Fritz Bauer
Fritz Bauer · Civil Rights & Human Rights
German prosecutor who initiated the Frankfurt Auschwitz trials and helped locate Adolf Eichmann, advancing accountability for Nazi crimes.
1903, Stuttgart, Germany — 1968, Frankfurt, Germany
Frankfurt, Germany
Fritz Bauer is recognized among Jewish contributors to Civil Rights & Human Rights — German prosecutor who initiated the Frankfurt Auschwitz trials and helped locate Adolf Eichmann, advancing accountability for Nazi crimes.
Fritz Bauer was a German Jewish prosecutor who, having survived Nazi persecution and exile, initiated the Frankfurt Auschwitz trials and passed information that helped locate Adolf Eichmann. Against much public resistance he insisted that Germany confront the perpetrators of the Holocaust in its own courts. His work was pivotal in advancing accountability for Nazi crimes.
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German prosecutor who initiated the Frankfurt Auschwitz trials and helped locate Adolf Eichmann, advancing accountability for Nazi crimes.
Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fritz_Bauer
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