Hanns Alexander was the son of a prosperous German family who fled Berlin for London in the 1930s.
Rudolf H ss 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 H ss his most elusive target.
In this book Thomas Harding reveals for the very first time the full, exhilarating account of H ss' 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.
Hanns Alexander was the son of a prosperous German family who fled Berlin for London in the 1930s.
Rudolf H ss 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 H ss his most elusive target.
In this book Thomas Harding reveals for the very first time the full, exhilarating account of H ss' 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.
The extraordinary true story of the Jewish investigator who pursued and captured one of Nazi Germany's most notorious war criminals.
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.
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.
*The Times, Book of the Week*
Fascinating and moving...This is a remarkable book, which deserves
a wide readership.
*The Sunday Times*
A gripping thriller, an unspeakable crime, an essential
history.
*John Le Carré*
This is a stunning book...both chilling and deeply disturbing. It
is also an utterly compelling and exhilarating account of one man's
extraordinary hunt for the Kommandant of the most notorious death
camp of all, Auschwitz-Birkenau.
*James Holland*
Only at his great uncle’s funeral in 2006 did Thomas Harding
discover that Hanns Alexander, whose Jewish family fled to Britain
from Nazi Germany in the 1930s, hunted down and captured Rudolf
Höss, the ruthless commandant of Auschwitz, at the end of World War
Two. By tracing the lives of these two men in parallel until their
dramatic convergence in 1946, Harding puts the monstrous evil of
the Final Solution in two specific but very different human
contexts. The result is a compelling book full of unexpected
revelations and insights, an authentic addition to our knowledge
and understanding of this dark chapter in European history. No-one
who starts reading it can fail to go on to the end.
*David Lodge*
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