Nazi Hunters
Nazi Hunters is a documentary on Yesterday. Documentary series profiling those who ensured Nazi war criminals were brought to justice. The program has been available since 2025. A total of 13 episodes have been broadcast, most recently in July 2025.
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1:00:00Nazi Hunters
Follow the search for the elusive Josef Mengele, for many years the world's most wanted criminal, led by one of his captives in Auschwitz - Simon Wiesenthal.
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1:00:00Architect Albert Speer was one of the few war criminals to admit his guilt at the Nuremberg trials, but was his remorse a ruse? The facts are assessed.
1:00:00Hear how the 30-year hunt for the commandant of two death camps culminated, in the series that charts the fate of Nazi war criminals post-World War II.
1:00:00Hear how the man responsible for the massacre of US soldiers in Malmedy - Joachim Peiper - became the hunted as Allied forces tried to track him down.
1:00:00Witness the efforts of the SAS War Crimes Investigation Team as they attempt to track down several Gestapo officers, wanted for a host of despicable atrocities.
1:00:00From scientists to SS commanders - the stories of the Nazi war criminals and how they were tracked down. Here, Hitler's personal secretary Martin Bormann.
1:00:00Hear about the painstaking hunt for Nazi war criminals, beginning with the US Army task force in charge of locating key German scientists.
1:00:00Revisit the capture and subsequent suicide of one of Hitler's most feared allies, Heinrich Himmler, whose reign of persecution ended millions of lives.
1:00:00The global search for the most sought-after World War II criminals. How Hitler's deputy Hermann Goering was captured by the Allies, leading to his suicide.
1:00:00'The Butcher of Lyon' and 'Ivan the Terrible' - join the hunt for Gestapo head Klaus Barbie and death camp guard Ivan Grozny, which lasted into the 1980s.
1:00:00Hear about the tireless pursuit of those responsible for atrocities during World War II. Find out how Adolf Eichmann was tracked to Argentina in 1961.
1:00:00One of the main architects of the Holocaust, Reinhard Heydrich was assassinated by British-trained Czechs in 1942. This is the story of his downfall.
1:00:00After World War II, a Jewish group called the Avengers decided to hunt down known Nazis. Hear how they tracked their targets, including lawyer Wilhelm Stuckart.