When Fritz Bauer came back to Germany from exile at the end of World War II, he soon found that he was still surrounded by Nazis. Denazification was mostly a failure (for a variety of reasons) and law enforcement, the judiciary, and so many businesses were staffed with an alarming number of former Nazis. But unlike a lot of other Germans, Bauer was able to get into a position to do something about it. He parlayed his pre-war degree and experience into a job as director of the district courts in Braunschweig (like a district attorney for the Americans reading this) and later Frankfurt am Main. In The Prosecutor: One Man’s Battle of Bring Nazis to Justice, Jack Fairweather recounts Bauer’s decades-long fight not just against Nazis but also the refusal of a lot of Germans to reckon with their recent past...

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