Get Eichmann – Israel’s Hunt For A Nazi War Criminal - Part 2

About this episode

The episode discusses the Mossad's operation to capture Adolf Eichmann in 1960.

Adolf Eichmann has been found. In the spring of 1960, Mossad launches a daring operation to kidnap “Ricardo Klement” and smuggle him back to Israel to face judgement. 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. Lauryssens, Stan. The Eichmann Legacy. 2017. 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…

Topics covered

• Adolf Eichmann
• Mossad
• Nazi War Criminals
• Israel
• Judgement

Keywords

• Eichmann
• kidnap
• operation
• judgement
• Nazi

Mentioned in this episode

Books & works: Eichmann In Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil, Hunting Eichmann: How, Rise and Kill First: The Secret History of Israel’s Targeted Assassinations, The Real Odessa: How Nazi War Criminals Escaped Europe, The Shortest History of Israel and Palestine

Places: Israel, Germany

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