Please join us for our Virtual Author Series with Tobais Buck, Final Verdict.
Tobias Buck’s compelling new book takes a giant step in this direction by bringing us into a Hamburg courtroom and telling us the story of one Bruno Dey, a former Nazi guard at the Stuffhof concentration camp in Poland. At the age of ninety-three, Dey was finally charged with aiding in the murder of more than five thousand people.
Reading Buck’s enticing prose, we learn that Dey’s crimes were considered small in relation to the enormous evil carried out by the SS hierarchy overall; yet it still took over seventy years to even begin to deliver justice to his victims. While the book includes a wealth of highly organized information that will appeal to serious scholars and students of history and culture, Buck’s lively writing will also invite anyone with an interest in Germany, the Nazi era, or the complex problems of today’s political systems to listen and learn.
Tobias Buck is the Managing Editor of The Financial Times. He studied law in Berlin before serving as the FT’s correspondent in Brussels, Jerusalem, Madrid, and Berlin. His first book, After the Fall: Crisis, Recovery and the Making of a New Spain, was published in 2019. He lives in the United Kingdom.