Adolf Hitler

**Adolf Hitler** is one of the two overarching antagonists (alongside Wilhelm Zuchs) of the first season main antagonist of the second season.

He is the former Führer of Nazi Germany, who escaped Germany with Eva Braun to South America, and the man overseeing the Fourth Reich, a succession to the Third Reich meant to rise up once more.

After the Hunters stormed his compound in Argentina and successfully captured him, he is put into an international tribunal in West Germany and is sentenced to life imprisonment with no parole for his crime against humanity.

## Biography

### Rise to Power

In the chaotic situation after the German defeat in World War I, Adolf Hitler formed the Nazi Party and began his slow rise to power, during which he was assisted by the Sturmabteilung. He gained popular support by promoting Pan-Germanism, antisemitism, and anticommunism. After his appointment as Chancellor in 1933, he transformed Germany into a single-party state based on the totalitarian and autocratic ideology of Nazism.

### World War II

Adolf Hitler served as the *Führer und Reichskanzler* of the Third Reich from 1933 to 1945, before and during World War II. He started the war with the intention to create the German Empire that would dominate Europe, and eventually the world. He was responsible for the Holocaust, a genocide in which about six million European Jews and other people were murdered.

### Fourth Reich

#### Exile to Argentina

Hitler and his wife Eva Braun escaped the Führerbunker in secret before the Red Army reached it, and the two were presumed to have committed suicide. The two escaped to Argentina, where they plotted to strike once more, and rebuild the German Reich from America, with the help of thousands of escaped Nazi war criminals, most of whom were in the United States, taken from Germany by the US government via Operation Paperclip, and many of their followers. They dubbed this projected empire as the Fourth Reich. Likely due to the deteriorating well-being of the Führer, Eva Braun took a more active role as the leader of this organization, taking on the moniker The Colonel, though Hitler, dubbed The General, he is still her superior as he allows her to take part of the organization in America. Hitler remained in Argentina throughout most of the series and is only mentioned by name. Biff Simpson, while conversing with The Colonel, refers to him as The General, stating he wants a meeting with him rather than speaking through her, which The Colonel scoffs at.

### Season 1

When Joe Mizushima, a member of the Hunters, is kidnapped on The Colonel's orders and brought to Argentina, she sits him down at a dinner table, along with four identical Aryan children, and calls Adolf to the table as well. He exclaims his hunger to his wife as Joe looks at the elderly Führer in disbelief.

### Season 2

Over the two-year time skip, Hitler had Joe tortured and brainwashed to serve him as a soldier. Joe's flashbacks show that Hitler personally supervised his torture, possibly even taking part in the process himself.

Later, he has a conversation with the Colonel, in which she disrespects him and makes a remark on how old he has become, prompting him to strike her across the face in a rage. During this conversation, he reveals that he plans to acquire a nuclear weapon with which to destroy an American city and mentions that he funded the Colonel's Solution plot in the United States.

When his courier, the Crow, is killed by the Hunters, Hitler realizes that he is being hunted. He dispatches Joe, Travis Leich, and a team of other Nazis to kill the Hunters, ordering Joe to bring him their scalps. This attack killed George, left Roxy severely injured, and led to Travis kidnapping Clara to lure in Jonah.

When Joe breaks free of his brainwashing, he leads the Hunters to Hitler's compound. When Hitler receives word of intruders, his guards escort him to his bunker. As he is about to enter, Jonah and Chava engage his guards in a hail of gunfire, briefly forcing him to take cover before he can enter the bunker. Unable to fight past the guards, Chava sacrifices herself to give Jonah a chance to slip into the bunker after Hitler. Jonah corners Hitler in the bunker, prompting Hitler to attempt to shoot himself, but Jonah stops him. Jonah then ties Hitler's hands and takes him away with the intent of forcing him to stand trial for his crimes.

Jonah walks Hitler to a rendezvous he had arranged with Zev. Along the way, Hitler repeatedly threatens Jonah, claiming that his forces would kill Jonah and rescue him. At the rendezvous point, Zev stuffs Hitler into the hold of his boat before Zev and Jonah sail away to smuggle him out of Argentina.

Melanie Morris presents Hitler to the American embassy in Uruguay, where his identity is verified through fingerprint and dental records. Adolf Hitler's survival and arrest makes worldwide news. At some point during the next two months, Hitler was extradited to West Germany, where he would stand trial in Munich before an international tribunal of five judges.

Hitler is charged with crimes against peace, crimes against humanity, war crimes, and conspiracy to commit murder, all relating to his conduct as ruler of Germany before and during World War II. Hitler denies the charges and consistently shows a total lack of empathy or remorse during the trial. When Hitler takes the stand, the prosecutor attacks his ego and legacy, baiting him into admitting that he had ordered the Holocaust. Hitler is convicted of all charges and sentenced to life imprisonment without the possibility of parole.

When his trial is finished, he takes a pill to fake a heart attack as part of an escape plan engineered by the Colonel and Travis. An ambulance comes to take him to the hospital but is hijacked by its driver, a Fourth Reich agent, who kills the other ambulance staff and revives Hitler. When Hitler meets Eva and Travis at their safehouse, Eva tells Hitler that she intends to kill him, then fake his escape so that she can use his name to run the Reich in his stead. When she orders Travis to kill Hitler, Travis kills her instead, then demands that Hitler make him the heir to the Nazi movement. Hitler, with no other choice, accepts. Hitler and Travis head to the rooftop to be picked up by Travis' men in a helicopter, but they are shot at by a pursuing Jonah. Hitler takes cover while Travis heads off to deal with Jonah. When Travis is driven off by Joe and German police, Hitler is found and re-arrested by the police.

Hitler is last seen in solitary confinement in a German prison. When a guard delivers his food, he refers to Hitler only by his prisoner number. Hitler, outraged, screams "Don't you know who I am?!" over and over in powerless rage.

## Personality

Adolf Hitler was a megalomaniacal politician who firmly believed in the Nazis' misinterpretation of Frederick Nietzsche's *Übermensch* (Superman) concept where a race of superhuman beings is destined to rule the normal ones. Believing the Germans were such a race, he wanted to bring almost all European countries under German rule. Being an anti-Semite, he despised Jews and considered them inferior to the Germans.

## Trivia

* Hitler's line, "I've been so hungry, Eva", mirrors what Biff Simpson said in the series' pilot to one of his surviving victims: "And what a hungry boy I've been. What hungry boys and girls we've all been."
* Given the timeline of the series, Hitler would be 88 years old during the events of season 1 and 90 years old during season 2.