The true sto­ry of a Jew­ish lawyer who returned to Ger­many after WWII to pros­e­cute war crimes, only to face a nation deter­mined to bury the past. At the end of the Nurem­berg tri­al in 1946, some of the great­est war crim­i­nals were sen­tenced to death, but thou­sands of Nazi mur­der­ers remained at large. As the Cold War began, the Allies over­looked their pasts, and the Holo­caust was in dan­ger of being for­got­ten. In The Pros­e­cu­tor, Jack Fair­weath­er tells the remark­able sto­ry of Fritz Bauer, a gay Ger­man Jew who made it his mis­sion to con­front his coun­try­men with their com­plic­i­ty in the geno­cide. Draw­ing on unpub­lished fam­i­ly papers and new­ly declas­si­fied Ger­man records, Fair­weath­er immers­es read­ers in the dark, unfa­mil­iar world of post­war West Ger­many, where those who imple­ment­ed geno­cide run the coun­try, the CIA is fund­ing Hitler’s for­mer spy-ring in the east, and Nazi-era anti-gay laws are strict­ly enforced. But once Bauer lands on the trail of Adolf Eich­mann, he won’t be intim­i­dat­ed. His jour­ney takes him deep into the rot­ten heart of West Ger­many, where his fight for jus­tice will set him against his own gov­ern­ment and the ex-Nazis deter­mined to silence him. In a time when the his­to­ry of the Holo­caust is tak­en for grant­ed, The Pros­e­cu­tor reveals the court­room bat­tles that were fought to estab­lish its lega­cy — the per­son­al cost of speak­ing out. It’s a sear­ing por­trait of a nation emerg­ing from the ruins of fas­cism and one man’s courage in forc­ing the world to face the truth.