Thanks Suzie! And yes please join me and @iainmacgregor1.bsky.social to learn how Bauer managed to overcome the forces of fascism in postwar Germany

How do you change a culture bent on authoritarianism? Or steer people towards empathy for minorities and the vulnerable? I didn't realize when I began writing my new book about the gay Jewish lawyer Fritz Bauer it would become a primer for our own troubled time. In 1949 Bauer returned...

Just came across this from Edgar L Jones writing in The Atlantic, Feb 1946: "We destroyed fascists, not fascism; men, not ideas. Our triumphs did not serve as evidence that democracy is best for the world, any more than Russian victories proved that communism is an ideal system for all mankind...

My new book on the amazing Fritz Bauer is out this month! It's the story of Bauer's battle to force a West German govt stacked with ex-Nazis to reckon with the Holocaust. I’m going to be sharing research that's moved and disturbed me over the past 5 yrs of following Bauer's footsteps, but first