegedly supported 405 00:21:05,742 --> 00:21:07,353 by the Catholic Church 406 00:21:07,396 --> 00:21:09,746 by providing false documentation 407 00:21:09,790 --> 00:21:13,359 in places of refuge at local monasteries. 408 00:21:13,402 --> 00:21:15,317 You know, the question is which monastery? 409 00:21:15,361 --> 00:21:17,624 We've got hundreds of them around Barcelona, 410 00:21:17,667 --> 00:21:19,582 but which one would he go to? 411 00:21:19,626 --> 00:21:21,584 Let's see if we can find an answer to that. 412 00:21:25,632 --> 00:21:27,286 Look at this. 413 00:21:27,329 --> 00:21:29,462 It's coming from the Federal Minister of Justice, 414 00:21:29,505 --> 00:21:31,290 West Germany, 415 00:21:31,333 --> 00:21:34,336 and it goes on to say, "Martin Bormann is living 416 00:21:34,380 --> 00:21:38,732 "in the Saint Benedict monastery at Montserrat near Barcelona 417 00:21:38,775 --> 00:21:42,562 where he found sanctuary with the Vatican's consent." 418 00:21:42,605 --> 00:21:44,433 I mean, John, when you look at this, 419 00:21:44,477 --> 00:21:47,958 you got Barcelona here, right on the coast. 420 00:21:48,002 --> 00:21:51,310 And then you go up to here is Montserrat. 421 00:21:51,353 --> 00:21:56,402 Montserrat is approximately 25 miles from Barcelona. 422 00:21:56,445 --> 00:21:58,969 You are really in the mountains here. 423 00:21:59,013 --> 00:22:01,363 We need to know whether Montserrat, 424 00:22:01,407 --> 00:22:05,411 this particular monastery, had any Nazi connection. 425 00:22:05,454 --> 00:22:09,023 Number two is can you actually hide out there? 426 00:22:09,066 --> 00:22:12,548 Because it's a monastery doesn't mean you can just move in. 427 00:22:12,592 --> 00:22:14,028 I mean, was there a place 428 00:22:14,071 --> 00:22:16,813 that he would feel comfortable and safe? 429 00:22:16,857 --> 00:22:19,947 I agree. Next stop is Montserrat. 430 00:22:31,611 --> 00:22:32,829 Well, this is spectacular scenery, isn't it? 431 00:22:32,873 --> 00:22:34,527 It's beautiful. 432 00:22:34,570 --> 00:22:37,094 narrator: James Holland and Mike Simpson head 433 00:22:37,138 --> 00:22:39,270 for the Montserrat monastery 434 00:22:39,314 --> 00:22:43,100 deep in the mountains, an hour's drive from Barcelona. 435 00:22:43,144 --> 00:22:45,451 And it's amazing, after the hubbub of Barcelona, 436 00:22:45,494 --> 00:22:48,192 suddenly you're so kind of remote, aren't you? 437 00:22:48,236 --> 00:22:50,020 On the drive up I think tactical advantage 438 00:22:50,064 --> 00:22:52,588 right off the bat. 439 00:22:52,632 --> 00:22:55,504 One road alone provides access. 440 00:22:55,548 --> 00:22:57,811 Very easy to control. 441 00:22:57,854 --> 00:23:00,335 Look at that. 442 00:23:10,258 --> 00:23:12,739 Oh, it's such an amazing view. 443 00:23:12,782 --> 00:23:14,610 The monastery was absolutely stunning. 444 00:23:14,654 --> 00:23:18,614 These beautiful mountains, strange rock formations, 445 00:23:18,658 --> 00:23:20,703 and there's this Benedictine monastery 446 00:23:20,747 --> 00:23:24,533 kind of sort of tucked away beneath this kind of rock face. 447 00:23:24,577 --> 00:23:27,623 A Nazi war criminal would want somewhere discreet, 448 00:23:27,667 --> 00:23:30,626 out of the way, and very well protected. 449 00:23:30,670 --> 00:23:33,673 Frankly, he couldn't ask for a better place. 450 00:23:33,716 --> 00:23:36,197 Hola, Padre. Me llamo Mike. 451 00:23:38,155 --> 00:23:40,114 narrator: The team makes contact 452 00:23:40,157 --> 00:23:43,117 with Friar Hilari Raguer, the monastery's historian. 453 00:24:05,095 --> 00:24:08,621 Himmler is one of the absolute top Nazis. 454 00:24:08,664 --> 00:24:11,450 He is the head of the SS. 455 00:24:11,493 --> 00:24:15,671 He's incredibly important. Why would he come here? 456 00:24:18,369 --> 00:24:19,980 Ah. Himmler said 457 00:24:20,023 --> 00:24:22,243 to one of the monks, "We want to see the mountain. 458 00:24:22,286 --> 00:24:24,985 We're interested in the mountain." 459 00:24:45,745 --> 00:24:47,094 These are extensive? 460 00:24:47,137 --> 00:24:48,965 Very extensive. 461 00:24:49,009 --> 00:24:51,141 Before the Nazis would have fully committed 462 00:24:51,185 --> 00:24:52,926 to using this site, they would have had to do 463 00:24:52,969 --> 00:24:55,145 what's known as a site survey 464 00:24:55,189 --> 00:24:57,670 and assess the value of this site. 465 00:24:57,713 --> 00:24:59,672 Normally, this could have been performed 466 00:24:59,715 --> 00:25:02,544 by any mid-level military officer, 467 00:25:02,588 --> 00:25:05,373 but in this case it was Himmler himself. 468 00:25:05,416 --> 00:25:08,985 That tells me that this place was very important. 469 00:25:09,029 --> 00:25:11,248 - Look at this. - Yeah, we're there. 470 00:25:20,693 --> 00:25:22,782 - Gosh, look at this. - Look at that. 471 00:25:22,825 --> 00:25:25,088 That's pretty big, isn't it? 472 00:25:28,178 --> 00:25:30,093 When he said expansive, 473 00:25:30,137 --> 00:25:33,662 he really, really meant expansive. 474 00:25:33,706 --> 00:25:36,273 If you're in Spain and the war's over, 475 00:25:36,317 --> 00:25:38,014 the monastery itself 476 00:25:38,058 --> 00:25:39,929 would have been a perfect location 477 00:25:39,973 --> 00:25:42,584 to keep people on a temporary basis. 478 00:25:42,628 --> 00:25:46,283 And now, added bonus of these caves. 479 00:25:46,327 --> 00:25:48,285 Wow. 480 00:25:48,329 --> 00:25:51,854 Well, you could easily hide someone in here, couldn't you? 481 00:25:51,898 --> 00:25:55,118 There literally could not be a better spot to hide 482 00:25:55,162 --> 00:25:58,644 safely away from the eyes and ears of your enemies. 483 00:25:58,687 --> 00:26:01,168 You want to have that out, and the caves are that out. 484 00:26:14,660 --> 00:26:16,531 narrator: At Tucumán, Argentina... 485 00:26:16,575 --> 00:26:19,360 He said this direction, but it's vague. 486 00:26:19,403 --> 00:26:21,275 narrator: Tim Kennedy investigates 487 00:26:21,318 --> 00:26:23,930 the area surrounding Adolf Eichmann's safe house 488 00:26:23,973 --> 00:26:25,627 in search of rumored tunnels 489 00:26:25,671 --> 00:26:28,021 that could be connected to Die Spinne, 490 00:26:28,064 --> 00:26:30,197 an organization to support the escape 491 00:26:30,240 --> 00:26:32,852 of the highest ranking Nazi war criminals, 492 00:26:32,895 --> 00:26:36,899 as reported by a declassified CIA file. 493 00:26:36,943 --> 00:26:38,814 When I heard the Nazis were in the mountains 494 00:26:38,858 --> 00:26:40,555 digging tunnels, immediately, 495 00:26:40,599 --> 00:26:42,426 especially considering that this could be a safe house, 496 00:26:42,470 --> 00:26:44,167 I'm thinking of escape routes. 497 00:26:44,211 --> 00:26:45,429 I need to get inside of these tunnels 498 00:26:45,473 --> 00:26:47,736 at night to really try to discern 499 00:26:47,780 --> 00:26:49,912 what they were doing here. 500 00:26:49,956 --> 00:26:51,348 narrator: While Tim scouts the mountain 501 00:26:51,392 --> 00:26:52,741 for a tunnel entrance... 502 00:26:52,785 --> 00:26:55,526 - We found the key. - Ah, good stuff. 503 00:26:55,570 --> 00:26:57,441 - Here we go. - Okay, muchas gracias. 504 00:26:57,485 --> 00:26:59,269 narrator: Gerrard Williams gains access 505 00:26:59,313 --> 00:27:01,576 to the interior of Eichmann's safe house. 506 00:27:12,369 --> 00:27:14,633 Here we are in a kitchen 507 00:27:14,676 --> 00:27:16,504 where the man who facilitated the deaths, 508 00:27:16,547 --> 00:27:20,116 industrial mass murder, of-- 509 00:27:20,160 --> 00:27:23,032 Close to 11 million people, 510 00:27:23,076 --> 00:27:26,166 would make his morning coffee. 511 00:27:26,209 --> 00:27:27,515 And that's chilling, even if he was 512 00:27:27,558 --> 00:27:28,559 only here for a couple of years, 513 00:27:28,603 --> 00:27:32,259 I still find it chilling. 514 00:27:32,302 --> 00:27:34,174 Ugh! Don't want to stay in here. 515 00:27:39,005 --> 00:27:41,703 The old man said that the tunnel entrance was 516 00:27:41,747 --> 00:27:43,618 in the valley. 517 00:27:54,890 --> 00:27:56,718 Where is this thing? 518 00:28:00,417 --> 00:28:02,855 I can see something. 519 00:28:06,162 --> 00:28:07,903 We might have something right here. 520 00:28:11,994 --> 00:28:15,302 Holy [bleep]. 521 00:28:15,345 --> 00:28:17,652 We got a tunnel. 522 00:28:19,567 --> 00:28:23,179 I have no idea what's back there. 523 00:28:23,223 --> 00:28:26,356 It could be treacherous in there, truly dangerous. 524 00:28:26,400 --> 00:28:28,794 In tunnels there's pockets of gasses 525 00:28:28,837 --> 00:28:31,100 that we can't control. Some of those are toxic, 526 00:28:31,144 --> 00:28:33,581 but I have to find out where it goes, 527 00:28:33,624 --> 00:28:36,540 so I brought a self-contained breathing apparatus with me 528 00:28:36,584 --> 00:28:38,455 and enough air that I at least know 529 00:28:38,499 --> 00:28:40,109 I can get in and out. 530 00:28:42,459 --> 00:28:45,288 I'm lead. You guys stay behind me. 531 00:28:59,955 --> 00:29:05,047 Looks like a wall right in front of us. 532 00:29:05,091 --> 00:29:08,703 I can see a little bit of light popping through. 533 00:29:08,747 --> 00:29:11,793 I'm gonna go check that out and see where that goes. 534 00:29:19,105 --> 00:29:21,672 We got a couple of chambers. 535 00:29:21,716 --> 00:29:25,241 They're cutting off multiple tunnels. 536 00:29:25,285 --> 00:29:27,156 All right, we have-- 537 00:29:27,200 --> 00:29:32,640 at this intersection right here you can see, 538 00:29:32,683 --> 00:29:35,512 right here, these archways. 539 00:29:35,556 --> 00:29:39,212 This is a corridor. This was planned. 540 00:29:39,255 --> 00:29:42,911 This was built specifically for the movement of people. 541 00:29:42,955 --> 00:29:45,653 A massive tunnel system. 542 00:29:45,696 --> 00:29:46,915 narrator: Roughly 200 meters 543 00:29:46,959 --> 00:29:48,874 from the mountain base entrance, 544 00:29:48,917 --> 00:29:50,745 Tim runs into an intersection 545 00:29:50,789 --> 00:29:54,618 leading to three distinct, man-made pathways. 546 00:29:54,662 --> 00:29:57,534 Tunnels like this, going straight into bedrock. 547 00:29:57,578 --> 00:29:58,927 That takes time. 548 00:29:58,971 --> 00:30:01,190 That takes money. That takes backing. 549 00:30:01,234 --> 00:30:03,627 If these tunnels were built as an escape route, 550 00:30:03,671 --> 00:30:04,803 they did it well. 551 00:30:10,373 --> 00:30:14,160 We're a few hundred meters from that intersection, 552 00:30:14,203 --> 00:30:19,948 you know, maybe 500--400 or 500 meters from the entrance, 553 00:30:19,992 --> 00:30:21,689 and we still don't even have a way out. 554 00:30:30,132 --> 00:30:32,743 Straight ahead. 555 00:30:34,354 --> 00:30:36,617 Oh, I see some light up there. 556 00:30:40,186 --> 00:30:42,449 It looks like it's filled in. 557 00:30:42,492 --> 00:30:43,798 Oh, we're gonna have to switch back. 558 00:30:43,842 --> 00:30:46,148 We won't be able to go much further. 559 00:30:52,198 --> 00:30:55,549 It's starting to smell bad. 560 00:30:55,592 --> 00:30:59,161 I'm not sure I want to go much further like this. 561 00:30:59,205 --> 00:31:02,077 Man, we're gonna-- I'm gonna put my mask on. 562 00:31:02,121 --> 00:31:05,385 I don't want to go any further breathing this air. 563 00:31:05,428 --> 00:31:07,126 This is a complex tunnel system. 564 00:31:09,955 --> 00:31:13,828 You're trying to track a fugitive that's evading you, 565 00:31:13,872 --> 00:31:17,136 and he runs in that tunnel, if you try to follow him, 566 00:31:17,179 --> 00:31:18,659 that's dangerous. 567 00:31:25,840 --> 00:31:28,408 I have tunnels that are dropping off. 568 00:31:28,451 --> 00:31:31,193 I have tunnels that are going to dead ends. 569 00:31:31,237 --> 00:31:32,586 If you don't know where you're going through that tunnel, 570 00:31:32,629 --> 00:31:33,804 you could be lost. 571 00:31:37,286 --> 00:31:40,159 Watch your footing right here. Slow down. 572 00:31:40,202 --> 00:31:42,465 This goes straight down, 573 00:31:42,509 --> 00:31:44,337 but right here, we got an opening. 574 00:31:47,557 --> 00:31:48,558 Whoa. 575 00:31:54,260 --> 00:31:56,697 We have an entrance near the Eichmann house 576 00:31:56,740 --> 00:31:58,699 and an exit on the opposite side of the mountain 577 00:31:58,742 --> 00:32:01,963 at a lower elevation by the water. 578 00:32:02,007 --> 00:32:04,052 That's an escape tunnel. 579 00:32:04,096 --> 00:32:06,620 You know, I came here to find evidence of infrastructure. 580 00:32:06,663 --> 00:32:08,535 We found it. That's what this is. 581 00:32:16,325 --> 00:32:18,371 Well, we sent the team up to Tucumán, 582 00:32:18,414 --> 00:32:20,329 looking for this potential safe house 583 00:32:20,373 --> 00:32:22,592 Eichmann was supposed to have lived in. 584 00:32:22,636 --> 00:32:25,726 The team was able to locate this house, 585 00:32:25,769 --> 00:32:27,728 and they learned Eichmann was working 586 00:32:27,771 --> 00:32:30,905 for a company called CAPRI, 587 00:32:30,949 --> 00:32:34,387 and that they were digging tunnels through a mountain, 588 00:32:34,430 --> 00:32:36,563 and the team was able to go through the tunnel. 589 00:32:36,606 --> 00:32:38,782 What did they find on the other side of that mountain? 590 00:32:38,826 --> 00:32:41,742 An opening that goes down to lower elevation 591 00:32:41,785 --> 00:32:45,006 and right there's a river, a method of escape. 592 00:32:45,050 --> 00:32:46,965 So these guys built this tunnel 593 00:32:47,008 --> 00:32:48,749 for a damn important reason. 594 00:32:48,792 --> 00:32:50,881 In Tucumán we found a tunnel. 595 00:32:50,925 --> 00:32:52,796 A place to go underground. 596 00:32:52,840 --> 00:32:56,887 Clearly, Eichmann intended to make an escape route. 597 00:32:56,931 --> 00:33:00,021 So while Misiones was being constructed, 598 00:33:00,065 --> 00:33:03,720 Tucumán could be the perfect staging area for Hitler. 599 00:33:03,764 --> 00:33:06,375 Let's go back to Barcelona. 600 00:33:06,419 --> 00:33:08,508 narrator: Bob and John discuss the other leg 601 00:33:08,551 --> 00:33:11,206 of their investigation in Barcelona, Spain. 602 00:33:11,250 --> 00:33:14,557 You certainly have the possibility of hiding out 603 00:33:14,601 --> 00:33:18,039 in the mountains in, like, these caves, the monastery. 604 00:33:18,083 --> 00:33:20,824 Himmler was at this monastery. He would have known about it. 605 00:33:20,868 --> 00:33:22,522 They're Nazis. 606 00:33:22,565 --> 00:33:24,480 We determine that Barcelona's interesting 607 00:33:24,524 --> 00:33:27,092 for a safe house and for meetings, 608 00:33:27,135 --> 00:33:29,920 but for Hitler to escape, he needs to get 609 00:33:29,964 --> 00:33:32,619 out of Spain and go to South America. 610 00:33:32,662 --> 00:33:37,189 What is the point of exit or egress from Spain? 611 00:33:37,232 --> 00:33:40,496 That's where we have to go, find the most likely place for that. 612 00:33:40,540 --> 00:33:42,150 Yeah, I agree. I mean, it's you know-- 613 00:33:42,194 --> 00:33:45,023 Look, we looked at Vigo. It was a possibility. 614 00:33:56,034 --> 00:33:59,559 But you simply can't narrow it down to one particular base. 615 00:33:59,602 --> 00:34:01,169 What if in the meantime you're in Vigo 616 00:34:01,213 --> 00:34:02,997 and there was an American battleship 617 00:34:03,041 --> 00:34:04,390 parked off the coast? 618 00:34:04,433 --> 00:34:07,784 You have to have multiple exit routes. 619 00:34:07,828 --> 00:34:09,525 You have to, in the middle of a plan, 620 00:34:09,569 --> 00:34:11,179 be able to alternate. 621 00:34:11,223 --> 00:34:13,486 You do not have one exit. 622 00:34:13,529 --> 00:34:16,184 You have to have a second exit, and a third, and a fourth. 623 00:34:16,228 --> 00:34:18,752 You're always worried about an ambush. 624 00:34:18,795 --> 00:34:22,103 If Vigo is plan A or plan B, 625 00:34:22,147 --> 00:34:24,627 what's plan C or plan D? 626 00:34:24,671 --> 00:34:27,021 I, you know, I think we should, you know, 627 00:34:27,065 --> 00:34:29,023 start getting into the documents and look 628 00:34:29,067 --> 00:34:31,112 and see if there are any other U-boat bases 629 00:34:31,156 --> 00:34:34,420 and whether they were active in May of '45. 630 00:34:34,463 --> 00:34:35,682 "U-boat." 631 00:34:35,725 --> 00:34:37,858 "Spain." 632 00:34:37,901 --> 00:34:39,599 All right, we've got something here, 633 00:34:39,642 --> 00:34:43,559 a now declassified Argentinean intelligence document. 634 00:34:43,603 --> 00:34:46,606 We see here that Ludwig Freud, 635 00:34:46,649 --> 00:34:48,347 an agent of the Third Reich, 636 00:34:48,390 --> 00:34:52,133 stated that, "on 7, February, 1945, 637 00:34:52,177 --> 00:34:55,528 "a U-boat brought to Argentina huge funds 638 00:34:55,571 --> 00:34:58,705 "to help in the reconstruction of the Nazi empire, 639 00:34:58,748 --> 00:35:01,229 having sailed from Cádiz, Spain." 640 00:35:03,318 --> 00:35:05,842 They're saying money here, but just as easily 641 00:35:05,886 --> 00:35:07,453 you could have been putting people 642 00:35:07,496 --> 00:35:09,542 on a U-boat out of Cádiz. 643 00:35:09,585 --> 00:35:13,067 Yeah, what's going on at the Gulf of Cádiz? 644 00:35:13,111 --> 00:35:15,113 We're no longer in the Mediterranean. 645 00:35:15,156 --> 00:35:18,855 It gives a clear shot to the Atlantic. 646 00:35:18,899 --> 00:35:20,596 Yeah, it's the only other way out. 647 00:35:20,640 --> 00:35:24,209 The question is, though, are there any U-boat bases here? 648 00:35:24,252 --> 00:35:27,864 Yeah, yeah, you find me a U-boat dock here, 649 00:35:27,908 --> 00:35:29,170 I'll be very happy. 650 00:35:29,214 --> 00:35:30,215 That'll make two of us. 651 00:35:41,704 --> 00:35:43,097 Look at all these bunkers, Mike. 652 00:35:43,141 --> 00:35:44,577 Yeah, look at this. You got here, here-- 653 00:35:44,620 --> 00:35:47,145 There's lots of them. Lots and lots. 654 00:35:47,188 --> 00:35:49,495 narrator: In the province of Cádiz, Spain... 655 00:35:49,538 --> 00:35:51,236 That's amazing. 656 00:35:51,279 --> 00:35:53,499 narrator: James Holland and Mike Simpson 657 00:35:53,542 --> 00:35:56,328 are joined by local historian, Alfonso Escuadra. 658 00:35:58,808 --> 00:36:00,897 You know, from down on the ground, 659 00:36:00,941 --> 00:36:03,596 you don't really realize how important it is. 660 00:36:03,639 --> 00:36:05,859 this is a maritime choke point, 661 00:36:05,902 --> 00:36:07,861 so you control access in and out of the Mediterranean 662 00:36:07,904 --> 00:36:09,819 from right here. 663 00:36:09,863 --> 00:36:11,995 What I'm really intrigued to know, Alfonso, 664 00:36:12,039 --> 00:36:15,912 is how much of a foothold have the Nazis 665 00:36:15,956 --> 00:36:17,871 got here during World War II? 666 00:36:29,578 --> 00:36:31,406 - Really? - Yeah. 667 00:36:39,109 --> 00:36:40,328 Amazing. 668 00:36:40,372 --> 00:36:41,634 This is huge. 669 00:36:41,677 --> 00:36:43,201 We have photographic evidence 670 00:36:43,244 --> 00:36:46,160 of a German U-boat in the port of Cádiz. 671 00:36:46,204 --> 00:36:49,207 That means that Hitler could have had a support network 672 00:36:49,250 --> 00:36:51,818 operating in the area, as well as bases 673 00:36:51,861 --> 00:36:53,472 to service U-boats. 674 00:36:53,515 --> 00:36:54,777 That's what we need to find out-- 675 00:36:54,821 --> 00:36:56,823 where exactly these locations are 676 00:36:56,866 --> 00:36:58,738 and to what extent they were used. 677 00:36:58,781 --> 00:37:02,350 Do you know of any place that might have been used 678 00:37:02,394 --> 00:37:05,092 as a clandestine base for the U-boats? 679 00:37:07,573 --> 00:37:09,705 Can you think of anybody who might have 680 00:37:09,749 --> 00:37:11,359 more information about U-boats 681 00:37:11,403 --> 00:37:13,100 and about their operation in the area? 682 00:37:24,938 --> 00:37:27,462 Well, we should definitely try and talk to her. 683 00:37:27,506 --> 00:37:29,856 This is looking quite tasty. 684 00:37:37,603 --> 00:37:40,519 This looks like the place. 685 00:37:40,562 --> 00:37:44,087 narrator: In the province of Cádiz in southern Spain, 686 00:37:44,131 --> 00:37:47,221 James Holland and Mike Simpson are investigating 687 00:37:47,265 --> 00:37:50,442 a declassified Argentinian document 688 00:37:50,485 --> 00:37:54,097 that reports German U-boats were sailing from this area 689 00:37:54,141 --> 00:37:57,753 to Argentina in the final months of the war. 690 00:38:00,321 --> 00:38:03,542 German U-boats were operating in Cádiz 691 00:38:03,585 --> 00:38:05,718 but we still don't have an exact location yet. 692 00:38:05,761 --> 00:38:07,285 We're definitely in the right area, 693 00:38:07,328 --> 00:38:09,330 but that's what we need to pin down. 694 00:38:09,374 --> 00:38:11,506 narrator: In search of a possible location 695 00:38:11,550 --> 00:38:15,162 that Hitler could have used to load onto a U-boat in Cádiz, 696 00:38:15,205 --> 00:38:18,078 the team arrives at the home of Liana Romero, 697 00:38:18,121 --> 00:38:20,167 whose mother was rumored to be connected 698 00:38:20,210 --> 00:38:22,256 to Germans in the area. 699 00:38:22,300 --> 00:38:25,607 We've been told that your mother had 700 00:38:25,651 --> 00:38:28,697 a very interesting time here during World War II. 701 00:38:37,967 --> 00:38:39,142 Oh, really? So she was Russian? 702 00:38:39,186 --> 00:38:40,361 Si. 703 00:38:50,110 --> 00:38:52,504 So she signed up as an agent for the Abwehr? 704 00:38:52,547 --> 00:38:54,244 - Correct. - Which is the German 705 00:38:54,288 --> 00:38:55,681 secret intelligence service. 706 00:38:55,724 --> 00:38:57,073 And in what year? 707 00:38:57,117 --> 00:38:58,336 '41. 708 00:38:58,379 --> 00:39:00,076 And what was it specifically 709 00:39:00,120 --> 00:39:02,905 that your mother was doing for Nazi Germany? 710 00:39:14,264 --> 00:39:18,704 Did your mother keep anything from her years as an operative? 711 00:39:18,747 --> 00:39:22,403 Did she keep any communiqués or notebooks, 712 00:39:22,447 --> 00:39:25,232 or anything like that that we could take a look at? 713 00:39:27,103 --> 00:39:29,410 Liana's mother was placed in the time period 714 00:39:29,454 --> 00:39:31,804 that I am interested in and in the exact location 715 00:39:31,847 --> 00:39:33,153 that I am interested in, 716 00:39:33,196 --> 00:39:35,024 but we need an actual point 717 00:39:35,068 --> 00:39:36,678 that you could put a high value target 718 00:39:36,722 --> 00:39:39,159 such as Adolf Hitler onto a U-boat. 719 00:39:39,202 --> 00:39:42,858 - So this is your mother? - Si. 720 00:39:42,902 --> 00:39:44,382 So striking, isn't she? 721 00:39:53,086 --> 00:39:54,783 Gosh, it's tiny. 722 00:39:54,827 --> 00:39:57,003 So this is a Minox camera. I'm familiar with these. 723 00:39:57,046 --> 00:39:59,745 Minox is a German company, and these were great 724 00:39:59,788 --> 00:40:02,617 because they could focus not only on documents, 725 00:40:02,661 --> 00:40:05,315 but you could also take pictures of objects, 726 00:40:05,359 --> 00:40:08,144 you know, a ship going by or something like that. 727 00:40:08,188 --> 00:40:10,538 This is basically the original spy camera. 728 00:40:10,582 --> 00:40:11,757 Really, this is the first time 729 00:40:11,800 --> 00:40:13,323 I've seen one outside of a museum. 730 00:40:28,817 --> 00:40:30,123 So what we're looking at here, James, 731 00:40:30,166 --> 00:40:32,908 this is an Astra 400 9 millimeter pistol. 732 00:40:32,952 --> 00:40:34,997 - Mm-hmm. - These were manufactured 733 00:40:35,041 --> 00:40:38,871 here in Spain, late '30s early '40s. 734 00:40:38,914 --> 00:40:41,961 Oddly enough, most of these were actually exported. 735 00:40:42,004 --> 00:40:43,179 - Right. - And guess where 736 00:40:43,223 --> 00:40:45,051 they were exported to? 737 00:40:45,094 --> 00:40:47,445 - I don't know. - Germany. 738 00:40:47,488 --> 00:40:51,579 This was a very preferred Luftwaffesidearm. 739 00:40:51,623 --> 00:40:53,276 These fit perfectly with everything I know 740 00:40:53,320 --> 00:40:54,930 about the tradecraft. 741 00:40:54,974 --> 00:40:58,151 It was exactly what spies of that time used 742 00:40:58,194 --> 00:41:00,936 and makes the fact that Liana's mother was a Nazi spy 743 00:41:00,980 --> 00:41:02,460 very reliable indeed. 744 00:41:02,503 --> 00:41:04,766 So, Liana, was there anyone here 745 00:41:04,810 --> 00:41:08,074 that your mother became acquainted with or knew 746 00:41:08,117 --> 00:41:11,425 who had contact with the highest Nazis? 747 00:41:11,469 --> 00:41:12,600 Yeah. 748 00:41:17,910 --> 00:41:19,738 - Really? - Whoa. 749 00:41:19,781 --> 00:41:22,784 - He-- - He was a camp doctor? 750 00:41:22,828 --> 00:41:23,959 And he was a German? 751 00:41:28,660 --> 00:41:31,097 Ah, okay. 752 00:41:31,140 --> 00:41:32,533 Do you have any specific knowledge, 753 00:41:32,577 --> 00:41:34,361 or even just rumors 754 00:41:34,404 --> 00:41:37,451 of him helping German officials who were fleeing? 755 00:41:37,495 --> 00:41:41,542 N--not that I know. 756 00:41:41,586 --> 00:41:45,241 James and I are looking for specifically someplace 757 00:41:45,285 --> 00:41:48,593 that could facilitate clandestine U-boats. 758 00:41:48,636 --> 00:41:49,898 Is there anything you might be aware of? 759 00:41:53,554 --> 00:41:54,642 Reina Christina. 760 00:42:00,909 --> 00:42:02,041 It's still there? 761 00:42:08,134 --> 00:42:10,832 We're in Cádiz specifically to find a location 762 00:42:10,876 --> 00:42:14,357 that Hitler could have used as a U-boat exfiltration point. 763 00:42:14,401 --> 00:42:17,143 Now we have a hotel crawling with spies. 764 00:42:17,186 --> 00:42:18,579 We have to investigate this. 765 00:42:22,975 --> 00:42:25,151 You could see why you would have 766 00:42:25,194 --> 00:42:26,326 so many spies here. 767 00:42:31,984 --> 00:42:33,594 So the question's where does that go? 768 00:42:33,638 --> 00:42:37,076 Wow. I was not expecting this at all. 769 00:42:42,472 --> 00:42:45,301 If Hitler and Bormann were planning a Fourth Reich, 770 00:42:45,345 --> 00:42:48,653 they're gonna have munition factories just like this. 771 00:42:48,696 --> 00:42:51,481 It's clear that a Fourth Reich was planned. 772 00:42:51,525 --> 00:42:53,440 Now we just need to find the brain-- 773 00:42:53,483 --> 00:42:55,050 the headquarters for the Fourth Reich. 774 00:42:55,094 --> 00:42:56,748 Look at this. 775 00:42:56,791 --> 00:42:58,793 If they were making explosives here, 776 00:42:58,837 --> 00:43:00,403 whenever they stopped, doesn't look like 777 00:43:00,447 --> 00:43:02,231 they started cleaning up. 778 00:43:02,275 --> 00:43:04,756 Analyzing explosive test card... 779 00:43:07,585 --> 00:43:09,543 Holy [bleep]. 60235

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