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These are the user uploaded subtitles that are being translated: 1 00:00:03,871 --> 00:00:07,475 So, this is from June 12, 1945. 2 00:00:07,508 --> 00:00:09,310 "At this time, the decision had been taken 3 00:00:09,343 --> 00:00:11,479 to divide the ministries in two parts 4 00:00:11,512 --> 00:00:14,515 and establish one government in the north and one in the south." 5 00:00:14,548 --> 00:00:17,585 What this file tells me is they're splitting up, 6 00:00:17,618 --> 00:00:20,521 creating multiple escape routes. 7 00:00:20,554 --> 00:00:22,223 This is big. 8 00:00:22,256 --> 00:00:25,226 We have Hitler spotted on the 24th of April 9 00:00:25,259 --> 00:00:26,660 in Hohenlychen. 10 00:00:26,694 --> 00:00:29,397 And this is six days before he supposedly 11 00:00:29,430 --> 00:00:31,699 committed suicide in the bunker. 12 00:00:31,732 --> 00:00:34,835 Four days later, we have a separate independent witness 13 00:00:34,868 --> 00:00:37,571 identify him leaving by airplane. 14 00:00:39,707 --> 00:00:42,110 We got to see what's going on down there. 15 00:00:46,847 --> 00:00:48,716 Holy... 16 00:00:51,252 --> 00:00:52,720 For the Me 262. 17 00:00:52,753 --> 00:00:56,824 This is the fastest jet the world has ever seen. 18 00:00:56,857 --> 00:00:59,793 If Hitler himself was here and boarded one of these things, 19 00:00:59,827 --> 00:01:01,129 he was out of here in a hurry. 20 00:01:01,162 --> 00:01:04,198 This file tells us 21 00:01:04,232 --> 00:01:05,642 that Kaltenbrunner, commander-in-chief 22 00:01:05,666 --> 00:01:08,202 of all German forces in Southern Europe, 23 00:01:08,236 --> 00:01:09,837 crosses the border into Austria 24 00:01:09,870 --> 00:01:12,840 with more than a ton of paper and dumps it. 25 00:01:12,873 --> 00:01:14,375 This is huge. 26 00:01:20,281 --> 00:01:21,849 He is saying he is absolutely positive 27 00:01:21,882 --> 00:01:24,252 Kaltenbrunner would have hid something in the lake. 28 00:01:24,285 --> 00:01:26,620 Wow. 29 00:01:32,593 --> 00:01:35,196 It's quite a large, rectangular object. 30 00:01:35,229 --> 00:01:36,697 This is huge. 31 00:01:36,730 --> 00:01:38,566 And it could be nothing other than man-made. 32 00:01:38,599 --> 00:01:41,302 Let's get to shore. We need to get this dive started. 33 00:01:43,826 --> 00:01:47,826 HUNTING HITLER - SEASON 3 EP - 3 - Nuclear Nazi Weapons 34 00:01:50,211 --> 00:01:52,846 Kaltenbrunner is the center of Hitler's network. 35 00:01:52,880 --> 00:01:56,684 If Hitler intended to escape Berlin, 36 00:01:56,717 --> 00:01:58,486 he would use Kaltenbrunner. 37 00:01:58,519 --> 00:02:01,589 His activities at the end of the war are gonna tell us 38 00:02:01,622 --> 00:02:03,724 what their intentions were. 39 00:02:03,757 --> 00:02:06,427 21-year CIA veteran Bob Baer 40 00:02:06,460 --> 00:02:08,662 and former terrorist targeting officer 41 00:02:08,696 --> 00:02:11,765 Nada Bakos are using asset-mapping, 42 00:02:11,799 --> 00:02:14,935 the strategy used to dismantle the leadership of Al-Qaeda 43 00:02:14,968 --> 00:02:18,906 and ISIS to track Hitler's known associates and pinpoint 44 00:02:18,939 --> 00:02:24,345 exactly where he could have gone after the end of World War II. 45 00:02:24,378 --> 00:02:27,181 The team is investigating two potential escape routes 46 00:02:27,215 --> 00:02:29,483 for Adolf Hitler after the war... 47 00:02:29,517 --> 00:02:31,952 A northern route through Hohenlychen, Germany, 48 00:02:31,985 --> 00:02:34,888 and a southern route through Altaussee, Austria, 49 00:02:34,922 --> 00:02:37,691 where a declassified CIA document 50 00:02:37,725 --> 00:02:41,295 claims Hitler's close associate Ernst Kaltenbrunner 51 00:02:41,329 --> 00:02:43,964 discarded a cache of secret documents, 52 00:02:43,997 --> 00:02:48,536 including possible Nazi escape plans in a nearby lake. 53 00:02:48,569 --> 00:02:50,971 I think things probably collapsed a lot faster 54 00:02:51,004 --> 00:02:52,673 than they expected. 55 00:02:52,706 --> 00:02:55,209 And any time people like this are on the run, 56 00:02:55,243 --> 00:02:57,811 they're disposing of stuff any way they can. 57 00:02:57,845 --> 00:03:00,714 This tells me that they didn't have a lot of time 58 00:03:00,748 --> 00:03:03,284 'cause the proper protocol for any government 59 00:03:03,317 --> 00:03:05,919 when they're extricating from a facility 60 00:03:05,953 --> 00:03:07,821 is to burn the documents. 61 00:03:07,855 --> 00:03:09,890 Throwing things into the lake is the next best step 62 00:03:09,923 --> 00:03:11,825 if they don't have time to burn it. 63 00:03:11,859 --> 00:03:14,762 They have to do something that they think 64 00:03:14,795 --> 00:03:16,430 will get rid of it. 65 00:03:16,464 --> 00:03:19,600 If the plan was to get Hitler out of Europe, 66 00:03:19,633 --> 00:03:22,936 into South America, it would be in these documents. 67 00:03:22,970 --> 00:03:24,672 Let's get them diving. 68 00:03:36,284 --> 00:03:38,319 -This is your tank. 69 00:03:38,352 --> 00:03:40,288 Okay. Everything's looking good. 70 00:03:40,321 --> 00:03:42,823 Along Hitler's potential southern escape route 71 00:03:42,856 --> 00:03:44,458 in Altaussee, 72 00:03:44,492 --> 00:03:46,927 World War II historian James Holland 73 00:03:46,960 --> 00:03:50,698 and U.S. Army Green Beret Mike Simpson have assembled 74 00:03:50,731 --> 00:03:54,001 an expert dive team led by Gerhard Kaiser. 75 00:03:54,034 --> 00:03:57,471 The team prepares to dive on a large manmade object 76 00:03:57,505 --> 00:04:00,240 they identified using side-scanning sonar. 77 00:04:02,376 --> 00:04:05,713 It's quite a large, sort of rectangular object. 78 00:04:05,746 --> 00:04:08,015 And it could be nothing other than manmade. 79 00:04:08,048 --> 00:04:11,352 Worth diving on that? - Absolutely. 80 00:04:11,385 --> 00:04:14,355 If this documents cache is here and we find it, 81 00:04:14,388 --> 00:04:17,725 this could potentially unlock all of the secrets 82 00:04:17,758 --> 00:04:20,528 to every escaped Nazi of that time period. 83 00:04:20,561 --> 00:04:23,864 Potentially, this is like a big water-filled time capsule 84 00:04:23,897 --> 00:04:25,766 that's just been preserving all this stuff. 85 00:04:25,799 --> 00:04:28,902 Whatever it might have been could still be out there. 86 00:04:28,936 --> 00:04:30,838 We'll be right by you, Mike. 87 00:04:30,871 --> 00:04:33,073 - Let's go. - Let's do it. 88 00:04:33,106 --> 00:04:36,910 Mike and Gerhard will swim the 65 feet from shore 89 00:04:36,944 --> 00:04:40,314 to the location of their sonar hit. 90 00:06:05,065 --> 00:06:08,602 Mike. Can you see anything? 91 00:06:08,636 --> 00:06:11,639 Yeah. It's a vehicle. 92 00:06:11,672 --> 00:06:12,773 -Yes. 93 00:06:12,806 --> 00:06:14,642 You're kidding. 94 00:06:14,675 --> 00:06:17,177 It looks like a vehicle was pushed out into the lake. 95 00:06:17,210 --> 00:06:19,847 Looks like some type of cargo utility vehicle. 96 00:06:19,880 --> 00:06:21,549 The metal frame is very rusted, 97 00:06:21,582 --> 00:06:23,717 but there's wooden slats in the roof. 98 00:06:23,751 --> 00:06:25,586 The fact that we're able to identify 99 00:06:25,619 --> 00:06:28,522 possibly an abandoned Nazi vehicle is huge. 100 00:06:28,556 --> 00:06:30,166 It could have been filled with these documents. 101 00:06:30,190 --> 00:06:31,759 Can you swim around it 102 00:06:31,792 --> 00:06:33,102 and see if you can find anything from it? 103 00:06:33,126 --> 00:06:34,962 Yeah. 104 00:08:16,029 --> 00:08:17,865 Mike. 105 00:08:17,898 --> 00:08:19,567 Let me get a little closer to the boat. 106 00:08:19,600 --> 00:08:21,001 What have you got there? 107 00:08:21,034 --> 00:08:22,670 -Yeah. 108 00:08:25,839 --> 00:08:27,050 Looks like a bayonet of some type. 109 00:08:27,074 --> 00:08:28,676 Yeah, it is a bayonet. 110 00:08:28,709 --> 00:08:30,711 That's a Goebeler German infantryman's bayonet. 111 00:08:30,744 --> 00:08:33,113 I mean, that's just standard issue. 112 00:08:33,146 --> 00:08:36,183 This is in amazing condition, isn't it? 113 00:08:36,216 --> 00:08:37,985 Look at this. 114 00:08:38,018 --> 00:08:41,689 Oh, wow! 115 00:08:41,722 --> 00:08:43,991 Pretty sure that's an Iron Cross. 116 00:08:44,024 --> 00:08:46,660 And that is a kind of, like, a wound medal, 117 00:08:46,694 --> 00:08:49,296 or a campaign medal. 118 00:08:49,329 --> 00:08:52,566 We didn't find quite what we were looking for, 119 00:08:52,600 --> 00:08:54,611 but we have found this vehicle, we have found some medals, 120 00:08:54,635 --> 00:08:56,169 and we have found a bayonet. 121 00:08:56,203 --> 00:08:58,972 That means that the Nazis were dumping stuff. 122 00:08:59,006 --> 00:09:00,841 The question is why. 123 00:09:00,874 --> 00:09:02,275 Why are they doing this? 124 00:09:08,315 --> 00:09:11,785 What we found was this vehicle, 125 00:09:11,819 --> 00:09:16,089 and then we found medals, a bayonet, which was thrown in 126 00:09:16,123 --> 00:09:19,159 contemporaneously with the fleeing Nazis. 127 00:09:19,192 --> 00:09:21,261 While the team continues to investigate 128 00:09:21,294 --> 00:09:24,998 Hitler's potential southern escape route in Austria, 129 00:09:25,032 --> 00:09:27,300 Bob and Nada turn their attention 130 00:09:27,334 --> 00:09:30,270 to the northern escape route Reichlin, Germany, 131 00:09:30,303 --> 00:09:32,673 where a declassified file claims 132 00:09:32,706 --> 00:09:35,843 Hitler was taken away from an airfield two days 133 00:09:35,876 --> 00:09:38,311 before he was believed dead. 134 00:09:38,345 --> 00:09:40,848 The team at Reichlin found a bunker 135 00:09:40,881 --> 00:09:43,617 that actually ended up being bombed, 136 00:09:43,651 --> 00:09:45,352 but within that wreckage, 137 00:09:45,385 --> 00:09:50,624 they found a part of the Messerschmitt Me 262. 138 00:09:50,658 --> 00:09:54,795 This is the fastest jet the world has ever seen. 139 00:09:54,828 --> 00:09:57,097 At the time, it's flying 100 miles per hour faster 140 00:09:57,130 --> 00:09:58,298 than any jet out there. 141 00:09:58,331 --> 00:09:59,900 Put it simply, 142 00:09:59,933 --> 00:10:02,169 you could just outrun the Allied Air Force. 143 00:10:02,202 --> 00:10:06,306 This is the flight radius of an Me 262. 144 00:10:06,339 --> 00:10:09,342 At the end of the war, everybody's heading south. 145 00:10:09,376 --> 00:10:11,144 The Russians are heading south. 146 00:10:11,178 --> 00:10:13,046 The Allies are here. 147 00:10:13,080 --> 00:10:14,915 So where do you go? You go north. 148 00:10:14,948 --> 00:10:16,349 But what do we get up here? 149 00:10:16,383 --> 00:10:20,320 Well, Sweden, we know, was neutral during the war. 150 00:10:20,353 --> 00:10:23,957 Norway, on the other hand... There were still Nazi troops, 151 00:10:23,991 --> 00:10:27,861 and he could have been perfectly safe for months. 152 00:10:27,895 --> 00:10:29,997 On April 9, 1940, 153 00:10:30,030 --> 00:10:32,933 the Nazis successfully invaded Norway. 154 00:10:32,966 --> 00:10:35,969 The Norwegian government was forced into exile, 155 00:10:36,003 --> 00:10:38,105 and the Nazis continue to rule the country 156 00:10:38,138 --> 00:10:40,741 until the end of World War II. 157 00:10:40,774 --> 00:10:43,376 Allied forces never landed in Norway, 158 00:10:43,410 --> 00:10:46,113 and the last German soldier there did not surrender 159 00:10:46,146 --> 00:10:49,783 until four months after the war had ended. 160 00:10:49,817 --> 00:10:53,921 The Germans looked at Norwegians as a superior race, 161 00:10:53,954 --> 00:10:56,356 as one of them, as part of the tribe. 162 00:10:56,389 --> 00:11:00,460 It was a place that the Nazis felt comfortable. 163 00:11:00,493 --> 00:11:04,097 Here we go, "Reporting agency... MI6. 164 00:11:04,131 --> 00:11:07,968 Nazi defensive strategy Norway." 165 00:11:08,001 --> 00:11:11,104 "The line of coastal fortresses in Southern Norway 166 00:11:11,138 --> 00:11:14,041 started from Kristiansand 167 00:11:14,074 --> 00:11:18,345 with the Nazi base of Battery Vara." 168 00:11:18,378 --> 00:11:22,382 This file's telling us that they've got Nazi bases up there. 169 00:11:22,415 --> 00:11:25,252 If Hitler was flying up to Norway, 170 00:11:25,285 --> 00:11:26,954 they would have had support. 171 00:11:26,987 --> 00:11:29,256 Which airfield would be closest? 172 00:11:29,289 --> 00:11:31,224 This is Southern Norway. 173 00:11:31,258 --> 00:11:35,362 We know that the range of the Me 262 could cover all this. 174 00:11:35,395 --> 00:11:37,430 And what do we have here? 175 00:11:37,464 --> 00:11:41,969 Kjevik Airfield... Well-known Nazi air base. 176 00:11:42,002 --> 00:11:44,371 And then going back to that document, 177 00:11:44,404 --> 00:11:47,875 you've got Battery Vara, coastal defense. 178 00:11:47,908 --> 00:11:52,045 And this is clearly in range of Reichlin. 179 00:11:52,079 --> 00:11:54,114 We've got to check this out. 180 00:12:07,527 --> 00:12:10,297 If you didn't want someone to get through this pass, 181 00:12:10,330 --> 00:12:13,033 you put one gun there, and it's locked down. 182 00:12:13,066 --> 00:12:15,435 Tim Kennedy, U.S. Army Special Forces, 183 00:12:15,468 --> 00:12:18,305 investigative journalist Gerrard Williams, 184 00:12:18,338 --> 00:12:20,507 and their local contact, Ashborne, 185 00:12:20,540 --> 00:12:23,010 land in Kristiansand, Norway, 186 00:12:23,043 --> 00:12:26,814 a possible stop along Hitler's potential northern escape route. 187 00:12:29,216 --> 00:12:30,483 We're heading to Battery Vara, 188 00:12:30,517 --> 00:12:33,120 which is on the tip of Kristiansand. 189 00:12:33,153 --> 00:12:36,256 We're going there to see whether or not this huge base 190 00:12:36,289 --> 00:12:38,258 would have been part of a northern escape route. 191 00:12:38,291 --> 00:12:42,062 If you try and put yourself in the place of a high-ranking Nazi 192 00:12:42,095 --> 00:12:44,364 trying to flee the collapse of the Nazi Empire, 193 00:12:44,397 --> 00:12:46,566 you would need safety and security. 194 00:12:46,599 --> 00:12:48,168 -How are you. Tim. Pleasure. 195 00:12:48,201 --> 00:12:50,871 -I'm Gerrard. 196 00:12:50,904 --> 00:12:53,306 The team makes contact with Arold Anderson, 197 00:12:53,340 --> 00:12:56,176 the caretaker at Battery Vara. 198 00:12:56,209 --> 00:12:58,812 We're interested in this area to see 199 00:12:58,846 --> 00:13:00,580 if this could have been a stop-off point 200 00:13:00,613 --> 00:13:02,883 for escaping Nazis. 201 00:13:02,916 --> 00:13:04,784 Who was stationed here? 202 00:13:10,557 --> 00:13:13,560 So, it was 50 houses with soldiers here. 203 00:13:13,593 --> 00:13:17,865 It was 10,150 land mines around there. 204 00:13:17,898 --> 00:13:19,338 - Yeah. - That's a lot of land mines. 205 00:13:19,366 --> 00:13:22,135 Can you tell us a little bit about the cannon? 206 00:13:22,169 --> 00:13:25,038 So, this is, like, a German-style cannon. 207 00:13:28,441 --> 00:13:29,441 What's the range of this? 208 00:13:32,112 --> 00:13:35,415 34 miles. 209 00:13:35,448 --> 00:13:37,617 So, on the northern coast of Denmark, 210 00:13:37,650 --> 00:13:40,520 we have a massive battery... A cannon. 211 00:13:40,553 --> 00:13:42,522 And on the southern tip of Norway, 212 00:13:42,555 --> 00:13:44,992 we have these lining the coast 213 00:13:45,025 --> 00:13:46,960 with interlocking sectors of fire 214 00:13:46,994 --> 00:13:50,130 that's completely locking down the coast. 215 00:13:50,163 --> 00:13:51,464 It was a choke point. 216 00:13:51,498 --> 00:13:53,366 Nobody can get in and out without being 217 00:13:53,400 --> 00:13:56,937 in the effective range of these massive guns. 218 00:13:56,970 --> 00:14:00,073 You can't successfully invade Denmark or Norway by sea. 219 00:14:00,107 --> 00:14:02,342 I've been in the military for 15 years. 220 00:14:02,375 --> 00:14:05,545 I have never seen a gun that size. 221 00:14:05,578 --> 00:14:09,549 This might have been one of the largest weapons on Earth. 222 00:14:09,582 --> 00:14:11,051 Why did they build them here? 223 00:14:11,084 --> 00:14:12,652 What were they protecting? 224 00:14:12,685 --> 00:14:14,287 If this is part of Adolf Hitler's 225 00:14:14,321 --> 00:14:16,156 northern escape route, 226 00:14:16,189 --> 00:14:19,559 I have to see what else is here. 227 00:14:19,592 --> 00:14:22,362 1,000 feet north of the coastal defense cannon, 228 00:14:22,395 --> 00:14:24,664 the team gets access to one of Battery Vara's 229 00:14:24,697 --> 00:14:26,299 heavily fortified bunkers. 230 00:14:26,333 --> 00:14:27,901 All right, where's the entrance? 231 00:14:27,935 --> 00:14:30,270 Right there. 232 00:14:34,607 --> 00:14:37,577 Wow. This is massive. 233 00:14:43,416 --> 00:14:46,053 The size of the room is good. 234 00:14:46,086 --> 00:14:48,421 Oh, my God. 235 00:14:51,224 --> 00:14:53,226 Holy 236 00:14:53,260 --> 00:14:56,930 "Die treue ist das mark der ehre." 237 00:14:56,964 --> 00:14:58,966 "Our belief is at the core of our world," 238 00:14:58,999 --> 00:15:02,069 or, "the core of us"... "at the heart of us." 239 00:15:02,102 --> 00:15:04,972 This is... This is rich Nazi propaganda. 240 00:15:05,005 --> 00:15:08,041 It's probably straight out of "Mein Kampf." 241 00:15:08,075 --> 00:15:10,010 What were they doing here? 242 00:15:20,387 --> 00:15:22,298 So you'd be able to talk to somebody from here... 243 00:15:22,322 --> 00:15:26,293 Somebody in the battery. 244 00:15:26,326 --> 00:15:28,561 This is still in great shape. 245 00:15:34,301 --> 00:15:36,703 130 land lines are running directly to here? 246 00:15:36,736 --> 00:15:39,106 - Yeah. - Yeah. 247 00:15:39,139 --> 00:15:43,443 At Battery Vara, you have four 15.5-inch cannons, 248 00:15:43,476 --> 00:15:46,046 fortified bunkers, 249 00:15:46,079 --> 00:15:50,450 and a complex system of communication. 250 00:15:50,483 --> 00:15:52,552 These are all things that need to be there 251 00:15:52,585 --> 00:15:54,187 if this is part of Adolf Hitler's 252 00:15:54,221 --> 00:15:56,623 northern escape route. 253 00:15:56,656 --> 00:16:01,061 Why, at the end of the war, is this so important? 254 00:16:01,094 --> 00:16:04,631 It's to protect the exit point and the entrance point. 255 00:16:04,664 --> 00:16:06,299 Yeah, but... but of what? 256 00:16:06,333 --> 00:16:10,003 So, we're talking 1945, after the fall of Berlin. 257 00:16:10,037 --> 00:16:11,538 So what are they protecting here? 258 00:16:11,571 --> 00:16:17,044 And what is so important that you still need 15-inch guns 259 00:16:17,077 --> 00:16:19,779 in a complex, interconnected battery system? 260 00:16:26,353 --> 00:16:28,088 He don't want to say it, 261 00:16:28,121 --> 00:16:32,392 but he thinks it's about special weapons. 262 00:16:32,425 --> 00:16:34,561 Nuclear weapons. 263 00:16:36,429 --> 00:16:40,067 Okay, I mean, that's... That's massive. 264 00:16:40,100 --> 00:16:45,405 Adolf Hitler... His only hope for any significant existence... 265 00:16:45,438 --> 00:16:47,407 Is a vengeance weapon of some sort. 266 00:16:47,440 --> 00:16:50,310 This is incredibly important at the end of the war. 267 00:16:50,343 --> 00:16:52,379 He's obsessed with it. 268 00:16:52,412 --> 00:16:54,381 And these guns are protecting... 269 00:16:54,414 --> 00:16:56,083 A wonder weapon, a super weapon, 270 00:16:56,116 --> 00:16:57,660 whatever you want to call the damn things. 271 00:16:57,684 --> 00:17:00,120 There are rumors that Nazi scientists 272 00:17:00,153 --> 00:17:03,823 are working as fast and as hard as they can to develop 273 00:17:03,856 --> 00:17:05,658 Hitler's vengeance weapons. 274 00:17:05,692 --> 00:17:07,660 He wants to see New York in flames. 275 00:17:07,694 --> 00:17:10,730 He wants to destroy 4 million Russians on the Eastern Front. 276 00:17:10,763 --> 00:17:13,666 It would be enough to enable Nazi Germany to go on to do 277 00:17:13,700 --> 00:17:17,404 what they originally planned to do... world domination. 278 00:17:26,779 --> 00:17:29,382 In the 19th century, this place was 279 00:17:29,416 --> 00:17:32,119 an absolute hotbed of Nazis. 280 00:17:32,152 --> 00:17:34,487 Along Hitler's potential southern escape route 281 00:17:34,521 --> 00:17:36,423 in Altaussee, Austria, 282 00:17:36,456 --> 00:17:40,393 James and Mike are following a declassified CIA file 283 00:17:40,427 --> 00:17:42,329 claiming that Nazis had discarded 284 00:17:42,362 --> 00:17:45,265 potential escape plans in the nearby lake. 285 00:17:45,298 --> 00:17:48,135 Okay. It's right in there. 286 00:17:48,168 --> 00:17:51,204 After finding Nazi artifacts in Lake Altaussee, 287 00:17:51,238 --> 00:17:53,373 the team and their translator, Katja, 288 00:17:53,406 --> 00:17:55,508 make contact with Gerhard Zauner, 289 00:17:55,542 --> 00:17:58,378 a local diver and historian. 290 00:17:58,411 --> 00:17:59,655 During the dive into Lake Altaussee, 291 00:17:59,679 --> 00:18:01,381 we retrieved some artifacts... 292 00:18:01,414 --> 00:18:04,217 A bayonet and a couple of German badges. 293 00:18:04,251 --> 00:18:05,785 Gerhard Zauner... 294 00:18:05,818 --> 00:18:08,221 He's been diving these lakes for over 50 years. 295 00:18:08,255 --> 00:18:10,323 Hopefully he can answer why two badges 296 00:18:10,357 --> 00:18:11,758 and a bayonet went in the lake. 297 00:18:11,791 --> 00:18:13,760 I found these. 298 00:18:13,793 --> 00:18:15,395 And we were hoping that you could tell us 299 00:18:15,428 --> 00:18:16,663 a little bit more about them. 300 00:18:23,470 --> 00:18:25,572 That's called the Frozen Medallion 301 00:18:25,605 --> 00:18:27,507 because it's from the war in Finland. 302 00:18:32,945 --> 00:18:35,515 And that's from a battle on the Eastern Front. 303 00:18:35,548 --> 00:18:37,217 There were a great many battles, 304 00:18:37,250 --> 00:18:40,420 and for each one, they created a different medal. 305 00:18:40,453 --> 00:18:42,222 And everyone was just throwing it away 306 00:18:42,255 --> 00:18:43,223 at the end of the war. 307 00:18:43,256 --> 00:18:45,392 Ja. Ja. 308 00:18:52,565 --> 00:18:55,902 Oh, wow, look at that. 309 00:18:55,935 --> 00:18:57,437 So, what's this one? 310 00:18:58,938 --> 00:19:00,607 An EK1, he says. 311 00:19:00,640 --> 00:19:03,276 That's an Iron Cross, first class. 312 00:19:03,310 --> 00:19:06,713 So, these aren't just dog tags and unit insignia 313 00:19:06,746 --> 00:19:08,381 people are throwing in. 314 00:19:08,415 --> 00:19:10,917 I mean, people are throwing in the equivalent 315 00:19:10,950 --> 00:19:13,653 of Silver Star, Distinguished Service Cross. 316 00:19:13,686 --> 00:19:16,723 It must have been difficult for somebody to let it go. 317 00:19:16,756 --> 00:19:18,825 As someone who's spent three decades in uniform, 318 00:19:18,858 --> 00:19:21,394 I can say that your personal identity 319 00:19:21,428 --> 00:19:24,464 is very much entwined with who you are as a soldier. 320 00:19:24,497 --> 00:19:26,499 The idea that these soldiers were stripping off 321 00:19:26,533 --> 00:19:27,934 their uniforms entirely, 322 00:19:27,967 --> 00:19:29,936 awards of valor, campaign medals, 323 00:19:29,969 --> 00:19:32,539 and throwing them into the lake tells me 324 00:19:32,572 --> 00:19:35,508 they were literally shedding their identities. 325 00:19:35,542 --> 00:19:36,909 The way that I look at it... 326 00:19:36,943 --> 00:19:38,845 You're standing on the edge of the water 327 00:19:38,878 --> 00:19:43,250 throwing all of your insignia and your medals into the lake. 328 00:19:43,283 --> 00:19:45,485 You're about to start a new life on the run, 329 00:19:45,518 --> 00:19:47,420 and you're preparing to flee. 330 00:19:47,454 --> 00:19:49,222 Everyone threw everything away 331 00:19:49,256 --> 00:19:50,757 because then no one was a Nazi. 332 00:19:55,895 --> 00:19:58,498 Wow. 333 00:19:58,531 --> 00:19:59,942 He says there was something more important, 334 00:19:59,966 --> 00:20:01,634 and that was survival. 335 00:20:01,668 --> 00:20:03,546 You have to remember that you have the Americans 336 00:20:03,570 --> 00:20:05,338 coming from the West. 337 00:20:05,372 --> 00:20:08,275 You have the Russians coming from the East and Southeast. 338 00:20:08,308 --> 00:20:09,842 You know, before the Allies come, 339 00:20:09,876 --> 00:20:11,711 you're just gonna get rid of this. 340 00:20:11,744 --> 00:20:13,613 This is a classic tactic 341 00:20:13,646 --> 00:20:16,283 that is used for fugitives all around the globe. 342 00:20:16,316 --> 00:20:18,551 The Nazis were able to shed their identities 343 00:20:18,585 --> 00:20:21,554 and freely travel just about anywhere in the world. 344 00:20:21,588 --> 00:20:24,257 The question now is where were they going from here? 345 00:20:24,291 --> 00:20:25,425 Hmm. 346 00:20:25,458 --> 00:20:27,394 I find this really chilling. 347 00:20:33,566 --> 00:20:37,036 The team's local contact has uncovered a living eyewitness 348 00:20:37,069 --> 00:20:40,039 who may have information on Nazi war criminals' movements 349 00:20:40,072 --> 00:20:42,575 through the area at the end of the war. 350 00:20:42,609 --> 00:20:45,712 It's so rare in Austria to find what we call Zeitzeuge, 351 00:20:45,745 --> 00:20:47,847 time witnesses, who are still alive today 352 00:20:47,880 --> 00:20:49,316 and are willing to talk about it. 353 00:20:49,349 --> 00:20:50,983 Yeah. 354 00:20:51,017 --> 00:20:53,486 They make contact with Johan Lidnorner, 355 00:20:53,520 --> 00:20:56,489 one of the oldest living residents of Altaussee. 356 00:20:56,523 --> 00:20:57,690 Herr Lidnorner. 357 00:21:00,026 --> 00:21:02,862 What's suddenly becoming really, really clear 358 00:21:02,895 --> 00:21:07,467 is Nazis in this area were discarding their identities 359 00:21:07,500 --> 00:21:09,902 and going on the run. 360 00:21:09,936 --> 00:21:14,374 What's less clear is where they could have escaped to. 361 00:21:14,407 --> 00:21:16,809 We're really hoping he's gonna be able to cast some light 362 00:21:16,843 --> 00:21:22,014 on those final days of the Third Reich here in Altaussee. 363 00:21:22,048 --> 00:21:24,651 We've known lots of Nazis were fleeing here, 364 00:21:24,684 --> 00:21:26,919 but what we're trying to to is get a picture 365 00:21:26,953 --> 00:21:30,289 of what Altaussee's like at the very end of the war. 366 00:21:33,693 --> 00:21:36,329 There were so many Nazis here that the 367 00:21:36,363 --> 00:21:38,931 general population didn't really think about it too much. 368 00:21:42,535 --> 00:21:44,937 Eichmann? As in Adolf Eichmann? 369 00:21:44,971 --> 00:21:47,840 He said Eichmann. 370 00:21:47,874 --> 00:21:50,009 We all know what happened to him. 371 00:21:50,042 --> 00:21:51,978 He got away. - Yeah. 372 00:21:52,011 --> 00:21:54,747 And knowing that he used Altaussee 373 00:21:54,781 --> 00:21:57,550 potentially as a stepping-off point, as well, 374 00:21:57,584 --> 00:21:59,786 and got away, that's interesting. 375 00:21:59,819 --> 00:22:01,921 Eichmann is the administrator 376 00:22:01,954 --> 00:22:05,525 who organized the rounding up of the Jews 377 00:22:05,558 --> 00:22:08,561 and sent millions of them to their deaths in the death camps 378 00:22:08,595 --> 00:22:11,431 and then eventually made his escape to South America. 379 00:22:11,464 --> 00:22:15,502 Now we're hearing that Eichmann was here in Altaussee, 380 00:22:15,535 --> 00:22:17,504 so you have to ask yourself, 381 00:22:17,537 --> 00:22:19,672 "Well, if Eichmann was in Altaussee, 382 00:22:19,706 --> 00:22:22,509 there has to be a way out of here." 383 00:22:22,542 --> 00:22:27,680 So he fled from here to the West with false papers and money 384 00:22:27,714 --> 00:22:31,718 that he'd been given by Kaltenbrunner. 385 00:22:31,751 --> 00:22:33,453 What happened to Kaltenbrunner? 386 00:22:33,486 --> 00:22:36,155 Kaltenbrunner fled from here to a hunting lodge 387 00:22:36,188 --> 00:22:39,025 that was up in the pasturelands of the Totes Gebirge... 388 00:22:39,058 --> 00:22:41,093 Of the Dead Mountains here. Do you have a name? 389 00:22:43,162 --> 00:22:46,933 So while Kaltenbrunner was in the Northeast, 390 00:22:46,966 --> 00:22:48,601 Eichmann fled west. 391 00:22:48,635 --> 00:22:51,070 - Yes. - Interesting. 392 00:22:51,103 --> 00:22:53,940 Eichmann and Kaltenbrunner were both here at the same time. 393 00:22:53,973 --> 00:22:55,708 Two people who were directly tied 394 00:22:55,742 --> 00:22:57,944 into Adolf Hitler's circle of trust. 395 00:22:57,977 --> 00:23:00,613 But the fact that Eichmann escaped to the west 396 00:23:00,647 --> 00:23:03,550 while Kaltenbrunner fled in an entirely different direction... 397 00:23:03,583 --> 00:23:04,751 That raises a question... 398 00:23:04,784 --> 00:23:06,486 What was going on here? 399 00:23:16,563 --> 00:23:17,806 One of the reasons they went to Austria 400 00:23:17,830 --> 00:23:19,866 was to shed their identity. 401 00:23:19,899 --> 00:23:22,502 What you're getting rid of is the swastika, 402 00:23:22,535 --> 00:23:25,805 or any campaign medals to show that you've been a soldier. 403 00:23:25,838 --> 00:23:28,641 While the team continues to investigate 404 00:23:28,675 --> 00:23:31,844 Hitler's potential southern escape route through Austria, 405 00:23:31,878 --> 00:23:34,814 Bob and Nada shift their focus to the findings 406 00:23:34,847 --> 00:23:37,684 from the northern escape route. 407 00:23:37,717 --> 00:23:39,519 The team's found a lot in Norway. 408 00:23:39,552 --> 00:23:40,887 It's a fortress. 409 00:23:40,920 --> 00:23:45,191 The bunkers, the communications, the defense. 410 00:23:45,224 --> 00:23:47,470 This evidence points to the fact that this could have been 411 00:23:47,494 --> 00:23:49,896 the next stop on the northern escape route. 412 00:23:49,929 --> 00:23:51,564 Not only that... 413 00:23:51,598 --> 00:23:55,067 They're protecting a secret weapons operation. 414 00:23:55,101 --> 00:23:58,871 Hitler was obsessed with the ultimate weapon, 415 00:23:58,905 --> 00:24:01,641 which would allow them to conquer the world. 416 00:24:01,674 --> 00:24:05,878 We found in South America the physical evidence 417 00:24:05,912 --> 00:24:09,982 they were making a secret weapons program. 418 00:24:10,016 --> 00:24:14,220 This map depicts a plan to bomb the United States, 419 00:24:14,253 --> 00:24:18,791 and more specifically Manhattan Island. 420 00:24:18,825 --> 00:24:21,628 This is to prevent radiation from escaping. 421 00:24:21,661 --> 00:24:23,630 That's how close they were. 422 00:24:23,663 --> 00:24:26,799 Can we find proof of a weapons operation in Norway? 423 00:24:26,833 --> 00:24:29,869 Let's take a look. 424 00:24:29,902 --> 00:24:33,506 Here we go. 425 00:24:33,540 --> 00:24:37,877 MI6, 1944, "Intercepted Telegram." 426 00:24:37,910 --> 00:24:42,682 "The most important technical advance in the war 427 00:24:42,715 --> 00:24:45,752 is the research on this new type of weapon. 428 00:24:45,785 --> 00:24:49,956 Germany has a large hydroelectric plant for this 429 00:24:49,989 --> 00:24:53,526 in the vicinity of Rjukan, Norway. 430 00:24:53,560 --> 00:24:57,664 They've got a special weapons plant here in Rjukan, Norway. 431 00:24:57,697 --> 00:25:00,667 When ISIS went into Mosul and captured territory, 432 00:25:00,700 --> 00:25:01,810 they were using the infrastructure 433 00:25:01,834 --> 00:25:03,770 that the Iraqis had built. 434 00:25:03,803 --> 00:25:05,905 They took over their oil supply. 435 00:25:05,938 --> 00:25:07,215 Yeah, I mean, this is what the Nazis did. 436 00:25:07,239 --> 00:25:09,709 Every country they invaded they used 437 00:25:09,742 --> 00:25:12,211 whatever technology was predominant. 438 00:25:12,244 --> 00:25:15,047 If the Nazis are taking over a hydroelectric plant, 439 00:25:15,081 --> 00:25:16,683 it's for a purpose. 440 00:25:16,716 --> 00:25:17,726 They're not doing it to make money. 441 00:25:17,750 --> 00:25:19,151 They need this facility 442 00:25:19,185 --> 00:25:23,222 to create weapons of mass destruction. 443 00:25:23,255 --> 00:25:25,792 I want to know how far they got with this plan. 444 00:25:25,825 --> 00:25:27,960 What's going on in Rjukan will tell us 445 00:25:27,994 --> 00:25:31,931 what their plans were for the Fourth Reich. 446 00:25:31,964 --> 00:25:34,567 We've got to find out what they were doing there. 447 00:25:47,379 --> 00:25:49,057 We're getting close to where we're supposed to be. 448 00:25:49,081 --> 00:25:51,017 It's very rugged. 449 00:25:51,050 --> 00:25:53,820 Following Hitler's potential northern escape route, 450 00:25:53,853 --> 00:25:56,956 Tim and Gerrard hit the ground in Rjukan, Norway, 451 00:25:56,989 --> 00:26:01,594 home of the Vemork Hydroelectric Plant. 452 00:26:01,628 --> 00:26:03,329 God it's incredibly well-built. 453 00:26:03,362 --> 00:26:04,797 - Hello. - Hi. 454 00:26:04,831 --> 00:26:06,599 - Hi. - Hello, there. 455 00:26:06,633 --> 00:26:08,901 The team makes contact with facilities manager 456 00:26:08,935 --> 00:26:12,939 Runor Lay and Vemork historian Frederick Seride. 457 00:26:12,972 --> 00:26:15,642 We have intelligence that they were making components 458 00:26:15,675 --> 00:26:18,778 of a weapon of mass destruction here at Vemork. 459 00:26:18,811 --> 00:26:20,388 We need to find out what they were making 460 00:26:20,412 --> 00:26:24,383 and what happened to it. 461 00:26:24,416 --> 00:26:26,018 Huh. It's impressive. Yeah. 462 00:26:39,966 --> 00:26:41,668 - Made fertilizer. - Yeah. 463 00:26:41,701 --> 00:26:43,646 - So, phosphate mining here. - That's right. Yeah. 464 00:26:43,670 --> 00:26:45,638 But you can also make explosives from fertilizer. 465 00:26:50,242 --> 00:26:51,944 No. 466 00:26:54,346 --> 00:26:57,049 Heavy water... It was made here. 467 00:26:57,083 --> 00:26:58,885 It was made here, yes. 468 00:26:58,918 --> 00:27:00,763 Heavy water's one of the most important components 469 00:27:00,787 --> 00:27:02,054 of a nuclear bomb. 470 00:27:02,088 --> 00:27:05,157 Heavy water plus uranium equals plutonium. 471 00:27:05,191 --> 00:27:07,359 And that's a nuclear bomb. 472 00:27:07,393 --> 00:27:09,929 Heavy water is a form of water with added mass 473 00:27:09,962 --> 00:27:11,798 and alternate chemical properties. 474 00:27:11,831 --> 00:27:13,933 It is created by running large amounts 475 00:27:13,966 --> 00:27:15,868 of electrical current through normal water. 476 00:27:15,902 --> 00:27:20,306 In the 1940s, heavy-water reactors fueled by uranium 477 00:27:20,339 --> 00:27:22,709 were used to create plutonium, 478 00:27:22,742 --> 00:27:26,212 the explosive component in a nuclear bomb. 479 00:27:26,245 --> 00:27:27,947 How much did they make here? 480 00:27:43,129 --> 00:27:44,764 This is scary. 481 00:27:44,797 --> 00:27:46,374 This is Adolf Hitler developing a component 482 00:27:46,398 --> 00:27:48,467 for a nuclear weapon. 483 00:27:48,500 --> 00:27:50,012 Adolf Hitler could have a nuclear bomb. 484 00:27:50,036 --> 00:27:52,304 - Before you had. - Yeah. 485 00:27:52,338 --> 00:27:56,308 And that would have changed the world completely. 486 00:27:56,342 --> 00:27:58,945 So, this heavy water, which is what they needed 487 00:27:58,978 --> 00:28:01,380 for their nuclear program... - Yeah. 488 00:28:01,413 --> 00:28:03,694 Where were they making it, and where were they storing it? 489 00:28:13,760 --> 00:28:14,827 Does it still exist? 490 00:28:18,931 --> 00:28:23,435 Is there any access into what that basement area was? 491 00:28:26,338 --> 00:28:28,450 We have to find if there's any way to get into this basement. 492 00:28:28,474 --> 00:28:30,242 I completely agree with you. 493 00:28:30,276 --> 00:28:32,444 I need to find out what happened to that heavy water. 494 00:28:32,478 --> 00:28:34,881 If they had hopes, any aspirations, 495 00:28:34,914 --> 00:28:36,849 of having a Fourth Reich in South America, 496 00:28:36,883 --> 00:28:38,160 they're not gonna be leaving Europe without it. 497 00:28:38,184 --> 00:28:39,886 They're gonna bring it with them. 498 00:28:39,919 --> 00:28:43,289 Can you get us to that area where we could maybe 499 00:28:43,322 --> 00:28:44,390 find an access point? 500 00:28:46,826 --> 00:28:49,295 - Let's go see. - Yeah. 501 00:28:49,328 --> 00:28:51,998 The team travels to an overlook a half mile away 502 00:28:52,031 --> 00:28:53,766 from the hydroelectric plant 503 00:28:53,800 --> 00:28:56,168 to gain a better vantage point of the area 504 00:28:56,202 --> 00:28:58,404 where the heavy-water factory once stood. 505 00:28:58,437 --> 00:28:59,872 Let me take a look at those. 506 00:28:59,906 --> 00:29:02,942 Yeah. 507 00:29:02,975 --> 00:29:06,078 I can see the power plant. 508 00:29:06,112 --> 00:29:09,148 So, this is our perspective right here. 509 00:29:09,181 --> 00:29:12,251 At least we can see where the corner of the factory was, 510 00:29:12,284 --> 00:29:13,886 and the bottom floor... 511 00:29:13,920 --> 00:29:15,154 It's where that tree line is. 512 00:29:15,187 --> 00:29:17,423 - Yeah. - Which means the basement 513 00:29:17,456 --> 00:29:20,092 is gonna be even below that. 514 00:29:20,126 --> 00:29:22,328 Now it's figuring out where to go in. 515 00:29:22,361 --> 00:29:23,538 Where do you think our best chance 516 00:29:23,562 --> 00:29:24,931 to find an entry point is? 517 00:29:32,304 --> 00:29:36,175 There is something... 518 00:29:36,208 --> 00:29:38,477 right on that cliff face. 519 00:29:38,510 --> 00:29:40,446 That could be our access point. 520 00:29:40,479 --> 00:29:42,849 Tim has spotted what could be an entrance 521 00:29:42,882 --> 00:29:45,451 into the factory's former basement. 522 00:29:45,484 --> 00:29:49,989 We know what Adolf Hitler did with trains and gas chambers. 523 00:29:50,022 --> 00:29:52,191 Millions of lives were lost. 524 00:29:52,224 --> 00:29:54,136 The thought of him having a weapon of mass destruction... 525 00:29:54,160 --> 00:29:56,929 A nuclear weapon... There's nothing scarier. 526 00:29:56,963 --> 00:29:59,431 We need to figure out exactly how close they really got. 527 00:29:59,465 --> 00:30:01,000 So, how the hell do you get up to it? 528 00:30:01,033 --> 00:30:02,201 We got to climb. 529 00:30:11,243 --> 00:30:12,378 The team in Rjukan found out 530 00:30:12,411 --> 00:30:14,280 they were manufacturing heavy water. 531 00:30:14,313 --> 00:30:17,583 They were not using heavy water for a power reactor. 532 00:30:17,616 --> 00:30:20,352 They were using it to make a nuclear bomb. 533 00:30:20,386 --> 00:30:23,022 While the team in Norway continues investigating 534 00:30:23,055 --> 00:30:25,424 Hitler's potential northern escape route, 535 00:30:25,457 --> 00:30:28,060 Bob and Nada turn their attention 536 00:30:28,094 --> 00:30:29,437 to the southern escape route through 537 00:30:29,461 --> 00:30:32,131 Altaussee, Austria. 538 00:30:32,164 --> 00:30:35,234 The team has actually talked to a resident in Altaussee 539 00:30:35,267 --> 00:30:38,304 who said that Kaltenbrunner fled up into the Alps. 540 00:30:38,337 --> 00:30:41,908 Adolf Eichmann is in Altaussee, too. 541 00:30:41,941 --> 00:30:46,312 Eichmann was one of the most wanted Nazis after Hitler. 542 00:30:46,345 --> 00:30:48,614 We know he made it to South America. 543 00:30:48,647 --> 00:30:52,218 So we now know the southern escape route 544 00:30:52,251 --> 00:30:56,588 was absolutely a legitimate escape route 545 00:30:56,622 --> 00:30:59,025 for high-ranking Nazis. 546 00:30:59,058 --> 00:31:01,928 We no longer have to prove this route would have worked. 547 00:31:01,961 --> 00:31:03,930 It's not a hypothetical. 548 00:31:03,963 --> 00:31:07,166 We've got a mass murderer who takes the route 549 00:31:07,199 --> 00:31:08,600 and gets to Argentina. 550 00:31:08,634 --> 00:31:10,236 Now we have to find out 551 00:31:10,269 --> 00:31:12,939 could Hitler have used the southern route. 552 00:31:12,972 --> 00:31:15,908 So, we know Eichmannts away to. 553 00:31:15,942 --> 00:31:18,044 But what happens to Kaltenbrunner? 554 00:31:18,077 --> 00:31:20,446 The witness in Altaussee... 555 00:31:20,479 --> 00:31:22,648 He told us about a hut up in the mountains 556 00:31:22,681 --> 00:31:24,583 where Kaltenbrunner was hiding out. 557 00:31:24,616 --> 00:31:27,119 I want to find out what went on at this hut. 558 00:31:29,956 --> 00:31:33,325 Here we go. 559 00:31:33,359 --> 00:31:35,194 So, this one's from U.S. Army... 560 00:31:35,227 --> 00:31:37,129 "Last days of Ernst Kaltenbrunner." 561 00:31:37,163 --> 00:31:38,630 On 12 May 1945, 562 00:31:38,664 --> 00:31:41,667 Kaltenbrunner was arrested at Altaussee, Austria. 563 00:31:41,700 --> 00:31:45,704 He had been hiding in a mountain cabin called Wildensee Huette. 564 00:31:45,737 --> 00:31:48,107 So Kaltenbrunner was captured. 565 00:31:48,140 --> 00:31:49,617 Why is Eichmann getting away from Altaussee, 566 00:31:49,641 --> 00:31:51,543 and Kaltenbrunner is not? 567 00:31:51,577 --> 00:31:56,215 If anybody knows his way out of Austria, it's Kaltenbrunner. 568 00:31:56,248 --> 00:31:58,951 He's got networks. He's got people. 569 00:31:58,985 --> 00:32:00,452 He knows how to get away. 570 00:32:00,486 --> 00:32:03,489 So why'd he hang out in this hut? 571 00:32:03,522 --> 00:32:05,591 What was so special about this hut? 572 00:32:18,337 --> 00:32:20,973 Along Hitler's potential southern escape route 573 00:32:21,007 --> 00:32:25,244 in Altaussee, Mike and James secured a helicopter to travel 574 00:32:25,277 --> 00:32:29,181 the nearly 5,000 vertical feet up to the remote Alpine hut 575 00:32:29,215 --> 00:32:31,683 where Ernst Kaltenbrunner was captured. 576 00:32:31,717 --> 00:32:33,685 As an investigator, it's very important 577 00:32:33,719 --> 00:32:36,555 for me to see the location of the Wildensee Huette. 578 00:32:36,588 --> 00:32:38,224 I know that Kaltenbrunner was there. 579 00:32:38,257 --> 00:32:40,059 I know he was captured there. 580 00:32:40,092 --> 00:32:42,294 That tells me there's something going on here. 581 00:32:42,328 --> 00:32:45,364 I need to know why this location is so important. 582 00:32:56,075 --> 00:32:58,277 What really strikes you when you're in a helicopter 583 00:32:58,310 --> 00:32:59,778 is just how remote this is. 584 00:32:59,811 --> 00:33:02,381 I mean, you know, there is nothing else around. 585 00:33:02,414 --> 00:33:06,985 All you can just see is vast expanse of mountainous terrain. 586 00:33:44,190 --> 00:33:46,158 Let's go and have a look. 587 00:33:46,192 --> 00:33:47,535 This is exactly what they saw back then 588 00:33:47,559 --> 00:33:49,595 when they came up here. 589 00:33:53,832 --> 00:33:55,267 Once on the ground, you can see 590 00:33:55,301 --> 00:33:56,835 what a treacherous landscape this is. 591 00:33:56,868 --> 00:33:58,670 And then you get into the actual hut. 592 00:33:58,704 --> 00:34:01,173 It's rustic. It's roughly made. 593 00:34:01,207 --> 00:34:05,177 This is just a simple wooden mountain shack. 594 00:34:05,211 --> 00:34:08,447 This is not a place for long-term habitation. 595 00:34:08,480 --> 00:34:10,082 It's got a stove. 596 00:34:10,116 --> 00:34:13,819 It's got some facilities, but pretty basic. 597 00:34:13,852 --> 00:34:16,488 If you're trying to flee, surely he couldn't have gone 598 00:34:16,522 --> 00:34:18,357 all this way to this hut 599 00:34:18,390 --> 00:34:22,261 with no ongoing escape route already prepared. 600 00:34:22,294 --> 00:34:26,298 What was this guy up to? 601 00:34:26,332 --> 00:34:28,334 We should see where there is a path out of here. 602 00:34:28,367 --> 00:34:32,171 So we're looking east-southeast this way. 603 00:34:32,204 --> 00:34:35,207 Okay, that's not a route, is it? I mean, look at that. 604 00:34:35,241 --> 00:34:36,875 No, not a place you want to go, 605 00:34:36,908 --> 00:34:39,278 either coming up or going down. 606 00:34:39,311 --> 00:34:40,679 That way is Altaussee. 607 00:34:40,712 --> 00:34:42,581 That is the route from which he's just come. 608 00:34:42,614 --> 00:34:45,117 You know, he knows the Americans are hot on their tails. 609 00:34:45,151 --> 00:34:47,319 He's not gonna go back down that route. 610 00:34:47,353 --> 00:34:50,256 There's no way you're gonna escape this way. 611 00:34:50,289 --> 00:34:51,723 This is what we're looking at. 612 00:34:51,757 --> 00:34:52,900 Here's that ridge that we're looking at up here. 613 00:34:52,924 --> 00:34:54,660 - Yep. - It's a monster ridge. 614 00:34:54,693 --> 00:34:56,262 And what's the other side? 615 00:34:56,295 --> 00:34:57,839 More of the same, so it just gets higher. 616 00:34:57,863 --> 00:35:00,732 Yeah, look, we're in a nice, little bowl here... 617 00:35:00,766 --> 00:35:03,469 Yeah. ...but we're literally surrounded. 618 00:35:03,502 --> 00:35:07,539 Surrounded. So you're going into a boxed canyon. 619 00:35:07,573 --> 00:35:09,775 - This is a dead-end spot. - Terrible. 620 00:35:09,808 --> 00:35:11,543 Everything about Kaltenbrunner's capture 621 00:35:11,577 --> 00:35:14,146 just seems slightly out-of-kilter to me. 622 00:35:14,180 --> 00:35:16,415 You look at the simplicity of this hut, 623 00:35:16,448 --> 00:35:18,917 you're looking at the difficulty of the terrain around you, 624 00:35:18,950 --> 00:35:21,887 and you realize that this is clearly a dead end. 625 00:35:21,920 --> 00:35:25,257 And Kaltenbrunner must have known this. 626 00:35:25,291 --> 00:35:30,196 So you're starting to think, "Why did he come up here?" 627 00:35:30,229 --> 00:35:34,666 What if his sole purpose was drawing somebody up 628 00:35:34,700 --> 00:35:36,502 into the absolute worst direction 629 00:35:36,535 --> 00:35:39,805 to flee that it's gonna take him a long time to get up into 630 00:35:39,838 --> 00:35:41,773 and only one way back out 631 00:35:41,807 --> 00:35:45,311 to give somebody else more time to get out of here? 632 00:35:45,344 --> 00:35:46,845 You know, if he's up here 633 00:35:46,878 --> 00:35:48,880 kind of waiting to be the fall guy, 634 00:35:48,914 --> 00:35:51,483 that would give time for other people 635 00:35:51,517 --> 00:35:55,387 to start moving these networks elsewhere. 636 00:35:55,421 --> 00:35:58,590 He's gonna draw all that attention on himself 637 00:35:58,624 --> 00:36:00,426 in this little cabin. 638 00:36:00,459 --> 00:36:03,729 Meanwhile, everyone else, including Adolf Eichmann, 639 00:36:03,762 --> 00:36:05,931 or possibly Adolf Hitler, himself, 640 00:36:05,964 --> 00:36:09,835 is using all these better routes to get out of here. 641 00:36:09,868 --> 00:36:12,671 That basically, he's willing to give himself up here 642 00:36:12,704 --> 00:36:14,440 at this cabin. 643 00:36:14,473 --> 00:36:16,742 Kaltenbrunner was fiercely loyal to the Reich, 644 00:36:16,775 --> 00:36:18,710 fiercely loyal to the Fuhrer. 645 00:36:18,744 --> 00:36:21,213 Could it possibly have been that Kaltenbrunner 646 00:36:21,247 --> 00:36:24,250 was being a sacrificial lamb to draw suspicion away 647 00:36:24,283 --> 00:36:26,618 and give others time to escape 648 00:36:26,652 --> 00:36:28,887 and time to plan the Fourth Reich? 649 00:36:40,899 --> 00:36:43,869 So, we know that there's a subterranean area here. 650 00:36:43,902 --> 00:36:45,971 Without a doubt. 651 00:36:46,004 --> 00:36:48,015 Along Adolf Hitler's potential northern escape route 652 00:36:48,039 --> 00:36:49,408 in Rjukan, Norway, 653 00:36:49,441 --> 00:36:51,377 Tim and Gerrard are investigating 654 00:36:51,410 --> 00:36:52,878 a hydroelectric plant 655 00:36:52,911 --> 00:36:55,381 where a declassified MI6 telegram 656 00:36:55,414 --> 00:36:58,917 claims the Nazis were running a secret weapons operation. 657 00:36:58,950 --> 00:37:00,786 - That's hopefully our guy. - Okay. 658 00:37:00,819 --> 00:37:03,589 To reach a cliff-side location of a possible entry point 659 00:37:03,622 --> 00:37:07,293 into the basement of a former heavy-water storage facility, 660 00:37:07,326 --> 00:37:09,928 the team has called in local climbing guide Hogan Skipper. 661 00:37:09,961 --> 00:37:11,463 - Hogan. - Hello. 662 00:37:11,497 --> 00:37:13,299 Tim. Pleasure to meet you. 663 00:37:13,332 --> 00:37:15,467 The Nazis were making heavy water in the basement 664 00:37:15,501 --> 00:37:19,338 of a facility that was destroyed on this property. 665 00:37:19,371 --> 00:37:21,273 No one knows what happened to the heavy water 666 00:37:21,307 --> 00:37:22,974 that was in that facility. 667 00:37:23,008 --> 00:37:25,644 We have to see if there's any still here, 668 00:37:25,677 --> 00:37:27,679 or if this heavy water could have moved 669 00:37:27,713 --> 00:37:29,848 out of Norway to South America. 670 00:37:29,881 --> 00:37:31,883 When we were scouting and reconning from over there 671 00:37:31,917 --> 00:37:35,754 with binoculars, we could see that retaining wall, 672 00:37:35,787 --> 00:37:39,458 or what could potentially have been an entrance. 673 00:37:39,491 --> 00:37:42,828 I want you to get on a radio with my binoculars, 674 00:37:42,861 --> 00:37:45,731 get on that side, and you're gonna be my eyes. 675 00:37:45,764 --> 00:37:47,799 You're gonna walk me into that door. 676 00:37:47,833 --> 00:37:50,502 Okay. 677 00:37:50,536 --> 00:37:53,772 Good luck. 678 00:37:53,805 --> 00:37:56,675 Safety lines first. 679 00:37:56,708 --> 00:37:58,577 Tim will be the first person to try 680 00:37:58,610 --> 00:38:03,349 and access the basement since it was destroyed in 1945. 681 00:38:03,382 --> 00:38:05,617 Gerrard travels to the other side of the ravine 682 00:38:05,651 --> 00:38:08,787 to guide him toward their target. 683 00:38:08,820 --> 00:38:11,390 All right, lock that in right there. 684 00:38:11,423 --> 00:38:13,659 - Locked. - Okay. 685 00:38:17,996 --> 00:38:19,465 Gerrard, this is Tim. Over. 686 00:38:25,136 --> 00:38:27,373 Understood. 687 00:38:38,450 --> 00:38:41,119 Tim, I can see the crack we were talking about earlier. 688 00:38:41,152 --> 00:38:43,689 You seem to be just on the tree line. 689 00:38:43,722 --> 00:38:46,558 You need to come maybe 30 feet to your right. 690 00:39:00,806 --> 00:39:02,941 Stop right there, Tim. 691 00:39:12,851 --> 00:39:14,753 Underneath the wall, it's just rock. 692 00:39:17,122 --> 00:39:20,826 There's two more overhangs, but there's nothing below it. 693 00:39:20,859 --> 00:39:22,528 This is not a way in. 694 00:39:22,561 --> 00:39:24,996 We're gonna have to scout this entire mountainside 695 00:39:25,030 --> 00:39:27,032 to see if there is another access point. 696 00:39:30,436 --> 00:39:32,504 In order to find an alternate entry point 697 00:39:32,538 --> 00:39:35,441 into the basement of the former heavy-water factory, 698 00:39:35,474 --> 00:39:37,743 Tim scours the square mile of forest 699 00:39:37,776 --> 00:39:39,778 where the facility once stood. 700 00:39:39,811 --> 00:39:41,980 Rather steep here. 701 00:39:42,013 --> 00:39:44,916 This is the area. 702 00:39:44,950 --> 00:39:46,452 There's something over there. 703 00:39:46,485 --> 00:39:48,554 There's some cement. 704 00:39:51,056 --> 00:39:52,524 All right, here. 705 00:39:57,028 --> 00:40:00,732 This is a space. This is a hole right here. 706 00:40:00,766 --> 00:40:06,838 It's only a couple inches, but it goes straight back. 707 00:40:06,872 --> 00:40:08,707 200 feet from the main building, 708 00:40:08,740 --> 00:40:11,943 Tim has located what appears to be a small hole 709 00:40:11,977 --> 00:40:16,014 leading into the basement of the former heavy-water factory. 710 00:40:16,047 --> 00:40:17,783 This has potential. 711 00:40:17,816 --> 00:40:20,118 Right now this hole in the ground is our best chance 712 00:40:20,151 --> 00:40:23,021 at finding out what potentially happened with this heavy water. 713 00:40:23,054 --> 00:40:26,825 I could be just feet away from real, actual, 714 00:40:26,858 --> 00:40:31,497 physical evidence that the Nazis were developing a nuclear bomb. 715 00:40:31,530 --> 00:40:32,974 We should be able to lift some of this off 716 00:40:32,998 --> 00:40:35,901 and then cut one or two of these bars, 717 00:40:35,934 --> 00:40:37,812 which might give us a big enough hole to get in there. 718 00:40:37,836 --> 00:40:39,046 - Let's try it out. - All right. 719 00:40:46,812 --> 00:40:48,780 Almost there. 720 00:40:51,517 --> 00:40:54,252 - That's a cave. - It is. 721 00:40:54,285 --> 00:40:56,755 I think I can fit in there. 722 00:40:56,788 --> 00:40:58,924 Gerrard, this is Tim. Over. 723 00:40:58,957 --> 00:41:00,759 Yes, Tim. 724 00:41:00,792 --> 00:41:04,095 Hey, we made about a ·foot hole 725 00:41:04,129 --> 00:41:06,698 probably big enough for me to slip down. 726 00:41:06,732 --> 00:41:09,535 I'm gonna go in 727 00:41:09,568 --> 00:41:13,004 to see what exactly's around this corner. 728 00:41:13,038 --> 00:41:15,907 Roger that. 729 00:41:24,550 --> 00:41:26,785 Tim? 730 00:41:31,056 --> 00:41:34,793 Tim? 731 00:41:34,826 --> 00:41:37,028 Yeah, I'm in. Hogan? 732 00:41:37,062 --> 00:41:38,664 Yep? 733 00:41:38,697 --> 00:41:42,534 Everything is just rubble. 734 00:41:42,568 --> 00:41:45,270 It's all rebar and cement. 735 00:41:45,303 --> 00:41:47,773 Okay. No way of going further? 736 00:41:47,806 --> 00:41:49,274 No, there's not... 737 00:41:49,307 --> 00:41:53,812 There's no way we're gonna get one foot deeper. 738 00:41:53,845 --> 00:41:55,781 I can see deeper through this rubble. 739 00:41:58,249 --> 00:42:03,321 I see a room back there. There's nothing in there. 740 00:42:03,354 --> 00:42:07,058 It's empty. 741 00:42:07,092 --> 00:42:10,762 Those barrels of heavy water are gone. 742 00:42:10,796 --> 00:42:13,164 We have to know where it went 743 00:42:13,198 --> 00:42:15,867 and what they were gonna do with it. 744 00:42:15,901 --> 00:42:17,202 This was their chance 745 00:42:17,235 --> 00:42:20,005 of making the Fourth Reich a reality. 746 00:42:25,811 --> 00:42:28,614 What was going on in this place? 747 00:42:28,647 --> 00:42:33,318 At the end of the war, the Nazis counterfeited British money. 748 00:42:33,351 --> 00:42:36,354 Counterfeit money? 749 00:42:36,387 --> 00:42:37,956 That's incredible. 750 00:42:37,989 --> 00:42:39,991 If you want a system that can help Nazis 751 00:42:40,025 --> 00:42:41,993 get out of here and away to freedom, 752 00:42:42,027 --> 00:42:44,696 this is about as good as it gets. 753 00:42:44,730 --> 00:42:48,033 If we're gonna find any evidence of heavy water, 754 00:42:48,066 --> 00:42:51,637 one of the necessary components to making a nuclear weapon, 755 00:42:51,670 --> 00:42:53,271 where should I look? 756 00:42:53,304 --> 00:42:56,675 The best place to look is in this area under water. 757 00:43:02,814 --> 00:43:05,984 This is unbelievable! 758 00:43:06,017 --> 00:43:09,187 We have a U-boat! 759 00:43:09,211 --> 00:43:11,211 Subtitles Diego Moraes www.oakisland.tk 58954

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