For Justice
The Serge & Beate Klarsfeld Story
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Publisher Description
The seldom-told true story of France's most famous Nazi Hunters and heroes of the Resistance: The Klarsfelds.
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For the past fifty years, Beate and Serge Klarsfeld have been hunting Nazis all across the globe. But their story isn't just about justice. It's about love. Beate, a German journalist and activist born in Berlin as the War began; and Serge, a Romanian-born French-Jewish lawyer whose father was deported and killed by the Nazis: a couple brought together by—and tested by—dangerous endeavors.
They started out by challenging Nazi propaganda in the 1960s and before they knew it, this vibrant couple had devoted their entire lives to investigating and documenting countless Nazi war criminals and bringing them to justice for their unacknowledged and incomprehensible hate crimes committed decades before.
This book was written in partnership with Serge and Beate Klarsfeld.
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Part love story, part thriller, Bresson and Dorange's moving account of Nazi hunters Serge and Beate Klarsfeld makes a strong case for holding leaders and high-ranking bad actors accountable regardless of how much time has passed since their crimes. Serge, the son of a French Holocaust victim, meets Beate, a young German woman, in a Paris train station in 1960. He becomes an attorney and she a journalist, and soon they are working together to bring to justice Nazis who are living freely in Europe and South America. Their white whale is Klaus Barbie, who signed orders that allowed 44 Jewish French children to be executed at the Drancy concentration camp. They track Barbie to Bolivia, where he is coaching the Bolivian military in torture techniques, amply proving that their obsessions are worthy when Barbie is arrested and ultimately sentenced to life in prison. It can be hard to keep the Klarsfelds' many targets and trials straight, but pointy-nosed Beate and pompadoured Serge are riveting heroes, whom Dorange styles against a modish and earth-toned backdrop. "Human nature gives us a terrible perspective on the infinite capacity of the civilized' man to do evil," Serge reflects. This skillful graphic biography offers timely perspective.
