Escape Of Adolf Hitler

[Athina Dollison]

Ihave become alarmed at how many people appear to be taking the TV series Hunting Hitler seriously. The show, which started production in 2015 and has been aired on the History Channel, has now seen three seasons, the second of which is currently being shown in the UK. Viewer ratings have apparently been good and advertisers seem pleased, but I suspect serious historians will have major concerns.

In his final Will and Political Testimony, dictated to his young secretary, Traudl Junge, on April 29th, 1945, the day before he committed suicide in the bunker, the Nazi leader made it abundantly clear that he was choosing death rather than allow himself to fall into the hands of the Russians. He had also firmly rejected any pleas from his close associates to leave Berlin.

Unfortunately, the History channel regularly chooses to put ratings above any historical accuracy, and Hunting Hitler is a typical example of this. It is a Hollywood-style version of history; it is seriously flawed in its treatment of evidence and is a classic lesson in how not to conduct objective historical research. This should always be borne in mind if you happen to catch an episode.

Completely agree. The programme dishes up false history via over-dramatic presentation, hyper exaggerrated suspense, and camera angles straight out of a very poor TV detective series. It exploits the interest of the public in anything connected with Hitler by offering an invented version of the past. The programme-makers should be ashamed of themselves. Best wishes,

The so-called historians in these programmes are a bunch of charlatans who would not recognize professional standards or ethics if they fell over them. What this programme illustrates is that in the USA you CAN fool most of the people all of the time. Just look at Trump.

If Bob Baer is an example of the type of people who work for the American intelligence community then we are in real trouble. I find documentaries about the Roswell crash more believable that this silly garbage. Hitler died in his bunker in 1945 and 99.9% of the world knows it.

I did find some of it quite interesting, like the interviews at a monastery where they admitted that Nazis had been given shelter. If you throw the part out about Hitler, I think there were some interesting tidbits thrown in. I found the cemetery in Spain, with the hidden wall of Nazis buried there, fascinating. Interesting stuff but a bit of a let-down.

The escape of some middle & lower ranking nazis to South America has never been doubted, but the absurd clickbait claims about hitler became more far-fetched as the series progressed, or, rather, degenerated.

Unfortunately V Inman Hunting Hitler is complete rubbish. Mixed in with the odd fact just makes it more plausible and helps the History Channel to contribute to the distortion of history. I believe a large proportion of the audience will accept these ludicrous stories as the truth just because it is being shown by a well known and long established TV Channel.

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