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It really Jumped the Shark


At first, the show was about whether Hitler might have escaped and how he might have done it. While I find it unlikely that he left Berlin 1945 alive, it nonetheless was good for showing people the methods many Nazis used to escape and just how many different individuals, governments, and organizations collaborated with them.

Now, however, after all the utterly unconvincing evidence of his escape they have "unearthed" so far, they have nonetheless somehow concluded that not only did he escape, he did so with secret nuclear technology and plans to destroy NY in order to establish a 4th Reich. WHAT???

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If any one such moment could be classified as such, I would say that it was when they tried to pass off the photo of Moe Howard as Hitler in Misiones. They went from selective presentation of facts and spinning them to fit their chosen narrative to outright fraud.

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I agree...I just found out on another show about Hitler escaping that the one Historian/Investigator wrote a book that was made into a movie. So he's already been to these places. So basically the show is based on his book. The same spots they've visited in the past season and this are in his book and movie...

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2493402/


https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grey_Wolf_(film)

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2545770/New-book-claims-THIS-picture-proves-Hitler-escaped-Berlin-bunker-died-South-America-1984-aged-95.html

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That book is also a load of feces with multiple errors of historical fact.

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Yeah, at this point even though they are calling it "Hunting Hitler", it's more about how the Nazis escaped from Europe and found several places of refuge in South America. Anything to do with Hitler is ridiculous at this point. A "fourth Reich"? These guys are reaching so badly.

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I agree. I think they went about this the wrong way, I said this in a post about last season. What they should have done is spend the first season trying to see if there was a plausible escape route from the Bunker to South America that provided everything a person in failing health like Hitler would have needed had he decided to try. Pretty much what they did in the first episode of season 1, trying to see if he could have gotten from the Bunker to Templehoff. if he had no plausible route out then it becomes moot. Then this season could have been about trying to find any proof whatsoever if he actually did get out or at least tried to.
Instead it is basically "So you are saying in 1946 a German family owned that house?(key dramatic music and shocked facial expressions.) Why would a family of need a house ? Unless Hitler was there?"

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Most people know that many Nazis escaped after the war, but very few have actually studied the details of how. I think the show really could have done a service to history by exploring those details and a bring a hands on look at the people, places, resources, and methods the Nazis made use of. They shouldn't have made the show about Hitler, but about the whole group of Nazis escaping.

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Exactly. This would have made a good documentary, if not a full series. But Hitler sells, as he always has.

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ofc new york would have been his target, dirty bombs would been more likely than nukes

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If he really wanted to hit somebody, Moscow would have been a likelier first choice. Throughout his life he loudly and clearly expressed his hatred for Stalin, the Soviet Union and Communism. Also, it was the Russians who trashed Berlin and supposedly drove him away. They would have been first on his s**t list.

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Wow,you really don't know history.Hitler expressed dislike/distrust of Russia and communism in Mein Kampf".However,Hitler and Stalin got along rather well personally and were Axis allies through treaty.Stalin was shocked and frozen into inaction for three days after Germany invaded Russia.Stalin admired Hitler and never saw any indication that Hitler would turn on him.Hitler did not express hatred for Stalin until after Operation Barbarossa.Do some reading. As for attacking the U.S. it made more sense since U.S. intervention caused Germany to lose both WWI and WWII.The target of the U.S. was also much closer when attacking from South America.

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one of hitlers main mistakes in world war 2 was invading the the ussr
if he didnt do that they nazis could have possibly won the war,

america was disgraceful during world war 2, "nah we neutral" , get bombed at pearl harbour, then bam they care, forgetting their true ancestors are dying all over europe, because the only americans truly americans are the indigenous people,
everyone else is descended from settlers

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