Operation Eagle Flight: The Escape from Berlin to Bariloche

For decades, a piece of his skull sat in a Russian archive - our most decisive proof that the most evil man of the 20th century died in 1945. When scientists finally tested the bone in 2009, they discovered it belonged to a woman under 40. The evidence we trusted for over 60 years was fake. Stalin insisted the dictator escaped to Argentina. The FBI conducted their longest manhunt ever looking for him. Recently, researchers found a military submarine deliberately hidden off Argentina's coast. When asked to investigate, authorities said no. They're still saying no. The truth remains buried in sealed files across three continents. But the bigger question isn't whether he escaped - it's who helped him. Because if history's greatest monster survived, he didn't do it alone. He was protected by a network that reached from Berlin to the Vatican to Argentina -- to Washington D. C. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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• 0:42AJ Gentile?

  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're 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 30, 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.

• 1:27AJ Gentile?

  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.

• 1:52AJ Gentile?

  It's April 1945, and Berlin is in ruins. Hitler and Eva Braun started their escape on April 28, 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 Jüngers JU-52 transport plane was fueled up and standing by.

• 2:12Speaker 04

  Ah, Jüngers? Ah, you mean Yonkers, north of the city where my cousin Monty lives.

• 2:17AJ Gentile?

  Not Yonkers, Jüngers, it's German.

• 2:19Speaker 04

  Eh, still wouldn't trust a plane called a Junker.

• 2:22AJ Gentile?

  Jünger.

• 2:22Speaker 04

  What'd I say?

• 2:24AJ Gentile?

  The plane took off at 3 a.m.

• 2:28AJ Gentile?

  Carrying Hitler, Eva, 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.

• 2:38Speaker 04

  Say, "Hey, Mom, I said the way you move, I'll make you sweat, I'll make you grope."

• 2:45AJ Gentile?

  Okay!

• 2:46Speaker 04

  What?

• 2:47AJ Gentile?

  Not that, Zeppelin.

• 2:48Speaker 04

  Oh, not the band, the dirigible?

• 2:50AJ Gentile?

  Dirigible?

• 2:51Speaker 04

  That means airship.

• 2:52AJ Gentile?

  I know what it means. Can I just get through this?

• 2:54Speaker 04

  Fine, fine, fine, go ahead. Sheesh, what a grouch.

• 3:00AJ Gentile?

  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.

• 3:18AJ Gentile?

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

• 3:28AJ Gentile?

  Spain claimed neutrality during the war, but newly discovered documents proved they were secretly helping the Nazis. They landed at Villa Inter, 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 Seawolf Group waited offshore. These weren't combat subs. They were modified for escape.

• 3:58AJ Gentile?

  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.

• 4:39AJ Gentile?

  A 250-foot steelboat 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.

• 5:06AJ Gentile?

  The report came from Don Luis Mariotti, Police Commissioner in Nekochea, 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."

• 5:30AJ Gentile?

  When Mariotti reported this, his superiors ordered him to forget what he saw and release 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."

• 6:10Speaker 04

  Ah, yes, the U-boat-shaped rocks of Argentina, lovely this time of year.

• 6:16AJ Gentile?

  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."

• 6:33AJ Gentile?

  The mastermind of Hitler's escape was Martin Bormann, his closest adviser 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 bearer bonds.

• 7:11Speaker 04

  Oh, hang on, hang on. Bearer bonds? Those are the things that Eddie Murphy found in Beverly Hills Cop.

• 7:17AJ Gentile?

  Right.

• 7:18Speaker 04

  And Die Hard.

• 7:19AJ Gentile?

  Yep.

• 7:19Speaker 04

  And Lethal Weapon, License to Kill, The Coonies.

• 7:22AJ Gentile?

  Right. Bearer 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.

• 7:35Speaker 04

  The government doesn't like it when they can't track the money.

• 7:38AJ Gentile?

  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. Bormann shipped bonds and assets using diplomatic pouches.

• 7:48Speaker 04

  Yeah, I gotta stop you again, ya. What pouch?

• 7:51AJ Gentile?

  Well, you've heard of diplomatic immunity?

• 7:53Speaker 04

  Yeah, from Lethal Weapon 2.

• 7:55AJ Gentile?

  Of course.

• 7:55Speaker 05

  Diplomatic immunity.

• 8:01AJ Gentile?

  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 covered 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.

• 8:31Speaker 04

  Gladio, LinkedIn, and Yee-Tickle-Tote.

• 8:34AJ Gentile?

  The Vatican also helped move people. Bishop Alois Houdal 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.

• 8:48Speaker 04

  Whoa, whoa, whoa, the Red Cross helped Nazis escape? Like, like the Red Cross?

• 8:53AJ Gentile?

  Yep.

• 8:53Speaker 04

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

• 8:56AJ Gentile?

  Actually...

• 8:57Speaker 04

  No way!

• 8:58AJ Gentile?

  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.

• 9:27AJ Gentile?

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

• 10:07Speaker 04

  Wait, wait, wait, he had that?

• 10:08AJ Gentile?

  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.

• 10:17Speaker 04

  Oh, like FDR?

• 10:19AJ Gentile?

  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.

• 10:28Speaker 04

  Ah, the media would lie about a president's health? I don't believe it. What? So soon?

• 10:36AJ Gentile?

  The OSS, American military intelligence, knew something was happening. They tracked ships leaving Spanish ports. They monitored Swiss bank transfers. They watched German scientists disappear from Europe, then reappear in South America. But they missed the big picture.

• 10:52AJ Gentile?

  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.

• 11:05AJ Gentile?

  This system was designed to protect someone important. Someone specific. Someone who needed constant medical care. Then the OSS decoded a message from Bormen to Argentina. It was only three words. "The package arrives."

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• 12:00AJ Gentile?

  Van Carlos de Bariloche 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.

• 12:13AJ Gentile?

  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, they built something else. An Alco. A fortress disguised as a mansion. An Alco 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.

• 12:48AJ Gentile?

  His staff was carefully chosen. Dr. Otto Lehmann, Parkinson's specialist. Anric Betha, 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 Friedka, who massacred 335 Italians, ran a deli in town. He was caught by ABC News in 1994. You were just following orders? Yes, of course, yes, 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 admitted shooting two people. Adolf Eichmann lived nearby before moving to Buenos Aires. Mossad captured him in 1960.

• 13:31AJ Gentile?

  Josef Mengele, the infamous Angel of Death, lived in the town for a while. He was never caught. Catalina Gomero was a maid for wealthy Nazi sympathizers. She said that Hitler stayed at their estate. She was told to never repeat what she saw.

• 13:46Speaker 07

  "Todo Hitler ahí sí, tuvo tres días, eso yo sí. Eso yo porque vimos los chofer y todo, padre y mónica también en este... Pero nosotros tenemos que cayeron a la boca. O perdíamos el trabajo, o... Y después lo agarré a Luis, yo, y le dije: "Chiluí, cállate, me dice, no digas nada."

• 14:09Speaker 07

  Y ahí sí, usted, ahí había foto de él, y después uno por más que no tenga vida..."

• 14:18AJ Gentile?

  A hotel owner reported serving an elderly gentleman with distinctive mustache in 1953. A local boy saw the same man walking in Alcoa's grounds at night. A housekeeper cleaned a study filled with maps and German military photos. For years, Hitler lived quietly at Alcoa with Eva 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.

• 15:01AJ Gentile?

  Without Perón's protection, Hitler moved deeper into hiding at Le 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?

• 15:25Speaker 04

  Yeah, I remember. They still held back the good stuff.

• 15:28AJ Gentile?

  They did. But buried in those files was something that wasn't supposed to be there. A CIA memo from 1955.

• 15:36Speaker 05

  CI Melody III 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 III preferred not to reveal the identity of his friend. CI Melody III's friend stated that during the latter part of September 1955, Philip Citrin, former German SS trooper, stated to him confidentially that Adolf Hitler is still alive.

• 16:06Speaker 04

  Um, this is important.

• 16:08AJ Gentile?

  Oh, there's more. The memo included a photo.

• 16:14Speaker 05

  Hitler left Colombia for Argentina around January 1955. Citrin commented that "inasmuch as ten years have passed since the end of World War II, the Allies could no longer prosecute Hitler as a criminal of war."

• 16:30Speaker 04

  Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait. What happened next?

• 16:32AJ Gentile?

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

• 16:35Speaker 04

  Oh, what'd they find?

• 16:37AJ Gentile?

  Nothing. They said, "Don't bother, it was a waste of resources."

• 16:40Speaker 04

  Ooh, tracking down the most evil man alive is a waste of resources?

• 16:44AJ Gentile?

  Apparently so.

• 16:45Speaker 04

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

• 16:50AJ Gentile?

  Maybe not so strange.

• 16:51Speaker 04

  Well, what do you, what do you mean?

• 16:53AJ Gentile?

  The eyewitness accounts go on and on. For not unseeing, a local carpenter saw him at least five times.

• 17:08Speaker 06

  Al edificio a hablar con Pavelich. Venía caminando con los tres guardas espaldas y la señora.

• 17:17Speaker 06

  Los dos prácticamente lo traían caminando, ¿no?, que apenas caminaba él.

• 17:23Speaker 06

  ¿Estaba, tenía la misma pinta? La misma, la misma, de blanco, pelo corto, tipo militar cortado, sin bigote. Bueno, ahí estuve yo conversando, me invitaron a sentarme en la mesa, me convidó la señora de Pavelich con un café. Hitler estaba tomando café con alguna bebida más, con Pavelich. Y yo ahí le conté, entonces Pavelich le dice a Hitler, es el carpintero, dice que me hace la carpintería en el edificio. Entonces Hitler me miró y me hizo una reverencia así, en esta forma, un saludo, ¿no? Más cerca de él, estuve tomando café inclusive.

• 18:06Speaker 07

  ¿Te has convencido que la...?

• 18:12AJ Gentile?

  Local records track shipments of Hitler's medications. Then morphine delivery started.

• 18:18AJ Gentile?

  His health was failing fast. Security tightened. No visitors were allowed past the main gate. Delivery stopped half a mile from the house. Eva Braun 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 3pm, 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 Lehman.

• 18:50AJ Gentile?

  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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• 19:48AJ Gentile?

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

• 19:56AJ Gentile?

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

• 20:04AJ Gentile?

  The suspect turned out to be Alexandras Lelikas. Lelikas 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 the Nazis 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

• 20:48AJ Gentile?

  and got support from FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover.

• 20:52Speaker 04

  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 Allen 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.

• 21:14AJ Gentile?

  The CIA and FBI have been protecting some of the most evil men in history for years. Otto von Bolshving 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 Bolshving avoid exposure.

• 21:33Speaker 04

  And so they came. Thousands of Nazi collaborators.

• 21:36Speaker 07

  scattered across America in Queens, in Boston, in Baltimore, in Washington, in Chicago, in Los Angeles.

• 21:43AJ Gentile?

  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.

• 22:00Speaker 04

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

• 22:05AJ Gentile?

  Operation Paperclip brought in some of the world's most brilliant scientists and engineers. They also happened to be vicious war criminals. Kurt Debus, Arthur Rudolph, Herbert Rees, Walther Donberger, Erwin Oberth, George Rickett, Konrad Donenberger, Ernst Stuhlinger, and Wernher Von Braun became the backbone of NASA. They got America to the moon by converting their V-2 rocket from a weapon into the Saturn V spacecraft. The V-2 was built with slave labor from concentration camps. 20,000 innocent people were worked to death to build those rockets. Anyone who complained was hung in the factory. The factory was run by those nine men and others. They said they didn't know.

• 22:47AJ Gentile?

  Arthur Rudolph received the American Distinguished Service Medal while the military buried his past. When investigators finally caught up with him, he fled to Germany. Obertus Schrughold is known as the father of space medicine. He helped astronauts prepare for spaceflight. In Germany, he conducted experiments on children. He put them in vacuum chambers to simulate the effects of high-altitude sickness such as hypoxia.

• 23:09Speaker 07

  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.

• 23:30AJ Gentile?

  He was on the US military's list of war criminals since 1945, but his background was hidden until after his death. Siegfried Ruhf worked with him. After he was acquitted at Nuremberg, the US Army hired him. Erich Traub ran the Nazi bioweapons program and reported directly to Himmler. The US Army recruited him to research bioweapons. I have an episode that might prove Lyme disease is actually a US bioweapons accident.

• 23:56Speaker 04

  Killer insects linked down in the stash can.

• 24:00AJ Gentile?

  Walter Strieber, Kurt Blom, Theodor Benziger, Otto Ambrose, and Friedrich Golfmann 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. And these were just the ones we know about.

• 24:42AJ Gentile?

  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 in 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.

• 25:16Speaker 06

  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."

• 25:35AJ Gentile?

  And the files showed that things are even worse.

• 25:37Speaker 04

  It always gets worse.

• 25:39AJ Gentile?

  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.

• 26:04Speaker 04

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

• 26:09AJ Gentile?

  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.

• 26:16Speaker 04

  Or delete you.

• 26:18AJ Gentile?

  Right. So Hitler died in his bunker. That's history. 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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• 27:10AJ Gentile?

  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?

• 27:30AJ Gentile?

  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 US 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.

• 27:58AJ Gentile?

  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.

• 28:10AJ Gentile?

  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.

• 28:35Speaker 04

  Oh, no.

• 28:36AJ Gentile?

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

• 28:39Speaker 04

  Oh, show them the picture to the choppers. Let's see the choppers.

• 28:43AJ Gentile?

  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.

• 28:48Speaker 04

  Oh, you're way past that, chief. This episode is never going to see the light of day.

• 28:53AJ Gentile?

  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?

• 29:07Speaker 04

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

• 29:11AJ Gentile?

  Can't. They're too badly burned, they say.

• 29:13Speaker 04

  Yeah, but we can try.

• 29:15AJ Gentile?

  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.

• 29:59AJ Gentile?

  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.

• 30:06Speaker 04

  That's not what happened.

• 30:08AJ Gentile?

  Oh, no.

• 30:11AJ Gentile?

  "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 antisemitism in the books and movies about him. When Eisenhower found out what he was doing, Patton was transferred, essentially demoted 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."

• 30:56Speaker 06

  "You must remember that in 1969, in 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."

• 31:19Speaker 07

  "Medellis was one of the intelligence titans of the 1950s, one of the original Cold Warriors. And he was someone who believed that there were 'moderate Nazis,' his words, who the US 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 J. Edgar Hoover were really the two linchpins in this, in developing this strategy of recruiting ex-Nazis as Cold Warriors, as anti-Silvian assets."

• 32:00AJ Gentile?

  "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. That evil didn't die in that bunker. It just changed uniforms."

• 32:49AJ Gentile?

  Thank you so much for hanging out today. My name is AJ. There's Hacklefish.

• 32:52Speaker 04

  Oh, we're still here? I figured this video would be deleted by now.

• 32:57AJ Gentile?

  Yeah, it will be interesting to see if we get demonetized. Everything I said today was true, and everything I speculated, I disclosed. We'll find out where they stand on this. Anyway, this has been The Y Files. If you had fun or learned anything, do them a favor, like, subscribe, comment, share. That stuff really helps the channel, especially when we release videos like this. I held back on this one a long time. Like most topics we cover here, today's was recommended by you. I wish you didn't, but I covered it. And if there's a story you'd like to see or learn more about, go to theyfiles.com/tips. I remember The Y Files is also a podcast. Twice a week, I post deep dives into the stories we cover here, and I also post episodes that wouldn't be allowed here, like this one. Well, less allowed. Anyway, it's called The Y Files Operation Podcast, and it's available everywhere you get your podcasts.

• 33:41AJ Gentile?

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• 34:25AJ Gentile?

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• 34:47Speaker 04

  Grab a Haggardly T-shirt or one of these fistful of coffee mugs. You could rule with an iron fist and stick right in this mug there. Or drink a delicious beverage if your choice is none of my concern. Or grab a hoodie or one of these squeezy, uh, no, not yet with the squeezy. First, we gotta talk about these creepy U2's voodoo dolls. And then we can talk about the squeezy animal stuck, stuffed, stuffed in Haggardly. Oh, my goodness, can I do this one again? And the stuffed Haggardly squeezy toys.

• 35:16AJ Gentile?

  Those are the plugs. Woo, that's gonna do it. Until next time, be safe, be kind. Another you. I appreciate it.

• 36:17Speaker 02

  I feel the crack at and I got stuck inside Mel's home with MKUltra. I'm being only too aware. Did Stanley Kubrick fake the moon landing alone on a film set? Were the shadow people there? The Rockwell aliens just fought the smiling man, I'm told. And his name was Cold. And I can't believe I'm dancing with the fish. Haggardly fish on Thursday nights with AJG. And one more zombie beat all through the night. All I ever wanted was to just hear the truth.

• 37:01Speaker 02

  And one more zombie beat all through the night.

• 37:23Speaker 01

  The Mothman sightings and the solar storms still come To have got the secret city underground. Mysterious number stations, planets circle to Project Stark gave and what the Dark Watchers found. In a simulation, don't you worry though. The Black Knight said a light had told me so. I can't believe I'm dancing with the fish. Head to fish on Thursday nights with DJ G. And one more zombie beat all through the night. All I ever wanted was to just hear the truth.

• 38:07Speaker 01

  So one more zombie beat all through the night. Head to fish on Thursday nights with DJ G. And one more zombie beat all through the night. All I ever wanted was to just hear the truth. So one more zombie beat all through the night.

• 38:46Speaker 01

  Girlie loves to dance on the dance floor. Because she is a camel and camels love to dance. When the feeling is right on wasting time.

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• 39:59Speaker 06

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