Nazi Hunters: Justice, Vengeance, and the Limits of the Law

The Nuremberg trials promised justice, but thousands of Nazis slipped away using covert escape routes to South America and beyond. This course traces their flight and the decades-long hunt that followed: German prosecutor Fritz Bauer's dangerous choice to bypass his own government and tip off Mossad, the dramatic capture and trial of Adolf Eichmann, and the notorious cases — like Josef Mengele — that were never solved. We close with today's prosecutions of elderly former camp guards, asking what justice means when it arrives eighty years late.