576: Operation Eagle Flight: The Escape from Berlin to Bariloche

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In 2009, scientists tested a fragment of Hitler's skull.

The results showed it belonged to a woman under 40.

The evidence of Hitler's death, evidence we trusted for 60 years, was fake.

In 2022, researchers found a Nazi submarine off Argentina's coast.

It was intentionally hidden.

When asked to investigate, Argentina said no.

They are still saying no.

For 32 years, the FBI ran their longest manhunt ever.

They were looking for Adolf Hitler.

But history says Hitler died in his bunker on April 30th, 1945.

Why was the FBI tracking a dead man?

And why was Stalin so convinced Hitler escaped to Argentina?

Well, information is hard to find.

Because someone wanted this buried, and they still do.

Because accepting Hitler escaped means accepting something far worse.

The most evil man in history didn't just survive.

He was protected and not just by Argentina.

It's April 1945 and Berlin is in ruins.

Hitler and Eber Braun started their escape on April 28th, two days before their alleged deaths.

They slipped through a secret tunnel connecting Hitler's study to the Berlin subway system.

A makeshift airstrip was set up and a Junkers JU-52 transport plane was fueled up and standing by.

Junkers?

You mean Jonkers?

North of the city?

Where my cousin Marty lives.

Not Yonkers, Junkers.

It's German.

Yeah, I still wouldn't trust the plane called it Junker.

Juncker.

What'd I say?

The plane took off at 3 a.m.

Carrying Hitler, Ava, Ava, and a few others.

Bad weather kept Soviet fighters grounded that night.

No radar picked up the flight.

It was a clean getaway.

Their first stop was Denmark at an old Zeppelin base.

Say, hey, Mom, I said the way you move, I'll make you sweat, I'll make you groove.

Okay,

not that Zeppelin.

Oh, not the band, the Dirigible.

Dirigible?

Yeah, it means airship.

I know what it means.

Can I just get through this?

Fine, fine, fine, go ahead.

Sheesh, what a grouch.

A group of wounded German soldiers gathered near the runway to meet Hitler.

Several witnesses reported seeing him there.

After refueling, they landed at a Baltic airfield to switch planes.

And this plane was special, a long-range aircraft from a secret Luftwaffe unit that had been flying Nazi officials to safety for months.

Spain was next.

Franco's government, paid in Nazi gold, provided a Spanish Air Force plane for the flight to the Canary Islands.

Spain claimed neutrality during the war, but newly discovered documents proved they were secretly helping the Nazis.

They landed at Villa Winter, a fortress built by Germany with one purpose, escape.

It had a massive radio antenna for maintaining contact with Berlin and Buenos Aires.

The facility had a runway for large aircraft and a deep harbor perfect for submarines.

Three U-boats from the Sea Wolf Group waited offshore.

These weren't combat subs.

They were modified for escape.

Hitler boarded U-518, an IXC-class sub.

An IXC could run silent on batteries for days.

On a full charge, they can cross the Atlantic and back.

They were big enough for passengers, supplies, and something else, medical equipment.

And here's our first historical snag.

Official Navy records say U-518 was sunk during Operation Teardrop in April 1945.

The USS Carter gets credit for the kill.

One problem, the wreckage was never found.

Not then, not now.

We know the exact coordinates where it was supposedly destroyed, and not a speck of it has ever been seen.

A 250-foot steel boat weighing over 200 tons vanished without a trace.

Then a police report from Argentina revealed something impossible.

The submarine wasn't lost.

It was exactly where it was supposed to be.

The report came from Don Luis Mariotti, police commissioner in Necochea, Argentina.

His officers caught a German signaling an unidentified vessel offshore.

Under interrogation, the man admitted it was a submarine looking for a safe landing spot.

The next morning, Mariotti's men found fresh tire tracks on the beach.

Five officers followed them, but were stopped by armed German soldiers.

When Mariotti reported this, his superiors ordered him to forget what he saw and released the prisoner.

This was dismissed as conspiracy theory until 2022.

Argentine researcher Abel Basti found evidence of German U-boats operating along the coast long after the war ended.

He found eyewitnesses.

He found naval records.

He even found the exact coordinates where witnesses said the subs were scuttled.

The government called it fantasy, so Basti got funding and dove the site.

They found a modified German submarine exactly where witnesses said it would be, right off the coast, intentionally sunk in shallow water.

Argentina's response?

Those aren't Nazi subs, they're rock formations.

Ah, yes, the U-boat-shaped rocks of Argentina.

Lovely this time of year.

Basti got a second opinion from researchers in France.

Not only was this a sub, it was a Nazi sub.

He got a third opinion from the Italians.

Not only was it a Nazi sub, it was an IXC-40 U-boat, the exact type witnesses saw carrying Hitler.

The mastermind of Hitler's escape was Martin Bormann, his closest advisor and Nazi party minister during the war.

While Germany struggled to achieve victory, Bormann planned for defeat.

The Reich would survive, even if Germany fell.

In August 1944, he launched Operation Eagle Flight.

The plan, move Nazi wealth out of Germany.

Bormann created over 750 front companies across 15 different countries.

Swiss banks laundered money through networks stretching from Madrid to Buenos Aires.

Patents and technical documents were transferred to foreign subsidiaries.

Art collections were smuggled piece by piece through Spain, and gold was converted to bear bonds.

Hang on, hang on.

Bear bonds?

Those are the things that Eddie Murphy found at Beverly Hills Cap.

Right.

And diehard.

Yep.

And with the weapon, licensed to kill the goonies.

Right.

Bear bonds are like cash.

Whoever physically holds the bond, the bearer, holds the money.

No questions asked.

They could be worth $50 or $50 million.

No records, no names, completely anonymous.

God, the government doesn't like it when it can't check the money.

They don't.

That's why bearer bonds aren't used much anymore.

But before World War II, they were common and legally accepted almost anywhere.

Foreman shipped bonds and assets using diplomatic pouches.

Yeah, I gotta stop you, can you?

Uh, what pouch?

Well, we've heard of diplomatic immunity.

Oh, yeah, from Lethal Weapons 2.

Of course.

Diplomatic immunity.

According to international law, diplomats can't be prosecuted, arrested, or detained for violations of the host country's laws, even for serious crimes.

Their homes, documents, and communications can't be searched or seized.

A dip pouch has the same protection.

It can be a bag, a box, or even a shipping container.

The Vatican was part of Eagle Flight.

The Vatican Bank answers to nobody.

I cover the Vatican Bank in our episode about Operation Gladio, where the CIA worked with the mafia and the Vatican to create a secret illegal terrorist army.

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The Vatican also helped move people.

Bishop Alois Hudal provided documentation and safe passage for high-ranking Nazis.

The church's rat lines stretched across Europe to South America.

And when the church couldn't help, the Red Cross could.

Whoa, whoa, the Red Cross helped Nazis escape?

Like the Red Cross?

Yep.

Yeah, next you'll be telling me UNICEF was running weapons.

Actually, no way.

Different episode.

The Nazis had built more than just a refuge in Argentina, they built a shadow state with its own territory, government, and military.

And now the new German state had a leader.

They just needed to get him there alive.

The next phase of Martin Bormann's escape plan was Operation Land of Fire, create a secret paradise in Patagonia, Argentina.

The area was perfect, vast, isolated, and already had a large German population.

Juan Perón was the president of Argentina and longtime supporter of Hitler.

His government issued thousands of fake passports.

Police were ordered to ignore certain ships and trucks moving at night.

Local Nazi sympathizers in key positions helped Bormann create a network of secure estates.

Each one shared specific features, remote locations, escape routes, bunkers, and medical facilities specializing in Parkinson's disease.

Wait, wait, wait, he had that?

He did, but his staff tried hiding it.

As the war went on, he was rarely seen in public.

Most photos were carefully staged to avoid showing his trembling left hand.

Oh, like SDR.

Right.

President Roosevelt had polio.

He could barely walk.

He was always in a wheelchair.

But at the time, most Americans didn't know.

The press was told to hide his condition.

Operation Eagle Flight wasn't just an evacuation plan.

It wasn't just about saving Nazi wealth.

It was about building infrastructure, a network of secure facilities managed by loyal supporters.

This system was designed to protect someone important, someone specific, someone who needed constant medical care.

Then the OSS decoded a message from Borman to Argentina.

It was only three words.

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Dan Carlos de Baraloche is hidden in Argentina's Patagonia region.

By 1945, it looked like Germany had been dropped into South America.

Over 30,000 Germans poured in after the war.

German was the local language.

Street signs were in German.

Children learned from Nazi textbooks.

The FBI tracked millions flowing in from Swiss banks.

Spanish buildings were replaced by German.

In the mountains, mountains, they built something else, an alco.

A fortress disguised as a mansion.

An alcohol was a command center.

It had underground generators, security quarters, hidden rooms, escape tunnels, and advanced radio equipment.

A watchtower overlooked a concrete bunker.

A ramp led to a boathouse hiding a seaplane.

His staff was carefully chosen.

Dr.

Otto Lehmann, Parkinson's specialist.

Einrich Bethe, former U-boat commander, was security chief.

Both worked directly for Hitler before the war.

The area was crawling with Nazi fugitives living in plain sight.

Eric Fribke, who massacred 335 Italians, ran a Delian town.

He was caught by ABC News in 1994.

You were just following orders?

Yes, of course, yes.

But I didn't shot anybody.

He actually denied that he had shot anyone personally.

But we had papers from a British prisoner of war camp where he had admitted shooting two people.

Adolf Eichmann lived nearby before moving to Buenos Aires.

Mossad captured him in 1960.

Joseph Mengele, the infamous angel of death, lived in the town for a while.

He was never caught.

Catalina Gomera was a maid for wealthy Nazi sympathizers.

She said Hitler stayed at their estate.

She was told to never repeat what she saw.

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had the vocabulary.

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There was a photo of the document

that I had.

A hotel owner reported serving an elderly gentleman with a distinctive mustache in 1953.

A local boy saw the same man walking in Alco's grounds at night.

A housekeeper cleaned a study filled with maps and German military photos.

For years, Hitler lived quietly at Inalco with Ava and their daughter, but his marriage was failing and his health declining.

Then in 1955, everything changed.

Argentina's government was overthrown.

Juan Perón fled the country.

And without his protection, Hitler had to run again.

But his past was about to catch up with him.

Without Perron's protection, Hitler moved deeper into hiding at La Clara Estate.

But even here, witnesses kept seeing him.

A farmer described an elderly man with a trembling left arm being helped along a mountain path.

A shopkeeper recalled a German customer who used a cane and spoke with a slurred Austrian accent.

This was all a conspiracy theory.

Then in 2017, everything changed.

Remember those JFK files that went public?

Yeah, yeah, I remember.

They still held back the good stuff.

They did.

But buried in those files was something that wasn't supposed to be there.

A CIA memo from 1955.

CI Melody 3 was contacted on 29th of September 1955 by a trusted friend who served under his command in Europe and who is presently residing in Maracaibo.

CI Melody 3 preferred not to reveal the identity of his friend.

CI Melody 3's friend stated that during the latter part of September 1955, Philip Citroen, former German SS trooper, stated to him confidentially that Adolf Hitler is still alive.

Um, this is important.

Oh, there's more.

The memo included a photo.

Hitler left Colombia for Argentina around January 1955.

Citroen commented that inasmuch as 10 years have passed since the end of World War II, the Allies could no longer prosecute Hitler as a criminal of war.

Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait.

What happened next?

The station chief said he would investigate if CIA wanted him to.

Oh, what'd they find?

Nothing.

They said, don't bother, it was a waste of resources.

Oh, tracking down the most evil man alive is a waste of resources.

Apparently so.

Yeah, the CIA picked a strange time to suddenly become budget conscious.

Hmm.

Maybe not so strange.

Well, what do you what do you mean?

The eyewitness accounts go on and on.

Bernard Unseen, a local carpenter, saw him at least five times.

The pretext of training caminando, no, that camina

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the

Hitler is the carpenter that means the carpenter carpenter in the edificio.

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inclusive.

Local records track shipments of Hitler's medications.

Then morphine delivery started.

His health was failing fast.

Security tightened.

No visitors were allowed past the main gate.

Deliveries stopped half a mile from the house.

Ava Brown took their daughter and left.

By 1961, he rarely left his room.

His mind was unraveling.

Staff heard him talking to himself for hours.

The next day at 3 p.m., Hitler died.

He was 72 years old.

Dr.

Lehman's final diary entry read, I fear I've outlived my usefulness.

It was the last anyone ever saw of Otto Lehmann.

After Hitler's death, the Nazi paradise in Argentina began to crumble.

But that's not the real story.

The truth is far worse.

Argentina wasn't the country who protected the most Nazis.

That was us.

The United States didn't just defeat the Nazis, we absorbed them.

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Eli Rosenbaum and Mike McQueen work for the Justice Department, the Office of Special Investigation hunted Nazis.

In 1994, they investigated a possible Nazi living in Boston working at a camera repair shop.

The suspect turned out to be Alexandris Lalikis.

Lalikis ran the Lithuanian security police, directly responsible for sending thousands of Jews to their deaths.

The CIA recruited him in 1952 to spy in East Germany.

Then they helped him move to America and hid his war crimes from immigration.

When OSI tried to bring charges, the CIA resisted, even though they knew exactly what he'd done.

But as the investigation continued, they found something worse than a Nazi in hiding.

They found a network of Nazis recruited by and paid by the CIA.

Thousands of them.

Author of a new book that unveils the secret history of how America became a safe haven for thousands of Nazi war criminals.

Many of them were brought here after World War II by the CIA and got support from FBI Director J.

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The thinking was that no one hated the Soviets more than the Nazis.

And American intelligence gurus like J.

Edgar Hoover at the FBI and Alan Dulles at the CIA wanted to put that hatred and that vitriol and that expertise against the Soviets to work by anointing the ex-Nazi spies as American spies, Cold War spies and informants.

The CIA and FBI have been protecting some of the most evil men in history for years.

Otto von Bolschfing was a successful California businessman.

He was also Adolf Eichmann's mentor in implementing anti-Jewish programs.

When Israel captured Eichmann in 1960, the CIA helped von Bolschwing avoid exposure.

And so they came.

Thousands of Nazi collaborators scattered across America, in Queens, in Boston, in Baltimore, in Washington, in Chicago, in Los Angeles.

Klaus Barbie was called the butcher of Lyon.

for torturing members of the French resistance.

When France tried extraditing him for war crimes, the CIA refused.

His anti-communist intelligence work was more important than justice for his victims.

France pressed, so the CIA then helped him escape to Bolivia.

I thought they were just supposed to pick up, you know, a few racket scientists.

Operation Paperclip brought in some of the world's most brilliant scientists and engineers.

They also happened to be vicious war criminals.

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Arthur Rudolph received the American Distinguished Service Medal while the military buried his past.

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So you see him here on the right with a flight simulator that he set up in Texas.

He also had a flight simulator not unlike this in Dachau during the war at the concentration camp.

That was where they would put children and subject them to far greater levels of pressure and gravitational pull to the point that many of them died.

Many of them died.

He was on the U.S.

military's list of war criminals since 1945, but his background was hidden until after his death.

Siegfried Ruch worked with him.

After he was acquitted at Nuremberg, the U.S.

Army hired him.

Eric Straub ran the Nazi bioweapons program and reported directly to Himmler.

The U.S.

Army recruited him to research bioweapons.

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Walter Strieber, Kurt Blom, Theodore Benziger, Otto Ambros, and Friedrich Olfman were chemists and scientists, all connected with slave labor and experimenting on prisoners.

All were recruited and protected by the CIA.

And the list goes on and on, but I won't make you suffer while I try to pronounce German names.

America recruited over 1,600 Nazi scientists after the war.

But they didn't just help scientists escape.

They helped everyone escape.

War criminals, SS officers, concentration camp guards, they created new identities, they destroyed records, they buried evidence.

At least 10,000 Nazis found refuge in America through CIA and FBI protection.

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In 1998, the CIA admitted destroying thousands of files related to Nazi recruitment.

They claimed it was routine file maintenance.

Investigators found shredding orders dated just days after Congress requested the documents.

A lot of document requests came back with destroyed and fire.

Thousands of Nazi war criminals died peacefully in American suburbs.

The agencies meant to protect us actually protected them.

And they hid this from us until legislation forced them to declassify their files.

You know, there were so many things that occurred to me at the time.

Well, why did this happen?

Why did the government allow them to come here?

Who was responsible for this?

But I said to myself, the most important thing now is to find out how many Nazis there are and bring them to justice.

We can find out the history later.

And the files show that things are even worse.

It always gets worse.

There was something that made Hitler's escape look trivial.

Operation Sunrise.

While America publicly fought the Nazis, Alan Dulles, future head of the CIA, was secretly negotiating with SS General Karl Wolf to protect key Nazi officials.

While American soldiers were giving their lives to liberate Europe, Dulles and Wolf sat by the fire, drank scotch, and conspired in German.

Whoa, Dulles was speaking German to a Nazi during the war?

He was.

And there's a reason for that.

If you want a full episode on Alan Dulles and his brother, let me know.

But let me know fast before they delete this channel.

No, I'll delete you.

Right.

So, Hitler died in his bunker.

That's history.

But But history is written by the victors.

The true history of World War II was written before the war even ended.

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Society enforces an unspoken rule.

Hitler died in that bunker, period.

Question this and you'll face immediate hostility.

You're a crazy conspiracy theorist.

We can't even ask questions about his escape because the alternative is unthinkable.

If the most evil man in history got away, what else did we get wrong?

In 1945, Stalin said he escaped to Argentina with the help of the United States.

Now that's unacceptable to the American public.

Stalin was spreading misinformation.

The U.S.

said Hitler was dead.

But American intelligence wasn't so sure.

A few years ago, over 700 pages of FBI files were declassified.

The FBI had a special task force especially created to find Hitler.

The lead agent believed he was alive, but still in Europe, not Argentina.

Now, most of those sightings were debunked, but not all.

The truth is, there's no hard evidence that Hitler died in the bunker.

The mainstream narrative says there is evidence, but that's not quite true.

At the end of the war, the Soviets said they found Hitler's body.

Then Stalin gave orders.

He escaped to Argentina.

Their story kept changing.

For years, nobody really knew.

In 1968, the Soviets finally claimed to have his complete body, but then they said they had just fragments of his skull.

In 2009, the Russian government finally allowed DNA testing of the alleged skull fragment they'd held for decades.

It belonged to a woman under 40.

The Russians have a section of his jawbone, they say.

Show him a picture to the choppers.

Shall let's see the choppers.

No.

If you want to see that, you can find plenty of pictures online.

If I show those teeth, this video is going to be demonetized and buried.

Oh, you're way past that, chief.

This episode is never going to see the light of day.

Probably.

Anyway, they say the teeth match Hitler's dental records.

Great, let's see the records.

They disappeared.

New evidence came from dental records drawn from a dental hygienist's memory.

Years later, x-rays appeared.

What's the truth?

Let's DNA test the teeth and see if they come from the same head.

Can't.

They're too badly burned, they say.

Yeah, but we can try.

Nah.

After the Russians were embarrassed in 2009, they stopped cooperating.

They got Hitler, and that's that.

Their files are sealed.

Argentina's files are sealed.

Most of America's files are still sealed, at least the ones they didn't shred or burn.

Now I'm not making the case that Hitler escaped.

I gave you a lot of information today and there are links below to more.

You decide for yourself.

And I'm not judging whether Operation Paperclip was justified.

Maybe saving 10,000 Nazis saved more American lives because they provided vital intelligence.

Maybe they saved lives with their scientific contributions.

Maybe.

I can't make that judgment.

But the victims of Nazi war crimes and their families can make that judgment.

Either way, we should be allowed to know the full truth of what happened after the war.

For example, we know the Allies liberated concentration camps, but we have this image of soldiers opening the gates and happy prisoners running out and hugging them.

That's not what happened.

Oh no.

There was nowhere to put displaced persons, as they were called, so they had to stay there.

But now the same Germans who guarded them were prisoners in there with them.

In some cases, they were forced to bunk together.

General Patton, old blood and guts himself, appointed former SS officers to oversee the camps.

He felt they were most qualified for maintaining order and administration.

He respected the Nazis more than he did the Jews.

A lot more, if you read up on it.

But you won't find much about his anti-Semitism in the books and movies about him.

When Eisenhower found out what he was doing, Patton was transferred, essentially demotion, to a paperwork position.

So is Patton a hero or a villain?

Or is the answer more gray?

We can't really answer these questions unless we have the full truth.

You must remember that in 1969 and 1950s and 1960s, J.

Edgar Hoover was probably the most powerful man in Washington.

No president could ask him to retire.

No congressional committee, no Senate committee could ever hold him truly accountable for what he was doing with the FBI and its dirty tricks.

Dulles was one of the intelligence titans of the 1950s, one of the original Cold Warriors.

And he was someone who believed that there were quote-unquote moderate Nazis, his words, who the U.S.

could use to its advantage in the Cold War.

He actively recruited them himself and in a number of cases intervened on their behalf when they were facing accusations about their past, about their involvement in Nazi war crimes.

And he and Jay Gerhoova were really

the two linchpins in this, in developing this strategy of recruiting ex-Nazis as Cold Warriors, as Soviet anti-Silviet assets.

Now, I love my country and I always will.

But to love something requires knowing the full truth of it.

We deserve to know the full truth of American Nazi cooperation.

But we're not allowed to ask about Patton, about the CIA, or about Hitler.

That's why this story stays buried.

That's why theories are ridiculed.

And that's why videos like this are demonetized and hidden.

Because investigating Hitler's escape might reveal something ugly about the American military and intelligence agencies.

But evil didn't die in that bunker.

It just changed uniforms.

Thank you so much for hanging out today.

My name is AJ.

There's Hecklefish.

Yeah, it will be interesting to see if we get demonetized.

Everything I said today was true, and everything I speculated, I disclosed.

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I played Bolypius and Area 51.

A secret code inside the Bible said I would.

I love my UFOs and paranormal fun, as well as music.

Song singing like I should.

But then another conspiracy theory becomes the truth, my friends.

And it never ends.

I know it never ends.

I feel the crap guy down, got stuck inside Mal's home with them chaotrup, I'm being only too aware.

Dude, Stanley Kufrick fake the moon landing alone

on a film set, or where the shadow people there.

The Roswell aliens just fought the smiling man, I'm told.

And his name was Cole.

I can't believe I'm dancing with the bitches.

Had no fish on Thursday nights with JJ.

And the rapids have been all through the night.

All I ever wanted was to just hear the truth.

So the rap balls of the feet all through the light.

The Mothman sightings and the solar storms still come to have got the secret city underground.

Mysterious number stations, planets or two, project stargate, and what the Dark Watchers found.

In a simulation, don't you worry though.

The black nights that are lighted toll me.

So I can't believe

I'm dancing with the fears.

Had to fish on Thursday, nights when they jade you.

And the wild mom's living me all through the night.

All I ever wanted was to just give a truth.

To the wild ball, I was me all through the night.

Had to fish on Thursday, nights when they j2.

And white moms living me all through the night.

all I ever wanted was to just hear the truth.

So white balls up with me all through the

light.

Gurdy loves to dance.

Gurdy loves to dance.

Gurdy loves to dance.

Gurdy loves to dance on the dance floor

because she is a camel.

Camels love the dance when the feeling is right away.

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