Konrad Morgen. The Conscience of a Nazi Judge

Before you is a little-known story of a representative of the SS judiciary who confronted the Nazi machine of mass murder and began, to the best of his ability, to fight against it. Investigating corrupt crimes in concentration camps, SS judge Konrad Morgen exceeded his authority and began to pursue the main perpetrators of Hitler's "final solution to the Jewish question," bringing murder charges against the commandant of Buchenwald and the head of the Gestapo in Auschwitz. Morgen's case reveals the connection between totalitarianism, corruption, and genocide, and touches upon many moral and ethical issues. The book is interesting with judgments from the field of legal philosophy and information on the history (including legal) of the Third Reich, but above all, it is about how individuals have to make difficult moral choices and how the morality of one person tries to withstand the immorality of the surrounding world.