A historical detective story and a gripping account of one historian's hunt for answers as he delves into the surprising life of an ordinary Nazi officer.
Daniel Lee is a historian of the Second World War and a specialist in the history of Jews in France and North Africa during the Holocaust. He is a Senior Lecturer in modern history at Queen Mary, University of London, and the author of Petain's Jewish Children (2014). As a BBC Radio 3 New Generation Thinker, Lee is a regular broadcaster on radio. He lives in north London.
Beautiful and gripping, it unfolds like a detective story as an
obscured past emerges into the light.
*Hadley Freeman, author of House of Glass: The Story and Secrets of
a Twentieth-Century Jewish Family*
Memorable and chilling... As well as a brilliant researcher, Lee
proves himself to be an insightful narrator - of both the life of a
Nazi "desk murderer", and the continuing attempts of Griesinger's
family to come to terms with the long shadow his role as an SS
officer has cast over their lives.
*Guardian*
An intriguing, honest and superbly documented portrait of what
could be called an 'unremarkable' SS life... The strength of Lee's
book is the way these facts of history are twinned with the
perverted domesticity of everyday Nazism... The armchair stuffed
with hidden swastikas is an apt symbol for that weird and
disturbing double life.
*Spectator*
[An] absorbing work of historical detection... Lee's riveting book
opens a window onto the life of an "ordinary" Nazi.
*Evening Standard*
Understand this mediocre, provincial Nazi and you understand the
terrible tragedy of 20th-century Germany... This is an admirable
work of historical research, and is carefully and briskly written.
Lee has been a pitbull of a researcher.
*The Times*
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