Hunting Hitler

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Hunting Hitler is a History Channel television series based on the hypothetical premise that if Adolf Hitler escaped from the Führerbunker in Berlin at the end of World War II, how might he had done so and where might he have gone. The show was conceived due to the declassification of U.S. government documents including mostly anonymous or unsubstantiated claims made to the Federal Bureau of Investigation alleging that Hitler was still alive in the late 1940s. The original idea of the show was to investigate the claims to learn why they were made and whether surviving Nazis--particularly any of Hitler's right-hand men--escaped in a manner consistent with the loosely reported sightings made to the U.S. government. The second season expanded the sources for research to declassified documentation from CIA, MI6, and Argentinian, Russian and German authorities. A third season follows an Asset Mapping strategy to zero in on an escape route.

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Reception

The show has been criticised by Variety Magazine for "capitalizing on the American public's fascination with Hitler to produce a show based on a theory, while providing no evidence to substantiate the theory."

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Investigative team

Bob Baer -- Former CIA Operative
Dr. John Cencich -- Former International War Crimes Investigator, Professor, and Criminologist
Nada Bakos -- Former Terrorist Targeting Officer
Tim Kennedy -- U.S. Army Special Forces
James Holland -- WWII Historian
Mike Simpson -- Airborne Ranger and Special Forces Operator
Gerrard Williams -- Investigative Journalist and Historian
Lenny DePaul -- Former Commander U.S. Marshals

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Series overview

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Episodes

Season 1 (2015)

Season 2 (2016-2017)

In Season Two evidence for further research was expanded beyond the declassified FBI documentation used in the first season to declassified documentation from the CIA, MI6, and Argentinian, Russian and Germany authorities.