Hanns and Rudolf: The True Story of the German Jew Who Tracked Down and Caught the Kommandant of Auschwitz

Air Date: February 17, 2014

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GUEST: THOMAS HARDING

[From the Radio Times archives] British journalist THOMAS HARDING tells the story of his great-uncle, a German-born, Jewish soldier for the British army, who captured an Auschwitz commandant, in his recent book, “Hanns and Rudolf: The True Story of the German Jew Who Tracked Down and Caught the Kommandant of Auschwitz.”

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