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Hanns Alexander was the son of a prosperous German family who fled Berlin for London in the 1930s.
Rudolf Höss was a farmer and soldier who became the Kommandant of Auschwitz Concentration Camp and oversaw the deaths of over a million men, women and children.
In the aftermath of the Second World War, the first British War Crimes Investigation Team is assembled to hunt down the senior Nazi officials responsible for the greatest atrocities the world has ever seen. Lieutenant Hanns Alexander is one of the lead investigators, Rudolf Höss his most elusive target.
In this book Thomas Harding reveals for the very first time the full, exhilarating account of Höss' capture. Moving from the Middle-Eastern campaigns of the First World War to bohemian Berlin in the 1920s, to the horror of the concentration camps and the trials in Belsen and Nuremberg, it tells the story of two German men whose lives diverged, and intersected, in an astonishing way.
About the author
Thomas Harding ist Dokumentarfilmer, Fernsehproduzent, Journalist und Autor und lebt in London. Er schrieb für Zeitungen wie "The Guardian", "The Sunday Times", "The Independent" und die "Financial Times". 1998 veröffentlichte er "The Video Activist Handbook" und prägte den Begriff Videoaktivismus, er war Mitbegründer der Organisation "Undercurrents", die Videos zu sozialen und umweltpolitischen Themen produziert.
Report
"Thomas Harding has shed intriguing new light on the strange poison of Nazism, and one of its most lethal practitioners... Meticulously researched and deeply felt." Ben Macintyre The Times, Book of the Week
