It's the early morning of April 21st, 1945, at the tail end of World War II just north of Berlin, Germany.

A transport plane idols at a makeshift airfield, as 20-year-old Wilhelm Arndt hurries to load cargo on board.

Metal chests he's heaving are heavy.

Wilhelm doesn't know exactly what's inside, but it must be important.

They were given to Wilhelm by Adolf Hitler himself.

Wilhelm is Hitler's valet and one of 80 personnel who have just been ordered to evacuate Berlin.

With the Soviets closing in on the city, Hitler aims to establish a new command center in the mountains of southern Germany,

and he wants his most prized possessions move to safety.

A distant boom shakes the earth, but Wilhelm barely flinches.

He's used to the constant air raids by now.

And when the last metal chest is safely stowed away,

Wilhelm climbs into the plane, squeezing into a seat alongside 15 other passengers.

The doors are sealed, and the engine roars to life.

The plane lurches forward, bouncing along the grass runway before finally lifting into the dark sky.

From the air, Wilhelm can see the orange glow of fires stretching for miles in every direction below.

The heart of the Third Reich is being reduced to ash and ruin.

Wilhelm breathes a sigh of relief. They have made it out, and Adolf Hitler's

possessions are safe. The transport plane carrying Wilhelm Art and 15 other passengers will never

reach its destination. It will go down in a forest, a hundred miles south of Berlin, killing almost everyone

on board, including Wilhelm. The metal chests the plane carried will also be lost, and when

Adolf Hitler hears the news, he will exclaim, in that plane, where all my private archives,

it is a catastrophe. But within two weeks of the crash, Hitler will be dead and the

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