'FIVE STARS ... Magnificent' Telegraph 'Compulsively readable' Financial Times 'Gripping and
timely' The Times 'Crackingly told' Philippe Sands 'A kind of masterclass' Sebastian Junger
THE NEW BOOK FROM THE BESTSELLING COSTA PRIZE-WINNING AUTHOR OF THE VOLUNTEER SHORTLISTED FOR
THE 75th NATIONAL JEWISH BOOK AWARD The true story of a Jewish lawyer who returned to Germany
after WWII to prosecute war crimes only to find himself pitted against a nation determined to
bury the past. At the end of the Nuremberg trial in 1946 some of the greatest war criminals
in history were sentenced to death but hundreds of thousands of Nazi murderers and
collaborators remained at large. The Allies were ready to overlook their pasts as the Cold War
began and the horrors of the Holocaust were in danger of being forgotten. In The Prosecutor
Jack Fairweather brings to life the remarkable story of Fritz Bauer a gay German Jew who
survived the Nazis and made it his mission to force his countrymen to confront their complicity
in the genocide. In this deeply researched book Fairweather draws on unpublished family papers
newly declassified German records and exclusive interviews to immerse readers in the dark
unfamiliar world of postwar West Germany where those who implemented genocide run the country
the CIA is funding Hitler's former spy-ring in the east and Nazi-era anti-gay laws are
strictly enforced. But once Bauer lands on the trail of Adolf Eichmann he won't be
intimidated. His journey takes him deep into the rotten heart of West Germany where his fight
for justice will set him against his own government and a network of former Nazis and spies
determined to silence him. In a time when the history of the Holocaust is taken for granted
The Prosecutor reveals the courtroom battles that were fought to establish its legacy and the
personal cost of speaking out. The result is a searing portrait of a nation emerging from the
ruins of fascism and one man's courage in forcing his people--and the world--to face the truth.
