Title: Beyond redemption?
Description: This is the story of SS Colonel Kurt Andreas Becher, who was a confidante of Himmler. Yet Becher also negotiated the rescue of 1684 Jews in exchange for their wealth. After the war he was viewed as both a saviour and a demon. Did his humanitarian gestures sanitise his soul or did motives of commercial gain condemn him to eternal guilt? The reader must decide if he is Beyond Redemption?
Subjects: Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945), Nazis, Biography, Nuremberg Trial of Major German War Criminals, Nuremberg, Germany, 1945-1946, Auschwitz (Concentration camp)
People: Kurt Becher (1909-)