Nazi Hunters

Released: 2010-01-12

Runtime: 44 minutes

Episode Overview

Nazi Hunters examines 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. A Mossad agent working under the name 'Anton Kunzle' had him shot in a remote suburb of Montevideo, Uruguay.

Series Overview

Witnesses and historians retell the events leading up to the capture and or death of some of World War Two's most heinous Nazi fugitives.