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Final Verdict: A Holocaust Trial in the Twenty-first Century
Tobias Buck
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'A masterly account' THE TIMES'A brilliant book' OBSERVER
'Excellent . . . a timely, wise and fair-minded meditation on a singular crime' TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT'A thrilling read ' PHILIPPE SANDS'[A] gripping and fascinating book' JAMES HOLLAND, TELEGRAPH 5* review
October 2019, Hamburg: A trial laden with extraordinary historical weight begins to unfold. Charged with the murder of at least 5,230 inmates at the Stutthof concentration camp over seventy years ago, Bruno Dey admits his role as a guard but denies responsibility for the killings. Occurring as the last witnesses of the Holocaust disappear, this gripping trial raises profound questions about German history, politics, collective memory and personal accountability. Reflecting on his own family's silence about their Nazi-era experiences, Tobias Buck uses this courtroom drama to explore the broader significance of prosecuting Dey so many decades later and to consider what choices we might have made in his position.
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In this informed, thoughtful work [Buck] he skilfully weaves together his investigation into his own family's Nazi past - and their attempts to disguise it - with broader themes of historical justice and culpability . . . [a] masterly account - THE TIMESRaises vital questions about how we remember the Holocaust. [A] gripping and fascinating book - DAILY TELEGRAPH, 5* reviewThis is a brilliant book. Above all, I found it - and this feeling has only grown since I finished it - to be important . . . books such as Final Verdict have never been more necessary - OBSERVERExcellent . . . a timely, wise and fair-minded meditation on a singular crime - TLSFinal Verdict is a thrilling read. It is a book that raises a myriad of fascinating questions and human dramas, beautifully constructed and enticingly writtenThrough a riveting account of the trial of 93-year-old Bruno Dey, a guard at Stutthof concentration camp when he was 17 in 1944, "the smallest of small cogs" in the SS hierarchy, Buck compellingly shows how History is always present, never past
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