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Hunting Hitler -- a question that is bothering me

DerekJohnson
DerekJohnson Administrator, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 70,081 Founders Club
A few weeks ago I finished watching the final season of Hunting Hitler. Nazi colonies in South America that were going strong well into the 1970s (and the communities still exist today numbering tens of thousands of Germans in South America). I feel like Hitler probably did live out his years down there, possibly into the 1960s.

So even within my lifetime, the Fourth Reich was truly a goal that the Nazis were still building toward. They were perpetrating horrific experiments on South American children, even into the 1970s.

But what brought it to a stop? The show never addresses the question. Something stopped that Nazi momentum in the 1970s. What happened?

(Here comes Hondo to credit Jimmy Carter.)
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  • RaceBannon
    RaceBannon Member, Moderator, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 116,018 Founders Club



    I never have thought Hitler survived but if he did I liked the image of him chained up in your basement, Stalin

    Did the show convince you he ended up in SA?
  • Pitchfork51
    Pitchfork51 Member Posts: 27,691
    Hitler is literally everywhere. Go outside Derek
  • DerekJohnson
    DerekJohnson Administrator, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 70,081 Founders Club




    I never have thought Hitler survived but if he did I liked the image of him chained up in your basement, Stalin

    Did the show convince you he ended up in SA?

    Yes, too many of the Nazi higher-ups died in South America. The things they built and organized down there were too involved to be done by just a few random fleeing Nazis. There was maniacal leadership driving what was going on in SA through the 1950s and 1960s.
  • RaceBannon
    RaceBannon Member, Moderator, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 116,018 Founders Club

    You might like this book Derek.

    Spoiler alert, Stalin(!) catches Hitler and keeps him in a little monkey cage below the Kremlin for years.

    That's the book I was thinking of

    I used to read books. Paper things with words and stuff
  • YellowSnow
    YellowSnow Moderator, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 37,850 Founders Club
  • greenblood
    greenblood Member Posts: 14,573
    Hitler either died in a bunker in 1945 or from syphilis soon after escaping. No way he lived into the 1960s.
  • 2001400ex
    2001400ex Member Posts: 29,457

    A few weeks ago I finished watching the final season of Hunting Hitler. Nazi colonies in South America that were going strong well into the 1970s (and the communities still exist today numbering tens of thousands of Germans in South America). I feel like Hitler probably did live out his years down there, possibly into the 1960s.

    So even within my lifetime, the Fourth Reich was truly a goal that the Nazis were still building toward. They were perpetrating horrific experiments on South American children, even into the 1970s.

    But what brought it to a stop? The show never addresses the question. Something stopped that Nazi momentum in the 1970s. What happened?

    (Here comes Hondo to credit Jimmy Carter.)

    I don't have a dog in the fight. But I do appreciate the free pub.
  • DerekJohnson
    DerekJohnson Administrator, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 70,081 Founders Club
    2001400ex said:

    A few weeks ago I finished watching the final season of Hunting Hitler. Nazi colonies in South America that were going strong well into the 1970s (and the communities still exist today numbering tens of thousands of Germans in South America). I feel like Hitler probably did live out his years down there, possibly into the 1960s.

    So even within my lifetime, the Fourth Reich was truly a goal that the Nazis were still building toward. They were perpetrating horrific experiments on South American children, even into the 1970s.

    But what brought it to a stop? The show never addresses the question. Something stopped that Nazi momentum in the 1970s. What happened?

    (Here comes Hondo to credit Jimmy Carter.)

    I don't have a dog in the fight. But I do appreciate the free pub.
    I couldn't resist.