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Hanns and Rudolf

the True Story of the German Jew Who Tracked Down and Caught the Kommandant of Auschwitz
voisjoe1
May 22, 2014voisjoe1 rated this title 4.5 out of 5 stars
The author, Thomas Hardy, learns at his great uncle Hanns Alexander’s Jewish funeral that he was not only a victim of Hitler’s anti-semitism but also a great hunter of Nazi holocaust criminals. Hardy, being a journalist and a documentary filmmaker, decides a little investigation of the hunter (Hanns) and the hunted (one who is Rudolf)might just be a good subject for a book, especially since he has a head start being he might just be able to get info from his older relatives and relative’s friends. This true chronicle reads like the best fictional thriller, yet it amazingly is all true. It follows the two men from birth until death and we learn 1) what background might just lead to a person to become a genocidal maniac, and 2) one of those Jewish men who decide to fight back.