Original subtitles

♪♪

Koper: You Have To Have Special Permission To Be Here.

Sure, You Got A Train Full Of Gold Under Your Feet.

People Are Gonna Wanna Find It. -Yeah, Of Course.

♪♪

Something Here Is Sticking Out Of The Weeds.

Hold On. I'm Gonna Try And Take It Out.

We Are Talking About The Largest Underground Facility

Ever Built.

Oh, My God!

♪♪

Whoa! Whoa! Whoa! What Is That?

It's A Boat! How [Bleep] Cool Is That?!

I Can't Believe You Found This.

What Is This Place? -Nobody Exactly Knows.

♪♪

Oh, No!

Whoa, Whoa. Whoa! Whoa! Whoa! [ Grunts ]

♪♪

It's Been Nearly Three-Quarters Of A Century

Since The End Of World War Ii,

But One Battle Is Still Being Waged.

It's The Fight To Find And Return

Countless Treasures Stolen By The Nazis.

-Hitler: Sieg Heil! [ Ss Soldiers Cheer ]

Gates: As Hitler's Forces

Plunder Their Way Through Europe,

They Loot A Fortune

In Gold, Art, And Relics To Fund Their War Machine.

They Also Build Extensive Networks

Of Hidden Tunnels And Bunkers,

Many Of Which Have Never Been Found.

Today, Explorers Are Using Modern Technology

To Recover Lost Treasure

And Excavate The Underground Legacy

Of The Third Reich.

Recent Headlines Have Announced Sensational Discoveries,

Including Piles Of Art Found Inside An Old Man's Attic.

However, It's The Most Recent News

That May Expose The Nazis' Greatest Secrets.

At This Moment,

An Explorer Is Using Sonar And Cutting-Edge Robots

To Search For A Legendary Cache Of Gold

Hidden In A Deep Alpine Lake.

And There Are Reports That Two Researchers

Have Identified More Gold

In A Nazi Train Hidden Inside A Mountain In Poland.

And In Austria, A Historian Appears To Have Found

The Entrance To A Subterranean Facility

That Could Be A Top Secret Lab To Build A Nazi Atomic Bomb.

This Real-Life Adventure Is Unfolding Right Now.

So I'm Setting Off To Join These Modern-Day Monuments Men

To Find The Stolen Treasures

And The Darkest Secrets Of The Third Reich.

[ Singing In German ]

♪♪

My Name Is Josh Gates.

With A Degree In Archaeology And A Passion For Exploration,

I Have A Tendency To End Up In Some Very Strange Situations.

Good Lord!

Aah! [ Laughs ]

My Travels Have Taken Me To The Ends Of The Earth

As I Investigate The Greatest Legends In History.

We're Good To Fly. Let's Go.

This Is "Expedition Unknown."

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Captions Paid For By Discovery Communications

To Unlock The Lost Secrets Of The Third Reich,

I Begin In The Birthplace Of The Nazi Party -- Munich.

Germany Is, Of Course,

One Of The World's Leading Producers

Of High-End Automobiles.

So When It Comes Time To Get Across Town,

I'm Handed The Keys... To Nothing.

[ Bell Dings ] Here We Go.

All Right, It's Been About 10 Years

Since I've Been On A Bike.

But You Know What They Say About Ridin' A Bike.

It's Like Ridin' A Bike.

But It Turns Out Two Wheels Are Enough.

With Hundreds Of Miles Of Bike Lanes,

Almost 20% Of All Traffic Here Is By Bicycle,

Which Is Why Munich Is The Best Place In The World

To Have A Paper Route.

♪♪

Munich's The Kinda City That Makes You Wanna

Quit Your Day Job

And Invest In Some German Lessons.

♪♪

You Know, Germans Have This Reputation

For Being A Little Bit Serious, A Little Bit Uptight.

But, Man, Munich Does Not Seem To Have Gotten The Memo.

Everybody Here Seems To Be Having A Really Good Time.

And Why Not? This Is A City Built On Beer.

♪♪

By The Luckiest Of Breaks, I'm Here In Munich

During The 16-Day-Long Carnival Known As Oktoberfest,

Which Is Like Mardi Gras

With A Lot More Dudes In Lederhosen

And Women In Hot Peasant Garb.

♪♪

I've Got A Meeting Tomorrow Morning

With A Prominent Journalist

Who's Going To Get Me Started On The Hunt For Nazi Secrets.

With An Evening To Kill,

And A Lot Of Brain Cells Ready To Go With It,

I Follow The Foot Traffic

Toward The Large Tent Crammed With More Than 5,000 People.

♪♪

It's Drunken Christmas!

The Real Attraction Here Is, Of Course, The Beer.

It Arrives By The Liter.

And In Munich,

You're Never Too Young To Start Appreciating It.

All Right. How Does This Work?

Where Does The Beer Come From? -Okay.

You're Gonna Wait For A Waitress.

Gates: Each Of The Beer Steins Weighs About 3 Pounds,

And That's When They're Empty.

The Waitresses Here Have Triceps Like Steel Cables.

Good God! Okay, Here We Go!

-Now We Go! Prost! -All: Prost!

♪♪

[ Singing In German ]

Gates: Hey, Jj! We're Filming Here!

Unbeliev-- No Professionalism.

♪♪

Tonight Is That Rare "Expedition Unknown" Moment,

That Snowflake Of Television

Where I'm Completely Pulling The Pin.

Get Ready, Folks.

[ Shouts In German ]

Oh! Whoa!

♪♪

[ Record Needle Scratches ] -Just A Quick Update Here.

I'm [Bleep] Faced.

[ Song Resumes ]

♪♪

Here's What I Need Right Now -- A Set Of Lederhosen.

Can I Borrow Your Lederhosen?

Yes? -[ Speaks Indistinctly ]

[Bleep] Yes!

Gates: Fyi -- The Going Rate For A German Guy

To Switch Pants With You Is 20 Euros And A Beer.

♪♪

[ Birds Chirping ]

I'm Not Exactly Sure If There's Such A Thing

As Too Much Fun.

But If So, Last Night Was It.

And Yet You Could Call The Setting Research

For My Mission.

After All, It Was In The Beer Halls Of Munich

Almost A Century Ago

Where The Nazi Party Began To Recruit Its First Members.

Only 10 Years After A Failed Coup In 1923,

Adolf Hitler Rose To Become Chancellor Of Germany.

The New Government Restricted Rights

And Confiscated The Property

Of Jews And Other Minority Groups --

Gold, Jewelry, And Art

Used To Fund The German War Machine

And To Personally Enrich Hitler And His Loyal Inner Circle.

♪♪

Here, In The Konigsplatz, Munich's Main Square

That Was Once The Stage For Hitler's Political Rallies,

I'm Meeting Konrad Kramar,

A Historian And Investigative Reporter

With Intel On The Latest Searches

For Elusive Nazi Secrets.

Right Here In Munich,

Right In The Center Of This City,

An Apartment Was Discovered,

Owned By Son Of An Art Dealer For Hitler.

-Uh-Huh. -And In This Apartment,

He Kept A Collection In The Value Of $700 Million.

All Stolen Art?

All Stolen Art, All Art Hitler Wanted.

Why Do You Think So Much Of This Art

Is Coming To Light Now?

Simply Because 20% Of The Art The Nazis Robbed

Is Still Missing, Pictures With A Value

Of Around $7 Billion Today.

$7 Billion?

Major Pieces Of European Art.

One Of The Other Things, Along With The Art,

That I Hear So Much About,

Are These Tunnel Systems That Keep Getting Discovered.

The Nazis, Even At The End Of The World War,

Had The Most Advanced Weapons Production

On Earth.

And, Of Course, They Had Plans To Build A Nuclear Bomb.

For That, They Built Giant Tunnels

And Tunnels Of A Size,

Which Have Been Underestimated Up To Now

Because Recently, We're Discovering New Tunnels

Which We Didn't Know About Before.

Gates: The Tunnel Systems Found All Over Europe

After The War Seemed To Have Been A Nazi Obsession --

Hiding Train Tracks, Factories, And Secret Labs.

And Tunnels Weren't The Only Places

That The Nazis Squirreled Away Their Secrets.

At The End Of The War, Most Of The High-Ranking Nazis --

And We're Talking About People Like Goebbels Himself --

Anything Of Value They Could Grab,

All Of These Guys Truck All Of This

Into The Heart Of The Austrian Alps.

Those Remote Alpine Areas Are Being Searched

Because There Is Still Something Out There To Be Found.

There Really Is A-A-A Lot More Here To Find

Than I Really Realized.

Well, While We're Standing Here In Munich Talkin' About History,

A New Story Just Recently Popped Up In Poland,

A Train, A Nazi Train Full Of Gold,

Hidden Until Now.

That Shows Us How Much There Is Still To Discover.

Gates: A Train Car Full Of Looted Gold,

Untold Riches In Alpine Hideouts,

Underground Weapons Labs.

There's Several Stories For Me To Investigate,

But I'm Going To Start With The One

That's Been Making International News.

Thank You.

So I Board A Northbound Train Headed For Poland.

The Headlines Are Attention-Grabbing --

A Forgotten Nazi Railcar Hidden In Poland

And Possibly Filled To The Brim With Treasure.

But Does This So-Called Gold Train Exist?

And If So, Where Is It Buried?

I'm About To Find Out.

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Gates: In World War Ii, The Nazis Hid

Billions Of Dollars In Treasures.

And I'm Hot On The Heels Of The Intrepid Explorers

Attempting To Get Them Back.

So The Hunt For Nazi-Era Artifacts

Continues To Unfold In Different Countries Throughout Europe.

So I'm Headed North To A Very Small Village In Poland

That Has Recently Been Very Big News

Ever Since Two Treasure Hunters Announced

An Unbelievable Discovery.

Two Self-Funded Researchers Say They've Obtained

A Deathbed Confession From A Former Nazi Guard.

He Reveals The Existence

Of A Train Car Loaded With Plundered Gold

That's Sealed In An Underground Tunnel.

Now They Claim To Have Pinpointed The Train's Location,

Setting Off A Media Firestorm.

♪♪

After An 8-Hour Train Ride, I Arrive In Walbrzych,

Which Is Spelled Kind Of Like It Sounds,

Except You Need To Add A "Y" And An "R" And A "Z."

Okay, No, You Put The "Z" In The Wrong --

You Know What, Forget It. Just...Here.

♪♪

Chilly Morning Here, In The Town Of Walbrzych.

This Is A Place That First Showed Up On Maps

During The Middle Ages.

Later, It Became A Major Coal Mining Center

At The Edge Of The German Empire.

After World War Ii, Though, It Was Handed Over To Poland.

And It Still Has A Lot

Of Really Beautiful Old World Architecture.

But With The Decline Of The Mining Industry,

It Also Feels Kind Of Empty.

♪♪

With Its Glory Days Behind It,

Walbrzych Has Become A City Of Eerie Quiet.

But In That Quiet Lives A Mystery

That Has Remained Unsolved After More Than 70 Years.

To Learn The Latest On The Story,

I'm Speaking With Journalist Joanna Lamparska,

Who's Requested To Meet Me

At An Abandoned Structure In The Hills Above Town.

Lamparska: Okay...

-I Got It. -Okay.

-Wow, This Is Incredible. -Yeah.

This Place Is Amazing.

Hitler's Last Shrine? -Yeah.

Yeah.

Gates: This Is The Totenburg Mausoleum,

Also Charmingly Known As "The Death Palace."

It Started As A Monument To Honor The Dead From World War I,

But The Nazis Used This As A Meeting Place.

There Are Even Whisperings That Strange Occult Ceremonies

Were Practiced Here.

♪♪

So They Would Do -- They Would Do Rituals Here?

Wow.

-Spooky. -Yeah.

-It's Creepy. -Yeah.

Obviously, This Was An Important Area

For -- For The Nazis.

Gates: The Top Secret Project Was Aptly Named.

Riesemeans "Giant" In German,

And Reflects The Nazis' Immense Ambitions.

They Aspired To Construct

Six Massive Underground Facilities

Beneath The Town,

All Interconnected By Rail Lines.

The Huge Complexes Were To Be Controlled

By Hitler Himself From A Headquarters

Under The 13Th-Century Ksiaz Castle Nearby.

Were These Unfinished Subterranean Facilities

Meant For War Factories

Or, As Some Claim,

To Store And Protect The Nazis' Greatest Stolen Treasures?

That's Where The Missing Train Comes In.

What Is The Legend Of The Train? Where Does That Come From?

Gates: "Disappears" Is Not An Understatement.

The Local Legend Says That At The Edge Of Town,

Between Kilometer Marker 61 And Kilometer Marker 65,

The Train And Its Mystery Cargo

Simply Vanished From The Face Of The Earth.

When The Story Broke In The News,

These Guys Said "We Imaged This Area.

We Definitely See Something Down There."

Do You Think There's Something Down There Or No?

Personally?

Gates: Everything May Be Possible,

But Only One Thing Is Certain.

If The Train Does Exist,

It's Somewhere In The Tunnels Of Project Riese.

And Getting Inside Is Easier Said Than Done.

[ Train Whistle Blows ]

But What About The Place Where The Train Was Supposedly Found?

Surely There's An Entrance There?

Not So Fast.

When News Of The Gold Train Was Announced,

The Entire Area Was Sealed Off By The Police

And Remains Strictly Off-Limits To The Public.

However, I've Been Granted Special Access

By Investigators Darek Tomalkiewicz

And Olek Koper.

-Hi, I'm Olek. -Olek, Nice To Meet You.

Darek.

Thank You For, Uh, Meeting Me Here.

This Is The... -This Is The Place.

-Scene Of The Crime. -Yeah.

And The Police Have Roped It Off.

And Obviously, There's -- There's Police Here Now.

So They're Just Making Sure Nobody Comes In Here?

Is That What's Happening?

The Police, Uh, Secured The Place.

You Have To Have, Uh, Special Permission

To -- To Be Here.

Sure, You've Got A Train Full Of Gold Under Your Feet.

People Are Gonna Wanna Find It. -Yeah, Of Course.

Are These The Same Train Lines

That Were Running In The 1940S Here?

[ Speaking Polish ]Interpreter: Yes.

These Are The Same Tracks That The Nazis Built In 1944

As Part Of Construction For Project Riese.

What Happened Here? What Was Discovered Here?

Recently, Two Men Used Ground-Penetrating Radar

To Search For The Train.

Right Where We're Standing,

They Got Some Very Strange Readings.

Koper: They Showed Some Pictures.

But Nobody's 100% Clear About, Is -- Is It The Train?

Gates: The Men Imaged What Appears To Be

A Large Mass Under This Hill,

Which Happens To Be Right Near Kilometer Marker 65,

Where Legend Says The Train Vanished.

Translator: The Theory Is That The Train Was Pushed Onto A Side Track

That Led To The Underground Riese Facility Beneath Our Feet.

Gates: There's Just One Problem --

Nobody Can Seem To Agree On What The Men Really Found.

It Could Be A Train Full Of Gold,

Or It Could Be A Rail Car Filled With Weapons

Or Deadly Chemicals,

Or It Could Be Nothing At All, Just A False Hit.

Finding Out Which, That's The Challenge.

Let's Get Real Here For A Second, Boys.

♪♪

Underneath Our Feet Could Be Millions

And Millions Of Dollars Worth Of Gold, Yes?

Mm-Hmm.

Now I Know There's A Store In This Town That Sells Shovels.

How's About The Three Of Us Dig It Up?

These Guys Won't Mind, Right? We Can Dig It Up, Yeah?

Guys, We'll Cut You In! No?

Okay, So Until The Authorities Figure Out What's Under Us,

No One Is Allowed To Dig Here.

But With Hundreds Of Miles Of Project Riese

Hiding Under The Town,

Darek And Olek Think They Might Have Another Way

To The Tunnels And The Train Car.

We Hike Along The Tracks Into The Woods,

Where Something Extraordinary Is Hiding In Plain Sight.

♪♪

Wow, This Is -- This Is Incredible.

What -- What Is This Place?

Nobody Exactly Knows.

This Eerie Ruin Is Known As A Sówka.

All Around Us Are Strange Foundations,

Remnants Of Buildings, And Collapsed Passages.

Some People Believe That, Uh, It Could Be A Power Plant,

Which Would Supply Whole Riese, Uh, Complex.

Yeah, I Was Gonna Say, Those Columns

Look Kind Of Industrial, Like Chimneys, Yeah?

Has It Been Fully Excavated?

It's Not Fully Explored.

Some People Believe That Under This, Uh, Construction,

There Are Some Other Levels.

All Right, Let's Go -- Let's Go Check It Out.

Gates: Project Riese Has Left The Ground Here Pockmarked

With Deep Holes.

But We Don't Know If They Offer Us

A Route To The Train.

To Find Out, Darek And Olek Have Brought

Some Soviet-Era Mining Equipment,

Repurposed For Nazi Treasure Hunting.

This Is Like A Dharma Initiative Beer Cooler From "Lost."

Gates: This Is My First Time Using

A Gas-Powered Black-And-White Video Camera In A Cooler.

[ Motor Starts ] There We Go!

The Monitor Is So Old, I Wouldn't Be Surprised

If "The Honeymooners" Popped Up On The Screen.

But I'll Be Damned If The Thing Doesn't Work Like A Charm.

Okay, You Ready? Ready?

-Yeah, Ready. -Here We Go.

We Lower The Camera Down Into The Earth

With No Knowledge Of What Might Be Lying Beneath Our Feet.

Wood Timbers, Yeah?

Koper: Yeah, These Are Wood Timbers.

-Old. -They Haven't Finished It Yet.

And Then -- Ooh, Tunnel!

We Got A Tunnel! -Yeah, There Is A Tunnel!

♪♪

♪♪

Gates: In Southern Poland,

Local Explorer Darek Tomalkiewicz

Is Attempting To Use A Remote Video Camera

To Peer Into The Subterranean Remains

Of The Infamous Nazi Project, Riese.

And Then -- Ooh, Tunnel!

We Got A Tunnel! -Yeah, There Is A Tunnel!

Look At That! Just Goin' Off Into The Darkness.

-Yeah. -To Where, I Don't Know.

That's A Room That Probably Nobody Has Seen Into

Since The End Of World War Ii.

Yeah, Probably.

That's Cool.

The Wooden Corridor Looks Like It's On The Verge Of Collapse.

And None Of Us Are Going To Fit Down A 12-Inch Pipe.

Okay, Comin' Up!

But Lucky For Us, The Remains Of Project Riese Are Extensive,

And Darek Has A Backup Plan.

We Hike About A Mile To A Gated-Off Entrance

To A Massive Tunnel.

Wow.

Drilled Directly Into The Side Of The Sowie Mountains,

This Is One Of The Largest Entrances

To Project Riese

And One Which Is Currently Being Excavated

By Darek And His Team.

Let's Check It Out.

In An Instant, We're Deep Below The Surface,

Lost In Miles Of Passageways Hand-Carved By Slave Labor.

Project Riese Was Made Possible

Through The Coerced Work Of 13,000 Prisoners

Brought From The Nearby Gross-Rosen Concentration Camp.

Koper: This Was A Connector, Uh, Tunnel Between Two Main Tunnels.

-Uh-Huh. -And, Uh, It Is Just Collapsed.

And Is There Anything Beyond That?

Yeah. They Believe That, Uh, Above Us, The --

There's Another Level Of Tunnels.

But Nobody's Been Up There Yet?

No. They Have Not Explored It.

Interpreter: We Are Below The Level Where The Train Was Detected.

So If We Can Find An Access Point To The Upper Tunnels,

We Might Be Able To Find The Train.

Okay, Well... Let's Keep Movin'.

Gates: Deeper In The Complex,

Darek And His Team Have Reestablished Electricity.

And For The First Time, I'm Getting A Good Look

At Just How Massive These Secret Tunnels Are.

Wow!

This Is So Cool.

Around The Corner, We Examine What Was Once A Guard Station.

There Are Racks Of Helmets And Armaments Still In Place,

Including This Saucy Little Number.

What Are These Things?

Man: This Pipe Isn't For Ventilation.

It Connects To A Room Above Us, Which Has Its Own Mystery.

They Put A Camera On These Pipes, And, Uh, They --

They Discovered A 100% Closed Room,

Which -- Which Doesn't Have Any Entrance.

So Weird.

A Pipe To Nowhere.

Yeah.

So If There's A Whole 'Nother Level Above Us,

Then They Either Had To Have Another Entrance

From The Outside That's Higher Up

Or Some Sort Of Staircases On This Level That Go Up.

You Haven't Found Any Of That?

Interpreter: There's Nothing In This Area.

But I Found A New Set Of Tunnels That Aren't On Any Charts.

It's Possible That They Might Lead To The Upper Level.

Wow. Let's Go Check It Out.

Gates: We Make Our Way Back To The Surface

To See Darek's Latest Find.

But Apparently, I Had No Idea How Long We'd Been Down There.

And...Merry Christmas.

[ Instrumental "Jingle Bells" Playing ]

It Was Literally, Like, Clear Skies

When I Went Inside There.

And Now I'm In Santa's Workshop.

I Mean, He Didn't Have A Howitzer,

But, You Know, Close Enough.

We Trek Through The Freshly Falling Snow

And Up An Embankment On The Side Of A Hill.

This Is The Entrance.

It's Here That Darek Has Managed To Find

A Never-Before-Explored Level Of The Underground Network.

Guys, This Is, Uh, This Is Not A Tunnel. This Is A Hole.

We Have To Go Few Meters Down, And There Is A Tunnel.

Okay. Here We Go.

We Carefully Clear Away Leaves And Debris,

Which Have Choked The Opening.

Koper: Just Try To Not Touch, Uh, Do Not Touch The Walls,

Because, You Know, The Rock Is Only Rock.

So, Uh, On The Entrance, It's -- It's, Uh...

It Can...

Fall And Kill You?

-Yeah. -Got It. Okay. Got It.

Gates: I Slide Down And Try To Shimmy My Way

Into Whatever's Down There.

It's Cramped, Filthy,

And Infested With Creepy-Crawlies.

[ Whispers ] Oh, Lots Of Spiders!

In Other Words, It's Par For The Course.

♪♪

Wow!

This Has A Very Different Feel Than The Other Tunnels.

Much Scarier, Actually.

Deeper Inside, The Conditions Continue To Deteriorate.

Oh, God.

These Passages Aren't Just Falling Apart.

They're Drowning.

It's Hard To Describe Exactly What This Place Feels Like,

But Easiest Description Is It Feels Dangerous.

These Are Obviously Much More Raw.

You Can Just See Bits Of, You Know, Framing

And Bits Of Beams That Have Just Rotted Away.

There Are Endless Side Tunnels Here,

And My Primary Motivation Is Not To Get Lost.

♪♪

Then, In A Nearby Passage, We See Something Encouraging.

Oh, My Lord!

Look At That!

It's Been Over 70 Years After War,

And You Can Still See The -- The Marks After Railway Tracks.

That's Something Else. Wow.

Let's See What We Can Find Down Here.

A Train Once Rolled Through Here.

And I'm Hoping That, Though The Rails Are Gone,

Perhaps The Cargo Remains.

We Don't Get Far, Though, Before We're Reminded That

In These Tunnels, Hope Is Hard To Come By.

Oh, No!

♪♪

♪♪

Gates: I'm Investigating The Story

Of A Legendary Train Full Of Nazi Gold

In An Uncharted Tunnel System In Poland.

Even Accounting For The Fact That We're Underground,

Things Are Not Looking Sunny.

Oh, No!

Whoa!

Oh, My Lord!

The Tunnel's Supports Have Completely Collapsed Ahead.

Just Absolutely... Flaking Apart.

And That's What Was Holding Up The Ceiling.

Do You Think It's Safe?

Middle Safe, Maybe, Let's Say.

Middle Safe.

We Walk Forward Very Carefully Through The Middle-Safe Tunnel,

Which Feels Middle Crazy To Me.

Guys, Very, Very Cautious In Here.

I Can't Believe This Place. I Really Can't.

I've Never Seen A Place Like This.

This Is Some Goonie [Bleep] Right Here.

Beyond The Rotted Timbers And The Groaning Walls,

There Is Only A Dead End.

Looks Flooded Out.

The Tracks Have Been Washed Away

And, With Them, The Truth About The Train.

Interpreter: For Us, These Tunnels Are A Story That Needs To Be Told.

We Have Tools Used By Workers

And Hundreds Of Other Artifacts From The War.

These Things May Not Be Valuable, Uh,

In Terms Of Money, But It's --

It's Really Valuable In -- In Terms Of History.

Right.

I Know Everybody's So Excited About This Golden Train,

Which May Or May Not Even Be There.

But, Uh, This Is The Real Deal.

These Tunnel Complexes, We Know These Are Here.

And You Know There's More Of Them.

So There Really Is A Mystery Here That Really Needs Solving.

And It Is -- It Is Very Important Stuff.

It's Great Work. Yeah.

Okay, Boys, Let's Head For The Surface.

Gates: With Nowhere Else To Look, We Climb Back To The Light

And Into The Frigid But Stunning Embrace Of Winter.

♪♪

The Question Remains, Does The Train Of Gold Exist?

To Me, It Seems Unlikely.

The Supposed Radar Hit Is Still Inconclusive.

And The Story Is Based More On Hearsay

Than Documented Facts.

What Is Undeniably Real, Though, Is The Shadowy Project Riese

And Its Endless Miles Of Tunnels That Have Never,

And Maybe Will Never, Be Fully Explored.

We're Fortunate That Dedicated Researchers

And Daring Explorers Are Ensuring That Project Riese

And The Dark Truth Behind Its Legend

Will Never Be Lost From History.

Of Course, Trains And Tunnels Weren't The Only Places

The Nazis Stashed Their Stolen Loot.

To Investigate A New Lead In An Epic Mystery

From The Closing Days Of World War Ii,

I'm Flying Back To Munich.

And From There, I'm On My Way To Austria.

I'm Just Hopping Across The Border Here,

So I Forego The Trains And Pick Up Some Wheels.

But This Time I'm Choosing My Ride.

[ Engine Revving ]

The Porsche 911 Carrera.

Step Aside, Vin Diesel.

It's Time For The Fast And The Curious.

♪ I'm Ridin' Down A One-Way Highway ♪

♪ I Know I Gotta Get Up To 210, Yeah ♪

♪ Riding Down A One-Way Highway ♪

Years And Years Of Driving Only Crappy Vehicles

Around The World.

No Longer.

This Is The Autobahn,

Also Known As Hitler's One Good Idea.

It's 8,000 Miles

Of The Fastest Pavement East Of Talladega.

There's No Enforced Speed Limit,

Yet The Fatal Accident Rate Is About Half That Of The U.S.

In Other Words, Punch It, Chewie.

[ Beep ]

[ Laughs ]

♪ Riding Down A One-Way Highway ♪

♪ Yeah, Yeah, Yeah ♪

Let Me Just Drop Outta Hyperspeed Here.

Okay.

Uh, I Don't Know Where We Are. I Assume Deep In The Future.

♪♪

Before The Porsche Breaks A Sweat,

I've Crossed Into Austria.

Don't Worry If You Missed The Border Sign.

The German Army Didn't See It Either.

Austria Was The First Country

That Hitler Annexed In A 1938 Invasion

That Began The Nazis' Expansion Into Europe.

I'm Only A Couple Of Hours From Munich,

And The Road Rises To Enter The Austrian Alps.

Here Is Some Of The Most Gorgeous Scenery On The Planet.

But These Mountains Are Also A Place Of Secrets.

Welcome To Austria's Alpine Lake District.

Absolutely Stunning.

It's Easy To See Why This Place Has Been A Popular Retreat

For Hundreds Of Years.

But In The Waning Days Of World War Ii,

This Region Took On A Much More Sinister Purpose.

Many Of The Nazi Elite,

Seeing That The Allies Were Advancing,

Used Some Of The 75 Lakes In This Region

To Hide Untold Treasures.

And Those Treasures Are Now Being Found,

Which Has Earned This Region A New Nickname --

The Devil's Dustbin.

♪♪

I'm On My Way To Meet A Search And Recovery Specialist

Who Believes He's On The Trail

Of One Of The Greatest Missing Treasures

From World War Ii.

To Reach Him, I Drive To A Place Called Lake Fuschl,

Which Makes The Word "Picturesque" Seem Cheap.

♪♪

It's Here That One Of The Final Dramas Of The War Played Out,

Involving A Nazi Loyalist And A Fortune Lost,

Perhaps Soon To Be Found.

Joachim Von Ribbentrop Joins The Nazis In 1932

And Quickly Rises In The Party's Ranks,

Eventually Becoming Minister Of Foreign Affairs.

His Wife, Annelies Henkell, Is A Nazi Party Member Herself.

And The Power Couple Frequently Hosts

Their Close Friend, Adolf Hitler,

At Their Lavish Castle On The Shores Of Lake Fuschl.

Legend Has It, As The Tide Of The War Turns In 1945,

They Decide To Flee.

But First...

They Gather Up Hitler's Most Prized Books

From His Private Library

And Pack Them Into Watertight Crates.

Ribbentrop Also Fills Gas Cans

With Their Personal Fortune Of Jewels And Gold.

Then He Rows The Containers Out Onto The Lake

And Deposits Them Into The Water For Safekeeping.

And As One Last Spiteful Gesture,

Annelies Has All The Best Wine And Champagne In The Castle

Tossed Into The Water As Well.

Better To Throw It Out Than Let The Allies Enjoy It.

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All Of This Sounds Like A Sensational Fiction,

Except That Recently,

Bottles Of Sparkling Wine From Annelies Henkell's Vineyard

Have Been Found In The Lake.

Getting To The Bottom Of This Mystery

May Require Going To The Bottom Of The Lake.

But Like The Von Ribbentrops' Story Itself,

The Deeper You Go, The Darker It Gets.

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Gates: I'm In The Austrian Alps On The Edge Of Lake Fuschl,

Where Hitler's Foreign Minister

Is Believed To Have Sank A Fortune

In Gold, Treasure, And Documents Into The Depths.

Now, I'm Meeting Wolfgang Falch,

A Renowned Search And Salvage Expert

Who Believes He's Got A Way To Track Down The Lost Loot.

Wolfgang. -Hey, Josh.

-Hey, How Are You? -Good. How Are You Doing?

Good. Nice To Meet You.

-Nice To Meet You. -So This Is Lake Fuschl.

-Lake Fuschl, Exactly, Yes. -Uh-Huh.

We Know That In Some Of These Other Lakes Around Here,

There Have Been Finds, Right?

Yes, That's Correct.

How Extensively Has This Lake Been Scanned?

Uh, Never Ever.

-Never? -Uh, No. This Is The First Time.

And What I Am Going To Try Today

Is The First Side Scan Sonar Search Of This Lake.

This Is New Territory.

You Legitimately Do Not Know What's Out There?

That's Ex-- Right. Yeah.

It Could Be The Find Of The Century.

It Could Be Nothing At All. -That's Right, Yeah.

I Mean, That's Exploration, Right?

That's Exactly, Exploration.

So Let's Go. -Yeah. For Sure.

Gates: We Load All Of Wolfgang's State-Of-The-Art Gear

Into His Boat And Then Push Off To Start Our Search.

Wolfgang Is A Seasoned Investigator,

Having Done Everything From Body Recovery With The Police

To Finding Historic World War Ii Relics In Nearby Lakes.

How Does He Do It?

With An Extremely Impressive Array Of Technology.

Okay. How We Lookin'?

The System's Up And Running.

Everything Is Working Properly. We Are Ready To Go.

Great. Now What? [ Chuckles ]

-We Drop The Fish. -Drop The Fish. Okay.

Gates: I Lower The Sonar Torpedo,

Also Called A Towfish, Into The Lake.

Wolfgang's Plan Is To Run Up And Down The Lake,

Letting The Sonar Identify Anything Abnormal Beneath Us.

His Computer Then Tags The Hits With Gps,

Allowing Us To Investigate Further.

Okay, So... Towfish In The Water.

Sonar Scan Underway.

Let's Start Searching. -Let's Get It Going.

Gates: Fuschl, Like Most Alpine Lakes,

Is Ridiculously Deep,

Over 200 Feet In Some Places.

But Nothing Is Beyond The Reach Of Wolfgang's Sonar.

Oh, What's That?

That's, For Example, A School Of Fish.

-That's A School Of Fish? -Yes.

This Thing Is Really Detailed.

-Yeah. -You Can Even See --

You Can Even See Individual Fish.

Exactly, Yes.

And They Are Not Bigger Than, Let's Say, 10 Inches.

Gates: We Continue To Scan The Lake,

Imaging What Appear To Be Trees, Rocks, And Other Debris.

Then We Steer Toward A Critical Landmark.

Well, There Is The Castle Now, Josh.

Can You See It?

That's Ribbentrop's Castle?

That's Ribbentrop's Castle, Yes.

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If This Story Is True,

That He, You Know, Brought These Crates

Or These Barrels Out Into The Lake,

Do You Think They Would've Been Just Rolled Off The Shore

Or Actually Rowed Out Here In A Boat Into Deeper Water?

It's More Likely That They Took A Boat.

And I Think, You Know, If I Would Do That,

Yeah, I Would Row It Out

But Not Too Far. Right.

Gates: Wolfgang Believes That The Von Ribbentrops

Would've Stashed Their Fortune Somewhere More Shallow

So They Could Retrieve It Later.

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Okay, So... Nothing Yet.

No.

We Scan The Waters Near The Castle.

But Nothing Comes Up Until...

Ooh, What Is That? Right There?

What's That Square Object?

Well, I Mean, I Don't Know, Actually.

It Could Be Something. It Could Be Crates.

It Could Be Just One Crate.

I Don't Know Exactly What It Is.

But We Certainly Have To Take A Closer Look.

Wolfgang Reveals The Second Weapon In His Arsenal --

A Remote-Operated Vehicle, Or R.O.V.

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R.O.V.'S Got Power...

-Do We Have The Lights? -And Signal.

Gates: This Little Beauty Has All The Bells And Whistles --

Powerful Headlights...

So Far, It Looks Good.

...Hd Cameras, A Claw To Recover Relics...

Okay.

...And Its Own Sonar System.

Oh, And It Has One More Unique Modification.

Just To Be Clear, This Incredibly, Uh,

High Tech Thing You've Got Running Here,

Uh, Is Being Powered By A Playstation Controller?

Is That -- Is That Correct? -That's Correct, Yeah.

Why Is It -- Why Is It Run By A Playstation Controller?

Yeah, Well, It Works Good, You Know?

And Whenever This, Uh, Drops Into The Water,

You Just Buy A New One.

And It Costs $30 And Nothing More.

Can't Argue With That.

Gates: Wolfgang Must Be A Fan

Of The German Video Game "Grand Theft Autobahn."

All Right, R.O.V. Is Goin' In.

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Wow, Look At That! That Is So Cool.

Now That We Have Eyes In The Water,

Wolfgang Attempts To Guide The R.O.V.

To The Hit We Got On The Sonar.

Okay, So It Should Be Just -- It Should Be Just Ahead Of Us.

Yep.

Okay.

Tethering Out.

And It Isn't Long Before Lake Fuschl

Begins To Reveal Her Secrets.

-Here We Are. -Whoa! Whoa! Whoa! Whoa! Whoa!

What Is That?

Probably A Boat.

It's A Boat!

-Yes. -How [Bleep] Cool Is That?!

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Gates: In The Depths Of Lake Fuschl

In The Austrian Alps, A Remotely Operated Vehicle

Has Found What Might Be A Major Clue

In The Search For Stolen Nazi Plunder.

Whoa! Whoa! Whoa! Whoa! Whoa! What Is That?

Probably A Boat.

It's A Boat!

-Yes. -How [Bleep] Cool Is That?!

It's Certainly An Old Boat.

I Mean, Uh, You See How Much Silt's In There?

-Yeah! Really Old. -That's Really Old, Yeah.

That's At Least World War Ii If Not Earlier.

Gates: If This Boat Did Belong To The Ribbentrops,

It's Unfortunately Empty Inside.

All Right. Well... -Too Bad.

Well, Let's -- Let's Keep Scanning Around The Boat,

See If There's Any Other Targets,

If Anything Was Thrown Off It Before It Sank.

Uh, Yeah.

We'll Just Look Around The Area, See If We Get Any Other Hits.

Gates: So We Send The R.O.V. To Scan The Surrounding Bottom

For Any Sign Of Additional Artifacts.

Okay, We Are Right In Front Of The Castle Now.

So Let's See What We've Got Here.

It's So Hard To See Down There With All That Growth.

Yeah.

If You Get Anywhere Near The Bottom, It's Just...

The Silt Just Takes Over.

Yep.

It's Kind Of Hard To Manage With All The Weed Around Here.

And Can You Get To Where Those Small Hits Are?

Yeah. I'm Almost There, But...

Oh! Right There! Right There! Back Up! Back Up!

-You See That? -Okay. Yes. Yes. Yes.

Right There! You See That Dark Thing?

I Can See It, Yes. Let's Go Closer And Closer.

Wait, Can You Get Back To That? There It Is!

-Yeah. Yes, There It Is. -There It Is! You See That?

-Yes. Yes. Yes. -What Is That?

-Well... -It's Dark.

It's -- It's Dark,

But It Has A Kind Of A Reflection On It And Silt.

You See? The Silt On Top Of It,

So It Must Be Laying There For Some Time.

-Let It Settle. -Yeah. Yeah. No.

Wait. Wait. Wait. I'm Stirring Up Silt.

That's A Bottle, Dude.

-That's A Bottle! -It Really Looks Like It, Yeah.

That's A [Bleep] Bottle.

Can You See If You Can Move Somethin'...

Can You Use The Claw To Move It?

I'll -- I'll Try The Best... I'll Try My Best Now.

It's Slippin' Off.

Okay, I Got It.Oh! Hold On, Okay?

-So See If You Can Rotate... -Okay. Yep.

Around The Neck? Yeah?

Here We Go. Here We Go.

Now I'm Opening Up The Gripper.

Uh-Huh.

And Now Let's See If I Can Get It Underneath It.

And Then... Yeah! Yeah! Yeah!

-Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. -Yes! Yes! Yes! Yes!

And Then See If You Can Close It.

Silt Again. Okay, Good. Good.

Let's Close It Now. We Got It.

And Pull Back?I'm Rotating It, Yeah. Yep. Yep.

That's A Champagne Bottle!

That Is A [Bleep] Champagne Bottle!

That's A Great Bottle. It's Unbelievable.

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Gates: Next Time On "Expedition Unknown,"

The Search For Stolen Nazi Gold Continues.

But My Big Breakthrough Could Make Me A Casualty Of War.

And I Follow An Incredible Lead On A Secret Laboratory

Tasked With Building Hitler's Atomic Bomb.

We Are Talking About The Largest

Underground Facility Ever Built.

Gates: What Will The Search Reveal?

And Can We Expose The Long-Lost Secrets Of The Nazis?

Oh, My God.

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