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''[A] gripping and fascinating book'' JAMES HOLLAND, DAILY TELEGRAPH, 5* review
''A brilliant book . . . timely . . . gripping'' RACHEL COOKE, OBSERVER
''A thrilling read '' PHILIPPE SANDS, author of EAST WEST STREET
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On 17 October 2019, in Hamburg''s imposing criminal justice building, a trial laden with extraordinary historical weight begins to unfold. Bruno Dey stands accused of being involved in a crime committed over seven decades ago: the murder of at least 5,230 inmates at Stutthof, the Nazi concentration camp in present-day Poland. Only seventeen at the time, Dey was a member of the SS unit responsible for administering the camp. Though he concedes to his role as a guard, he adamantly denies responsibility for the killings.
Dey''s trial comes at a poignant moment. As the last members of the war generation - both victims and perpetrators - disappear, so does their first-hand knowledge of the Holocaust''s horrors. Bey
