Nazi Hunters

- Season 1

(2010)

Nazi Hunters looks at the U.S. effort to capture Nazi Rocket Scientist Wernher Von Braun. The effort to capture the "father of the V2" is led by Army intelligence officer Robert B. Staver. Near the end of the war, Von Brain surrenders to U.S. troops in order to avoid capture by the oncoming Soviet army. He is sent to the U.S. where he later becomes of leader in the U.S. Space Program.

Nazi Hunters looks at life of Martin Bormann who rose to power with the Nazis by positioning himself as Hitler's personal secretary. At the end of the war, he fled from the Fuhrerbunker and disappeared one of the most sought after and highest ranking Nazi fugitive. Despite efforts by Simon Wiesenthal, Bormann is not found. Eventually, a skeleton is discovered in Germany is matched to Bormann. It is believed he died shortly after his escape from the Fuhrerbunker.

Justice SAS Style examines the brutal murder of 31 British Special Air Service Soldiers in Eastern France after the failure of Operation Loyton. After the war, an SAS War Crimes Investigation Team commanded by Major Eric Alistair 'Bill' Barkworth hunt down the Gestapo officers responsible for the crime.

Nazi Hunters examines the Malmedy massacre where SS soldiers under the command of Joachim Peiper murdered eighty-four U.S. prisoners of war. After a series of other massacres are also attributed to Peiper, the Supreme Headquarters Allied Expeditionary Force track him down and put him trial. He is found guilty but is later set due to irregularities in the trial and the changing politics of the Cold War. Many years later, however, Peiper is murdered in his own home after details of his identity are published in a leftist newspaper.

Nazi Hunters examines the search for Franz Stangl the Nazi commandant of the Treblinka and Sobibor death camps in Poland. At the end of the war he escaped to Italy and eventual made it to South American. Holocaust survivor Simon Wiesenthal tracks him down in Brazil where he is arrested. He is extradited to West Germany where he is put on trial for his crimes.

Nazi Hunters examines the case of Albert Speer who served as Minister of Armaments and War Production for Nazi Germany. After the war, two groups search for him: the UN War Crimes Commission and the US Strategic Bombing Survey. Although he is guilty of organizing slave labor in Death Camps, he collaboration with the United States may have allowed him to avoid serious punishment.

Nazi Hunters examines the case of Joseph Mengele a Nazi doctor who experimented on adults and children in the Auschwitz death camp. After the war, his relatively common name allowed him to slip through the finger of the Allies. He fled to South America with the help of Odessa where he became the topic target for Nazi Hunter and Holocaust survivor Simon Wiesenthal. A hunted man, Mengele eventually dies in Brazil under the name Wolfgang Gerhard.

Nazi Hunters examines the story of Holocaust survivors who in the wake of World War II decide to enact a brutal and shocking "eye for an eye" revenge against the Germans. They kidnapped suspected war criminals, forced them to make confessions, and killed them. It looks at the Jewish Brigade, Abba Kovner's Nakam, and the assassination of Herberts Cukurs.

Nazi Hunters examines the assassination of SS-Gruppenführer Reinhardt Heydrich. Heydrich was the brutal military dictator of Czechoslovakia and was also one of the main architects of the Holocaust. He was assassinated in Prague by a group of Czech partisans specially trained by the British SOE. The Germans military respond by liquidating the Czech villages of Lidice and Lezaky in reprisal.

Nazi Hunters examines the search of Adolf Eichmann the logistical mind behind Hitler's Final Solution. He organized the transportation and incarceration of six million Jews to the death camps. After the war, he escaped justice and made his way to Argentina. Eventually, Israel's intelligence service Mossad catch up with him. He is sent to Israel for trail and is later put to death.

Nazi Hunters examines the cases of Klaus Barbie and John Demjanjuk. Barbie was a former SS officer (nicknamed 'The Butcher') who was the sadistic head of the Nazi secret police in the French city of Lyon. After the war, he fled to South America, but was later extradited to France to face trail for his crimes. Demjanjuk was alleged to be 'Ivan the Terrible' a brutal Ukrainian guard who forced thousands of Jews to the gas chambers. He claimed it was a case of mistaken identity, but was extradited from the United States to Israel where he was put on trial.

Nazi Hunters examines the life and death of Heinrich Himmler the Nazi head of the SS and the Gestapo. Two weeks after the end of World War II, Himmler killed himself while he was being interrogated by the British. Although it looked like a suicide, years later rumors began to spread that there was more to the story.

Nazi Hunters looks at the life and death of Hermann Goering the Commander-in-chief of the Luftwaffe and Hitler's anointed successor. At the end of the war, Goering is the only Nazi of Hitler's inner circle left alive. The Allies desperately wish to put him on trial and execute him. Unfortunately, he manages to avoid this fate by committing suicide with poison that was somehow smuggled into his cell.