The Prosecutor: One Man’s Battle to Bring Nazis to Justice by Jack Fairweather

A profile in courage in a time of peril. Fritz Bauer, an irascible, German-Jewish lawyer jailed and torture by the Gestapo, was determined that Germans should collectively accept their responsibility for the gas chambers at Auschwitz.  The obstacles he faced were monumental: the United States had recruited former Nazi officers to gather intelligence on the new enemy Russia; the post-war German government was filled with former Nazis at the highest levels; church leaders preached forgiveness. When Bauer, who had his own secrets, located Adolf Eichmann hiding in Argentina — with a tip from a teen-ager dating Eichmann’s son, and her blind father — even Mossad was slow to act; at Eichmann’s trial, Israeli prosecutors collaborated with the German government to redact the name of a high-ranking German official. Gripping. Riveting. With moral lessons for our times.
— Ray

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