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male narrator: Previously on
"Hunting Hitler"...
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- Bormann's headquarters,
Tangier, Morocco.
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Bormann goes to Tangier
to set up the Fourth Reich.
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[suspenseful music]
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- [speaking foreign language]
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- This has all the markings
of a military command center.
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- If Hitler is gonna come back,
weapons are absolutely crucial.
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- In Buenos Aires,
Mandel's bicycle
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and plastic plants
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began to produce
machine guns, airplanes,
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bullets, and bombs.
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[electronic beeping]
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- I have explosives detected.
- It's detected TNT, Tim.
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- Yeah.
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- After the end of
the Second World War,
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there was a meeting
between Juan Perón,
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the president of Argentina,
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and Martin Bormann
in Buenos Aires.
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- The deeper we get into
a Fourth Reich in Argentina,
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the more I'm convinced.
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♪
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Look, what we got is a secret
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Nazi headquarters
in Tangier, Morocco.
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It's connected to Bormann,
who was Hitler's right-hand man.
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We've got a munitions factory
in Argentina,
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which we've now established
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there was government support
for the Nazis,
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and we've got 10,000 Nazis
fleeing Europe,
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heading for South America.
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I mean, these pieces
are telling a story
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that's changing history.
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narrator: CIA veteran Bob Baer
and war crimes investigator
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Dr. John Cencich
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are overseeing
a dual-pronged investigation.
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While the team in Tangier,
Morocco,
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has uncovered
a possible Nazi headquarters
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where a declassified MI6
file reports Martin Bormann
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organizing the Fourth Reich,
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the team in Buenos Aires,
Argentina has discovered
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a munitions factory with Nazi
ties operating after the war.
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- The deeper we get into this,
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it's looking like
these people truly
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believed that they
were gonna arm,
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establish the Fourth Reich,
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and they were gonna
win this time.
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The evidence is out there.
They were planning something,
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but they weren't going to
simply re-arm in Argentina
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and drive a tank division
all over South America.
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The only way that they were
ever going to make this happen
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is some sort of weapon
of mass destruction.
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And this has always been
the dream of dictators;
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it's always been the dream
of countries that have failed.
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So there's no reason
to believe that the Nazis
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would not entertain
fantasies like this.
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Attacks with weapons
of mass destruction
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do change the game.
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After the utter
defeat of Germany,
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the only way for Hitler
to come back was a giant weapon.
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- You need to take
a look at this.
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♪
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This is a map of Manhattan.
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This map came from
the internal files
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of an engineer
in the Nazi Luftwaffe,
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the Air Force.
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It depicts a plan developed
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in 1944 to bomb
the United States,
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and more specifically,
Manhattan Island.
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[dramatic music]
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- This is chilling.
I mean, they had a plan
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for mass destruction
in the United States,
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using a weapon
with a kill radius
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which would have
taken out a Manhattan.
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- That's a scary thought.
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If Hitler lived,
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one of his principle targets
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would have been New York City.
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By attacking New York City,
it strikes
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at the heart of Americans,
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it strikes at the heart
of the free world all over.
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- I guarantee you
that even after the war,
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they were all the more motivated
to hit Manhattan
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'cause that was their only hope
of ever coming back,
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and somebody told Hitler
that this was doable.
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- If we know how close the Nazis
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actually got toward having
a workable nuclear weapon
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during the war, then that brings
in an entirely different
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perspective on the Fourth
Reich's actual operational
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capacity after the war.
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- I totally agree.
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Now, what we have to do now
is dig into the database
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and see how far the Nazis got.
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Could they have made one?
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- All right, let's see what
we've got here.
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Region is Germany.
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Nuclear.
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♪
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All right, here is a document
from the District Council
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in Thuringia, Germany.
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It's a deposition
of Clare Werner,
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and it goes on to say
that on March 4, 1945,
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"a Wehrmacht officer told me
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"that today world history
would be rewritten.
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"I was at my window to look over
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"the military training ground
in the evening.
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"There was suddenly a brightness
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like hundreds of bolts
of lightning."
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"So bright that you
could read a newspaper.
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"Afterwards, there was
a very powerful wind.
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"Later I had, like many
residents in the area,
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"nosebleeds, headaches,
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and pressure in the ears."
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- This woman is living next
to a base in Thuringia.
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She's standing at her window,
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and there's this explosion
which fits a nuclear bomb.
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Exactly fits one.
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- If we want to know what was
going on during the war,
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we need to send the team
to Thuringia.
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- And I guarantee you,
if you can make a bomb
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and set it off in Thuringia,
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you could easily transport
the same technology
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or the bomb itself
to Argentina after the war.
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- Let's see what we can find
in Thuringia.
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That's the big story.
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♪
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- Well, this is
an absolutely amazing place.
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- So I wonder which window
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was Clare Werner looking from.
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narrator: In Thuringia,
Germany,
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World War II historian
James Holland
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and Third Reich expert
Sascha Keil arrive
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at the outskirts
of a former Nazi
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training base in the location
that Clare Werner
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claimed to have witnessed
an explosion from her window.
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- Now, this is the room.
- Thank you.
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Gosh, look at this.
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- Suddenly you see
this huge flash of light
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that lights up the room so much
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that you could read
a newspaper from it.
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That would seem apocalyptic.
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When you're thinking
of the Second World War bombs,
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you're thinking of huge
eruptions of debris,
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and grit,
and suddenly lots of smoke.
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But you're not expecting
blinding flash of light
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and mushroom clouds.
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So we need to find out what was
going on here in Thuringia.
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This one is from 1944,
and this one, one year later.
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- Looking at it, you can see
the blast damage,
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this dark area here,
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the sense of spread,
kind of pushing out.
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In the 1944 picture, the area
in question is nice and clear,
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the one that follows
a year later,
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there's a blast that's spread
out from a kind of epicenter.
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So where is that blast area?
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We're standing in the middle
of a castle
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which is on a hill
surrounded by trees.
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Boom.
There.
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There's our castle, there's
our surrounding of trees.
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And then if I look
out this window,
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what I'm looking at is
a long, narrow, wooded ridge.
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Long, narrow, wooded ridge.
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So if I'm here, and I'm looking
out through there,
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my view is sort of across there.
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[clicks tongue]
That's our area.
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- We sure do.
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If our photo analysis
is correct,
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that epicenter is just there,
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and so you can see
the land drop,
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so that's going to shield
a lot of the blast, isn't it?
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- Here we go.
This is it.
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Here's our track.
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- Yeah.
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- Look at it,
it's basically empty.
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- I mean it's just
the perfect place to do it,
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because A, we know this is
a military training area
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in the 1940s,
and B, it's a pretty safe,
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secluded area.
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You know,
your blast is gonna be absorbed
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by these ridges all around us.
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So it's all starting
to stack up.
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- Okay.
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narrator:
The team makes contact
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with George Ribienski,
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a historian who has
spent his career
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studying the wartime history
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of the Nazi training base
in Thuringia.
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- Do you know
about this explosion?
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- [speaking German]
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- [speaking German]
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- We've seen the spread
on the photographs.
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People have been talking
about nosebleeds and things.
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I mean, what's the damage?
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- 600 or 700.
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- Wow, that's horrible.
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Really horrible.
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- What do you think
was being tested here?
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- [speaking German]
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- It makes the hairs on
the back of your neck stand up,
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thinking about
German scientists,
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physicists creating
an atomic bomb.
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But what I want to know is
were the nuclear experiments
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at this base undertaken by
a rogue physicist,
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or were they something
more sinister?
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An essential part of the Nazi's
military strategy
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in the final days of the war?
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So we know this area
has been a military area
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for kind of over 100 years.
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How important was it
to the Nazis in 1945?
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- And these tunnels,
they still exist?
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- So did Hitler ever come
to this area?
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- Gosh, that's amazing.
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[laughing]
Wow.
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Clearly something big
was going on here.
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♪
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[suspenseful music]
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- The team needs to keep
digging in Thuringia,
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but in the meantime,
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I've come across an extremely
interesting document
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that relates to Nazi nuclear
technology
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after the war.
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narrator:
With the investigation
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under way
in Thuringia, Germany,
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Bob and John turn their focus
to the Nazi's ability
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to potentially build a weapon
of mass destruction
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after the war.
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- It's from the 6th of December,
1946, and it was produced by
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a Captain Harry Sperber.
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He was a United States
Army translator
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at the Nuremberg trials.
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Captain Sperber expressed
the personal opinion
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that Hitler is alive
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and directing atomic bomb
experiments in Argentina.
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- If Hitler wanted to build
a bomb after the war,
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he would have gone to Argentina.
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The place to go.
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Got the support
of the government,
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you got Germans,
you got money,
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you got wide-open country.
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It's absolutely ideal.
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♪
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This is giving Hitler a reason
to keep going, is this bomb.
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Now the question is
what's there in Argentina
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that's going to substantiate
this, if anything?
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- Let's see.
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♪
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- There we go.
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U.S. State Department decree
9-697
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of May 17, 1951
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creates a new atomic
energy plant
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at Bariloche under direct
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control of President Perón.
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Look, John, Bariloche.
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- It was a hotbed
for Nazis in Argentina.
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- Earlier in the investigation,
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we found
a Nazi community in Bariloche.
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- Hundreds of Nazis came here
at the end of World War II.
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This is a refuge.
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- We found the Inalco house,
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which could have been
a safe house for Hitler...
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- We're not talking about
a small property.
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We're talking a mansion
40 miles away from anywhere.
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- With guard towers.
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This place was a Nazi
stronghold in Argentina.
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So why does Perón set up
a nuclear energy plant
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nearby a potential safe
haven for Hitler?
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It's no accident here.
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If it was a benign
nuclear program,
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you put it through
a university in Buenos Aires.
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You do not set it up
in the Andes Mountains
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in a German community.
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That makes no sense at all.
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Argentina cannot jumpstart
a nuclear program.
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They need experts.
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They had to bring in people
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that knew about fission
and fusion and the rest of it.
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♪
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- See what we can find here.
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♪
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So look here.
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1st of June, 1948.
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The following information
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was given to
the preparing officer
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by Dr. Richter.
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"In 1937 I was in charge
of a research laboratory
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"connected to Thuringia,Germany.
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"In May 1948 I was invited
officially by
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"the Argentine government
to Argentina
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in order to do some work in
nuclear reactor development."
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♪
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- Here's a Nazi
nuclear scientist.
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He was in charge
of research laboratory
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connected to Thuringia, Germany.
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Bingo.
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He's invited
officially to Argentina
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to develop a nuclear facility.
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It's one too many
coincidences for me.
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- I agree.
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Dr. Richter really ties it
all together.
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Let's get the team
back to Bariloche.
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I'm optimistic that we can
find evidence
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of potential relationship
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between Bariloche, the Nazis,
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and nuclear weapons
after the war.
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- When there's this much smoke,
there's got to be fire.
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♪
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- I didn't think
we'd be coming back here.
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narrator: U.S. Army special
forces Tim Kennedy
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and investigative
journalist Gerrard Williams
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arrive in Bariloche, Argentina.
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♪
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- Hey, Federico,
good to see you again, mate.
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narrator: They make contact
with Federico Palma,
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an expert on the Nazi history
in Bariloche.
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♪
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- We're here to find out
everything we can
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about a Nazi scientist
called Dr. Richter.
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We need to know everything
about what this guy was doing,
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where he was doing it,
and what he was up to.
328
00:16:53,142 --> 00:16:54,056
- Well...
329
00:17:12,031 --> 00:17:13,989
- So where is
Richter's research center?
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- He got himself an island?
331
00:17:22,954 --> 00:17:23,999
- Who gave him the island?
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00:17:26,001 --> 00:17:28,525
- Yeah, but how does
a Nazi scientist
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just ask for an island?
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- Peron essentially
was giving Dr. Richter
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anything he wanted, money-wise?
336
00:17:46,065 --> 00:17:47,805
- Tell me about this island.
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Where's it situated?
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How big is it?
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narrator:
The team has uncovered
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that 30 miles south
of the Inalco house
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and near the city of Bariloche
is the island of Huemul,
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the possible location of
Dr. Richter's nuclear program.
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♪
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- So island's here,
here's Bariloche,
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and we have Adolf Hitler
on the other side of the lake.
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- Mm-hmm.
347
00:18:27,541 --> 00:18:30,631
- That's far enough away for
him to be safe from anything
348
00:18:30,674 --> 00:18:32,459
that could go wrong
on Huemul Island.
349
00:18:32,502 --> 00:18:34,243
But then, coincidentally,
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it's close enough,
on a good boat,
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that's a couple hours.
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00:18:37,942 --> 00:18:39,205
This changes everything.
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00:18:39,248 --> 00:18:40,771
♪
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00:18:40,815 --> 00:18:42,382
Adolf Hitler
and the Fourth Reich
355
00:18:42,425 --> 00:18:43,992
could have been supervising
356
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what Dr. Richter
is doing on the island.
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00:18:46,081 --> 00:18:48,431
It is very possible
that this nuclear program,
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this is them starting
where they left off in Germany,
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00:18:51,217 --> 00:18:53,132
but right here in Argentina.
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We're gonna do whatever it takes
to get on that island.
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Can you get us there?
362
00:18:57,527 --> 00:18:59,573
- Mate, we have to get
on this island.
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00:18:59,616 --> 00:19:06,536
♪
364
00:19:10,540 --> 00:19:11,585
- Get us on the island.
365
00:19:11,628 --> 00:19:16,067
♪
366
00:19:19,854 --> 00:19:21,682
[suspenseful music]
367
00:19:21,725 --> 00:19:23,901
- What we got here
is a Nazi scientist.
368
00:19:23,945 --> 00:19:27,122
And now we find out
he goes to Bariloche
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00:19:27,166 --> 00:19:29,080
where he's given an island.
370
00:19:29,124 --> 00:19:31,909
- We need to get on that island
and see what we can find.
371
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narrator:
While the South American team
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tries to gain entry
to Huemul Island
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00:19:35,696 --> 00:19:37,437
in Bariloche, Argentina...
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- Let's talk about
Thuringia now.
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narrator: Bob and John review
their investigation
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00:19:41,484 --> 00:19:44,095
in Thuringia, Germany,
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00:19:44,139 --> 00:19:46,576
where a declassified
German document reports
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00:19:46,620 --> 00:19:49,884
that Nazis were testing
a potential nuclear weapon
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two months before
the end of the war.
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00:19:52,713 --> 00:19:54,845
- There's a report
from Clare Werner
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00:19:54,889 --> 00:19:56,586
of what appears to be
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a nuclear explosion
at Thuringia.
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00:19:59,546 --> 00:20:02,723
- And these pictures
corroborate the deposition.
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00:20:02,766 --> 00:20:05,334
You clearly have right here
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what appears to be
a giant crater.
386
00:20:08,511 --> 00:20:11,035
- That's precisely
what it looks like, a crater.
387
00:20:11,079 --> 00:20:12,428
- They were testing
something there.
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00:20:12,472 --> 00:20:14,213
I'm fully confident of it.
389
00:20:14,256 --> 00:20:16,127
And then also
what the team discovered,
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00:20:16,171 --> 00:20:19,783
a vast complex of tunnels.
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00:20:19,827 --> 00:20:22,612
We know it was
very important to the Nazis.
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00:20:22,656 --> 00:20:24,266
So what's going on there?
393
00:20:24,310 --> 00:20:27,617
Now we've got local historians
saying the Nazis
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00:20:27,661 --> 00:20:29,880
were digging tunnels
into the mountain.
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00:20:29,924 --> 00:20:32,883
Whatever they were working
on in the tunnels,
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00:20:32,927 --> 00:20:35,364
these explosions
have to be connected.
397
00:20:35,408 --> 00:20:37,627
- These underground tunnels
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00:20:37,671 --> 00:20:42,153
could be some type
of clandestine laboratory
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00:20:42,197 --> 00:20:44,417
used to develop nuclear weapons,
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00:20:44,460 --> 00:20:48,072
and some type of explosion
took place thereafter.
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00:20:48,116 --> 00:20:50,292
The only way we'll really know
is to get the team in there
402
00:20:50,336 --> 00:20:52,033
and really dig into this.
403
00:20:52,076 --> 00:20:53,643
- We're gonna find something,
I bet.
404
00:20:53,687 --> 00:21:00,563
♪
405
00:21:05,264 --> 00:21:08,092
[both speaking German]
406
00:21:10,007 --> 00:21:11,400
narrator:
In Thuringia, Germany,
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00:21:11,444 --> 00:21:13,750
James Holland,
Sascha Keil,
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00:21:13,794 --> 00:21:16,362
and historian
George Ribienski arrive
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00:21:16,405 --> 00:21:19,843
at the location of a rumored
Nazi tunnel complex,
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00:21:19,887 --> 00:21:22,629
12 miles from where
a weapon of mass destruction
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00:21:22,672 --> 00:21:24,848
could have been detonated.
412
00:21:24,892 --> 00:21:25,762
- So where are they?
413
00:21:28,983 --> 00:21:31,202
- Goodness me,
that's really enormous.
414
00:21:31,246 --> 00:21:32,813
- [speaking German]
415
00:21:40,908 --> 00:21:42,475
And that's just
the number he knows.
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00:21:42,518 --> 00:21:44,868
- [scoffs]
- Perhaps they are more.
417
00:21:44,912 --> 00:21:46,870
narrator: This Nazi complex
was rumored
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to include multiple levels
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00:21:48,394 --> 00:21:50,613
of laboratories,
weapon workshops,
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00:21:50,657 --> 00:21:53,094
and a control center
connected by tunnels
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00:21:53,137 --> 00:21:55,966
stretching dozens of miles
through the mountainside.
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00:21:56,010 --> 00:21:58,534
♪
423
00:21:58,578 --> 00:22:01,798
- Gosh, it's just incredible
the scale of it, isn't it?
424
00:22:01,842 --> 00:22:03,278
It really is.
425
00:22:03,322 --> 00:22:05,062
I'm realizing that this
is not just
426
00:22:05,106 --> 00:22:06,716
a little tunnel in a hillside.
427
00:22:06,760 --> 00:22:09,371
This could be a major complex.
428
00:22:09,415 --> 00:22:11,982
But if we can get in just
one of these tunnels,
429
00:22:12,026 --> 00:22:14,985
we'll have an even better sense
of scale and scope here.
430
00:22:24,255 --> 00:22:25,735
narrator: Although
the Soviet army
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00:22:25,779 --> 00:22:27,781
sealed off access
to this tunnel system
432
00:22:27,824 --> 00:22:31,262
when they captured
this base in April, 1945,
433
00:22:31,306 --> 00:22:33,830
the team attempts
to locate an entry point
434
00:22:33,874 --> 00:22:35,789
in hopes of determining
the hidden purpose
435
00:22:35,832 --> 00:22:37,051
of this facility.
436
00:22:37,094 --> 00:22:39,140
- Oh look, there's a gap.
437
00:22:39,183 --> 00:22:46,060
♪
438
00:22:51,761 --> 00:22:54,198
narrator: The team deploys
a small remote camera known
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00:22:54,242 --> 00:22:56,070
as a Throwbot.
440
00:22:56,113 --> 00:22:59,682
This technology is used
by military personnel worldwide
441
00:22:59,726 --> 00:23:02,772
to provide real-time video
feeds of difficult-to-access
442
00:23:02,816 --> 00:23:04,426
and unstable environments.
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00:23:04,470 --> 00:23:09,170
♪
444
00:23:09,213 --> 00:23:10,432
- How far do you think
you're in there?
445
00:23:10,476 --> 00:23:11,390
- Oh...
446
00:23:13,217 --> 00:23:14,044
- 50 meters?
447
00:23:16,395 --> 00:23:17,308
- Yep.
448
00:23:44,814 --> 00:23:46,686
- No.
You just can't get any further?
449
00:23:55,085 --> 00:23:56,478
- It's frustrating
but I tell you what.
450
00:23:56,522 --> 00:23:58,480
This is just 50 meters
of one tunnel.
451
00:23:58,524 --> 00:24:01,657
We know about
at least 25 here...
452
00:24:01,701 --> 00:24:03,224
- Yeah, yeah.
- And possibly even more.
453
00:24:03,267 --> 00:24:05,879
The extent of this place
is absolutely enormous.
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00:24:05,922 --> 00:24:07,533
♪
455
00:24:07,576 --> 00:24:09,883
The facility here
is filled with rubble,
456
00:24:09,926 --> 00:24:11,841
but this could have been
enough infrastructure
457
00:24:11,885 --> 00:24:15,366
to support atomic research labs
here in Thuringia.
458
00:24:15,410 --> 00:24:18,021
Do we have any idea
459
00:24:18,065 --> 00:24:21,808
of what these tunnels
were being used for?
460
00:24:29,032 --> 00:24:30,947
- They were planning
a Fuhrer headquarters here?
461
00:25:00,499 --> 00:25:02,370
- I mean, at that stage
of the war,
462
00:25:02,413 --> 00:25:05,329
the Germans were just clutching
at straws, aren't they?
463
00:25:13,642 --> 00:25:14,643
- Fortunately for the rest
of the world,
464
00:25:14,687 --> 00:25:16,689
the Allies get here in time.
465
00:25:16,732 --> 00:25:18,821
The ambition of the Third Reich
466
00:25:18,865 --> 00:25:20,693
is laid out for us here.
467
00:25:20,736 --> 00:25:23,478
Leading Nazis were just
not giving up
468
00:25:23,522 --> 00:25:26,350
because a nuclear bomb
is a world-changing,
469
00:25:26,394 --> 00:25:28,178
war-changing weapon.
470
00:25:28,222 --> 00:25:29,397
One weapon.
471
00:25:29,440 --> 00:25:31,617
If Hitler had his hands on that,
472
00:25:31,660 --> 00:25:34,141
it's a totally
different end to WWII.
473
00:25:34,184 --> 00:25:36,317
And it seems
he came fairly close.
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00:25:36,360 --> 00:25:39,668
♪
475
00:25:43,498 --> 00:25:46,370
[suspenseful music]
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00:25:46,414 --> 00:25:53,334
♪
477
00:25:58,426 --> 00:26:01,734
- That's incredible.
It's hiding in plain sight.
478
00:26:01,777 --> 00:26:03,605
narrator: On a lake deep
in the mountains of Bariloche,
479
00:26:03,649 --> 00:26:07,261
Argentina, Tim Kennedy
and Gerrard Williams
480
00:26:07,304 --> 00:26:10,873
have been granted access
to Huemul Island,
481
00:26:10,917 --> 00:26:12,658
which, according to
a declassified
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00:26:12,701 --> 00:26:14,311
U.S. State Department file,
483
00:26:14,355 --> 00:26:17,271
could be the location
where Nazi scientist
484
00:26:17,314 --> 00:26:21,667
Dr. Richter was working on
nuclear technology after WWII.
485
00:26:21,710 --> 00:26:25,105
♪
486
00:26:25,148 --> 00:26:26,541
- From shore it didn't
look this big.
487
00:26:28,238 --> 00:26:29,631
- So this is it?
488
00:26:29,675 --> 00:26:31,328
Mystery Island?
489
00:26:31,372 --> 00:26:33,200
Whatever was going on here,
490
00:26:33,243 --> 00:26:35,594
this island definitely
has to hold secrets.
491
00:26:35,637 --> 00:26:37,987
Huemul Island reminds me
a little bit of Alcatraz.
492
00:26:38,031 --> 00:26:40,686
It's near a big city,
493
00:26:40,729 --> 00:26:43,036
but it's also
this secretive place
494
00:26:43,079 --> 00:26:45,516
where nobody knows
what's going on
495
00:26:45,560 --> 00:26:48,781
because nobody's being told
what's happening here.
496
00:26:48,824 --> 00:26:52,219
♪
497
00:26:52,262 --> 00:26:54,003
There are trees everywhere.
498
00:26:54,047 --> 00:26:56,049
This is what happens
if you leave a place abandoned
499
00:26:56,092 --> 00:26:57,528
on a fertile island like this
500
00:26:57,572 --> 00:27:00,009
for 70-something years.
501
00:27:00,053 --> 00:27:01,924
- It's a massive building.
502
00:27:01,968 --> 00:27:02,969
- There.
503
00:27:03,012 --> 00:27:04,187
♪
504
00:27:04,231 --> 00:27:06,102
- Massive.
505
00:27:06,146 --> 00:27:09,062
Okay, it's looking
a little more structured.
506
00:27:12,152 --> 00:27:13,283
- Okay.
507
00:27:13,327 --> 00:27:15,895
♪
508
00:27:15,938 --> 00:27:17,113
- Oh, my God.
509
00:27:17,157 --> 00:27:24,033
♪
510
00:27:26,601 --> 00:27:27,558
What building is this?
511
00:27:29,517 --> 00:27:31,693
There are many stories
around this place.
512
00:27:31,737 --> 00:27:34,217
♪
513
00:27:34,261 --> 00:27:35,349
- What was inside of here?
514
00:27:45,141 --> 00:27:47,056
- Whatever Richter
was designing,
515
00:27:47,100 --> 00:27:49,102
everything's been stripped:
light fittings,
516
00:27:49,145 --> 00:27:51,060
switches, the lot.
517
00:27:51,104 --> 00:27:53,889
So all we can see now
is the remains.
518
00:27:53,933 --> 00:27:56,283
Federico, how many more
of these are there?
519
00:27:56,326 --> 00:27:57,545
How many more
buildings like this?
520
00:28:01,027 --> 00:28:03,594
- Are we going up that way
or up that way?
521
00:28:03,638 --> 00:28:04,813
- Okay.
522
00:28:04,857 --> 00:28:06,467
♪
523
00:28:06,510 --> 00:28:07,337
So what have we got here?
524
00:28:20,176 --> 00:28:21,395
- These are the power buildings?
525
00:28:33,189 --> 00:28:34,800
- This is massive for the time.
526
00:28:34,843 --> 00:28:37,716
Whatever his ambitions
for this place were,
527
00:28:37,759 --> 00:28:41,284
he thought he required
a massive amount of power.
528
00:28:41,328 --> 00:28:43,896
Enough power to power a city.
529
00:28:43,939 --> 00:28:47,551
In the late '40s, early '50s,
to develop a nuclear weapon,
530
00:28:47,595 --> 00:28:50,032
you needed such huge amounts
of electrical power.
531
00:28:50,076 --> 00:28:52,513
The generators
would have been massive.
532
00:28:52,556 --> 00:28:56,430
So just that logistical
operation is quite mind blowing.
533
00:28:56,473 --> 00:28:59,041
This is one beast
of a generating station.
534
00:28:59,085 --> 00:29:01,261
- The laborers,
the manufacturing of it,
535
00:29:01,304 --> 00:29:04,177
the transportation of it
across a lake.
536
00:29:04,220 --> 00:29:05,482
This is a huge project.
537
00:29:05,526 --> 00:29:07,093
- Yeah, definitely.
538
00:29:07,136 --> 00:29:08,442
And probably out
of a Nazi's bank account.
539
00:29:08,485 --> 00:29:10,096
Or three.
540
00:29:10,139 --> 00:29:12,359
- It is obvious on the island
that Dr. Richter
541
00:29:12,402 --> 00:29:14,796
had money
and infrastructure.
542
00:29:14,840 --> 00:29:16,885
That's what we know.
543
00:29:16,929 --> 00:29:18,408
It's what we don't know
that's scaring me.
544
00:29:18,452 --> 00:29:24,066
♪
545
00:29:24,110 --> 00:29:26,895
- Oh, somebody's taken
a hell of a pounding.
546
00:29:26,939 --> 00:29:33,815
♪
547
00:29:37,340 --> 00:29:38,211
- It's eerie.
548
00:29:41,083 --> 00:29:42,215
- Bombing from the air?
549
00:29:43,477 --> 00:29:44,826
- Bullet holes on the front.
550
00:29:44,870 --> 00:29:46,001
- It doesn't make
any damn sense.
551
00:29:46,045 --> 00:29:47,655
Why would you destroy it?
552
00:29:47,698 --> 00:29:49,004
There's nothing natural
about the destruction
553
00:29:49,048 --> 00:29:50,223
of Richter's lab.
554
00:29:50,266 --> 00:29:53,226
It's been blown up deliberately.
555
00:29:53,269 --> 00:29:56,838
What was so important to hide
that you let the Navy bomb it?
556
00:29:56,882 --> 00:29:59,101
- This is solid cement.
- Yeah, amazing.
557
00:29:59,145 --> 00:30:00,537
♪
558
00:30:00,581 --> 00:30:01,800
- Three, four feet thick.
559
00:30:01,843 --> 00:30:04,672
♪
560
00:30:04,715 --> 00:30:08,110
- With a few holes
561
00:30:08,154 --> 00:30:10,547
to witness
whatever's going on in here
562
00:30:10,591 --> 00:30:12,288
'cause they'd have had thick,
563
00:30:12,332 --> 00:30:14,682
shielded glass inside them,
I'd have thought.
564
00:30:14,725 --> 00:30:17,641
- This is to prevent
radiation from escaping.
565
00:30:17,685 --> 00:30:19,861
That's how close they were.
566
00:30:19,905 --> 00:30:21,558
- [scoffs]
567
00:30:21,602 --> 00:30:22,864
And he's punching
electricity into here.
568
00:30:22,908 --> 00:30:25,301
Look at those.
569
00:30:25,345 --> 00:30:28,087
Those are the sort of things
you see on top of pylons.
570
00:30:28,130 --> 00:30:29,131
Those ceramic...
571
00:30:29,175 --> 00:30:31,568
- Yeah.
- Dampers.
572
00:30:31,612 --> 00:30:34,310
- It's difficult to discern
what was going on here.
573
00:30:34,354 --> 00:30:38,227
Is there any evidence of
how this building was laid out?
574
00:30:38,271 --> 00:30:39,489
- How'd it looked
before it got smashed?
575
00:30:50,500 --> 00:30:52,763
- Well, that's a
serious nuclear kit.
576
00:31:03,818 --> 00:31:05,515
- And this is a huge
industrial complex.
577
00:31:05,559 --> 00:31:07,256
I mean, he has everything
that he needs
578
00:31:07,300 --> 00:31:09,432
to do I think anything
that he wants.
579
00:31:09,476 --> 00:31:11,652
- And that's scary.
580
00:31:11,695 --> 00:31:13,872
Richter's laboratory
was cutting-edge,
581
00:31:13,915 --> 00:31:17,092
top-line technology
from around the world.
582
00:31:17,136 --> 00:31:18,833
All the machines
that will enable him
583
00:31:18,877 --> 00:31:20,922
to develop a nuclear weapon.
584
00:31:20,966 --> 00:31:22,706
- The Nazis in Germany
were trying
585
00:31:22,750 --> 00:31:24,273
to do this exact same thing.
586
00:31:24,317 --> 00:31:26,667
♪
587
00:31:26,710 --> 00:31:28,930
- God knows what
they were doing.
588
00:31:28,974 --> 00:31:32,455
Documents tell us Hitler would
dream of New York in flames
589
00:31:32,499 --> 00:31:34,370
and a new Fourth Reich.
590
00:31:34,414 --> 00:31:36,764
And it seems
to be coming together
591
00:31:36,807 --> 00:31:38,548
here in Bariloche.
592
00:31:38,592 --> 00:31:40,681
♪
593
00:31:40,724 --> 00:31:42,552
Make of it what you will.
594
00:31:42,596 --> 00:31:46,295
♪
595
00:31:49,864 --> 00:31:51,431
[suspenseful music]
596
00:31:51,474 --> 00:31:53,781
- This clearly was
a secret nuclear site,
597
00:31:53,824 --> 00:31:56,088
as secret as Iraq's
598
00:31:56,131 --> 00:31:58,655
or Iran's, or anybody else.
599
00:31:58,699 --> 00:32:00,962
narrator: Bob and John review
the findings from Bariloche,
600
00:32:01,006 --> 00:32:04,052
Argentina, where they have
uncovered what could be
601
00:32:04,096 --> 00:32:07,055
a secret nuclear facility
on Huemul Island,
602
00:32:07,099 --> 00:32:09,405
just 30 miles from
the Inalco house,
603
00:32:09,449 --> 00:32:12,974
a potential refuge
for Adolf Hitler.
604
00:32:13,018 --> 00:32:16,151
- Just taking a look
at Huemul Island,
605
00:32:16,195 --> 00:32:18,632
some of the pieces of evidence,
606
00:32:18,675 --> 00:32:19,720
we know that there's
the development
607
00:32:19,763 --> 00:32:21,287
of some type of weapon
608
00:32:21,330 --> 00:32:24,159
of mass destruction
in Thuringia,
609
00:32:24,203 --> 00:32:26,466
and Dr. Richter travels
610
00:32:26,509 --> 00:32:29,208
then to Argentina after the war
611
00:32:29,251 --> 00:32:33,516
for the purposes
of this so-called energy plant.
612
00:32:33,560 --> 00:32:38,478
There is a lot of electricity
being utilized on the island.
613
00:32:38,521 --> 00:32:40,045
It's a massive infrastructure,
614
00:32:40,088 --> 00:32:42,786
a lot of money,
a lot of people.
615
00:32:42,830 --> 00:32:44,136
There's just no question
about it.
616
00:32:44,179 --> 00:32:47,487
There was a nefarious purpose
617
00:32:47,530 --> 00:32:50,707
for what was going on
on Huemul Island.
618
00:32:50,751 --> 00:32:54,146
- When you have a nuclear
facility run by a Nazi,
619
00:32:54,189 --> 00:32:56,539
and Hitler could be
down the lake,
620
00:32:56,583 --> 00:32:58,367
it's starting to tell
a story--a bigger story
621
00:32:58,411 --> 00:32:59,455
than we started.
622
00:32:59,499 --> 00:33:02,328
♪
623
00:33:02,371 --> 00:33:07,159
You have this gigantic
body of water
624
00:33:07,202 --> 00:33:09,639
and no urban development.
625
00:33:09,683 --> 00:33:12,468
You can do what you
want out here.
626
00:33:12,512 --> 00:33:16,124
At the other end of the lake
is the Inalco house.
627
00:33:16,168 --> 00:33:19,780
Bunkers, guard towers.
628
00:33:19,823 --> 00:33:22,130
Could have been
a safe house for Hitler.
629
00:33:22,174 --> 00:33:24,393
And then you've got
Huemul Island,
630
00:33:24,437 --> 00:33:26,917
which is the
nuclear facility.
631
00:33:26,961 --> 00:33:30,399
I mean, this is some
sort of Nazi base
632
00:33:30,443 --> 00:33:32,706
in the middle of Argentina.
633
00:33:32,749 --> 00:33:35,317
- I agree with that,
but for Hitler
634
00:33:35,361 --> 00:33:37,406
to carry out the Fourth Reich,
635
00:33:37,450 --> 00:33:40,061
there needs to be
some type of security
636
00:33:40,105 --> 00:33:41,541
or fortifications
637
00:33:41,584 --> 00:33:44,022
that would provide
an environment
638
00:33:44,065 --> 00:33:45,545
of overall protection,
639
00:33:45,588 --> 00:33:48,069
an outer perimeter, if you will.
640
00:33:48,113 --> 00:33:51,159
I would want to look
for evidence of bunkers.
641
00:33:51,203 --> 00:33:52,987
Are there fortifications?
642
00:33:53,031 --> 00:33:54,423
If we could find evidence
643
00:33:54,467 --> 00:33:57,992
of 1940s-era
security measures,
644
00:33:58,036 --> 00:34:02,257
I think it's a major leap
in this investigation.
645
00:34:02,301 --> 00:34:03,737
- Yep.
646
00:34:03,780 --> 00:34:10,657
♪
647
00:34:22,321 --> 00:34:24,453
- Hi there.
- Alan?
648
00:34:24,497 --> 00:34:25,498
- Hi.
- I'm Gerrard.
649
00:34:25,541 --> 00:34:27,326
- Morning.
Tim.
650
00:34:27,369 --> 00:34:29,241
narrator: To investigate
potential military
651
00:34:29,284 --> 00:34:31,982
infrastructure that could have
protected both Huemul Island
652
00:34:32,026 --> 00:34:33,897
and the Inalco house,
653
00:34:33,941 --> 00:34:36,291
Tim and Gerrard make contact
with Alan Joos,
654
00:34:36,335 --> 00:34:39,251
an expert on post-war
architecture in Bariloche
655
00:34:39,294 --> 00:34:41,949
and his translator.
656
00:34:41,992 --> 00:34:44,604
- This lake is
the only transportation
657
00:34:44,647 --> 00:34:48,912
between Hitler's home
and Huemul Island,
658
00:34:48,956 --> 00:34:51,132
where Dr. Richter's
doing his nuclear research.
659
00:34:51,176 --> 00:34:53,134
If Hitler was supervising
Dr. Richter
660
00:34:53,178 --> 00:34:55,049
and everything that he does,
661
00:34:55,093 --> 00:34:57,747
the infrastructure has to be
in place to lock down
662
00:34:57,791 --> 00:34:59,358
and shut down the entire lake.
663
00:35:00,750 --> 00:35:03,536
So I know you have
a lot of knowledge
664
00:35:03,579 --> 00:35:06,887
and expertise in the area,
the geography,
665
00:35:06,930 --> 00:35:09,411
and some of the structures
that are here.
666
00:35:09,455 --> 00:35:13,676
What I need to know, Alan,
is what's between Inalco...
667
00:35:13,720 --> 00:35:15,156
and the island.
668
00:35:15,200 --> 00:35:17,811
Are there any
military structures
669
00:35:17,854 --> 00:35:22,294
or a built network
between this island
670
00:35:22,337 --> 00:35:23,382
and this house?
671
00:35:23,425 --> 00:35:27,081
♪
672
00:35:27,125 --> 00:35:31,129
- [speaking foreign language]
673
00:35:31,172 --> 00:35:34,044
- At the northern
tip of this peninsula,
674
00:35:34,088 --> 00:35:37,047
there's a tower,
like an observation tower.
675
00:35:37,091 --> 00:35:43,967
♪
676
00:35:51,714 --> 00:35:52,759
- We have to put eyes on it.
677
00:35:52,802 --> 00:35:54,804
♪
678
00:35:54,848 --> 00:35:57,242
narrator: The team heads
for the location of the tower
679
00:35:57,285 --> 00:35:59,983
which sits directly
between the Inalco house
680
00:36:00,027 --> 00:36:01,420
and Huemul Island.
681
00:36:01,463 --> 00:36:08,166
♪
682
00:36:08,209 --> 00:36:09,471
- Oh, there it is.
683
00:36:09,515 --> 00:36:10,429
Gerrard.
684
00:36:10,472 --> 00:36:13,954
♪
685
00:36:13,997 --> 00:36:14,998
- Oh, gosh.
686
00:36:15,042 --> 00:36:16,217
- Man.
687
00:36:16,261 --> 00:36:23,181
♪
688
00:36:27,489 --> 00:36:29,883
- The architect had
built Adolf Hitler's home--
689
00:36:29,926 --> 00:36:30,840
- Built this thing.
690
00:36:30,884 --> 00:36:33,278
♪
691
00:36:33,321 --> 00:36:35,454
- Strategically where
it's located,
692
00:36:35,497 --> 00:36:36,933
this has eyes not only
on what's coming
693
00:36:36,977 --> 00:36:38,500
and going from Inalco,
694
00:36:38,544 --> 00:36:41,677
but also has eyes
on Island Huemul.
695
00:36:41,721 --> 00:36:44,593
Nothing can get through,
nothing can get past.
696
00:36:44,637 --> 00:36:45,768
This locks
the entire lake down.
697
00:36:45,812 --> 00:36:47,205
- Yep.
698
00:36:47,248 --> 00:36:48,858
- This might just be
the flagship.
699
00:36:48,902 --> 00:36:50,338
There might be three or four
more fighting positions
700
00:36:50,382 --> 00:36:52,340
on this mountain.
701
00:36:52,384 --> 00:36:55,343
This is a clear indication
of military infrastructure
702
00:36:55,387 --> 00:36:57,693
that could provide the support
from Adolf Hitler.
703
00:36:57,737 --> 00:37:00,174
There's no telling what else
they could have built here
704
00:37:00,218 --> 00:37:02,611
that hasn't
even been discovered.
705
00:37:02,655 --> 00:37:04,265
- Alan, are there any
other structures
706
00:37:04,309 --> 00:37:07,050
like this around
the lake or Bariloche?
707
00:37:08,661 --> 00:37:09,618
- Yeah.
708
00:37:11,707 --> 00:37:13,579
- A bunker.
709
00:37:13,622 --> 00:37:15,450
- Where's the bunker at?
710
00:37:15,494 --> 00:37:22,762
♪
711
00:37:22,805 --> 00:37:26,461
- This is feeling more and more
systematic and strategic.
712
00:37:26,505 --> 00:37:29,159
This was orchestrated
and planned.
713
00:37:29,203 --> 00:37:30,857
This is the Nazis raising a flag
714
00:37:30,900 --> 00:37:33,599
saying that we're here
and we own the lake.
715
00:37:33,642 --> 00:37:35,035
And that island is ours.
716
00:37:35,078 --> 00:37:37,690
♪
717
00:37:41,346 --> 00:37:44,305
[suspenseful music]
718
00:37:44,349 --> 00:37:47,656
♪
719
00:37:47,700 --> 00:37:50,355
- If the bunker strategically
is located in a way
720
00:37:50,398 --> 00:37:52,313
that supports this,
721
00:37:52,357 --> 00:37:53,967
that's what we need to know.
722
00:37:54,010 --> 00:37:55,838
narrator: Tim Kennedy
and Gerrard Williams
723
00:37:55,882 --> 00:37:57,971
are in search
of military infrastructure
724
00:37:58,014 --> 00:37:59,451
that could have protected
the area
725
00:37:59,494 --> 00:38:01,496
surrounding the Inalco house,
726
00:38:01,540 --> 00:38:03,716
a potential refuge
for Adolf Hitler,
727
00:38:03,759 --> 00:38:05,152
and Huemul Island,
728
00:38:05,195 --> 00:38:07,415
a reported Nazi
nuclear facility.
729
00:38:07,459 --> 00:38:09,025
- We have to see this bunker.
730
00:38:09,069 --> 00:38:11,158
♪
731
00:38:11,201 --> 00:38:13,726
narrator: After discovering
a mysterious watchtower located
732
00:38:13,769 --> 00:38:16,337
directly between the Inalco
house and Huemul Island,
733
00:38:16,381 --> 00:38:18,992
they head for a bunker
six miles away.
734
00:38:19,035 --> 00:38:25,912
♪
735
00:38:31,787 --> 00:38:33,485
- You can hardly see it.
736
00:38:33,528 --> 00:38:40,187
♪
737
00:38:40,230 --> 00:38:42,320
Adolf Hitler is here
overseeing Dr. Richter
738
00:38:42,363 --> 00:38:43,669
working on Huemul Island,
739
00:38:43,712 --> 00:38:45,932
he needs troops.
He needs security.
740
00:38:45,975 --> 00:38:48,369
This bunker can be
a defensive position.
741
00:38:48,413 --> 00:38:50,850
♪
742
00:38:50,893 --> 00:38:52,852
We have Inalco over here,
743
00:38:52,895 --> 00:38:55,681
Dr. Richter with Island Huemul,
744
00:38:55,724 --> 00:38:57,378
and the tower that way.
745
00:38:57,422 --> 00:39:01,556
The only way to Inalco is coming
by this or by the tower.
746
00:39:01,600 --> 00:39:03,384
So a machine gun here
with a machine gun there--
747
00:39:03,428 --> 00:39:05,647
- Killing field.
Complete killing field.
748
00:39:05,691 --> 00:39:09,259
- As soon as I see the bunker,
it is quickly and easily
749
00:39:09,303 --> 00:39:11,784
recognizable that
they're creating a choke point
750
00:39:11,827 --> 00:39:13,394
to prevent people
751
00:39:13,438 --> 00:39:15,701
from going to Inalco
or Huemul Island.
752
00:39:15,744 --> 00:39:18,051
This bunker wasn't
built at random.
753
00:39:18,094 --> 00:39:21,359
Everything was by design,
by a purpose.
754
00:39:21,402 --> 00:39:23,709
Was there any records
about who built this,
755
00:39:23,752 --> 00:39:25,058
when it was built,
why it was built,
756
00:39:25,101 --> 00:39:26,451
was there a work permit?
757
00:39:32,413 --> 00:39:33,545
- They don't know a thing?
758
00:39:33,588 --> 00:39:36,286
- [speaking foreign language]
759
00:39:36,330 --> 00:39:37,766
- Nobody knows who built it.
760
00:39:37,810 --> 00:39:39,507
♪
761
00:39:39,551 --> 00:39:42,423
On having seen Richter's place
on the island,
762
00:39:42,467 --> 00:39:44,033
construction methods
are remarkably similar
763
00:39:44,077 --> 00:39:45,861
to parts of that.
764
00:39:45,905 --> 00:39:48,647
- This looks like it was moved
right from the island.
765
00:39:48,690 --> 00:39:50,866
- Whoever engineered Huemul
766
00:39:50,910 --> 00:39:53,042
engineered quite a lot of this,
I would have thought.
767
00:39:53,086 --> 00:39:55,567
This bunker
is purely functional.
768
00:39:55,610 --> 00:39:58,047
This is there to do something.
769
00:39:58,091 --> 00:40:01,007
If it isn't part of the network
that's guarding Adolf Hitler,
770
00:40:01,050 --> 00:40:02,182
what else is it for?
771
00:40:08,884 --> 00:40:12,453
- After the coup
that toppled Perón.
772
00:40:12,497 --> 00:40:13,628
- I can get in here.
773
00:40:13,672 --> 00:40:16,109
♪
774
00:40:16,152 --> 00:40:17,893
- What you got, Tim?
775
00:40:17,937 --> 00:40:20,026
- I see piping.
776
00:40:20,069 --> 00:40:22,942
Whatever this room is that
I'm in right now, Gerrard,
777
00:40:22,985 --> 00:40:26,119
they had electricity,
they had water,
778
00:40:26,162 --> 00:40:28,121
and it's not a tiny bunker.
779
00:40:28,164 --> 00:40:30,297
So this might have been, like,
a headquarters area.
780
00:40:30,340 --> 00:40:32,908
Maybe communications,
talking to the tower,
781
00:40:32,952 --> 00:40:34,344
talking to Inalco,
782
00:40:34,388 --> 00:40:37,130
talking to Huemul Island.
783
00:40:37,173 --> 00:40:38,958
It's connected, though.
784
00:40:39,001 --> 00:40:41,439
You don't build a bunker
like that for one night.
785
00:40:41,482 --> 00:40:43,441
You don't build it
for short term.
786
00:40:43,484 --> 00:40:45,138
However long it would take
for Dr. Richter
787
00:40:45,181 --> 00:40:47,575
to be successful
at Huemul Island,
788
00:40:47,619 --> 00:40:49,925
that bunker could work
and stay in place.
789
00:40:49,969 --> 00:40:53,015
They could be there for years.
790
00:40:53,059 --> 00:40:56,845
There's a drill hole
that's about six inches deep
791
00:40:56,889 --> 00:40:59,239
that's an inch and a half
to two inches wide.
792
00:40:59,282 --> 00:41:01,197
- Part of the construction?
- No.
793
00:41:01,241 --> 00:41:03,199
I think these are
demolition drill holes.
794
00:41:03,243 --> 00:41:04,418
♪
795
00:41:04,462 --> 00:41:05,550
I found char marks too.
796
00:41:05,593 --> 00:41:07,247
This was explosive.
797
00:41:07,290 --> 00:41:09,945
This is guys crawling
through this building,
798
00:41:09,989 --> 00:41:12,165
drilling into the foundation...
799
00:41:12,208 --> 00:41:13,993
- Yeah.
- At the juncture points
800
00:41:14,036 --> 00:41:15,951
of the support,
and bringing it down.
801
00:41:15,995 --> 00:41:17,823
- And planting high explosives.
802
00:41:17,866 --> 00:41:19,912
- A lot of it.
803
00:41:19,955 --> 00:41:22,349
- So somebody wanted this
destroyed pretty badly.
804
00:41:22,392 --> 00:41:24,220
Whatever this was,
they tried to erase
805
00:41:24,264 --> 00:41:26,092
quite a lot
of the evidence here.
806
00:41:26,135 --> 00:41:28,268
They've either blown it up
or they've bombed it.
807
00:41:28,311 --> 00:41:31,010
Again, it's the pattern
of trying to erase things
808
00:41:31,053 --> 00:41:34,622
to make sure that history can't
be told in the correct way.
809
00:41:34,666 --> 00:41:36,842
- 1945, you're not going to get
any more fortified
810
00:41:36,885 --> 00:41:37,756
than this right here.
811
00:41:37,799 --> 00:41:39,366
- No.
812
00:41:39,409 --> 00:41:42,412
- This could be both
defensive and offensive.
813
00:41:42,456 --> 00:41:45,590
- The size of this, you could
base 20, 30 people on it.
814
00:41:45,633 --> 00:41:46,634
- At least.
815
00:41:46,678 --> 00:41:48,636
What I see here
816
00:41:48,680 --> 00:41:51,204
is the Fourth Reich's blueprint.
817
00:41:51,247 --> 00:41:52,684
I know what they did
in Misiones,
818
00:41:52,727 --> 00:41:54,207
I found their
fighting positions,
819
00:41:54,250 --> 00:41:55,904
I found the concentric walls,
820
00:41:55,948 --> 00:41:57,602
and everything
that they did in Misiones,
821
00:41:57,645 --> 00:42:00,213
they duplicated here
just at a larger scale.
822
00:42:00,256 --> 00:42:02,911
So Adolf Hitler
living in Inalco
823
00:42:02,955 --> 00:42:06,088
has the protection he needs
to oversee Dr. Richter
824
00:42:06,132 --> 00:42:08,830
giving the Fourth Reich
their new hope:
825
00:42:08,874 --> 00:42:10,440
a nuclear weapon.
826
00:42:10,484 --> 00:42:12,573
With success here,
the Fourth Reich
827
00:42:12,617 --> 00:42:15,010
could change the landscape
of the world.
828
00:42:15,054 --> 00:42:19,972
♪
829
00:42:20,015 --> 00:42:23,323
narrator: Next time
on "Hunting Hitler"...
830
00:42:23,366 --> 00:42:27,109
- Were there any senior Nazis
who came here after the war?
831
00:42:28,720 --> 00:42:30,765
- He was a person who lived
in the shadows.
832
00:42:30,809 --> 00:42:33,376
- There's something strange
going on here.
833
00:42:33,420 --> 00:42:36,858
- There is a rumor that
Juan Keller is Martin Bormann.
834
00:42:36,902 --> 00:42:38,338
Is that true?
835
00:42:38,381 --> 00:42:40,688
[both speaking foreign language]
836
00:42:40,732 --> 00:42:41,733
- Does this look like
your father?
837
00:42:41,776 --> 00:42:44,518
♪
838
00:42:44,562 --> 00:42:46,825
- Yes.
[speaking foreign language]
839
00:42:46,868 --> 00:42:49,479
- Bormann's here;
Hitler's not very far away
840
00:42:49,523 --> 00:42:54,093
- Four men came to her house
from Colonia Dignidad.
841
00:42:54,136 --> 00:42:57,009
- Colonia Dignidad
still remains today.
842
00:42:57,052 --> 00:42:59,620
They've changed their name
to Villa Baviera.
843
00:42:59,664 --> 00:43:01,143
♪
844
00:43:01,187 --> 00:43:03,711
- How can a sanctuary for Nazis
on the run
845
00:43:03,755 --> 00:43:05,539
now be a tourist location?
846
00:43:05,583 --> 00:43:07,149
They get wind of what
we're here for,
847
00:43:07,193 --> 00:43:08,586
it's dangerous.
848
00:43:08,629 --> 00:43:10,588
♪
61711
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