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The Prosecutor

One Man’s Battle to Bring Nazis to Justice
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Brought to you by Penguin.

THE NEW BOOK FROM THE BESTSELLING, COSTA PRIZE-WINNING AUTHOR OF THE VOLUNTEER


How do you rebuild a nation that wanted you dead?


Returning to Germany in the aftermath of the Second World War, Fritz Bauer – a gay Jewish lawyer and outspoken critic of Hitler – was determined to reclaim the Germany he had once loved.

But he soon saw that the perpetrators of the Holocaust had largely got away with their crimes. Top Nazi officers – mass-murders and cruel sadists – had been given plum jobs at major German companies; held prestigious offices in top universities; were in positions of power as lawyers, judges and political advisors. The war was over and many were keen to forget and move on.

Thus began Bauer’s dogged fight for justice and a reckoning with the past. Drawing on recently released CIA files, unpublished family papers and secret diaries, this is the story of one man’s battle to bring down the perpetrators of the greatest crime in human history, and to make sure the world never forgets what happened.

© Jack Fairweather 2024 (P) Penguin Audio 2024

Jack Fairweather is an award-winning and bestselling British writer and journalist. His last book The Volunteer won the Costa Book Prize and was a #1 Sunday Times bestseller, hailed as a modern classic and compared to Schindler’s List. He splits his time between the UK and Vermont.

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Deeply humane, finely wrought and so vital tale in this age of impunity, crackingly told Beautifully written and hugely evocative... a powerful literary memorial to Fritz Bauer, the German-Jewish lawyer whose tenacity forced a nation to confront its crimes A tour-de-force of both historical research and absolutely terrific writing. Fairweather's topic -- the criminal prosecution of war criminals -- is of the upmost importance, and the book itself reads like the best sort of cloak-and-dagger novel. As a writer and journalist, I gauge books by how much I learn about my own craft, and this book was a kind of masterclass Jack Fairweather continues his stellar writing career with an important new book about a hitherto unacknowledged hero, Fritz Bauer. In a world where the loathsome bacillus of anti-Semitism is once again on the rise, this well-researched, well-written and hard-hitting book could not be more timely. Fairweather has unearthed a vast amount of new information about the darkest period in the history of Mankind Jack Fairweather brilliantly captures the poignant and insightful story of one lonely, determined man’s quest to bring Nazis to justice for the Holocaust. Fritz Bauer sought to bend the arc of history, a noble pursuit of great inspiration and agony. This is history not to be missed Expand reviews
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