This is the untold story of how Lieutenant Hanns Alexander, a German Jew serving in the British Army, played a pivotal role in bringing a mastermind of the Holocaust to justice. In May 1945, following the end of World War II, the first British War Crimes Investigation Team is formed to track down senior Nazi officials responsible for heinous atrocities. Among their most elusive targets is Rudolf Höss, the Kommandant of Auschwitz, where over a million innocent lives were brutally taken. Höss's testimony is crucial for the Nuremberg Trials.
"Hanns and Rudolf" chronicles the gripping account of Höss's capture, an event with far-reaching implications that resonate even today. The narrative spans from the Middle Eastern campaigns of World War I to the bohemian Berlin of the 1920s, and ultimately to the horrors of concentration camps and the trials in Belsen and Nuremberg. It's a tale of two German men—one Jewish and one Catholic—whose lives diverged and intersected in a remarkable and unexpected way.
