And he comes to a startling conclusion: Offerman is the Wolf, and he killed the real Meyer Offerman, taking his identity after Soviet forces liberated Offerman’s concentration camp. That was the responsibility that weighed on me every night and every morning for years, while writing, producing, and editing this show." While "Meyer"'s words ring a bit hollow with the realization of his true identity, the coming-of-age factor remains; Jonah has grown into the person ready to lead this vigilante group. Wilhelm Zuchs, known throughout the series as Meyer Offerman, is the overarching antagonist of the Amazon Prime original TV series Hunters. Meyer Offerman Amazon Prime Video/Christopher Saunders Meyer (the legendary Al Pacino) is the vigilante leader and mastermind of The Hunters, which he founded alongside Ruth. But Meyer didn’t deliver that prayer before killing this guy, and when Jonah questioned him about it Meyer didn’t know what he was talking about. He is portrayed by Al Pacino. Can please have one where Meyer is the real Meyer but he unfortunately dies during that car accident,and leaves everything to Jonah who uses the resources to assemble a killer team and assassin Hitler,but finds himself taking in those boys who were shown in the last episode and raise them to be loving kids instead of adhering to the Nazi ideology they were taught by the Ava fucking Braun. He is portrayed by Al Pacino. He then escaped to Berlin and realized that he needed surgery after being spotted. Wilhelm Zuchs, known throughout the series as Meyer Offerman, is the overarching antagonist of the Amazon Prime original TV series Hunters. Meyer tells Jonah that he's right, and the whole truth trickles out from there. Meyer Offerman is one of the main characters in Hunters. Meyer Offerman is one of the main characters in Hunters. So, yes, Meyer Offerman really was Jonah's grandfather – but this person he's been spending so much time with...isn't Meyer Offerman. And so, the real Zuchs, The Wolf, revealed that he fled from the Russians, killed the real Meyer, and wrote a note as Meyer for Ruth. The real … I did not want to misrepresent a real person or borrow from a specific moment in an actual person’s life. Al Pacino vs Nazis: the true story that inspired new Amazon series Hunters The creator of the new Nazi hunters drama tells Paul Kendall why the show is dedicated to his grandmother However, there is still the question of whether Al Pacino’s character in Hunters, Meyer Offerman, is actually based on a real person. In Amazon's new series 'Hunters,' Al Pacino's character is based on a true story about Nazi hunters Simon Wiesenthal and Beate and Serge Klarsfeld. Hunters doesn't claim that it's based on any one real person or group throughout history. Here's what to know about the finale. Is Meyer Offerman from 'Hunters' actually based on a real person? Meyer achieved this long deception with the aid of plastic surgery given to him by Mann, and by ensuring the real Offerman was killed and buried as he stole his identity. He is a former Nazi doctor who stole the identity of a jew, Meyer Offerman, and formed the titular Hunters team …
Since the real Meyer had dreamed of this moment and always said the prayer in his dreams, this Meyer not saying the prayer was all Jonah needed to realize Zuchs was Meyer.
Yes, Meyer Offerman is/was Jonah's real grandfather, but Pacino's character is not Meyer Offerman (and maybe a reason for the casting of a non-Jewish person in the role). Amazon Prime's 'Hunters', starring Logan Lerman and Al Pacino, had two mind-blowing twists at the end of its first season.
But according to creator David Weil in an interview with IndieWire , the show in general is "a love letter" to his grandmother, a Holocaust survivor.