Part Three: Adolf Eichmann: Mr. Holocaust Himself

Behind the Bastards

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🗓️ 8 July 2025

⏱️ 75 minutes

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In Part 3, the Reich has invaded Russia and Eichmann is on a fact finding mission that will determine the course of the Holocaust.

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0:00.0	Welcome back to Behind the Bastards, a podcast about the very worst people in all of history.
0:12.8	We are talking about Adolf Eichmann this week and last week.
0:18.0	Last week we got through his childhood and his early rise through the SD,
0:22.7	which is the SS Security Division, to become the, in his words, Tsar of the Jews for Nazi
0:29.7	Germany. And today, with our guest Joe Kasabian, we're talking about what happens to Eichmann
0:35.7	as the war moves towards its final phase.
0:39.2	How you doing, Joe? You excited to hear about this guy? You think he's going to finally break good
0:43.0	in this last two parts? I got to say, I'm not super optimistic that he's going to have a
0:49.8	redemption arc. I dressed up for this episode because I was surprised last time. So now I'm just
0:57.4	wearing a shirt. This says all pain. Yeah. I'm treating this like people were treating
1:04.5	like the second half of Andor where they were hoping their favorite like monster imperial
1:08.4	characters with like, oh, this guy's going to totally turn out good at the end, right?
1:12.1	Yeah, this is our moment like that for Eichmann.
1:14.6	Yeah, most Nazis are not, in fact, the one from the pianist.
1:17.7	No, no.
1:22.6	This is an I-Heart podcast.
1:27.4	How could a beautiful young first grade teacher be stabbed 20 times, including in the bat,
1:35.1	allegedly die of suicide?
1:37.7	Yes, that was the medical examiner's official ruling.
1:41.4	After a closed door meeting, he first named it a homicide. Why? What happened to
1:47.6	Ellen Greenberg, a huge American miscarriage of justice? For an in-depth look at the facts.
1:56.8	See what happened to Ellen on Amazon. all proceeds to the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children.
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