Nazi Hunters

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Nazi Hunters

From scientists to SS commanders - the stories of the Nazi war criminals and how they were tracked down. Here, Hitler's personal secretary Martin Bormann.

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Series 1
Hear about the painstaking hunt for Nazi war criminals, beginning with the US Army task force in charge of locating key German scientists.
Revisit the capture and subsequent suicide of one of Hitler's most feared allies, Heinrich Himmler, whose reign of persecution ended millions of lives.
The global search for the most sought-after World War II criminals. How Hitler's deputy Hermann Goering was captured by the Allies, leading to his suicide.
'The Butcher of Lyon' and 'Ivan the Terrible' - join the hunt for Gestapo head Klaus Barbie and death camp guard Ivan Grozny, which lasted into the 1980s.
Hear about the tireless pursuit of those responsible for atrocities during World War II. Find out how Adolf Eichmann was tracked to Argentina in 1961.
One of the main architects of the Holocaust, Reinhard Heydrich was assassinated by British-trained Czechs in 1942. This is the story of his downfall.
After World War II, a Jewish group called the Avengers decided to hunt down known Nazis. Hear how they tracked their targets, including lawyer Wilhelm Stuckart.
Follow the search for the elusive Josef Mengele, for many years the world's most wanted criminal, led by one of his captives in Auschwitz - Simon Wiesenthal.
Architect Albert Speer was one of the few war criminals to admit his guilt at the Nuremberg trials, but was his remorse a ruse? The facts are assessed.
Hear how the 30-year hunt for the commandant of two death camps culminated, in the series that charts the fate of Nazi war criminals post-World War II.
Hear how the man responsible for the massacre of US soldiers in Malmedy - Joachim Peiper - became the hunted as Allied forces tried to track him down.
Witness the efforts of the SAS War Crimes Investigation Team as they attempt to track down several Gestapo officers, wanted for a host of despicable atrocities.
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