The Prosecutor - One Man's Battle to Bring Nazis to Justice

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 Drawing on recently released CIA files, unpublished family papers and secret diaries, this is the story of one man''s battle to bring down the perpetrators of the greatest crime in human history, and to make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.

About the author

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.

Product details

• Authors: Jack Fairweather, Fairweather Jack
• Publisher: Allen Lane
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 27.02.2025
• EAN: 9780753558102
• ISBN: 978-0-7535-5810-2
• No. of pages: 496
• Dimensions: 161 mm x 241 mm x 43 mm
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Contemporary history (1945 to 1989); Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; HISTORY / Europe / Germany, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Historical, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Political, Germany, LAW / Legal History, The Holocaust, Legal History, Later 20th century c 1950 to c 1999, Far-right political ideologies and movements, Human rights, civil rights, Biography: historical, political and military, Relating to gay people, Relating to Jewish people and groups, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / LGBTQ+, HISTORY / Modern / 20th Century / Holocaust