History has cancelled non-fiction series Hunting Hitler after the previously-announced third season, having opted not to move forward with Season 4.
The third and final season of Hunting Hitler premieres January 2, 2018.
HISTORY®’S NONFICTION SERIES ‘HUNTING HITLER’ RETURNS FOR ITS THIRD AND FINAL SEASON ON TUESDAY, JANUARY 2 AT 10PM ET/PT
‘Hunting Hitler’ Recap Special to Air on Tuesday, December 26 at 10PM ET/PT
NEW YORK, NY – December 11, 2017 – Three years into the investigation of one of the greatest cold cases in history, 21-year CIA veteran, Bob Baer, looks to solve the final piece of the puzzle and determine the true fate of the most reprehensible mass murderer of the 20th century, Adolf Hitler, once and for all. The eight episode, third and final season of HISTORY’s nonfiction series, “Hunting Hitler” premieres on Tuesday, January 2 at 10PM ET/PT. A recap special of the series is set to air on Tuesday, December 26 at 10PM ET/PT.
In season three, Baer recruits a new asset to help him with his investigation, Nada Bakos, former Terrorist Targeting Officer, and one of the world’s foremost experts on terrorist networks. Bakos was on the team responsible for tracking and dismantling al-Qaeda and gathering the intelligence that lead to the capture of Abu Musab al-Zarqawi (The Godfather of ISIS), and the biggest prize of all, Osama bin Laden. Together, Baer and Bakos deploy a team in the field that includes U.S. Army Special Forces Sgt. Tim Kennedy; Veteran investigative journalist, Gerrard Williams; U.S Army Green Beret, Mike Simpson; former Chief Inspector and Commander of the U.S. Marshall Fugitive Task Force, Lenny DePaul and World War II historian, James Holland. These operatives will employ local experts and historians armed with the most cutting edge technology, to examine this massive network and take a closer look at how Hitler could have escaped justice.
To zero in on Hitler’s definitive escape route, Baer implements the man-hunting strategy that intelligence agencies across the globe use to find and capture high value targets, “asset mapping.” The team will investigate Hitler’s network of top associates, analyzing the roles they played in his potential escape. Enacting the Asset Mapping strategy, the team uncovers two Nazi escape routes out of Germany. Will this new information help them solve the answers to their questions to be able to close the book on this cold case?
Across all platforms, season two of “Hunting Hitler” averaged nearly 3.0 million viewers per episode. It’s currently a top 5 nonfiction series on HISTORY in all key demos this year in Live+7 (A25-54, A18-49, M25-54, M18-49) and averaged 2.2 million total viewers last season in Live+7 delivery. Additionally, the series reached over 15 million total viewers in linear Live+7 last season, according to Nielsen Media Research.
“Hunting Hitler” is produced for HISTORY by Karga Seven Pictures, a Red Arrow Entertainment Group company. Sarah Wetherbee, Emre Sahin, Kelly McPherson, Tracy Bacal, Claire Kosloff and Jason Wolf are executive producers for Karga Seven Pictures. Melinda Toporoff is the executive producer for HISTORY.
A+E Networks holds worldwide distribution rights for “Hunting Hitler.”
RIP.
Lynne says
That just sucks!
Joyce Baldassarre says
This is a fabulous show! DO NOT CANCEL!!!!!! History books need to be rewritten
Adrienne says
Hi to all who made comments on this cancellation, write directly to the dHistory channel. I got a reply from them.
J.R. says
Most of the information on this show is drivel, and easily disproved. It was just sensationalism with “shock-horror” sound-bites to further the book sales of those involved – which are also full of inaccurate nonsense. No surprise it got cancelled – big surprise it lasted three seasons !
William Scott says
They are stupid this is a great show I’ll have rethink about canceling history channels
Cindy Bonvillain says
You CANNOT cancel Hunting Hitler!!!! This is an amazing show that is rewriting g history! The truth must be known and it’s needs to come to completion.
Gareth says
They wont do that because the us housed a good majority of the German scientists and if anything the u.s probably knows everything already and dont want half of it to get out..why….because the u.s is as corrupt as anywhere else in the world. Shit show full of shit and typical yanks.
Carol says
This is one of the best shows that HISTORY Channel has. You get plenty of viewers, it’s educational and exciting. Why cancel????
Adrienne Ginsberg says
I agree with all the comments. We were looking forward to the finally letting the world know the truth. I hope the History Channel reads the comments. Like one person said it sucks!,!!
John Reziner says
Why is the History Channel afraid of the truth coming out??
3 seasons and then you cancel the 4th? Makes no sense!!
Like to see the truth instead of the lies we were told by the gov’t.
Lynn says
The history channel keeps the same dumb and dumber shows running ALL DAY LONG and does not have enough sense to keep running the BEST EVER HISTORY, Hunting Hitler. It has enough viewers. What wrong with the History Cannel?
James Moody says
Most interesting programme.
Is probable cancellation due to pressure from outside parties ??
Doveton Sturdee says
Actually it wasn’t due to sinister ‘outside parties’ but because the whole thing was absolute bloody rubbish, and anyone with a little more knowledge about what actually happened at the end of World War 2 than the average five year old would have been able to disprove the nonsensical claims, usually involving ‘might have’ ‘perhaps’ & ‘possibly’ in laughable abundance. The amazing thing is that it lasted three full series, despite it being increasingly obvious that Mr. Baer was tongue in cheek about the whole thing.
Gareth says
You seem to know so much tell all….because what I saw is what’s already known and the u.s. loves a cover up!
M.slezak says
I scheduled my activities just so I have time to watch the show even though I recorded on my DVR it’s something that needs to be shown and actually to rewrite history it’s event tastic show and History channel is crazy out of their mind to get rid of that and other shows that they think that the smart people of History Channel are not as smart as they think they are keep that show on
Tina says
I’ts like they don’t want the truth to come out! Leaving a cliff hanger. Sence this show there has been so many other shows and so much intrest. Mean while the comtinue the iskand show looking for treasure and never finding anything but this team conferms all the intellenge reports. Let’s see where it goes!
Winston Churchill says
The History Channel are clearly gutless and ignorant to want ti hide the truth from the world, it will eventually get out anyway they have uncovered enough evidence that they won’t stop there. It will just be another network that get credit for correcting the history books.
GreatSwammi says
This was a great series and very educational and informative. The only question I have is….how doe one overlook the dental proof of Hitler’s jaw? I’d really love to see them continue on with this series to find beyond a reasonable doubt hitler escaped and ended up in Chile…it certainly looks like that might be true….notwithstanding the apparent dental and jaw bone evidence that supposedly matches Hitler’s dental records….how about DNA testing on it? So history channel is just going to leave millions of viewers just hanging? The fact there were 700 plus Nazi torture camps spread throughout Chile in the 1970s was unbelievable….never knew that until watching this series or that they had plans to take out Panama canal..
dennis says
Who said the “proof” of the dental records is correct? Who in their right mind would stay in Berlin as the Russians circled who had any connection to Hitler? The supposed truth was from local dentist’s assistant’s memory — Didn’t Hitler have all medical work performed by military personnel? — The witness/assistant had a Russian gun pointed at their head to confirm. The Russian bone fragment was also debunked by reality it and skull fragment are from a woman in their mid-thirties. This show has proven it was possible to escape and on hard evidence, not speculation. To cancel now is wrong. The world was lied to. Isn’t the truth worth it or is the History channel just interested in ratings? If so, change your name because their edited version of history is as wrong as the Nazi movement.
Pete says
He had countless doubles all over Europe. The dental records are just that, records. All done by pen on paper, to corroborate picture evidence to match physical evidence. Unless the jaw removed from his mouth whilst you could physically see him in the flesh then it’s just circumstantial. Anyone who planned the way the Nazis did could put anyone’s name to those records and who in the outside world would question it? Even more so when his fanatical follows corroborate the elaborate story of his death, sounds all to convenient.
Michelle says
It is unfathomable that you the History Channel should decide to stop an important series before it’s finished. Your loyal viewers expect and deserve to follow this to its absolute completion.
Shame on you, The History Channel for canceling this valuable account of these diabolical, evil people. The world has a right to know once and for all the Truth. Not just a part of the Truth!!
PLEASE reconsider for Humanity’s sake!
Cathy says
I agree. How can they not show us where he went and when and how he died. History has to finish this for humanity sake my ancestors burned in ovens and he escaped. Just horrifying we need to know
Doveton Sturdee says
Hitler died in a bunker in Berlin on the afternoon of 30 April, 1945, by shooting and (probably) poison. His body was subsequently burned in the garden of the reichskanzlei. Some stories do have a happy ending. Read Hugh Trevor-Roper and Cornelius Ryan for further information.
Case closed.
Gareth says
you believe what they want you to…. do you seriously think ANY government wants it known Hitler managed to escape. Wake up pal ♂️
Janine says
Riveting, compelling series. Never missed an episode.
Really astounded & disappointed that History cancelled Hunting Hitler. Inexplicable. It was so close to finding out about really happened. The investigation has to be absolutely completed & the truth revealed to the generations that follow. Otherwise that megalomaniac gets away with it again at the expense of the countless lives that were lost or forever changed.
Please re-consider the decision to cancel Season 4 of Hunting Hitler.
MustFindHitler says
WELL I LOVED SEASON 1 HERE IN THE UK ON FREEVIEW AS DID MANY OTHER PEOPLE I KNOW HERE AND COULD NOT WAIT TO SEE S2 AND GUESS WHAT, SKY KEPT IT FOR THE HISTORY CHANNEL AND IT NEVER CAME. SO I WOULD GUESTIMATE YOU LOST MILLIONS OF VIEWERS JUST THERE.
Paul wallace says
To the History channel watching Hunting Hitler has become one of the best TV series that I have watched
Please give us a date when the History Chanel will bring out the Hunting Hitler DVDS in the UK
Please do not cancel this great series I very much love watching the History Chanel so come the History Chanel give us season ( 4 )
issac says
This stinks, only one of two shows I even watch on History and my favorite.
GreatSwammi says
Here is a conspiracy thought why the history channel cancelled this series….maybe the investigators were getting too close to the truth about Hitler’s actual escape and were instructed by this government to shut it down..after all, if hitler did in fact escape, which I think he did, and I think our government at the time knew it too, it would raise a lot of questions about why we didn’t pursue this mass murderer…of course most if not all those in charge post WWII are dead but someone would have lots of explaining as to why we didn’t capture Hitler….another black eye for this country.
VConner says
Wow, The History Channel is on the verge of rewriting History, so what do they do, CANCEL! They are dropping the ball on this one! WOW, Just WOW! Find the freakin body!!!!
Doveton Sturdee says
Thank heavens that this idiotic programme has been put out of the misery into which it had degenerated. How something so badly researched and utterly unconvincing lasted three series is entirely beyond me. I can only assume that Mr. Baer and his team were either totally ignorant of the facts about World War 2, or did know the and were simply playing the whole thing for laughs, to see how much they could get away with before even the most gormless of their target audience twigged!
In the last episode of ‘Hunting Hitler,’ Bob Baer presented to someone ostensibly formerly employed by the FBI his version of how Hitler escaped from Berlin and made his way to South America. Apparently, AH was flown out of Berlin by Hannah Reitsch, and was then taken to the SS facility at Hohenlychen. From there, it seems he was flown to Norway, and from Norway to South America by means of a seaplane which was refuelled en route from a U-Boat. Mr. Baer felt that the fact that a sunken seaplane alongside the wreck of a U-Boat in Narvik harbour, apparently ‘found’ by his people, was supportive evidence, as was the fact of an Allied air raid on Narvik on 4 May, 1945, which he suggested was after the war had ended, and might have represented an attempt by the Allies to prevent AH’s escape.
So far, so good. I now intend to present the reader with a few facts that he/she might wish to consider.
Firstly, the last sightings of AH alive were on 30 April, 1945. At 1030 he had a final meeting with General Weidling, the commander of the Berlin garrison, who expressed to him the total impossibility of the military situation. At 1400, AH had lunch with his secretaries and his cook. Please remember the date as it is relevant to what follows.
Hannah Reitsch flew into Berlin with Ritter von Greim from Gatow on 26 April, because AH had removed Goering from all positions of authority, and had decided not only to appoint von Griem to command of the (now non-existent) Luftwaffe, but had ordered him to attend the bunker in order to be told of this in a face to face meeting. Greim & Reitsch flew into Berlin in a Fieseler Storch training aircraft, but in landing on the East-West axis the aircraft was badly damaged, and Greim, who had been flying it, wounded in the leg. Reitsch took control and landed the aircraft, but it was by now written off with serious damage. This was at 1800 – 1900 on 26 April.
The two intrepid individuals had their meeting with AH, but assumed that they were now trapped in Berlin. However, on the night of 28 – 29 April, a Luftwaffe sergeant pilot managed to land a two seater Arado 96 trainer on the East-West Axis (at around midnight), and Greim & Reitsch crammed aboard it. The aircraft landed at Rechlin at around 0300 on 29 April, after which Greim & Reitsch flew on to Ploen. Thus, Reitsch, who in Baerworld apparently flew AH out of Berlin, had actually departed the scene more then 36 hours before AH was last seen alive.
Next, apparently AH was flown to the giant SS complex at Hohenlychen. In point of fact, the SS had abandoned the site on 20 April, although Himmler did hold a brief meeting with Count Bernadotte there on 22 April, which led to Himmler being stripped of his authority by AH as a result, once AH heard about it, ironically through a BBC broadcast. On 29 April, the abandoned facility was occupied by Soviet troops. As AH was still in Berlin on 30 April, perhaps Mr. Baer could explain what sort of welcome the fleeing fuhrer would have received from the Russians when he arrived there?
Finally, apparently, according to Mr. Baer, AH left Narvik in a seaplane, which refuelled from a U-boat in the Atlantic and flew him to South America. The evidence for this, bizarrely, is the fact that Baer’s team claim to have discovered the wreck of a seaplane near to the wreck of a U-boat in Narvik harbour. Quite how two wrecks in northern Norway could be taken as proof that such a flight took place was not made clear. In point of fact, the seaplane was actually a Dornier 26, one of two destroyed in Narvik harbour by Hurricane fighters of 46 Squadron, RAF, on 28 May, 1940. The submarine, by the way, was destroyed by air strikes carried out by the British Fleet Air Arm on 4 May, 1945, as part of Operation ‘Judgement’ which was the last anti-shipping attack carried out in European waters in WW2. Mr. Baer implied that this raid took place after the war had ended (or so he claimed) because the allies suspected that Hitler might have been in the Narvik area. In point, of fact, the war had not ended when the raid took place. U-boats were still active, the last allied vessel in European waters not being sunk until 7 May, and the raid was actually an attack on remaining German warships in the area. Two were sunk, together with the U-boat, and none of this was any sort of attempt to get Hitler. The claim that the discovery of the seaplane and the U-boat was groundbreaking evidence is, similarly, farfetched. Both had been popular sites visited by local divers for years!
It should, furthermore, be pointed out that there is no evidence that U-boats were ever used to refuel seaplanes in the Atlantic. True, there was an outline proposal to that effect in, I believe, early 1943, but this was intended to make possible improved Luftwaffe air reconnaissance over the Atlantic in order to detect allied convoys more effectively. For operational reasons, the suggestion was discounted. Certainly, a U-boat did refuel a seaplane (a BV138) at sea, but on two occasions only, and in the extreme north of the Arctic, near Novaya Zemyla, when the aircraft was intended for two specific operations, which were to locate Soviet shipping which could be attacked by a German cruiser. These operations took place in August 1942 & again in August 1943, involving U255, and both came to nothing.
Thus, Mr. Baer’s fantastic scheme, which seemingly impressed the FBI chap, comes, like most of this absurd series, to nothing. Reitsch could not have flown AH out, he could not have gone to Norway via Hohenlychen, and he could not have flown to South America in a seaplane refuelled in the Atlantic from a U-boat.
Would anyone who has been even slightly convinced by the inane drivel of ‘Hunting Hitler’ care to contradict any of the above facts?
Santa Claus says
Well, point of fact is that thousands of top ranking Nazis successfully escaped to South America. The Skull that was claimed to be Hitler’s was proven to be female and not his.
Conclusion is that there were operational and successful ratlines for top ranking Nazis. Hitler was NEVER proven to have died in ’45. It seems plausible that he made it out….
John Jacob Smitze says
Apparently the DS still believes that the real AH was observed on April 30,1945.
Whether Hitler escaped Berlin is not that important. For people with power, a successful escape is easy to conceive of and would be easily pulled off behind military lines where media communications are down.
The information we have concerning Hitler’s corpse is only available to us via the Soviets. Reliable? Duh?
The bigger mystery is the large number of targeted Nazi’s who escaped along with apparently hundreds of un-named criminals who escaped. And the assistance they received. Most were not seriously pursued. Relatively few of the War Trial criminals served meaningful sentences. What a travesty.
What can we learn from this about our own power brokers?
Doveton Sturdee says
No ‘apparently’ about it. Hitler died by his own hand at around 1530 on 30 April, 1945. Nothing in the ludicrous ‘Hunting Hitler’ provided any credible evidence at all to the contrary, and the supposed escape route described by Mr. Baer, and apparently accepted more or less without question by the FBI person was so laughably improbable that anyone with any real knowledge of the events of the time could discredit it in minutes without any particular mental exertion.
If anyone believes that the ‘real’ Hitler actually escaped using this route please, as I initially wrote, feel free to contract any of the documented facts I provided in my earlier post.
dondi nova says
I always wondered about the dental evidence also. It seems like I remember hearing that hte so called evidence was what two dental assistants told to sources. How do you describe dental work? Dental records are usually compared by x-ray. I think he made it and we need a season 4 now more than ever.
Doveton Sturdee says
Oh, for heaven’s sake. Get hold of a copy of ‘The Last Battle’ by Cornelius Ryan and read his account of the manner in which Kathe Heusermann and Fritz Echtmann, the dental nurse and the technician who worked on Hitler’s teeth with Professor Blaschke, were interrogated by the Soviets, independently of each other. Both produced similar sketches of Hitler’s dental work. On 7 May, Heusermann was shown a jaw and dental bridges, which she identified as Hitler’s and which matched the drawings she and Echtmann had previously produced. As a result of this identification, Heusermann spent the next 11 years in a Soviet prison, most of the time in solitary confinement.
You think he ‘made it?’ Upon what evidence do you base this singular conclusion? Surely not upon any of the nonsense produced by ‘Hunting Hitler’ or on the absurd seaplane flight from Narvik to South America postulated by Mr. Baer, and accepted without question by his amazingly gullible FBI buddy?
Henning Kruse says
What does it take for History Channel to undo this cancellation? I am sure there are many out there such as myself who would love to co-sponsor the continuation of this fantastic investigation.
So PLEASE History Channel… if it is a money issue let us devoted viewers assist and finance the continuation.. More fantastic research I have never seen in a life time. The creators of this documentary is beyond imagination..
We need season 4…
PLEASE!!!!!
Doveton Sturdee says
Well, having seen three series of this comedy, I haven’t actually come across anything that could be considered even vaguely credible. Certainly, the drivel about the escape route involving Norway, U-boats, and seaplanes was the most ineptly argued piece of nonsense I can recall encountering for some time.
If you really believe that this programme presented ‘fantastic research’ then I can only conclude that you know absolutely nothing about the period.
Presumably, the History Channel were contacted by a grown-up, and realized the error of their ways.
Michele says
The History Channel is being forced to cancel the 4th season of Hunting Hitler…that is what I beleive. Why would they not proceed with a hit series, therefore money making, if someone or some government is putting a gun to their head? They were getting to close to the truth. I was flabbergasted when CIA files were revealed and unimaginable truth was discovered. I smell a rat. Our government is just as corrupt as any other. Good and bad people exist all over the world. The USA does not have the corner on decency, humanity, truthfulness of loyalty. Ask any VietNam get what they were asked to do during the conflict and you’ll get a black stare. Haven’t you ever wondered why they don’t want to talk. I am quite sure the men with the stars on their lapels will have to answer to someone higher up than me. Young kids follow orders because they are incorporated to do so. I feel so sorry for our men and women in uniform.
Michele says
Your writing seems so eloquent and knowledgeable. Where did you acquire all this evidence? Oh, excuse me, you were there? I think not. You read a book and decided it was the truthful. My my, and we are not supposed to believe a series by the History Channel. I think you might have a dog in this race.
Chris says
I presume all the idiots who loved this rubbish though Donald Trump was the Messiah and that he would make America Great Again. All he succeeded in doing was making America the laughing stock of the world. Same way this program makes the History Channel look. Fiction rather than fact with such contrived scenes and dubious evidence.
Anybody here seen my old friend Adolf?
Can you tell me where he’s gone?
He killed lotta people but it seems the good they die young
I just looked around and he’s gone.
Didn’t you love the things that he stood for?
Didn’t they try to find some good for you and me?
Arbeit Mach Frei Some day soon,
It’s gonna be one day
Anybody here seen my old friend Donald?
Can you tell me where he’s gone?
I thought I saw him walkin’ up over the hill
With Adolf, Martin, and Josef