Mike Mercury
12-30-2015, 10:52am
unlike the Oak Island show... I think these guys are on to something. After release of a lot of classified documents via the FOIAct, there's documentation the SSI (now the FBI) were tracking Hitler well into 1947.
The myth of Hitler's surival beyond the end of the Second World War still attracts supporters and conspiracy theorists. The latest comes via a new eight-part documentary series on the television channel HISTORY whcih repeats the theory that Adolf Hitler may not have committed suicide in his Berlin Führerbunker as the Third Reich imploded all around him on April 30th, 1945.
The probe into whether Hitler may have in fact evaded capture in Berlin and been spirited away to South America was prompted by the declassification last year of more than 700 explosive FBI documents dating back to the end of the Second World War. These files, which feature numerous ‘sightings’ of the Nazi leader, reveal that the US authorities were sceptical about the official version of Hitler’s death. A secret memo from FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover himself stated that, ‘American Army officials in Germany have not located Hitler's body nor is there any reliable source that will say definitely that Hitler is dead.’
Rumours circulated immediately after the war that the Führer had managed to fake his death – to such an extent that the US Army launched a covert ‘search and destroy’ mission to track him down in Spain.
In 2000, the Russian authorities finally handed over the skull they said was the Führer’s, American DNA tests showed that the body part in fact belonged to a woman under the age of 40.
But if Hitler did follow his personal effects out of Tempelhof airport, how did he get there? If he had shown his face above ground for even a second he would have been shot on the spot by the legions of Soviet soldiers flooding into Berlin as the Nazi regime fell apart. The investigators calculated that the Führer could have made his way through the network of tunnels, as far as the subway station known then as U6 (and now named Luftbruecke), which lies some 200 metres from the airport.
So how could the Nazi leader have covered that vital final fifth of a kilometre without being apprehended? Ever since the end of the war there have been stories doing the rounds of a secret tunnel linking the subway to the airport. Utilising a ground-penetrating sonar device normally deployed by the US military, the team discovered a false wall concealing a tunnel running from the subway station all the way to Tempelhof, which they claim is the crucial ‘missing link’. The tunnel was verified via GPR. So Hitler could traven from his underground bunker... all the way to the nearby airport - completely underground.
For all that, Baer confesses that when he was first approached about this project, he was not in the least convinced by it.
‘When I started this, I was completely sceptical’, admits Baer, who during more than two decades working for the CIA was involved in numerous manhunts for high-value targets, including Saddam Hussein. ‘I held onto the narrative that there was evidence that Hitler died in the bunker. ‘But once I realised that the Soviets were completely unreliable about this and had botched the investigation and that there were no eye witnesses and no corpus delicti, I became curious: was it possible that Hitler actually escaped?’
The myth of Hitler's surival beyond the end of the Second World War still attracts supporters and conspiracy theorists. The latest comes via a new eight-part documentary series on the television channel HISTORY whcih repeats the theory that Adolf Hitler may not have committed suicide in his Berlin Führerbunker as the Third Reich imploded all around him on April 30th, 1945.
The probe into whether Hitler may have in fact evaded capture in Berlin and been spirited away to South America was prompted by the declassification last year of more than 700 explosive FBI documents dating back to the end of the Second World War. These files, which feature numerous ‘sightings’ of the Nazi leader, reveal that the US authorities were sceptical about the official version of Hitler’s death. A secret memo from FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover himself stated that, ‘American Army officials in Germany have not located Hitler's body nor is there any reliable source that will say definitely that Hitler is dead.’
Rumours circulated immediately after the war that the Führer had managed to fake his death – to such an extent that the US Army launched a covert ‘search and destroy’ mission to track him down in Spain.
In 2000, the Russian authorities finally handed over the skull they said was the Führer’s, American DNA tests showed that the body part in fact belonged to a woman under the age of 40.
But if Hitler did follow his personal effects out of Tempelhof airport, how did he get there? If he had shown his face above ground for even a second he would have been shot on the spot by the legions of Soviet soldiers flooding into Berlin as the Nazi regime fell apart. The investigators calculated that the Führer could have made his way through the network of tunnels, as far as the subway station known then as U6 (and now named Luftbruecke), which lies some 200 metres from the airport.
So how could the Nazi leader have covered that vital final fifth of a kilometre without being apprehended? Ever since the end of the war there have been stories doing the rounds of a secret tunnel linking the subway to the airport. Utilising a ground-penetrating sonar device normally deployed by the US military, the team discovered a false wall concealing a tunnel running from the subway station all the way to Tempelhof, which they claim is the crucial ‘missing link’. The tunnel was verified via GPR. So Hitler could traven from his underground bunker... all the way to the nearby airport - completely underground.
For all that, Baer confesses that when he was first approached about this project, he was not in the least convinced by it.
‘When I started this, I was completely sceptical’, admits Baer, who during more than two decades working for the CIA was involved in numerous manhunts for high-value targets, including Saddam Hussein. ‘I held onto the narrative that there was evidence that Hitler died in the bunker. ‘But once I realised that the Soviets were completely unreliable about this and had botched the investigation and that there were no eye witnesses and no corpus delicti, I became curious: was it possible that Hitler actually escaped?’