Adolf Eichmann was a Nazi war criminal guilty of heinous acts of genocide. When Germany lost the war he managed to evade capture and escape to Argentina. Up until this point he had kept his role as one of the major architects of the holocaust secret. This is the story of how a survivor of this barbaric genocide Simon Wiesenthal brought him to justice.

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