Approaching 59 years old, with the bright white light starting to appear on the distant horizon, I don't have time for the "after the break" preview that runs before the advertising and then the "before the break" review segment when the show resumed after the adverts. Not to mention the "previously on Hunting Hitler" sequence that helped fill the allocated time slot. Even with my limited iMove knowledge I could edit the whole series down to a 30 minute special releasing viewers to invest the 7.5 hours that they'd saved on more important matters such as finding the Aliens that crash landed in area 51 near Roswell.
How long does it take to speculate that Hitler could have left his bunker in Berlin with his new bride for an extended honeymoon somewhere in South America. Decades before Steve Martin and John Candy filmed Trains, Planes and Automobiles the theory is that the recently defeated Adolf Hitler and Eva Hitler (nee Braun) could have caught an underground train to the airport, a cheap Lufthansa flight to Spain, a U-boat to Argentina (including a short layover in Grand Canaria for some R&R), a train and finally a boat to the "remote" Residencia Inalco on shores of Nahuel Huapi Lake in Patagonia.
I can't help thinking that Mrs Hitler couldn't have been very happy with the underground accommodation that was provided at each destination. No romantic evenings eating paelle while quaffing down carafes of sangria on the patio, no lazy afternoons taking in a bull fight for the newly weds. Adolf and Eva's honeymoon was just days and nights in underground bunkers. I bet the person that booked that travel plan didn't enjoy the best annual review or pay increase.
Of course the spin doctors would say that the pale white appearance of Eva post honeymoon was proof that Adolf and Eva had the most spectacular vacation, preferring to spend time consummating the marriage multiple times rather than catching some rays on the beach. I had a similar tale to tell after the first of my 23 honeymoons, rather than spend time on the beach my new bride and I spent days in our hotel room recovering from food poisoning distributed by the world renowned kitchens of the Tunisian hotel!
Late yesterday evening in a rare moment of clarity I realized that that Hunting Hitler isn't intended to be a world class example of investigative TV journalism, each episode is a 60 minute cocktail of comedy, men's fashion and electronic toys mixed with an alarming amount of advertising. If the History Channel had a video clip of Hitler doing a song and dance routine it could be classified as variety entertainment show!
Once it dawned on me that Hunting Hitler isn't supposed to be serious then I was able to understand and really enjoy the show, my challenge was to remember that it's an entertainment show. How sad that the History Channel feels the need to depart from facts and broadcast this kind of product between their advertising. I wonder if the people working at the History Channel bow their heads in shame or jump for joy that they can put food on the table.
Hunting Hitler has taken 6 episodes to "investigate" this theoretical journey. To some extent it's a believable theory but then again as the series has progressed the more I question the credibility of the "investigators".
In the latest episode the "investigators" made a huge deal about Hitlers Home in Argentina being the Residencia Inalco which is situated in a remote location that could only be accessed by boat. In the show they state that all of the materials for the house must have been transported by boat making the building of the house a very expensive undertaking.
The team decided to visit the property by boat and swim up to the shore in stealth mode to investigate the house. In a dramatic scene we see a guy in a wet suit enter the water and swim to the shore, he takes photos but when someone appears in the grounds our hero dives to the ground quicker than I would do after dropping a quarter - since I'm a Yorkshireman that's a very fast movement!
My friend who is an ex-tank commander decided to check the property on Google Earth. This is what Hunting Hitler showed in their episode:
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| Hitlers House remote location as shown by Hunting Hitler |
However the ex-tank commander zoomed out and this is what he saw:
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| Hitlers House location after zooming out and discovering the main road! |
If only the Hunting Hitler "experts" had bothered to check Google Earth they could have saved hundreds of dollars from their production budget and simply driven to the house using route 40 the Paso Int Cardenal Samore rather than take the expensive option of going "stealth mode" in a boat.
Even 48 hours after we discovered "the truth" about the remote location of Hitlers House I can't stop laughing at the shows attempt to deceive it's viewers when our friends at Google make it so easy to check so called "facts" using the internet. With the help of our resident ex-tank commander even I can see and enjoy the comedy aspect of the show.
Now I'm left thinking that the guy walking the grounds could even be a member of the Hunting Hitler production team. I believe that the producers of Hunting Hitler will stop at nothing to try and create a dramatic event! In my mind any of the "world class investigators" that play a role in this show have the same credibility as the Royal Butler Paul Burrell the self proclaimed "best mate" of Lady Diana!
The men's fashion segments are presented by the sartorial elegance of Gerrard Williams the reporter who has an ascot neck tie for every occasion. I believe that when Gerrard meets up with Hitler the ascot will be used to tie Hitlers hands behind his back, so much more classy than the cold hard steel of handcuffs or the wrist cutting edges of plastic ties.
Not to get too ahead of ourselves but I can't see a scenario where we discover Adolf and Eva in a romantic tryst deep inside another bunker with two episodes of the series left!
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| Gerrard Williams with ascot neck tie |
Hunting Hitler has utilized lots of modern expensive technology - Radar, Sonar, Drones, Scuba and even a camera that they could run through an air vent. Unfortunately all of this technology hasn't really produced any meaningful evidence but being so close to the Christmas holidays Hunting Hitler gives you great idea about what to buy the friend or relative that has everything.
That's my reality,
Jobsonian
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