Between 1945 and 1946 the famous views of the Nuremberg court proceedings. The recent atrocity of Nazism required that immediate action that lasted for many months and that served as a kind of universal jurisprudence for the harshest consideration of war crimes; of that famous consideration of against humanity for excused crimes in the war to bury the genocide, the final solution of a Nazism charged with the madness of supremacism.
Many captured senior officials of the Third Reich gave account of their ominous murderous procedure, others escaped (even Stalin pointed out that Hitler himself had fled. In this regard, I recommend my epistolary novel The arms of my cross, which hypothesizes about that extreme)
But that first approach to justice could not cover everything with the required depth. Many other trials were spread through that Germany hurt by its past and determined to continue being accountable until it was possible to shake that sinister gray dust on consciences.
This novel places us in the year 1963, the moment in which an Auschwitz trial was held, of whose views there are even recordings that the author Annette hess thoroughly reviewed in the Wiesbaden Historical Archive.
From then on, with the scriptwriting skills of an Annette turned into a novelist, she began to build this nimble reading novel. Fast-paced in its action but also exciting in that inner life of the dialogues made conversations that seem to invite the reader to meditate, to interpret each sentence, to inhabit the protagonist herself, Eva Bruhn.
Because Eva ends up being the one who concentrates everything in this story. Her discoveries plunge her into the well of a not so distant time, once she decides to participate as a Polish interpreter in the Auschwitz trial in the city of Frankfurt. And he finds silences that are opening in his family, dark signs that can lead to unexpected discoveries. The hard clash with the reality of the wounds still badly healed, of the blood still spilled and hot, of the pain and the guilt.
At first he only deals with testimonial translations from a professional perspective. But as she discovers the atrocity, doubts assail her. And although she wants to think that perhaps she is not the one to judge everything, the entrance on the scene of her most personal plot will end up facing her with the worst of judgments on her entire world.
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