Description

In 1965, five years after the capture of Adolf Eichmann in Buenos Aires, one of his Mossad abductors was sent back to South America to kill another fugitive Nazi, the so-called butcher of Riga, Latvian Herberts Cukurs. Cukurs was shot. On his corpse, the assassins left pages from the closing speech of the chief British prosecutor at the International Military Tribunal at Nuremberg:

After this ordeal to which mankind has been submitted, mankind itself . . . comes to this Court and cries: These are our lawslet them prevail!’

Years later, the Latvian prosecutor general began investigating the possibility of redeeming Cukurs for his past actions. Researching the case, Linda Kinstler discovered that her grandfather, Boris, had served in Cukurss killing unit and was rumored to be a double agent for the KGB. The proceedings, which might have resulted in Cukurss pardon, threw into question supposed facts about the Holocaust at the precise moment its last living survivorsthe last legal witnesseswere dying.

Rich with scholarly detective work and personal reflection, Come to This Court and Cry is a fearlessly brave examination of how history can become distorted over time, how easily the innocent are forgotten, and how carelessly the guilty are sometimes reprieved.

Author: Linda Kinstler
Binding Type: Hardcover
Publisher: PublicAffairs
Published: 08/23/2022
Pages: 320
Weight: 1.15lbs
Size: 9.41h x 6.30w x 1.15d
ISBN: 9781541702592
Language: English