“Bookmarks” reviews listed by authors plus biographical details. Our latest 'edition' is Ferdinand von Schirach´s book;"Crime" reviewed by Andrew Riemer.
Ferdinand von Schirach is a Berlin criminal lawyer who (like Bernhard Schlink before him) has turned his courtroom experiences into fiction. This collection of short stories became a runaway best seller after it was published in Germany in 2009. Von Schirach comes from a well-know family – notorious might be a better way of putting it. His grandfather Baldur von Schirach was for a time a member of Hitler’s inner circle. After he was replaced as the leader of the Hitlerjugend, he was appointed gauleiter of Vienna, where he supervised the deportation of the city’s Jewish population. At his trial at Nuremberg he claimed not to have known anything about the death camps. He served 20 years in Spandau prison for crimes against humanity.
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