num_pages: 348
description: WINNER OF THE WINGATE PRIZEThe untold story of the man who brought a mastermind of the final solution to justice.May 1945. In the aftermath of the Second Word 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. One of the lead investigators is Lieutenant Hanns Alexander a German Jew who is now serving in the British Army. Rudolf Hss is his most elusive target. As Kommandant of Auschwitz Hss not only oversaw the murder of more than one million men women and children; he was the man who perfected Hitlers program of mass extermination. Hss is on the run across a continent in ruins the one man whose testimony can ensure justice at Nuremberg.Hanns and Rudolf reveals for the very first time the full exhilarating account of Hsss capture an encounter with repercussions that echo to this day. 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 it tells the story of two German men- one Jewish one Catholic- whose lives diverged and intersected in an astonishing way.
language: English
title: Hanns and Rudolf: The True Story of the German Jew Who Tracked Down and Caught the Kommandant of Auschwitz
publisher: Simon & Schuster