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Hanns And Rudolf The True Story Of The German Jew Who Tracked Down And Caught The Kommandant Of Auschwitz

Book • 2013
This book tells the riveting account of the intersection of two lives: Hanns Alexander, a German Jew who fled Berlin in the 1930s and joined the British army, and Rudolf Höss, the Kommandant of Auschwitz.

Harding explores the parallel and opposing lives of these two men, delving into the moral complexities of both.

The story spans from the Middle-Eastern campaigns of the First World War to the trials of Belsen and Nuremberg, providing a gripping and deeply felt work of history and a remarkable quest for justice.

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as the historian who wrote the book about Rudolf Höss and his family.
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Auschwitz Commandant: Rudolf Höss

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