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Thu, 27 March 2025

6:00 pm - 7:00 pm GMT

The Prosecutor – One Man’s Battle to Bring Nazis to Justice

Costa Prize-Winner Jack Fairweather In Conversation With Hannah MacInnes

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Jack Fairweather reveals the true story of a Jewish lawyer who, returning to Germany after WWII to prosecute war crimes, found himself pitted against a nation intent on burying the past.

At the end of the Nuremberg trial in 1946, some of the greatest war criminals in history were sentenced to death, but hundreds of thousands of Nazi murderers and collaborators remained at large. The Allies were ready to overlook their pasts as the Cold War began, and the horrors of the Holocaust were in danger of being forgotten.

Now, bestselling author and former war reporter Jack Fairweather brings to life the remarkable story of Fritz Bauer, a gay German Jew who survived the Nazis and made it his mission to force his countrymen to confront their complicity in the genocide. Drawing on unpublished family papers, newly declassified German records, and exclusive interviews, Fairweather plunges us into the dark, unfamiliar world of postwar West Germany where those who implemented genocide run the country, the CIA is funding Hitler’s former spy-ring in the east, and Nazi-era anti-gay laws are strictly enforced. But Bauer won’t be intimidated.

In a time when the history of the Holocaust is taken for granted, Fairweather will reveal the courtroom battles fought to establish its legacy and the personal cost of speaking out. The result is a searing portrait of a nation emerging from the ruins of fascism and one man’s courage in forcing his people—and the world—to face the truth.

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Jack Fairweather

Costa Prize-winning Author

Jack Fairweather is an award-winning and bestselling British writer and former war reporter. His last book The Volunteer won the Costa Book Prize and was a #1 Sunday Times bestseller, translated into twenty-six languages, hailed as a modern classic and compared to Schindler’s List. After graduating from Oxford University, Jack joined the Daily Telegraph in 2002 as the paper’s Kuwait correspondent and took part in the invasion of Iraq with British troops as an embedded reporter. As the violence escalated in Iraq, Jack was fortunate to survive a suicide bomb attack, a kidnapping attempt and almost daily mortar attacks on his house. By the end he was living in a heavily fortified hotel as a virtual prisoner but determined to carry on reporting. Jack now divides his time between the UK and Vermont.

Hannah MacInnes

Journalist and Broadcaster

Hannah MacInnes is a broadcaster and journalist. Alongside hosting How To Academy’s live programmes and podcast, she presents a cultural show on Times Radio and interviews on-stage at a number of other major literary events. She is the host of The Klosters Forum Podcast series and has written for the Radio Times, the Evening Standard and TLS. Before going freelance she worked for 8 years at BBC Newsnight, as Planning Editor and as a Producer / Filmmaker.

 

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