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2021-09-09T11:04:25.843Z


Not only the current bestsellers from all areas are available for loan on the shelves of the city library. Not so well-known literary works as well as new media such as DVDs, audio books or computer games are also worth going to the library. The library experts therefore give their very own personal media tip once a month.


Not only the current bestsellers from all areas are available for loan on the shelves of the city library.

Not so well-known literary works as well as new media such as DVDs, audio books or computer games are also worth going to the library.

The library experts therefore give their very own personal media tip once a month.

Today director Christine Förster-Grüber recommends a novel based on historical facts.

Josef Mengele - this name is indelibly associated with the cruel human experiments on concentration camp inmates in Auschwitz.

Until 1945 the doctor tortured and killed Dr.

Josef Mengele there under the guise of "scientific research".

What happened after the collapse of Nazi Germany?

Did this criminal have to answer for his actions?

No!

Josef Mengele managed to escape to South America.

What is described today with the term “rat line” was a support network for Nazi war criminals who were allowed to flee Europe and out of responsibility.

Josef Mengele also benefited from it.

The novel by French author Olivier Guez is based on historical facts. It is a literarily and linguistically very successful work and immediately casts a spell over you. The result is not just a story about Josef Mengele's escape. Guez also draws up a psychogram of this mass murderer: his unchangeable Nazi convictions, his conceit, his human weaknesses, his contempt for women and many other character traits are aptly described. Atrocities happened on this long-term escape, which only ended with Josef Mengele's fatal swimming accident in 1979. For example, the German embassy issues the war criminal with an ID in his real name, he can travel to and from Germany unhindered and continue to work for the family business.

Mengele is on the list of the most wanted criminals and the Israeli secret service is intensively looking for him, but the former SS camp doctor can always escape his persecutors, his crimes are never dealt with legally or morally.

A thought-provoking and for the young German democracy inglorious story - processed literarily gripping.

The book was on the Spiegel bestseller list for weeks in 2018.

This title is in the DigiBObb.

also available as e-book and e-audio.

The audio book is read by the well-known actor Burghart Klaußner, who turns it into a real listening experience.

Media data:

Olivier Guez: The Disappearance of Josef Mengele.

Roman, 2018. 224 pages

Source: merkur

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