Nazi Hunters

Name: Nazi Hunters
Released: 2010-07-04T00:00:00.000Z

TV Show · Documentary · History

It's one of the greatest, real-life detective stories ever. Featuring eight spellbinding missions, Nazi Fugitives tells how a select band of secret agents and avengers hunted down some of the most evil men in history... And finally brought them to justice.

2010 · 44m

EPISODE 1

Herbert Cukurs

The story of how Israeli secret service agents traveled to South America to assassinate Nazi war criminal Herbert Cukurs. Known as the Hangman of Riga, Cukurs was responsible for the deaths of over 30,000 Latvian Jews.
EPISODE 2

Adolf Eichmann

This is the hunt for Adolf Eichmann, considered by many to be one of the main architects of the Holocaust.
EPISODE 3

Klaus Barbie

The husband and wife team of Serge and Beate Klarsfeld worked tirelessly to have Nazi war criminal Klaus Barbie extradited from Bolvia to stand trail in France. Barbie known as "The Butch of Lyon" was responsible for the deaths of 10,000 French Jews.
EPISODE 4

Erich Priebke

A half-century after the war, American journalists track down former Gestapo officer Erich Priebke. Priebke who was responsible for some of Italy's worst atrocities fled to Argentina after the war.
EPISODE 5

Joseph Mengele

Examine how Mossad agents from Israel spent nearly thirty years tracking the notorious Nazi physician Josef Mengele.
EPISODE 6

Kurt Lishka

The sotry of German housewife Beate Klarsfeld and her husband Serge, who helped track down former Paris Gestapo chief Kurt Lishka. Lishka ordered the arrest and murder of over 33,000 Jews yet lived as a free man in Germany for years.