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♪♪

I Can't -- I Can't Believe
You Found This.

Something Here Is Sticking
Out Of The Reeds,

Looks Manmade.

♪♪

[ Engines Rev ]

Whoa, Whoa, Whoa.
What Do We Got?

-0.74.
-Back Up. Back Up.

Back Up. Back Up.
Everybody, Back Up.

Oh, My God.

Holy [Bleep]
It's A Grenade.

We Got An Old
German Grenade Down Here.

♪♪

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!

[ 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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70 Years After The End
Of The Second World War,

The Crimes And The Secrets

Of The Nazi Party
Are Still Being Revealed.

There Really Is A Lot More Here
Than I Really Realized.

Recently, Authorities
Have Recovered

And Repatriated Priceless Art
Confiscated By The Third Reich

And There Are Legends
Of Much More Yet To Be Found.

Wow.
This Is Incredible.

What Is This Place?
-Nobody Exactly Knows.

In Poland, I Joined
A Subterranean Investigation

To Seek A Vanished Train Car
Full Of Stolen Nazi Gold.

Wow!

This Is So Cool.

The Search Led To
Never-Before-Documented Tunnels,

Part Of An Elaborate
Nazi Construction Project.

Oh, My Lord!

I've Never Seen
A Place Like This.

♪♪

And Here In Austria,
The Hunt Is On To Solve One

Of The Strangest Mysteries
Of World War Two.

In 1945,
With The Allies Closing In,

Nazi Foreign Minister
Joachim Von Ribbentrop

Is Rumored To Have Hidden
His Entire Fortune,

Including Gold
And Jewelry Worth Millions,

Personal Possessions
Of Adolf Hitler Himself,

As Well As The Entire Contents
Of His Family's Wine Cellar,

Reputed To Be
Among The Best In Europe.

Just Beyond His Castle,
He's Believed To Have Rode Out

Onto An Alpine Lake,
Where He Dropped

The Loot, Books, And Booze
Into The Dark And Deep Waters.

I've Joined Salvage Expert
Wolfgang Falch Just Offshore

From The Von Ribbentrops'
Mountain Retreat,

Which Still Looms Ominously
Over Lake Fuschl.

Together, We've Deployed
Cutting-Edge Side-Scan Sonar

To Find Their Lost Fortune.

Okay. So, Tow Fish In The Water,
Sonar Scan Underway.

After The Sonar Detects Several
Anomalies In The Lake Bed --

Ooh.
What Is That, Right There?

What's That Square Object?

We Deploy A Remote-Operated
Vehicle, Or Rov,

And Discover A Significant Clue

That Suggests We're Looking
In The Right Place.

It's A Boat!

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

♪♪

Now, We've Used The Rov's
Onboard Sonar To Search Nearby

And Have Found Something That
Looks Like It Could Verify Part

Of The Von Ribbentrop Legend.

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

Right There.
You See That Dark Thing?

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

-Well, Okay. I've Got It.
-See?

-Oh. Hold On. Okay.
-Yeah. Yeah.

So See If You Can Rotate

-Yeah.
-Around The Neck?

That's A Champagne Bottle!
-That Is A --

That Is A [Bleep]
Champagne Bottle.

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

♪♪

Though The Label Is Long Gone,

This Is Clearly
A Very Old Bottle Of Wine

And It Aligns Perfectly
With The Legend

Of The Von Ribbentrops.

Perhaps The Rest
Of Their Fortune,

Including Some Of Hitler's
Personal Possessions,

Really Is Down Here.

Can We Haul It Up?

Sure, We Could,
You Know,

But Let's Just Put It Down
Where It Is Right Now

And Let's See
If There Is Any Stuff

Close To It,
Around It.

Not Wanting To Drift Too Far
From Such A Promising

Target Area,
We Set The Bottle Back Down

And Sweep The Surrounding
Lake Bed In Concentric Circles.

Whaddya Got, Anything?

No, Not Really.
There's A Lot Of Growth,

You Know, At The Bottom.
-Yeah, Yeah, Yeah.

And This Is Shielding Off
Our Sonar Signal.

But, With So Much Vegetation
In This End Of The Lake,

The Rov Is Rendered
Nearly Blind.

If You Really Wanna See
What's Down There,

I Would Say, You Know,
You Got To Dive.

D-Dive In The Water?

Yeah.
I Would Say So.

How Warm Is The Lake?

Well, It's A Good
Question,

But I Think
It's Not Too Cold.

I Wouldn't Wanna
Do It.

[ Laughter ]
"I Wouldn't Wanna Do It."

Right. Okay.

You Know Some Divers?

-I Got The Best.
-Yeah?

Yeah.

Hello.

Enter Gerhard Kaiser.

He And His Team Meet Us
On The Shores Of Lake Fuschl

To Help Take This Investigation
To The Next Level.

How Long Have You Been Diving
In Lakes Here In This Region?

Since 1987.
You Can Say

I'm A Little Bit
Experienced.

Yeah, I Would Say So.
Our Aim Here Is To Attempt

To Verify This Story
Of Whether Or Not, You Know,

Ribbentrop May Have Dumped
Things In The Lake.

We Had A Great Sonar Run
And Actually Found

A Bottle Of Champagne,
Which Is Amazing, You Know.

-Yeah, This Is Great.
-And I Know Those Have Been

Found Here In The Past,
And So, That Really Puts

A Whole Different Layer On This,
Saying That, "Okay.

At Least A Part Of This Story
Seems To Be True."

Now, Whether Or Not,
Along With The Champagne,

There's Gold And Cannisters
And Things Like That, Who Knows?

But, Yeah.
-We Will Discover.

Yeah. Are You Ready?
-We Are Ready.

Please Tell Me That You Have
A Very Warm Drysuit For Me.

-Yes, I Promise To You.
-Yeah?

-Yeah. [Chuckle]
-Okay. Thank God. Here We Go.

[ Suspenseful Music Plays ]

Diving In Near-Freezing Water
High In The Alps

Wasn't On My Itinerary,
So Gerhard And His Team

Generously Loan Me
Some Essential Equipment.

After Gerhard Zips Me Up,

We Slide Into The Icy Waters
Of Lake Fuschl.

[ Suspenseful Music Plays ]

♪♪

We Head Directly To The Area
Where The Sonar Got A Hit.

This Dive Gets A Whole Lot
More Difficult

Once We See What's
Under The Surface.

The Thick Vegetation
Makes It Nearly Impossible

To See What The Sonar Picked Up.

And Beneath The Plant Growth,
There's A Heavy Layer Of Silt

That Produces Thick Clouds
With The Slightest Touch.

This Is Not The Best Way
To Find Anything.

We Search The Lake Bed By Hand,

Groping Around
As If In A Dark Room.

But It Pays Off As Gerhard
Makes A Major Discovery.

This Is A Bayonet Blade,

Which Is A Genuine Artifact
From World War Two.

Gerhard Is So Overwhelmed
With Excitement

That He Puts The Blade
In His Mouth.

Gerhard Is Weird.

As Luck Would Have It,
I'm The Next Person

To Discover Something Down Here.

Unfortunately,
It's About The Last Thing

You'd Ever Hope To Find.

Wow.
I Mean, Josh,

I Am Not Sure
If This Is Good

Or Not, You Know.

I Mean, Be Cautious.

I'm Not Looking To Become The
Last Casualty Of World War Two,

So I Leave The Grenade Right
Where I Found It And Swim Away.

[ Suspenseful Music Plays ]

We Spend The Remainder
Of Our Air Searching

For Gas Cans, Crates,
Anything

To Further Corroborate The Story
Of The Von Ribbentrops.

But In These Conditions,
We Can't Even Locate The Bottle

We Initially Found,
Another Piece Of The Legend

Reclaimed By The Swirling Silt.

Very Good, Josh.

Waiting
To See You Here.

With Our Tanks Running Low
And The Temperature Dropping,

We Resurface And Head
For The Shore.

[ Suspenseful Music Climbs ]

♪♪

Couple Amazing Things
Down There.

Really Cool Grenade, Which
I Was Not Going To Take Up.

Really Cool, Though.
-Yeah.

And This Bayonet Blade,
Which Which He Has,

Which Is Just Gorgeous.
I Mean, Really, Really Cool.

But, No Gold.

But I Have To Tell You --
It Feels Like

We Can Say With Certainty

That Things Were Dumped
In This Lake

And That, Probably, There's
A Lot More To Be Found Here.

No. I Agree.

I'll Let You Know
What I Find.

It Was Great.
All The Best, Wolfgang.

While Von Ribbentrop's Fortune
May Still Be Out There,

I Settle For The Justice
That Only History Can Provide.

Joachim Von Ribbentrop
Was Arrested In June Of 1945

And Tried At Nuremberg.

He Was Convicted For His Role
In World War Two

And Enabling The Holocaust
And, On October 16, 1946,

He Became The First
Nazi War Criminal To Be Hanged.

[ Suspenseful Music Climbs ]

As Those Nuremberg Trials
Would Prove,

The Nazis Went To Great Lengths
To Conceal More Than Just Gold.

♪♪

Only 100 Miles From Lake Fuschl,

Researchers May Have Uncovered
An Explosive Secret,

Which The Nazis Moved The Earth
Itself To Keep Hidden.

There, A Historian Claims
To Have Found

A Top-Secret
Underground Facility.

And Inside May Be The Answer

To One Of History's
Greatest Mysteries.

How Close Was Hitler
To Having An Atomic Bomb?

You're Saying That,
Beyond What We Know,

There May Be
More Tunnel Systems?

Yeah. We Are Talking
About The Largest

Underground Facility
Ever Built.

Ooh. [Bleep]

Oh, My God.

[ Suspenseful Music Climbs ]

♪♪

Gates:
I'm In The Austrian Alps,

Continuing My Investigation
Into Nazi Secrets.

With Majestic Hills All Around,
I Can't Help But Think Of --

[ Suspenseful Chord Strikes ]

You Know What?
Hang On A Second.

I Gotta Do Something.

[ Music Swells ]

I Can't Afford The Rights To It.

It's Just Too Expensive.

More Twirling?
Okay.

[ Upbeat Tune Plays ]

Okay.
That Feels Better.

The Hills Here Truly Are Alive
With The Sound Of Music

And, Right Now, It's Coming
From The Nearby Town Of Linz.

♪♪

And, When In Linz,
It's All But Required

To Stop In This Historic Bakery.

Hello.
A Linzer Torte, Please.

Yes.

Which Size You Like?
-Big.

-Big?
-Big. Yes. Are You Kidding?

Thank You.

Here Is The World-Famous
Linzer Torte,

First Made In The 1600S.

I Actually Think This One
Might've Been

From The Original Batch.

A Little Dry,
If I'm Being Honest.

Linz, Of Course,
Famous For One Thing --

Its Pastries.

Well, Hitler Grew Up Here, But,
Mostly, The Pastries.

Let's Stick With That.

Yep, This Is Hitler's Hometown.

But, Believe Me,
It Doesn't Come Up A Lot.

They're Not Exactly Naming
High Schools After The Guy.

But That Doesn't Mean
He Didn't Have An Impact Here.

Hitler Had Big Plans For Linz.

He Wanted To Turn This
Into The Cultural Capital

Of The Third Reich.

He Even Wanted To Design
A Fuehrer Museum,

An Art Museum
That Would Display Many

Of The Nazi's Stolen Treasures
From Around Europe.

But It Was Never Meant To Be.

Though He Had Ambitious Plans
For This Town, The Only Thing

He Ever Managed To Build Here
Was This One Bridge.

Which, By The Way,
Is Super Ugly.

♪♪

With Linz
In The Rearview Mirror,

I Motored The Porsche On Toward
My Next Investigation.

So, Coming Into The Town
Of Gusen,

Which Is A Place
With A Really Dark History.

Seems Kind Of Appropriately
Gray And Overcast Here.

This Is A Stop That...

I Think Is Gonna Be Tough.

[ Ominous Music Plays ]

Almost Immediately
After The Invasion Of Austria,

The Nazis Built A Network
Of Concentration Camps,

One Of The Most Infamous
Of Which Was Mauthausen,

Which Has Been Preserved
As A Gutwrenching Reminder

Of The Hundreds Of Thousands
Of People Who Perished Here.

But Down The Road Was Another
Concentration Camp, Named Gusen,

Whose History Has Been
Largely Overshadowed.

In Fact, You'd Hardly Know
It Was Ever Here.

♪♪

The Camp Has Been Turned
Into A Residential Neighborhood.

♪♪

Prisoner Barracks Are Now
Used For Storage.

♪♪

The Main Administrative Building
Is Actually Someone's Home.

♪♪

Only One Small Part Of
The Original Facility Remains --

A Memorial Built
Over The Crematorium.

[ Dramatic Music Plays ]

♪♪

It's Impossible
To Just Tidily Sum Up

The Experience Of This Place,
So I'll Just Say This --

The Phrase "Never Forget"
Is Not A Slogan.

It Is An Imperative.

We Mustnever Forget
Places Like This.

The Alternative Is Unthinkable.

I'm Meeting
With Rudolf Haunschmied,

An Author And Expert On The
Legacy Of The Nazis In Gusen.

Why Was This Spot Chosen?

Why Did They Wanna Build
A Camp Right Here?

It Is One Key Location
In Nazi Germany,

In Terms
Of High Technology,

Projects That Were Done
For The Nazi War Machine,

And Part Of That Was
The Construction

Of Large,
Underground Facilities.

The Largest
Of Those Facilities

Is The Bergkristall
Complex.

Bergkristall Was Built

To Manufacture The World's
First Jet-Powered Fighter,

One That Was Supposed
To Help The Nazi Luftwaffe

Finally Defeat The Allies.

It Was Constructed
Beneath The Mountains,

A Bombproof Megafactory
That Was Entirely Dug By Hand.

Concentration Camp Prisoners
Were Forced

To Work 24 Hours A Day

To Create This
Underground Labyrinth,

Much Of Which
Has Never Been Explored.

What Do You Think Stands
To Be Found In These Tunnels?

I Mean, What Do You Think
Is Down There?

We Don't Know
About Everything.

It Is Likely That Some
Chemical Laboratories

Serving The War Industry
Can Be Found

And Some People Believe
That There May Even Be

Bodies
In These Tunnels.

Bodies, Laborers
From The Camp?

Yes.

And How Many Do They
Estimate Could Be There?

It Could Be Thousands
Or Ten Thousands, Or More.

20,000 Jews Were Liberated
By The Americans

When They Took Gusen,
But Records Show

Thousands More Unaccounted For,
Leading Some To Speculate That,

In The Closing Days
Of The War,

These Tunnels May Have Also
Been Used As A Tomb.

Rudolph Isn't The Only One

Who Suspects There's
A Lot More Beneath Gusen

Than Historians
Have Previously Suspected.

[ Suspenseful Music Climbs ]

♪♪

In Fact, A Local Researcher
Recently Claimed

To Make A Remarkable Discovery
About The Tunnels.

He's Agreed To Meet Me
At A Nearby Remnant

From The War,
An Old Rifle Range

Where The Nazi Ss Once
Practiced Their Marksmanship.

[ Gunshot ]

Andreas.
-Hey, Josh.

Hi. Nice To Meet You.
-Nice To Meet You.

Yeah, It's A Pleasure.

Andreas Sulzer Has Shaken
Some Ivory Towers

With His Controversial Theories
About Bergkristall.

So, Officially,
We Know There Are

Some Pretty Large Structures
Underground Here, Right?

But You're Saying That,
Beyond What We Know,

There May Be More
Tunnel Systems?

Yeah. There Is
Definitely Much More.

We Know About
Bergkristall Complex,

Which Is Said To Be

Around 5 Miles
Of Tunnels,

But We Know,
From Other Documents

We Found In Archives
That We Are Talking Here

About 25 Miles
Of Tunnels,

So There Are
20 Miles Of Tunnels

It's Not Known
What's Down There

And It Has Never
Been Revealed.

This Idea That There Could Be
As Much As 20 Miles

Of These Tunnels.
I Mean, That's

A Crazy Number.
It's A Hugenumber.

It's Huge, Yeah.

You're Talking About,
Now,

3, 4 Times The Size
Of What We Know About.

Yeah. So, Based
On The Documents,

We Are Talking
About The Largest

Underground Facility
Ever Built.

Wow.

[ Suspenseful Music Climbs ]

♪♪

Gates: At A Former Ss Rifle
Range Near Gusen, Austria,

Researcher Andreas Sulzer Shows
Me Documents That May Prove

That The Nazis Built A Secret
Underground Facility Nearby.

This Is A Spy Report.

Uh-Huh.
-It's Dated From February '45.

Right. And This Is Saying
That An Eyewitness Here

Personally Saw
The Following Excavations.

-Yeah.
-Due North Of St. Georgen Gusen,

Just After The Road
Is An Ss Rifle Range

And Just North Is A Mountain

Where A Large Excavation
Has Been Made.

I Mean, That's Literally
Where We're Sitting.

And This Is Known
To Nobody.

Right. So, Who's
Spearheading This Effort

To Put All This Stuff
Underground?

A Really Very Important
Person -- The Ss General

And Ss Obergruppenfuehrer
Hans Kammler.

[ Suspenseful Music Plays ]

Hans Kammler
Was An Ss Engineer

Who Designed Many Of Hitler's
Concentration Camps.

His Proven Efficiency
For Slaughter

Earned Him Numerous Promotions

And He Eventually Oversaw
The Secret Weapons Projects

Of The Reich,
Including The V-2 Rocket

And, It Is Believed,
The Nazi Nuclear Program.

[ Suspenseful Music Climbs ]

This Is From, Essentially,
A Company

That Worked With The Nazis
-Yes.

And Talking About Gusen,
They List 1, 2, 3,

4 Different Facilities,

4 Different
Underground Facilities.

And I See Kammler's Name
On Here Quite A Bit.

So They're Essentially Saying
That Kammler Oversaw This?

Yes.

We Know Kammler Oversaw
One Underground Facility

Near Here, Called Bergkristall,
But Seeing His Name

And The Additional Sites Listed
On These Documents

Indicates That Other Important
Subterranean Facilities

Could Be Located
Right Near This Rifle Range.

So, When You Found All
Of This Stuff,

Did The Authorities Here Agree
That This Stuff Exists?

No. They Said
It's All Fantasy.

That's, Uh, [Bleep]
Yeah?

Lucky For Us,

Andreas Isn't The Type Of Guy
To Take No For An Answer.

He Even Dug Up Spy Photos
From The British Archives

That Show Something
Very Strange.

Today, There Are Only Woods
Behind The Rifle Range,

But The Wartime Photos
Clearly Show A Road Emanating

From The Building And Headed
To A Structure Beyond.

So We Are Now Sitting Here
At The Rifle Range.

Sitting In Right In Front
Of This Exact Building.

Yeah, Exact Building.

So This Is A Road
Of Some Kind?

Yeah. It Looks Like
A Road Of Some Kind.

But, For Me, Based Just
On The Documents,

It's A Camouflaged
Entrance For Trucks.

To Verify That There Was Once
Something There,

Andreas Even Scanned
The Forest Floor.

We Made
Geophysical Survey

With Ground-Penetrating
Radar And We Really Found

What We See
In The Documents.

So We See,
In 60 Meters' Depth,

Huge Tunnel Structures.

And This
Is Running North Here

To This Direction,
Where We Sit.

This Looks, I Mean,
Undeniably Like A Tunnel.

It's Very,
Very Interesting.

It's More Than Interesting.
-Yeah.

It's Astounding.

Forget The Archives, Even.

If This Doesn't Convince You --
When You Look

At Something Like This,
How Can You Not Be Convinced

That There's Something
Underground Here?

Andreas Was Convinced,
So Much So,

That He Picked Up A Shovel,
Fired Up A Few Backhoes,

And Started Digging.

So You Started Digging
And What Did You Find?

Did You Find Anything?
-Yeah.

We Found A Huge Structure
Out Of Granite

With Concrete Steps
Going Down.

Wait, So You Actually Found
An Entrance To This Tunnel?

Yeah.

I Mean, That's --
That's It.

It's Crazy, But We Got
Stopped By The Police.

So, Effectively,
They Shut You Down.

Yeah.

The Austrian Government
Didn't Take Kindly

To Andreas's
Homespun Investigation

And Immediately Declared
The Area Off-Limits.

Andreas Has Even Been
Threatened With Arrest,

If He Moves So Much
As One More Shovel Of Earth.

Is It Possible For You To Show
Me What You Found Back Here?

Yes, Of Course.
Let's Go.

Great.

[ Ominous Music Plays ]

He Leads Me
Behind The Shooting Range,

To The Area He Excavated.

Here We Go.

So This Is
The Interesting Area.

Uh-Huh.

So This Is
The Prohibited Area?

That's Prohibited.
It's Prohibited Here.

Even Though He Can't Dig,

He's Still Allowed
To Access The Site,

So We Casually Step
Under A No-Trespassing Sign,

Which Is One
Of My Favorite Things To Do.

♪♪

Well,
This Was All Made

From Autumn '43 Onwards.
-Uh-Huh.

There Are Clearly Echoes
Of An Old Road Here.

There Are Even The Rusted
Remains Of A Barricade.

Why To Build This Here,

If It's Just
A Shooting Range?

You Just Do That
If You Want To Secure

A Very Important Object.

Right.
And, When You Came Here

And You Started Excavating,
Where Was The Soil Level?

You See,
This Was A Hill.

You Excavated All Of This?
-Yeah.

And You Had What,
Like Heavy Equipment

You Came In Here With?
-We Had Heavy Equipment.

Armed Only With Determination,
A Well-Used Library Card,

And A Freakish Amount
Of Gut Instinct,

Andreas Is Convinced
There's A Nazi Secret Here.

But The Question Is --
Can He Prove It?

And This Is
What We Found.

Oh, My God.

[ Suspenseful Music Climbs ]

[ Suspenseful Music Plays ]

Gates: At A Nazi Rifle Range

Near A Former
Austrian Concentration Camp,

Researcher Andreas Sulzer
Has Shown Me

Previously Classified Documents
And Compelling Spy Photos

Of What He Believes
Is A Top-Secret Nazi Facility.

Is It Possible For You To Show
Me What You Found Back Here?

Yes, Of Course.
Let's Go.

Great.

[ Suspenseful Music Plays ]

He Leads Me Through The Woods
To Where His Team Excavated.

And, While It All Sounds Very
Exciting, I'm Not 100 Percent

Convinced That He's Really
On To Something.

And When You Came Here
And You Started Excavating,

Where Was The Soil Level?

You See,
This Was A Hill.

You Excavated All Of This?
-Yeah.

And You Had What,
Like Heavy Equipment

You Came In Here With?
-We Had Heavy Equipment.

And This Is
What We Found.

Oh, My God.

[ Suspenseful Music Climbs ]

Are You Kidding Me?

This Is Me, Speechless,
Maybe For The First Time, Ever.

Look At This.

This Is Like --
This Is Real.

Yeah.

It Turns Out That Andreas
Wasn't Just Chasing

A Conspiracy Theory
About A Secret Nazi Structure.

He Actually Hit Paydirt.

This Is Crazy.

I-I-I Don't Know What I Thought
I Was Gonna Find Here.

I Thought You Were Gonna
Show Me Like

A Natural Cave Or Something
-No, No, No.

That May Have Been
Used By People.

This Is Like From
The Basement Of A Castle.

[ Suspenseful Music Climbs ]

And Where Does This Go?

So, Come On.
I Will Show You.

It's Really,
Really Interesting.

This Is Nuts.

Whatever This Is,
It Was Meant To Be Permanent

And No One But Andreas
Suspected It Existed.

♪♪

This Is Unbelievable.

I Can't --

I Can't Believe
You Found This.

I Mean, What Was Your Reaction
When You Found A Staircase?

Unbelievable.

Digging Out All This Soil,
-Yeah.

What Did You Find?

We Found Some
Interesting Artifacts.

I Will Show You.
-Yeah, Yeah, Yeah.

Yeah. So We Digged Out
Of At The Deepest Point.

That's An Original --

It's A Helmet.
It's An Ss Helmet, Yeah?

It's An Ss Helmet,
Yeah.

You're Right.

This Is Insane.

Wow.

Okay. Ss Helmet.

I Mean Doesn't Get
Much More Concrete Than That,

When It Comes To Evidence,
Right?

Right. So That's
Definitive Proof --

This Is Not Some Farmer's
Basement, Right?

Yeah.
That's The Point, So.

Okay.
What Else You Got?

This Is Strange.

I Don't Know What That Is.

So This Is
A Truck Step.

It's The End
Of A Truck.

Oh, To Step Up Onto The Back.
-To Step Up...

-Yeah, Yeah, Yeah, Yeah, Yeah.
-...Onto The Back.

It's A Broken Step.

So At This Point,
You've Got Really Compelling

Archival Evidence.
You Have Dug Down

And Found
A Subterranean Facility

And Found Nazi Artifacts.
-Yes.

I Don't Know What Could Be
More Airtight Than That,

To Indicate That This Is Somehow
A Facility Of Some Importance.

Physical Proof.

Now, The Same
Local Authorities

Who Insisted This Place
Didn't Even Exist

Are Dismissing It, As Just Part
Of The Rifle Range.

But Andreas And Others
Aren't Buying That.

Military Experts Say
It's Definitely An Entrance

Into A Tunnel System.

And It's Not Typical Design
Of A Shooting Range.

No. I Mean, It Looks Like
Dracula's Basement.

Another Sign That This Isn't
Just Part Of The Rifle Range

Is Right In Front Of Us --

This Staircase Keeps Going.

Here's The Next Steps,
Going Down.

This Is The End
Of The Line.

Yeah.

I Can See What Looks
Like Another Stair.

Yeah.
Here's Another Stair.

Here's The Next Stair.
-And You Think It Keeps Going?

Yeah, It Keeps
Going Down.

And Then, Here,
It's Just Flooded Out.

-Yeah.
-What's Your Theory?

Where Does This Go?

Because, Right Now,
We're At A Dead End, Right?

We've Got A Few More
Stairs Here

And Then, I'm Lookin'
At A Pool Of Water.

So, Beyond This,
In My Opinion,

Is A Tunnel Entrance

Where Trucks And Cars
Could Drive In.

And You Think That
That Tunnel Leads

Into These Facilities
That Kammler Described,

To These Other
Secret Facilities?

Yes.

Below This Flooded Stairwell

Could Be Hitler's
Top-Secret Weapons Lab

And The Austrian Government

Won't Allow Anyone
To Dig Deeper Here.

But That Doesn't Mean
That Andreas

Is Ready To Call It Quits.

The Uncovered Documents
Mentioned Nazi Engineer

Hans Kammler, Which Led Andreas
To This Mysterious Staircase.

He Believes The Stairs
Go Down To A Truck Tunnel

That Connects
To The Secret Facility.

We Already Know That Kammler
Built The Massive

Underground Jet-Airplane Factory
Known As Bergkristall.

Could There Be Tunnels
At Bergkristall

That Lead To This
Never-Before-Discovered Lab?

That's What We Plan
To Find Out.

Andreas Arranges To Borrow
An Atv And A Dirt Bike

From The Owner Of The Rifle
Range And We Hit The Road.

[ Engines Rev ]

♪♪

A Few Miles Later,

Andreas Pulls Up In Front
Of A Strange-Looking Edifice.

♪♪

What Is That?
-This Is The Only Left Entrance

To The Known Underground
System Bergkristall.

You Think There's Layers
Beneath This, Though,

That Have Never Been Seen?
-Yeah.

We Know, From Documents,
That There Is,

Beyond The Known
Tunnel System,

A Much More Huger System...
-Right.

...Which Was One
Of Kammler's

Top-Secret Facilities
During World War Two.

And Do You Think That It's
Possible, From Inside There,

To Reach These Lower Levels
That You're Talking About?

If You Start Drilling
From Inside,

But They Have Found
High Radiation In There.

When You Are In There
For One Hour,

You Have Already
Your Yearly Dose Reach,

So It's Really Dangerous.

Wow. One Hour In There Is
A Year Of Radiation?

The Radiation
Is A Potential Clue

That The Nazis Were Working
With Nuclear Materials,

But It Also Means That
We're Not Walking In There

Without Getting A Serious Tan.

Okay.
So, Radioactive.

Yeah. Not Nice.

No, Not Nice At All.
Let's Find Another Way In.

-Yeah, Okay.
-Okay. Let's Go.

[ Suspenseful Music Plays ]

It's Clear That We're Not
Getting In Here.

But Andreas Has One More
Idea Up His Sleeve.

We Navigate Overgrown Dirt
Roads That Date Back To The War.

Here, Deep In The Forest,
The Documents Reveal The Nazis

Began Excavating A Series
Of Sandstone Tunnels

That Andreas Has Been
Attempting To Map.

♪♪

Okay.

So, Here It Is.

This Is A Very
Promising Area.

And How Many Entrances
Are Known Here?

We're Still Mapping
These Tunnels

And I'm Convinced
A Lot Of Tunnels

Are Not Yet Known
Or Not Yet Found.

We Think That
These Tunnels Could Be

Connected To The Rest
Of The Larger Tunnels.

We Have A Look Now.
If We Find

A Small Entrance
To Climb In,

If It's Open, And See
How Far We Can Go.

Okay.
Well, Let's Look Around.

-Okay, Great.
-Let's Do It. Come On.

You Look Around There And Let Me
Know If You See Anything.

[ Suspenseful Music Plays ]

We Criss-Cross The Woods
On Foot For Hours,

For Any Sign Of An Opening
That Might Lead Underground.

♪♪

It Isn't Looking Good.

Until...

You Find Something?
-Yeah.

Here's A Small Entrance,
It Looks Like.

Oh, That Definitely Goes In.

Yeah.

That Goes In.

[ Suspenseful Music Climbs ]

♪♪

Gates:
In The Forest Of Austria,

Researcher Andreas Sulzer And I
May Have Found A Way

Into A Top-Secret
Atomic Nazi Facility.

Here, It Looks Like There
Is A Small Entrance.

Oh, Look At That.
It Looks Like

All The Roots And Stuff
Eroded Away.

It Was Probably Covering
The Whole Thing.

The Side Of The Hill Has
Collapsed In A Recent Storm,

Revealing A Cavity
Underneath.

Yeah. Let's Take A Look
Down There.

Ooh. [Bleep]

Oh.

It's Okay. I Got It.
-Yeah.

Yeah. Okay.

♪♪

-Really Small.
-That Definitely Goes Back.

Let's See Where It Goes.

Okay.

Let's Go.
-After You, Please.

Yeah, Okay.

We Pull Ourselves
Through The Narrow Opening

And I'm Amazed To Feel The Earth
Sloping Down Ahead Of Me.

Holy [Bleep]

Oh, It's Huge.
-Ooh.

These Tunnels
Feel Very Different

From The Manufactured Stairwell
That Andreas Discovered.

Here, It's
Floor-To-Ceiling Sandstone

That Appears To Be Crumbling
All Around Us.

It's Spooky As Hell,
And We Aren't 50 Feet In Yet.

Yeah, It's A Huge
Labyrinth In Here.

Now That We're In Here,
What's The Plan?

We Need To See If There's
Any Connecting Tunnel

That Leads Deeper To The
Unknown System In Gusen.

Right. In Terms Of Leading Us
To Those Other Tunnels,

What Are We Looking For?

We Are Looking
For A Tunnel That

Leads Deeper
And Also Important

And Have A Look
If There Is Radiation.

If It Goes Down
Into Those Tunnels,

Some Of Which We Know, From
Bergkristall, Were Radioactive.

-Yeah.
-Okay, Yes,

We Should Definitely
Keep An Eye On The Radiation.

Yeah. Okay.

Let's Get To It.
You Ready?

Okay.

Andreas Hasn't Been
In These Particular Tunnels,

But He's Done Extensive
Exploring In Similar Systems

Near Gusen,
So He's Prepared.

A Geiger Counter
Will Track The Radiation,

Bringing Us Closer
To The Possible Weapons Lab,

Hopefully, Without Picking Up
A Lethal Dose On The Way.

These Caves Are Not
Reinforced, Right?

No. So --

It's Just Sandstone.
-Yeah, It's Raw Sandstone.

They Were Built By Hand,
By Prisoners,

So They Had
No Drilling Machines.

Wow. These Are All
Pickmarks, Yeah?

Yeah.

From The Concentration
Camp Laborers?

Yeah.

Each Mark In The Walls

Represents The Slave Labor
Of A Prisoner,

Many Of Whom Were Worked
To Death Here.

The Tunnel Stretches Out
Into The Darkness,

The Marks Too Numerous
To Count.

So Let's See
What's Over Here.

♪♪

The Tunnels Run
In Several Directions.

Some Are Partially Blocked,
Some Completely Collapsed.

Here's A Huge Collapse.

Yeah. Big Collapse.

I Mean, Big Pieces Here.
-Yeah.

The Collapses In The Tunnel
Walls Demonstrate

How Brittle
The Sandstone Can Be

And Just How Dangerous It Is
For Us To Be Down Here.

The Crazy Thing Is That

This Whole Tunnel
Is Essentially Sand.

I Mean, It's Almost Like
Walking On A Beach.

Yeah.

Andreas And I Scour The Dark
With Our Flashlights,

Until We Find The Very Thing
He's Been Looking For.

And, Oh, That Goes Down.
That Goes Down.

[ Suspenseful Music Plays ]

See That?
-Yeah, That Looks Good.

That's Really,
Really Spooky.

Okay. So That Goes Down
To A Lower Level.

The Side Tunnel Goes Downward,
Deeper Into The Facility.

We Keep Our Geiger
Counter Nearby,

In Case The Atoms In Here
Get A Little Jumpy.

Radiation Is Raising
A Little Bit.

0.21.
-0.21.

Going Up. Going Up.
-Yeah.

Okay.
So Let's Go...

Let's Go Down.
-...Down Here.

[ Suspenseful Music Climbs ]

Okay.
This Works Good

Down Here.

You Okay?
-Okay. I'm Ready.

-Yeah.
-Okay.

♪♪

Okay.

My Crew Deserves
Some Serious Credit Here.

I've Dragged Them To A Lot
Of Weird And Dangerous Places,

But At Least
They Weren't Radioactive.

All Right.
Let's Go.

Yeah.
So, All Right.

Radiation?
-Radiation Is Going Up.

Going Up, 0.32.
-Yeah.

Still Safe.

So We Have To Be
Careful Here.

Getting Tighter
And Tighter.

Okay.
What's Here?

Here Is Going
Into Next Chamber.

Oh, It's Unbelievable, So.
-Yeah.

So --
-Whoa. Stop.

Stop, Stop, Stop, Stop, Stop.

That Looks Like It Drops
Into A Big Chamber,

But It Goes Straight Down.

We've Found
Yet Another Level Down.

The Deeper We Go, The Higher
Our Radiation Readings.

It's Like Following
A Trail Of Breadcrumbs

Out In The Woods,
Except The Breadcrumbs

Can Kill You
And The Woods Are

A Secret Doomsday Lab Run
By Mad Nazi Scientists.

Uh, Okay. Let's Try
To Get Down There.

Okay.

Andreas Has Brought
Some Climbing Gear

For Just This Kind Of Obstacle.

The Only Problem Is That
The Sandstone Is So Soft,

It's Hard To Trust
Our Anchor Points.

We Find An Iron Stake
Around Which To Tie A Rope

And Then Pray The Rock Beneath

Is Strong Enough
To Hold It In Place.

Andreas, I Don't Think
This Is Goin' Anywhere.

-Okay.
-We Got One Anchor Point Here.

Okay. That Works.
That's Perfect.

Okay. I'll Lower You Down
-Yeah.

And I'll Be Right Behind You.
-Safe. Great.

[ Suspenseful Music Plays ]

Okay. It Works, Great.

Slowly.

Lower Me Down
A Little Bit.

Great! I'm Down!

You're Down?
-Down!

-Off Pulley.
-Great!

Okay.

Now, It's My Turn.

Rope's Comin' Down.
You Ready?

-Okay. I'm Ready.
-Okay. Here We Go.

-Got It.
-Okay.

[ Suspenseful Music Plays ]

-Take Care.
-Yep.

Okay. Looks Good.

Slowly.

[ Suspenseful Music Climbs ]

Whoa, Whoa, Whoa,
Whoa, Whoa, Whoa!

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[ Suspenseful Chord Strikes ]

I'm 200 Feet Beneath Austria

In A Previously Uncharted
Nazi Tunnel System.

Now, We're Rappelling Deeper,
In Order To Follow

A Radioactive Trail Down
To A Secret Atomic Laboratory.

And I'm Taking
The Express Route.

Whoa, Whoa, Whoa,
Whoa, Whoa, Whoa!

Holy [Bleep]

I'm Okay.
I Think I'm Fine.

Rope Slipped.

Ooh, Super Crumbly In Here.
-Yeah.

Lucky For Me,
The Soft Sandstone

Only Took Out One
Of My Anchor Points,

Leaving Me Shaken,
But Not Interred.

Okay. Comin' Down.

Walls Are Just Comin' Apart,
I Mean, Really Sandy.

Sulzer:
Okay. Almost Done.

Almost There.
-Great.

-Okay.
-We Did It.

Phew! Whoa.

Okay. Big Room.
-Yeah.

[ Ominous Music Plays ]

Andreas And I Follow
The Tunnel Further Down,

Keeping One Eye On Our Geiger
Counters At All Times.

Okay.
-Okay.

So.
[ Counter Beeps ]

So, Here, Radiation
Is Going Up.

Yeah.
-It's Going Up, Up.

Wherever This Heads,
It's More Radioactive.

I Mean --
-Yeah.

[ Eerie Music Plays ]

Okay.

♪♪

Here, In This Area,

The Radiation Is
At The Highest Point.

Radiation -- 0.61.
-Yeah.

[ Beeping ]

The Device Shows More
Than Triple

The Normal Background
Radiation At The Surface.

It's Still Safe
For Human Exposure,

But The Numbers Are Rising.

You Think There's
Another Doorway Here?

So, Probably,
There Is Something,

A Chamber,
Beyond Our Feet.

Yes.

You Can Hear It.
-Yeah.

Something Under There.

There's Lots Of Loose Sand
On The Floor Here

And We Can Feel A Hollow Space
Beneath Our Feet.

Could It Be Another Chamber,
Even Further Down?

[ Eerie Music Plays ]

[ Counter Beeps ]

The Deeper We Descend,

The Higher
The Radiation Levels Rise.

[ Beeping ]

[ Rapid Beeping ]

Whoa, Oh, Oh!
What Do We Got?

0.74.
Look At This.

Okay. Back Up.
Back Up. Back Up. Back Up.

Everybody, Back Up.
-Okay.

[ Suspenseful Music Climbs ]

Guys, Back It Up. Come On.
-Yeah. Let's Go.

Here, Back Up. Back Up.
-Yeah.

Let's Go Back. Yeah.
-Okay. Too Hot. Too, Too Hot.

-Yeah. Oh.
-So That's Like...

Yeah, 5 To 7 Times
Higher Than Outside.

Yeah.

While I'm Willing To Risk
A Lot For My Audience,

Hair Loss And Sterility
Are Off The Table.

Could There Be A Concentrated
Natural Pocket Of Radiation

Just In This Tunnel?

It's A Sign That There Is

A Hollow Chamber
Somewhere Down.

So Whatever Is Down There Is
Gonna Require Excavation?

-Yeah.
-Whatever It Is, Is Important.

If It's Weapons And Things

That Could Help Us Understand
World War Two Better,

It's Important.
-Of Course.

And If It's Bodies,
Then That's The Most Important.

There's Definitely
Something Down Here.

And The Answers May Be Further
In These Tunnels.

Yeah.

My Hope Is That
You Get The Permits

That You Need
And That You Keep Digging.

Yeah. And Thanks For Your
Help And Expertise, So.

Once You Get Through
That Radioactive Area,

I'll Be Back In A Heartbeat.
All Right. Hey, Man.

Thank You Very Much.
-Thank You Very Much.

Andreas Makes A Note
Of The Location, In The Hopes

That He Can Continue
His Investigation One Day,

Preferably With Hazmat Suits
And Some Heavy Equipment

And With The Austrian
Government Unwilling

To Allow That, Further Answers
Will Have To Wait.

[ Suspenseful Music Climbs ]

We Are Now A Full Lifetime Away

From The Scourge
Of Nazi Germany,

Yet The Grave Damage
They Did To Europe Lingers.

We Are Still Coming To Terms
With The Genocide

They Committed, The Cultural
Treasures They Stole,

And The Scientific
And Financial Resources

They Perverted For Evil Ends.

To Pry Open The Last
Locked Doors Of That Era,

I've Traveled
To Three Countries

To Examine Three
Very Different Mysteries.

Near The Lakeside Mansion

Of One Of The Third Reich's
Most Notorious War Criminals,

We Discovered
Historically Significant

And Potentially
Deadly Artifacts.

In Poland,
I Scoured The Remnants

Of The Infamous Project Riesa
And Found, Not Gold,

But Miles Of Uncharted Tunnels
That Shine A Spotlight On One

Of The Great Undertold Stories
Of World War Two.

And, In The Sinister Shadow Of
An Austrian Concentration Camp,

We've Witnessed A Sensational
Find By A Determined Explorer

And Found Possible Evidence

Of An Advanced Weapons Program
Deep Underground.

And While It Will Take Time
To Uncover All The Answers

To These Mysteries, We Must
Continue To Look For Them.

The Defeat Of The Nazis
Will Only Be Complete

When Their Last, Darkest Secrets
Are Exposed To The Light Of Day.

♪♪