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Author:

Harding, Thomas, 1968-

Title:

Hanns and Rudolf : the true story of the German Jew who tracked down and caught the Kommandant of Auschwitz / Thomas Harding.

Edition:

First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.

Publisher:

Simon & Schuster,

Copyright Date:

2013

Description:

xix, 348 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.

Subject:

Höss, Rudolf,--1900-1947.
Alexander, Hanns,--1917-2006.
Auschwitz (Concentration camp)--Officials and employees--Biography.
Great Britain.--Army--Officers--Biography.
Jews--Germany--Biography.
Jews--Great Britain--Biography.
War criminals--Germany--Biography.
Concentration camp commandants--Oświęcim--Oświęcim--Biography.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 333-335) and index.

Contents:

Rudolf, Baden-Baden, Germany, 1901 -- Hanns, Berlin, Germany, 1917 -- Rudolf, Berlin, Germany, 1918 -- Hanns, Berlin, Germany, 1928 -- Rudolf, Berlin, Germany, 1928 -- Hanns, Berlin, Germany, 1933 -- Rudolf, Oswiecim, Upper Silesia, 1939 -- Hanns, London, England, 1939 -- Rudolf, Oswiecim, Upper Silesia, 1942 -- Hanns, Normandy, France, 1945 -- Rudolf, Berlin, Germany, 1943 -- Hanns, Brussels, Belgium, 1945 -- Rudolf, Berlin, Germany, 1945 -- Hanns, Belsen, Germany, 1945 -- Hanns and Rudolf, Gottrupel and Belsen, Germany, 1946 -- Hanns and Rudolf, Gottrupel, Germany, 1946 -- Hanns and Rudolf, Belsen and Nuremberg,Germany, 1946.

Summary:

"May 1945. In the aftermath of the Second Word 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 Höss is his most elusive target. As Kommandant of Auschwitz, Höss not only oversaw the murder of more than one million men, women, and children; he was the man who perfected Hitler's program of mass extermination. Höss is on the run across a continent in ruins, the one man whose testimony can ensure justice at Nuremberg... 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 -- one Jewish, one Catholic -- whose lives diverged, and intersected, in an astonishing way."--Publisher description.

ISBN:

1476711844 (hardcover)
9781476711843 (hardcover)

LCCN:

2013409096

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