The Hitler Itinerary released

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On Monday Gordon Duff [1] was interviewed by Jeff Rense after returning
from a trip in Europe, where he visited Germany. "Every German on the
street when asked about Angela Merkel, the current Bundes Chancellor,
they become very angry, spit on the street and tell that they are gonna
kill that ... " . Strangely enough during the Merkel reign all kind of
Grey books about Adolf Hitler are getting released, like they actually
are preparing for the return of Der Herr Führer himself .... Here's the
latest lavish publication :

A new book portrays Hitler as a normal guy. That's a problem for some.
By Stephanie Kirchner , April 27 at 4:00 AM
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2016/04/27/hitler-in-pajamas-even-the-fuehrer-had-his-humdrum-moments/

Harald Sandner
Hitler - Das Itinerar + CD
Aufenthaltsorte und Reisen von 1889 bis 1945
http://www.berlinstory-verlag.de/vorankuendigungen/titel/258-Hitler_-_Das_Itinerar__CD.html
ISBN 978-3-95723-095-9



2432 Seiten, Abb. 2211
17,0 x 24,0 cm
4 Bände im Schuber plus CD (Text als pdf)
ersch.

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If Hitler's Itinerary has no black holes in time lapses, then a lot of
material from the past will become defunct. In 2006 Greg Hallett
published his book "Hitler was a British Agent" ...

[1] https://soundcloud.com/user-334666357/rense-25042016-hr1-56k-stereo

Read also : The Hitler Bible released

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  "Das Itinerar 1889 bis 1945
   Bis Hitler sich verabschiedet
   Akribisch werden Adolf Hitlers Aufenthaltsorte mit Angaben zu den
  Lokalitäten einzelner Reden und zu Treffen mit Gönnern, Günstlingen und
  Gegnern aufgelistet. Viele Städte und Ortschaften dürften sich nun zu
  Recherchen über verdrängte ,,Führer"-Visiten herausgefordert fühlen.
   02.05.2016, von RAINER BLASIUS
   http://www.faz.net/aktuell/politik/politische-buecher/das-itinerar-1889-bis-1945-bis-hitler-sich-verabschiedet-14198705.html

   
                                                                                                  © Picture-Alliance
   Adolf Hitler und Eva Braun am Obersalzberg

   Wann war Adolf Hitler wo - und wie oft? In welchen Hotels, Häusern,
   Hauptquartieren übernachtete er? Wen traf er? Wie verliefen die
   Reiserouten? Das alles hat der 1960 in Coburg geborene Kaufmann Harald
   Sandner rekonstruiert und in vier Bänden auf 2430 Seiten
   zusammengestellt. Aufgelockert wird das Itinerar durch 2211 Fotos -
   davon 1494 historische und 717 neuere Aufnahmen, die meist heutige
   Ansichten von Gebäuden wiedergeben, in denen sich Hitler einst
   aufhielt. Sandner zitiert auch hin und wieder kurze Hitler-Äußerungen,
   ohne dass hier eine eigene Systematik erkennbar wird. Exkurse über
   ,,Hitlers Reisegewohnheiten", die Umbettungen seines (erst am 5. April
   1970 bei Magdeburg im Fluss Ehle entsorgten) Rest-Leichnams,
   Beschreibungen der von ihm benutzten Kraftwagen (samt Autokennzeichen
   und Orte der Zulassung), Züge, Flugzeuge und des Schiffs ,,Aviso
   Grille", schließlich Statistiken über die Häufigkeit der Aufenthalte in
   ausgewählten Städten sowie über die Opfer des Zweiten Weltkrieges in
   einzelnen Staaten runden ein Mammutwerk ab, das der Autor im Vorwort
   als ,,in dieser Form bisher weltweit einmalig" anpreist.
   
   
   Autor: Rainer Blasius, Redakteur in der Politik, zuständig für
   ,,Politische Bücher".
   
   Hitlers gesamte Lebenszeit gibt Sandner mit 20 450 Tagen an, wovon er
   fast 4000 in München und ungefähr je 2000 Tage in Berlin und Wien
   verbrachte. Genaue Zahlen sind dem vierten Band zu entnehmen, wenn auch
   nicht jede Berechnung nachvollziehbar ist: Vor dem Machtantritt am 30.
   Januar 1933 war Hitler laut Sandner 587 Tage auf dem Obersalzberg bei
   Berchtesgaden, während der Regierungszeit weitere 1044 Tage, also
   insgesamt 1631 Tage. Sandner kommt auf 1639 Tage. Eine Petitesse, die
   zeigt, wie leicht Fehler vorkommen, obwohl sich der Autor einleitend
   über falsche Angaben zu Hitler in Forschungsstudien und
   Fernsehsendungen mokiert. Auch Sandner irrt sich, beispielsweise wenn
   er die Ernennung von Joachim von Ribbentrop zum Reichsaußenminister auf
   den 2. Juni 1935 datiert (richtig ist der 4. Februar 1938) oder Winston
   Churchill im Januar 1940 als britischen Premierminister bezeichnet (was
   der damalige Erste Lord der Admiralität erst am 10. Mai 1940 wurde).
   Seltsam ist der Eintrag zum 1. März 1945: ,,Telefongespräch Herr Sauer";
   hier wird es sich wohl um Karl Saur, Albert Speers Staatssekretär,
   handeln. Und die ständig wiederkehrende Floskel ,,Hitler verabschiedet
   sich" - um die Uhrzeit für den Beginn der Nachtruhe zu fixieren -
   klingt stark nach Kammerdiener-Kalender, wenn es dort wahrscheinlich
   ,,Führer" hieß.
   
   Sandner wartet mit Details auf, die den Leser staunen lassen: Akribisch
   werden Aufenthaltsorte mit Angaben zu den Lokalitäten einzelner Reden
   und zu Treffen mit Gönnern, Günstlingen und Gegnern aufgelistet, zudem
   Friseurtermine, Zahnarztbehandlungen und Theaterbesuche. Viele Städte
   und Ortschaften, die nach 1945 von ihrer Hitler-Begeisterung nichts
   mehr wissen wollten, dürften sich nun zu Recherchen über verdrängte
   ,,Führer"-Visiten herausgefordert fühlen. Ob deshalb jedes von Hitler
   besuchte Wirtshaus - beispielsweise der ,,Salvatorkeller" am Nockherberg
   in München im November 1922 oder das Hotel ,,Schiffmeister" am Königssee
   im Juli 1926 - demnächst im Vorspann der Speisekarte auf den längst
   nicht mehr geschätzten Gast hinweisen muss, sei dahingestellt. Selbst
   das Hotel ,,Elephant" in Weimar wird künftig nicht damit werben, dass
   hier Hitler am liebsten Brotsuppe aß. Stolz ist Sandner darauf, die
   Annahme widerlegen zu können, dass Hitler das ,,Adlon" in Berlin ,,wegen
   des dort herrschenden internationalen Flairs nie betreten" habe: ,,In
   Wirklichkeit ist der ,Führer' zweimal im ,Adlon' gewesen, davon einmal
   als Reichskanzler." Sogar ein Bild bietet er dazu.
   
   Laut Angabe des Verlages sind drei Viertel der Fotos bisher
   unveröffentlicht, das Itinerar werde ,,eindrucksvoll bebildert". Dass so
   die Schokoladen- oder treffender Propagandaseite des Terrorregimes -
   neben Schnappschüssen - in den Vordergrund rückt, wird in Kauf
   genommen. Die von Paul Bruppacher 2008 veröffentlichte Chronik von fast
   1100 Seiten ,,Adolf Hitler und die Geschichte der NSDAP" bot nur Text zu
   viel weniger Daten, jedoch mehr Inhalt. Sandner vermittelt viel
   Atmosphäre, gleich mehrere größere Bilder zum Besuch eines
   Rüstungsbetriebs oder Schießplatzes, immer wieder Paraden, Festakte,
   Empfänge und ,,eine seltene Aufnahme von Hitler mit den Händen in den
   Hosentaschen" bei der Besichtigung eines Lkw. Sandners Verdienst ist
   es, durch enorme Fleißarbeit regionale Anstöße zur Auseinandersetzung
   mit der NS-Geschichte und manche Impulse für die Hitler-Forschung zu
   geben. Register gibt es keine, trotz des hohen Preises der Bände, der
   wohl Ewiggestrige vom Kauf abschrecken soll! Nur wer zusätzlich noch
   weitere hundert Euro ausgibt, erhält eine CD mit Volltext und
   Suchfunktionen.
   
   Harald Sandner: Hitler - Das Itinerar. Aufenthaltsorte und Reisen von
   1889 bis 1945. 4 Bände. Berlin Story Verlag, Berlin 2016. 2430 S.,
   399,- € (plus CD mit Volltext 499,- €).

   Quelle: F.A.Z. [Tuesday 26 April, 2016]. "

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German historian presents 2,500-page itinerary of Hitler's life
Agence France-Presse on Apr 26, 2016 @ 6:45 PM
http://www.globalpost.com/article/6765355/2016/04/26/german-historian-presents-2500-page-itinerary-hitlers-life

"A German amateur historian Tuesday presented a four-volume itinerary of
   Adolf Hitler's life, detailed at times down to the hour, a monumental
   tome based on 25 years of research.
   "Hitler - Das Itinerar" runs to a total of 2,500 pages and is published
   by Berlin Story, which presented it in a World War II-era Berlin bunker
   turned event space.
   Its author, IT manager Harald Sandner, 54, from the southern city of
   Coburg, spent a quarter of a century creating the meticulous account of
   Hitler's travels and deeds.
   Entries range from the mundane, such as nights in certain hotels, to
   historic dates such as when Hitler gave the order to attack Poland,
   starting World War II.
   Among other findings, the book shows that Hitler travelled to Hamburg
   75 times, despite the fact the Nazis hated the northern port city
   because of its "openness to the world," said Sandner.
   Asked about the risk of "fetishisation" of the dictator, Sandner
   responded with a quote from German journalist and historian Sebastian
   Haffner.
   "The best way to fight against the infection of Hitlerism is knowledge
   about Hitler," he said. "The best therapy is Hitler himself."
   The book will be published Thursday -- between the anniversary of
   Hitler's birth on April 20, 1889 in Austria and that of his suicide on
   April 30, 1945 in his Berlin bunker.
   The initial print run of 500 copies hits the market months after the
   first post-WWII publication in Germany of Hitler's "Mein Kampf", which
   was released with historians' critical annotations.
   
   dsa-fz/hmn/pdw
   Copyright 2016 Agence France-Presse "

Basically a German amateur Historian, who spent half his life on
this single project,  throws the lid on the possibility that Hitler
could have escaped from Berlin, by publishing a highly costly and
expensive itinerary which mandates that all dates stop at  April 30,
1945.  Further Itinerary research after this date ist jetzt officiel
verboten, at least not to be received in good standing. How convenient
... What happened ? Did anyone see this Documentary which employed at
least a staff of over 200 men personnel ? :

   
   Hunting Hitler
   Documentary, History, Reality-TV | TV Series (2015– )
   Stars: Dave Hoffman, Bob Baer, Regan Lipinski, Tim Kennedy et.al.
   Release Date: 28 October 2015 (USA)
   Production Co: Karga Seven Pictures
   http://www.imdb.com/title/tt5248878

The Premise which validated this History Channel project was the following :

PDF file https://vault.fbi.gov/adolf-hitler/adolf-hitler-part-01-of-04/at_download/file

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http://worldtruth.tv/fbi-hitler-didnt-die-fled-to-argentina-stunning-admission/
The FBI.gov website reveals the government knew Hitler was alive and well, and living in the Andes Mountains long after World War II had ended.

The world has been told for the last 70 years that on April 30 1945, Adolf Hitler committed suicide in his underground bunker. His body was discovered and identified by the Soviets before being taken back to Russia. Is it possible that the Soviets lied all this time, and that history was rewritten?

With the release of these FBI documents, it certainly seems that the most notorious leader in history escaped Germany and lived a peaceful life in the foothills of the Andes Mountains in South America.

A German amateur historian, is still an amateur and a single person
only, which means that the possibility of investigating and researching
the Itinerary details inside the FBI File on Hitler was simply not
possible. Someone who had just purchased that lavish 2500+ pages Four
Volume Hitler Itinerary Library Tome  could be left with a strange
taste in his mouth: "Did I just contribute over 500 Euro to a single
man's amateur effort which during the cold war could have easily
been dismissed as a white wash project ?" The reviews of the Hunting
Hitler Documentary strangely seem all very negative, like these
Hollywood Hustlers only did it for fake excitement and the money. Even
more strange, the Documentary's website seems destroyed or taken
off-line completely, like they had a very unpleasant visit. The second
season will not be running even if it had already been shot and
produced. In 2016 the Hunters of Hitler have become the Hunted ?


After 'Hunting Hitler,' Tim Kennedy may never return to MMA
By: Ben Fowlkes | November 2, 2015 1:15 pm
http://mmajunkie.com/2015/11/after-hunting-hitler-tim-kennedy-may-never-return-to-mma

Tim Kennedy

  "One thing Tim Kennedy and I have in common is that, prior to The
   History Channel's show investigating the matter, neither of us knew
   that there was even any doubt about what became of Adolf Hitler.
   
   While there might be some debate as to exactly how he died in that
   German bunker in the spring of 1945, I've always thought the fact that
   he didn't live to see 1946 was one of those settled matters of history.
   
   Turns out Kennedy thought the same thing, which is why he wasn't so hot
   on the basic premise of "Hunting Hitler" – an investigative series that
   looks for traces of Hitler and any secret compound he may have
   constructed in the German communities around South America at the end
   of World War II – when the show's producers first explained it to him.
   
   "I was like, wait, Hitler died in 1945," Kennedy told MMAjunkie.
   "Everybody knows this. This is ridiculous, and I don't want to waste my
   time with some stupid conspiracy stuff. But the more involved I got,
   and the more research they sent me, the more questions it raised."
   
   Eventually it raised enough questions that Kennedy agreed to travel to
   South America with a camera crew and a former CIA operative to
   investigate whether Der Führer might have made it all the way across
   the Atlantic to start a new life in Argentina after the Third Reich
   collapsed.
   
   This turned out to be a pretty fun way for Kennedy to spend his days.
   It was also a fairly lucrative one, and in this job, he didn't even
   have to fight anyone for his money.
   
   That's the kind of thing that has Kennedy seriously reconsidering his
   career as a fighter, he said. He's made no secret of his discontent
   with everything from fighter pay to the UFC's exclusive apparel deal
   with Reebok. He hasn't fought since September 2014, and said he
   recently told UFC matchmaker Joe Silva that it would take "something
   significant" to make him consider stepping in the cage again.
   
   "I have so many of these opportunities right now," said Kennedy (18-5
   MMA, 3-1 UFC), a former Strikeforce title challenger who's ranked No. 7
   in the NOS Energy Drink MMA middleweight rankings. "If you want me to
   fight, you've got to give me a guy I can't wait to sink my teeth into.
   Otherwise, it's not worth it. I don't need the money. I make way more
   money doing this stuff, and I don't get brain damage traveling to some
   of the most beautiful places on the planet with a $2
   million-per-episode budget trying to find a war criminal. It's way more
   fun."
   
   

   
   One curious thing about "Hunting Hitler" is that it makes no mention of
   Kennedy's life as an MMA fighter. When he's introduced in the first
   episode, it's as a special forces soldier with experience using
   technology like drones and ground-penetrating radar to find people who
   don't want to be found. If you didn't know better, you'd have no reason
   to believe he also fought for a living.
   
   And if his family had their way, Kennedy said, that part of his life
   would be over for good.
   
   "They see that this is a blossoming career for me," Kennedy said, "and
   they say, 'Please do that from now on. Please don't get hit in the face
   anymore.' And that'd be nice. No more guys not getting off stools or
   guys injecting themselves with whatever. No more drama."
   
   If "Hunting Hitler" turns out to be a success – and it very well might,
   considering the fascination with both Nazis and conspiracies among much
   of The History Channel's core audience – it may prove to be the
   beginning of the end of Kennedy's MMA career. At the moment, he said,
   he puts the chances of him ever fighting again at "about 50-50."
   
   That's not to say he feels like he's done, or even that he ever expects
   to feel that way, he said.
   
   "They talk about the retirement itch," Kennedy said. "I've never
   retired, but I know I'm going to have that itch until I die. ... I train
   two or three times a day, and that kind of scratches the itch. I've
   also been talking about doing some grappling competitions, and that
   scratches it a little bit too. But nothing really does it, like a big
   old stick scratching a bear's back, like getting in there and fighting.
   And they know that. They use that. But I have to have a real reason to
   come back."
   
   For more on the UFC's upcoming schedule, check out the UFC Rumors
   section of the site. "


One Industry That Capitalizes On America's Hitler Fascination
by  John Anderson    November 10, 2015, 12:52 PM EDT
http://fortune.com/2015/11/10/hunting-hitler-america-bush/

The team of experts approaches a tunnel in Berlin in 'Hunting Hitler' premiering on HISTORY Tuesday, November 10 at 10 PM ET/PT 
Courtesy of History Channel

  "Many political candidates, authors and collectors are fascinated with
   Hitler, but there's one industry that stands out.
   
   Perhaps not since World War 11 has the name "Hitler" been in the news
   so much. GOP hopeful Ben Carson, Donald Trump ( "I'm not a fan of
   Hitler") and now Jeb Bush's "hell yeah" on killing baby Hitler have all
   spoke of Hitler on the campaign trail. The market for Nazi memorabilia,
   though banned in several countries and regulated on such sites as eBay,
   seems robust (if not exactly respectable). Amazon lists almost 24,000
   "Adolf Hitler" titles written by everyone from William Shirer to Bill
   O'Reilly.
   
   But it's in show biz that Adolf really shines: "Adolf Hitler" has
   appeared as a dramatic character, or via archival footage, in at least
   three dozen TV and movie productions just between 2014 and '15,
   according to the Internet Movie Data Base. Business has been good
   Hitler-wise. So perhaps its not surprising that two new cable shows —
   including one that debuts tonight, November 10 — pursue Hitler into the
   afterlife, examining the circumstances of his death.
   
    On Nov. 16, the Smithsonian Channel airs an hour-long special, "The
   Day Hitler Died," based on taped interviews with Hitler's inner circle
   and which reportedly offer a blow-by-blow of Hitler's last moments.
   Made in 1948, the tapes were the work of Michael Musmanno, an American
   judge at the Nuremberg trials, who knew the importance of confirming
   that Hitler was really dead, because – as was probably inevitable
   –rumors circulated that Hitler never died in the bunker, and was
   spirited away to South America.
   
    That possibility provides the basis for an eight-part series debuting
   tonight on the History Channel. "Hunting Hitler" is based on recently
   declassified FBI documents from 1947, and will entertain the
   possibility that the German dictator faked his death in the bunker and
   escaped to – where? Back in the '40s, the U.S. government really wanted
   to know. Presumably, loyal History Channel viewers will, too; in the
   early days the network was nicknamed "The Hitler Channel" for all its
   Nazi-oriented content.
   
    "Hitler is definitely a subject we know our viewers are fascinated
   by," said Tim Healy, vice president development and programming for HC
   and an executive producer on "Hunting Hitler."
   
   "We're aware of the nickname," Healy said of the channel's old moniker.
   "But we hadn't done anything in a long while, and the declassified
   documents gave us an opportunity to tell a fresh story." The History
   Channel is a consistent top-20 cable venue, although like many of its
   competitors suffered a summer slump in ratings this year.
   
    The story is being told by Karga 7, the reality-TV production company
   whose eclectic efforts include "Booze Traveler" for the Travel Channel;
   "Jesus Conspiracies" for Discovery and all that "Tornado Week" stuff on
   the Weather Channel. "We were incredibly careful not to get into
   conspiracy theories," said Karga's Sarah Wetherbee, though she noted
   that the recently declassified documents disclose that there was a very
   real concern among U.S. intelligence interests that, lacking a body,
   every possibility be ruled out that Hitler had orchestrated an escape
   from Berlin, and somehow gotten to South America (where, it should be
   noted, colleagues Josef Mengele and Adolf Eichmann had indeed escaped).
   
    The show's hook, other than Hitler himself (who would be 126 years old
   right now) is the use of cutting edge technology to pursue a
   70-year-old case: In the premiere episode, ex-CIA agent and frequent
   cable news commentator Bob Baer employs software that takes the alleged
   "Hitler spotting" reported during the first 100 days following what has
   long been accepted as his date of (April 30, 1945) and apply it to a
   map of the world. As viewers will see, the hot spot is Argentina, and
   the show's first "lead."
   
    No one expects to find Hitler. So why all the "hunting"? "Everyone
   loves a good investigation," said Karga's Wetherbee.
   
    And why are people so in thrall to Hitler?
   
    "It's a really good question, one we've discussed a lot," said
   History's Healy. "It's fascinated how someone so analogous to pure,
   unbridled evil can spark such satisfaction in the viewer. In much the
   same way, people are interested in cults — Jonestown, David Koresh and
   so on. You're dealing with just something so far from normal and so far
   from right, you're fascinated because this person is just so far from
   where we're supposed to be as people. It's sort of the same reason
   people stare at car wrecks."

TV Review: 'Hunting Hitler'
Brian Lowry  Chief TV Critic  @blowryontv 
http://variety.com/2015/tv/reviews/hunting-hitler-review-history-channel-1201632629/

November 5, 2015 | 08:00AM PT

"In politics, there's an unwritten rule that whoever first evokes Hitler
   should lose the argument. The same really ought to apply to television,
   as the channel still known as History – for reasons that remain
   increasingly elusive and hard to justify – trots out "Hunting Hitler,"
   an eight-part series devoted to newly released documents that
   supposedly raise possibilities the Nazi leader escaped Germany, as
   opposed to dying in a bunker. Seriously, guys, what's next,
   "Hitlernado?"
   
   See More: When Hunting Ratings, It's Always Springtime For Hitler
   
   The series is derived from 700 pages of FBI material, declassified in
   2014, indicating that the bureau continued to probe the question of
   whether Adolf Hitler might have actually survived World War II, fleeing
   to Argentina. And obviously, that's a tantalizing line of inquiry,
   having spurred conspiracy theories for decades.
   
   "Hunting Hitler," however, proceeds to trivialize the topic by treating
   it like any other reality show – TNT's "Cold Justice," only with the
   mother of all 70-year-old cold cases, one that incidentally involves a
   perpetrator of mass genocide.
   
   Review: 'The World Wars'
   
   Seeking a patina of respectability, the producers enlist CIA veteran
   Bob Baer, who provided the basis for the movie "Syriana," and still
   seems to be dining out on the fact that George Clooney played him. At
   least Baer sounds relatively sober, insisting he has no agenda except
   to "For once and all, settle this damn thing."
   
   After that, though, "Hunting Hitler" becomes just another silly reality
   show, with a crack team of investigators that almost instantly flits
   off to Argentina, chasing down leads that, in the first hour, add up to
   a whole lot of nothing. In fact, if viewers were to take a shot of
   alcohol every time someone uses a phrase like, "There could have been ...
   " or, "There's a chance that Hitler might have come here ... " or, "If
   there was in fact a bunker ...," they would be plastered by the second or
   third commercial break.
   
   Review: 'Texas Rising'
   
   Desperate to create a sense of suspense, the team keeps talking to
   Argentinians who look at them like they're crazy, while employing
   high-tech gizmos like "ground-penetrating radar" – intended to unearth
   evidence of a secret bunker – that might as well be Monty Python's
   machine that goes "bing." There are also plenty of references to the
   search for Osama bin Laden, which really isn't directly analogous to
   what's transpiring here.
   
   Baer keeps reminding the audience how deadly serious this all is,
   saying at one point, "It's not a movie. This is a real investigation."
   Perhaps so, but it's dressed up in a manner that makes it hard to
   distinguish from any number of series on channels like A&E or
   Investigation Discovery, while cynically trading off Hitler's name,
   which harbors enough interest to potentially make this a ratings
   success. (History notes that the program will air in more than 180
   countries.)
   
   In more pragmatic terms, based on the opener, it's simply hard to
   imagine how the producers can possibly wring another seven hours out of
   this hunt. Because while the teased moments will include a future
   episode that involves diving for evidence of a U-boat that could have
   ferried Nazis out of Germany, "Hunting Hitler" begins taking on water
   long before that.

   TV Review: 'Hunting Hitler'
   (Series; History, Tues. Nov. 10, 10 p.m.)
   Production Produced by Karga Seven Pictures.
   Crew Executive producers, Emre Sahin, Sarah Wetherbee, Kelly McPherson,
   Jason Wolf, Tim Healy. 60 MIN.
   Cast With: Bob Baer, John Cencich "


TV Reviews
'Hunting Hitler,' don't follow this trail
This hokum-filled History series argues for a huge coverup
By Tom Conroy  November 10, 2015
http://www.medialifemagazine.com/hunting-hitler-dont-follow-this-trail/

  "Frequently, if something awful happens in a movie or a TV show, the
   government, even if it isn't to blame for the event, will try to cover
   it up or otherwise lie about it.
   
   Usually, there's no explanation for why the government would do this.
   
   History's new eight-episode documentary series "Finding Hitler," which
   assumes that the U.S. government helped spread the story that Adolph
   Hitler died in 1945, at least provides an explanation of why the
   government would do that.
   
   The head investigator, a former CIA man named Bob Baer, says that if
   people are scared by the truth, they won't be able to sleep at night,
   and if they can't sleep at night, they'll vote you out of office.
   
   With that finally settled, we can judge the case that "Finding Hitler"
   is making, at least in the one episode that was provided for review:
   It's weak.
   
   The episode is also overdramatized and underdramatic. The Hitler
   hunters may eventually find their target, but viewers will find little
   worthy of their time.
   
   In the premiere episode, airing tonight at 10, a team of presumed
   experts assembles. Bob Baer, who is said to be the model for the
   character played by George Clooney in "Syriana," tells the camera the
   reasons to believe Hitler may have escaped the bunker where he
   supposedly shot himself.
   
   This episode mainly concerns itself with 700 pages of FBI documents
   that were declassified in 2014 and that mention supposed sightings of
   Hitler after the war. One document, shown over and over again, reports
   that Hitler might have been sheltered in Argentina in an underground
   bunker that could hold "hundreds of Nazis."
   
   
   
   Working in an office in Los Angles, Baer and a war-crimes investigator
   named John Cencich use "a powerful military program" to scan the
   documents and somehow narrow down where the bunker might be.
   
   "It's now time to put boots on the ground," says Baer.
   
   Three other team members — Tim Kennedy, an Army Special Forces veteran
   who says he has hunted high-profile targets; Gerrard Williams, a
   journalist who has studied Nazis in the Americas; and Steven Rambam, a
   Nazi hunter — go to rural Argentina to investigate.
   
   They drive to a small town that had a significant German population in
   the 20th century and find a local historian whose book contains a photo
   of citizens giving the Nazi salute.
   
   The historian says that he knows of a home nearby with a large basement
   in which weapons, banner and documents were found, but he hesitates to
   give directions. Rambam, who prides himself on his interrogation
   techniques, tells the man that they will keep this confidential. Rambam
   says this while they're on camera.
   
   Kennedy tells us that the possible bunker and the network of potential
   accomplices are similar to things that would have been crucial in Osama
   bin Laden's post-9/11 disappearance. Whether he has any inside
   knowledge of bin Laden is left vague.
   
   The house indeed has a basement, which has concrete walls. As old
   documentary footage plays, the narrator says that innovations in
   underground construction flourished during the Third Reich. So people
   with strong basements might want to check downstairs for hidden Nazis.
   
   The team then goes to a business owned by a man who was a known Nazi
   agent in Argentina. Using ground-penetrating radar, they find evidence
   that something unusual lies beneath the property, but they say they
   don't have permission to dig.
   
   The shaggy-dog action could be funny, but no one on screen is cracking
   a smile.
   
   
   
   The team members are all eager to leap to conclusions, however.
   Whenever the Argentines seem reluctant to talk, the hunters say that
   they're still afraid 70 years after the end of the war.
   
   Most reality shows have little recaps after commercial breaks to bring
   channel flippers up to speed, but the recaps on this show are
   particularly repetitive and long.
   
   One gets the impression that "Hunting Hitler" will continue to spin its
   wheels for the duration. But even if it unearths evidence of Hitler's
   survival, there's no way the government would let that information out."
   

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REVIEW: "HUNTING HITLER"- [Spoiler Alert: They haven't found him]
IN DECEMBER 3, 2015 BY THEPIPELINE 16218 VIEWS 3 COMMENTS
LATEST NEWS MEDIA PSEUDO HISTORY REVIEW
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  "HUNTING HITLER:  Karga Seven Pictures for "History"
   
   You can be sure that if the team behind "Hunting Hitler" had actually
   found the by now 126 year old Fuhrer alive and well in Argentina, or at
   the very least found irrefutable proof that the darkest of twentieth
   century icons had survived his self-inflicted  Götterdämmerung  in
   Berlin and escaped to South America to live happily ever after in an
   Aryan jungle hideaway with Eva Braun and Blondi the dog, the result
   would have been worldwide syndication on mainstream Media channels,
   banner headlines in the World's newspapers and jealous rivals claiming
   the whole thing was faked and a conspiracy.  As it is "Hunting Hitler",
   which is now half way through an eight episode run on the cable and
   satellite TV channel "History", took to the airwaves with all the
   stealth of a type IX ocean going U-boat surfacing off a beach in
   Patagonia at dead of night.  This suggests that, as with many current
   ostensibly historical documentary strands on TV, the latest epic from
   what seems to be the increasingly  satirically named channel  "History"
   is more about delivering style, concept and ratings than any historical
   or factual substance.  In fact "Hunting Hitler" falls securely into the
   genre of pseudo-historical infotainment programmes such as "Ancient
   Aliens", which occupy and cynically exploit, the space left by genuine
   historical uncertainty and debate and debase the concept that TV can
   both inform and entertain.
   
   It is easy to identify the common threads such programming displays. 
   Most examples are shot in one or more exotic locations in HD and
   widescreen.  They also feature casts of "characters" and amateur/fringe
    researchers, rather than people with genuine subject expertise like
   professional historians and archaeologists.  The cast then assembles,
   often with a lot of tech' and gizmos to lend a spurious scientific
   credibility to the enterprise and proceeds to conduct an increasingly
   breathless search for an artefact or a "truth", which "must be told",
   but which has been withheld from "the people"; either by the willfully
   closed minds of mainstream academics, or by a malevolent conspiracy
   orchestrated by powerful entities and Governments.  The narrative then
   manufactures a simulacrum of history based on genuine and often highly
   detailed, but uncontextualized, material which is used to support and
   impart gravitas to acres of pure speculation, wishful thinking and in
   the worst cases, the conscious misrepresentation of the subject in hand
   by the deliberate omission of accepted academically checked and
   referenced scholarship.  With the programme in the can TV producers
   creating this kind of documentary fast food, [not very intellectually
   nutritious and often bad for you], then usually blow one of three main
   types of dog whistle to attract their audience's attention;  Lost
   Treasure, Aliens and, as in this series, Nazi's, with the whole farrago
   often being packaged under the generic title of "conspiracy".
   
   In the case of anything to do with the word "Nazi's [which is used
   interchangeably with the other dog whistle word "Hitler" as it is
   here], the dog whistle works because, as everyone in the magical
   parallel universe of TV land knows, while it is a case of  "Nazi's, I
   [we] hate these guys," [Source:  Dr I Jones];  at the darkest levels of
   human psychology and folk memory, while most of us fear and are
   repulsed by what Hannah Arendt called the Nazi's "banality of evil", at
   the same time we are also fascinated and perhaps some are even secretly
   thrilled by it.  This means that in a media world of fragmented and
   diminishing audiences for the traditional channels, the perceived
   ability of the Nazi's to deliver ratings, whether for ill advised
   amateur jaunts to Latvia to dig up dead Nazi soldiers and their still
   lethal weapons a la "Nazi War Diggers", or bogus manhunts such as we
   see in "Hunting Hitler", transcends any residual fear of accusations of
   bad taste.
   
   In the context of Nazi Conspiracy TV the premise of "History's"  new
   infotainment is simple.  Bob Baer, a former CIA spook and Middle East
   specialist turned author and media pundit, who is alleged to be the
   model for George Clooney's character in the film "Syriana", is
   masterminding the search for the, missing for seventy years, dictator
   out of a swish [but probably rented by the hour] TV set of an office in
   down town Los Angeles.  The Robin to Mr Baer's Batman in the  "Hunting
   Hitler" utterly bats cave, is Dr John Cencich.  Dr Cencich is described
   as a war crimes investigator and is currently senior professor of
   criminal justice at California University of Pennsylvania.  However,
   most of the time he seems to be there simply for Mr Baer to have
   someone to talk to and discuss plot points with.   Mr Baer then strokes
   his white cat [not really, he actually spends most of his time looking
   at a laptop, or projection screen] and tasks his "Assets" on the ground
   to set off in search of clues to the whereabouts of nonagenarian Nazi's
   and the remote sites of their secret Latin American lairs.
   
   The field team Mr Baer ostensibly deploys are an intriguing bunch.

   .   Tim Kennedy, is billed as ex US Special Forces with experience of going
   after "high-profile targets" the implication is the targets included
   Saddam Hussein and Osama Bin Laden.  However, he is actually better
   known to US audiences as a Mixed Martial Arts [MMA] fighter.  That is
   Cage Fighter to you and me.

   .   Gerrard Williams, is a former BBC and Sky News journalist turned author
   with a line in reheated conspiracy theories about Nazi escapology which
   has thus far utterly failed to convince any mainstream historians.

   .   Steven Rambam, is a sometimes controversial Private Investigator, TV
   presenter and freelance Nazi hunter who claims to have investigated
   "nearly 200 Nazi collaborators and war criminals in the USA, Canada,
   Europe and Australia."   In Canada he claimed to have located,
   interviewed and obtained confessions from at least  fifty war criminals
   while posing as a Professor from a factitious university, although only
   one case appears to have come to court.

   .   Retired US Marshal turned professional man hunter and reality TV
   veteran Lenny DePaul completes the line up.
   
   However, what is most intriguing about the casting for "Hunting Hitler"
   is that none of the principles have any published track record in the
   skills and expertise which would seem to be most useful in
   investigating a seventy year old missing Nazi case involving the
   highest levels of Government.   Principally detailed knowledge of the
   range of Nazi period and post war diplomatic and military archives, of
   the organisation and operation of the various branches of the Nazi
   State and its foreign relations, detailed knowledge of the leading
   personalities of Nazi Germany and detailed knowledge of the politics of
   Spain and Argentina during World War Two and the immediate post war
   period. But then again, if they did possess such expertise, or even
   consulted those who did, there would be no programme.  "Hunting Hitler"
   is not about a full assessment of the evidence for the escape of Hitler
   from Berlin in 1945, for and against; or about testing that historical
   case, if necessary to destruction.  It is about the protagonists
   suspending disbelief and undertaking the pretense of a genuine
   investigation, when what we are seeing in reality is a kind of scripted
   adventure designed to establish a counterfactual historical fantasy.
   
   This element of scripting is important because, as we know, even with
   the combined technical and human resources of the entire US
   intelligence community and its allies, it took over ten years of
   painstaking detective work to track down Osama Bin Laden to that
   compound in Abbottobad.  All Mr Baer and his field assets in "Hunting
   Hitler" have in order to hunt down the most infamous [non] fugitive in
   history is a TV budget reputed to be $2 million per episode, some
   laptops running link analysis software [which as any investigator will
   tell you is only as good as the information it searches; if the data is
   hearsay, wishful thinking and garbage so will be the conclusions] and
   some wizzy "Call of Duty" style graphics added in post production. 
   They also have a production schedule to meet so we also know from the
   get go that we are watching a carefully constructed TV artifice, where,
   just like World War Two, we know the ending already.  We know that the
   team won't actually find Hitler, or even proof the dictator ended up
   playing happy Fascist families in Argentina.  In which case the show
   runners must keep the audience engaged by producing regular cliff
   hangers and even injecting some faux jeopardy, such as the crew getting
   told off for some apparently illicit filming in General Franco's former
   seaside villa, as though twenty-first century bad manners was somehow
   evidence of a cover up for Fascist skullduggery seventy years ago.
   
   Essentially then,  "Hunting Hitler" is the bastard offspring of the
   computer game "Call of Duty" [Nazi Zombie level] and "Zero Dark
   Thirty",  Katherine Bigelow's film about the search for Osama Bin
   Laden.   However, rather than having to do their own detective work
   tracking down couriers , locating safe houses and buying potential
   sources high end Italian sports cars, the "Hunting Hitler" team do at
   least have the combined resources of the FBI's declassified reports and
   the published archive of most of the nonsense written on this subject
   since the 1950's.  In fact the bulk of the locations and theories
   investigated are easily available via Google.  For example the idea
   that Hitler was lodged in May 1945 at the Benedictine Abbey of St.
   Julian of Samos in Galicia, Spain, was published in a local newspaper
   El Progreso  in May 2013 and video interviews with an alleged witness
   to the stay, Senor Julio Barreiro Rivas were posted on YouTube.  Not
   that these anti historical antecedents of the material in "Hunting
   Hitler" are ever fully credited.  The same witness Snr Barreiro Rivas
   appears,  unnamed for reasons we can only guess at,  in an online
   interview with Baer and Cencich in episode five of "Hunting Hitler".   
   However, what the interview does not explore are other claims by Snr
   Barreiro Rivas, such as the claim that Hitler also died and is buried
   in Galicia.
   
   Neither do the team discuss the suggestion that the supposedly 
   mysterious landing of a German JU52 transport in a potato field near
   Corneas, also discussed in "Hunting Hitler",  is actually a confused
   folk memory of the actual forced landing of Spanish Air Force C.A.S.A.
   352-L, the Spanish built version of the JU52, which ran out of fuel and
   force landed on a farm at Corneas on 23 July 1950 .  The two events
   seem to coincide even down to type of aircraft and the number of
   passengers, "four or five" soldiers.  Thus for the programme not to
   discuss this possible confusion is at best the product of shoddy
   research and at worst it is dishonest.  However, the availability of
   these archive of ordure is in one way a good thing for the producers
   because, lavish as it is, the production budget probably would not
   extend to buying some Argentinian Neo-Nazi, with the inside track to
   finding Adolf, a new Lamborghini.  One of the methods apparently used
   by the CIA to reward its informants in the Bin Laden hunt.
   
   What we do get for the money are the trappings of an expensive high
   tech investigation.  In a visual cliche, time and locations are shifted
   with shots of computer screens, running what we are told are military
   grade search programmes so that the puppet masters back in California
   can appear to be updated on developments in real time and task the
   search assets on the ground in Germany, Spain and South America to
   direct their search effort to the latest speculative location or
   dubious witness report.  Cut to sweeping aerial shots of SUV's on dirt
   roads and interiors shots of the principles looking serious.  Cut to
   another up-sum to pad out the running time and in case anyone missed
   the supposed significance of any of the "evidence" [or forgot which
   continent we were on] during the Ad' break.
   
   Once we do arrive on location the production goes into pseudo
   undercover documentary mode, with lots hand held shots of the team
   trying to get into dilapidated houses and getting awfully excited by
   "discovering" things [so spontaneously that the director already has
   the reverse angle shot set up].  The team is also regularly interrupted
   by locals who just happen to walk up to our heroes to supply crucial
   leads and introductions.  This begs the question why didn't the team
   just employ researchers rather than hanging about on street corners? 
   That is a really unreliable, not to mention expensive, way of gathering
   evidence when you have a TV crew hanging around, even on an alleged $16
   million budget.  It is also an invitation for people to roll up and
   tell you what they think you want to hear in the hope of a free lunch,
   or even an appearance and their fifteen minutes of fame.  But of 
   course employ local researchers and fixers they did and co-presenting
   "asset" Gerrard Williams is used to this methodology of chatting up the
   locals having  already written about many of the people and places
   shown in the episodes of "Hunting Hitler" in a recent book and having
   turned that book into a film [see below].
   
   While our intrepid investigators are tapping up the locals with leading
   questions of the "When did you see Nazi's and Hitler here?" kind, Mr
   Kennedy, the Special Forces cage fighter is sent off to play with more
   technology, launching his [rather small] drone to make a 3D terrain
   model of a very small section of a very big Argentinian beach.  This is
    supposedly in the hope of turning up the landing site of the Hitler
   party and perhaps a find, such as a dropped Gold Nazi Party badge,
   which will prove beyond reasonable doubt that Mr and Mrs Hitler landed
   at this location from a U-boat, noticed only by a local housewife
   glancing out of her kitchen window.  Except that even the most
   comprehensive modern 3D terrain map could prove no such thing and the
   find of a badge would simply prove beyond reasonable doubt that someone
   lost a gold Nazi Party badge at the location at some point between the
   1930's and now.  Given the quality of the evidence offered by the
   series, most sensible researchers investigating the subject of alleged
   Nazi landings in Argentina would long since have settled for using
   Google Earth and Wikipedia and saved the location budget for something
   more important to the success of the production; the wrap party springs
   to mind; especially as the peer review process for Wikipedia articles
   is more effective than that on display interrogating the witnesses,
   evidence and arguments in "Hunting Hitler".
   
   In fact while watching "Hunting Hitler" thePipeLine could not help but
   be reminded of the frantic energy and preposterous plot lines of that
   other high tech thriller employing puppets, "Team America World
   Police".   You half expect the director to cut to a wistful Adolf in
   his jungle hideaway singing "Lonely, I'm So Lonely" as Mr Baer's team
   of CIA lite operators close in.
     
   Of course one of the selling points for "Hunting Hitler" is that this
   is an international manhunt and from time to time the team shift focus
   from Argentina to Berlin and Spain to see how Hitler "could have"
   escaped the beleaguered city in April 1945.   Could have, but did not. 
   What is entirely lacking in "Hunting Hitler" is the historical context.
      It is a staple of this kind of programming that the viewer never
   hears from anyone with genuine subject expertise who might offer some
   inconvenient truths like facts which might question, let alone
   contradict, the premise of the programme.  Thus the audience is never
   told that by 1945 Hitler was a physical wreck almost certainly
   suffering from advanced Parkinson's disease, and various other real and
   psychosomatic afflictions.  Crucially the audience is also kept in the
   dark about the well evidenced view that psychologically Hitler seems to
   have been determined to bring about his own immolation and that of the
   German people, amid the ruins of the Reich.  A suicidal intention he
   confirmed in his last political testament, typed by his Secretary
   Traudl Junge on 29 April 1945, the day before his suicide, which stated;
   
   "I have decided therefore to remain in Berlin and there of my own free
   will to choose death at the moment when I believe the position of the
   Fuehrer and Chancellor itself can no longer be held."
     
   However, this genuine and well investigated  material does not stop the
   team postulating that Adolf and his entourage then chose to escape
   Berlin in the most complicated way possible, supposedly leaving behind
   a pair of hapless doubles to be murdered in a cover up.  A cover up
   with which every survivor of the bunker colluded for the next sixty
   years, even when put under the toughest of interrogations by the
   experts of the Soviet NKVD.  In fact accounts of life in the Reich
   Chancellery bunker suggest that towards the end, far from planning
   complex "escapes" worthy of a Hollywood thriller, most people trapped
   there were more concerned with discussing the most effective way of
   committing suicide, getting drunk and having sex.
   
   Nonetheless, the thesis of "Hunting Hitler" is that the Hitler party
   did slip out of the Fuhrer Bunker , unnoticed by anyone.  They then
   supposedly traveled several miles through the wrecked U-Bahn to
   Tempelhof airport to board a long range aircraft, crossing thousands of
   miles of airspace completely controlled by the allies to enter Spain. 
   The first leg of this black shirted version of the Great Escape [or
   rather "Escape to Victory", a film which is more historically accurate
   than "Hunting Hitler"]  was allegedly conducted via a hitherto unknown
   secret tunnel, the coordinates and existence of which are revealed by
   some ostentatious tapping on tiles in a Berlin subway and a magic
   hand-held GPS which works underground.  This is a good trick as GPS
   needs line of sight to the satellites the system depends on.  A later
   episode picks up the story in northern Spain and visits the monastery
   at Samos, where features which an archaeologist or architectural
   historian would suggest look very like the foundations, drains or
   sewers of a Spanish monastery dating back centuries are transformed by
   wishful thinking  careful investigation into "secret tunnels", in part
   constructed by an 85 year old "witness" Snr Barreiro Rivas again, down
   which the chronically ill Hitler could have stooped crawled and
   squeezed his way to and from the local Guardia Civil station.  Arriving
   at night, using the front door while wearing a heavy overcoat with the
   collar turned up would have been simpler.  Similarly the "Secret
   Tunnels" on the Canary Islands  turn out to be the well known
   facilities belonging to a Spanish Navy, built by the Dirección de
   Construcciones e Industrias Navales Militares, the construction of
   which continued into the 1950's; while the three antenna in the
   municipalities of Lugo Abadin and Cospeito  built to service the German
   Lorenz blind navigation system in 1940 are also well known and
   published.
   
   Not much chance either that the "secret"  Canary Islands base was
   visited in late April 1945 by U518, the U-boat Williams has claimed had
   been used to convey Hitler to Argentina.  The prospect of such a visit
   becomes even less likely because the most basic research on a standard 
   U-boat website reveals that U518 was almost certainly lost with all
   hands north west of the Azores on 22 April 1945, several days before
   Hitler's alleged "escape", having been depth charged by the US Navy
   destroyer escorts USS Carter and USS Neal A. Scott.  While Williams's
   in his book casts doubt on this sinking, citing a British naval
   officer's memorandum, underwater explosions and surface oil were
   reported.  Indeed, even if the boat survived the depth charging, or was
   not even the boat depth charged on 22 April, Williams must account for
   the fact that neither U518, nor her twenty three year old veteran
   captain Hans-Werner Offermann and her crew of fifty six were ever seen
   again.
   
   Away from the fate of the U-boats of Wolfpack Seewolf, establishing a
   credible chronology is not "Hunting Hitler's" strongest suit either. 
   The Hitler party's alleged exodus from Berlin and transfer to South
   America is supposed to have taken place in April and May 1945 according
   to the "Hunting Hitler" team.  However, the presenters happily cite
   corroboration for an established "Rat Line" processing escaping Nazi's
   through Spain using a document which is clearly shown to be dated after
   January 1948, two and a half years later than Hitler's supposed escape.
    The documents shown on screen also refer to arrangements for one
   fugitive Nazi as allegedly being made during Eva Perón's visit to Spain
   which took place in July 1947.  That HD filming does have its uses then
   as you can freeze frame the scene and establish that the Perón regime's
   attested assistance to escaping Nazi's after World War Two cannot be
   used to suggest that the mechanism for the escape lines was already in
   place in May 1945 while the War was still in progress.  Particularly so
   as Juan Perón only became President of Argentina in June 1946, over a
   year after Hitler is supposed to have arrived in Patagonia.
   
   Adding to the misleading chronology set up by "Hunting Hitler" most
   mainstream historians accept that the so called "Rat Line" to
   Argentina, assisted by the Roman Catholic Church, only began to operate
   formally after a meeting in Rome in March 1946 where Argentine bishops
   Antonio Caggiano and Agustín Barrére  were used as a diplomatic back
   channel to the Vatican passing on the message that "the Government of
   the Argentine Republic was willing to receive French persons, whose
   political attitude during the recent war would expose them, should they
   return to France, to harsh measures and private revenge". 
   Incidentally, "Hunting Hitler" also fails to mention that one of
   Perón's predecessors, President Ramirez, had suspended diplomatic
   relations with the Axis Powers in January 1944 and that in March 1945
   the Argentine Junta had actually declared war on the Axis.
   
   As for exfiltration by submarine from northern Spain in 1945, all the
   known cases of senior Nazi's and other war criminals entering South
   America, including Adolf Eichmann and Josef Mengele, traveled by
   regular commercial means, usually under false identities on Red Cross
   passports and were still arriving by this method as late as 1950.
   
   In the end, with its Los Angeles based puppet master and human and
   electronic assets out in the field "Hunting Hitler" comes across as
   nothing less than a would be macho reboot of "Charlie's Angels" [the
   tacky 70's TV version, not the 21st century Hollywood reboot], but with
   combats, testosterone and big boys toys such as drones and SUV's,
   replacing the guns, big hair and bikinis.  In other words the entire
   series is "Jiggle TV" apparently aimed largely at the predominantly
   male subsection of the TV audience which surfs conspiracy websites
   while sitting in their underpants under a tin foil pyramid.
   
   Worse, this travesty of a pseudo documentary series is not even
   original tosh, just a reheating of the lukewarm pseudo historical
   leftovers which have been congealing on the rim of TV dinner plates
   since the 1950's.  Indeed, such is the cynicism of the exercise that
   the series obscures that fact that "Hunting Hitler" "field asset",
   investigative journalist Gerrard Williams has already had two lower
   profile tilts at the "Hitler escaped to Argentina" windmill, having
   co-written a book on the subject with Simon Dunstan, "Grey Wolf-  the
   Escape of Adolf Hitler" published in 2011 and probably available in a
   remainder bookshop near you [that is where thePipeLine got its copy],
   subsequently directing a film with the same title.  The film was so
   well researched that Hitler, the evangelical vegetarian who allegedly
   suffered from chronic flatulence as a result and who annoyed his
   generals by insisting they ate the same bland mush as he did at Fuhrer
   conferences, is shown apparently eating chicken and is described by
   alleged witness Catalina Comero as enjoying ham and sausage.  Well he
   was German.  Of course the presence of this kind of easily checked red
   flag of an error should have ensured Ms Comero's testimony was placed
   in the file marked "mistaken or mad".  The fact that Williams includes
   it in his film is just another reason to discount the entire rotten
   edifice of this sloppily researched "theory".  It is also worth noting
   that after the publication of "Grey Wolf " in 2011 in Williams was even
   accused by a one time collaborator, Argentinian journalist Abel Basti,
   of plagiarising some of the work in own book "El exilio de Hitler /
   Hitler's Exile: Las pruebas de la fuga del führer a la Argentina"
   published in 2010, although Williams strenuously denied the accusation.
   
   However, while we are on the subject of reheated left over offal, in
   2009 another documentary on this same subject was broadcast in the
   "Mystery Quest" strand.  The title of the episode was "Hitler's Escape"
   and the broadcaster was; "History", the same broadcaster which is now
   showing "Hunting Hitler".  A goldfish probably has a longer memory than
   the "History" commissioners and executives and a goldfish does not
   treat the intelligence of its audience with what often seems close to
   patronising contempt.
   
   
   
   Back in the world of of genuine historical research, the "Finding
   Hitler" team could have referenced the well known story of Yelena
   Rzhevskaya, a military interpreter attached to Russia's 3rd Shock Army
   as it entered Berlin in May 1945.  Ms Rzhevskaya was an operative for
   the infamous SMERSH [Death to Spies] counter intelligence organisation
   and was among the investigation team which entered the Fuhrerbunker to
   investigate Hitler's fate in May 1945 when the ashes in the Reich
   Chancellery garden were barely cold.  As well as capturing many of the
   witnesses to the double suicide and dog murder [Hitler ordered his
   aides to try out his stock of Cyanide pills on his ill fated German
   Shepherd, Blondi]; witnesses such as Hitler's SS telephonist Rochus
   Misch; the Russian team were also able to track down and interrogate
   both the dental assistant, Käthe Heusermann-Reiss, and the dental
   technician, Fritz Echtmann, who had worked for Hitler's dentist, Dr
   Hugo Blaschke.  The two identified distinctive distinctive gold
   bridgework which had been recovered from the bomb crater cremation at
   the Reich Chancellery and this, coupled with a comprehensive suite of
   evidence gathered as close to the actual event as was possible, soon
   convinced the Russian team that Hitler was indeed dead, as was Eva
   Hitler, nee Braun.
   
   The same conclusion was reached by British investigator, the historian
   and then intelligence officer Hugh Trevor-Roper and by US Intelligence
   as well as every serious historian and biographer of Hitler since. 
   However, as the leading military historian Anthony Beevor describes in
   his masterly account of the fall of Berlin [Berlin:  the Downfall 1945,
   Penguin 2007], Rzhevskaya and her colleagues, who possessed the most
   secure chain of evidence on the Fuhrer's fate, were forbidden on
   Stalin's direct orders to discuss their findings with anyone, no matter
   how senior, on pain of death.  An order which extended even to the
   victor of the battle for Berlin, Soviet Marshall Georgy Zhukov.  The
   Russian leader wanted to use the uncertainty about Hitler's demise as a
   stick to beat the western powers, by suggesting that some new devil's
   alliance was being put together to confront a Russia now dominant in
   Eastern Europe.
   
   As Ms Rzhevskaya wrote when her memoir was finally published after the
   collapse of the Soviet Union;
   
   "By the will of fate, I came to play a part in not letting Hitler
   achieve his final goal of disappearing and turning into a myth. Only
   with time did I finally manage to overcome all the obstacles and make
   public this 'secret of the century'.
   
   "I managed to prevent Stalin's dark and murky ambition from taking root
   – his desire to hide from the world that we had found Hitler's corpse."
   
   Unfortunately then for the increasingly threadbare credibility of
   "History" as a channel, some of its commissioning editors seem not yet
   to be in on the seventy year old "secret" that Hitler did actually die
   in Berlin on the afternoon of 30 April 1945.  Either that or the
   Executives and Commissioning Editors at "History" are utterly cynical
   commissioning programme after programme which chase ratings using the
   dog whistle words "Hitler", "Nazi" and "Conspiracy" and treat the name
   of their channel as an exercise in Post Modern irony-  surely not?
   
   They seem equally ignorant of the evidence suggesting that the muddying
   of the waters leading to those reported rumours in the FBI files was
   down to  a combination of Stalin's political strategy to in the early
   hours of the Cold War, coupled with the centuries old truism in
   folklore that when a famous or notorious figure dies in a manner which
   seems mysterious or banal when compared to their fame or infamy, a
   certain portion of the public simply will not allow them to die.   This
   well known and studied psychological effect led people to report dozens
   of "Hitler" rumours to the FBI and other intelligence agencies in the
   years immediately following World War Two.  Doing what they do, as
   former CIA employee Mr Baer should know, those agencies quite properly
   followed up the reports and rumours with greater or less enthusiasm and
   diligence so that the resulting paper trails appeared as the "Hitler
   files" which were indeed maintained after the war.  This is not a
   mystery, let alone the cover up of the fact that Hitler survived the
   war.  It is routine intelligence work.  Anything credible in those
   files relating to an escape by Hitler  would have been either actioned,
   or weeded out to avoid either compromising operations and personnel, or
   embarrassment to the authorities concerned.  There was nothing credible
   about the stories so the files were not actioned, or weeded.  By way of
   analogy, visit the UK National Archive at Kew and you can inspect the
   files kept by the Ministry of Defence on UFO sightings.  The presence
   of which does not mean the that MoD spent most of the Cold War
   preparing for an attack from Mars rather than Moscow.
   
   Thankfully at least one of the "Hunting Hitler" presentation team seems
   to be aware of quite how ridiculous the whole enterprise is.  While
   questioning the Soviet handling of the forensic evidence, in an
   interview with Joseph Napsha of Trib Total Media, Dr John Cencich added
   this thunderous academic  endorsement of the importance of the whole
   multi million dollar "Hunting Hitler" production.
   
   "the results of this project warrant a footnote in the history books"
   
   thePipeLine ventures to suggest the footnote about "Hunting Hitler"
   echoes the noted commentator on military affairs, Captain E
   Blackadder's, conclusions about the European Alliance system and the
   efficacy of pre World War One deterrence
   
   "There was one tiny flaw...It was bollocks"
   
   On the bright side, with "Hunting Hitler" reduced to a mere footnote,
   there is now clearly a gap in the media market to discuss what really
   happened to Hitler.   Here at thePipeLine we have downloaded those
   explosive FBI files which "Hunting Hitler" is in part based upon. 
   After detailed link analysis [OK, we read through them a few times],
   and a bottle of rather nice Rioja in honour of Adolf's alleged visit to
   Franco's Spain and also as tribute to another of Kaga Seven Pictures 
   productions "Booze Traveller", we have prepared a pitch for our own
   Hitler conspiracy series to submit to the History exec's.  Our thesis
   shows beyond reasonable doubt that der Fuhrer was indeed smuggled out
   of Germany by Wild Bill Donovan and OSS operatives as part of Operation
   Paperclip and was resettled in Memphis under an assumed identity. 
   Other witnesses [sadly now dead] go on to suggest that in the 1950's
   Hitler changed his face, name and career direction, going on to have a
   distinguished career in the music industry until, faking his own death
   in 1977, he started a whole new life flipping burgers.  "The Elvis
   Hitler Conspiracy" is coming to your TV or mobile device soon.  Or
   perhaps not.
   
   We understand history, archaeology and the importance of properly
   gathering and testing genuine evidence.  We also respect our audience
   and treat them as sentient human beings.  But above all we won't get
   the commission because we forgot to include any Aliens.

   
   
   3 Comments
   
   Rosie
   
    December 3, 2015 at 23:41
   
   Hunting Hitler- Great work on the pseudohistory channel. I also find
   inaccuracies and story lines that make me squirm and I turn it off.
   
   Roger Clark
   
    December 12, 2015 at 05:58
   
   This is a great review of yet another fraudulent TV series. I'm always
   getting attacked by enraged conspiracy theorists when I dare criticize
   bogus Hitler survival books on Amazon. So it's good to find another
   reviewer who fearlessly exposes the survivalists inadequacies. This
   review will will make the "Hunting Hitler" team choke on their
   cornflakes. And their supporters need to start thinking.
   
   Jess Mee
   
    December 12, 2015 at 16:55
   
   An excellent take down of the whole load of Bravo Sierra. "