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Conspiracyland

S1E10: Episode 6: “Collateral damage”

Conspiracyland

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Medical Ailments, Biden, Conspiracy, Yahoo News, Investigative Journalism, Havana Syndrome, Conspiracyland, Michael Isikoff, Russian Intelligence, News, Vladimr Putin, Cuba, Obama, Trump, Conspiracy Theories

4.41.8K Ratings

🗓️ 6 August 2019

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

Even after the discredited story is retracted, the internet, unwilling to let the story go, takes the case in an entirely new direction, targeting Rich’s brother Aaron as a co-conspirator. The D.C. police explain how the conspiracies are hampering the official investigation into the murder, and author Anna Merlan explains why we are living in a modern golden age for conspiracy theories.

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0:00.0

Berlin, April 30th, 1945.

0:05.0

With the hated Russian troops just blocks away from his Berlin underground bunker,

0:10.0

Adolf Hitler was forced to choose death by his own hand rather than face the consequences

0:14.5

and the humility of utter defeat.

0:18.0

For nearly three quarters of a century, it's been pretty much accepted that Hitler committed

0:22.4

suicide inside his bunker in the final days of

0:25.6

World War II. But five years ago, a strange little book challenged that consensus.

0:31.8

Entitled Hunting Hitler, it argued that while those Russian troops were closing in, the German dictator

0:38.4

was secretly flown by helicopter out of his Berlin bunker to Austria, where he hopped on a plane to Barcelona and then was

0:45.8

whisked by submarine to Argentina, where, thanks to the magic of plastic surgery, he lived out

0:52.0

his days in a mountain-like retreat surrounded by

0:54.8

adoring fellow Nazis. The wild escape, the book claimed, was only possible

1:01.1

due to a conspiracy by high-ranking American intelligence officials,

1:05.3

led by Alan Dulles, who later became the director of the CIA.

1:12.0

Since I was a kid, I have this ability to kind of connect the dots and put things together.

1:17.0

That's Jerome Corsi, the author of the Hitler Escape to Argentina Book.

1:22.0

He's the one-time Washington Bureau Chief for Alex Jones's

1:25.3

Infa Wars and arguably the Dean of 21st century American conspiracy theorists.

1:30.8

He's at first blush and amiable, pleasant sounding man with a PhD in political science from Harvard

1:38.0

who's made a successful career out of connecting dots in peculiar ways.

1:43.3

So I did very extensive research on that.

1:45.1

In fact, I spent a lot of time at the archives

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