All language subtitles for Hunting Hitler.S03E00

I decided to do
this investigation

because the
United States government,

the British government,
and Joseph Stalin

all believed

there's a good possibility
that Hitler got away.

♪♪

DePaul: The body that was
wrapped up in that blanket...

was not him.

That's a problem.

So we are taking evidence

collected around the world...

This is report after report.

Government documents,

trails, leads,

and we are following them
to the very end.

We got an escape tunnel.

♪♪

Oh, my God.

Narrator: In this
special episode

of "Hunting Hitler,"

21-year CIA veteran Bob Baer

and his team of experts

offer a first-hand look inside

the definitive investigation

into the true fate
of Adolf Hitler.

Williams: Every piece
of evidence we've uncovered

as a team has brought us
closer and closer

to the truth about
what happened to Adolf Hitler.

No way.
- Is that a swastika?

Baer: When I started
this investigation,

it was just a curiosity for me.

Seeing the evidence...

it's no longer a curiosity.

We're looking to put together
the last pieces of this puzzle.

♪♪

So what we have to do
is keep looking.

Narrator: Now along
with exclusive previews

of the next stage
of the investigation...

This what Hitler's room.
- Wow!

Narrator: the team reviews
their most explosive evidence...

Kennedy: Holy [bleep]

Williams: I've not had bits
fall into place like this,

and I've been doing this story
a long time.

Narrator: and the strategies
and methods they've employed...

Simpson: The single
most important thing

as an investigator...

You can't let a locked door
get in your way.

Baer: With or without
their cooperation,

we will get to the truth.

Narrator: to reveal
a behind-the-scenes look

into the previous seasons
of "Hunting Hitler,"

and the anatomy of a manhunt.

Look at this.
- This is final chapter.

[ Beeping ]

Kennedy: I have
explosive detected.

We are throwing everything
we can at this case,

and we will stop at nothing.

Holy [bleep].

It's no joke.

We're going to find out
what happened to Adolf Hitler...

♪♪

Once and for all.

Baer: This is sounding, to me,

closer than
we've been to the truth

since we started this.

No question about it.

Narrator:
Nearly three years ago,

Bob and his team began
a multi-phase investigation,

and are now on the brink
of putting an end

to one of the greatest mysteries
in modern history.

Could Adolf Hitler have survived
World War II?

The simple narrative
for most people,

what lets them go to bed
at night,

is that Hitler died
in the bunker.

But the problem is,

when we looked for the evidence,
it didn't exist.

♪♪

Narrator: On April 30, 1945,

with Soviet troops closing in
on Berlin,

Hitler and his wife, Eva Braun,

were reported to have
committed suicide

in his Fuhrerbunker.

On May 2nd, Soviet troops
stormed Hitler's bunker,

contaminating the crime scene,
and eventually shipped

Hitler's supposed remains
back to Moscow.

Baer: Stalin says,
"I want proof he's dead."

They find a cranium
with a bullet in it.

The one piece of forensics
available to us

turns out not to be Hitler's.

Bellantoni: We did have
an opportunity to examine

the cranial vault fragment.

Narrator: When American
scientist Nick Bellantoni

conducted a DNA analysis
on the skull

the Soviets claimed
was Hitler's,

it was determined that
the remains

belonged to a woman.

We are now in a position to say

we don't have a clue
what happened to Hitler.

Baer: For the biggest criminal
in modern history,

we have no DNA, nothing.

Until we actually produce
a corpse,

it's an open investigation.

Every intelligence agency
in the world is looking at this.

It's incredible.

I mean, you have a full-on
international manhunt

for Adolf Hitler.

Narrator: The mounting evidence
in the case

led to a global manhunt

that has spanned three years,
thousands of miles,

and created a picture

of how Hitler
and high-ranking Nazis

could have fled Germany.

Baer: The first part of
our investigation,

we established he could've
gotten out of Berlin.

DePaul: How many of
these tunnels

exist under Berlin?
- Hundreds of kilometers.

Boy, what a perfect
escape route.

Not only could he have
gotten out of the bunker...

he could've made it to Spain.

And from there,

he could've made his way
to Argentina.

In the next phase
of the investigation,

we establish he had
an infrastructure

he could rely on,
with resources,

money, protection,
multiple safe houses,

and a massive network
of thousands of loyal Nazis

set up to escape and disappear.

So, Bormann set up a plan
for Hitler's escape?

Hitler on his own
could've never made it out.

Narrator: Now
in the upcoming third season,

the team zeroes in
on Hitler's actual footsteps

after World War II,

initiating a new
investigative approach,

asset mapping...
The same tactic that

intelligence communities
all over the world

enact as the final step

in capturing
a high-value target.

They'll map every inch
of Hitler's network,

tracking his top associates

and analyzing their link
to Hitler's escape.

You've got to follow these guys
because you have to figure

that when Hitler
gets up and leaves,

he's going to rely
on these people.

Your target no longer is Hitler,
but the network.

Narrator: With access
to an expanded

worldwide file database...

Ooh, ooh, whoa whoa whoa.
- Oh, hello.

Narrator: and an array
of cutting-edge technology...

Right there, right there!
Bob Baer and his team

look to determine
what really happened...

That's got to be it!

To the most reprehensible
mass murderer

of the twentieth century,
once and for all.

You want corroborating evidence?

This is it right here.

This is explosive.

DePaul: Somebody
didn't want somebody else

to know what was in here.

Baer: In any investigation,

the first thing you do
is build the team.

You're picking the best people
to do a manhunt.

Narrator:
To begin the investigation,

Bob joined forces with

U.N. war-crimes investigator,
John Cencich.

I can't wait to get
the team down there

and start looking at this.

Joining the hunt were former

U.S. Marshall's commander
Lenny DePaul...

Germany's fingerprints are
all over this place.

Investigative journalist
Gerrard Williams...

People don't like to talk

because they have something
to hide.

And U.S. Special Forces,
Tim Kennedy.

I was put on this earth
to fight evil.

There's nothing else
I'm good at.

And in all of the manhunts...
Right there.

All of the people
that I've tracked down,

this is by far the hardest.

Narrator: Then in season two,

as the investigation expanded,
so did the team.

Really cramped in here.

Baer: Mike Simpson we brought
because he understands

moving people through
hostile areas.

James Holland is
a very serious historian.

He understands World War II.

I can't reconstruct
what Spain was like in 1945,

but he can.

We've got a team in place,

and now we go back
to the crime scene.

If you're going to look
for Hitler,

you first want to look
at the crime scene...

One, to establish we have
no proof he died there.

Number two is, did he have
a safe way out of the bunker?

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

that we don't know about.

The M.O. for Hitler...

Anything he's ever done
was multiple options.

We had to look into it.

The problem, of course,
is we don't have

the crime scene anymore.

Ideally, we would've liked
to have gone to the bunker,

but it's plowed under...
It's gone.

And that's why went and looked
at the next best thing.

Narrator: Lenny DePaul
and Sascha Keil travel to Berlin

to visit forensic historian
and 3D artist,

Christoph Neubauer...

Christoph?
How are you?

Narrator: who has spent
the last decade combing

through historical evidence
to create the world's

most accurate simulation
of Hitler's bunker.

Neubauer: So far,
there are known

four main exits out
of the bunker.

But recently,

I've found an exit
into a new tunnel.

♪♪

Are you kidding me?

That's exit number five.
We've only known about four.

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

That's a game-changer.

Now Hitler's got
another way out.

♪♪

There were multiple exits out
of the bunker he could've taken.

And a good planner would
also have multiple ways

for Hitler to get out of Berlin.

Do we really know for certain
that he was in the bunker?

Maybe we're looking
in the wrong place.

Narrator: In the upcoming
third season,

the team uncovers

two additional escape routes
out of Berlin.

Baer: We've got one going north
and one south.

I think this warrants
splitting the investigation.

Narrator: The escape route
to the north leads through

head of the SS
Heinrich Himmler's

clandestine headquarters.

DePaul: This is definitely
a perfect cover

to hide some
high-value target.

And the other route
through Southern Germany...

There has to be a bunker

or a tunnel complex here.

Leads to a Nazi compound
pointing to Hitler being

450 miles away
from the Fuhrerbunker

when the Soviets took Berlin,

despite the historical record
stating otherwise.

Holy [bleep].

They have everything
that they need

to live in these mountains
for as long as they want.

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

Yeah!

Now we're talking.

♪♪

Narrator:
In this special episode
of "Hunting Hitler,"

Bob Baer and his team of experts

offer a behind-the-scenes look

at the definitive investigation

into the true fate
of Adolf Hitler.

♪♪

Recently, I've found an exit
into a new tunnel.

In Berlin...
Are you kidding me?

Bob and his team
discovered a fifth tunnel

Hitler could've used
to escape the Fuhrerbunker.

DePaul: If Adolf Hitler
decided to take that route

out of the Fuhrerbunker,

why is he heading
in this direction?

What's his end game?
Where's he going?

Was it feasible to get
out of the bunker?

100%. It was doable.

Now the question is,
once you get out of the bunker,

where do you go?

If you're going to look
for a high-value target,

a wanted criminal,
you go to the escape route.

The less time Hitler had
above ground,

the better for him.

If he did surface,
it would be risky.

So, where could you go
that you were unnoticed?

If you're getting out,
you have to thread the needle.

The needle is Russian forces.

The Red Army is
surrounding Berlin.

Berlin in May '45,
it's surrounded.

So he's not going to drive out
in a convoy.

If I'm planning this escape,
I do it with a small airplane.

Narrator: The team uncovered two
possible departure points

Hitler may have used
to fly out of Berlin.

First, they uncovered one
at Tempelhof Airport.

By George, I believe
we've got a tunnel here

that takes me right
to the airport.

Later, they found a second route
from an improvised airstrip

next to the Brandenburg Gate.

DePaul: Makes sense
from this vantage point.

You got a makeshift runway
right here.

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

Baer: Two potential runways
he could've taken out of Berlin.

In the spy business,
you do not go into a plan

without contingencies.

If Hitler's fleeing Berlin,

where would you go
this late in the game?

It's certainly possible that
he would've gone to Spain.

There's one man
that Hitler could go to

for salvation...
The leader of Spain,

the dictator, Franco.

Franco was a dyed-in-the-wool
fascist, pro-Nazi.

He would've been honored
to help Hitler out.

But he's not going
to stay in Spain

because he would be
sighted there,

so he's got to get
out of Europe.

If you're talking about
getting him out of Europe,

we're talking about U-boats.

Narrator: At the close
of World War II,

45 German U-boats
were unaccounted for.

Because of their long range
and the ability

to move across the Atlantic
undetected,

the team believes that a U-boat

would've been the safest way
for Nazis to escape Europe.

♪♪

The team discovered
a possible port of departure

for U-boat submarines
in Vigo, Spain.

Were the Nazi criminals
using Vigo

to escape from Europe?

Without any kind of doubt.

Then, they uncovered another
possible exit point

from the port of Cádiz.

♪♪

Simpson: Amazing.

Seeing the photograph
of the U-boat

in the port of Cádiz is huge.

From an intelligence standpoint,

that tells me that
the port was accessible.

Now the key is in finding
that link from the ground

that Adolf Hitler could have
used to board that U-boat.

Narrator: Following
a declassified

Argentine intelligence report

that placed U-boats
in the Gulf of Cádiz

and an eye-witness report
of a U-boat landing site

at the Hotel Renia Cristina...

the team headed to the hotel

in hopes of discovering a place

Hitler could've used
to board a U-boat undetected.

Holland:
Oh, my goodness.

Simpson: So the question's,
where does that go?

I need to take a look at that.

I'm going to follow this around,
see where it goes.

Wow.

So, I've got two big wells,
big cisterns,

about 2 1/2 meters across.

Narrator: At the end of a tunnel
beneath the hotel's pool,

the team discovered
two large wells located

just 100 feet from the coast.

That tells me that
they could shuttle people

from right inside
the compound of the hotel

right out into the ocean
and to a waiting U-boat.

Baer: We have shown
multiple ways

Hitler could've passed
through Spain unobserved

and got out.

Then the question is,
where does Hitler go from there?

We have to go find
the most likely place for that.

♪♪

As an investigator,
you're always looking at

where's the logical place
the guy could go,

some place he feels
comfortable and safe,

In 1945, there was Juan Perón,

the President of Argentina.

Narrator: In 1945,

Argentina was ruled
by fascist dictator Juan Perón,

who provided refuge to thousands
of Nazi war criminals

after World War II.

Baer: In Argentina,

there was government support
for the Nazis.

Argentines were perfectly happy
to hide Nazis.

We know that.
It's just a fact.

Narrator: Bob and John
found evidence that

Hitler may have landed a U-boat

in the city
of San Antonio Oeste.

He's not going to sit here,
where he got off the U-boat.

We have assume that he's going
into the interior of Argentina,

as remote as possible
but liveable.

He's going to need
full facilities,

and it's securable.

We were looking for a place
where he could be protected,

a compound meant to defend
against an assault.

I want to show you
a document that I...

That I just came across.

Narrator:
Armed with new evidence,

a newly-discovered
international file

led to team to dive deeper
into a Nazi compound

they'd uncovered previously.

Look at what they've got here.

Nazis upon arriving
to Argentina,

took refuge
in a militarized outpost

in Misiones.

Baer: You know,
when we first went to Misiones,

I was picturing it
as sort of a hideout,

getaway from communication.

Kennedy: This could've been
a real hideout location

for somebody on the run.

But this file is something
entirely different.

I'd like to find out
on the ground,

is there anything
that would indicate

that it was militarized?

♪♪

Kennedy: This rock's
going to be slippery.

Narrator: Tim Kennedy,

accompanied
by historical archeologist

Dr. Alasdair Brooks,

travelled to the jungles
of Misiones, Argentina,

where they met with
site director Daniel Chavelzone

who led them to
a mysterious new structure

less than a mile from the
previously-discovered buildings.

Kennedy: Everything feels
powerful, thick,

durable, and industrial.

This isn't for residential use.

If I were to envision
what this use was,

this feels like
a military barracks.

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

It is remarkable finding
a military structure

in the center of
a triple-canopy jungle,

and frightening to think
what still is

yet to be discovered.

♪♪

♪♪

Narrator:
In this special episode
of "Hunting Hitler,"

Bob Baer and his team of experts

offer an exclusive look
into the manhunt

for history's most
evil dictator.

♪♪

U.S. Special Forces Tim Kennedy,

archeologist
Dr. Alasdair Brooks,

and site director
Daniel Chavelzone

investigate a jungle hideaway

in Misiones, Argentina...

That is huge.
- Oh.

Narrator: where the discovery
of a new building

indicates the location could be
more than just a safe house.

Hey, guys!

Have something?
- Yeah.

If you're coming up
and you get to this,

this is going to slow you down
long enough for you to die.

This is them setting themselves
up for success.

When I'm looking at a location
for military involvement,

you have to imagine
what it would be like

to defend that
from an attacking force.

Yes!

Come up here.
Check this out.

This is the exact spot
I would have put a guard shack.

This feels like
another layer of defense.

Misiones was remarkable...

Concentric layers of security,
observation posts,

machine gun positions.

You could shoot
straight across this.

There's no possible way

that somebody could get across
this body of water alive.

It was piece by piece
stacking on top of each other

for me to realize that it was
actually a military outpost

designed to protect
a high-value target.

Baer: This was
a Nazi compound.

We have to complete
the picture here.

Baer: In planning
Hitler's escape,

you're going to have
four or five alternatives.

There's a pattern
of redundancies.

That's why we took another look
at Bariloche.

It was hotbed for Nazis
in Argentina.

Narrator: Bob's team discovered

a Nazi community in Bariloche.

If I'm going to hide
a high-value target,

this is perfect.

Nearby, they also discovered
the Inalco house...

a possible safe house
for Adolf Hitler.

German-owned estate,
a Nazi collapsed bunker...

This house has got red flags
all over it.

If we could find evidence
of security measures,

I think it's a major leap
in this investigation.

Yep.

♪♪

Narrator: Tim Kennedy,
along with investigative

journalist Gerrard Williams,
landed in Bariloche, Argentina,

to search the area
surrounding the Inalco house

for fortifications that may have
protected Adolf Hitler.

How you doing?
- Good. Alan?

Narrator: They made contact
with Alan Juice,

a local expert in post-war
architecture in the area.

Are there any
military structures

or a built network?

Man: At the northern tip
of this peninsula,

there's a tower.

♪♪

Oh, there it is...
Gerrard.

Narrator:
The team headed to a tower

built by the same architect that
designed the Inalco house...

The architect that built
Adolf Hitler's home...

Built this thing.

Positioned on a cliff

between the town of Bariloche

and Hitler's possible
safe house.

This is the Nazis raising
a flag, saying that,

"We're here
and we own the lake."

Williams: Alan, are there
any other structures like this?

Yeah.

Narrator: Across the lake,

they investigated
a possible Nazi bunker.

The size of this, you could base

20, 30 people in it.

Kennedy: At least.

And we have Inalco over here.

The only way to Inalco is
coming by this

or by the tower.

So a machine gun here
with a machine gun there...

Killing field...
Complete killing field.

Kennedy: It appears that
the same people that

designed and built the Misiones

applied that blueprint
to Bariloche.

They have controlled
access points.

They have concentric layers
of security.

And that entire blueprint
was for the design

of protecting and hiding
a central figure...

Adolf Hitler.

♪♪

We're on the road to Hell.

Narrator: In season three...

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

Narrator: the team uncovers
another remote safe house...

This isn't a country home.

Protected by Hitler's network.

There's only one way in
and one way out.

Kennedy: This is explosive.

♪♪

Narrator:
In this special episode
of "Hunting Hitler,"

Bob Baer and his team of experts

offer a first-hand look
into their search

to uncover what really happened
to Adolf Hitler.

Baer: The question is,
what is the next place

that Hitler would go?

What sort of evidence
do we have?

Where could he have gone?

If you're on the run,

there's very few people
you would trust.

Baer: Every political fugitive
that I've been after,

that America's been after,

goes some place where
they can count on local support.

Hitler would've done that.

Our team has uncovered
die Spinne,

this spider network.

This network was set up
to facilitate

the exfiltration
of Nazi war criminals.

How far did this network
actually reach?

Baer: Let's find out.

Narrator: Bob and John search

the worldwide database in hopes

of discovering the full scope
of die Spinne,

a secret
international organization

dedicated to helping
fleeing Nazi war criminals.

"Eichmann was in close contact

with the underground
group die Spinne."

It is believed that he also paid

for the international travel
of wanted war criminals.

Eichmann is a new piece
of this puzzle.

Narrator: Adolf Eichmann was
one of Hitler's closest allies,

and a major organizer
of the Holocaust.

In 1950, he fled
to Buenos Aires, Argentina,

where he lived in a modest house

and worked for Mercedes Benz

under the alias Ricardo Klement.

One of the most wanted
men in the world

actually got out using the web.

I think we just have
to consider that network

was also intended for Hitler
to use in his escape.

Cencich:
Absolutely.

Narrator: Following
Eichmann's trail,

the team uncovered rumors
of a possible safe house

he used in Tucamán, Argentina.

Tucamán, which is out
in the middle of nowhere.

Was this safe house set up
for Hitler?

We had to look at that.

♪♪

Narrator: Bob dispatched
the team to investigate

Eichmann's reported safe house.

Does he know the name
of the family?

They were making tunnels
in the mountains?
Yeah.

You have to question
why Adolf Eichmann

is in a remote area
burrowing tunnels

into the side of a mountain.

We had to know the purpose
of why they were built.

Narrator: The team
investigated the tunnels

in the area of the safe house

to see if they could determine
why Eichmann had created them.

Holy [bleep].

Kennedy: We got a tunnel.

We got a couple of chambers
off multiple tunnels,

400 or 500 meters
from the entrance,

and we still don't
even have a way out.

Crawling through
an incomplete tunnel system

that potentially could not
be structurally sound...

It's dangerous.

We got an opening.

But we need to know
where those tunnels went.

Whoa.

We have an entrance
near the Eichmann house

and the exit on the opposite
side of the mountain.

That's an escape tunnel.

You know, I came here to find
evidence of infrastructure.

We found it.

These guys built this tunnel for
a damn important reason.

Clearly, Eichmann intended to
make an escape route for Hitler.

This justifies us to continue
the mission in this region.

I agree with you.

Any place that die Spinne's been

is a potential place
that Hitler would go to.

Narrator: Furthering
their investigation

of die Spinne's network
in Argentina,

Gerrard Williams
travelled to Misiones

to speak with
the son of Guillermo Zuhair,

a Nazi soldier who relocated
to the area after World War II.

Your father...
Did he ever mention

any senior Nazi that
he may have met?

Martin Bormann.

Martin Bormann, Emilio,
is meant to be dead.

Are you sure your father worked

for Martin Bormann in Argentina?

Well, let me say
it's an extraordinary statement.

Historical record has it
that Bormann died in Berlin.

He never made it out.

Narrator: During the final days
of the war,

Martin Bormann,
Hitler's right-hand man,

was by his side
in the Fuhrerbunker.

On May 1, 1945,

a day after
Hitler's alleged suicide,

Bormann and the leader
of the Nazi Youth

attempted to escape Berlin.

Bormann was reported killed.

However, some experts believe
his death was faked.

It doesn't matter whether
Bormann got out of Berlin

in May of 1945.

Any place that Bormann
has reported to be

is important for
our investigation.

That's the bottom line,
isn't it?

Martin Bormann very well may
take us one step closer

to Adolf Hitler.

Narrator: Bob and John search
the worldwide database

for evidence that Bormann was
operating after the war.

What've we got, Bob?

"Martin Bormann was travelling
in Latin American

under the name of Keller."

Narrator: In order to learn

whether Hitler's
most trusted associate

escaped to Latin America
under an alias...

You ready?
- Yeah.

Narrator: Tim and Gerrard
made contact with a historian

who had spent his career
collecting information

about Nazis in South America.

Kennedy: Will you tell us
everything that you know

about what Juan Keller
was doing here?

Legally, he was known
as Juan Keller.

But it is said he was
a higher position of Nazi.

He was a person
who lived in the shadows.

Did he meet this man himself?

Sí, senior.

He was just a kid when
he saw him the first time.

He was riding a horse.

He had a huge leather
jacket, boots.

And he could see the bump of
a gun sticking out of his back.

There were people with guns
guarding the perimeter.

Armed guards?

Exactly.
Can't believe it.

But... So, this is what,
in the 1950s?

Yes.

Which puts him snap
in the timeline here.

With all the other
information we have, for me,

it was final confirmation
that Martin Bormann had escaped

and was running a large
Nazi network after the war.

♪♪

Narrator:
In this special episode
of "Hunting Hitler,"

Bob Baer and his team of experts
offer a behind-the-scenes look

into the worldwide manhunt

for history's most notorious
dictator, Adolf Hitler.

♪♪

In South America,
Bob and his team uncovered

evidence of a vast network

put in place to facilitate

the escape of high-level Nazis.

Kennedy: Holy [bleep].

♪♪

Baer: We know they got away.

The question is,
any time a high-value target

gets up and moves,

it's either safety
or he's going operational.

You know, I think Hitler,
at this point,

has gone operational.

Baer: For me, what's important

when you're looking
for somebody on the run is,

what were they after?

Once they arrived
in these safe havens,

what was the end game?

Cencich: We have
a declassified document

that states that here,
"From now on,

German industry must realize
that the war cannot be won.

German industrialists must,
through their exports,

prepare themselves
to finance the Nazi Party,

which would be forced
to go underground.

Baer: They were
planning something.

Cencich: When we look
at the evidence,

it's clear that
a Fourth Reich was planned.

Baer: People will
listen to this and say,

"It was never possible
for Adolf Hitler

to reassemble his team
and start the Fourth Reich.

It's crazy."
That's the whole point.

These people were crazy.

This map came from an engineer
in the Nazi Air Force.

It depicts a plan to bomb
the United States,

and more specifically,
Manhattan Island.

Baer: This is chilling.

I mean, they had a plan
for mass destruction

in the United States.

That's a scary thought.

Baer: They had no illusions that

they could attack
the United States

with a conventional military.

But if the Nazis were to get
weapons of mass destruction,

they could strike back
at the United States.

And this was absolutely key
to their strategy.

See what we can find here.

Narrator: The team made
a ground-breaking discovery

in the worldwide database,
uncovering a file

detailing an atomic energy plan
in Bariloche,

run by former Nazi scientist
Dr. Ronald Richter,

funded by the President
of Argentina, Juan Perón.

Here's a Nazi nuclear scientist
invited, officially,

to Argentina
to develop a nuclear facility.

♪♪

Williams: That's incredible.

He's hiding in plain sight.

After arriving in
Bariloche, Argentina,

Tim Kennedy
and Gerrard Williams,

along with local historian
Frederico Palma,

investigated Huemul Island,

the location of Dr. Richter's
nuclear research facility,

located just 30 miles south
of the Inalco house,

a site the team
previously investigated

as Hitler's potential
safe house.

Oh, my God.

♪♪

Kennedy:
What was inside of here?

Williams: How many more of these
are there?

How many more buildings
like this?

Kennedy:
This is solid cement.

3, 4 feet thick.

With view holes.

This is to prevent radiation
from escaping.

This is a huge
industrial complex.

I mean, he has everything
that he needs to do,

I think, anything that he wants.

And that's scary.

Baer: This clearly
was a secret nuclear site,

as secret as Iraq's
or Iran's or anybody else.

When you have a nuclear facility
run by a Nazi,

and Hitler could be
down the lake,

it's starting to tell a story...

A bigger story than we started.

To think that in Argentina,

that he could make
nuclear weapons,

I think, is terrifying.

Perón is overthrown in '55.

If Hitler made it to Argentina,

he would've been obligated
to get up and move.

Where do they go at that point?

From Bariloche, Chile is
right over the mountain range.

Baer: When we started
looking at Chile,

we found Colonia Dignidad.

What do we know
about this place?

It is a secretive place
in the middle of nowhere.

It started with this guy
right here,

Paul Schaefer.

Narrator: Paul Schaefer
was a Nazi corporal

during World War II.

In 1961, he surfaced in Chile

with 300 German followers,

where they formed
a secretive community

in the Andes Mountains

known as Colonia Dignidad.

Rumors of torture, homicide,

and sexual abuse
within the compound

are still debated to this day.

♪♪

While investigating
the former Nazi hideout,

Tim Kennedy and Mike Simpson

met a previous resident
of the colony,

Winfred Hempel...
Simpson: Good morning.

Who agreed to guide them
in their investigation

of the private compound.

Seeing the defensive measures

that had been taken
at Colonia Dignidad,

it was crystal clear to me

that this was something
much more diabolical

than just
an agricultural community

in the middle of the Andes.

Wow.

Narrator: The team initiated
a reconnaissance

of the colony's
defensive capabilities.

We have right here
the watchtower.

It's the first line of defense.

Standing right here, I'm able
to see absolutely everything.

Nothing could go in or out of
Colonia Dignidad for 100 miles

without somebody
seeing it from here.

Second line of defense,
you've got infrared trips.

The hell is that?

Basically, an infrared tripwire.

So anything coming through here
is going to trip it.

And what you have here
at the core

are tunnels and bunkers.

Good place to hide,
out of the center of things.

♪♪

Kennedy:
Holy [bleep].

We have a massive room.

There's so much [bleep] in here
I didn't expect.

Oh, my God.

Look at that.

Baer: Communications,
security towers...

It was all a layer.

So with Colonia Dignidad,

we have to consider that
something sinister was going on.

♪♪

After establishing
a complex defensive perimeter

at former Nazi colony
Colonia Dignidad...

the team's guide,
Winfred Hempel,

led them to
a mysterious warehouse

located in the heart
of the compound.

Simpson:
What went on here?

They built guns here?

This is major.

This is like a country
within a country

where they can do
anything they want.

It's terrifying.

You couldn't write
a fictional story like this.

Nobody would believe it.

If this base was being used
for the Fourth Reich,

we need to know
what kind of weapons

were being made
in this warehouse.

And that will tell us what this
whole place was really about.

Narrator: In hopes of
determining the type of weapons

formerly manufactured
at Colonia Dignidad...

Senor Fernandez, Gerrard.

Gerrard Williams.
Nice to meet you.

Gerrard Williams
met with Hernon Fernandez,

a lawyer who was representing
former residents

in a 20-year-long civil case
against the colony's leadership.

What can you tell me
about the colony making guns?

Man: There was also
chemical weapons,

like the sarin gas.

Sarin gas?

We knew that Hitler,
whether he lived or died,

had this vision for
the continuation of his empire

in Colonia Dignidad.

The leads pan out.

Exactly.
Look, you could've got sarin.

You've got weapons
manufacturing,

and for all we know,
Adolf Hitler.

This isn't the Fourth Reich
in theory.

This is the Fourth Reich in act.

Baer: I look at this facility
in Chile...

I think what we're looking at

is really the foundations
of the Fourth Reich.

What's disturbing
is what we don't know.

And we're just seeing
the tip of the iceberg.

Perón, essentially,
was giving Dr. Richter

anything he wanted
money-wise.

Through this investigation,
we've uncovered so, so much.

There were a lot of deaths
happening around him.

We have changed
the historical narrative.

They had the ability

to make weapons
of mass destruction,

and we were sort of clueless
of what they were up to.

I think it's pretty damn scary.

This was a massive network
planning for Hitler's escape

and coordinating
the Fourth Reich.

If we look at these networks,

we're going to get
a lot closer to the truth.

Narrator: Now, in season three,

to deconstruct Hitler's network

and zero in on exactly
what happened to Hitler

after the war,

Bob adds a new member
of the team

to work closely with him
in the situation room.

From 2000 to 2011,
Nada Bakos 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.

Bakos: In order to do
this investigation,

we can't leave
any stone unturned.

This is a 70-year-old cold case.

We're going to have to look
for information

that has been underground
for a long time.

This makes it much
more challenging.

But at the same time,
everybody leaves a trail,

and I'm confident we'll be able
to find the evidence.

This is what I've done

throughout my whole career
at the CIA...

Looking at networks to track
down high-value terrorists.

Nada Bakos was recommended to me

by the Chief of Station
in Baghdad.

He said, "She's one of the best.

If you want to hunt
for somebody...

you go to Nada Bakos."

I want her to reconstruct
these networks for me.

This network will lead us
to Hitler.

[ Hitler shouting indistinctly ]

♪♪

Holland: Three...

two...

one...

drop.

Narrator: Now three years
into the greatest

cold case in history...

Simpson: You ready?

Bob Baer and his team

of elite investigators embark

on the next phase
of the investigation...

Kennedy: Ah, [bleep].
Tim, hang on.

This is the most dangerous
thing that we've done.

Tracing every inch
of the Nazi network,

their paths of escape...

Kennedy: We know that the Nazis
were in South America,

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

And their plans
for a Fourth Reich,

to ultimately reveal
the true fate

of history's greatest villain.
Oh, my God!

If Adolf Hitler was going to be
here, this would be the place.

If these walls could talk,
Gerrard, they'd be saying a lot.

They'd probably be
screaming at us.

♪♪

We are throwing
everything we can at this case

to find out what happened
to Adolf Hitler.

He doesn't want this
to be filmed,

what he's about to say.

Holland: What a find!

We will get answers.

I promise you that.

That's Adolf Hitler
with a nuclear weapon.

This goes much deeper
than I realized.

Kennedy:
We got something!

This could lead us
to Adolf Hitler.

♪♪

Kennedy: Are you seeing this?

Are you seeing what I'm seeing?

♪♪