"Throughout time there have been mysteries mankind cannot explain." "But advances in technology have led to new theories and the search is underway for evidence that may unlock the most baffling questions of our time" "One misteryquest." "30 April, 1945" "BERLIN, GERMANY" "The Third Reich is in trouble." "There is haos on the streets of Berlin." "The Firer has retreated to his underground bunker." "Fearing captured by the advancing Russian army is forced to make a decision." "Death or surrender." "But is the official account of his death... alive?" "HITLER'S ESCAPE" "Germany is doomed." "The Allies are advancing on two fronts." "As the reise for control of Berlin plays out." "At every day..." "Adolf Hitler is out of sight, didn't beneath the streets of the city." "And when Berlin finally falls he is gone." "The fate of one of the most evil man in history had become a baffling mystery." "The details that have slowly emerged over the decades are sketching." "Most believe he shot himself on April 30th, 1945." "Wife Eva Brawn was dead by his side from cyanide poisoning." "Hitler's age hastily burned both bodies, then buried them near the emergency exit to the bunker on the left of this 1947 photo." "But, no one saw Hitler pull the trigger." "No photographs were taken, and nobody was ever produced." "No one actually saw Adolf Hitler shoot himself or Eva Brown commit suicide." "It remains impossible really to prove conclusively that Hitler did shoot himself." "But some facts are beyond dispute." "German officials announced Hitler's death on may 1th." "24 hours later Russian forces captured the bunker, and claimed Hitler's body was nowhere to be found." "Even more mysteriously, dictator Joseph Stalin maintained until his own death, that Hitler had gotten away." "Having escaped to live out his days plotting revenge." "Four years after the war, there were sightings of Hitler from South America to Europe." "US intelligence even created these mock-ups to help agents determine what he might have looked like, that he changed his appearance." "There or reports that Hitler was not only alive, but living somewhere in the british occupation zone in northwestern Germany." "In 1968 the Russians change their account of his death, saying they had evidence to prove, Hitler had died in the bunker." "They claim they uncovered the partially charred corpses of Hitler and Brown in 1945." "What they didn't reveal until decades later, was that they had buried the bodies at a military compound in Magdeburg, Germany." "The bodies remain there for two decades until 1970, when they would dug up again." "It was around april of 1970 that the head of the KGB ordered that the remains of Adolf Hitler and Eva Brown or to be dissin turn and this time the remains destroyed." "The mainstream belief is that the Russians then cremated the remains and scatter the ashes in the Elbe river." "Then in 1993 came another shocking twist to the official Russian account, when they revealed they had physical proof of Hitler's death hidden away in Moscow." "Including a sofa supposedly stained with Hitler's blood." "A portion of his job and even more significantly, a piece of skull with a bullet hole in it." "The Russians have always restricted access to the evidence." "And it has never been tested using modern forensic technology." "Now mystery questioning travel to Russia in an attempt to gain unprecedented access to the remaining physical evidence." "If successful they will attempt to conduct the world's first DNA tests on that evidence." "The results could rewrite history." "They will also go to Germany to interview the last living member of Hitler's inner circle, a guard who was in the bunker during those final hours." "The team will test the historical account of Hitler's death, by using the latest 3d animation to recreate the bunker." "And mystery quest will excavate the sites, where the Russians claim Hitler was buried, to try to find new evidence of his remains." "Russia's secrecy is legendary." "And the evidence they hold has rarely been seen, and never tested." "It is held here deep within the Russian Federation state archive." "Intense negotiations with state officials have resulted in mystery quest being granted one day's access to examine the evidence." "Dr. Nick Bellantoni the Connecticut State Archaeologist will head the mystery quest investigation." "But before he can start Bellantoni hits a roadblock." "The archive is refusing to grant him the agreed to access." "Heated negotiations take place off camera." "Finally, the Russians releate." "But Bellantoni will get just 60 minutes to examine all the documents, and gather samples needed for testing." "We have less than an hour to compile all biological data we need to take back with us, so it's not ideal situation certainly by any means, but we'll get something." "The accepted version of Hitler's death comes mainly from a 1945 report from the British Army." "It was the result of a brief investigation by major Hugh Trevor-Roper." "On november 1, 1945 he provided conclusions of his investigation which was that Eva Brown had taken poison and that Hitler had shot himself." "But Trevor-Roper was given little cooperation." "I relied mainly on eyewitness accounts." "The Soviets controlled access to the bunker" "Trevor over was not able to conduct any kind of serious extensive investigation." "ROCHUS MISCH Hitler's bodyguard" "Only one of the eyewitnesses to Hitler's last days is still alive." "Rochus Mish was in the Firers bunker on April 30th, 1945." "Now 92, Misch was just 27, when he was a member of Hitler's elite bodyguard unit." "He remembers Hitler's last instructions." "He said the war is lost and nobody is obliged to anything." "Everybody is free to go." "Only those have to remain who are needed." "That was us, the ones who had to execute their duties until the end." "Hitler was paranoid about being captured by the Russians." "He began methodically planning his own death." "Hitler had asked his doctor, "I will kill myself..."" ""what's the best way?"" "So professor hase explained to him capsule and shooting up at the same time" "that would be best." "Misch says he did not hear the shot but others did." "I was standing in the hallway and somebody shouted, the person that heard the shot." "I didn't." "He claims he saw the lifeless bodies of Hitler and his wife Eva Braun." "Of course i was curious." "I took a step forward to look inside." "I will never forget this." "Hitler by the table his head on the table." "And Ava lay on the couch, her head towards." "But Misch has changed his story over the years." "He claimed in past interviews he did hear the shot that killed Hitler." "So how reliable is his testimony and that of other eyewitnesses." "H. D. BAUMAN Author" "This man doesn't believe the eyewitnesses." "First of all nobody found the corpse of either Hitler or Eva Brown." "All the testimony of the key man is a very contradictory." "Author HD Bauman spent six years researching his recent book about Hitler's fate." "Stalin told the Allied leaders at Potsdam in july 1945 that Hitler escaped to Spain or Argentina." "He's convinced Hitler got away." "I don't believe Hitler died in the bunker." "Now the evidence in Moscow could help prove it." "This is actually an extraordinary opportunity." "Mystery quest has journey to Germany and Russia to search for clues about the mysterious death of Adolf Hitler." "The alleged site of his death the Firer's bunker was designed as a temporary shelter." "But by April 21th 1945, Russian shelling was so bad that Hitler was forced to stay below ground at all times." "Few were allowed on the lower level." "The Firer's private rooms." "Hitler's bodyguard Rochus Misch was often station their own protection detail." "Nobody was allowed inside the bunker just Hitler and us." "Those were his living quarters." "Hitler was defiant to the end." "But old age he feared being captured." "The Soviets were preparing to close in on the very center of Berlin." "It would be impossible to hold out much longer." "On April 29th, Hitler married his longtime companion" "Eva Brown." "The next day the Firer met with remaining friends and staff." "Outside is study to say goodbye." "Then Hitler and Eva close themselves into the room." "Mish remained at his post." "He says someone yelled, they heard a shot." "But no one moved." "A lot of time passed until somebody said." "Now open the door." "He saz he saw both Hitler and Ava dead." "Minutes later he saw the Fury's body wrapped in a blanket being carried down the hall outside to the Chancellery garden." "He pass me and I could still see the shoes they weren't covered." "The Firer had ordered his aides to burn his and Ava's bodies." "He had secretly fear that the Russians would display his dead body." "He learned about what happened to Bennitto Mousseline... that Mussolini had been executed and that his body and the body of Mussolini's mistress had been strung up the outside a gas station blonde." "Unable to fully burn the corpses, aids allegedly buried them on the bunker grounds." "A short time later the Russians found a corpse there they believe with Hitler's, and took this photo." "Hitler was like a lot of political leaders, he... occasionally made use of a double or a doppelganger." "And many think one may have taken his place." "Author HD Baumann claims Hitler's practice of using the double increased after July 20th, 1944," "when an attempt to kill him was staged by opponents in the German army." "Called Operation Valkyrie, it was unsuccessful." "But 200 people connected to the attempted cool executed as a result." "The attempt scared aides who forced Hitler to keep the lower public profile." "He was kept an ID most of the time." "The double also added to the confusion surrounding Hitler's death." "The double got killed by the German security service april 30th." "Gretchen's discovered this corpse in a shallow grave on may 2th and for the first two days Russion believed it and they displayed it and they called the end of the highest potential II and it took photographs and so on," "but then found out that he was two inches too short it is a little different." "According to Bobbin, Stalin was now more certain than ever, that Hitler had escaped." "Some believe Hitler may have fled even earlier." "Nazi pilot Hana Reich is known to have flown out of Berlin on april 29th, after meeting with Hitler" "Some think the Firer was aboard the two-seater plane." "Reich evaded heavy allied fire and escaped." "She denied until her death that Hitler was with her." "Baumann believes Hitler then travelled by U2 to Argentina" "And Baumann isn't alone." "The FBI did investigate the many rumors that came out of Argentina but not much came out of it." "The FBI officially closed the case on Hitler's death in 1956." "11 years after the war ended." "But due to the contradictory nature of the Russian accounts, the speculation about what really happened to Hitler has persisted." "The Firer's bunker was located directly beneath the Reich Chancellery." "Which was Nazi Germany's Capitol building." "It was divided into two levels an office level which also housed inner staff and a lower level where Hitler's living quarters were." "The bunker itself is God" "It was destroyed in 1947 and paved over in the 50's." "This is what it looks like today." "CHRISTOPH NEUBAUER Animaror" "The expedition team led by animator Christoph Neibauer, is trying to verify the accounts of Hitler's death given by his bodyguard Rochus Misch." "To do this, he is creating an animated reconstruction of the Furer bunker." "Neubauer is using only architectural plans and photographs, as sources in building the model." "The most difficult part of course the research to find rolly reliable information, which is not a business account." "He starts at the site of the bunker." "Yeah, exactly on the spot." "Seven meters underground would have been the place where it would be suicide." "And they had to move them into the gardner." "From here they have the problem there was a lot of shooting so they had to find a quick spot to barn and so they moved more or less four meters further into a ditch so here they dropped empty and here the Bantam and it's also the place where the" "Russions find them several days later." "Dr. Nick Bellantoni has just an hour to examine the Hitler evidence in the Russian archive." "He begins by examining a stack of documents known as the Operation Myth files." "Operation myth was launched by Russian dictator Joseph Stalin in december 1945 to investigate the circumstances surrounding Hitler's death." "He named it Myth, because he suspected Hitler's death was a myth, and that he had in fact escaped." "But the clock is ticking and Bellantoni is forced to move on." "He moved to a fragment of the sofa where Hitler reportedly died." "Bellantoni begins by using cotton swabs to moisten old dried blood, so that he can lift aviable DNA sample to test." "He take samples from five different parts of the sofa, putting each into a separate envelope so there's no cross-contamination." "Next he examines the skull." "The bullet wound is clear." "It looks like hexagon." "We do the back of the cradle form right about in here." "The skull does show evidence of exposure to fire." "Using the special chart to look at bone color and cracking" "Bellantoni determines that the skull was not burned for long." "There is some burning going on here not a cremation but a butter burning nonetheless." "With time running out to record the evidence," "Bellantoni takes photographs and make sketches." "He also gathers the physical sample for testing." "Because of the way this is being stored in bone is flaking off." "The fragments will allow mystery quest to perform the world's first DNA analysis of the skull." "What we'll do at this point now is to take all of the photographic evidence we have the samples we have taken along with the information of the Ukrainian that we have and will bring this all back to the United States" "and do some laboratory analysis to see what the contract here that might help us with this mystery." "Mystery quest is searching Europe for answers about the mysterious death of Adolf Hitler." "Christophe Noibauer is leading the expedition in Berlin." "He does not believe the eyewitness accounts of Ruchus Mish and others are true." "He's gathering evidence to test their stories below ground." "During the war the Germans built a massive network of bunkers and tunnels under Berlin." "Some are still accessible today, virtually unchanged." "Noibauer meets underground expert Sasha Kyle." "Structural details like cartilage wall thickness and acoustics, will allow him to create the most realistic model." "Their first stop should provide information about the materials and construction of walls." "It gives me actually indication Adolf Hitler's body put.... structure." "In one room they discover a large generator." "This is an original line." " Yeah." "Completely." "100 % is still in function after so many decades is the last one remaining from these engines." "The same model generated power for the Firer bunker." "Remember seller and this is a emergency shaft going from the seller to the roof," "and you can climb up totally to the roof." " Ok." "There's actually very interesting because the Russian reports say that we had exactly such an emergency exit in Firer's bunker, and there you could actually come into the garden." "The emergency hatch shows how Hitler could have escaped from his study." "Dr. Nick Bellantoni is also now in Germany." "He's traveled here from Moscow, hoping to examine the site where Hitler is thought to have been buried." "In 1946 a Russian covert unit called SMERSH is said to have moved Hitler's corpse, and our southwest from Berlin... to a military base in Magdeburg." "SMERSH which in English means death to spies, was founded during the war to keep the Red Army free of traitors deserters and spies." "But after the war, Stalin used SMERSH to find out what had happened to Adolf Hitler." "The account of their investigation is part of the Operation Myth files" "Bellantoni was able to examine in Moscow." "SMERSH allegedly found Hitler's charred corpse and bunker on May 4th, 1945." "Then buried it in Magdeburg." "Where remained undisturbed until 1970, when the Russians decided to destroy it, once and for all." "This renovated residents that we're standing in front of was actually officers quarters for the Russian army in the late 1940s and it was here where Adolf Hitler was buried until 1970, so we're hoping to take a look at the land" "and sea the area where the former court they are used to be and see if we can find any physical evidence of where the barriers might have been located." "Bellantoni is led to the area where the bodies are believed to have been buried." "As you can see the land has been overgrown the land use much of the thought that's happened here the root systems and the hard earth we're really not going to our investigation will not yield much information here." "Russian records show that Hitler's body was taken 10 miles from Magdeburg, and then cremated in front of the morgue." "Bellantoni hopes to find cremated bone fragments to corroborate at the skull in Moscow is real." "But the location is not marked, and the only Clues an article from a local archive containing a photo of the place." "We're just coming from the archive and they led us to this general area of the Soviet camp." "Unfortunately the only have one article that was of use to us but what is important here is that articles photograph is helpful and hopefully defining out where on this property the Crematory was located." "We're going to have to use this photograph like a detective would." "I could see a tower is a field in a grove of trees." "The tower and feel really come into perspective now." "The legs on the tower are too wide apart." "From this perspective compared to what's in the photograph so we still got to go further but clearly where we're on the right trail." "Look at this slap customers lab over here" "This is it." "This is it." "This is the morge." "According to the eyewitness account," "Adolf Hitler's final cremation was out here in the front of the morge, probably about where i'm standing." "Bellantoni begins digging the test pit 10 feet from where the front of the building used to be." "He's looking for bone fragments to compare against the skull fragments from Russia." "We're not seeing much for artifacts at this point." "No bone is found." "But samples from the different layers of the pit or taken for chemical analysis." "Bellantoni has gathered the evidence necessary to test the Russian account of Hitler's death." "Our studies have been basically exploratory but clearly this has the potential of yielding more information." "Mystery quest is investigating what happened to Adolf Hitler at the end of WWII." "For decades speculation has raged at Hitler escaped Germany, and lived out his days plotting revenge." "The Russians who claim they discovered his body," "Now mystery quest has been given access to the physical evidence, the Russians say proves Hitler did die in his bunker." "Dr. Nick Bellantoni is back in the US to test the blood, skull, and soil samples collected from Europe." "The science team begins by looking for traces of Hitler's bones from his reported burial site in Germany." "I have a couple of samples from Germany for you that might be what we're looking for." "But the soil does not reveal any traces of human remains that can be compared against the skull fragments to confirm they are Hitler's." "Bellantoni next performs of forensic examination of the high-resolution images he took of the skull." "He's noticed something." "Upon our return from Russia one of the things we want to do is take a look at our photographs, and we have blow them up and really see if we really get some good detail on top of the forensic information we achieve their." "Two things that are pretty striking here and actually problematic." "One thing we had noticed in Russia and really are highlighted here in these photographs are the sutures are very open." "And what the sutures are if I can use this model are basically where the various skull plates come together and you get this little jigsaw line with the bones come together on it really what happens basically as you get older, they start of liberating." "We know Hitler died at 56 years of age, and really quite open for someone of that age bracket." "These look very young like a more, more someone that's 20 to 40 years old." "And there's something even more shocking about this piece of skull." "The other thing that we noted also in Russia and see here very much in these photographs is the thickness of the wall plate." "Is by the small and as a result it's something we would not expect from an adult male." "Usually males and more robust." "This is the police bonus this week but it is thought of as a woman to be honest with you." "This could mean that the skull the Russians have held for decades isn't Hitler's at all." "The DNA tests on the skull fragments and sofa should prove more definitively whether the skull is Hitler's." "Those tests are being conducted at the University of Connecticut center for applied genetics." "Director Linda Strausbauch, will oversee the attempt to extract DNA from the samples." "It will be difficult, due to the age and condition of the samples." "Dr. Linda Strausbauch, molecular biologist The fragments are badly charred and this is the forensic scientist, or historic DNA scientists worst nightmare." "It's one of the biggest challenges for getting DNA from burnt pieces of bone." "The pieces are very small and we just aren't certain how much like we're going to have and cook some DNA out of these samples." "We'll be taking extreme caution with these samples, will be using full forensic procedures to avoid contamination." "They begin by soaking the samples overnight in a special chemical solution." "If the process is successful, the science team will be one step closer to determining whether the skull, and so fragments really contain Hitler's DNA." "The next morning the team removes the samples from the roller, and the bone fragments are ground into a fine powder." "For the bone fragments we actually powder the bone to make it easier for the solution to get in and lift the DNA out." "To their surprise the team succeeds in identifying viable DNA in both the skull and sofa samples." "Wow, we got something." "Like that you got something." " The bone fragments." "I'm really surprised at that and the swap guns." "They will now isolate and replicate the DNA through a process called molecular copying." "This will give the scientists more material to look at." "The analysis will potentially call into question all conventional beliefs about Hitler's death." "Looking at the bouns, I thought there was a possibility but I never really imagined the decision and it really would come out this way." "Wow." "Mystery quest is undertaken an expedition to Eastern Europe." "To try to determine where the Adolf Hitler died in 1945, or somehow escaped." "This man a former Nazi bodyguard insists he saw Hitler and Eva Braun dead in a Berlin bunker." "This author believes Hitler faked his death and escaped to Argentina." "The scientist is testing the only known physical evidence of Hitler's body." "In Berlin, Christophe Neubauer is unveiling his animated reconstruction of the bunker." "He is using it to test the accuracy of eyewitness Rochus Misch." "This is the garden of the Reich Chancellery under which the bunker was located" "The upper level is where most of the staff was positioned." "Hitler lived one level down." "This is the door to his private quarters." "Neubauer doubt the claim of Misch, that he saw or heard Hitler die." "It appears that in the main bunker, that the engine was right next to Mischas room." "They had the submarine diesel engine running which is wery laud." "We have proof that you could not heard this engine running outside the loops so there that gives us an indication how protective actually such was but there's." "There is no way he could have heard anything." "I neither could anyone in the upper bunker, where most of the other eyewitnesses were." "A banca was almost 4 meters apart and also two meters higher than actually have less man." "No way that anybody could have heard anything up there." "Nobody." "The accepted historical report of Hitler's death appears based on unreliable eyewitness evidence." "Now the analysis of the science team will be vital in determining, whether the rest of the Russian account is true." "Dr. Nick Bellantoni doesn't think the skull the Russians say his Hitler's, is really his." "He says the areas where the skull plates come together indicate the skull belongs to someone much younger than Hitler would have been at the time of his death." "And may even belong to a female." "The team was able to extract something called allosomal DNA from the skull and blood evidence." "This reveals a person's gender." "In females there are two sex chromosomes of the X variety a male has one X and one Y, as his sex chromosomes." "The redboxes tell us what the computer says their." "First the team looks at the DNA results from blood on the sofa." "The blood sample contains predominantly male DNA." "So the blood on the sofa came from a male." "But, wheter she actually belongs to Hitler, can't be approved without a DNA sample from a relative." "While Hitler has living relatives in the U.S." "they did not respond to inquiries from mystery quest." "The team turns to the DNA results from the skull" "So that sample which came from the skull, has only a female signature in it, and so we think that's come from a woman." "So you see the bone fragment came..." " bone fragment... - woman, female." "... from the skull of a female." "Wow!" "And you're absolutely positive about this?" "As sure as we can be." " Ha, ha, ha." "Wow!" "History questions uncovered groundbreaking new evidence that calls into question the historical account of the death of Adolf Hitler." "The expedition team using 3d animation prove that the eyewitness accounts historian shoes are unreliable, and probably wrong." "The science team gained access to the skull" "Russia has long claimed as definitive proof" "Hitler did die in his bunker and discovered this in fact a woman's." "This is very exciting" " Thanks." "These astonishing facts we hope in a full new chapter in history." "Leaving us with an even larger mystery." "We're going to change everybody's perception of not only these remains but what may be happening software and others in that bunker." "If this is not Hitler who is it?" "And as a result of that with, a lot more homework to go." "Subtitled by: suadnovic"