Nazi Fugitives - Season 1

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.

The hunt for Adolf Eichmann, considered by many to be one of the main architects of the Holocaust.

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 Butcher of Lyon" was responsible for the deaths of 10,000 French Jews.

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

How Mossad agents from Israel spent nearly thirty years tracking the notorious Nazi physician Josef Mengele.

The story 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.

French investigators hunt down Paul Touvier, a pro-Nazi sympathizer who was responsible for murdering both Jews and resistance fighters. This 'Hangman of Lyon' hid himself with the assistance of a right wing group associated with the Catholic Church.

How Nazi hunter Simon Wiesenthal tracked down fugitive war criminal Franz Stangl in Sao Paulo, Brazil. He was a commandant at Sobibor and at Treblinka. Stangl was responsible for the murder of over 800,000 people.

Hours before he dies, Stangl confesses Gustav Wagner also lives in Sao Paulo. So, Wiesenthal works to bring him to justice. Stangl trained Wagner during the T-4 Euthanasia Program. Later, Wagner was a commandant at Sobibor after Stangl. Known as "the Beast", he is responsible for murdering over 200,000 people.