After watching one episode, I call this "The Implausible Nazi Murder Show." To think there was anything other than fringe element Nazis in the 1970s (like the Illinois Nazis in "The Blues Brothers" movie) stretches credulity. But show producers seemed to really want to set this show in a recognizable era close to us chronologically. The 1970s was about as late as they could go to have German Nazis from the 1940s still alive and somewhat in their prime. It is almost as if they are saying, "Hey, wouldn't it be cool if German Nazis survived and emigrated to the U.S., where they lived in the 1970s and continued to promote their Nazi idelology?" The answer is no, it wouldn't be cool and it didn't happen. Sure, you had your occasional John Demjanjuk, a concentration camp guard, who lived in the U.S., who was eventually extradited to Germany and convicted. But "The Implausible Nazi Murder Show" is a fantasy that there many, many such Demjanjuks living among us, not just hiding, but actively pursuing a "Nazi lifestyle." And like Aaron, I am troubled that they had to conjure up "new" ways that Nazis tortured and killed the Jews. Aren't the methods that were used troublesome enough?
