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| “ | I never ordered the killing of any Jew. And no document or paper will tell you otherwise. You Americans killed your Native Americans, enslaved Africans. You Brits, you put the Boers into concentration camps. And you Soviets killed millions of people. And you sit there... to judge me? | „ |
| ~ Hitler testifying in his own defense. |
Adolf Hitler is the overarching antagonist of the Amazon Prime adult TV series Hunters, serving as the overarching antagonist in Season 1 and the main antagonist of Season 2. He is the former Führer of Nazi Germany, who escaped Germany with Eva Braun to South America, and the man overseeing the Fourth Reich, a succession to the Third Reich meant to rise up once more.
He was portrayed by Udo Kier, who also played Yuri in Command & Conquer: Red Alert 2, Lorenzini in The Adventures of Pinocchio, Gitano Dragonetti in Blade, Zanrelot in Vier gegen Z (4xZ), Peter Straub in Call of Duty: WWII and Professor Pericles in Scooby-Doo! Mystery Incorporated.
Biography[]
Escape from Germany[]
Hitler has the same history as his real life counterpart, up until the final days of the Second World War. Hitler attempted suicide to avoid capture, but his wife Eva Braun talked him down with a speech about how they would escape and keep fighting until victory. The two escaped the bunker and were smuggled via a ratline run by Klaus Rhinehart into Argentina, where they plotted to rebuild the German Reich in America, with the help of thousands (or perhaps even millions) of escaped Nazi war criminals, most of whom were in the United States, taken from Germany by the US government via Operation Paperclip. They dubbed this projected empire as the Fourth Reich. Likely due to the deteriorating well-being of the Führer, Eva Braun took a more active role as the leader of this organization, taking on the moniker The Colonel, though Hitler, dubbed The General, he is still her superior as he allows her to take part of the organisation in America.
Season 1[]
Hitler remains in Argentina throughout most of the series and is only mentioned by name. Biff Simpson, while conversing with The Colonel, refers to him as The General, stating he wants a meeting with him rather than speaking through her, which The Colonel scoffs at.
Hitler would not be seen until the season finale, when Joe Mizushima, a member of the Hunters, is kidnapped on The Colonel's orders and brought to Argentina. She sits him down at a dinner table, along with four identical Aryan children, and calls Adolf to the table as well. He exclaims his hunger to his wife as Joe looks at the elderly Führer in disbelief.
Season 2[]
Over the two-year timeskip, Hitler had Joe tortured and brainwashed to serve him as a soldier. Joe's flashbacks show that Hitler personally supervised his torture, possibly even taking part in the process himself.
Later, he has a conversation with the Colonel, in which she disrespects him and makes a remark on how old he has become, prompting him to strike her across the face in a rage. During this conversation, he reveals that he plans to acquire a nuclear weapon with which to destroy an American city, and mentions that he funded the Colonel's Solution plot in the United States.
When his courier, the Crow, is killed by the Hunters, Hitler realizes that he is being hunted. He dispatches Joe, Travis Leich, and a team of other Nazis to kill the Hunters, ordering Joe to bring him their scalps. This attack killed George, left Roxy severely injured, and led to Travis kidnapping Clara to lure in Jonah.
When Joe breaks free of his brainwashing, he leads the Hunters to Hitler's compound. When Hitler receives word of intruders, his guards escort him to his bunker. As he is about to enter, Jonah and Chava engage his guards in a hail of gunfire, briefly forcing him to take cover before he can enter the bunker. Unable to fight past the guards, Chava sacrifices herself to give Jonah a chance to slip into the bunker after Hitler. Jonah corners Hitler in the bunker, prompting Hitler to attempt to shoot himself, but Jonah stops him. Jonah then ties Hitler's hands and takes him away with the intent of forcing him to stand trial for his crimes.
Jonah walks Hitler to a rendezvous he had arranged with Zev. Along the way, Hitler repeatedly threatens Jonah, claiming that his forces would kill Jonah and rescue him. At the rendezvous point, Zev stuffs Hitler into the hold of his boat before Zev and Jonah sail away to smuggle him out of Argentina.
Melanie Morris presents Hitler to the American embassy in Uruguay, where his identity is verified through fingerprint and dental records. Adolf Hitler's survival and arrest makes worldwide news. At some point during the next two months, Hitler was extradited to West Germany, where he would stand trial in Munich before an international tribunal of five judges.
Hitler is charged with crimes against peace, crimes against humanity, war crimes, and conspiracy to commit murder, all relating to his conduct as ruler of Germany before and during World War II. Hitler denies the charges and consistently shows a total lack of empathy or remorse during the trial. When Hitler takes the stand, the prosecutor attacks his ego and legacy, baiting him into admitting that he had ordered the Holocaust. Hitler is convicted of all charges and sentenced to life imprisonment without the possibility of parole.
When his trial is finished, he takes a pill to fake a heart attack as part of an escape plan engineered by the Colonel and Travis. An ambulance comes to take him to the hospital but is hijacked by its driver, a Fourth Reich agent, who kills the other ambulance staff and revives Hitler. When Hitler meets Eva and Travis at their safehouse, Eva tells Hitler that she intends to kill him, then fake his escape so that she can use his name to run the Reich in his stead. When she orders Travis to kill Hitler, Travis kills her instead, then demands that Hitler make him the heir to the Nazi movement. Hitler, with no other choice, accepts. Hitler and Travis head to the rooftop to be picked up by Travis' men in a helicopter, but they are shot at by a pursuing Jonah. Hitler takes cover while Travis heads off to deal with Jonah. When Travis is driven off by Joe and German police, Hitler is found and re-arrested by the police.
Hitler is last seen in solitary confinement in a German prison. When a guard delivers his food, he refers to Hitler only by his prisoner number. Hitler, outraged, screams "Don't you know who I am?!" over and over in impotent rage.
Personality[]
Hitler is aptly described as "the ultimate evil." He is a grandiose narcissist, obsessed with his own glory and imagined superiority. He lacks empathy, remorse, or any sort of genuine unselfish feeling for anyone else. He is proud of the genocide and mass murder he committed, and he remains every bit as racist and hateful as he ever was, continuing to plot and fantasize about killing Jews and other races he believes to be inferior.
Hitler's narcissistic egomania proves his undoing. His plans have grown unrealistic and fanciful, frustrating the Colonel, and his unwillingness to let go of leadership in his old age spur her to plot against him. He is also unwilling to disavow his crimes, which he views as accomplishments, and because of this is easily baited into admitting his atrocities in court.
Trivia[]
- Hitler's line, "I've been so hungry, Eva", mirrors what Biff Simpson said in the series' pilot to one of his surviving victims: "And what a hungry boy I've been. What hungry boys and girls we've all been."
- Neo-Nazi Travis Leich boasts that he is taller than Hitler (Hitler is 5'9", Travis is 5'9½")
- Considering that people also usually get shorter with age it's actually likely he is even taller than Hitler than he thought, as it's likely that he doesn't know Hitler is alive.
- Hitler's alias "The General" implies that he commands The Colonel, due to a general officer in the military having seniority over a colonel.
- Given the timeline of the series, Hitler would be 88 years old during the events of season 1 and 90 years old during season 2.
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