Hunting Nazi Treasure

An overabundance of unnecessary CG and 90's MTV-era edits (jittery camera work, flashes, color-to-b&w-to-color, etc.), and a narrator with either a baffling speech-impediment or of a foreign nationality who speaks English with hair-raising emphasis on the wrong syllables and skews pronunciation of vowels, all make what might have been an entertaining series bearable just the opposite.

The style reminds me a bit of the "Hunting Hitler" TV series on the History Channel a few years ago. After having read Edsel's book "The Monuments Men" and two other books on the topic WW II art theft in Europe, I simply had to watch this series and it turned out to be very compelling and never boring.

As I have a relative living in Eberswalde near Schorfheide, Germany, who took me on a bicycle trip on Schorfheide in 1987, I was particularly fascinated with the first episode called "Goering's Greed" and the underground passage at Carinhall. The other 7 episodes were similarly gripping. Edsel, Woodman and Holland are very inspiring and I hope there will be more seasons from this TV series in future years. Too bad nowadays there are less and less interesting documentaries. This was definitely one of the better ones. Don't miss it.

BTW I couldn't detect anything wrong with the narrator's pronounciation.

If we all recieved a gold bar for every exploitative use of the cult of Nazism we'd be able to pay off the U. S national debt.

Academics and their groupies know that lots of money and fame can be made by exploiting peoples fascination for all things dark and mysterious - it's an industry all on its own.

What disturbs me is that the reckless popularisation of all things possibly Nazi related - no matter how tenuous the link continues to harm and impede modern Germany and its people to move on from what hapoened almost three generations ago.

The obscene, egregious, deliberate over-use of the word has become misused, misapplied to the same degree that the words mysogyny and anti-Semite have: just blanket words to describe any and all things remotely connected.

What needs to happen, and is thankfully happening by some hardworking YouTube historians is a thorough and objective revision of the many popular misconceptions disseminated by Hollywood, Fame-seeking academics, etc.

Germany when viewed as a nation with WWII excised-stands as possibly the greatest single contributor to the world in every area of the arts and sciences.

A nation that gave us Goethe, Schiller, Caspar Friedrich, Hardenberg, Humboldt, Hesse, Heine, Kant, Hegel, Marx, Nietzsche, Freud, Runge, Louis David, Krupp, Bayer, Bismarck, Friedrich the Great, Clausewitz, Scharnhorst, Porsche, Marlene Dietrich, Remi Schneider, Waltz, Herzog, Riefenstahl, Bukowski, Herder, ETA Hoffman, Hölderlin, Lessing, Schopenhauer, Novalis, etc etc...

Take the time to glimpse into the Germany/Prussia of the late medieval period, through to the outbreak of WWI.

It is time to discard this unhealthy obsession with Nazism and to call out those seeking to secure fame and fortune by employing pseudo-historiography.