Nazi Hunters

Name: Nazi Hunters
Released: 2010-10-02T07:00:00.000Z
Cast: Alisdair Simpson

TV Show · Documentary · History

"Nazi Hunters" tells of how an unrelenting band of secret agents and avengers hunted down some of the most evil men in history and finally brought them to justice. Included are tales of the pursuit of Adolf Eichmann, Erich Priebke, "Butcher of Lyon" Klaus Barbie, and "Angel of Death" Josef Mengele.

2010 · 53m

Starring Alisdair Simpson

Director Martin Hughes, Chris Lethbridge

EPISODE 1

Hunting the Nazi Rocket Scientists

German scientists worked for the Nazi regime, creating a V2 ballistic missile. When the war ended, the US was desperate to get its hands on the scientists before the Russians did.
EPISODE 2

The Hunt for Martin Bormann

Martin Bormann was vital to Hitler. Bormann made Hitler and the Third Reich rich through thinly veiled extortion schemes such as The Hitler Endowment Fund of German Industry.
EPISODE 3

Justice SAS Style

The SAS War Crimes Investigation Team secretly hunted down Gestapo officers. There were 31 missing SAS men. But there were no clues. No bodies. They had just disappeared.
EPISODE 4

Peiper - the Murderer of Malmedy

Joachim Peiper and his vicious bunch of SS thugs marched US 285th Field Artillery Observation Battalion into a field near Malmedy in January 1945 and shot them.
EPISODE 5

Death Camp Kommandant

Franz Stangl was responsible for the extermination of around 900,000 men, women and children. He escaped to Italy where he joined a ‘rat-line’. From there, he disappeared.
EPISODE 6

The Good Nazi

Speer’s crimes included using and organising slave labour in death camps and prolonging the war by his fanatical work to develop the Nazi war machine.