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I’ve seen that movie a hundred times and never noticed that.
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I just bought a 4k tv for Christmas lol. Rediscovering little details in all my favorite old movies. It's only shown for half a second when they first arrive to Faye Dunaway's apartment & he's trying to explain himself.
But isn’t the front “The American Literary Society” or something like that?
One of my favourites. It’s unfortunate that it’s dated in that the big shocking secret isn’t really that shocking to us now.
Rewatched it over the holidays: what a great film.
What was the rationale behind this? Was it a nod to Operation Paperclip & the CIA's close work with Nazis in the Cold War? The company is called "Tentrex Industries," which means there's absolutely no reason for those "SS" embellishments in the logo. It just doesn't make any sense!
Man that was a good read. I recommend “Hunting Hitler” on History/Hulu.. it was surprisingly eye opening and the research/discoveries of old German built bases in the woods of Argentina and Colônia Dignidad in Chile were amazing and jaw dropping. Seeing the same wooden razor wire fences in Chile at the Colony that you see around Dachau and many many countless other Concentration Camps is just still so jarring to me. Not to mention the whole network they uncover involving the Catholic Church to help Nazis escape imprisonment/any repercussions for their sins.
There's a movie about Colonia Dignidad which does a pretty good job of dramatizing the horrors which went on there. Starring Emma Watson of all people.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colonia_(film)
Also worth checking out (though I gave up after a couple episodes due to how dark & morbid it was) is a Netflix documentary miniseries called "A Sinister Sect."
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt15430012/
The absolute creepiest part is that Colonia Dignidad still exists & functions as a bed and breakfast to tourists who want to come experience the warmth of a German concentration camp nestled in the Andes mountains. Run by the children/survivors of the Pinochet era:
http://www.villabaviera.cl/quienes-somos/comunidad-hoy/#prettyPhoto
I knew it was still a B&B, so weird. Thanks for the suggestions, I’m reminding myself to check those out! Such an interesting (and dark) part of history. I’m not Jewish but my family in Holland were affected by the Nazis and I even had a great uncle who was disappeared by them, one day he just never came home. The last reported sighting was him being carted off by some SS (at least from what I’ve heard from Oma/Opa).
Hunting Hitler is an affront to historians as a whole. It’s sensational television on par with ancient aliens and other ‘history’ media that is degrading the public’s understanding of the past. The team of investigators is comprised of fraud men with a couple of examples of legit historian such as Hollan who have spoken out against the show in recent years. Hunting Hitler is bad history and is damaging to the public.
That is such bs man, if you’re saying the hidden tunnels and clear nazi-era equipment isn’t from third reich soldiers you’re outside of your mind. Sure some of it is dramatized (it’s TV get over it), but the hard facts and places they found with period correct evidence is clear as day.
Typo “eta” to “era”
From Wikipedia:
The Soviet Union restricted the release of information and released many conflicting reports about Hitler's death. Historians have largely rejected these as part of a deliberate disinformation campaign by Joseph Stalin to sow confusion regarding Hitler's death,[7][g][h][i] or have attempted to reconcile them.[j] Soviet records allege that the burnt remains of Hitler and Braun were recovered,[k][l] despite eyewitness accounts that they were almost completely reduced to ashes. In June 1945, the Soviets began seeding two contradictory narratives: that Hitler died by taking cyanide[m] and that he had survived and fled to another country.[8][9][10] Following extensive review, West Germany issued a death certificate in 1956.[11] Conspiracy theories about Hitler's death continue to attract interest.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_of_Adolf_Hitler
Though I would agree with you that Hunting Hitler is tabloid journalism in its essence, it remains dubious that the only people to see Hitler's corpse were his closest Nazi confidants. The Soviets only had a smouldering pile of ashes to work with & the dental records which "conclusively prove he died in Berlin" were conspicuously published just 24 hours after Tim Kennedy stated his belief that Hitler made it to Argentina on the Joe Rogan Experience.
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Have you ever read The Devil's Chessboard by David Talbot? The ties between the CIA & the Nazis, specifically the S.S., run waaaayyy deeper than NASA working with Werner Von Braun. This may well have been some kind of deliberate Easter egg / inside joke for the intelligence community.
Maybe the most stylish film of all time in terms of wardrobe. Redford gets more and more GQ as the movie goes on.
I dream of owning a peacoat like that someday.
I bet you could get the same color, style, different brand. I bet getting the exact brand would be $$$$. Sort of like Bob Dylan’s jacket on the Freewheelin’ album cover.
This film is soooo good! I love to do a double feature of this and Marathon Man at least once a year.
Ahhh! Great call. I just watched Marathon Man last week. They do pair perfectly together.
I was just watching Billion Dollar Brain and Ed Begley’s character General Midwinter is an rabid anti-Communist and uses the Nazi Parteiadler for his organization.
Oh wow
I’ve never seen this movie, can somebody explain how this is relevant please?
It isn't strictly relevant.
In the film, Redford's character works for the 'American Literary Historical Society', which is, in fact, a CIA front. The company's actual job is to analyse foreign books, newspapers and magazines for discover if they are being used as a means of communication by foreign intelligence agencies and also to use them as a source of ideas.
Redford, whose codename is 'Condor', notices that an obscure crime novel with an unusual plot has been translated into many languages. When he reports this and then goes for lunch, he returns to find all of his colleagues have been murdered.
'Tentrex Industries' isn't who he works for directly, that's a cover for the larger CIA operation in New York.
Was this intentional?
Accidental trilogy:
This, Spy game, Sneakers
Just tried reading the 3rd Condor novel and couldn't do it. I dropped it off innone of those give one take one road side libraries. Perhaps someone will have better luck.
