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A rising star in the local judiciary, Fritz Bauer realised that his career was in jeopardy when the Nazi party gained power. As a Jewish homosexual, Bauer needed to get out of Germany and he spent the war in Scandinavia. Post-war Bauer wanted to return to his law career but he also wanted to see justice for the Holocaust. Involved in the arrest and prosecution of Eichmann, his lasting legacy was in the 1965 trial of those who oversaw the concentration camp at Auschwitz.
This is a very well-researched and deeply moving book. The story of Fritz Bauer is one of dedication and determination to see justice served. Fairweather has done this a real service by producing a succinct, readable narrative which looks into the man himself as well as his actions. What will stay with me is the attitudes post-War when former Nazis were still serving in local government and blocking many attempts to investigate the crimes of them and their colleagues.
This is a very well-researched and deeply moving book. The story of Fritz Bauer is one of dedication and determination to see justice served. Fairweather has done this a real service by producing a succinct, readable narrative which looks into the man himself as well as his actions. What will stay with me is the attitudes post-War when former Nazis were still serving in local government and blocking many attempts to investigate the crimes of them and their colleagues.
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At the end of the Nuremberg trial in 1946 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. Some Germans weren’t going to admit what happened. Fritz Bauer, a gay, Jewish judge from Stuttgart was not going to let that happen. Bauer survived the Nazis and made it his mission to force his countrymen to confront their complicity in the genocide.
The Prosecutor is a fantastic, researched book (including unpublished family papers, newly declassified German records, and exclusive interviews), and made me emotional. I was angry, sad and scared. I am scared for our country after reading this. I hope one day we have a Bauer.
Thank you NetGalley and Crown for the advanced reader copy. #TheProsecutor #NetGalley
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This book was indescribable. The horrors it depicts of the events of the Holocaust and the incredible work of Fritz Bauer in his attempts to hold Nazis, and German society more broadly, accountable for these horrors is phenomenal.
This book is well written and easy to approach, incredibly well researched, and unbelievably emotional. I hadn’t realised the state of German society after the war (which now seems obvious) considering how little individuals would want to take responsibility for such abhorrent events but also how mindsets (antisemitism, the belief in the German “master race”, etc.) couldn’t conceivably fade in only a couple of years.
This book was pretty distressing at times but covers SUCH an important part of our world history, the memory of which I think is vital that we all work to keep alive.
This book is well written and easy to approach, incredibly well researched, and unbelievably emotional. I hadn’t realised the state of German society after the war (which now seems obvious) considering how little individuals would want to take responsibility for such abhorrent events but also how mindsets (antisemitism, the belief in the German “master race”, etc.) couldn’t conceivably fade in only a couple of years.
This book was pretty distressing at times but covers SUCH an important part of our world history, the memory of which I think is vital that we all work to keep alive.
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When Fritz Bauer came back to Germany from exile at the end of World War II, he soon found that he was still surrounded by Nazis. Denazification was mostly a failure (for a variety of reasons) and law enforcement, the judiciary, and so many businesses were staffed with an alarming number of former Nazis. But unlike a lot of other Germans, Bauer was able to get into a position to do something about it. He parlayed his pre-war degree and experience into a job as director of the district courts in Braunschweig (like a district attorney for the Americans reading this) and later Frankfurt am Main. In The Prosecutor: One Man’s Battle of Bring Nazis to Justice, Jack Fairweather recounts Bauer’s decades-long fight not just against Nazis but also the refusal of a lot of Germans to reckon with their recent past...
Read the rest of my review at A Bookish Type. I received a free copy of this book from the publisher via NetGalley, for review consideration.
Read the rest of my review at A Bookish Type. I received a free copy of this book from the publisher via NetGalley, for review consideration.