Postscript description
Nazi Germany, June 1943, Buchenwald concentration camp. The
last place you'd expect to find any form of justice. And yet justice against
the SS men who brutalised the prisoners here would be attempted by the
unlikeliest of sources - SS officer Konrad Morgen.
Nazi Germany, despite the atrocities it carried out on an
industrial scale, still had legislation and a legal system, and Morgen used
these laws to bring individual members of the SS to justice for their crimes.
He was a fearless investigating judge and police official, and when he crossed
swords with more powerful forces inside the SS, he was demoted and sent by
Heinrich Himmler himself to the Eastern Front as an ordinary soldier in the
Waffen SS.
But Morgen's skills were still required and he returned to
launch a series of criminal investigations in various concentration camps,
including Buchenwald. As a direct result of his work, two concentration camp
commandants were shot before the end of the war and he arrested three others.
Targets of his investigations included Adolf Eichmann, one of the architects of
the Holocaust, and Rudolf Hoess, the infamous commandant of Auschwitz.
Described by historian John Toland as 'the man who did the
most to hinder the atrocities in the East', Konrad Morgen pursued Nazi
Germany's worst murderers from inside the SS. This is his incredible true
story.
Read full publisher description last place you'd expect to find any form of justice. And yet justice against
the SS men who brutalised the prisoners here would be attempted by the
unlikeliest of sources - SS officer Konrad Morgen.
Nazi Germany, despite the atrocities it carried out on an
industrial scale, still had legislation and a legal system, and Morgen used
these laws to bring individual members of the SS to justice for their crimes.
He was a fearless investigating judge and police official, and when he crossed
swords with more powerful forces inside the SS, he was demoted and sent by
Heinrich Himmler himself to the Eastern Front as an ordinary soldier in the
Waffen SS.
But Morgen's skills were still required and he returned to
launch a series of criminal investigations in various concentration camps,
including Buchenwald. As a direct result of his work, two concentration camp
commandants were shot before the end of the war and he arrested three others.
Targets of his investigations included Adolf Eichmann, one of the architects of
the Holocaust, and Rudolf Hoess, the infamous commandant of Auschwitz.
Described by historian John Toland as 'the man who did the
most to hinder the atrocities in the East', Konrad Morgen pursued Nazi
Germany's worst murderers from inside the SS. This is his incredible true
story.
