A review by andiesmith
The Prosecutor: One Man's Battle to Bring Nazis to Justice by Jack Fairweather

4.5

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The Prosecutor is a fantastic, researched book (including unpublished family papers, newly declassified German records, and exclusive interviews), and made me emotional.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