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Hey, it's me.
I need a trace on somebody,
a guy named koehler.
It's a code name used by somebody in the ss.
So he's a confirmed
nazi sleeper agent in new york city.
The guy was a nuclear physicist.
Why did they send a nuclear physicist?
Koehler was actually
double-crossing j. Edgar hoover.
That's amazing.
A nuclear physicist sent to the united states,
outsmarts the fbi.
We have no idea what his true mission was here.
Look at this,
"the main purpose
"was to make the ally's postwar task
"as hard as possible
"so that the nazi party could in time
"build up a fourth reich."
For decades historians and experts
have debated exactly what the nazi party
was planning at the end of world war ii.
But recently hundreds of mi5,
cia, and nsa documents have been declassified
exposing new secrets of the nazi postwar agenda
for the first time.
As far as I'm concerned,
this is the most authoritative document dump
we've seen so far.
And they all point in one direction.
Did the nazis had a plan for a fourth reich?
Bob baer is a 21-year cia veteran
and one of the most respected minds
in the intelligence community.
With the recent release of these hundreds of intelligence files,
bob opens a new face of an investigation
that has spanned over five years.
This is report after report.
In 2015,
- bob launched a global manhunt. - Look at this.
Led by declassified government files.
"the american army have not located hitler's body."
To determine if adolf hitler
could have escaped the bunker
at the end of world war ii.
- We will get to the truth. - That's got to be it.
With the help of the world's top military experts...
Right there.
- Man hunters... - Oh, look at this.
Scientists and historians.
That's where the trail leads us.
The team uncovered a sophisticated escape route.
- Oh, my god. - Spanning
four continents
that helped high ranking nazi officials
successfully escape after the war.
We got an escape tunnel.
I see a room back there.
We found indisputable evidence
that the nazis were fleeing germany.
Hey, hey, hey, right here, right here.
And they had multiple contingencies
to get hitler to south america.
Behind that door you would find
a vast labyrinth of underground tunnels.
There has never been
an escape network of this size.
You're not gonna believe what I just found.
The nazis had transportation.
They had military bases, communications.
- They had multiple safe houses. - Look at this.
Hitler's resources were infinite.
Oh, my god.
Hitler very easily could have escaped
but it didn't matter because the nazis
were focused on something much bigger.
An explosive detected.
This paints a picture of a man who's trying to setup
a nazi army in argentina.
- Hitler was here. - He said so.
Hitler had one goal and that was world domination
and he wasn't gonna stop until he succeeded.
And to achieve this he knew
he had to take out the world's superpower.
This map depicts a plan to bomb the united states.
- Now... - Look at this.
Bob will analyze these newly declassified files,
talk to world renowned experts...
With weapons-grade plutonium.
Plutonium.
And uncover never before seen evidence
to determine just how close the nazis were
to building a fourth reich
and launching an attack on america.
These files corroborate what we knew
at the end of our investigation.
The germans did not consider themselves defeated
and they were gonna come back with the fourth reich.
Now, these new documents will allow us
to answer the final question,
how close did the nazis come
to attacking america
and achieving global domination?
One of the most revealing documents,
this is a us military intelligence report.
Digging into the hundreds
of newly declassified mi5, cia,
and nsa documents,
bob uncovers a cia file
that includes a detailed report
from a french spy who infiltrated
a secret meeting of senior nazi officials
on August 10th, 1944.
Look at this,
"high level nazis said,
"germany must also prepare itself
"to finance the nazi party,
"which would be forced to go underground.
"germany must realize that the war cannot be won,
"and then, it must take steps
"in preparation for a postwar
"fourth reich campaign."
this is an amazing document.
This exposes the blueprint
for the fourth reich strategy.
Keep in mind this isn't the spring of 1945
where the nazis are scrambling to escape
and save what they can. This is 1944.
The nazis were already a year before the end of the war
planning not to win the war
but rising from the rubble
to create the fourth reich.
This document clearly sets out there are three phases
to this campaign.
Phase 1 was to establish sleeper cells around the world.
Phase 2 is to fund these cells
clandestine funding,
and phase 3 is to build new weapons
to arm the fourth reich.
This is a very organized approach.
They knew exactly what they were doing.
I mean, this is the classic way
to setup a gorilla campaign.
We know what the plan was.
The question is how close were they?
Was this just all planning or did they actually execute it?
Bob begins his investigation
by focusing on phase 1
of the nazis' secret fourth reich plan.
Were the nazis' able to establish a worldwide network
of sleeper cells after the war?
Sleeper cells do two things.
One is collect intelligence
and they also go out around
the world and they recruit more nazis.
These are undercover agents
who act in behalf of nazi germany.
We saw on our previous investigation
just how successful the nazis were
in setting up sleeper cells all around europe.
Our team has uncovered
die spinne, the spider network
setup to facilitate the exfiltration
of nazi war criminals.
Centered in barcelona, Spain,
die spinne was a highly secretive nazi spy network
allegedly run by hitler's second-in-command
martin bormann.
Bormann is without a doubt
the brain behind die spinne.
Bob dispatched a field team to barcelona
to investigate the postwar activities of die spinne.
There were 500 spies and leading nazis.
You know, that's an awful lot.
Clearly something big was going on here.
Well, what we saw in Spain made sense.
Francisco franco, the fascist dictator of Spain
was closely aligned with hitler.
But then we learned that it wasn't just Spain,
the nazis were spreading sleeper cells to morocco.
Previously in the investigation...
- There we go. - Bob uncovered
a declassified mi6 file
revealing that martin bormann may have been setting up
a secret nazi intelligence headquarters
in tangier, morocco.
It's a huge statement.
Bormann goes to tangier to setup the fourth reich.
Big statement has to be backed up by big intelligence.
What was the scene here
in the 1940s and 1950s?
Where you got spies that means you've got safe houses,
knowledge, infrastructure.
After narrowing down the possible location
of bormann's intelligence headquarters
to the german neighborhood of marshan,
the field team made a shocking discovery.
Oh, look at this.
A military grade structure
topped with a world war ii era communications antenna.
It's literally like you built it
to withstand an attack.
I mean, this is like a fortification here
what I'm looking at.
So, the ocean's right that way.
A u-boat can surface right out there
just off the coast
and I put this antenna up high enough
I can go all the way out to where they are.
I can give them an update.
They can tell me they're ready to come in.
This has all the markings of a military command center.
Martin bormann can control his finances.
He can control personnel,
arms, ammunition, supply lines, all from right here.
If the nazis had a headquarters for the fourth reich,
it's here.
And don't forget that morocco at this point
is occupied by the allies.
So, no country was off the table.
This is incredibly brazen.
They had huge plans
and they had the ability to pull this off.
But in order for the fourth reich
to mount an attack on the united states,
they would have had to establish sleeper cells
inside our borders.
Today we think this is even possible the nazis
could put sleeper cells in the united states.
But I think we're all forgetting that there was a huge movement
in the united states that were very pro-nazi.
In 1936, the american nazi bund
launched in new york city to build nazi support in america.
By the early 1940s,
the bund had amassed over a hundred thousand members
with seventy chapters and twenty operational hitler youth camps.
You know, it's quite amazing when you look at this.
This was an open organization,
loud and proud.
They filled madison square garden.
The most important public venue in this country
and these people were demonstrating
their loyalty to adolf hitler.
Think about that.
Talk about a recruited pool.
But at the same time after pearl harbor
they had to go underground
which meant they needed cover.
Most important thing for a sleeper cell is secrecy.
You can't go around and explain who you are
and what you're really doing.
Could the nazis have gotten away with extensive espionage
in the united states
without the us government knowing about it?
That's the question we have to answer.
Armed with hundreds of newly declassified mi5,
cia, and nsa files,
21-year cia veteran bob baer
has reopened his investigation
into nazi activity after world war ii.
And a shocking declassified cia document
has revealed that the nazis may have been building
a fourth reich aimed in attacking america.
Look at this.
Bob uncovers another recently declassified cia file.
The interrogation of ss commander eugen steimle,
which reveals details of the nazis' plan
to establish sleeper cells inside the united states.
This is a very key paragraph,
"to insure success it would have been necessary
"to establish an "anlaufstelle"
"starting point or station or perhaps several of them.
"and the point of these things were to furnish them,"
these are the agents,
"with the necessary papers, money, and keys."
what steimle is referring to here
is a black station,
places that sleeper cells could go
and get physical things
they would need to carry out an operation,
fake documents, a false passport.
I mean, there it is.
This is how you run a clandestine organization.
This is huge.
You need people, moles in the united states
who will bring it down from within.
At the end of the war,
black stations in the united states
would've changed the game for the nazis.
If you're a nazi spy and you arrive in the united states,
you come to a black station doing an identity transfer
and you're good to go. They completely clean you up.
And we know how sophisticated the nazis were
in setting up and using black stations.
They were very good at it.
They set up these stations
where an agent could go
collect new documentation
and become a new person.
Previously in the investigation,
the field team uncovered a nazi black station
in a non-descript monastery in the countryside of Spain.
We're here to look at the movements
of germans, escaped criminals
through Spain at the end of the war.
When the german war ends in 1945,
they began to come to the monastery.
Here in the monastery there's a lot of german military
dressed like monks.
And they used to do false documents
to give them new identity.
It wasn't just for a night or temporary shelter.
What we saw in Spain at the monastery was
they were giving them new identities.
They were posing as monks to get out.
So this was much more than an ad hoc deal.
It was the catholic church truly protecting these people.
Here we go.
Summary of nazi activity in rome.
With the help of a declassified us army file,
bob and the team discovered that these nazi escape routes
had the support of the highest level
of the catholic church in rome.
All this activity seems to stem
from the vatican through the monastery of san girolamo.
This is huge.
And then we saw that the nazi connections
of the catholic church went far deeper.
And their means of changing identities
were much more sophisticated than we ever thought.
Bob dispatched a field team to rome
to investigate the catholic monastery
of san girolamo that was reported to have nazi ties.
We have a document which puts this church
right at the heart of the escape plans through rome.
They were organizing documents
in order for them to get to south america.
So mateo, are they printing documents here?
Are they forging documents here?
The red cross then?
Look at this identification here.
This is adolf eichmann,
a well-known war criminal
that used a legitimate red cross id
to travel and live.
These are not fake ids from somebody's basement
that you can look at and say, "hey, this isn't real."
these ids are what's called backstop
by the red cross, by the vatican.
That means there's a record of it that shows it's legitimate.
If you're gonna be part of the fourth reich,
this is exactly what you want.
But setting up a black station in Spain or Italy,
very easy to do. The nazis had the full support
of the political leaders.
Setting up one in the united states
is something completely different,
a lot more difficult.
So how could the nazis have pulled this off?
We know they had the plans to. How did they do it?
Bob digs through the newly declassified documents
in search of any evidence
that could reveal the nazi strategy
for planning espionage agents within the united states.
Here we go.
This is a cia document,
an interrogation of an ss commander,
1945 December.
"attempts were often mentioned to transport
"gestapo undercover agents
to the usa in submarines."
nazi submarines, they call them u-boats,
were the most powerful and stealthy machines
created until that time.
Prior to the end of the war,
nazi u-boats would've been the perfect vehicle
to move people to the united states,
put them ashore, and set up black stations.
Did the nazis pull this off?
Look at this right here. It's a cia document
which says it is almost certain
that a third group of german agents
landed in the usa at about the same time
as the pastorious groups
and is still at large.
Operation pastorious was a highly secretive
nazi intelligence operation launched in June 1942,
in which two u-boats successfully disembarked
eight nazi spies on the atlantic coast of america.
But both missions failed just two weeks later
when the fbi intercepted the nazi agents.
The german secret service definitely intended
and still intends to send further groups to the usa.
Who knows if the fbi didn't know about this additional group,
how many more could there have been?
This is huge but keep in mind
the pastorious groups landed during world war ii.
So did they use u-boats
to move people to the united states
after the war?
We found in our investigation
even though the nazis surrendered,
they were still using u-boats.
Earlier in the investigation,
the field team uncovered a secret nazi port
in vigo, Spain where u-boats were operating
completely undetected after world war ii.
So in 1945,
german soldiers were here in u-boats.
- No doubt. Absolutely. - Really?
Were people using this port to escape?
Were the nazi criminals using vigo to escape from europe?
The field team then traveled
to the spanish-owned canary islands
where they uncovered a clandestine nazi u-boat base
operating after the war.
He's telling me that they did not just repair the u-boats.
- Okay. - They also supplied with food
- and guns and torpedoes. - But ask him though,
this is a big secret going on. Nobody knows about this.
How did they communicate?
One second.
- He mentioned the word enigma. - Enigma.
Is he telling me there was an enigma machine?
Enigma was seriously important.
That was the germans' almost impossible to break code.
The nazis would have used enigma
to get their information back to nazi germany
and also to get all these instructions from nazi germany.
To find four of them here,
they were planning on something huge.
You know, from what we saw, the nazis very clearly
were carrying out clandestine missions
after world war ii.
Forty-six u-boats that had gone rogue.
On may 7th, 1945,
the nazis surrendered to the allies
and all u-boats were ordered to return to port.
But for months, 46 nazi u-boats
continued to operate in secrecy.
When we first looked at these u-boats,
we just thought they were shuttling people
to south america.
But now when you look at these new documents
it's clear the nazis were preparing for spy missions.
And for me, there was always one u-boat
that was particularly mysterious.
And that was u-530.
At the end of the war, nazi submarine u-530
disappeared and then resurfaced in mar del plata, argentina
over two months later.
The u-boat's captain and crew
refused to tell officials where they had been
or their mission.
Two months after the end of the war,
this boat shows up on the coast of argentina.
The crew never talked
and we still don't know what u-530 was up to.
Two months in a u-boat is enough to get around the world twice.
What's the big secret?
Everything connected to the u-530
points to a larger mission.
I wanna find out what that mission was.
Was it connected to nazi espionage?
- Hey, roy. - Roy wallace
is a world war ii historian
who has recently discovered a never before seen
piece of evidence from the u-530,
a diary from the chief engineer
that could finally reveal the truth
behind u-530's mysterious postwar activity.
Thanks for getting on the line.
Absolutely. Thanks bob.
The diary you have on the u-530,
what does it tell you what that boat was doing
in the months after the surrender?
The one thing that does confirm for us
is that there was a greater strategic objective here
that the germans were trying to fulfill.
There was a much bigger plan here at play.
Bob baer is investigating
newly declassified intelligence documents
that revealed the nazis' secret plan
to former a fourth reich aimed at attacking the united states.
And new information suggests the nazis could've been
using u-boats as part of their plan
to get spies inside american borders.
Hey, roy. Thanks for getting on the line.
Roy wallace has uncovered
a never before seen diary from the crew of the nazi u-530,
a vessel that mysteriously disappeared for two months
after the war before surfacing in argentina.
The diary you have on the u-530,
what does it tell you what that boat was doing?
It essentially adds to the mystery of what happened
at the end of world war ii.
The u-530 was used a number of times
conducting espionage activities,
delivering foreign agents.
Perfect example of that is the rendezvous
in the middle of the ocean with the japanese submarine I-52.
Out there in the middle of the ocean,
they transferred an enigma coding machine to the japanese.
Germans unloaded agents onto the I-52 as well
so it wouldn't be a far stretch to reimagine
that similar activities were being undertaken
by the u-530 later on.
I mean, it was... it was a spy submarine essentially.
It would've been the perfect submarine
if you were delivering people somewhere
on the... in the atlantic.
What we know, bob, that it was active
on the east coast of america as late as March 1945.
Perhaps one of the u-boats that was most familiar
with the east coast of america at that time.
And by the time it gets to argentina,
the u-530 is completely scrubbed clean,
- is that right? - Absolutely.
That vessel sailed into mar del plata
effectively a ghost ship with no enigma machine,
no coding papers, no logbook,
no nothing, but the crew.
This diary effectively could be
the only documentary evidence that has actually survived
and come off that vessel.
It's ironic that in this particular diary
there's details of all their previous voyages
but no details of this voyage.
I think it's utterly damning how meticulous the nazis were
of keeping records.
So why would they not have any records on u-530
unless it was intentional to get rid of them,
unless this was a secret mission?
You would only ever do those such things
if you actually had something of value to hide.
Amazing, isn't it?
Thank you so much.
You know, you look at this diary,
you look at u-530.
There's too much here not to conclude
that it was on a secret mission.
We know for a fact that the gestapo and the ss
were intending to send agents to the united states.
And the u-530 would've been the perfect vessel to do it.
It knew the east coast.
It had a discreet crew.
This investigation is starting to take steam seriously.
Now the question is
did any of these agents actually take hold
in the united states?
And what did they do once they got here?
Bob digs back into the newly declassified files
in search of any intelligence that nazi sleeper cells
successfully took hold in america after the war.
Look at this.
This is a cia document.
This is from an ss commander, eugen steimle.
Two wireless transmission connections
existed between the united states
and kdm hamburg,
which is a receiver transmitter in germany.
One v-man had the codename koehler.
This is very valuable information.
Not only have they infiltrated
but they've actually set up a communications network
in new york city.
The question I have is
if they are gathering information,
what information?
We don't know who this koehler is.
But it's a lead that we should really pursue.
Through his intelligence contacts...
Look, I need a trace on somebody,
a guy named koehler.
Bob is able to track down information
on a possible nazi spy
connected with the declassified document.
His name is walter koehler.
So, that's his actual name is koehler,
- just not a codename? - That's right.
So, he's a confirmed nazi sleeper agent in new york city.
The guy was a nuclear physicist.
Why did they send a nuclear physicist
in that role, I mean...
That's the million dollar question.
- Yeah. - So, early in the war,
he turns himself into the fbi and offers his services
to j. Edgar hoover as a double-agent.
Hoover accepts koehler offer.
Then 30 years later,
koehler's messages are discovered,
koehler was actually double-crossing
j. Edgar hoover.
That's amazing.
A nuclear physicist is called v-man,
sent to the united states,
outsmarts the fbi.
We have no idea what his true mission was here
and what purpose he served.
That's right.
All right. That's good.
- Thanks. - No problem.
Not only are they getting the cell members in,
but they're fooling the fbi.
I mean, he could be out there,
you know, collecting nuclear secrets.
It's... look, I've run assets forever
and I have frankly never run
an asset like this who's so sophisticated
with this sort of education
and the ability to beat the fbi.
I think it's nuts, I mean, you know,
I have never attempt something like this.
I would never even attempt to put an agent
in that position,
but the fact is this guy knew what he was doing.
So, the germans are not stooges,
they can actually get into new york city
and conduct an operation, a clandestine operation,
right under the noses of the fbi.
Koehler would have been a perfect asset
to take out new york city.
Irradiate manhattan.
While investigating the nazis plan
for a fourth reich, bob baer
has uncovered a shocking declassified report
revealing that a nazi intelligence agent,
a nuclear scientist named walter koehler,
secretly infiltrated the fbi
in an effort to set up nazi sleeper cells
in the united states after world war ii.
It's very clear with koehler
that the nazis were wildly successful
in phase one of their fourth reich plan.
That's a matter of record now.
They were able to establish sleeper cells
in the united states.
They gained the trust of american intelligence.
They knew exactly what they were doing.
Koehler gives us an entirely new perspective.
Look at operation paperclip,
at the end of the war we brought 1,500 german scientists
to the united states to work on our nuclear program.
How many of those were loyal to the fourth reich?
They could have had access to the entire nuclear program.
We let the enemy through the front gate.
If that's not success for the nazis
in the first phase of the plan,
I don't know what is.
They were establishing nazi sleeper cells
and black stations and infiltrating agents
inside the united states.
Now, what I have to do
is go back to the fourth reich meeting
and it's very clear that phase two
was moving money abroad
to fund the fourth reich.
Using the declassified cia document,
from a french spy who uncovered
the nazis secret three-phased plan
to set up a fourth reich,
bob shifts the investigation to examine phase two,
secretly financing nazi sleeper cells
after the war.
Now that they have all these cells in place
what we need to know is
did they funnel out money and fund these cells?
Earlier in our investigation,
we saw the nazis' countless examples of moving money
out of germany through europe into south america.
In the tyrol region of northern Italy...
- Look. - Oh, that must be it.
The field team uncovered
a shocking nazi tactic
to provide financial support
for their secret operations after the war.
- Counterfeit money? - Yes.
So, they hid it with the intention
- of coming back for it. - Yes.
This was the dead drop for the escaping nazis.
The field team then focused their investigation
on key areas where these nazi caches
were said to have been hidden.
Go ahead.
It looks like a shovel to me.
This clearly means someone else was digging
in this exact same spot.
It's reasonable to assume that something
- could have been hidden here. - Yup.
We're talking about cashes for nazis on the run
with money, maps,
contacts, whatever they need.
So, if you're gonna be funding a fourth reich,
you need sort of an unlimited amount of money.
You're not taxing people.
You better have another way so we get counterfeits.
You're not only funding your cells,
but let's say you've decided to attack the united states,
so you just flood it with counterfeit notes
and the currency collapses.
The government collapses, it goes into default.
An attack on a country doesn't have to be with armed force.
You hit it from various areas.
And if you're looking to set-up the fourth reich
a full year before the end of germany,
the idea would for the nazis
to move all this money out of europe,
set-up some place that's secure like argentina.
And we saw in previous investigations
just how much success the nazis had.
In the remote area of misiones, argentina,
at a secret postwar nazi compound deep in the jungle.
Hello, daniel?
The team met with daniel schavelzon,
the head archaeologist of the mysterious nazi site.
Inside there are several things.
Here they discovered proof
that nazi money had successfully
been transported across the atlantic.
Here we have the coins.
That's a swastika.
- A nazi coin. - Yeah.
From the period of the third reich.
Oh, my god.
To see a nazi coin, it takes your breath away.
Finding these gold coins at misiones,
tells us that the nazi get gold from europe to argentina
and get it in the one of the most
remote parts of the world.
The gold thing has an appeal to our imaginations,
you know, nazi gold,
but you can look at it this way,
when the germans are talking about the fourth reich,
they're talking about an alternate state.
To create a state,
you need an enormous amount of money.
A revenue stream that's gonna keep you going forever.
In search of key nazis
that could help keep the fourth reich
funded with unlimited money,
bob turns back to the report from the french spy
who infiltrated the secret meeting of high-ranking nazis
in 1944 to set out the plan for the fourth reich.
You look at this meeting,
you look at this list of people that attend the meeting
and then they had big industrialists.
They're the giants of german industry.
I mean, take this one family,
the krupp family which is very famous,
they made all the u-boats, the tanks,
they came out of world war ii intact.
Then, look at this, you've got volkswagen.
It was hitler's car company.
And it's one of the largest auto manufacturers
in the entire world.
And then you've got, rochling,
another german giant.
Today, it's got a revenue of two billion dollars.
Just these three companies alone
are worth hundreds of billions of dollars.
And if hitler sat these companies down in '44
and said "we're not done, guys,
we may have lost the battle, but we haven't lost the war.
We're gonna make a comeback with the fourth reich
and we need a bit of income."
you've got billions upon billions of dollars,
you could devote to the fourth reich
and they were at this meeting.
So, what we're talking about the fourth reich
is truly a economic giant.
The nazis would've had all the money they needed
to set up and to launch an attack
on the united states.
Bob baer is investigating
the nazi secret plans to set up a fourth reich.
After uncovering that billions of dollars
could have funneled to nazi sleeper cells...
- Look at this... - Bob discovers
a recent news headline that could unravel the true extent
of the nazi's financial resources
after world war ii.
For me, this in incredible.
This is... this is from March 2020.
What was found was a list of 12,000 nazis
holding swiss bank accounts found in argentina.
The wiesenthal center
has revealed a list
of over 12,000 nazis
living in argentina
who apparently held bank accounts
with what is now credit suisse.
The list was discovered by argentine investigator
pedro filipuzzi
while he was searching in the store room
of a former nazi headquarters in buenos aires.
What's important is it's just the number of nazis
with bank accounts in argentina.
And what you do in switzerland
is you just simply open a nominee account.
That's not in your own name.
Anybody could hide money there and it was perfectly safe.
So, I mean, the germans knew this
and the fact that it's... We don't know about this
until 2020 tells you how safe it was.
But, the important thing on this,
it's not so much that the swiss laundering money,
the fact that when the money arrives in argentina
it's held in the nazi headquarters.
There's no possible reason
that fleeing nazis
would store all their bank records
in one place, what's the point?
Unless this is considered state money,
hundreds of millions to billions of dollars
was being prepared for something else.
And the only thing it could be prepared for is a fourth reich.
Now the question is, the names for these lists.
I mean, who were they? Were they corporate accounts?
Were they individuals?
What were the nazis using that money for in buenos aires?
We're looking for hard evidence
of the fourth reich
and its plans and intentions.
Hey, how's going? It's me baer.
Bob reaches out to his contacts
- in argentine intelligence. - Good.
I need a favor from you.
Have you seen this article
about the 12,000 nazi accounts?
- Yeah. Yeah, I saw it. - The recent one, yeah.
It would really be helpful if you could get those names
- on those accounts. - Yeah, let me dig in.
Yeah, send them on my proton account.
Yeah, copy that. Give me maybe a half an hour.
Okay.
The proton? I use protonmail
for anybody that wants to send something sensitive
usually other intelligence contacts.
Everybody uses it.
We all assume since the service go through switzerland
that it's safe.
Bob stands by for information
from his argentine intelligence contact.
Here we go, I got the email.
And within an hour, he receives a message.
Investigators are still going through all of the names,
but here are a handful they've identified
as significant account holders.
Look, there's a... There's a bank in here.
Probably a nazi fake bank.
If you really wanna launder money buy a bank.
And then there's a bunch of names.
Ig farben.
Come on.
That's the biggest chemical company in the world.
Are you kidding me?
They made zyklon b.
This is what they gas people in the concentration camps with.
These are the guys that made sarin for the nazis.
So, what in the hell are they doing
post-world war ii in a secret bank account
held in a nazi headquarters in buenos aires?
Now, this is big. It really is big.
Ig farben is holding a secret account
in a nazi facility post-world war ii.
I mean, if you want any evidence
these guys weren't giving up, here it is.
What should catch our attention is that they made sarin gas.
Remember, in our investigation at colonia dignidad,
they were... they were making sarin gas.
Previously in the investigation,
the field team uncovered a highly-fortified compound
in the mountains of chile known as colonia dignidad.
That was believed to have ties to the nazi's fourth reich.
The team focused their investigation
on a mysterious warehouse at the center of the compound
where they met with a man
who lived at colonia dignidad
as a young boy.
When you lived here, what were you told this was?
What would happen to you if you came
and tried to look here?
What went on here?
While investigating this weapons warehouse,
the field team was suddenly interrupted
by the groundskeepers.
Are you telling us we have to leave?
Yes, we have to leave right now.
Okay.
With the current owners of colonia dignidad
shutting down the investigation...
The team was able to track down
a chilean attorney.
Senior fernandez, gerrard.
Gerrard williams. Nice to meet you.
With inside information
about what was going on
inside that compound.
What can you tell me about the colony making guns?
There was also chemical weapons like the sarin gas.
Sarin gas?
Sarin in its gas form is a very, very nasty chemical.
If it gets into the hands of the wrong people,
a lot of people are gonna die.
How did they make sarin gas in the middle of chile?
In colonia dignidad, fine,
they were producing sarin gas,
but it's a new story
if ig farben is overseeing this.
This wasn't some amateurish
al-qaeda-like attempt.
The potential here is huge
because making small batches of sarin,
you're not gonna do much damage.
But if you get ig farben
making industrial sizes of sarin,
that's different.
We're talking about the potential here
to execute this nazi plan.
We have established the nazis were setting up sleeper cells
post-world war ii in the united states.
You've got major economic interests,
funding money into the nazis in south america.
And now
we have one of the most able chemical companies
in the world building
or producing weapons of mass destruction.
They weren't making sarin for fertilizer
or for air freshener.
The more evidence we get,
the nazis were planning for all-out war.
Armed with hundreds of newly declassified
intelligence documents,
21-year cia veteran bob baer
has reopened his investigation into the secret activities
of high-ranking nazis after world war ii.
With the declassified cia document revealing
that the nazis were planning a three-phase strategy
to form a fourth reich
with the united states as their primary target,
bob has now uncovered hundreds of massive corporations
that were likely funneling money to the nazis,
including chemical weapons company ig farben.
Finding ig farben in south america
connected to a nazi clandestine facility is big.
If you combine that with this cult in chile,
colonia dignidad making sarin gas,
and you could only conclude
that ig farben was making
weapons of mass destruction in south america.
The only target that you would wanna make industrial quantities
of sarin gas is the united states.
You know, two plus two often equals four.
It's very clear that up until
now the nazis had successfully
put together the first two phases of their plan.
One is setting up secret cells inside the united states.
And number two, finding a way
to fund these cells.
You know, I look at these find of the ig farben account
in nazi party headquarters in buenos aires,
and it tells me they were well on their way
to phase three of their plan
which is to make weapons of mass destruction
so they could get the united states.
Bob returns to the declassified 1944 cia file
from a french spy who infiltrated
a high-ranking meeting of nazis
setting the blueprint for the fourth reich,
and digs into the report specifics
of the third phase of their plan.
Here's what the report said,
"it is immediately required that large factories in germany
create small, technical offices in foreign countries.
These bureaus will receive plans and drawings
of new weapons.
These offices are to be established
in little villages near sources of hydro-electric power
where they can pretend to be studying
the development of water resources."
couldn't be clearer.
They're telling german industrialists,
don't do this work overtly, do it clandestinely.
The only reason why you would do that,
to setup a cover facility,
is for nefarious activities.
In this case, weapons.
Now, I have seen this term "new weapons"
in previous investigations and documents.
And when the germans refer to new weapons,
in these instances, it's nuclear weapons.
Previously in the investigation,
bob uncovered a declassified mi6 file
detailing the nazi plan to develop new weapons.
This file was from December 9th, 1944,
just four months after
the nazi's secret fourth reich meeting.
"the most important technical advance in the war
is the research on this new type of weapon.
Germany has a large hydroelectric plant
for this in the vicinity of rjukan, norway."
they've got a special weapons plant here in rjukan, norway.
What's going on in rjukan will tell us
what their plans were for the fourth reich.
Bob then dispatched a field team
to investigate this mysterious hydroelectric facility
in the mountains of rjukan.
Huh, it's impressive.
Yeah.
Made fertilizers? So phosphate mining here?
That's right, yeah.
But you can also make explosives from fertilizer?
No.
Heavy water is... it was made here?
It was made here, yes.
Heavy water is one of the most important
components of a nuclear bomb.
Heavy water plus uranium equals plutonium,
and that's a nuclear bomb.
Heavy water is a form of water with added mass
in alternate chemical properties.
It's created by running large amounts
of electrical current through normal water.
In the 1940s, heavy water reactors,
fueled by uranium,
were used to create plutonium,
the explosive component in a nuclear bomb.
So how much did they make here?
This is scary. It's adolf hitler developing
a component for a nuclear weapon.
And that would have changed the world completely.
The field team then investigated the area
where the heavy water production facility was located
now covered in 15 feet of rubble from allied bombs.
There's nothing in there.
Those barrels of heavy water are gone.
We have to know where it went
and what they were gonna do with it.
And just north of the heavy water facility
in narvik, norway,
the team discovered a port used by hitler
and dozens of u-boats at the end of world war ii.
We have a document that says the fuhrer
had his yacht here in narvik
after germany surrendered.
Do you think that that heavy water got out of norway?
Looking back in norway, this makes total sense.
You fill up a u-boat with heavy water,
take it across the atlantic,
dock it in south america, move this stuff,
heavy water is just one component of a nuclear weapon.
I mean, you need a bunch of other things.
You need enriched uranium.
You need all sorts of equipment to handle enriched uranium.
What we need to do is look for any evidence
of other components that they could have allowed them
to do this.
Look what I just found. You got to take a look at this.
It is a brand new article.
"an amateur treasure hunter in germany
has stumbled across what could be radioactive material
from a secret facility
dating back to world war ii.
German authorities have revealed that the area
of oranienburg was the location of adolf hitler's
secret uranium enrichment facility."
we were in a race with the germans
to make a nuclear weapon.
We know that.
We just don't know how close they came.
If the germans could enrich uranium
to the point it's weapons-grade,
they could have made a bomb,
it means they could have knocked down manhattan.
Bob baer has just uncovered breaking news
from germany that may shed light on the nuclear
capabilities of the nazis at the end of world war ii.
"an amateur treasure hunter in germany
has stumbled across what could be radioactive material.
German authorities have revealed that the area
of oranienburg was the location
of adolf hitler's secret uranium enrichment facility."
if the germans could enrich uranium
to the point that it's weapons-grade,
I mean, this is huge.
Because if in fact they could have made a bomb,
they could have changed the course of history.
You think 9/11 was bad?
Think about a nuclear bomb in new york.
We've got to get in touch with this author
and find out what she knows.
Bob makes contact with fiona keating,
journalist and editor of britain at war magazine
who just recently broke this story.
Hi, fiona.
Hi, bob. How you doing?
Good. I was just reading your article.
I'm very compelled by this subject.
In fact we are riveted by this subject.
Tell me how you came about this.
When I first came upon the story
about an amateur treasure hunter,
he'd found with his metal detector
a shiny piece of metal which turned out to be radioactive.
Now, what was really interesting about the story
is the location where he found the material.
Well, it's a secret nazi research facility
which was producing a nazi atomic bomb.
And that's where we have the actual german authorities
saying this was in fact nazi material.
Was it weapons-grade?
Yes, it was. It was weapons-grade plutonium.
This is quite remarkable.
Is this the first piece of evidence
they've actually found from this facility
of enriched plutonium?
Yes. And what's really interesting
is that the german authorities shut down on this
and refused to go further into the story.
They just shut it down completely.
Why would they do this?
I mean, what possessed the germans
not to further investigate?
I think they want to leave the past alone.
They don't really want it all brought up again.
I see.
I mean is there enough evidence here for you
to make the case that the nazis had a bomb and tested it?
I mean the fact is there's more to discover.
More evidence is coming to light.
The most compelling evidence is a declassified
file of hans zinsser,
a german test pilot and also a rocket expert
who talks about some really amazing stuff that he's seen.
If you could send us that, it would be very interesting.
- Yes, of course. - Thank you so much.
It was very helpful.
With the help of fiona,
bob gets his hands on a rarely seen declassified
us military intelligence file,
detailing the testimony of a german rocket expert
named hans zinsser.
This is a dated document.
It's classified secret.
Look what he says here. "in early October 1944,
I flew away 12 to 15 kilometers
from a nuclear test station.
A cloudlike shaped like a mushroom
with turbulent billowing sections
stood at 7,000 meters.
Strong electrical disturbances
and the impossibility to continue
radio communications turned up."
I mean, the fact that he describes a mushroom cloud,
you know, back before nagasaki and hiroshima
should tell us something.
He's describing a cloud from a nuclear explosion.
There's just no other way to put it.
So, they were testing something at the site
which was a high explosive or a nuclear explosion.
It certainly makes what we found in thuringia
that much more interesting, absolutely.
Previously in the investigation,
bob uncovered an eyewitness from thuringia, germany
who described seeing a weapons test remarkably similar
to the testimony of hans zinsser.
All right.
Here's a deposition of claire werner
on March 4th, 1945.
"I was at my window.
There was suddenly a brightness like hundreds
of bolts of lightning."
so bright that you could read a newspaper.
Afterwards, there was a very powerful wind.
Later I had, like many residents in the area,
nosebleeds, headaches and pressure in the ears.
This explosion fits a nuclear bomb.
Exactly fits one.
Bob sent a field team to thuringia
to investigate the location where this nazi
nuclear bomb may have been detonated.
Look at that. It's basically empty.
Nazis were pushing hard for nuclear weapon.
And this is evidence that maybe they got closer than we know.
I mean, with the ultimate goal,
we know what that is.
Previously in the investigation,
bob uncovered a declassified nazi file
revealing a detailed plan to attack the united states.
This is a map of manhattan.
This map came from the internal files
of an engineer in the nazi luftwaffe,
the air force.
It depicts a plan developed in 1944
to bomb the united states,
and more specifically manhattan island.
This is chilling. I mean I guarantee you
that even after the war,
they were all the more motivated to hit manhattan
because that was their only hope.
Only once the united states was brought down
could the fourth reich come.
We know in our previous investigations
this was their target.
But now that we have a new eyewitness,
I'm quite sure they were capable of launching a nuclear strike.
We're talking about hundreds of thousands of casualties.
In nuclear weapon, you know,
we would take all manhattan.
If you had said a year before 9/11
that bin laden was gonna hijack four airplanes
and run them into two buildings in new york and the pentagon,
you would have been dismissed as a crank.
And then we all know what happened next.
So many of these attacks are aspirational.
But the fact that they didn't happen
doesn't mean they weren't in the works.
A nazi attack in new york city
that killed hundreds of thousand people
would have destroyed our morale.
Look at japan at the end of world war ii,
they gave up.
It was... the fight was knocked out of them
and that's exactly what the nazis were counting on
and that they would continue on establish the fourth reich.
The fact that we're even talking about this should be alarming.
While investigating a secret nazi plan
for the formation of a fourth reich,
bob baer has uncovered evidence suggesting the nazis
could have successfully created a nuclear bomb
at the end of world war ii,
technology that could have been used by the fourth reich.
At this point, it's fairly certain
that the nazis were far advanced in the nuclear weapon.
We know they were planning in developing
and using new weapons.
And during our earlier investigations,
we found suspected nuclear sites in south america.
We had originally thought it was for research.
But now, if in fact the nazis had full capability
to make nuclear weapons,
that sheds a new light on these facilities in south america.
In bariloche, argentina,
the field team investigated a remote island
where nazi scientist, ronald richter,
executed top secret nuclear research after the war.
Oh, my god.
What was inside of here?
How many more buildings like this?
These are the power buildings?
This is massive for the time.
- This old cement. - Yeah, amazing.
Three, four feet thick,
with view holes
to witness whatever's going on in here.
This is to prevent radiation from escaping.
That's how close they were.
And that's scary.
The team then traveled from argentina
to uruguay where they discovered a mysterious
400-acre hydroelectric facility
in the small town of rincon
that was run by nazis after the war
and rumored to have connections to nuclear research.
They have everything they need here.
Go to an airport. They can land seaplanes.
They can bring boats.
They have energy with the hydroelectric dam.
And this could be their manhattan project
of south america.
Everything that we see says there's something
more going on here.
Look at that light bulb.
Oh. It is a swastika. It's a... it's a beacon.
This is letting everyone know
that there are nazis here, and they're not scared,
and they're gonna operate in the open.
The team met with the facility's chief engineer,
pablo tamasite,
who uncovered secret blueprints and schematics
left behind by the nazis.
Your understanding is that their intent
was the production of heavy water?
Heavy water is one of the most important
components of a nuclear bomb.
There was a plan in place to make heavy water right here,
this hydroelectric facility.
The absolutely necessary to facilitate
the rise of the fourth reich.
Looking at these facilities,
especially rincon,
they very well could've been making a nuclear weapons.
Look, if they can cover up what they were making in germany,
they certainly were in a position to cover up
what they were doing in south america.
Well, I think the evidence is clear.
The nazis are capable
of working on nuclear weapons,
producing them in south america.
But in order to launch a strike,
they would need to get these weapons within
distance of the united states.
Argentina and uruguay are definitely out of range.
But we knew in... from our previous investigation
they could set themselves up
to be within 3,000 miles of new york city.
Previously in the investigation,
bob uncovered a declassified fbi file
that could place the nazis within striking distance
of the continental united states after the war.
May 22nd, 1948.
This places hitler in bogota, colombia.
Hitler, two german physicists
and two pilots traveled by a plane,
they carried with them secret plans
for the v-3 sky rocket bomb
and the complete record
of the german nuclear investigation.
Hitler arriving with nuclear scientists talk about,
you know, raising the tone in all of this,
just look at the map.
You... you've got colombia.
Clearly a v-3 from the designs we know
could go the 2,000 miles and hit the united states.
We know from our previous investigations
hitler is reportedly landing in colombia
which is one step closer to their sworn enemy,
the united states of america.
But what didn't sit well with me is
up until 1948,
colombia was an allied country.
That was always a question in my mind, why colombia?
How could they possibly do anything in a country
that was anti-nazi?
Just to be clear, the president was rounding up
and arresting people that he believed
to be members of the nazi party, is that correct?
They were rounding up nazis. How could they set up?
Why would they set up there?
Why would they risk this?
As you start to look at these mi5 files,
I'm starting to see what's going on.
Bob has discovered a page
from newly declassified mi5 files from 1949,
providing insight into why nazi agents may have been
operating in unfriendly territory.
Let me read this to you.
"the agents were to lie low and at any given time
were to start organizing national movement
which would stir up unrest culminating in civil war
so that the nazi party could in time reappear
in a suitable disguise
to build up the fourth reich.
I mean, there it is. Colombia was an unstable country.
And if you wanna create more instability
to take advantage of it,
you find out who's gonna cause the most trouble.
You pay them and they create political chaos.
And then you prepare the ground to use colombia as a rear base.
In April of 1948,
six weeks before the declassified fbi documents
placed hitler and high ranking nazis arriving
in bogota with the nuclear plant,
the president of colombia, jorge gaitan,
was assassinated.
Gaitan's assassin, juan roa sierra
was a suspected nazi supporter
who worked at the german embassy in bogota,
and according to his mother, had swastikas
hanging in his bedroom.
Gaitan's assassination sparked a massive civil war
known as la violencia which endured for over a decade.
When you have the assassin having worked
into the german embassy, it's a coincidence.
But where you have this document where the nazis
are planning to create chaos,
so many coincidences add up to something.
It's as simple as that.
They knew what they were doing in colombia.
The nazis had a plan.
They were making all the right moves
to set up for a nuclear strike on america.
Bob baer has uncovered a declassified mi5 file
that reveals the nazi fourth reich
may have been connected to the 1948 assassination
of colombian president, jorge gaitan
and the ensuing decade-long civil war
known as la violencia.
Look at this, this is after the assassination
of gaitan, look at the chaos,
this is the purpose of an assassination like this
of a popular leader,
nazi fingerprints are all over this.
This is exactly what they wanted.
Everything is unfolding for the fourth reich plan,
they've got cells all across the americas,
they've got funding to pay for these cells,
an enormous amount of money,
and now they have created a political hurricane
and they have now a rear base
right south of the united states,
but they never mounted an attack from colombia.
Yeah, it had the perfect circumstance
but they didn't.
So what happened in '48?
Did they just give up?
Did somebody foil their plans?
Although what happened in colombia in 1948 is unclear,
bob discovered previously in the investigation
that the nazis continue to operate in argentina
well into the summer of 1948.
The following information was given in may 1948.
"I was invited officially by the argentine government
to argentina in order to do some work
in nuclear reactor development.
Here's a nazi nuclear scientist,
he was in charge of research laboratory,
it's one too many coincidences for me.
- I agree. - When there's this much smoke,
there's got to be fire.
A lot of things are happening in '48,
argentina is allied with the nazis,
the peron regime,
it's the same time you're hearing rumors
about hitler showing up in colombia.
And now you have huemul island in argentina
where there is a nuclear bomb making facility.
That's, like, no other way to describe that.
And they're still preparing the new weapon
and they are going full steam.
A lot of things are coming together
in '48 then a couple years later
we saw who showed up in paraguay.
In asuncion, paraguay,
the field team was granted access
to secret government intelligence files
detailing nazi post-war activities in the country.
Do we have any information from these files
about nazis escaping their war crimes here in paraguay?
This is huge.
Right here, martin bormann,
chief of the nazi party came to paraguay.
This is 1956, 10 years after the war,
where we have bormann,
the number two in the nazi regime
is showing up in the neighborhood.
According to this intelligence report,
bormann is in paraguay.
Bormann guarded by four men, equipped with walkie-talkies,
has four different hideouts.
He's got multiple safe houses.
He's seen with multiple security guards,
had some sort of militia, is very active,
he's not a man who's hiding.
Bormann and the nazis were continuing through the '50s
to build up fourth reich infrastructure
and we saw what it looked like at colonia dignidad.
The field team investigated colonia dignidad,
a mysterious compound in the remote mountains of chile
which was operated by former nazis in the 1960s
and was outfitted with advanced security
and communications infrastructure.
He's roughly as high as a six-story building right now.
I've been in special forces for 15 years,
that tower is better than some of the things that I had
in my own fire bases in afghanistan and iraq.
Nothing could go in or out of colonia dignidad
for a hundred miles
without somebody seeing it form here.
Mike?
- Yeah? - You got to see this.
What the hell is that?
This looks to me
like an infrared sensor.
The only reason you're doing things like this
is if you are protecting the people at the highest level.
Look at this.
Hundreds, if not thousands of sensors.
Holy
we have a massive room.
What the
Yeah.
Yeah.
There's so much in here, I didn't expect.
Colonia dignidad,
it had security,
it had military-grade fences,
it had watchtowers,
it had weapons facilities.
The nazis could've used this facility
to run the fourth reich.
Colonia dignidad is constructed by the nazis in 1961.
We're talking 15 years after the war.
Think about they still have money,
they still have the will to do this.
By 1961, the nazis are going full steam.
Where is this all leading?
You know what we have to consider is
what's going on globally, not just south america,
and that is the cold war.
The cold war is starting to rage,
you've got relations between the soviet union
and the united states deteriorating by the day.
The united states is not focused on nazis in south america,
the soviet union is our existential enemy,
not fascism.
They've got a nuclear bomb.
Joseph stalin is as scary as adolf hitler.
So the world's attention is focused on moscow,
not on south america, not on the nazis
which provides the nazis the fourth reich
a different sort of vacuum,
and the vacuum is nobody's paying attention to it.
So if you're a nazi, watching events,
you're saying, "wait a minute,
united states has no time for us
and where is this conflict with the soviet union going?"
and they simply couldn't wait for their two main enemies
to take each other out and then they're golden.
Strategically, it makes perfect sense
but is there evidence of it?
Bob turns to the hundreds of recently
declassified intelligence documents
and discovers an mi5 file from November of 1949
that appears to expose a shocking detail
of the nazis' fourth reich plan.
Listen to this,
"agent has revealed plans
for an underground organization.
Engage in espionage
to foment distrust between americans and russians.
They're reckoning on germany becoming powerful once again.
The collisions of spheres of interests
will cause the tension to go beyond the breaking point.
There will be a third world war."
there you go. This is an amazing document.
It's as close as we're gonna get
to the thinking of the fourth reich.
If you've got two countries
pointing their nukes at each other,
if you're a nazi, forget hitting manhattan,
the damage that the soviet union
and america could do to each other
is infinitely more than anything the fourth reich
could inflict on the united states.
Just wait till these two guys go at it
and then you fill the vacuum.
In his investigation of the nazis' fourth reich plan,
bob baer has uncovered a shocking mi5 document
from November of 1949,
revealing a nazi plan to insight tensions
between the united states and soviet union
that they could later exploit.
"agent has revealed plans for an underground organization
to engage in espionage,
to foment distrust between americans and russians.
The collisions of spheres of interest
will cause the tension to go beyond the breaking point.
There will be a third world war."
the damage that the soviet union and america
could do to each other
is infinitely more than anything
the fourth reich could inflict on the united states.
Just wait till these two guys go at it,
and then you fill the vacuum.
Things played out as they planned.
From the end of world war two for the next two decades,
we're almost at war with the soviet union.
1947, you have the truman doctrine.
1949, the soviets test their first nuclear bomb.
1950, mccarthy starts the communist witch hunt.
1953, the nuclear arms race is on.
Cuban missile crisis,
we were almost at war with the soviet union.
In '63, you have the assassination
of the american president
by a man who came out of russia.
Here's the question,
did the nazis have incredible insight
or were they doing something to incite tension
between the united states and the soviet union?
Bob digs through the hundreds of recently
declassified cia files
in search of any documents
that could connect the nazi fourth reich
to the cold war.
De mohrenschildt?
You knew who that is?
George de mohrenschildt, I know this guy well.
I've seen this guy's name a thousand times.
He is at the center of the jfk assassination.
Look, I've spent years
looking at the kennedy assassination
from both inside and outside the government.
One of the most fascinating characters around this
is george de mohrenschildt.
He was very close to lee harvey oswald.
In the summer of '62,
he helped bring lee harvey oswald
from fort worth to dallas,
and then months later, oswald assassinates kennedy.
No one even knows half the story about this guy
because during that jfk investigation,
when the investigators came and knocked at his door,
he shot himself.
And the facts about him are hard to come by.
But, look at this,
richard helms, then cia director,
said that de mohrenschildt,
he applied for a job with the cia in 1942
but was rejected
because he was alleged to be a nazi espionage agent.
I mean, don't you find that amazing?
What are we talking about here?
There's a nazi spy
in the middle of the kennedy assassination?
There's lots of circumstantial evidence
that de mohrenschildt was connected
to the kennedy assassination.
My question is what were his ties to the nazis?
Was he part of a stay-behind operation?
Bob is able to get access
to george de mohrenschildt's official government file
from the investigation into jfk's assassination.
Here's what interests me is allegations
of de mohrenschildt's nazi activities.
There's a whole section on this.
On October 8th, 1942,
the us department of state placed a refusal
or lookout in de mohrenschildt's passport file.
Get this, the reason given
for the lookout in de mohrenschildt's file was,
and I quote, "alleged to be nazi agent."
the warren commission also questioned de mohrenschildt
about the background of his uncle, baron maydell,
and the allegation that maydell may have
had connections with the nazis.
This guy is very suspicious.
And then look at this, it even gets deeper.
De mohrenschildt's uncle's apartment was raided
and many films of a pro-nazi nature were discovered
which were intended to show the force
and effectiveness of the german army.
You know, how much clearer it could get?
De mohrenschildt was a nazi.
This is not some crazy conspiracy theory,
this is a matter of public record
and a confession on de mohrenschildt's part.
It's right there, he was a nazi.
The whole kennedy association is tainted
with stupid conspiracy theories that have no backing.
But what I can tell you right now,
and little did I think this was possible,
you have a nazi agent,
according to the united states government,
in the middle of a kennedy assassination.
You know, what is going on here?
Look at the facts side by side
and the possibilities you can't ignore.
In 1944, the nazis have a plan
to create the fourth reich
and takedown the united states.
Twenty years later,
they're involved right next to the assassin
who shoots the president of the united states
and kills him.
And the guy commits suicide?
Doesn't that strike you as inherently suspicious?
The nazi plan all along was to cause world war iii.
Any nazi planning a fourth reich
would've had to assume
that assassinating the american president
very well could cause world war iii.
They succeeded in a smaller scale
when a nazi assassin killed the president in colombia
and kicked the country into total chaos.
So why wouldn't in '63
they might say, "let's try the same thing.
Worked in colombia, why not try it in america?"
I mean, this sounds conspiratorial
but in the vaults of the cia, there are secrets
that could change the course of history.
Clearly, the nazis did not nuke manhattan,
they did not invade.
The fourth reich didn't rise in argentina
with a flag and a capital.
But what we've missed is they got a lot closer
in executing this plan
of going to war with the united states
than we've ever suspected.
No way.
That's a swastika.
The nazis were wildly successful
in the three phases for their post-war plan.
They were establishing nazi sleeper cells
inside our borders.
They had a bottomless well of money.
Oh, my god.
They were moving infrastructure
into south america
to potentially make a weapon of mass destruction.
And now we know
a nazi was in the company of the man
who assassinated the president of the united states,
it changes everything.
Now that I've seen what we've uncovered,
no doubt about it
the history books need to be rewritten.
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