If you think history is dull and dusty and has absolutely no bearing on the events of today, you’re wrong.  Neal Bascomb will show you just how exciting and thrilling history can be–and how its lessons are still relevant today–in The Nazi Hunters.

A large cast of characters come together to track down, capture and and bring the notorious Nazi Adolf Eichmann to trial in Israel.  At the end of World War II, Eichmann went into hiding and eventually fled to Argentina.  Over a decade later, rumors of his new life began to trickle into the ears of Israeli government officials and Nazi hunters, but the trail went cold more than once.

In 1959, Fritz Bauer, a German district attorney, went to Israel to plead with them to pursue Eichmann.  He had no hope of Germany acting against any more former Nazis.  Instead, more and more former Nazis were coming back to power along with a resurgence of neoNazism.  Before committing to break–or at least bend–international law, Israel wanted definite confirmation of Eichmann’s identity.

Once the Mossad confirmed that it was indeed Eichmann living in Argentina, the Israelis assembled a team of super spies to capture, hold, and remove Eichman.  The team had experts in forgery, disguise, mechanics, construction, and more.  Every detail was planned, rehearsed, and backed up with more plans.  If any detail went wrong, all of them could end up in an Argentine prison for years or worse.  Once they were on the ground in Argentina, they were on their own because of the diplomatic problems their whole enterprise would cause.

Do I give anything away if I tell you that Eichmann’s trial in Israel opened the floodgates for survivors of the Nazi camps to tell their stories?  The trial not only brought one of the most notorious Nazi criminals to justice, but it allowed the world to remember.