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Jan 18, 2023 · Hunters confirms that Ruth found out that Meyer was actually Wilhelm Zuchs, so he arranged her death before she could act on it or tell the other hunters. Meyer called Heinz Richter, who they were hunting, and informed him that Ruth knew who he was.
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By Samuel Roberts
published 24 February 2020
The season finale of Hunters on Amazon Prime explained
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Hunters has launched its 10-episode first season on Amazon Prime Video, and if you've burned through it already, you'll have noticed the final episode contains at least two massive 'WTF' moments. Major spoilers follow for season one of Hunters.
For the entire first season of Hunters, the titular characters are searching for a group of Nazi war criminals living undercover in America, including their leader Wilhelm Zuchs, aka The Wolf. It's established that the Wolf was a Nazi surgeon at a concentration camp – and for the entire last episode we're led to believe that Friedrich Mann (William Sadler) is actually The Wolf.
After Meyer Offerman (Al Pacino) kills Mann, Jonah (Logan Lerman) susses out what's really going on: this is not the real Meyer Offerman.
The Wolf is actually the character we've come to know as Meyer, who's been living in disguise for over 30 years since the end of the war, when the Wolf escaped a death sentence for his crimes. Jonah discovers this by piecing the clues together: this Meyer does not offer a prayer before he quickly kills Mann, which the real Meyer vowed to do when he'd eventually confront The Wolf.
Meyer achieved this long deception with the aid of plastic surgery given to him by Mann, and by ensuring the real Offerman was killed and buried as he stole his identity. The real Meyer was Jonah's grandfather.
The Wolf then lived his life as Meyer Offerman, never returning to his job as a surgeon because it'd give away his identity. He instead works in a factory when he comes to America.
The twist is pretty predictable – it's set up very firmly by episode 5's ending, when the fake Offerman is almost outed by Tilda Sauer (Barbara Sukowa), before Pacino's character suddenly kills her, which shocks the other members of the hunt. At that point, you're firmly made aware that Offerman isn't who he says he is.
Oh, that. The last moments of the show reveal that Adolf Hitler is alive, living in Argentina. The character we've come to know as The Colonel (played by Lena Olin) is Eva Braun, too, his wife. In real life, of course, both committed suicide in Hitler's bunker in Berlin in April 1945.
Hunters' suggestion that Hitler is still alive in Argentina is based on a long-time conspiracy theory that he and Braun escaped to South America. This is extrapolated from a real-life phenomenon of Nazi war criminals hiding in Argentina and other South American countries after WW2 (these methods of escape were called 'Ratlines', and here's a great BBC article on it).
It's so famous as conspiracy theories go that The Simpsons referenced it in the episode 'Bart vs Australia'. In Hunters, Hitler appears to live on a big estate with four identical Aryan children. It's unclear which actor is playing Hitler – the lack of a full reveal of his face likely gives the producers room to recast him if the show gets a second season.
The ultimate orchestrator of the Fourth Reich in Hunters, then, is Hitler himself. And season one ends with Joe (Louis Ozawa) captive at the dinner table with Adolf and his weird kids.
Well, it should make for a hell of a season 2, if it happens.
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Feb 28, 2020 · In Amazon's alternative history, however, von Braun is revealed to still be alive and is subsequently questioned by the hunters. The "Rocket Man" admits to helping the Nazis orchestrate a plan that will lead to the Fourth Reich, though all he wanted was merely to own the stars.
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Jan 13, 2023 · Prime Video’s conspiracy drama series Hunters returns for a second season, with the Nazi-hunting gang on the trail of the most detested man in history, Adolf Hitler himself. The series brings back Hollywood legend Al Pacino as Meyer Offerman, in detailed flashbacks, whilst the band of misfits track down Hitler in seventies South America.
Feb 22, 2020 · We delve into the big twists and turns of the Hunters season finale - and examine how it sets up a second season.
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