The Last Nazi: Josef Schwammberger and the Nazi Past

New York: W. W. Norton, 1994 0393035034. Hardback. Stated First Edition. First Printing. Complete numberline. Fine/Fine. DW is mylar-protected and not price-clipped. Usual superior american binding. No annotations or inscriptions. LIke new. Collectible. 362 pages. Black cloth. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. In 1992, amid renewed neo-Nazi agitation throughout Western Europe, a German court tried a sick old man named Josef Schwammberger for crimes committed in Poland in World War II. This investigation of the case of the last major Nazi war criminal likely to be brought to trial explores the historical and personal legacies of the Holocaust. How did Schwammberger, an SS sergeant, come to hold absolute sway over two Polish towns? How accurate are victims' recollections? Why did the German government make no serious effort to pursue Schwammberger, until the Simon Wiesenthal Centre established his whereabouts beyond question? What can his case teach us about our shared responsibility to remember? .