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Final Verdict
SHORTLISTED FOR THE HWA NON-FICTION CROWN LONGLISTED FOR THE WINGATE LITERARY PRIZE 'A masterly account' THE TIMES 'A brilliant book' OBSERVER 'Excellent . . . a timely, wise and fair-minded meditation on a singular crime' TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT 'A thrilling read ' PHILIPPE SANDS '[A] gripping and fascinating book' JAMES HOLLAND, TELEGRAPH 5* review October 2019, Hamburg: A trial laden with extraordinary historical weight begins to unfold. Charged with the murder of at least 5,230 inmates at the Stutthof concentration camp over seventy years ago, Bruno Dey admits his role as a guard but denies responsibility for the killings. Occurring as the last witnesses of the Holocaust disappear, this gripping trial raises profound questions about German history, politics, collective memory and personal accountability. Reflecting on his own family's silence about their Nazi-era experiences, Tobias Buck uses this courtroom drama to explore the broader significance of prosecuting Dey so many decades later and to consider what choices we might have made in his position.
The 'Final Solution' in Riga
"With its ... over thousand] detailed and expansive footnotes drawing on twenty-four different archive collections in eight countries and three continents and an enormous secondary literature, this is one of the best researched regional studies of the Holocaust ever to appear. It is helped by the fact that the authors are also always so cognizant of what was happening elsewhere in Europe at the same time and thus frequently draw out the relationship between seemingly haphazard local decisions and trends across Europe...Indeed, the way in which the book 'makes sense' of complex institutional behavior is at times breathtaking...The precision in the detail and the scope of the contextualization...
The Knotts and Hartmans from Schonhengst
Joseph Knott (1853-1904), son of Anton Knott and Anna Maria Theresia Habiger of Maerisch Truebau, immigrated from Ober Busele, Moravia, Austria (now in Czech Republic) in 1876 to America. Joseph married Theresia Hartmann (1857-1896) at Heron Lake, Minnesota, in 1888. They moved to Vollmer or Troy, Idaho, in 1893 and returned to Heron Lake in 1894. Seven children were born to the family; two died in infancy. After Theresia died in 1896, two children were placed for adoption. Mabel was adopted by Harry and Frances Shaw or Schau who had immigrated from Mandal, Norway. Amelia Knott was adopted by Charles and Bertha Winzer of Lake Wilson, Minnesota. In 1900 Joseph Knott and his three children, Rudy, Florence, and Oscar moved back to Idaho. By 1908 the Shaws and Mabel moved to New Jersey where Mabel married Peder Emil Fostvedt in 1917. In 1921 the Shaws retired to Norway and Mabel visited often. During this time any knowledge of the Knott family was lost until Mabel's daughter began a search.
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