Hunting Nazi Treasure (2017–2018) User Reviews

Worth watching

[waldenpond88 · 7/10 · 13 May 2020]

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.

Exasperating

[mrsatyre · 4/10 · 1 January 2020]

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.

Just add NAZI and you're golden!

[kiowhatta · 4/10 · 18 April 2021]

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.

Great glimpse into WW II history, but...

[joshgordon-79 · 5/10 · 31 December 2020]

There's a great deal of information regarding World War II and the plundering that went on once the Nazi war machine overran a new area. However, for a series based on finding the plundered art, furniture, etc. there is NOT ONE SINGLE THING found and returned in the series's 8 episodes. Not a single one! They discover nothing, return nothing, and only show items that had nothing to do with them.

For an organization that is expressly geared towards finding these items (Monuments Men Foundation for the Preservation of Art), how can they not have any leads on something worth filming to produce 1 win for them?