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What was the significance of Narvik to the Nazis

at the end of the war?

What were the submarines doing here?

Heavy water is one of the necessary components

to making a nuclear weapon.

If we're going to find any evidence of heavy water,

where should I look?

Have we had any potential targets yet?

No, not yet.

What's that right there?

Ah.

That's massive!

Yeah, that's big. That's big.

We have a hit.

Let's find out what it is.

Throughout this investigation, Hitler has always left a trail.

What lies beneath us might give us real evidence

for the very first time of his plans put in action.

This post-war Nazi machine was bigger than anything

I could even have imagined.

"The entire Nazi movement is completely

and perfectly organized throughout the world."

They weren't going to give up. They weren't defeated.

They were going to keep going until they got back on top.

Bob Baer, 21-year CIA veteran,

and one of the most respected minds

in the intelligence community,

has spent the last two years overseeing a global manhunt

to uncover the fate of Adolf Hitler

at the end of World War II.

Holy crap. That's a swastika.

Biggest criminal in modern history

supposedly commits suicide in this bunker.

But where is the body?

There are no witnesses that saw him dead.

We first started this investigation

because we had no conclusive proof he died in the bunker.

The body that was wrapped up in that blanket was not him.

That's a problem.

The more we kept digging,

we established that he could've made it not only out of Germany,

but he could have made it all the way to South America.

And beyond that, we established there was a plan to get Hitler

and thousands of Nazis to safety.

This is a nasty nest of vipers right in the middle of Europe.

Hitler would've had massive infrastructure, safe houses,

money, military compounds,

and the support of a massive network of associates.

This was not Saddam Hussein hiding in a spider hole.

This was a well-organized, well-funded plan

that was set up years in advance to get Hitler to safety.

He has everything that he needs to do, I think,

anything that he wants. And that's scary.

In the last 70 years, no one has ever been this close

to discovering the truth about Hitler.

What we found is absolutely ground-breaking,

but doesn't tell us exactly what happened to Adolf Hitler.

We need to find where he went and exactly how he got there.

Now we have to close this case.

And to do that, we're going to change our strategy.

We're going to do what every intelligence agency does

when they want to capture their target.

We're going to use a strategy called asset-mapping,

which means uncovering his support network

of close associates.

And we are going to simply analyze these links

and figure out how they may have helped him get away.

This is what I've done

throughout my whole career at the CIA...

Looking at networks to track down high-value terrorists.

To execute this new approach to the investigation,

Nada Bakos, former terrorist-targeting officer

and an expert in the asset-mapping method,

joins the team.

From 2000 to 2011, Nada was at the heart

of the CIA task force responsible

for dismantling the Al-Qaeda network

and its biggest targets,

Osama Bin Laden and Abu Musab al-Zarqawi.

To take down a whole network,

you work on one detail at a time...

One person at a time, one piece of information at at time...

That will eventually lead you to your target.

You're going to build a picture which represents the network

that's around the high-value target.

If you want to hunt for somebody, go to Nada Bakos.

She's one of the best.

People put their lives in her hands based on her judgement.

To find this guy, we have to understand

where he went for help.

Even the smallest connection can break this case wide open.

Like Bin Laden.

He relied on a courier to keep him alive, keep him safe.

And they finally were able to capture him

because of the courier.

That's how you find people that don't want to be found.

This is the final step in hunting a human being.

And that needs to be the next step for this investigation.

By taking apart that network, Hitler's got nowhere to hide.

If we're going to map the assets around Hitler,

the first step is looking at the family

because they're some of the closest people to the target.

And that usually gives us new pieces of intelligence

that we can then follow.

Well, I think absolutely we should start there.

As Bob and Nada initiate their asset-mapping strategy,

they're assisted by a first-of-its-kind database

that combines powerful network search tools,

link analysis software,

and 14,000 recently declassified documents

from every major intelligence agency around the world.

So, this is Hitler's immediate family.

And by the time he is 18, both of his parents pass away.

And we can eliminate his half-brother, Alois,

because they were estranged and didn't have a relationship.

Four of his siblings died during childhood,

so we can eliminate all of them.

And what we have left is Adolf and his two sisters,

Angela and Paula.

The two sisters now should be our target.

Let's find out what happened to them.

Paula and Angela Hitler, April 1945.

Look, we got a bunch of hits.

Okay, we got... Look.

The database has a 91% match for these keywords.

US Army, July 12, 1945...

This was an interview with Hitler's sister.

"My coming to Berchtesgaden was very strange.

One morning in the middle of April,

a driver entered the house

and told me we were supposed to leave in two hours."

Here's Hitler pulling his two sisters out of their homes

and moving them to Berchtesgaden.

And that's big.

Okay, look.

Here's Berlin.

And we've got Berchtesgaden down here.

That's an hour flight, 350 miles south.

He obviously trusts his sisters to be located in this area.

So, why Berchtesgaden?

You know, what we have to remember

is Berchtesgaden is Hitler's home.

He felt comfortable there.

Built deep into the mountains of southern Germany,

the small town of Berchtesgaden was home

to the Fuhrer's Alpine headquarters

known as the Berghof.

Hitler spent more time at this home

than anywhere else during World War II.

And from this balcony in 1939,

he made the decision to invade Poland,

officially commencing the war.

And look at this file.

US Army, April 7, 1945...

This is a secret memo from Eisenhower to the High Command,

right before the fall of Berlin.

"Berlin itself is no longer

a particularly important objective.

We proceed on the general plan of attempting to disrupt

any German effort

to establish a fortress in the southern mountains."

That's Berchtesgaden.

This is Eisenhower in his own words...

"We don't care about Berlin anymore."

Rather than going north up to Berlin,

he's going 350 miles south to Berchtesgaden.

I'm seeing Berchtesgaden coming several times,

with Hitler's sisters and now with Eisenhower

sending troops down to southern Germany.

I wonder what it is about the region that is so important.

They had to have intelligence

that the leadership was going there.

For me, it's very simple.

The only way Eisenhower would divert his assault on Berlin

is if he found a new target.

There's something more important in Berchtesgaden than there

is in Berlin.

It's not an accident they're all going there.

The question is, is it part of a bigger plan?

What was happening in Berchtesgaden

at the end of the war?

If he's sending his family, it's because he knows it's safe.

Exactly.

US Army Special Forces Tim Kennedy

and world-renowned historian James Holland

land in Berchtesgaden, Germany.

We know that Adolf Hitler's sisters were sent here

to these mountains,

the exact same mountains that Eisenhower

is looking for a southern fortress.

It is imperative for us to find out

if there was a plan in place for Adolf Hitler

to come here at the end of the war.

You certainly get the lay of the land from up here. Without a doubt.

The team begins their investigation

into Hitler's potential escape through Berchtesgaden

at a lookout point 6,000 feet above the valley floor.

So, that down there, Tim, that's Berchtesgaden.

And Hitler's home was in the city?

Well, he wasn't actually in the town at all.

He was in a place called the Obersalzberg, which is...

Actually, it's that saddle just down there.

That is the Obersalzberg.

Hitler's house is right in the center,

but today, you can't see it

because a lot of it has been destroyed.

Hitler's here, and suddenly,

other Nazis start buying houses there as well.

And they just colonized this whole area here.

You think of Hitler as the king, this is his palace,

and this is the palace grounds.

That's it.

This investigation has turned towards Hitler's network here.

And now we have a Nazi compound in the mountains.

It's vital to us to know who was here at the end of the war

that might have aided in escape plans for Adolf Hitler.

Lisa, hello. Hi.

Tim and James make contact with local expert

Lisa Graff-Ryman,

who has spent the last 20 years

studying the history of the region.

Lisa, right at the very end of the war,

Hitler sends his sisters here.

Who else was here in Obersalzberg

and Berchtesgaden at that time?

Who was the head of Hitler's cabinet.

Yeah.

Goering, who was Hitler's number

Yes, mm-hmm.

What's interesting about this period

right at the very end of the war is the Russians are closing in,

and some of the key members of Hitler's inner circle

are escaping here to Berchtesgaden.

It's just incredible.

Not only did Adolf Hitler send his family,

but also the upper echelon of the Nazi Party

was here at the end of the war.

I'm convinced that Eisenhower knew something that we don't.

Everybody's heading to Berchtesgaden.

It's incredible.

So there's a reason Eisenhower diverted everybody.

Bob and Nada review the findings

the team uncovered in southern Germany,

where a declassified document claims Berchtesgaden,

the resort town where Hitler made his home,

may have been the location of a secret Nazi escape plan.

At the end of the war, we can place Lammers and Goering

at Berchtesgaden.

These guys are key spokes in the wheel.

You're not going to have this kind of gathering

of high-ranking officials without a good reason.

This is some sort of secret plan, no doubt about it.

Let's see what we can find in the database.

Here we go.

Reporting agency... OSS, predecessor of the CIA...

April 26, 1945.

"Hitler's new hideout.

A high Nazi Party official in Hitler's immediate entourage

have asked him to suggest an inconspicuous place

for Hitler in Berchtesgaden.

You know, it doesn't get any bigger than this.

You've got this OSS report

essentially putting Hitler in Berchtesgaden.

You know, you couple this with Eisenhower

taking the whole Allied effort down there,

and the fact that his whole core leadership

were going to Berchtesgaden. This is a huge revelation.

I think it is perfectly possible

that after his last public appearance,

he decides to go to Berchtesgaden.

Hitler was last seen in public speaking to the Hitler Youth

on April 20, 1945.

Soviet forces stormed the bunker on May 2nd,

leaving a 12-day window

where the true location of the Fuhrer remains unknown.

Look, we've spent all this time

looking for ways out of the bunker before May 2nd.

But maybe he wasn't even there.

Maybe we're looking in the wrong place.

Maybe he was in Berchtesgaden the whole time.

This completely changes this investigation.

The question I have is, would Hitler have done that?

As the most wanted man in the world at the time,

does it make sense for him to actually leave Berlin

and travel down to Berchtesgaden at this point?

With everyone looking for him, he wouldn't go someplace

unless it was just as safe as the Fuhrerbunker.

Well, that's a good question.

I mean, what did he have in place

that would allow him to move

from the Fuhrerbunker to Berchtesgaden?

I think this is absolutely worth checking out.

Yeah.

Tim and James have got to get on this.

Up this hill used to be the main entrance.

To Hitler's driveway? Yep.

Deep in the Alpine region of southern Germany,

Tim and James investigate the site

of Hitler's former mountain retreat

located in the center of the Obersalzberg compound.

If you're bringing Adolf Hitler here at the end of the war,

he needs to know that he's safe.

We need to dig into this area to see

if it could've provided enough security for Adolf Hitler

to relocate from Berlin.

We are actually walking where Hitler walked countless times.

Yeah.

It's just amazing.

This is the Berghof.

You can see it's in a pretty bad state.

Yeah. What happened here?

The German Government blew it up in 1952.

What they did was they destroyed it, bulldozed it,

and they've covered it with rubble and soil

and planted trees.

And this is really the only major bit that still remains,

a kind of retaining wall behind the Berghof.

That's what it originally looked like.

You're starting to get a scale of it.

This was no small house.

Do you have any idea what kind of security measures

they had in place here to protect it?

Well, I know the entire area was cordoned off.

But what there was around here, I'm not sure.

He's never going to leave the Fuhrerbunker in Berlin

if he's vulnerable and exposed.

There has to be more here... A bunker or a tunnel complex.

Yeah, I agree.

The Fuhrerbunker in Berlin is a bombproof shelter.

I mean, that is a serious amount of concrete.

Hitler was obsessed with security.

If Hitler is going to leave Berlin,

he would need something that's better

than what they already have.

We need to find the things that would've protected him.

Look at this, Tim. It's just stones, bricks.

Hang on. What do you think this could be?

I mean, that's not going to be a bunker entrance, is it,

or exit? No.

No, but...

But it's something. Yeah.

There's little pipes.

There's holes... three of them.

So, you think this is some kind of drainage

or cistern or something?

It could be drainage.

They also might be running lines through there.

Communication lines, wires and things?

Or just power. Right.

And they're pointing this direction, like this.

So, keep going this way.

Yeah.

We have to be getting close to something.

Well, look. It looks like there's some earth that's been moved.

There's a big chunk taken out of the side.

Hey, hang on a minute! Look at this!

Concrete!

Look at that.

That is a door.

Holy.

300 yards from Hitler's former home,

the team locates a reinforced steel door

built into the side of the hill.

This has the exact same massive concrete protection

as you see in the bunkers in Berlin.

Oh! That's hollow.

Yeah, it is, isn't it?

Knocking on that door, you have that hollow,

echoing sound that you get from inside of a cave.

It sounded like it went forever.

We have a huge steel door blocking us from gaining access

to a massive, major, empty tunnel.

I can guarantee you that it's not just a wine cellar

or a storage room.

We have to know what's behind that door.

Underneath Hitler's house, look at this door.

I mean, look at the walls.

This was not just a vacation house, clearly.

Bob and Nada review the findings from Hitler's home

in the mountains of Berchtesgaden

in southern Germany

where a declassified document could point to Hitler

hiding out at the end of the war during the time period

he was believed to be in Berlin.

Does this door lead to a bunker like the one he had in Berlin?

We've got to figure out how to get in there. Yeah.

While the team works contacts to gain access

to what lies behind the door,

Bob and Nada uncover intel

that could open a new front in their investigation.

Bob, you've got to take a look at this file.

So, this is from OSS in June 12, 1945.

Look at this line.

"At this time, the decision had been taken

to divide the ministries in two parts

and establish one government in the north

and one in the south."

What this file tells me is they're splitting up,

creating multiple escape routes.

I mean, this is textbook redundancy.

North gets cut off, you head south.

South gets cut off, you head north.

That's one of the best survival skills that networks build,

is to give themselves more than one escape route.

Hitler could've taken either one of these.

He could've gone north, or he could've gone south.

In order to find out which path he took,

we need to look at both routes.

The south has got to be Berchtesgaden.

Yes. Yeah, absolutely.

So, I guess the bigger question is... Who went north?

...who went north? Yeah.

Because if we want to find out more about this escape route,

we need to find out who's running it.

Who would have enough familiarity with the north

that would be able to facilitate this route?

Well, one of his close associates,

the head of the SS, Himmler,

was caught in the north trying to escape.

Himmler is the guy we want to start working on.

Heinrich Himmler was one of the most powerful figures

in the Third Reich,

and directly responsible for Hitler's personal safety.

Himmler fled Berlin at the end of the war

and was captured in Bremervorde, northern Germany on May 22nd,

three weeks after Hitler was believed dead.

Here we go.

MI6, October 22, 1945.

"The SS unit, about 30 men,

withdrew to the Hohenlychen area.

I found out immediately that Himmler's headquarters

were located there."

Hohenlychen is Himmler's headquarters.

Let's pull a map and find out where it's located.

Let's take a look.

You've got Berlin here, Hohenlychen here.

Himmler goes to Hohenlychen.

It's only 65 miles.

All the pieces are coming together.

We have a northern escape route, and now we have a report

saying that Himmler has his headquarters near Hohenlychen.

But did Hohenlychen have the infrastructure

that would've facilitated an escape to the north?

Exactly. That's the question.

I think this warrants splitting the investigation.

We should get a second team on the ground, send them north.

What did they have in Hohenlychen

that would've helped Himmler and Hitler get away?

Is it a possible northern route for Hitler?

Depends on how big an SS operation is here.

Lenny DePaul, former commander

of the US Marshals Fugitive Task Force,

and investigative journalist Gerrard Williams

arrive at the location

of Heinrich Himmler's former headquarters

in search of infrastructure

that could've supported a secret northern escape route

set up for Adolf Hitler after the war.

Pretty big structures here.

There wasn't one single plan.

There were two possible escape plans to get the Fuhrer

and his most trusted people out of Berlin

before the Soviets took it.

Did Hitler come through here?

I don't know, but we're going to find out.

This is the size of a small town.

This compound is massive.

There are several structures on the property.

I'm going to go through every inch of this place

to see what we can uncover.

What do you think went on here?

I don't know.

They begin their investigation of the 26-acre compound

at a large two-story building.

See if we can get in this place.

Watch your step.

It's huge!

This goes on forever.

Look at this hallway.

There was rooms upon rooms upon rooms.

To me, this is what a barracks would look like.

You could have thousands of Nazi soldiers here, easy.

If you needed that type of protection,

you definitely had accommodations for all of them.

I mean, you could just put so many people here.

Be a hell of a bombing opportunity.

But you see, most Nazi-era buildings

are not left like this.

They were either demolished or repurposed.

Why would they not target this place?

Why wasn't this place bombed?

You'd go anywhere that was not really important.

In 1946, there'd be bomb craters everywhere.

You look at the pictures of Berlin,

and that's after the Allies bombed it

and then the Soviets shelled it.

But here, there's nothing.

There's not even a bomb crater.

And I have no idea why.

The team continues their investigation of the compound,

exploring a structure 200 yards to the east.

Look at this.

Why do we have tile all the way up to the ceilings?

Elevated floor... What was on top of these things?

Some sort of table.

What is this, an operating room?

I think that's a prep table.

Yeah, right?

And this is an O.R.

Look at this.

What is this?

35 millimeter X-ray film.

Look at this.

Oh, my God. There's a chest cavity.

Yeah.

We've been wondering what the hell this is.

I can't think it could be anything else

but a pretty major hospital complex.

That completely fits.

This whole compound is off-limits if it's medical.

Under the Geneva Convention, if you painted red crosses

on the roofs of these buildings,

they were off the bombing list.

This was a gentleman's war,

and Heinrich Himmler was no damn gentleman.

This was definitely a hospital,

and a perfect cover to hide some high-value target

or somebody trying to get out of dodge in a hurry.

As part of a northern escape route,

it's a great place to come.

You're safe here to work out

what the next step on the plan is.

It was perfect.

This could be part of the northern escape route.

Bob and Nada are overseeing a dual-pronged investigation

following two possible escape routes out of Berlin,

one leading toward Hohenlychen in northern Germany

and another going south to Berchtesgaden.

I am very curious about what's behind this door.

I mean, what were they using this for?

They focus in on their investigation

into the Nazi's southern escape route,

where they have uncovered a mysterious door

just 300 yards from the location of Hitler's home.

You know who we should get a hold of, is Sascha Keil.

Hey, Sascha, it's Bob.

Hello, Bob.

Sascha Keil is a world-renowned expert

on Nazi underground structures.

Hey, Sascha, we found this door near the Berghof,

cut in the side of the mountain.

What's behind it?

That's just amazing.

Have you been inside it? Did you see it?

When people are hiding things, it's a red flag for me.

There's something behind there, and I want to know what it is.

Sascha, is there a way we can find out more about this...

Anything to give us a better idea of what this looks like?

I can try to find out.

Thank you.

The German government is denying access,

but we're not going to take "no" for an answer.

We're going to find out what's under there, whatever it takes.

Did that bunker serve a purpose in protecting Hitler

as he was escaping south?

The number of people that have had access

into the Obersalzberg compound...

Right... are very few.

Not too many, no.

Along the southern escape route,

Tim and James made contact with historian Florian Birell,

the foremost expert on Nazi infrastructure in Berchtesgaden.

When I was a younger, a teenager,

we used to go there quite often.

We photographed it. We charted maps.

It is absolutely vital for us to have a better understanding

what lies beneath the Berghof,

and if it could've provided enough security

to protect the leader of the Third Reich

if he had escaped out of the bunker in Berlin

at the end of the war.

This guy here is a real expert.

I've worked with him for at least ten years.

Florian has arranged a meeting with engineer Jurgen Weimar,

who has spent the last decade

mapping the Obersalzberg compound around Hitler's home.

There's quite a bit of survey data

that I collected over the years, and I gave all that to Jurgen.

And he now has the computer technology

and the programs to put it all together.

Using Jurgen's state-of-the-art architectural software

and Florian's exclusive data

from the area under Hitler's home,

they have created the most extensive

and accurate computer model

of what the Nazis would've had at their disposal.

So, at the Berghof, we found a massive door

that's located directly

underneath Hitler's primary residence.

I need to know what's behind that door.

I can tell you there is more.

Behind that door, you would find a vast labyrinth

of underground tunnels.

Really? Yes.

Yeah, this is the whole bunker system.

That is so much bigger than I thought.

So, the blue is the buildings above ground.

Right.

So, there's the Berghof. Yes.

And this is the system. It's incredible.

A total of three and half miles of underground tunnels.

Three and half miles?

Yes, very extensive.

400 feet of solid rock above you right there.

That's enough to stop a nuclear bomb.

There's six different levels.

Golly!

It's incredible.

This is more than just a basement of Adolf Hitler's home.

This is a massive, interconnected tunnel system.

This vertical shaft right here, what is all this?

Yet another level.

It was intended to build a road underneath the Obersalzberg.

And in case there was a surprise attack,

he could escape through a much lower level.

So he could travel down with an elevator, get in the car,

and get out of the place.

This tunnel in red, was it built or was it just planned?

No, they haven't finished it. Got you.

I mean, this is vastly more sophisticated

than anything than we have seen. It's more complex.

It's more massive than anything in Argentina,

in Chile, even in Berlin. Yep.

This is essentially a Nazi in-out.

But as it stands, you can't escape from there, can you?

There's no way.

There's a reason why the Taliban have been so successful

fighting from the mountains in Afghanistan.

You burrow into these mountains, you're there to stay.

The Nazis knew that.

But Adolf Hitler's not going to come here

without an escape route.

They have to have a safe way for him to get out,

and we have to find it.

The bunker system is extensive.

But this escape tunnel was not finished.

He was basically stuck.

There was nowhere to go.

Bob and Nada continue their investigation

into two possible escape routes

Hitler may have used to escape Berlin,

one leading toward Berchtesgaden in southern Germany

and the other heading to the north

where they are investigating

whether a Nazi compound in Hohenlychen

could have been part of a secret northern escape route

set up for Hitler after the war.

There's 26 acres, and we know of at least 16 buildings so far

that they had built for this facility...

Some barracks and a hospital.

A hospital would be a perfect place

for a clandestine operation,

similar to what terrorist organizations

do now using civilian neighborhoods to hide in,

using U.S. military uniforms to disguise themselves.

It's evil but effective.

This is from the OSS.

"In Hohenlychen, Hitler used to visit the SS Sanatorium.

Local people said Hitler was definitely seen

to take a lakeside walk in the same area on 24 April 1945."

This is an eyewitness.

People say they saw Hitler at Hohenlychen,

and this is six days

before he supposedly committed suicide in the bunker.

He's seen at Hohenlychen.

The problem is, Hitler wouldn't be staying

in any of these buildings.

He wouldn't be staying with the general population.

So, where would he be where there's a good deal

of privacy... In fact, total privacy?

We've got to find some place that Hitler could've put down

and felt safe.

I'll bet you that there's some sort of building or structure

that could've housed him.

We need to keep digging.

- All right, partner, you ready? - Let's do what we do best.

Investigating the northern escape route,

Lenny DePaul, Gerrard Williams,

and their local translator Teresa

prepare to make contact with Rosemary Tottenhoff,

a local woman who may have first-hand knowledge

of Nazi activity at the Hohenlychen compound.

If Hitler did come here as part of the northern escape route,

he would've stayed somewhere secluded and quiet and secure.

He'd have stayed somewhere pretty opulent.

What we need to do is find out the areas

where the high-ranking people stayed.

Thank you very much for having us in your house today.

You're very kind.

Could you ask our friend here, what's her links to Hohenlychen?

She was there herself because her father was a...

What we would call an orderly.

And her mother worked for a family there in Hohenlychen.

And he was somebody important, she said.

SS? SS?

Yeah. Okay.

Did her mother ever talk about senior members

of the Nazi Party coming to visit?

Hitler came to visit the Kiesewetter family

when she was working there,

and she had to take off Hitler's coat for him.

Yeah, she said he was here more than once in Hohenlychen.

That's interesting.

Was the house in the complex?

This is in Hohenlychen?

This place right on the lake.

Unbelievable.

We didn't see this.

No, we haven't seen that one there.

Teresa, ask her if... where this building, this structure is.

It's down the street toward the water on the right side.

She's telling me it's on the property.

We've never seen it. Mm-hmm.

We've got to find this place.

We have eyewitnesses to Hitler

walking around this lake on the 24th.

And now, there in the pictures is a building

that looks like a large villa that was on the lake.

It's just incredible.

It all seems to be coming together.

Well, let's go have a look at that house.

Here we are. Just down there.

Along the southern escape route in Berchtesgaden, Germany,

Tim Kennedy and James Holland

head to the location of a former Nazi office building

in the area of Hitler's home

that James uncovered

while researching Nazi-era infrastructure

at the local archives,

to see if it could've been used to support the escape

of Adolf Hitler after the war.

If Adolf Hitler was considering

moving to Berchtesgaden from Berlin,

he would have to have a safe way to get out.

We need to find evidence that they had an escape route

already in place, ready to go.

Nick. Hey.

Their local contact, Nick Conrad,

has gotten permission from the owner

to let the team investigate the building

for a possible escape route.

Was this just an accounting building, logistical building?

We need to know exactly what it was.

We're all going to meet Mr. Holzel, the owner. Okay.

Perhaps he can help us with that.

Good.

Tim, look at that.

There is still the remains of a Nazi eagle

over the front entrance porch.

I mean, that's just absolutely incredible.

Thanks for letting us come.

Oh, wow. Look at this!

This is absolutely amazing.

All original.

But what did they use this room for?

For reception of foreign diplomats and leaders.

They were gathering here.

To this building, into this room?

That's incredible.

So this building is massively important.

Is there a basement, or is there anything

that would protect people?

There is a big shelter underneath.

Oh, really?

Can we see that?

Follow you? Yeah.

That's incredible, isn't it?

Just, we're going down and down and down.

After about ten minutes and you're still descending,

you're suddenly thinking, "Hang on a minute.

This is not just a small little air-raid shelter.

This is a really serious tunnel."

What does this remind you of?

It's identical to the piping system they had at the Berghof.

This is communication and power...

The same type of communication they had at the Berghof

at Obersalzberg, they have here.

It's all connected.

Okay, so, this is a series of rooms, isn't it?

So, it's not just a tunnel.

There's chambers down here as well.

Hitler's room, Tim.

Incredible.

We are literally standing where he would've stood.

200 feet below this Nazi-era government building,

the team has uncovered a massive,

multi-chambered bunker system

leading to the personal quarters of Adolf Hitler.

I mean, it's frightening. We are in the room

that was built to protect and hide Adolf Hitler

after the war.

We're thinking about, he's leaving Berlin,

he's going to come down here,

and this gives you everything you need to be safe...

Yep. ...to be hidden, to be secure.

But where can he go from here?

Well, this has got to have an exit point, right?

Yeah, but where?

The team works their way through the tunnel

beyond Hitler's personal bunker.

Ah, look at this.

What was that used for right there?

So, it's an emergency exit.

Oh, my God.

Wow.

This is amazing!

It's unbelievable, isn't it?

It's wooded, it's hidden, and look at that!

A rail line immediately outside of the tunnel,

so you walk out of the tunnel...

No one can see you.

...the train tracks are right there.

Has this railroad always been here?

You're kidding me.

If Adolf Hitler walks out of that tunnel

and he gets on a train...

where's the next stop?

This season on "Hunting Hitler"...

Can you see anything, mate?

Gerrard, you're not going to believe what I just found.

Holy!

If Hitler escaped, he did not do it by himself.

He used a trusted network.

We know that the Nazis were in South America,

but this is at a level that I've never seen before.

If we're going to finally track Hitler down,

we need to deconstruct this network piece by piece...

This goes much deeper than I realized.

...until we get to the bottom of it.

Three, two, one, drop.

This is everything we've been working towards.

What we've stumbled upon is the most powerful weapon

the Nazis had in their arsenal.

We are throwing everything we can at this case...

Oh, my God. Holy.

...to find out what happened to Adolf Hitler once and for all.

Adolf Hitler could come here and know that he was safe.

That's it! That's got to be it.

Put us down right there.

We cannot stop until we find the truth.

This is the last piece of the puzzle, right?

This is it right here.

Subtitles Diego Moraes www.oakisland.tk