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Conflicted: A History Podcast

Get Eichmann – Israel’s Hunt For A Nazi War Criminal - Part 3

Conflicted: A History Podcast

Zach Cornwell

Education, History, Society & Culture

4.8610 Ratings

🗓️ 10 October 2025

⏱️ 94 minutes

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Summary

In the summer of 1960, all eyes are on Israel. As the Jewish nation unveils its capture of Adolf Eichmann to the world, a bitter controversy swirls around the notorious SS officer. Eichmann’s lawyer, Dr. Robert Servatius, scrambles to cobble together a defense strategy and save his client from the noose. In Jerusalem, journalist and scholar Hannah Arendt wrestles with questions about the nature of evil.    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.  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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maycon.a.i. That's m-a-i-c-on.a-i. Hello and welcome to Conflicted, the history

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podcast where we talk about the struggles that shaped us, the tough questions that they pose,

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and why we should care about any of it. Conflicted is a member of the Evergreen Podcast Network, and as always, I'm your host, Zach Cornwell. You are listening to the third and final installment of a three-part series on the pursuit, capture, and trial of the Nazi war criminal Adolf Eichmann. Now, if you haven't listened to the previous episodes, I definitely recommend you do that before jumping into this one. But hey, if you prefer a more non-linear

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listening experience, you do you. That said, since it has been a few weeks since the last time

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we met up, I'd like to quickly recap the important beats of part two, so we can proceed

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confidently into this final stage of the story. Last episode, we spent most of our time in Buenos Aires, following the Israeli Mossad

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capture team as they attempted to track down Adolf Eichmann, confirm his identity, abduct

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him, interrogate him, and extract him cleanly from Argentina.

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Our main human viewpoints to the various ups and downs of this endeavor was an agent named

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Zvi Aharoni.

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Now, most retellings of the Eichmann story, including the 2018 film Operation Finale,

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tend to focus on the memories of the agent who physically grabbed Eichmann from Garibaldi Street,

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