The Prosecutor: One Man's Battle to Bring Nazis to Justice

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https://www.amazon.com/Prosecutor-Battle-Bring-Nazis-Justice/dp/059323894X

From the #1 Sunday Times bestselling author of The Volunteer, the powerful true story of a Jewish lawyer who returned to Germany after World War II to prosecute war crimes, only to find himself pitted against a nation determined to bury the past.

At the end of the Nuremberg trial in 1946, some of the greatest war criminals in history were sentenced to death, but hundreds of thousands of Nazi murderers and collaborators remained at large. The Allies were ready to overlook their pasts as the Cold War began, and the horrors of the Holocaust were in danger of being forgotten.

In The Prosecutor, Jack Fairweather brings to life the remarkable story of Fritz Bauer, a gay, Jewish judge from Stuttgart who survived the Nazis and made it his mission to force his countrymen to confront their complicity in the genocide. In this deeply researched book, Fairweather draws on unpublished family papers, newly declassified German records, and exclusive interviews to immerse readers in the shadowy, unfamiliar world of postwar West Germany where those who implemented genocide run the country, the CIA is funding Hitler’s former spy-ring in the east, and Nazi-era anti-gay laws are strictly enforced. But once Bauer landed on the trail of Adolf Eichmann, he wouldn’t be intimidated. His journey took him deep into the dark heart of West Germany, where his fight for justice would set him against his own government and a network of former Nazis and spies bent on silencing him.

In a time when the history of the Holocaust is taken for granted, The Prosecutor reveals the courtroom battles that were fought to establish its legacy and the personal cost of speaking out. The result is a searing portrait of a nation emerging from the ruins of fascism and one man’s courage in forcing his people—and the world—to face the truth.

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I had this in my hands at the library today but decided not to check it out. It's a lot of reading material and it would prove rather frustrating I think. But there are previews online at Google (a good 50 pages!) so I may pick up the trail at a later time. From the bits I read it is very very meticulous in fact and thought.

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1. Thanks for the rec

Thanks for the recommendation. I've read a lot about the initial Nuremberg Trial, but I've been wanting to learn more about the subsequent ones and the other, later trials of Nazis. Plus I had recalled that someone in Germany was passing on to Israel tips about Eichmann, but I didn't realize it was this individual (I just read that in the Wikipedia article on Bauer which is obviously more informative than the book jacket description). I'll give this book a look next time I'm at the library.