Simon Wiesenthal: The Man Who Hunted Nazis

Wiesenthal, the 88-year-old survivorof a dozen Second World War concentration camps, is the most famous and persistent hunter of Nazis. For over half a century he has sought out fugitives suspected of war crimes against the Jews. But his single-minded methods have not been universally respected, even byfellow anti-Nazi activists. The film includes interviews with novelist Frederick Forsyth - author of The Odessa File, in which the fictionial Nazi-hunterwas based on Wiesenthal -former Austrian president Kurt Waldheim and Wiesenthal himself. It also investigates Wiesenthal's role in the 1961 capture of the notorious Adolf Eichmann.