Hitler's First Victims: The Quest for Justice

Hitler's First Victims: The Quest for Justice - Paperback

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Hitler's First Victims: The Quest for Justice - Paperback

Hitler's First Victims: The Quest for Justice - Paperback

by Timothy W. Ryback
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by Timothy W. Ryback (Author)

The remarkable story of Josef Hartinger, the German prosecutor who risked everything to bring to justice the first killers of the Holocaust and whose efforts would play a key role in the Nuremberg tribunal.

At 9 am on April 13, 1933, deputy prosecutor Josef Hartinger received a telephone call summoning him to the newly established concentration camp of Dachau. Four prisoners had been shot. The SS guards claimed that the men had been trying to escape. But what Hartinger found when he arrived convinced him that something was terribly wrong. All four victims were Jews.

Before Germany was engulfed by Nazi dictatorship, it was a constitutional republic. And just before Dachau became a site of Nazi genocide, it was a legal state detention center for political prisoners. In 1933, that began to change. In Hitler's First Victims, Timothy W. Ryback evokes a society on the brink--one in which civil liberties are sacrificed to national security, in which citizens increasingly turn a blind eye to injustice, in which the bedrock of judicial accountability chillingly dissolves into the martial caprice of the Third Reich. This is an astonishing portrait of Hitler's first moments in power, and the true story of one man's race to expose the Nazis as murderers on the eve of the Holocaust.

Author Biography

Timothy W. Ryback is the author of Hitler's Private Library, which was named to the Washington Post Book World Best Nonfiction list in 2008, and The Last Survivor: Legacies of Dachau, a New York Times Notable Book. He has written for The Atlantic Monthly, The New Yorker, The Wall Street Journal, and The New York Times. He lives and works in Paris.

Number of Pages: 304
Dimensions: 0.7 x 7.9 x 5.1 IN
Publication Date: October 13, 2015
ISBN9780804172004
Author Timothy W. Ryback
PublisherVintage
GenreHistory and Education
FormatPaperback
PublishedOctober 2015
LanguageENG- English
Pages304
Weight1.0 lb
Target AudienceAdults
Print SizeStandard Print

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