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Podcast season 1 · True Crime

Good Assassins: Hunting the Butcher

Good Assassins · iHeartPodcasts and Diversion

A propulsive espionage history that uses a postwar Mossad mission to confront the continuing reach of Nazi crimes.

LR score 92 · 1 published rating

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Work
Self-contained season 1
Release
Complete
Episodes
12 verified main-run episodes
Count scope
This is a verified main-run count, not an all-published feed total; bonus, update, trailer, and epilogue items may be excluded.
Facts reviewed
July 21, 2026
Editorial review
July 22, 2026

Listening Record verdict

Why we recommend it

The series combines the momentum of a pursuit with the historical stakes of bringing a perpetrator of Nazi violence to account, giving listeners an entry point that is both narrative and contextual.

Best for: Listeners drawn to historical true crime, intelligence operations, and postwar accountability.

Not for: Listeners looking for a contemporary police investigation or wishing to avoid Holocaust and state-violence material.

Strengths

  • Turns a historical intelligence mission into a clear narrative pursuit.
  • Keeps the mission connected to the crimes that made it necessary.

Caveats

  • The espionage frame makes this a true-crime-adjacent history rather than a conventional case investigation.

Sensitivity guidance: Contains discussion of the Holocaust, murder, antisemitism, and state violence.

Editorial signals

Story, reporting, and tone

  • Nazi crimes
  • Mossad
  • postwar accountability
  • historical narrative
  • espionage reporting
  • contextual
  • propulsive
  • grave
  • cinematic

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