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Jack Fairweather

@jackfairweather.bsky.social

Author of The Volunteer, Costa Book of the Year 2019, Sunday Times No.1 bestseller: bit.ly/37Ogq6b. New book The Prosecutor out in 2025: bit.ly/3VauMbV

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Jack Fairweather @jackfairweather.bsky.social · 21/02/2025

Thanks Suzie! And yes please join me and @iainmacgregor1.bsky.social to learn how Bauer managed to overcome the forces of fascism in postwar Germany

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Jack Fairweather @jackfairweather.bsky.social · 21/02/2025

to a Germany in denial about its past and a govt. stacked with ex-Nazis determined to hide their crimes. To find out how Bauer forced his country + the world to reckon with the Holocaust, please check out his inspiring Cold War battle for the truth: lnk.to/TheProsecuto...

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Jack Fairweather @jackfairweather.bsky.social · 21/02/2025

How do you change a culture bent on authoritarianism? Or steer people towards empathy for minorities and the vulnerable? I didn't realize when I began writing my new book about the gay Jewish lawyer Fritz Bauer it would become a primer for our own troubled time. In 1949 Bauer returned...

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Jack Fairweather @jackfairweather.bsky.social · 21/02/2025

...Only through our peacetime efforts to abolish war and bring a larger measure of freedom and security to all peoples can we reveal to others that we are any better than our defeated opponents."

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Jack Fairweather @jackfairweather.bsky.social · 21/02/2025

Just came across this from Edgar L Jones writing in The Atlantic, Feb 1946: "We destroyed fascists, not fascism; men, not ideas. Our triumphs did not serve as evidence that democracy is best for the world, any more than Russian victories proved that communism is an ideal system for all mankind...

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Jack Fairweather @jackfairweather.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

I've been wonderfully guided by the great historians Werner Renz, formerly of @fritzbauerinstitut.bsky.social, Mary Fulbrook and Klaus-Dietmar Henke. Special mention to Devin Pendas for his ground-breaking study of the Frankfurt Auschwitz trial. Here's my battered copy!

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Jack Fairweather @jackfairweather.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

a special thank you to the brilliant German biographies of Bauer by Irmtrud Wojak @fritzbauerforum.bsky.social and @ronensteinke.bsky.social. I must have read both half a dozen times. It's an honour to count myself a comrade of theirs (as FB might put it)

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Jack Fairweather @jackfairweather.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

My new book on the amazing Fritz Bauer is out this month! It's the story of Bauer's battle to force a West German govt stacked with ex-Nazis to reckon with the Holocaust. I’m going to be sharing research that's moved and disturbed me over the past 5 yrs of following Bauer's footsteps, but first

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