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The Prosecutor

One Manโ€™s Battle to Bring Nazis to Justice
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THE NEW BOOK FROM THE BESTSELLING, COSTA PRIZE-WINNING AUTHOR OF THE VOLUNTEER

The true story of a Jewish lawyer who returned to Germany after WWII to prosecute war crimes, only to find himself pitted against a nation determined to bury the past.


After 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 German Jew who survived the Nazis and made it his mission to force Germans 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 In this deeply researched book, Fairweather draws on unpublished family papers, newly declassified German records, and exclusive interviews to immerse readers in the dark world of postwar West Germany: a place where those who implemented genocide run the country, the CIA is funding Hitlerโ€™s former spy-ring in the East, and Nazi-era anti-gay laws are strictly enforced. But once Bauer lands on the trail of Adolf Eichmann, a key architect of the Holocaust, he wonโ€™t be intimidated. His journey takes him deep into the rotten heart of West Germany, where his fight for justice will set him against his own government and a network of former Nazis and spies determined to silence 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 manโ€™s courage in forcing the world to face the truth.

ยฉ2025 Jack Fairweather (P)2025 Penguin Audio

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 Schindlerโ€™s List. He splits his time between the UK and Vermont.

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English

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Brilliantly captures the poignant and insightful story of one lonely, determined manโ€™s quest to bring Nazis to justice for the Holocaust...This is history not to be missed Jack Fairweather, a brilliant researcher and compelling writer, tells the remarkable and inspiring story of German jurist Fritz Bauer [who] braved public opprobrium and personal danger to pursue the complicit and compel a national reckoning with its crimes. A triumphant story. Breathtaking scholarship delivered with a compelling flair for storytelling โ€“ returns the seminal figure of the courageous Fritz Bauer to his rightful place at the centre of our collective reckoning with the Nazisโ€™ crimes This meticulously researched and well written biography brings to life one of the unsung heroes of the twentieth centuryโ€ฆ. Fairweather brilliantly evokes the dark, morally ambiguous atmosphere of postwar Germany and a man whose story... contains the moral lessons we need today Jack Fairweather has taken it upon himself to revive our awareness of humankind's most terrible known moral crimeโ€” the Holocaust. He is a fine writer and a meticulous historian, and his books make for riveting reading. This spellbinding account details the extraordinary life story of Fritz Bauer, a German Jewish prosecuter who devoted himself to the cause of bringing Nazi war criminals to justice in a postwar Germany that preferred to look the other way. By doing so, he changed history. This is a book of great importance. The Prosecutor is, quite simply, a stunning achievement. 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 One of the great untold stories of the Holocaustโ€” and Jack Fairweather is the perfect person to tell it A tour-de-force of both historical research and absolutely terrific writing... the book itself reads like the best sort of cloak-and-dagger novel... this book was a kind of masterclass Jack Fairweather continues his stellar writing career with an important new book... this well-researched, well-written and hard-hitting book could not be more timely Expand reviews
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