Nazi Murder Mysteries

True crime meets Nazi Germany - sounds like a recipe for success as a documentary series? Well, in fairness, it is good TV and well worth watching if you are interested in either of those two topics but it also has to at least be acknowledged that the material isn't always the best fit. The first three episodes certainly fir the remit but the final three are more questionable, with the Witch Elm murder very easily having nothing to do with the Nazis at all, while the Hermann Goering and Rudolph Hess entries most likely not murder mysteries at all! That being said, all the episodes make for interesting viewing. Hitler's bizarre and dark relationship with his niece, highly irregular and corrupt police work in the Bahamas, a psychopath prowling the streets of Berlin at the height of Nazi terror, an unknown woman found in a tree and portraits of high-ranking Nazi officials Goering and Hess. There's a lot to sink your teeth into, even if the title doesn't always fully match the content.

It's very interesting. One thing that bothered me was they kept saying the men who committed suicide were taking charge of their own fate. Uh no they were cowards plain and simple. All of them who killed themselves instead of facing the consequences were pure unadulterated cowards. Hitler being the biggest coward of them all. They didn't give the people they tortured and murdered the option to just take a cyanide pill. Oh no. They beat, starved, shot, and about a million other atrocities I don't want to think about, men, women and innocent children. What kind of men do that? Cowards that's who.