ORIGINAL: TulliusDetritus
ORIGINAL: Joe D.
They may not have found Hitler, which was no surprise, but they did find a "rat line" for Nazis escaping Germany. The route stretched from Spain to a clandestine sub supply depot on the Canary Islands.
It all ended in Argentine locals with remote residences resembling safe houses, some of which contained Reich currency, pictures and other Nazi paraphernalia.
I have not seen it, but this is exactly what I thought they would be doing (when you opened this thread). They would amass all the known information (old and perhaps new) about the nazis that managed to escape (South America or Middle East) -the ratlines- and then consider all the scenarios with Herr Hitler as the glamourous escapee.
But right from the beginning, it was obvious this would be mere misleading advertising...
"bait and switch"?
It's hard to resist an alliterative title like "Hunting Hitler". The show also used an old legal ploy of introducing doubt about the time and place of Herr Hitler's demise, which would only have to be successful in a court of law on only one member of the jury for an acquittal.