Hitlers First Victims, Timothy W. Ryback
Hitlers First Victims, Timothy W. Ryback
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Hitler's First Victims
The Quest for Justice

Author: Timothy W. Ryback

Narrator: Derek Perkins

Unabridged: 7 hr 10 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 10/21/2014


Synopsis

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.

About Timothy W. Ryback

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.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Maria on April 18, 2020

A Coragem de Hartinger Desengane-se quem reagiu a este título deitando as mãos à cabeça exclamando: "Oh, não! Hitler outra vez, não! Por favor, chega! Mais holocausto NÃ0" pois não se trata de mais do mesmo!... Alguém já ouviu falar de Josef Hartinger e da coragem com que denunciou os primeiros crimes p......more

Goodreads review by Rui on January 23, 2019

Sobre o holocausto ja muito se escreveu existindo bastante livros com diferentes abordagens sobre os acontecimentos. Este livro nao deixa de ser diferente mas tem a particulidade de relatar acontecimentos antes da segunda guerra eclodir, nomeadamente as mortes que vinham a ocorrer no campo de concent......more

Goodreads review by Michelle on October 23, 2014

There are many what-ifs in history, but few are quite so compelling as those that surround Hitler’s rise to power and slow strangulation of democracy in Germany in the 1930s. There were indeed several opportunities to have stopped Hitler or at least thwarted his plans more thoroughly than occurred.......more

Goodreads review by Stephen on June 06, 2016

It's sometimes hard to believe that there could be room for any more books on Hitler and the Nazi era. Is there anything new left to say or research? In this book, Timothy Ryback manages to explore a less known period in the immediate aftermath of Hitler becoming Chancellor in 1933. His starting poi......more

Goodreads review by Margaret on January 08, 2015

As someone who has lost family in Dachau, for me, this was a moving account of one man's attempt (and failure) to bring a legal halt to what would become the atrocities of the concentration camps in Nazi Germany. Very well documented, and checked and cross checked, this book shows how easily it can......more