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

The Why Files: Operation Podcast

Science, Life Sciences, Fiction, Society & Culture, Documentary, Science Fiction

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🗓️ 20 December 2024

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

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.

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0:29.2	Terms apply. In 2009, scientists tested a fragment of Hitler's skull.
0:46.8	The results showed it belonged to a woman under 40.
0:50.0	The evidence of Hitler's death, evidence we trusted for 60 years, was fake.
0:55.0	In 2022, researchers found a Nazi submarine off Argentina's coast.
1:00.0	It was intentionally hidden.
1:02.0	When asked to investigate, Argentina said no. They're still saying no.
1:06.0	For 32 years, the FBI ran their longest manhunt ever.
1:10.0	They were looking for Adolf Hitler.
1:12.5	But history says Hitler died in his bunker on April 30th, 1945.
1:16.9	Why was the FBI tracking a dead man?
1:19.4	And why was Stalin so convinced Hitler escaped to Argentina?
1:23.5	Well, information is hard to find.
1:25.3	Because someone wanted this buried, and they still do.
1:28.3	Because accepting Hitler escaped means accepting something far worse.
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