Hanns and Rudolf: The German Jew and the Hunt for the Kommandant of Auschwitz - Softcover

Harding, Thomas

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0434022373 ISBN 13: 9780434022373

Publisher: William Heinemann Ltd, 2013

Synopsis

Hanns Alexander was the son of a prosperous German family who fled Berlin for London in the 1930s. Rudolf Hoess 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 Hoess his most elusive target. In this book Thomas Harding reveals for the very first time the full, exhilarating account of Hoess' 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.

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About the Author

Thomas Harding is a journalist who has written for The Sunday Times, the Financial Times and the Guardian, among other publications. He founded a television station in Oxford, England, and for many years was an award-winning publisher of a newspaper in West Virginia. He lives in Hampshire, England.

Edition details

• Publisher: William Heinemann Ltd
• Publication date: 2013
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0434022373
• ISBN 13: 9780434022373
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 368