Book "Fritz Bauer. Auschwitz przed sądem" - Ronen Steinke

Fritz Bauer - a man who did not let Germany forget its past.

Working in the justice system of the nascent German Federal Republic, prosecutor Fritz Bauer sought to be the voice of its conscience. A prisoner of the camps, an escaped Jew who returned to Germany in 1949 to take up the post of Attorney General of Hesse in Frankfurt am Main.

Through him, participants in the assassination attempt on Hitler on July 20, 1944 were rehabilitated, and the Third Reich was officially recognized by the court as „a lawless state”. It was Bauer who gave the Israeli Mossad the lead that led to the kidnapping and trial of Adolf Eichmann. His contribution to the trial of SS criminals from Auschwitz-Birkenau in Frankfurt in the 1960s was also enormous.

Acting in the postwar, and therefore seemingly favorable reality, Fritz Bauer often encountered reluctance or even opposition from his colleagues who often had an unclear past entangled in National Socialism. The German state also tried to avoid accounting for participation in Nazi crimes. Therefore, Bauer did not trust its authorities. Hence, we only learned about most of his achievements after his death. A death that was exceedingly mysterious. Who really was this lonely fighter for the truth?

Ronen Steinke - also a lawyer and also a journalist - outlines the story of a man who after the war was attacked in the NRF like no one else. Using previously unpublished sources he reconstructs the story of a great lawyer and humanist whose personal fate became a political issue. He writes down the biography of a German Jew who miraculously escaped Nazi persecution, in order to restore an elementary sense of justice.

The book is written in Polish.

Technical data
Author: Ronen Steinke
Cover type: softcover
Size: 145 x 205 mm
Publishing year: 2017
Page count: 360
Publishing house: Replika