Author Jack Fairweather tells the remarkable true story of Fritz Bauer, a gay German-Jewish lawyer and Holocaust survivor, who made it his mission to confront his country – and the world – with their complicity in genocide.

Against a nation determined to bury its Nazi past, Fritz Bauer fought for justice. A gay German-Jewish lawyer, he secretly tipped off Mossad as to the whereabouts of Adolf Eichmann. More remarkably, he fought Germany’s legal establishment in his determination to put those responsible for Auschwitz on trial. Jack Fairweather, Costa-prize winning author of The Volunteer, tells the extraordinary true story, drawing on unpublished papers, newly declassified records, and exclusive interviews.

This event will last approximately 1 hour, without an interval.

About the Speakers:

Jack Fairweather is an award-winning and bestselling British writer and journalist. His last book The Volunteer won the Costa Book Prize and was a #1 Sunday Times bestseller, hailed as a modern classic and compared to Schindler’s List. He splits his time between the UK and Vermont.

Philip Rubenstein was director of the Parliamentary War Crimes Group, which successfully campaigned to bring to justice Nazi war criminals living in the UK, and founder-director of the Holocaust Educational Trust, playing a role in the inclusion of Holocaust studies onto the UK national curriculum. These days, he works with family businesses, advising on governance and intergenerational continuity. He also lectures on history, politics and film for Lockdown University.