Join award-winning and bestselling British writer and journalist Jack Fairweather and journalist Jonathan Freedland as they discuss Jack's new book, The Prosecutor.
The Prosecutor tells the gripping true story of Fritz Bauer, a gay Jewish lawyer who returned to post-war Germany to seek justice for Holocaust crimes—only to find himself battling a nation eager to forget.
As the Cold War took hold, the world moved on, leaving thousands of Nazi perpetrators unpunished. While the CIA funded Hitler’s former spies and Nazi-era laws remained in force, Bauer risked everything to hold his country accountable. His pursuit of Adolf Eichmann would pit him against his own government and a powerful network determined to silence him.
Drawing on newly declassified records and exclusive interviews, Jack Fairweather unveils the hidden struggles behind the fight to establish the Holocaust’s legal legacy. The Prosecutor is a riveting portrait of one man’s defiance in the face of denial – and the price of forcing the world to confront the truth.
Jack Fairweather is an award-winning and bestselling British writer and journalist. His last book, The Volunteer, won the Costa Book Prize and was a #1 Sunday Times bestseller, hailed as a modern classic and compared to Schindler’s List. He splits his time between the UK and Vermont.
Jonathan Freedland is a Guardian columnist and former foreign correspondent. He is the presenter of BBC Radio 4’s contemporary history series, The Long View, as well as two podcasts, Politics Weekly America for the Guardian and Unholy, alongside the Israeli journalist Yonit Levi. He is a past winner of an Orwell Prize for journalism. The Escape Artist: The Man Who Broke Out of Auschwitz to Warn the World is his twelfth book. He is the author of nine thrillers, mostly as Sam Bourne, including The Righteous Men which was a Sunday Times number one bestseller.
