The question of duplicity both during and after World War II manifests in many forms in "Hunters." The most glaring example of this is the man posing as Meyer. He had a hand in torturing Ruth, the woman he later befriends while posing as her long lost love, who he actually killed. This is monstrous, but history is full of horror stories, as "Hunters" drives home. Though Meyer is not based on a specific historical figure, the endless betrayals the Jewish people went through during the existence of the Nazi regime are beyond ghastly, with many people forced to realize that friends, neighbors, and family members that they thought they could trust were the ones that sold them out.
Meyer's story is mirrored by that of Hitler, who, after his trial, is sentenced to life in prison, where he is completely forgotten. This may seem like an offbeat choice to anyone that was expecting a satisfyingly gory conclusion for the wicked man who ruined and ended so many lives, but for a person so ravenous for attention and validation of his ideology, what more fitting punishment is there than to be forgotten? While many of those in his command were put on trial and executed during the Nuremberg Trials, Hitler himself died comparatively peacefully by suicide. Bringing him back and giving him a suitably pathetic ending as he cries "Don't you know who I am?" forces him to endure something that, for a man like Hitler, is a fate worse than death.
