The Prosecutor
One Man's Battle to Bring Nazis to Justice
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From the #1 Sunday Times bestselling author of The Volunteer, the powerful true story of a Jewish lawyer who returned to Germany after World War II to prosecute war crimes, only to find himself pitted against a nation determined to bury 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.
In The Prosecutor, Jack Fairweather brings to life the remarkable story of Fritz Bauer, a gay, Jewish judge from Stuttgart who survived the Nazis and made it his mission to force his countrymen to confront their complicity in the genocide. In this deeply researched book, Fairweather draws on unpublished family papers, newly declassified German records, and exclusive interviews to immerse listeners in the shadowy, unfamiliar world of postwar West Germany where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 once Bauer landed on the trail of Adolf Eichmann, he wouldn’t be intimidated. His journey took him deep into the dark heart of West Germany, where his fight for justice would set him against his own government and a network of former Nazis and spies bent on silencing him.
In a time when the history of the Holocaust is taken for granted, The Prosecutor reveals the courtroom battles that were 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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Story of a City
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De: Gary Krist
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The Volunteer
- One Man, an Underground Army, and the Secret Mission to Destroy Auschwitz
- De: Jack Fairweather
- Narrado por: David Rintoul
- Duración: 9 h y 44 m
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General5 out of 5 stars 614
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 550
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To uncover the fate of the thousands being interred at a mysterious Nazi camp on the border of the Reich, a young Polish resistance fighter named Witold Pilecki volunteered for an audacious mission: intentionally get captured and transported to the new camp to report back on what was going on there. But gathering information was not his only task: he was to execute an attack from inside - where the Germans would least expect it. The name of the camp was Auschwitz.
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4 out of 5 stars
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It is impossible to hear of the atrocities of Auschwitz without being. Forced to consider man’s infinite cruelty
- De Marge Greenwald en 07-15-19
De: Jack Fairweather
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A Rebel in Auschwitz
- The True Story of the Resistance Hero Who Fought the Nazis' Greatest Crime from Inside the Camp
- De: Jack Fairweather
- Narrado por: Betsy Meiman
- Duración: 5 h y 4 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 16
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 14
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Occupied Warsaw, Summer 1940: Witold Pilecki, a Polish underground operative, accepted a mission to uncover the fate of thousands interned at a new concentration camp, report on Nazi crimes, raise a secret army, and stage an uprising. The name of the camp - Auschwitz. Over the next two and half years, and under the cruelest of conditions, Pilecki's underground sabotaged facilities, assassinated Nazi officers, and gathered evidence of terrifying abuse and mass murder.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Very good and interesting book
- De CRPANP en 12-09-24
De: Jack Fairweather
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The Fifteen
- Murder, Retribution, and the Forgotten Story of Nazi POWs in America
- De: William Geroux
- Narrado por: Arthur Morey
- Duración: 11 h y 3 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 10
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 9
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The revelatory true story of the long-forgotten POW camps for German soldiers erected in hundreds of small U.S. towns during World War II, and the secret Nazi killings that ensnared fifteen brave American POWs in a high-stakes showdown.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A part of American history I’d never heard about
- De Janet Stanek en 05-13-25
De: William Geroux
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The Rebel Empresses
- Elisabeth of Austria and Eugénie of France, Power and Glamour in the Struggle for Europe
- De: Nancy Goldstone
- Narrado por: Tamsin Kennard
- Duración: 19 h y 34 m
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General5 out of 5 stars 19
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 18
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 18
When they married Emperors Franz Joseph and Napoleon III, respectively, Elisabeth of Austria and Eugénie of France became two of the most famous women on the planet. Not only were they both young and beautiful—becoming cultural and fashion icons of their time—but they played a pivotal role in ruling their realms during a tempestuous era characterized by unprecedented political and technological change. Fearless, adventurous, and independent, Elisabeth and Eugénie represented a new kind of empress—one who rebelled against tradition and anticipated and embraced modern values.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Excellent book!
- De Kayleigh en 03-04-25
De: Nancy Goldstone
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Taking Manhattan
- The Extraordinary Events That Created New York and Shaped America
- De: Russell Shorto
- Narrado por: Russell Shorto
- Duración: 11 h y 31 m
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General5 out of 5 stars 23
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 22
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In 1664, England decided to invade the Dutch-controlled city of New Amsterdam on Manhattan Island. Charles II and his brother, the Duke of York, had dreams of empire, and their archrivals, the Dutch, were in the way. But Richard Nicolls, the military officer who led the English flotilla bent on destruction, changed his strategy once he encountered Peter Stuyvesant, New Netherland’s canny director general.
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4 out of 5 stars
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I really appreciated how the author continually related the past to what we see today.
- De Jaelyn Dean en 05-22-25
De: Russell Shorto
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Trespassers at the Golden Gate
- A True Account of Love, Murder, and Madness in Gilded-Age San Francisco
- De: Gary Krist
- Narrado por: Rob Shapiro
- Duración: 11 h y 32 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 17
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 15
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 15
Shortly before dusk on November 3, 1870, just as the ferryboat El Capitan was pulling away from its slip into San Francisco Bay, a woman clad in black emerged from the shadows and strode across the crowded deck. Reaching under her veil, she drew a small pistol and aimed it directly at a well-dressed man sitting quietly with his wife and children. The woman fired a single bullet into his chest. “I did it and I don’t deny it,” she said when arrested shortly thereafter. “He ruined me and my daughter.”
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5 out of 5 stars
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Story of a City
- De Suzanna en 04-29-25
De: Gary Krist
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Lincoln's Peace
- The Struggle to End the American Civil War
- De: Michael Vorenberg
- Narrado por: Landon Woodson
- Duración: 16 h y 40 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 3
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We set out on the James River, March 25, 1865, aboard the paddle steamboat River Queen. President Lincoln is on his way to General Grant’s headquarters at City Point, Virginia, and he’s decided he won’t return to Washington until he’s witnessed, or perhaps even orchestrated, the end of the Civil War. Now, it turns out, more than a century and a half later, historians are still searching for that end.
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Saints and Liars
- The Story of Americans Who Saved Refugees from the Nazis
- De: Debórah Dwork
- Narrado por: Alexandra Cohler
- Duración: 6 h y 33 m
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General3.5 out of 5 stars 2
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Narración:3 out of 5 stars 2
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Long before their country officially joined the war, American aid workers were active in rescue efforts across Europe. Two such Americans were Martha and Waitstill Sharp, who were originally sent to Prague as part of a relief effort but turned immediately to helping Jews and dissidents after the 1939 invasion by Germany. They were not the only ones. Renowned historian Debórah Dwork follows the story of rescue workers in five major cities as the refugee crisis expanded to Vilna, Shanghai, Marseille, and Lisbon. Followed by Nazi agents, spiriting people across borders, they learned secrecy.
De: Debórah Dwork
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Golden State
- The Making of California
- De: Michael Hiltzik
- Narrado por: Bob Souer
- Duración: 14 h y 52 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 3
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From Pulitzer Prize winner Michael Hiltzik, a definitive new history of California—from the Spanish conquistadors to the Gold Rush to the state’s meteoric rise as a tech powerhouse and bulwark of progressivism—and of its indelible mark on the United States and the world.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Stupendous Cali History
- De Iethiopia T. Lowe en 06-05-25
De: Michael Hiltzik
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The Red House
- De: Mary Morris
- Narrado por: Alyssa Bresnahan
- Duración: 10 h y 54 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 7
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 6
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Thirty years ago, Laura’s mother, Viola, went missing. She left behind her purse, her keys and her mysterious paintings of a red house. Viola was never found, and her family never recovered. Laura, an artist herself, held on to the paintings. On the back of each work, her mother scrawled in Italian, “I will not be here forever.” The family never understood what Viola meant.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Beautiful story, couldn’t stop listening
- De A en 05-20-25
De: Mary Morris
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Seven Social Movements That Changed America
- De: Linda Gordon
- Narrado por: Hillary Huber
- Duración: 17 h y 35 m
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How do social movements arise, wield power, and decline? Renowned scholar Linda Gordon investigates these questions in a groundbreaking work, narrating the stories of many of America's most influential twentieth-century social movements. Beginning with the turn-of-the-century settlement house movement, Gordon then scrutinizes the 1920s Ku Klux Klan and its successors, the violent American fascist groups of the 1930s.
De: Linda Gordon
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Naples 1944
- The Devil's Paradise at War
- De: Keith Lowe
- Narrado por: Richard Trinder
- Duración: 15 h y 10 m
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General5 out of 5 stars 2
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Keith Lowe has chronicled the end of WWII in Europe in Savage Continent and the war's aftermath in The Fear and the Freedom. In Naples 1944, he brings listeners another chronicle of the terrible and often unexpected consequences of war. Even before the fall of Mussolini, Naples was a place of great contrasts filled with palaces and slums, beloved cuisine and widespread hunger. After the Allied liberation, these contrasts made the city notorious. Compared to the starving population, Allied soldiers were staggeringly wealthy.
De: Keith Lowe
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Soldiers and Silver
- Mobilizing Resources in the Age of Roman Conquest
- De: Michael J. Taylor
- Narrado por: Adam Barr
- Duración: 8 h y 37 m
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General3 out of 5 stars 1
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 1
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By the middle of the second century BCE, after nearly one hundred years of warfare, Rome had exerted its control over the entire Mediterranean world, forcing the other great powers of the region—Carthage, Macedonia, Egypt, and the Seleucid empire—to submit militarily and financially. But how, despite its relative poverty and its frequent numerical disadvantage in decisive battles, did Rome prevail? Michael J. Taylor explains this surprising outcome by examining the role that manpower and finances played.
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In the Garden of the Righteous
- The Heroes Who Risked Their Lives to Save Jews During the Holocaust
- De: Richard Hurowitz
- Narrado por: Paul Heitsch
- Duración: 14 h y 29 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 29
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Less than a century ago, the Second World War took the lives of more than fifty million people; more than six million of them were systematically exterminated through crimes of such enormity that a new name to describe the horror was coined: the Holocaust. Yet amid such darkness, there were glimmers of light—courageous individuals who risked everything to save those hunted by the Nazis.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Must read! Outstanding and compelling! Couldn’t stop until the end.
- De Integrity personified en 03-03-23
De: Richard Hurowitz
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Presidents at War
- How World War II Shaped a Generation of Presidents, from Eisenhower and JFK Through Reagan and Bush
- De: Steven M. Gillon
- Narrado por: Fred Sanders
- Duración: 17 h y 22 m
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General3.5 out of 5 stars 4
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World War II loomed over the latter half of the twentieth century, transforming every level of American society and international relationships and searing itself onto the psyche of an entire generation, including that of seven American presidents: Dwight D. Eisenhower, John F. Kennedy, Lyndon B. Johnson, Richard Nixon, Gerald Ford, Ronald Reagan, and George H. W. Bush. The lessons of World War II, more than party affiliation or ideology, defined the presidencies of these seven men.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Bias
- De E.A.BRYLA en 03-06-25
De: Steven M. Gillon
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Year Zero
- The Five-Year Presidency
- De: Christopher P. Liddell
- Narrado por: Tom Parks
- Duración: 10 h y 23 m
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Designing and operating an effective White House are critical to the success of any presidency—and to democracy in the United States. Former White House Deputy Chief of Staff Christopher Liddell offers a strategic approach to building a strong and successful presidency. An astute and experienced operative, he demonstrates persuasively that action must be taken early, comprehensively, and visibly, starting in what he calls Year Zero, the year before governing.
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Mary Chesnut's Civil War
- De: Mary Chesnut, C. Vann Woodward
- Narrado por: Suzanne Toren
- Duración: 50 h y 40 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 5
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The incomparable Civil War diarist Mary Chesnut wrote that she had the luck “always to stumble in on the real show.” Married to a high-ranking member of the Confederate government, she was ideally placed to watch and to record the South’s headlong plunge to ruin, and she left in her journals an unsurpassed account of the old regime’s death throes, its moment of high drama in world history. With intelligence and passion she described the turbulent events of politics and war, as well as the complex society around her.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Fascinating look at upper class South
- De MikeEC en 04-08-25
De: Mary Chesnut, y otros
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A Man on Fire
- The Worlds of Thomas Wentworth Higginson
- De: Douglas R. Egerton
- Narrado por: Paul Boehmer
- Duración: 15 h y 54 m
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Few Americans covered as much ground as Thomas Wentworth Higginson. Born in 1823 to a family descended from Boston's Puritan founders, he attended Harvard, like all the men in his family, and prepared for the settled life of a minister. Instead, he rejected both privilege and convention, and embraced radical causes, attaching himself to nearly every major reform movement of the day, from women's rights to abolitionism. More than merely a fellow traveler, Higginson was a proponent of direct action.
The lengths that the prosecutors had to go to; that they had to be underhanded so as not to alert authorities who would tip off people in question; that the desire to "move on", "forget the past", and "don't confront what happened between 1933-1945" was a position that went to the highest levels in the West German government; the story of an abduction in Argentina by Mossad agents. It is a gripping story.
Well told, well paced, excellently narrated.
Incredible
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Story
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