Auschwitz, Treblinka, Mauthausen… these are names that have become impressed in our collective memory. Men, women and children, dragged from their homes and crammed into stinking trains bound for those and other extermination camps at the whim of those who thought them ‘different’. The images of their suffering we can now see constitute a vitally important legacy for teaching young people.

Some of the main characters involved in causing that tragedy were tried and convicted at Nuremburg, but the majority of Nazi criminals managed to escape punishment. In addition to talking about the ideologues and executors who took part in those events, the book also deals with those who – in the name of a supposed form of justice – dedicated their lives to pursuing and capturing Nazi fugitives, people like Kovner, Weisentha and Beate Klarsfeld.