Simon Wiesenthal, Nazi Hunter

The man who captured Adolph Eichmann has died. His memoirs, The Murderers Among Us, make for incredible reading. Weisenthal is well known for I Hunted Eichmann, a book in which (it is said) he leveraged the romance of some of his more notrious chases in order to promote and fund his operation. His superhero work was naturally arresting, but the other aspects of his work were also compelling: the meticulous research he never finished, the ethical boundaries he perpetually skirted in plumbing the underworld for leads, the rehabilitated Nazi politicians he tried to topple during the Cold War. Fascinating man.