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An FBI cold case that has laid dormant for 70 years, leads a group of world-renown investigators on the ultimate manhunt to finally answer the question: Did Adolf Hitler survive World War II?

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  1. #1 Fan Favorite
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    Hunting Hitler Season 2 Episode 7 - Unmarked Grave
    8.5/10(52 votes)

    #1 - Unmarked Grave

    S2:E7

    With Peron toppled from power, Hitler and Bormann could have been forced to flee Argentina. Following leads from declassified files, Bob and John send their teams into Chile and Paraguay to investigate Hitler’s whereabouts if he were forced to escape.

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  2. Hunting Hitler Season 2 Episode 8 - Nazi Colony
    8.4/10(57 votes)

    #2 - Nazi Colony

    S2:E8

    Bob and John have followed hundreds of international declassified files all the way from Berlin to Chile, where they now investigate a secretive German community with reported Nazi ties. Inside the compound they find clues pointing to the potential forming of a Fourth Reich.

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  3. Hunting Hitler Season 3 Episode 8 - Hitler's Last Will
    8.3/10(50 votes)

    #3 - Hitler's Last Will

    S3:E8

    Tim and Gerrard discover a mysterious militarized Nazi compound deep in the jungle of Paraguay. Mike and Lenny explore a Nazi concentration camp in Chile before an anonymous source leads them to Hitler’s Last Will and Testament.

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  4. Hunting Hitler Season 2 Episode 6 - The Secret Island
    8.2/10(50 votes)

    #4 - The Secret Island

    S2:E6

    Digging deeper into reports about the Fourth Reich, Bob and John send the team to a rumored weapons testing site in Germany, and a mysterious deserted island in Argentina that could have housed nuclear facilities with Nazi ties after the war.

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  5. Hunting Hitler Season 2 Episode 2 - The Compound
    8.0/10(54 votes)

    #5 - The Compound

    S2:E2

    While investigating makeshift runways, the team finds reason to believe Adolf Hitler would have had a stopping point on the way to Spain; Lenny and historian James Holland head to Denmark, where they investigate an airstrip and a bunker system.

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  6. Hunting Hitler Season 2 Episode 3 - Eyewitness Accounts
    8.0/10(51 votes)

    #6 - Eyewitness Accounts

    S2:E3

    A document shows Adolf Hitler and Leon Degrelle may have moved from Denmark to San Sebastian, Spain; the South American team speaks to an eyewitness who claims his father worked for Hitler's right-hand man, Martin Bormann, after the end of the war.

    Director:Unknown
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  7. Hunting Hitler Season 1 Episode 6 - Hitler's Safehouse
    7.9/10(65 votes)

    #7 - Hitler's Safehouse

    S1:E6

    The manhunt for Adolf Hitler finds Lenny DePaul and Gerrard Williams deep in the Canary Islands, where secret tunnels and a massive German compound may have supplied everything from weapons to a medical facility along Hitler’s potential journey to South America. As the investigation pushes further into Argentina, Tim Kennedy infiltrates a German town known for harboring Nazis after the war. When Gerrard uncovers a mysterious, isolated mansion that could have housed Hitler, the team devises a stealth recon mission with high consequences for failure.

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  8. Hunting Hitler Season 2 Episode 1 - The Hunt Continues
    7.9/10(54 votes)

    #8 - The Hunt Continues

    S2:E1

    Bob Baer and John Cencich return with new experts and new technology to examine Adolf Hitler's possible escape from every angle; the team returns to Berlin, where Lenny DePaul and Sascha Keil discover an unknown fifth exit from Hitler's Fuhrerbunker.

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  9. Hunting Hitler Season 2 Episode 4 - The Web
    7.9/10(53 votes)

    #9 - The Web

    S2:E4

    While following leads on a Nazi escape network, the teams in Southern Spain and Northern Argentina both make discoveries of vast tunnel systems in the mountains.

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  10. Hunting Hitler Season 3 Episode 5 - Dead Drops
    7.9/10(40 votes)

    #10 - Dead Drops

    S3:E5

    Mike and James excavate the grounds of a remote Alpine hotel in search of buried Nazi dead drops. In Rome, Lenny and Gerrard make a shocking discovery that implicates some of the world’s most powerful people.

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  11. Hunting Hitler Season 3 Episode 6 - Lurking Beneath the Surface
    7.9/10(37 votes)

    #11 - Lurking Beneath the Surface

    S3:E6

    At a lagoon in Uruguay, Tim and Mike uncover evidence of a long-range seaplane that was shuttling Nazis all around the continent. In Buenos Aires, Tim and Gerrard convince an informant to share a massive cache of explosive documents that could unravel the clandestine global Nazi network known as “Die Spinne.”

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  12. Hunting Hitler Season 2 Episode 5 - The Factory
    7.8/10(49 votes)

    #12 - The Factory

    S2:E5

    Bob and John’s investigation continues in Spain, Morocco and Argentina. The teams look into Hitler’s possible escape route while uncovering a plan for a Nazi 4th Reich.

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  13. Hunting Hitler Season 3 Episode 4 - 150 Feet Below
    7.8/10(35 votes)

    #13 - 150 Feet Below

    S3:E4

    At the bottom of an Arctic fjord in Norway, Tim dives on Nazi relics that may blow the case wide open. Mike and James encounter a smuggler who leads them to Nazi castle on the Italian border.

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  14. Hunting Hitler Season 1 Episode 7 - Friends in High Places
    7.7/10(61 votes)

    #14 - Friends in High Places

    S1:E7

    Following declassified FBI files that link Hitler’s U-boat unloading site to a massive German owned estate in the Southern Andes, the team uncovers the town of Bariloche and the Inalco House, where Hitler could have stayed. After trying to gain access to the property with aerial drones and a secret swim through the water, the team is able to take photos of the mysterious interior as well as finds a vent that could lead to a bunker.

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  15. Hunting Hitler Season 3 Episode 1 - The Final Hunt Begins
    7.7/10(45 votes)

    #15 - The Final Hunt Begins

    S3:E1

    Bob Baer recruits a terrorist targeting officer, Nada Bakos. The team uncovers two planned escape routes for Adolf Hitler. Tim and James discover a vast tunnel system. Lenny and Gerrard investigate a massive compound hiding under the perfect cover.

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  16. Hunting Hitler Season 3 Episode 2 - Clandestine Cache
    7.7/10(37 votes)

    #16 - Clandestine Cache

    S3:E2

    Lenny and Gerrard make a startling discovery in a sabotaged aircraft hangar in northern Germany. Mike and James scan an Austrian lake in search for a large cache of secret Nazi documents.

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  17. Hunting Hitler Season 1 Episode 2 - Secret Nazi Lair
    7.6/10(68 votes)

    #17 - Secret Nazi Lair

    S1:E2

    Tim Kennedy, US Army Special Forces, joins archeologists Philip Kiernan and Daniel Schavelzon to explore a mysterious Nazi complex deep in the jungles of Argentina. The three-building site yields a trove of Nazi artifacts as well as evidence of a structure of unexplained opulence. Lenny DePaul, former US Marshall, begins an investigation in Berlin to determine if Hitler could have faked his death.

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  18. Hunting Hitler Season 1 Episode 3 - Escape From Berlin
    7.6/10(68 votes)

    #18 - Escape From Berlin

    S1:E3

    Bob Baer and Dr. John Cencich expand their investigation as to how Adolf Hitler could have escaped Berlin under siege. One of the world’s foremost death claims investigator Steven Rambam and Nazi profiler and historian Gerrard Williams join Tim Kennedy to investigate a site that the FBI reported that Hitler used to disembark from a U-boat in Argentina. Lenny DePaul uncovers an escape route from Hitler’s bunker in Berlin to nearby Tempelhof Airport, where multiple Nazi airplanes took off under the cover of darkness.

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  19. Hunting Hitler Season 1 Episode 4 - The Tunnel
    7.6/10(66 votes)

    #19 - The Tunnel

    S1:E4

    Bob Baer and Dr. John Cencich continue their investigation into the death of Adolf Hitler by sending teams into three countries: Germany, Spain, and Argentina. Lenny DePaul and Sascha Keil find a never before discovered tunnel leading from Hitler’s bunker directly to Tempelhof Airport where Hitler’s personal plane awaited. Tim Kennedy joins a team of elite marine archeologists to search for a possible German U-Boat off the coast of Argentina. Lenny joins Gerrard Williams to investigate if Hitler could have arrived in Spain and remained hidden with the help of Spanish dictator Francisco Franco.

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  20. Hunting Hitler Season 1 Episode 5 - Ratlines
    7.6/10(61 votes)

    #20 - Ratlines

    S1:E5

    Bob Baer and Dr. John Cencich send Lenny DePaul and Gerrard Williams to Spain, where they investigate a remote monastery that could have been a hiding place for Nazis and uncover an eyewitness that places Hitler living within those very walls. Further investigation leads the team to a mysterious German plane landing and nearby Nazi communication devices deep in Spain. Tim Kennedy prepares to dive for what could be a sunken German U-Boat off the coast of Argentina. Ultimately the team is led to the Canary Islands, where they uncover a possible Enigma machine and tunnels used to supply German U-boats with torpedoes.

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  21. Hunting Hitler Season 1 Episode 8 - Hitler's Plane
    7.6/10(63 votes)

    #21 - Hitler's Plane

    S1:E8

    In the climax of the investigation, the head of the team leads a search of two marshes in the heart of Bogota that are listed in the declassified FBI files as being the location of a submerged plane that transported Hitler to the area. Using historical maps and cutting edge technology the team corroborates information from the FBI file and finds evidence of a suspicious object buried deep in the mud of a marsh matching the description within the files, which could be a plane!

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  22. Hunting Hitler Season 3 Episode 7 - Target: United States
    7.5/10(39 votes)

    #22 - Target: United States

    S3:E7

    On the trail of “The Angel of Death,” Tim and Mike investigate a key Nazi support point in Uruguay. Mike and Lenny review newly declassified Chilean files that reveal a secret plot to attack the United States.

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  23. Hunting Hitler Season 3 Episode 3 - Nuclear Nazi Weapons
    7.3/10(38 votes)

    #23 - Nuclear Nazi Weapons

    S3:E3

    In Norway, Tim and Gerrard explore a hydroelectric plant where the Nazis were dangerously close to producing a nuclear weapon. Mike and James investigate a cabin high in the Austrian Alps where Hitler’s top associate made the ultimate sacrifice.

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  24. Hunting Hitler Season 1 Episode 1 - The Hunt Begins
    7.2/10(84 votes)

    #24 - The Hunt Begins

    S1:E1

    Armed with 700 pages of recently declassified FBI documents, twenty-one year CIA veteran Bob Baer and war crimes investigator Dr. John Cencich begin a worldwide investigation into what happened to Adolf Hitler at the end of WWII. First stop on their hunt is a small town in Argentina with mysterious Nazi ties where an FBI report places Hitler residing three-and-a-half months after he was believed dead.

    Director:Unknown
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  25. Hunting Hitler Season 1 Episode 9 - Inside the Investigation
    0.0/10(0 votes)

    #25 - Inside the Investigation

    S1:E9

    In this special episode of “Hunting Hitler”, Bob Baer and his team look back on their first season. Viewers are given an exclusive behind-the-scenes look, with never before seen footage and new interviews, investigating the possible escape of Adolf Hitler after World War II.

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Best Episodes Summary

"Unmarked Grave" is the best rated episode of "Hunting Hitler". It scored 8.5/10 based on 52 votes. Directed by Unknown and written by Unknown, it aired on 12/27/2016. This episode scored 0.1 points higher than the second highest rated, "Nazi Colony".