Following the collapse of the Third Reich, a group of high-ranking Nazi officials, including the infamous architect of the Holocaust, Josef Mengele, and the head of the SS, Heinrich Himmler, attempted to evade justice by fleeing Germany. As the Allied forces launched a global manhunt to bring these war criminals to account, the world witnessed the dramatic capture and subsequent trials of those who had orchestrated some of the most heinous acts in human history, including the Nuremberg Trials, which sought to establish a new standard of international justice.