Hitler's First Victims: The Quest for Justice
Timothy W. Ryback
Oct 2014 · Tantor Media Inc · Narrated by Derek Perkins
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Before Germany was engulfed by Nazi dictatorship, it was a constitutional republic. And just before Dachau Concentration Camp became a site of Nazi genocide, it was a state detention center for political prisoners, subject to police authority and due process. The camp began its irrevocable transformation from one to the other following the execution of four Jewish detainees in the spring of 1933. Timothy W. Ryback's gripping and poignant historical narrative focuses on those first victims of the Holocaust and the investigation that followed, as Josef Hartinger sought to expose these earliest cases of state-condoned atrocity. Although his efforts were only a temporary roadblock to the Nazis, Ryback makes clear that Hartinger struck a lasting blow for justice. The forensic evidence and testimony gathered by Hartinger provided crucial evidence in the postwar trials.
Hitler's First Victims exposes the chaos and fragility of the Nazis' early grip on power and dramatically suggests how different history could have been had other Germans followed Hartinger's example of personal courage in that time of collective human failure.
Hitler's First Victims exposes the chaos and fragility of the Nazis' early grip on power and dramatically suggests how different history could have been had other Germans followed Hartinger's example of personal courage in that time of collective human failure.
Before Germany was engulfed by Nazi dictatorship, it was a constitutional republic. And just before Dachau Concentration Camp became a site of Nazi genocide, it was a state detention center for political prisoners, subject to police authority and due process. The camp began its irrevocable transf...
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Timothy W. Ryback is the author of Hitler's Private Library, which appeared on the Washington Post Book World best nonfiction list, and The Last Survivor, a New York Times Notable Book. He has written for the Atlantic Monthly, the New Yorker, the Wall Street Journal, and the New York Times. He lives and works in Paris.
A native of the United Kingdom, Audie and AudioFile Earphones Award winner Derek Perkins's audiobook narration skills are augmented by a knowledge of three foreign languages and a facility with accents. He has narrated numerous titles in a wide range of fiction and nonfiction genres. He is a member of SAG-AFTRA.
Timothy W. Ryback is the author of Hitler's Private Library, which appeared on the Washington Post Book World best nonfiction list, and The Last Survivor, a New York Times Notable Book. He has written for the Atlantic Monthly, the New Yorker, the Wall Street Journal, and the New York Times. He li...
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