Hanns and Rudolf: The True Story of the German Jew Who Tracked

Hanns and Rudolf: The True Story of the German Jew Who Tracked Down and Caught the Kommandant of Auschwitz

WINNER OF THE WINGATE PRIZE

The â‚¬Å“compelling,â‚¬Â untold story of the man who brought one of Nazi Germanyâ‚¬s most notorious war criminals to justiceâ‚¬"â‚¬Å“fascinates and shocksâ‚¬Â (The Washington Post).

May 1945. 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. One of the lead investigators is Lieutenant Hanns Alexander, a German Jew who is now serving in the British Army. Rudolf HÂ¶ss is his most elusive target. As Kommandant of Auschwitz, HÂ¶ss not only oversaw the murder of more than one million men, women, and children; he was the man who perfected Hitlerâ‚¬s program of mass extermination. HÂ¶ss is on the run across a continent in ruins, the one man whose testimony can ensure justice at Nuremberg.

Hanns and Rudolf reveals for the very first time the full, exhilarating account of HÂ¶ssâ‚¬s capture, an encounter with repercussions that echo to this day. Moving from the Middle Eastern campaigns of World War I 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 menâ‚¬"one Jewish, one Catholicâ‚¬"whose lives diverged, and intersected, in an astonishing way. This is â‚¬Å“one of those true stories that illuminates a small justice in the aftermath of the Holocaust, an event so huge and heinous that there can be no ultimate justiceâ‚¬Â (New York Daily News).
Country USA
Manufacturer Simon & Schuster
Binding Kindle Edition
ReleaseDate 2013-09-03
Format Kindle eBook

Country	USA
Manufacturer	Simon & Schuster
Binding	Kindle Edition
ReleaseDate	2013-09-03
Format	Kindle eBook

Hanns and Rudolf: The True Story of the German Jew Who Tracked Down and Caught the Kommandant of Auschwitz

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