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Book Synopsis1. This is the dramatic story of Fritz Bauer, the prosecutor who played a key role in the arrest of Adolf Eichmann, the Auschwitz trials, and the post-war German justice system.
2. This work reveals new information on Bauer's life and the role his homosexuality and Jewishness played in his legal career.
3. Ronen Steinke is a lawyer and political journalist in Berlin.
Trade ReviewWhat is clear – and what this book makes clear – is that without people like Fritz Bauer there would have been none of this prosecution of Nazi atrocities, no trials for Auschwitz camp guards or Adolf Eichmann, no rehabilitation of the German resistance against Hitler. Ronen Steinke deserves thanks for bringing this message of Fritz Bauer back to light in such an accessible form, balancing professional distance and sympathy.
-- Kai Ambos * Criminal Law Forum *
This book is an important contribution as there aren't many rel-evant materials available in the English language.
* Association of Jewish Libraries *
Ronen Steinke's biography of Bauer gives a masterful account of the jurist's dramatic life, drawing on a wealth of primary sources, including court proceedings, private letters, and press reports
* New York Review of Books *
Table of ContentsForeword by Andreas Vosskuhle
Acknowledgments
1. The German who Brought Eichmann to Justice: His Secret
2. The Secret Jewish Life of Post-War Germany's Most Controversial Jurist
3. The University Years (1921–1925): A Gifted Student
4. Judge in the Weimar Republic: Bauer's Attempts to Ward off Catastrophe
5. Concentration Camp and Exile (1933–1949)
6. Rehabilitating the Plotters of July 20, 1944
7. "Murderers Among Us": The Psychology of a Prosecutor
8. Bauer's Greatest Achievement: The Auschwitz Trial (1963–1965)
9. The Fight for Gay Rights: Bauer's Dilemma
10. Bauer's Path to Isolation
11. 1968: The Body in the Bathtub
Bibliography
Index
