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Conflicted: A History Podcast

Get Eichmann – Israel’s Hunt For A Nazi War Criminal - Part 1

Conflicted: A History Podcast

Zach Cornwell

Society & Culture, Education, History

4.8610 Ratings

🗓️ 8 August 2025

⏱️ 99 minutes

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Summary

When World War II ended, SS officer Adolf Eichmann disappeared. As a key organizer of Nazi Germany’s Final Solution, the genocidal program that murdered 6 million European Jews, Eichmann became one of the most hunted men on earth. For 15 years, he remained hidden. But in 1957, through the efforts of a West German lawyer, a blind man, and Israeli intelligence, Eichmann’s trail was found, leading to Buenos Aires, Argentina…     SOURCES: Arendt, Hannah. Eichmann In Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil. 1963. Bascomb, Neal. Hunting Eichmann: How a Band of Survivors and a Young Spy Agency Chased  Down the World’s Most Notorious Nazi. 2009. Bergman, Ronen. Rise and Kill First: The Secret History of Israel’s Targeted Assassinations. 2018. Charles Rivers Editors. The Mossad. 2019. Charles Rivers Editors. Germany and the Cold War. 2018. Charles Rivers Editors. Israel’s Most Legendary Operations. 2018. Goni, Uki. The Real Odessa: How Nazi War Criminals Escaped Europe. 2003. Fairweather, Jack. The Prosecutor: One Man’s Batlle to Bring Nazis to Justice. 2025. Hourly History. The Nuremberg Trials. 2020.  Lauryssens, Stan. The Eichmann Legacy. 2017. Lipstadt, Deborah. The Eichmann Trial. 2011. MacLean, French. American Hangman: MSGT. John C. Woods. 2019. Roland, Paul. The Nuremberg Trials: The Nazis and Their Crimes Against Humanity. 2010.  Scott-Bauman, Michael. The Shortest History of Israel and Palestine. 2023. Stangneth, Buttina. Eichmann Before Jerusalem: The Unexamined Life of a Mass Murderer. 2014. Stein, Harry. Malkin, Peter. Eichmann In My Hands. 1990.  Steinke, Ronan. Fritz Bauer: The Jewish Prosecutor Who Brought Eichmann and Auschwitz to Trial. 2020.  Thomas, Gordon. The Secret History of the Mossad. 1999.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:08.4

Hello and welcome to Conflicted, the history podcast where we talk about the struggles that shaped us, the tough questions that they pose and why we should care about any of it.

1:14.3

Conflicted is a member of the Evergreen Podcast Network. and as always, I'm your host, Zach Cornwell.

1:19.1

When I was a teenager, roughly a thousand years ago, I used to watch a lot of cable TV.

1:29.7

And like all of us back then, I had certain channels that I like to watch, certain shows I would always try and catch, but my absolute favorite channel, and this will probably come as no surprise, was the History Channel.

1:34.2

Now, before your eyes roll right out of your skull, you have to understand that this was before the place was overrun with ancient aliens, pawn stars, and American pickers.

1:38.8

Back in the day, the History Channel discussed actual history with actual historians.

1:43.9

But even back then, the History Channel had a bit of a problem, at least as I saw it.

1:48.6

Despite being on the air 24 hours a day, it only ever seemed to talk about one kind of history.

1:53.9

One particular era.

1:55.5

And that era, of course, was World War II.

1:58.2

Every single time I flipped over to the history channel, I figured there was about

2:01.6

a 90% chance that I'd find yet another documentary about Adolf Hitler, or Pearl Harbor,

2:07.1

or Winston Churchill, or D-Day. And it's no secret that in the realm of historical entertainment,

2:12.4

World War II has an overwhelming gravitational pull. Walk into any bookstore, head back to the

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