WEBVTT - S1-E09: Judgment Day 0:00:07.560 --> 0:00:15.720 Diversion podcasts. A note this episode contains descriptions of graphic 0:00:15.800 --> 0:00:34.479 violence listener's discretion as advised judgment. Day had arrived February 0:00:36.000 --> 0:00:38.840 in sal Paolo. Herbert Sukers was getting ready to board 0:00:38.880 --> 0:00:42.559 his flight, which left around seven am. The trip to 0:00:42.600 --> 0:00:44.440 Mount of the Dao would take about two and a 0:00:44.479 --> 0:00:47.639 half hours. He put on a dress shirt, a light 0:00:47.680 --> 0:00:51.400 colored suit and a tie. I could just picture it. 0:00:51.640 --> 0:00:55.080 Although Zookers was rarely photographed wearing a suit, it was 0:00:55.160 --> 0:00:56.600 as if he was going to his first day on 0:00:56.680 --> 0:01:02.080 a job, dressing for success. He said goodbye to his family. 0:01:02.680 --> 0:01:06.680 His flight was Air France Flight three. He got to 0:01:06.720 --> 0:01:10.280 the airport early and sat in the departure lounge. He 0:01:10.360 --> 0:01:13.640 must have been excited worried too. It was a big 0:01:13.680 --> 0:01:17.040 deal for him, this whole thing. He wanted a different 0:01:17.080 --> 0:01:20.360 sort of life. He knew that at sixty four he 0:01:20.400 --> 0:01:23.520 wouldn't get many more chances, so he was taking a risk, 0:01:24.000 --> 0:01:27.360 a big risk that Anton Kunzla was on the level. 0:01:28.520 --> 0:01:31.360 But even in taking a risk, he needed a little insurance. 0:01:31.800 --> 0:01:36.720 So underneath the suit was his nine millimeter Baretta. You 0:01:36.720 --> 0:01:39.319 could still carry a gun on a commercial flight. It 0:01:39.360 --> 0:01:41.800 wasn't until the late sixties, when there was a rash 0:01:41.800 --> 0:01:45.040 of hijackings in the US, mostly by radicals who wanted 0:01:45.080 --> 0:01:50.320 to go to Cuba, that the policy changed. Sukers carried 0:01:50.360 --> 0:01:53.320 his gun in a leather holster as he boarded the 0:01:53.360 --> 0:01:57.080 plane and headed off into what he must have imagined 0:01:57.600 --> 0:02:11.600 was his new life. Yeah, I'm Stephen Talty and this 0:02:12.160 --> 0:02:20.919 is good. Assassin's hunting the butcher. So it's the first 0:02:21.000 --> 0:02:24.400 file was to find and not been looking forward, while 0:02:24.919 --> 0:02:29.080 the second part was the minor Nazi and killing. We 0:02:29.680 --> 0:02:33.680 must thwart this shameful forces, the end of a trayal 0:02:33.760 --> 0:02:36.240 and blood and horror, the end of a man whose 0:02:36.360 --> 0:02:48.480 name will be written in inform episode nine Judgment Day. 0:02:59.400 --> 0:03:01.840 The men in them Sod Kill Team were spread out 0:03:01.880 --> 0:03:07.240 in various hotels across Montevideo, Uruguay. They woke up early 0:03:07.280 --> 0:03:09.640 on that February morning and began to get ready for 0:03:09.680 --> 0:03:13.840 the Butcher's arrival. Neo had the first assignment. He had 0:03:13.880 --> 0:03:16.640 to go to the airport and pick up Suckers. He 0:03:16.680 --> 0:03:19.400 had to check Sukers into the hotel and confirmed their 0:03:19.440 --> 0:03:22.840 seats on their flights to Chile. He had to convince 0:03:22.880 --> 0:03:25.560 the butcher. They had a busy day ahead, which would 0:03:25.600 --> 0:03:29.320 include driving around the city looking at properties. They also 0:03:29.360 --> 0:03:31.800 was stopped by Cassa Kubertini for a look at the 0:03:31.800 --> 0:03:36.000 company's temporary headquarters, who was a full schedule. Neo didn't 0:03:36.000 --> 0:03:40.400 want to give suckers much time to think. The agent 0:03:40.440 --> 0:03:44.120 got up, showered and took librium. Mio had a condition. 0:03:44.600 --> 0:03:47.600 He sweat a lot, and because he was concerned the 0:03:47.600 --> 0:03:51.400 paranoid sukers might take his sweating as a sign of nervousness, 0:03:51.800 --> 0:03:54.760 Mio had planned ahead. He'd gone to a drug store 0:03:54.760 --> 0:03:58.280 back in Paris and asked the pharmacist to recommend something. 0:03:59.120 --> 0:04:03.480 Demand prescribed an anti anxiety drug called librium, and when 0:04:03.520 --> 0:04:06.880 Mio had tested it, he found it cured his problem. 0:04:07.000 --> 0:04:10.760 So Mio took his librium. Then he dressed and took 0:04:10.800 --> 0:04:14.120 the elevator down to the lobby. As he passed by 0:04:14.120 --> 0:04:16.479 the news stand, the headline on one of the papers 0:04:16.480 --> 0:04:20.480 they I read Bond Government will discuss tomorrow the investigation 0:04:20.640 --> 0:04:24.560 of Nazi crimes. The story covered a meeting about the 0:04:24.600 --> 0:04:28.760 amnesty debate coming up in the German parliament. The amnesty 0:04:28.800 --> 0:04:32.400 was getting more and more international attention. In the U S. 0:04:32.640 --> 0:04:36.960 The c P had added its name to Simon Enthal's letter, 0:04:37.520 --> 0:04:41.120 pressure was building both for the amnesty and against it. 0:04:42.480 --> 0:04:46.359 At one point, politicians in Germany tried to avoid a crisis. 0:04:47.120 --> 0:04:51.520 Pro amnesty legislators made an offer to the anti amnesty forces. 0:04:52.160 --> 0:04:55.240 They would change the statute if ordinary s s men 0:04:55.520 --> 0:04:59.279 would kill during the war were given an amnesty. To some, 0:04:59.760 --> 0:05:03.280 it wasn't such a crazy idea. Many countries gave soldiers 0:05:03.520 --> 0:05:06.080 a free pass for crimes that were committed on the 0:05:06.080 --> 0:05:10.840 battlefield and sometimes off the battlefield. It had been done before. 0:05:11.880 --> 0:05:15.520 The amnesty opponents agreed to consider the offer, but when 0:05:15.560 --> 0:05:18.480 they read the actual text of the proposed statute, they 0:05:18.520 --> 0:05:22.640 were shocked. It wasn't just ordinary soldiers that would go free. 0:05:23.200 --> 0:05:28.040 It was quote all perpetrators within the Nationalist Socialist administrative 0:05:28.040 --> 0:05:33.919 machinery unquote. Who that included wasn't spelled out exactly, but 0:05:34.040 --> 0:05:38.680 it sounded like every Nazi, every camp commander, every criminal, 0:05:39.160 --> 0:05:44.800 every killer, like the butcher free forever. They rejected the deal. 0:05:47.520 --> 0:05:50.440 There were other stories coming out of Germany too, Some 0:05:50.560 --> 0:05:54.159 of them were kind of strange. One journalist had written 0:05:54.200 --> 0:05:57.400 to the Justice Minister. Something had occurred to this journalist. 0:05:57.880 --> 0:06:01.000 Adolph Hitler had never been indict did for ordering the 0:06:01.080 --> 0:06:04.680 killing of six million Jews. What if he'd survived the 0:06:04.720 --> 0:06:08.640 bunker where he'd supposedly committed suicide. What if his death 0:06:08.920 --> 0:06:12.279 was a fake? Some people believed that he was alive 0:06:12.320 --> 0:06:16.000 and well and living out his life and hiding. So 0:06:16.000 --> 0:06:19.040 the journalists asked the Justice minister a question, if the 0:06:19.080 --> 0:06:22.400 amnesty goes into effect, could Hitler walk down at Berlin 0:06:22.480 --> 0:06:27.360 Street without being arrested. The Justice Ministry, well, they kind 0:06:27.360 --> 0:06:30.200 of freaked out. They didn't know the answer to that question. 0:06:30.800 --> 0:06:34.760 They found some war crimes experts and asked them, could 0:06:34.800 --> 0:06:38.760 Hitler face any jail time. The answer was yes and no. 0:06:39.680 --> 0:06:43.640 The former Nazi leader could be charged with political crimes, 0:06:43.920 --> 0:06:46.919 with abusing the power of the state, that was true, 0:06:47.360 --> 0:06:50.320 but he couldn't be charged with his main crime, murder. 0:06:51.640 --> 0:06:55.279 That was disturbing. So the German courts did something about it. 0:06:55.760 --> 0:06:59.520 Twenty years after the fur had supposedly died, they opened 0:06:59.520 --> 0:07:03.520 proceeding against him. They even requested an arrest warrant in 0:07:03.600 --> 0:07:07.560 his name. It made newspapers all over the world. The 0:07:07.600 --> 0:07:11.920 Atlanta Journal Constitution reported, if Adolf Hitler returns from the dead, 0:07:12.360 --> 0:07:15.600 you will have to answer for his crimes. It was 0:07:15.680 --> 0:07:19.040 kind of a novelty story. Hitler was dead, who really 0:07:19.080 --> 0:07:22.640 cared what he was charged with. But the incident did 0:07:22.720 --> 0:07:27.040 make a point. There were hundreds, maybe thousands of killers 0:07:27.040 --> 0:07:29.760 out there who didn't have an arrest warrant in their name. 0:07:30.400 --> 0:07:33.000 If the amnesty passed, Hitler could still be thrown in 0:07:33.120 --> 0:07:36.440 prison with the men who killed in his name, they 0:07:36.520 --> 0:07:41.000 would be untouchable by now. Thousands of people around the 0:07:41.000 --> 0:07:46.280 world that marched against Germany's planned amnesty in Atlanta, Boston, Chicago, 0:07:46.720 --> 0:07:50.600 New Orleans, Washington, Tel Aviv, in Paris, they were protests. 0:07:51.080 --> 0:07:54.240 A journalist interviewed one of the marchers in Toronto. She 0:07:54.360 --> 0:07:57.600 told him, I am the only survivor of Bergen Belson, 0:07:57.800 --> 0:08:01.440 of my entire family. I am so lonely without my relatives. 0:08:06.840 --> 0:08:09.800 The full debate in the German Parliament was scheduled from 0:08:09.800 --> 0:08:12.960 March tenth, two and a half weeks away. The MISSAD 0:08:13.080 --> 0:08:17.600 team was cutting things close. Maybe they thought the fresher 0:08:17.680 --> 0:08:21.000 Zuker's crimes were the minds of German legislators, the better 0:08:21.080 --> 0:08:23.640 it was for their cause. Maybe it just took this 0:08:23.760 --> 0:08:27.520 long to get the butcher into position, but they knew 0:08:27.720 --> 0:08:29.920 they didn't have a lot of time to mount another 0:08:29.960 --> 0:08:34.040 mission if things went wrong. Neia was composed with tense. 0:08:34.720 --> 0:08:38.760 He wrote later, an exciting chapter in my life was 0:08:38.800 --> 0:08:42.160 about to come to an end. Six months of a 0:08:42.320 --> 0:08:49.160 constant war of wits, tension and uncertainty, and the tireless 0:08:49.200 --> 0:08:52.960 efforts invested in order to bring us to this moment. 0:08:54.400 --> 0:08:56.960 He thought about his parents, but he was focused on 0:08:57.000 --> 0:09:01.160 the mission. Your Reeve was all up early that morning. 0:09:01.640 --> 0:09:03.560 He wanted to get a look at Suker's to see 0:09:03.559 --> 0:09:06.800 what he was wearing. That way, he could identify him 0:09:06.840 --> 0:09:10.200 on site so there'd be no mistakes. Later in the day, 0:09:10.840 --> 0:09:13.760 as Mio got into his rented VW Beetle, your Reef 0:09:13.840 --> 0:09:16.840 was already driving to the airport. He would stand in 0:09:16.880 --> 0:09:20.160 the visitors gallery with the families and friends of passengers 0:09:20.240 --> 0:09:23.280 arriving on different flights. Your Reef would hang out with 0:09:23.320 --> 0:09:25.080 them and hope to get a look at the butcher. 0:09:25.440 --> 0:09:29.880 When he finally showed up, sudep a meat at Kafir, 0:09:30.200 --> 0:09:34.400 had their breakfast, then headed to Kassa Kupertini. They had 0:09:34.440 --> 0:09:38.640 perhaps the most difficult job waiting. The plan was for 0:09:38.720 --> 0:09:41.520 Meo to lead the butcher into the house. The killed. 0:09:41.520 --> 0:09:45.000 Team would rush and immobilize him. Then the verdict would 0:09:45.000 --> 0:09:50.440 be read out. We planned a very brief court martial 0:09:51.559 --> 0:09:55.160 and victory intended to read the charges to him. Is 0:09:55.160 --> 0:10:01.360 the name of the Selti thousand Jews from Riga and Latvia, children, women, 0:10:02.000 --> 0:10:06.960 the elderly, and men who had been mounted by him 0:10:06.960 --> 0:10:11.839 over twenty years ago. We wanted him to know it's 0:10:11.880 --> 0:10:17.240 this entire long affair with Anton Kunzl had been designed 0:10:17.400 --> 0:10:20.720 only to set the stage for the moment of revenge. 0:10:21.480 --> 0:10:27.320 It's the name of his innocent victims. And then we 0:10:27.400 --> 0:10:32.520 were going to put a bullet in his head. After 0:10:32.640 --> 0:10:34.800 Dukers was dead, they would put him in the leather 0:10:34.880 --> 0:10:37.240 trunk and they would leave a printed version of the 0:10:37.360 --> 0:10:41.040 verdict with the body to explain why the assassination had 0:10:41.080 --> 0:10:44.319 been carried out. The world would know the truth about 0:10:44.320 --> 0:10:48.840 Herbert Sukers and men like him. There was one line 0:10:48.840 --> 0:10:53.200 in the verdict that I thought was especially interesting. The 0:10:53.400 --> 0:10:56.360 entire long affair had been designed only to set the 0:10:56.400 --> 0:11:00.960 stage for the moment of revenge. It was clear that 0:11:01.000 --> 0:11:03.880 the team wanted Zukers to know that he'd been tricked 0:11:03.880 --> 0:11:07.199 and betrayed by Anton kunz La, a man who didn't 0:11:07.200 --> 0:11:11.880 really exist. I wondered why. Maybe it was because Zukers 0:11:11.960 --> 0:11:15.040 himself had betrayed many of his Jewish friends and acquaintances 0:11:15.080 --> 0:11:18.400 in Riga. He drank with them before the war and 0:11:18.400 --> 0:11:21.320 made them believe he was their friend, and then he 0:11:21.360 --> 0:11:25.200 had murdered them. Many survivors talked about how this double 0:11:25.280 --> 0:11:29.959 cross made the war years even more painful for them. Now, 0:11:30.000 --> 0:11:32.960 the Massad team wanted to re enact that betrayal with 0:11:33.040 --> 0:11:36.920 the butcher himself. He wouldn't just be executed, he would 0:11:36.920 --> 0:11:39.719 be executed in the same way that the Jews of 0:11:39.800 --> 0:11:45.840 Latvia had gone to their deaths. Mio got to the 0:11:45.840 --> 0:11:49.280 airport early and went to the visitors gallery. He looked 0:11:49.280 --> 0:11:52.880 at the arrival's board. Suckers flight was listed on time. 0:11:54.920 --> 0:11:58.440 He inspected the people around him. He spotted your Reeve. 0:11:58.600 --> 0:12:02.120 His face turned away from me. They didn't want anyone 0:12:02.440 --> 0:12:05.120 to see that they knew each other. They didn't even 0:12:05.200 --> 0:12:11.880 exchange a glance. At around nine thirty am, Air France 0:12:11.920 --> 0:12:16.520 flight eighty three touchdown. The airplane stairs were pushed to 0:12:16.559 --> 0:12:20.280 the door and passengers began coming out. Neo could see 0:12:20.320 --> 0:12:26.000 them clearly. Finally, Zookers emerged. He spotted Mio held up 0:12:26.040 --> 0:12:29.760 one hand making a V for victory sign. He was 0:12:29.800 --> 0:12:34.560 smiling from ear to ear. Mio smiled back. The butcher 0:12:34.600 --> 0:12:37.959 seemed to be in a good mood. As Zukers waved 0:12:37.960 --> 0:12:40.440 to him. Neo could see the handgun that he was 0:12:40.480 --> 0:12:45.040 carrying in the shoulder holster. Mio knew he usually liked 0:12:45.040 --> 0:12:47.599 to travel with a gun, but now it was confirmed. 0:12:48.679 --> 0:12:51.520 This meant that if the team failed to bring Zukers down, 0:12:52.080 --> 0:12:55.000 he might be able to wound or kill several of 0:12:55.040 --> 0:13:01.680 its members. Neo felt his anxiety creep up your reeve. 0:13:01.840 --> 0:13:05.920 Standing among the families, spotted Zukers too. He recognized him 0:13:05.960 --> 0:13:09.240 from the photographs he studied in Paris. He memorized what 0:13:09.280 --> 0:13:11.880 the pitcher was wearing, then turned and slipped away from 0:13:11.920 --> 0:13:15.000 the crowd. He headed back to the parking lot. We 0:13:15.200 --> 0:13:21.760 jumped in his car and drove over to Cassa Kuppertini. Meanwhile, 0:13:22.000 --> 0:13:25.080 Suckers found me a waiting for him. The two shook hands. 0:13:25.440 --> 0:13:30.440 Suckers was smiling. He passed on greetings from his wife 0:13:30.440 --> 0:13:33.360 and children, and he asked me to catch him up 0:13:33.360 --> 0:13:37.800 on our plans. They told him, believe me only the best, 0:13:38.480 --> 0:13:42.080 I told him. We have great plans and you're part 0:13:42.120 --> 0:13:46.199 of The two walked to the VW and headed towards 0:13:46.200 --> 0:13:50.520 the city. Neo drove as naturally as possible, chatting with 0:13:50.559 --> 0:13:54.240 Sukers watching his pedometer, he made sure to stay below 0:13:54.280 --> 0:13:57.040 the speed limit. When Meo parked in front of the 0:13:57.120 --> 0:14:00.800 Victoria Plaza hotel, Suckers took his suit case and went 0:14:00.880 --> 0:14:05.320 to check in. He had room seventeen nineteen. When he 0:14:05.360 --> 0:14:08.120 came back down from dropping off his luggage, he was happy. 0:14:08.720 --> 0:14:13.240 He remarked to Meo, what a beautiful room. They went 0:14:13.280 --> 0:14:16.760 to the airline office. Nea wanted to confirm their flight 0:14:17.040 --> 0:14:20.680 from Uruguay to Chile. Knowing that they had tikes out 0:14:20.680 --> 0:14:23.720 of Uruguay would help convince Sukers that nothing out of 0:14:23.760 --> 0:14:27.040 the ordinary was going to happen. Why wouldn't assassins spend 0:14:27.080 --> 0:14:30.800 money on plane tickets they weren't going to use. The 0:14:30.840 --> 0:14:34.040 two went to the office. As Mio confirmed the tickets, 0:14:34.360 --> 0:14:37.440 he spoke loud enough for Zukers to hear. Later on, 0:14:37.800 --> 0:14:40.480 during the investigation of the whole matter, the clerk said 0:14:40.480 --> 0:14:42.840 that he thought that two men were friends. He was 0:14:42.880 --> 0:14:47.000 acting was pretty good. After they had the tickets, Neo 0:14:47.040 --> 0:14:49.320 and Sukers went to meet with a real estate agent. 0:14:49.840 --> 0:14:53.240 They toured a few houses looking for deals for Kunzla's company. 0:14:54.320 --> 0:14:57.840 Every time they visited a house, Meal made sure to 0:14:58.040 --> 0:15:02.720 enter first. Then the butcher followed him in one last 0:15:02.720 --> 0:15:19.160 bit of conditioning before they headed to Cassa Kubertini. Hey, 0:15:19.240 --> 0:15:22.360 this is Stephen Talty, the host of this podcast, Good 0:15:22.360 --> 0:15:26.600 Assassin's Hunting the Butcher. This podcast project came out of 0:15:26.600 --> 0:15:29.520 my work on a related book called The Good Assassin. 0:15:30.320 --> 0:15:32.360 If you want to explore other parts of this story, 0:15:32.800 --> 0:15:35.280 check it out. It's not just a book version of 0:15:35.320 --> 0:15:38.680 the podcast. I spend time on different aspects of the mission. 0:15:39.080 --> 0:15:41.880 There are chapters diving into World War two history that 0:15:41.960 --> 0:15:44.760 we didn't cover in the podcast, and the book works 0:15:44.840 --> 0:15:47.480 as a kind of a companion to the listening experience. 0:15:48.440 --> 0:15:51.880 You can purchase a copy of The Good Assassin on Amazon, 0:15:52.400 --> 0:16:03.440 Apple Books, and on bookshop dot org. Thanks After they'd 0:16:03.520 --> 0:16:06.280 visited a few properties, Neio looked down at the fuel 0:16:06.320 --> 0:16:10.000 gage was getting low. He pointed this out to Suckers 0:16:10.400 --> 0:16:13.640 and they pulled into a nearby gas station. Meo had 0:16:13.720 --> 0:16:16.680 let the fuel run down on purpose. Across the street 0:16:16.720 --> 0:16:20.600 from the gas station, a red car was Parked inside 0:16:20.600 --> 0:16:22.760 the car was the local Jewish man from the Foreign 0:16:22.840 --> 0:16:25.080 Service that your Reeve had found to act as a lookout. 0:16:25.720 --> 0:16:29.240 He watches Meo filled the tank, then took off. He 0:16:29.240 --> 0:16:31.920 would report back to the kill team that the two 0:16:31.920 --> 0:16:36.200 men were on schedule. Neo and Sukers looked at a 0:16:36.200 --> 0:16:39.600 few more houses. Then Mio told the real estate agent 0:16:39.880 --> 0:16:42.800 that they think about it. He'd call them tomorrow let 0:16:42.880 --> 0:16:46.840 them know about their decision. There's another psychological cue to zookers. 0:16:47.720 --> 0:16:50.360 We have plans for tomorrow. We have a flight to Chile. 0:16:51.000 --> 0:16:56.600 Nothing bad is going to happen. It was about noon 0:16:56.640 --> 0:16:59.320 at this point. After they left the real estate agent, 0:16:59.760 --> 0:17:02.840 Neo and Sukers got back in the car. Neo had 0:17:02.880 --> 0:17:06.640 a sudden idea. The house he'd runted as the headquarters 0:17:06.760 --> 0:17:09.320 was close by. Why didn't they go and have a look. 0:17:10.160 --> 0:17:12.680 It wasn't up to his usual standards, but he wanted 0:17:12.680 --> 0:17:16.960 Sukers to see it. The butcher agreed. They headed toward 0:17:16.960 --> 0:17:20.760 the ocean, drove through the Crossco neighborhood, and, as Fernando 0:17:20.800 --> 0:17:27.920 but Zoni tells us, into Shangri Law. It was an 0:17:28.040 --> 0:17:33.160 ordinary tuesday, not too much traffic, pedestrians strolling by, people 0:17:33.240 --> 0:17:37.760 going to lunch at the casa. The kill team had 0:17:37.840 --> 0:17:41.920 undressed down to their underwear. If MEO's reports had been correct, 0:17:42.400 --> 0:17:44.919 the encounter would be bloody, and they didn't want the 0:17:44.920 --> 0:17:49.399 evidence of a struggle on their clothes. They waited in 0:17:49.440 --> 0:17:53.120 the hot, humid room, listening to the workers banter next 0:17:53.160 --> 0:17:57.120 door and the noise of their tools. They checked their watches. 0:17:58.600 --> 0:18:03.080 Neo and Sukers reached the Cassa Kupertini. As Mio pulled 0:18:03.119 --> 0:18:06.000 into the driveway, he saw the four or five men 0:18:06.240 --> 0:18:09.399 working on the house next door. They might hear what 0:18:09.560 --> 0:18:12.560 was about to happen, but there was no turning back. 0:18:12.600 --> 0:18:17.560 Now the killed team was inside. The target was here. 0:18:18.560 --> 0:18:21.280 Now all Meo had to do was get him into 0:18:21.280 --> 0:18:27.720 the house. Here we are, this is the house. Meo 0:18:27.840 --> 0:18:31.160 stopped the car, put it in park, cut the engine. 0:18:31.960 --> 0:18:34.800 Before Zukers could say anything, me was out of the 0:18:34.840 --> 0:18:39.240 car and walking towards the front door. This is it, 0:18:39.400 --> 0:18:43.080 I thought, this is the moment of truth. He must 0:18:43.119 --> 0:18:46.399 follow me. Now. From the corner of my eye, I 0:18:46.400 --> 0:18:49.919 could see Tukers get out of the car, still walking. 0:18:50.600 --> 0:18:53.320 I had already pulled the house keys out of my pocket. 0:18:53.800 --> 0:19:00.320 Tuckers was about ten or twelve feet behind me. Meal 0:19:00.440 --> 0:19:03.720 put the key in the lock, turned it, grabbed a handle, 0:19:04.200 --> 0:19:07.560 and pushed the door in. It was kind of dark inside, 0:19:08.160 --> 0:19:12.360 no lights on. The four Massad members were lined up 0:19:12.440 --> 0:19:15.439 on either side of the door. Neil gave them a 0:19:15.480 --> 0:19:20.520 quick glance, then positioned himself behind the open door. The 0:19:20.600 --> 0:19:25.359 men listened. They could hear Sucre's footsteps as he approached 0:19:25.400 --> 0:19:29.840 the house. Then suddenly the butcher was coming through the door. 0:19:30.800 --> 0:19:34.960 The change from bright sunshine to semi darkness blinded him 0:19:35.000 --> 0:19:38.439 for split second. That's when Neo slammed the door shut 0:19:38.480 --> 0:19:43.840 behind him and they killed team pounced. Three of the 0:19:43.880 --> 0:19:47.640 men grabbed at Sucre's arms to immobilize him. The last one, 0:19:47.960 --> 0:19:51.240 We're not sure who it was, dashed behind him, preparing 0:19:51.280 --> 0:19:55.440 to execute the Cropmaga maneuver a single downward blow that 0:19:55.480 --> 0:19:59.720 would drop the butcher to his knees, but immediately all 0:19:59.760 --> 0:20:03.400 hell broke loose. Saucers pushed the men away and started shouting. 0:20:04.080 --> 0:20:07.520 The agent behind him couldn't give the knockout blow. Saucers 0:20:07.640 --> 0:20:10.160 was too quick. He was already turning to run back 0:20:10.160 --> 0:20:12.920 out of the house. He shook off the Massad agents, 0:20:13.240 --> 0:20:16.640 thrashing at them with his arms. Sucres worst nightmare had 0:20:16.640 --> 0:20:20.359 come true. He realized immediately he had walked into a trap. 0:20:21.440 --> 0:20:23.600 But me, it was a nightmare, the thing he'd fear 0:20:23.680 --> 0:20:27.080 the most, it was also coming true. The butcher was 0:20:27.119 --> 0:20:32.119 attacking the Massad agents and he was winning. He fought 0:20:32.240 --> 0:20:35.840 like a violent and wounded animal. He freed one hand, 0:20:36.200 --> 0:20:38.960 grabbed the door handle and tried to pull it open. 0:20:39.600 --> 0:20:42.120 We leaned against the door, trying to push him into 0:20:42.160 --> 0:20:45.520 the center of the room. The fear of death gave 0:20:45.640 --> 0:20:52.320 him incredible strength. Sucers was screaming, bellowing. He pulled back 0:20:52.320 --> 0:20:54.639 on the door handle that came ripping out of the wood. 0:20:55.240 --> 0:20:58.760 He seemed to have this superhuman strength. The others grabbed 0:20:58.800 --> 0:21:00.919 of his arms, his throat. They tried to beat him 0:21:00.960 --> 0:21:05.040 to the ground, but nothing worked. In the chaos, knew 0:21:05.119 --> 0:21:09.040 heard a voice. The butcher was shouting. Something was in German. 0:21:10.160 --> 0:21:13.920 Let me speak, let me speak. Zukers must have known 0:21:14.160 --> 0:21:17.520 why he was being ambushed. Clearly these were Jewish agents 0:21:17.920 --> 0:21:21.360 and he wanted to talk to them. This I found fascinating. 0:21:21.840 --> 0:21:24.320 What was the butcher going to say? Did he think 0:21:24.320 --> 0:21:28.000 he had an explanation for thirty murders. What could he 0:21:28.080 --> 0:21:31.199 possibly have said? They would have calmed these avengers and 0:21:31.280 --> 0:21:35.199 caused them to stop the mission. It didn't matter. Massad 0:21:35.280 --> 0:21:37.760 agents didn't want to listen, and the fight went on. 0:21:38.280 --> 0:21:40.760 The men wrestled with each other in a fury. In 0:21:40.840 --> 0:21:44.280 the melee, Zuker's glasses dropped to the floor, and then 0:21:44.640 --> 0:21:48.800 something really bad. Sucres was, of course armed. Epistol wasn't 0:21:48.800 --> 0:21:51.840 the leather holster. It was the baretta that he'd shown 0:21:51.840 --> 0:21:55.760 me a month before when he visited Suker's home. Now, 0:21:55.880 --> 0:21:58.679 Zukers shoved one of the Massad men away and reached 0:21:58.720 --> 0:22:01.639 for the gun. The men rushed at Sukers. Mio had 0:22:01.720 --> 0:22:04.760 joined in by now The team was getting desperate. You 0:22:04.920 --> 0:22:07.320 reef grabbed at the butcher's face. He was trying to 0:22:07.359 --> 0:22:10.120 get his hand over Zuker's mouth to stop him from 0:22:10.119 --> 0:22:14.000 screaming and alerting the workers next door, but his index 0:22:14.040 --> 0:22:17.880 finger slipped into Suker's mouth. The putcher immediately clamped down 0:22:18.160 --> 0:22:20.600 and bit off the tip of his finger. The reef 0:22:20.640 --> 0:22:24.320 snatched his hand away, screaming and pain. They were all 0:22:24.400 --> 0:22:27.720 gasping now, trying to bring the butcher down. But then 0:22:27.720 --> 0:22:30.520 one of the team members we don't know who spotted 0:22:30.560 --> 0:22:33.720 something lying on the floor. It was a hammer that 0:22:33.760 --> 0:22:36.439 had been left behind after some recent worked on the house. 0:22:37.440 --> 0:22:40.840 He snatched it up, turned towards Suker's and brought the 0:22:40.840 --> 0:22:45.560 hammer down on his head. Blood went everywhere, some even 0:22:45.560 --> 0:22:49.240 spurted up on the ceiling. Investigators would later find it there. 0:22:49.840 --> 0:22:53.679 Zuker's was badly wounded, his skull was fractured, blood pouring 0:22:53.720 --> 0:22:57.520 down his face, and yet he still kept fighting. It 0:22:57.640 --> 0:23:00.919 was almost hard to believe how tough he was. Finally, 0:23:00.920 --> 0:23:02.720 one of them assad men grabbed his gun from the 0:23:02.760 --> 0:23:06.200 pile of clothes. He came up to Zookers, whose face 0:23:06.280 --> 0:23:08.960 was partially hidden by the blood flowing over it, and 0:23:09.040 --> 0:23:12.239 fired two bullets into his head. Zookers collapsed to the 0:23:12.280 --> 0:23:22.160 floor and lay still. The only sound in the room 0:23:22.240 --> 0:23:25.680 was from your reeve. He was moaning in pain, holding 0:23:25.680 --> 0:23:28.840 his wounded hand. They needed to get it taken care of, 0:23:29.400 --> 0:23:32.760 but first they had some business to attend to. The 0:23:32.800 --> 0:23:35.879 men stood there listening for a moment. They didn't hear 0:23:35.880 --> 0:23:38.920 any police sirens, and they could hear the voices of 0:23:39.000 --> 0:23:42.440 the workers next door. The workers didn't seem to be anxious. 0:23:42.880 --> 0:23:45.840 They were talking normally, so it seemed that nobody had 0:23:45.880 --> 0:23:50.520 heard the shots. Sude went to the backyard and turned 0:23:50.520 --> 0:23:53.440 on the hose. One by one, the men went out 0:23:53.560 --> 0:23:56.199 to wash the blood off. Then they put their clothes 0:23:56.240 --> 0:23:59.840 on and went back to Zookers. His shirt was so 0:24:00.200 --> 0:24:03.960 with blood. They went through his pockets and found his passport. 0:24:04.800 --> 0:24:07.880 They took the bretta, then dragged the leather trunk out 0:24:07.880 --> 0:24:12.320 of another room lifted Sucker's body into it. When the 0:24:12.320 --> 0:24:16.760 body was inside, Massadman placed two pieces of paper inside 0:24:16.760 --> 0:24:20.520 a folder on top of the body. The first was 0:24:20.560 --> 0:24:25.480 a verdict considering the gravity of the crimes of which 0:24:25.520 --> 0:24:31.399 Herbert Suckers is accused, notably his personal responsibility and the 0:24:31.560 --> 0:24:36.760 murder of thirty thousand men, women and children, And considering 0:24:36.880 --> 0:24:40.480 the terrible cruelty shown by Herbert Suckers and carrying out 0:24:40.560 --> 0:24:47.200 his crimes, we condemned, they said, Suckers to death. Give 0:24:47.320 --> 0:24:55.720 us executed on February twenty third. It was signed those 0:24:56.359 --> 0:25:01.439 who will never forget. They late a second document inside 0:25:01.440 --> 0:25:05.800 the folder. Bio never mentioned it. He talked about the verdict, 0:25:06.160 --> 0:25:09.040 but not this other piece of paper. I was able 0:25:09.040 --> 0:25:12.240 to find out what it was through police and newspaper reports. 0:25:13.040 --> 0:25:17.080 It was from the Nuremberg trials, where the leaders of 0:25:17.119 --> 0:25:20.360 the Nazi machine were put on trial by the Allies 0:25:20.600 --> 0:25:23.919 right after the war. The page was part of the 0:25:23.920 --> 0:25:26.480 testimony of a man who saw a large group of 0:25:26.560 --> 0:25:31.760 Jews being murdered in the Ukraine. The British Chief Prosecutor, 0:25:32.240 --> 0:25:36.359 Sir Hartley Shawcross read this testimony in front of Nazi 0:25:36.400 --> 0:25:40.640 war criminals sitting in the defendant's box, and it's haunting 0:25:40.680 --> 0:25:49.520 to hear even today without screaming, all weeping. These people, undressed, 0:25:50.720 --> 0:25:58.160 stowed around in family a groups, gifted each other, said farewells, 0:25:58.560 --> 0:26:01.920 and waited put a side from another ss man who 0:26:01.960 --> 0:26:05.120 stood near the pit, also with a whip in his hand. 0:26:07.560 --> 0:26:10.760 During the fifteen minutes that I stood near, I heard 0:26:10.840 --> 0:26:17.040 no complaint or flee for mercy. I watched a family 0:26:17.080 --> 0:26:20.840 of about eight persons, a man and a woman, both 0:26:20.880 --> 0:26:25.359 about fifty, with their children of about one, eight ten 0:26:26.720 --> 0:26:29.800 and two grown up daughters for about twenty or twenty four. 0:26:32.200 --> 0:26:36.040 An old woman with snow white hair was holding the 0:26:36.160 --> 0:26:39.040 one year old child in her arms and singing to 0:26:39.200 --> 0:26:43.560 it and tickling it. The child was toying with delight. 0:26:44.960 --> 0:26:47.800 The couple were looking on with tears in their eyes. 0:26:50.119 --> 0:26:52.600 The father was holding the hand of a boy about 0:26:52.640 --> 0:26:56.800 ten years old and speaking to him something. The boy 0:26:56.960 --> 0:27:01.440 was fighting his tears. The are the pointed to the sky, 0:27:02.560 --> 0:27:05.720 stroked his head, and the same to explain something to 0:27:05.840 --> 0:27:11.800 the board. A few moments later, the family was dead. 0:27:16.080 --> 0:27:19.800 Why did me on the others include this account, He 0:27:19.920 --> 0:27:22.680 never said, but I think it was placed there because 0:27:22.720 --> 0:27:25.720 it was about the victims. They were the real reason 0:27:25.800 --> 0:27:28.680 that me on the other agents were inside Cassa Kopertini 0:27:29.080 --> 0:27:33.480 on February when the news about Suckers went out into 0:27:33.480 --> 0:27:36.560 the world. Massad didn't want the mission to be just 0:27:36.720 --> 0:27:40.000 about the butcher. They wanted the murder Jews to be 0:27:40.040 --> 0:27:52.119