T he stories behind these real-life Nazi hunters are just as enthralling as the fictional tales depicted in the new Amazon series. Throughout history there have been a number of people who have devoted their lives to bringing war criminals to justice-although these “hunters” typically chose to operate through legal channels rather than taking matters into their own hands.
Heidelbaum, a young Jewish man grieving the recent death of his grandmother, agrees to help a group of vigilantes hunt down the Nazi leaders hiding in plain sight under new identities when the series begins in 1977. The greatest single gift of the Jewish people is our capacity, our capacity to remember,” the fictional Meyer Offerman - portrayed by Al Pacino - tells lead character Jonah Heidelbaum in the series’ first episode premiering Friday. So tell me, what should we do? Shake hands? Turn a blind eye? Forget? No.
“We survived the war, we survived the greatest mass eradication in modern history and we arrived home to find that the people who did this to us, they are our neighbors. The characters in Amazon Prime’s new drama “Hunters” seek revenge on former Nazi leaders who horrifically extinguished the lives of millions of Jews, but is the series rooted in fact?
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