Ronen Steinke

Fritz Bauer

The Jewish Prosecutor Who Brought Eichmann and Auschwitz to Trial
Übersetzer: Crowe, Sinead

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Produktbeschreibung

1. 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.

Produktdetails

• German Jewish Cultures
• Verlag: Indiana University Press
• Seitenzahl: 220
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. April 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 482g
• ISBN-13: 9780253046857
• ISBN-10: 0253046858
• Artikelnr.: 55727150

Autorenporträt

Ronen Steinke is editor at Süddeutsche Zeitung and author of The Muslim and the Jew (in German). Sinead Crowe divides her time between teaching English at the University of Hamburg and translating. She is translator (with Rachel McNicholl) of Pierre Jarawan's The Storyteller.

Inhaltsangabe

Foreword 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