Hunting the Truth: Memoirs of Beate and Serge Klarsfeld

Another ipad book that was so detailed it was difficult to follow. This family did so very much research over about 50 years that their documentation is vital. I learned so much and did not know or remember how so many people and countries tried so hard to cover up their participation in Germany and Austria's Naziism. Many countries in Europe, South America, Africa, the United States, and Central America welcomed former Nazis after the end of World War II, and they did not want to risk their political bonds to bring these perpetrtators into the limelight and to trial. The Klarsfelds risked their lives and the lives of their families endlessly to see that justice was served. We owe them a great deal.

For the past half century, Beate and Serge Klarsfeld have hunted, confronted, prosecuted, and exposed Nazi war criminals all over the world, tracking down the notorious torturer Klaus Barbie in Bolivia and attempting to kidnap the former Gestapo chief Kurt Lischka on the streets of Cologne. They have been sent to prison for their beliefs and have risked their lives protesting anti-Semitism behind the Iron Curtain in South America and in the Middle East. They have been insulted and exalted, assaulted and heralded; they’ve received honors from presidents and letter bombs from neo-Nazis. They have fought relentlessly not only for the memory of all those who died in the Holocaust but also for modern-day victims of genocide and show more discrimination across the world. And they have done it all while raising their children and sustaining their marriage. show less

C'est un (double) témoignage qui a les quelques défauts du genre et une immense (double) qualité d'écriture! Un livre très utile mais aussi très lisible! Merci.

Longs souvenirs d’une vie consacrée à la chasse aux nazies. Passionnant malgré la longueur.