The bombshell revelations are made by Bob Baer - who claims he has 'proof' the Nazi leader survived the Second World War - in new TV series Hunting Hitler for The History Channel A veteran CIA agent claims he has proof that Adolf Hitler 'faked his own death and then fled to South America in a submarine via Tenerife'. The Nazi leader is famously meant to have committed suicide alongside his wife Eva Braun in his bunker at the tail end of the Second World War.