Conversations with an Executioner

‘Extraordinary, original, gripping, and painfully relevant to our times’ Philippe Sands
'This is a fascinating and totally unexpected account of one of the darkest periods of the Second World War' Antony Beevor
Warsaw, 1949: freedom fighter and journalist Kazimierz Moczarski is being held in a maximum security prison, accused of being an enemy of the state by the Polish secret police. A survivor of the Warsaw Uprising, he is horrified to find himself locked up in a cell with the notorious Nazi official responsible for the destruction of the Warsaw Ghetto, and the death of over 50,000 people: Jürgen Stroop.
For 255 days Stroop talks to Moczarski of his life, entirely unrepentant of the crimes for which he would soon be executed himself. Conversations with an Executioner is Moczarski’s first-hand account of these extraordinary exchanges, an insight into the mind of one of history’s most brutal war criminals, and one that unflinchingly examines some of humanity’s darkest moments.
Never before published in the United Kingdom, Conversations with an Executioner is a book of enormous historical importance, written in masterful prose by a writer who tragically wouldn’t survive to see his work published.
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'This is a remarkable document. By turns shocking and chilling but always compelling, Moczarski's prison conversations with a senior, serial and shameless  Nazi killer provide an invaluable insight into the heart of a hideous ideology' Jonathan Dimbleby, author of Endgame 1944
'An extraordinary book, almost impossible to categorise: simultaneously an act of witness and a work of the imagination, a brilliant portrait of a mediocre man’s rise within the Nazi hierarchy, unsparing and yet deeply human' Jane Rogoyska, author of Hotel Exile
'An intriguing document that portrays Stroop as the exemplary perpetrator: a mediocrity promoted above his abilities, but fanatical in his allegiance to Hitler, Himmler and Nazi ideology. Moczarski, working from memory, brings to light the workings of the Nazi mind with penetrating insight' Dan Stone, author of The Holocaust: An Unfinished History