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Hanns and Rudolf: The German Jew and the Hunt for the Kommandant of Auschwitz (Paperback)
  • Hanns and Rudolf: The German Jew and the Hunt for the Kommandant of Auschwitz (Paperback)

Hanns and Rudolf: The German Jew and the Hunt for the Kommandant of Auschwitz (Paperback)

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This is The Sunday Times Bestseller Winner Of The JQ Wingate Prize 2015 Shortlisted For The Costa Biobgrahy Award. "A gripping thriller, an unspeakable crime, an essential history." (John Le Carre). Hanns Alexander was the son of a prosperous German family who fled Berlin for London in the 1930s. Rudolf Hoss was a farmer and soldier who became the Kommandant of Auschwitz Concentration Camp and oversaw the deaths of over a million men, women and children. In the aftermath of the Second World 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. Lieutenant Hanns Alexander is one of the lead investigators, Rudolf Hoss his most elusive target. In this book Thomas Harding reveals for the very first time the full account of Hoss' capture. 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, Hanns and Rudolf tells the story of two German men whose lives diverged, and intersected, in an astonishing way.

Publisher: Cornerstone
ISBN: 9780099559054

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“Fantastic factual account”

I wouldn't usually choose this type of subject matter but I found it compelling and extremely well told. I was hooked all the way through and it did make me think of those who did /didn't make it out of... More

Paperback edition
23rd September 2014
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“An Educational Read”

Thomas Harding has written about the life of his great uncle Hanns. Hanns and his family were German Jews who fled Germany to live in England. The family have to rebuild their lives in England and with the outbreak of... More

Paperback edition
27th July 2014
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“I was quite affected by this book.”

The activities of the German Nazi’s before and during WWII are so grave they defy mundane categorisation, none more so than mass ethnic cleansing. This book takes us through those events, illustrated through the lives... More

Paperback edition
6th June 2014
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