Hunters

A real Operation Paperclip was carried out by the US government. Among all the Nazi German scientists, Wernher von Braun worked on Nazi Germany's rocket development program. During World War II he helped design and develop the V-2 rocket at Peenemünde. After the war, he was secretly moved to the United States along with about 1,600 German scientists, engineers and technicians as part of Operation Paperclip. He worked on a medium-range ballistic missile program for the United States Army and developed the rockets that launched Explorer 1, the first United States space satellite. Many of NASA's Nazi scientists were working at Cape Canaveral at the same time as African-American mathematicians such as Katherine Johnson, who is featured in the film Hidden Figures (2016). Kurt H. Debus, a former SA and SS member, was Cape Canaveral's first launch supervisor and was influential in the design of the Saturn V that took Apollo to the Moon. He had previously worked on the V2 rockets that terrorized London.

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Eva Braun's relationship with Hitler was largely kept secret. She was never seen in public and was kept away from photographs as much as possible. For this reason, it is entirely plausible that she could have stayed hidden in plain sight years later, as depicted in the series.

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Meyer Offerman, who is revealed at the end of Season 1 to be a former Nazi, uses the words "Hashem" and "God" interchangeably in Season 2 depending on whom he is talking to. Observant Jews tend to refer to God as "Hashem" because God or Adonai (another name for God) should not be spoken outside of prayer. Meyer uses "Hashem" when talking to Jewish people and maintaining his false identity. But when Meyer talks to other former Nazis, he takes off his mask and uses the word "God."

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Eva Braun would have been 65 years old when this series was filmed. Lena Olin, who portrays her, was only a few months away from her 65th birthday when the series was released.

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Logan Lerman, Saul Rubinek, Carol Kane, Josh Radnor and Jeannie Berlin play Jewish characters and are Jewish in real life. Al Pacino is the only non-Jewish actor playing a Jewish character, and this likely points to his character's true identity.

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The blackout at the end of episode 1.7 of the series really happened. New York City's blackout was on July 13, 1977. This is the same date as in the series.

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The Auschwitz Memorial complained about the fabrications in Hunters and said they would help future Holocaust deniers. The Auschwitz Memorial tweeted: "Auschwitz was full of horrible pain & suffering documented in the accounts of survivors… Inventing a fake game of human chess for @huntersonprime is not only dangerous foolishness & caricature… It also welcomes future deniers. We honor the victims by preserving factual accuracy."

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It reunites Al Pacino and Carol Kane 45 years after they first appeared together in Dog Day Afternoon (1975).

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It marks Al Pacino's first appearance in an episodic TV series since his first acting role, in the N.Y.P.D. (1967).

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In Season 2, Episode 2, Jonah Heidelbaum poses as a coat check attendant at the Buenos Aires opera. He checks the coat of Nazi target Klaus Rhinehart and gives him coat check ticket number 88. 88 is a common white supremacist numerical code for "Heil Hitler." The eighth letter of the alphabet is H, so 88=HH.

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In Season 2, Chava Apfelbaum is referred to as "Ima" by her team. Ima is Hebrew for "mother."

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Jonah's room has a poster of Farrah Fawcett. Farrah starred in a film titled Nazi Hunter: The Beate Klarsfeld Story (1986).

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Saul Rubinek, who played the Nazi hunter Murray Markowitz in Quentin Tarantino's True Romance, also plays Lee Donowitz. In the Tarantino universe, Lee Donowitz's ancestor Sgt. Donny Donowitz, played by Eli Roth in Inglourious Basterds, was also a Nazi hunter.

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Logan Lerman also starred in the film Fury, in which he fought the Nazis during World War II.

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During the abduction fight with Klaus Rhinehart's bodyguard in the sauna room, Tobias grimaces as he grabs a hot steam pipe to defeat the bodyguard. In the following scene, no bandage or any sign of injury is visible on Tobias's right hand.

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