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URL:https://forumdialog.eu/veranstaltungen/fritz-bauer-and-the-cold-war-ba
 ttle-to-remember-auschwitz/
SUMMARY:Fritz Bauer and the Cold War Battle to Remember Auschwitz
DESCRIPTION:\n\n\n\n\nLecture: Fritz Bauer and the Cold War Battle to Rem
 ember Auschwitz\n29.01. 18.30 | Pariser Platz 4A\, 10117 Berlin\nRegistr
 ation: https://forms.gle/ByZm9UZpNXVAve9a8\n\nImagine a history of the 
 twentieth century in which the Holocaust is only a footnote to the Seco
 nd World War. Where the encyclopaedia entry for Auschwitz describes the 
 flourishing chemical industry in the nearby town but omits the gas chamb
 ers. Where school textbooks describe Hitler as “gifted in a variety of 
 ways” and conclude that “no more than a hundred people knew about it.
 ” This isn’t an abstract thought experiment\, but West Germany in the
  years following Hitler’s defeat\, when the Holocaust was all but forg
 otten and the Allies sanctioned the return of millions of former Nazis t
 o forge a new country to serve as a bulwark against Communism. It was ti
 me\, in the words of West German Chancellor Konrad Adenauer in 1949\, to 
 “let bygones be bygones.”\n\n\n\nFritz Bauer Institut / A. Mergen\n\n\
 n\nThis is the world to which the Jewish lawyer Fritz Bauer returned to 
 from exile on a mission to ensure that Germany and world would not forget
 . At the height of the Cold War he forged a relationship with the Poli
 sh judge Jan Sehn and a small band of survivors and activists to smuggle 
 evidence of Nazi crimes in Auschwitz across the Iron Curtain. The result
  was a trial that ensured the camp would never be forgotten. As the wor
 ld observes the 80th anniversary of Auschwitz’s liberation\, join inter
 national bestselling author Jack Fairweather to discuss the extraordinary
  Cold War battle to lodge the Holocaust in our collective conscience.\n\n
 \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\npoprzedni slajdnastępny slajd\n\n01 / 03\n\n\n\n\n\nDurin
 g his lecture\, Jack Fairweather will give an exclusive preview of his lat
 est book ‘The Prosecutor’ which will be published on 25 February 2025
 .\n\nAbout the book: 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 himsel
 f pitted against a nation determined to bury the past.\n\nAt the end of
  the Nuremberg trial in 1946\, some of the greatest war criminals in his
 tory were sentenced to death\, but hundreds of thousands of Nazi murderers
  and collaborators remained at large. The Allies were ready to overlook t
 heir pasts as the Cold War began\, and the horrors of the Holocaust wer
 e in danger of being forgotten.\n\nIn The Prosecutor\, Jack Fairweather b
 rings 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 h
 is countrymen to confront their complicity in the genocide. In this deepl
 y researched book\, Fairweather draws on unpublished family papers\, newly
  declassified German records\, and exclusive interviews to immerse readers
  in the shadowy\, unfamiliar world of postwar West Germany where those wh
 o implemented genocide run the country\, the CIA is funding Hitler's for
 mer spy-ring in the east\, and Nazi-era anti-gay laws are strictly enforc
 ed. 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 Germa
 ny\, where his fight for justice would set him against his own government 
 and a network of former Nazis and spies bent on silencing him.\n\nIn a t
 ime when the history of the Holocaust is taken for granted\, The Prosec
 utor reveals the courtroom battles that were fought to establish its lega
 cy and the personal cost of speaking out. The result is a searing portr
 ait 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.\n\n\n\
 n\n\n\n\nJack Fairweather is the bestselling author of The Volunteer\, 
 the Costa Prize winning account of a Polish underground officer who volu
 nteered to report on Nazi crimes in Auschwitz. The book has been transl
 ated into 25 languages and forms the basis of the exhibition "Witold Pi
 lecki. In Resistance to Hitler and Stalin" in Berlin. He has served as 
 the Daily Telegraph’s Baghdad bureau chief\, and as a video journalist 
 for the Washington Post in Afghanistan. His war coverage has won a Brit
 ish Press Award and an Overseas Press Club award citation. He divides his 
 time between the UK and Vermont.\n\n
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