Hanns and Rudolf

The True Story of the German Jew Who Tracked Down and Caught the Kommandant of Auschwitz

De: Thomas Harding

Narrado por: Mark Meadows

The untold story of the man who brought a mastermind of the final solution to justice

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 Höss is his most elusive target. As kommandant of Auschwitz, Höss 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. Höss 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 Höss' capture, an encounter with repercussions that echo to this day. 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, it tells the story of two German men - one Jewish, one Catholic - whose lives diverged and intersected in an astonishing way.

©2013 Cackler Harding Ltd. (P)2013 Blackstone Audiobooks

Very well done

An incredible story well told. As you wait for the separate stories to cross, the interest grows and the tension builds.

Hans and Rudolf

Truly a very well written account of the capture of the Commandant of Auschwitz. I was mesmerized. The book is also well narratted.

unbelievable history

this is an unbelievable account of how Hoss became the killer of Aushwitz. Things i never new.

Informative

Unexpected multigenerational experience of a Jewish family in 30-40’s Germany and relocation to England. Harrowing creeping of loss of rights and freedom with the hope of it can’t continue to realizing they had to leave NOW.

So Well Done

The side-by-side format, telling the story from the point of view of both main characters, worked extremely well. Seeing the rise of the Third Reich from the perspective of both a German officer and a German Jew opened the doors to the truth of the insidious growth of poisonous so-called nationalism and its catastrophic consequences. The narration was perfect. The narrator is clearly fluent in both English and German and this added to the listening experience. I strongly recommend this book.