{"product_id":"hitlers-crime-fighter-the-extraordinary-life-of-konrad-morgen","title":"Hitler's Crime Fighter: The Extraordinary Life of Konrad Morgen","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNazi Germany, June 1943, Buchenwald concentration camp. The\nlast place you'd expect to find any form of justice. And yet justice against\nthe SS men who brutalised the prisoners here would be attempted by the\nunlikeliest of sources - SS officer Konrad Morgen.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eNazi Germany, despite the atrocities it carried out on an\nindustrial scale, still had legislation and a legal system, and Morgen used\nthese laws to bring individual members of the SS to justice for their crimes.\nHe was a fearless investigating judge and police official, and when he crossed\nswords with more powerful forces inside the SS, he was demoted and sent by\nHeinrich Himmler himself to the Eastern Front as an ordinary soldier in the\nWaffen SS.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eBut Morgen's skills were still required and he returned to\nlaunch a series of criminal investigations in various concentration camps,\nincluding Buchenwald. As a direct result of his work, two concentration camp\ncommandants were shot before the end of the war and he arrested three others.\nTargets of his investigations included Adolf Eichmann, one of the architects of\nthe Holocaust, and Rudolf Hoess, the infamous commandant of Auschwitz.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eDescribed by historian John Toland as 'the man who did the\nmost to hinder the atrocities in the East', Konrad Morgen pursued Nazi\nGermany's worst murderers from inside the SS. This is his incredible true\nstory.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eHardback | 304 pages | Published August 2024\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Biteback Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":63956794343773,"sku":"9781785908668","price":25.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0978\/3459\/8749\/files\/9781785908668.jpg?v=1774263754","url":"https:\/\/www.thebookmark.ie\/products\/hitlers-crime-fighter-the-extraordinary-life-of-konrad-morgen","provider":"The Bookmark ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}