He was the greatest ambassador the Federal Republic of Germany ever had. Robert M. W. Kempner
Fritz Bauer was the attorney general who brought Eichmann Auschwitz the Wehrmacht crimes the
Nazi judiciary and Nazi physicians to justice. As a result he faced hostility and death
threats throughout his life. A survivor of the Nazis¿ concentration camps and prisons himself
Bauer fought for the prisoners and the weakest members of society. The right and duty to resist
a reform of criminal law and a humane prison system were his main causes. We should be our
brother¿s keeper the jurist insisted. In my eyes that is the goal of a democratic social
and humane legal system. That is the charity religions speak of. Fritz Bauer was a champion of
the survivors in Germany after the Second World War and the Holocaust.
