Pressure testing the FBI files the team starts the investigation in the small farming town of Charata, Argentina. Following leads embedded in the declassified files the investigation uncovers a school that was once part of the Nazi Youth movement as well as a prominent Nazi Carlos Buck who lived in the area. Furthering the investigation they also uncover a fortified storage facility with characteristics matching that of a military bunker in the area the FBI files place Hitler and a mysterious under anomaly on Carlos Buck’s property.
Tim Kennedy, US Army Special Forces, joins archeologists Philip Kiernan and Daniel Schavelzon to explore a mysterious Nazi complex deep in the jungles of Argentina. The three-building site yields a trove of Nazi artifacts as well as evidence of a structure of unexplained opulence. Lenny DePaul, former US Marshall, begins an investigation in Berlin to determine if Hitler could have faked his death.
Bob Baer and Dr. John Cencich expand their investigation as to how Adolf Hitler could have escaped Berlin under siege. One of the world’s foremost death claims investigator Steven Rambam and Nazi profiler and historian Gerrard Williams join Tim Kennedy to investigate a site that the FBI reported that Hitler used to disembark from a U-boat in Argentina. Lenny DePaul uncovers an escape route from Hitler’s bunker in Berlin to nearby Tempelhof Airport, where multiple Nazi airplanes took off under the cover of darkness.
Bob Baer and Dr. John Cencic continue their investigation into the death of Adolf Hitler and sending teams to three countries: Germany, Spain and Argentina. Lenny DePaul and Sascha Keil find a never before exposed tunnel from Hitler's bunker leads directly to Tempelhof airport, where Hitler's private plane awaited him. Tim Kennedy joins an elite team of archaeologists sea in a search for a possible German submarine off the coast of Argentina. Lenny will investigate along with Gerrard Williams or possibly Hitler arrived in Spain, where he was hiding with the help of the Spanish dictator Francisco Franco.
Bob Baer and Dr. John Cencich send Lenny DePaul and Gerrard Williams to Spain, where they investigate a remote monastery that could have been a hiding place for Nazis and uncover an eyewitness that places Hitler living within those very walls. Further investigation leads the team to a mysterious German plane landing and nearby Nazi communication devices deep in Spain. Tim Kennedy prepares to dive for what could be a sunken German U-Boat off the coast of Argentina. Ultimately the team is led to the Canary Islands, where they uncover a possible Enigma machine and tunnels used to supply German U-boats with torpedoes.
Based on FBI files on Hitler’s health it is determined that the Fuhrer could not have made the long journey from Spain to South America in one nonstop trip. They decide the Canary Islands as the most logical stopping place. Lenny DePaul and Gerrard Williams uncover a documented Nazi presence on the island of as well as an enormous underground naval and U-boat base connected to the Nazi military, previously unknown to the public. Guided by the FBI files and an OSS most wanted list of Nazis, the team concludes that it was possible for Hitler to seek rest and refuge on the island on his way to where the team has determined a U-boat carrying Hitler could have arrived.
Following declassified FBI files that link Hitler’s U-boat unloading site to a massive German owned estate in the Southern Andes, the team uncovers the town of Bariloche and the Inalco House, where Hitler could have stayed. After trying to gain access to the property with aerial drones and a secret swim through the water, the team is able to take photos of the mysterious interior as well as finds a vent that could lead to a bunker.
In the climax of the investigation, the head of the team leads a search of two marshes in the heart of Bogota that are listed in the declassified FBI files as being the location of a submerged plane that transported Hitler to the area. Using historical maps and cutting edge technology the team corroborates information from the FBI file and finds evidence of a suspicious object buried deep in the mud of a marsh matching the description within the files, which could be a plane!
In this special episode of "Hunting Hitler", Bob Baer and his team look back on their first season. Viewers are given an exclusive behind-the-scenes look, with never before seen footage and new interviews, investigating the possible escape of Adolf Hitler after World War II.
Bob Baer and John Cencich return with new experts and new technology to examine Adolf Hitler's possible escape from every angle; the team returns to Berlin, where Lenny DePaul and Sascha Keil discover an unknown fifth exit from Hitler's Fuhrerbunker.
While investigating makeshift runways, the team finds reason to believe Adolf Hitler would have had a stopping point on the way to Spain; Lenny and historian James Holland head to Denmark, where they investigate an airstrip and a bunker system.
A document shows Adolf Hitler and Leon Degrelle may have moved from Denmark to San Sebastian, Spain; the South American team speaks to an eyewitness who claims his father worked for Hitler's right-hand man, Martin Bormann, after the end of the war.
While investigating a Nazi escape network, the teams discover vast tunnel systems in southern Spain and northern Argentina.
Bob and John's investigation continues in Spain, Morocco and Argentina; the teams look into Adolf Hitler's possible escape route while uncovering a plan for a Fourth Reich.
Digging deeper into reports about the Fourth Reich, Bob and John send the team members to a rumored weapons testing site in Germany and to a mysterious deserted island in Argentina that may have housed nuclear facilities with Nazi ties after the war.
With Peron toppled from power, Hitler and Bormann could have been forced to flee Argentina. Following leads from declassified files, Bob and John send their teams into Chile and Paraguay to investigate Hitler's whereabouts if he were forced to escape.
Bob and John have followed hundreds of international declassified files all the way from Berlin to Chile, where they now investigate a secretive German community with reported Nazi ties. Inside the compound they find clues pointing to the potential forming of a Fourth Reich.
Along with a preview of the next stage of the investigation, Bob Baer and his team share their most explosive evidence and explain the strategies and methods they're using to crack the greatest cold case in modern history, the fate of Adolf Hitler.
Bob Baer recruits one of the world's most foremost terrorist targeting officers, Nada Bakos. Enacting a new hunting strategy so effective its lead to the capture of Osama bin Laden, the team uncovers two planned escape routes for Hitler out of Germany, one to the North and one South. Along the southern route, Tim and James discover a vast tunnel system under Hitler's home. Up north, Lenny and Gerrard investigate a massive Nazi compound hiding under the perfect cover.
Lenny and Gerrard make a startling discovery in a sabotaged aircraft hangar in northern Germany; Mike and James scan an Austrian lake in search for a large cache of secret Nazi documents.
In Norway, Tim and Gerrard explore a hydroelectric plant where the Nazis were dangerously close to producing a nuclear weapon; Mike and James investigate a cabin high in the Austrian Alps where Hitler's top associate made the ultimate sacrifice.
At the bottom of an Arctic fjord, Tim dives on Nazi relics that may blow the case wide open; Mike and James encounter a smuggler who leads them to a Nazi castle on the Italian border.
Mike and James excavate the grounds of a remote Alpine hotel in search of buried Nazi dead drops; in Rome, Lenny and Gerrard make a shocking discovery that implicates some of the world's most powerful people.
A long-range seaplane that shuttled Nazis all around the continent is uncovered at a lagoon in Uruguay. Tim and Gerrard convince an informant in Buenos Aires to share a cache of documents that could unravel the Nazi network "Die Spinne."
A key Nazi support point in Uruguay is investigated. Mike and Lenny review newly declassified Chilean files that reveal a secret plot to attack the United States.
Tim and Gerrard discover a mysterious militarized Nazi compound deep in the jungle of Paraguay; Mike and Lenny explore a Nazi concentration camp in Chile before an anonymous source leads them to Adolf Hitler's last will and testament.
In three seasons of Hunting Hitler, Bob Baer’s investigation proved beyond a shadow of a doubt that Hitler could have successfully fled Germany after the war and disappeared into South America. But the investigation also produced a more unexpected discovery: startling evidence that a 4th Reich was successfully mounting on South American soil with one central goal – a devastating attack on the United States. HUNTING HITLER: THE FINAL CHAPTER is a 2-hour special that puts Bob back in the war room to investigate the true scope of Hitler’s 4th Reich plans, and explore how the Nazis infiltrated and specifically targeted America after World War II. Declassified documents show that the Nazis developed a three-step plan before the end of the war to prepare for the 4th Reich in South America: establish sleeper cells, funnel money, and build a strategic rear base. Since the conclusion of the Hunting Hitler investigation, more information has been brought to light that show these three phases were more mature than ever previously thought – from a 2020 release that shows 12,000 Nazis in South America holding Swiss bank accounts after WWII, to Mi5 files revealing that Nazi spies successfully infiltrated America completely undetected. Bob will pour through these new details while revisiting key moments of his Hunting Hitler investigation to examine each phase of the 4th Reich’s plan and determine once and for all just how close they came to achieving their ultimate goal of attacking America.
