Hitler's Crime Fighter : The Extraordinary Life of Konrad Morgen Hardback

Inthe Third Reich, the SS ran the Gestapo, the police and the concentration campswhere millions of people were killed.

However, Nazi Germany still hadlegislation and a legal system, which outlawed murder and other criminal acts. SS investigating judge and police official Major Konrad Morgen used these lawsto investigate and bring individual members of the SS to justice for theircrimes. He was a fearless judge and investigator, and when hecrossed swords with more powerful forces inside the SS, he was demoted and sentby Reichsführer HeinrichHimmler himself to the Eastern Front as an ordinary soldier in the WaffenSS. But his skills were still required and he returned tolaunch a series of criminal investigations in concentration camps.

As a directresult of his work, two concentration camp commandants were shot before the endof the war and he arrested three others.This book describesthe cases he investigated and how he was able to pursue some of Nazi Germany’sworst murderers from inside the SS.