Konrad Morgen: The Conscience of a Nazi Judge

6 hrs. 45 min.

Biographies, Memoirs & Life Stories

Language Russian

Authors Herlinde Power-Studer, J. David Velleman

Author Herlinde Power-Studer

Author J. David Velleman

Narrator Sergey Dvinyaninov

Description

In front of you is a little-known story of a representative of the judicial system of the SS who came face to face with the Nazi machine of mass murder and—within the limits of his possibilities—began to fight it.

While investigating corruption crimes in concentration camps, SS judge Konrad Morgen exceeded his authority and started persecuting the main executors of Hitler’s “Final Solution of the Jewish Question,” bringing murder charges against the commandant of Buchenwald and the chief of the Gestapo, Auschwitz.

The case of Morgen reveals the connection between totalitarianism, corruption, and genocide and raises many moral and ethical problems. This audiobook is interesting for its considerations from the field of philosophy of law and information about the history (including legal) of the Third Reich—but above all, it is about how complex moral choices individuals have to make, and how the morality of one person attempts to withstand the immorality of the surrounding world.