Get Eichmann – Israel’s Hunt For A Nazi War Criminal - Part 2

Conflicted: A History Podcast

Zach Cornwell

Education, History, Society & Culture

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🗓️ 9 September 2025

⏱️ 112 minutes

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Adolf Eichmann has been found. In the spring of 1960, Mossad launches a daring operation to kidnap “Ricardo Klement” and smuggle him back to Israel to face judgement. SOURCES: Aharoni, Zvi. Dietl, Wilhelm. Operation Eichmann: Pursuit and Capture. 1997. 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. https://www.npr.org/2019/07/16/740686212/the-doctor-who-helped-israeli-spies-catch-eichmann-but-refused-recognition-for-i Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:46.6	Hello and welcome to Conflicted, the history podcast where we talk about the struggles that shaped us,
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0:59.1	I'm your host, Zach Cornwell. You are listening to Part 2 of a three-part series on the
1:04.0	pursuit, capture, and trial of the Nazi war criminal Adolf Eichmann. As we move into the next
1:09.5	phase of our story, in which Israeli spies play
1:12.2	such a critical and central role, I think it's time to finally address the elephant in the room,
1:16.8	the unspoken, uncomfortable reality creeping at the edges of this topic. I want to make it very,
1:22.4	very clear that this series is not an attempt to lionize, glorify, or uncritically celebrate Israel and its
1:29.1	intelligence service Mossad. In the seven decades since the events we are discussing took
1:33.2	place, the Israeli government, and by extension Mossad, has done some very, very questionable things,
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