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Fritz Bauer By Ronen Steinke

Fritz Bauer by Ronen Steinke


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Summary

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.

Fritz Bauer Summary

Fritz Bauer: The Jewish Prosecutor Who Brought Eichmann and Auschwitz to Trial by Ronen Steinke

German Jewish judge and prosecutor Fritz Bauer (1903-1968) played a key role in the arrest of Adolf Eichmann and the initiation of the Frankfurt Auschwitz trials. Author Ronen Steinke tells this remarkable story while sensitively exploring the many contributions Bauer made to the postwar German justice system. As it sheds light on Bauer's Jewish identity and the role it played in these trials and his later career, Steinke's deft narrative contributes to the larger story of Jewishness in postwar Germany. Examining latent antisemitism during this period as well as Jewish responses to renewed German cultural identity and politics, Steinke also explores Bauer's personal and family life and private struggles, including his participation in debates against the criminalization of homosexuality-a fact that only came to light after his death in 1968. This new biography reveals how one individual's determination, religion, and dedication to the rule of law formed an important foundation for German post war society.

Fritz Bauer Reviews

What is clear - and what this book makes clear - is that without people like Fritz Bauer there would have been none of this prosecution of Nazi atrocities, no trials for Auschwitz camp guards or Adolf Eichmann, no rehabilitation of the German resistance against Hitler. Ronen Steinke deserves thanks for bringing this message of Fritz Bauer back to light in such an accessible form, balancing professional distance and sympathy.

-- Kai Ambos * Criminal Law Forum *

This book is an important contribution as there aren't many rel-evant materials available in the English language.

* Association of Jewish Libraries *

Ronen Steinke's biography of Bauer gives a masterful account of the jurist's dramatic life, drawing on a wealth of primary sources, including court proceedings, private letters, and press reports

* New York Review of Books *

About Ronen Steinke

Ronen Steinke is editor at Suddeutsche 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.

Table of Contents

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

Additional information

NGR9780253046864
9780253046864
0253046866
Fritz Bauer: The Jewish Prosecutor Who Brought Eichmann and Auschwitz to Trial by Ronen Steinke
New
Paperback
Indiana University Press
2020-04-07
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