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Hanns and Rudolf de Thomas Harding

Hanns and Rudolf: William Heinemann

Autor Thomas Harding
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 5 sep 2013

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Evoluția istoriografiei Holocaustului a trecut, în ultimele decenii, de la analiza statistică a atrocităților la micro-istorii care recuperează figurile umane din spatele proceselor de justiție. Reținem că Hanns and Rudolf nu este doar o cronică a urmăririi unui fugar, ci o examinare duală a două destine germane care s-au intersectat în contextul prăbușirii celui de-al Treilea Reich. Thomas Harding reconstituie minuțios parcursul lui Hanns Alexander, un evreu berlinez refugiat, devenit investigator în armata britanică, și al lui Rudolf Höss, omul care a perfecționat mecanismul exterminării la Auschwitz.

Considerăm că forța acestei lucrări rezidă în structura sa cvasi-biografică, ce pune în oglindă viețile celor doi bărbați — unul catolic, celălalt evreu — din Berlinul boem al anilor '20 până în ruinele Europei postbelice. Din punct de vedere stilistic, volumul îmbină rigoarea documentară cu ritmul alert al unui roman polițist istoric. Comparabil cu The Nazi Hunters de Andrew Nagorski în rigurozitate, dar actualizat pentru o perspectivă mai intimă asupra mecanismelor psihologice ale justiției imediate, textul oferă detalii esențiale despre capturarea celui a cărui mărturie a fost crucială la Nürnberg.

Această lucrare se înscrie organic în opera lui Thomas Harding, continuând preocuparea sa pentru confruntarea cu trecutul traumatic, temă centrală și în The House by the Lake sau White Debt. Spre deosebire de The Commandant of Auschwitz de Volker Koop, care se concentrează strict pe biografia criminalului, Harding alege să onoreze figura celui care a adus dreptatea, oferind o perspectivă rară asupra primei echipe britanice de investigare a crimelor de război.

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ISBN-13: 9780434022373
ISBN-10: 0434022373
Pagini: 352
Dimensiuni: 151 x 233 x 32 mm
Greutate: 0.57 kg
Editura: Random House
Seria William Heinemann

De ce să citești această carte

Recomandăm această carte cititorilor interesați de istoria celui de-al Doilea Război Mondial și de procesele de justiție postbelică. Veți descoperi o poveste reală, documentată riguros, despre determinarea unui investigator de a nu lăsa nepedepsite crimele împotriva umanității. Este o lectură esențială pentru a înțelege cum trauma personală a exilului s-a transformat, în cazul lui Hanns Alexander, într-un instrument al dreptății internaționale.

Despre autor

Thomas Harding este un autor și jurnalist recunoscut pentru capacitatea sa de a investiga istorii complexe prin prisma experiențelor personale și familiale. În lucrări precum White Debt, el a explorat implicarea familiei sale în istoria sclaviei, iar în The House by the Lake a urmărit istoria Germaniei prin prisma unei singure locuințe. Această aplecare către cercetarea de arhivă și activismul social se reflectă și în Hanns and Rudolf, unde Harding valorifică legătura sa de rudenie cu Hanns Alexander pentru a scoate la lumină o pagină de istorie mai puțin cunoscută.

Notă biografică

Thomas Harding is a journalist who has written for The Sunday Times, the Financial Times and the Guardian, among other publications. He founded a television station in Oxford, England, and for many years was an award-winning publisher of a newspaper in West Virginia. He lives in Hampshire, England.

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"Thomas Harding has shed intriguing new light on the strange poison of Nazism, and one of its most lethal practitioners... Meticulously researched and deeply felt." -- Ben Macintyre The Times, Book of the Week "Fascinating and moving...This is a remarkable book, which deserves a wide readership." -- Max Hastings The Sunday Times "A gripping thriller, an unspeakable crime, an essential history." -- John Le Carre "This is a stunning book...both chilling and deeply disturbing. It is also an utterly compelling and exhilarating account of one man's extraordinary hunt for the Kommandant of the most notorious death camp of all, Auschwitz-Birkenau." -- James Holland "Only at his great uncle's funeral in 2006 did Thomas Harding discover that Hanns Alexander, whose Jewish family fled to Britain from Nazi Germany in the 1930s, hunted down and captured Rudolf Hoss, the ruthless commandant of Auschwitz, at the end of World War Two. By tracing the lives of these two men in parallel until their dramatic convergence in 1946, Harding puts the monstrous evil of the Final Solution in two specific but very different human contexts. The result is a compelling book full of unexpected revelations and insights, an authentic addition to our knowledge and understanding of this dark chapter in European history. No-one who starts reading it can fail to go on to the end." -- David Lodge

"This important and moving book describes the unlikely intersection of two very different lives - that of Hanns Alexander, the son of a prosperous German family in Berlin who became a refugee in London in the 1930s, and Rudolf Hoss, the Kommandant of the Auschwitz Concentration Camp. Well-researched and grippingly written it provides a unique insight into the fate of Germany under National Socialism." -- Antony Polonsky, Albert Abramson Professor Of Holocaust Studies At The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum And Brandeis University "Thomas Harding has written a book of two intersecting lives: His great uncle, a German Jew and potential Nazi victim, and Rudolf Hoss, Kommandant of Auschwitz. In a neat historical irony, his uncle became a British officer who tracked down war criminals, including one of the world's worst mass murderers. A fascinating account, with chunks of new information, about one of history's darkest chapters." -- Richard Breitman, Author Of The Architect Of Genocide: Himmler And The Final Solution And Editor-In-Chief Of The U.S. Holocaust Museum's Holocaust And Genocide Studies "A remarkable book: thoughtful, compelling and quite devastating in its humanity. Thomas Harding's account of these two extraordinary men goes straight to the dark heart of Nazi Germany." -- Keith Lowe, Author Of Savage Continent: Europe In The Aftermath Of World War II "In this electrifying account, Thomas Harding commemorates (and, for the tired, revivifies) a ringing Biblical injunction: Justice, justice, shalt thou pursue." -- Cynthia Ozick "This fascinating book, based on the gripping story of one man's unrelenting pursuit of Rudolf Hoss in his search for justice, confirms my belief that much of the most important knowledge of the Holocaust, comes from the personal accounts of those involved. Hanns and Rudolf vividly brings to life, not only the impact of Hitler's anti-Semitic policies on the author's German Jewish family, forced to flee Berlin in the 1930s; but shows how an ordinary German farmer became one of the most feared and notorious war criminals in history, implementing with chilling efficiency the extermination of over a million Jews in Auschwitz. As awareness of the full horror of these dark years continues to advance, this book fills a unique and vital role." -- Lyn Smith, Author Of Heroes Of The Holocaust

"Thomas Harding has written a book of two intersecting lives: His great uncle, a German Jew and potential Nazi victim, and Rudolf Hoss, Kommandant of Auschwitz. In a neat historical irony, his uncle became a British officer who tracked down war criminals, including one of the world's worst mass murderers. A fascinating account, with chunks of new information, about one of history's darkest chapters." -- Richard Breitman, Author Of The Architect Of Genocide: Himmler And The Final Solution And Editor-In-Chief Of The U.S. Holocaust Museum's Holocaust And Genocide Studies "A remarkable book: thoughtful, compelling and quite devastating in its humanity. Thomas Harding's account of these two extraordinary men goes straight to the dark heart of Nazi Germany." -- Keith Lowe, Author Of Savage Continent: Europe In The Aftermath Of World War II "In this electrifying account, Thomas Harding commemorates (and, for the tired, revivifies) a ringing Biblical injunction: Justice, justice, shalt thou pursue." -- Cynthia Ozick "This fascinating book, based on the gripping story of one man's unrelenting pursuit of Rudolf Hoss in his search for justice, confirms my belief that much of the most important knowledge of the Holocaust, comes from the personal accounts of those involved. Hanns and Rudolf vividly brings to life, not only the impact of Hitler's anti-Semitic policies on the author's German Jewish family, forced to flee Berlin in the 1930s; but shows how an ordinary German farmer became one of the most feared and notorious war criminals in history, implementing with chilling efficiency the extermination of over a million Jews in Auschwitz. As awareness of the full horror of these dark years continues to advance, this book fills a unique and vital role." -- Lyn Smith, Author Of Heroes Of The Holocaust "Its climax as thrilling as any wartime adventure story, Hanns and Rudolf is also a moral inquiry into an eternal question: what makes a man turn to evil? Closely researched and tautly written, this book sheds light on a remarkable and previously unknown aspect of the Holocaust - the moment when a Jew and one of the highest-ranking Nazis came face to face and history held its breath." -- Jonathan Freedland

"A remarkable book: thoughtful, compelling and quite devastating in its humanity. Thomas Harding's account of these two extraordinary men goes straight to the dark heart of Nazi Germany." -- Keith Lowe, Author Of Savage Continent: Europe In The Aftermath Of World War II "In this electrifying account, Thomas Harding commemorates (and, for the tired, revivifies) a ringing Biblical injunction: Justice, justice, shalt thou pursue." -- Cynthia Ozick "This fascinating book, based on the gripping story of one man's unrelenting pursuit of Rudolf Hoss in his search for justice, confirms my belief that much of the most important knowledge of the Holocaust, comes from the personal accounts of those involved. Hanns and Rudolf vividly brings to life, not only the impact of Hitler's anti-Semitic policies on the author's German Jewish family, forced to flee Berlin in the 1930s; but shows how an ordinary German farmer became one of the most feared and notorious war criminals in history, implementing with chilling efficiency the extermination of over a million Jews in Auschwitz. As awareness of the full horror of these dark years continues to advance, this book fills a unique and vital role." -- Lyn Smith, Author Of Heroes Of The Holocaust "This important and moving book describes the unlikely intersection of two very different lives - that of Hanns Alexander, the son of a prosperous German family in Berlin who became a refugee in London in the 1930s, and Rudolf Hoss, the Kommandant of the Auschwitz Concentration Camp. Well-researched and grippingly written it provides a unique insight into the fate of Germany under National Socialism." -- Antony Polonsky, Albert Abramson Professor Of Holocaust Studies At The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum And Brandeis University "Thomas Harding has written a book of two intersecting lives: His great uncle, a German Jew and potential Nazi victim, and Rudolf Hoss, Kommandant of Auschwitz. In a neat historical irony, his uncle became a British officer who tracked down war criminals, including one of the world's worst mass murderers. A fascinating account, with chunks of new information, about one of history's darkest chapters." -- Richard Breitman, Author Of The Architect Of Genocide: Himmler And The Final Solution And Editor-In-Chief Of The U.S. Holocaust Museum's Holocaust And Genocide Studies

"A gripping thriller, an unspeakable crime, an essential history." -- John Le Carre "A remarkable book: thoughtful, compelling and quite devastating in its humanity. Thomas Harding's account of these two extraordinary men goes straight to the dark heart of Nazi Germany." -- Keith Lowe, author of Savage Continent: Europe in the Aftermath of World War II "Its climax as thrilling as any wartime adventure story, Hanns and Rudolf is also a moral inquiry into an eternal question: what makes a man turn to evil? Closely researched and tautly written, this book sheds light on a remarkable and previously unknown aspect of the Holocaust - the moment when a Jew and one of the highest-ranking Nazis came face to face and history held its breath." -- Jonathan Freedland "In this electrifying account, Thomas Harding commemorates (and, for the tired, revivifies) a ringing Biblical injunction: Justice, justice, shalt thou pursue." -- Cynthia Ozick "This fascinating book, based on the gripping story of one man's unrelenting pursuit of Rudolf Hoss in his search for justice, confirms my belief that much of the most important knowledge of the Holocaust, comes from the personal accounts of those involved. Hanns and Rudolf vividly brings to life, not only the impact of Hitler's anti-Semitic policies on the author's German Jewish family, forced to flee Berlin in the 1930s; but shows how an ordinary German farmer became one of the most feared and notorious war criminals in history, implementing with chilling efficiency the extermination of over a million Jews in Auschwitz. As awareness of the full horror of these dark years continues to advance, this book fills a unique and vital role." -- Lyn Smith, author of Heroes of the Holocaust

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'A gripping thriller, an unspeakable crime, an essential history.' JOHN LE CARRÉ
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Hanns Alexander was the son of a prosperous German family who fled Berlin for London in the 1930s.

Rudolf Höss was a farmer and soldier who became the Kommandant of Auschwitz Concentration Camp and oversaw the deaths of over a million men, women and children.

In the aftermath of the Second World War, the first British War Crimes Investigation Team is assembled to hunt down the senior Nazi officials responsible for the greatest atrocities the world has ever seen. Lieutenant Hanns Alexander is one of the lead investigators, Rudolf Höss his most elusive target.

In this book Thomas Harding reveals for the very first time the full account of Höss’ capture. Moving from the Middle-Eastern campaigns of the First World War to bohemian Berlin in the 1920s, to the horror of the concentration camps and the trials in Belsen and Nuremberg, Hanns and Rudolf tells the story of two German men whose lives diverged, and intersected, in an astonishing way.

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WINNER OF THE WINGATE PRIZE
The "compelling," untold story of the man who brought one of Nazi Germany's most notorious war criminals to justice--"fascinates and shocks" ("The Washington Post").
May 1945. In the aftermath of the Second World War, the first British War Crimes Investigation Team is assembled to hunt down the senior Nazi officials responsible for the greatest atrocities the world has ever seen. One of the lead investigators is Lieutenant Hanns Alexander, a German Jew who is now serving in the British Army. Rudolf Hoss is his most elusive target. As Kommandant of Auschwitz, Hoss not only oversaw the murder of more than one million men, women, and children; he was the man who perfected Hitler's program of mass extermination. Hoss is on the run across a continent in ruins, the one man whose testimony can ensure justice at Nuremberg.
"Hanns and Rudolf "reveals for the very first time the full, exhilarating account of Hoss's capture, an encounter with repercussions that echo to this day. Moving from the Middle Eastern campaigns of World War I to bohemian Berlin in the 1920s to the horror of the concentration camps and the trials in Belsen and Nuremberg, it tells the story of two German men--one Jewish, one Catholic--whose lives diverged, and intersected, in an astonishing way. This is "one of those true stories that illuminates a small justice in the aftermath of the Holocaust, an event so huge and heinous that there can be no ultimate justice" (New York "Daily News").

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