The Perfect Nazi: Uncovering My SS Grandfather's Secret Past and How Hitler Seduced a Generation

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IN 1926, AT THE AGE OF TWENTY, A TRAINEE DENTIST CALLED BRUNO LANGBEHN JOINED THE NAZI PARTY. EIGHTY YEARS LATER, HIS BRITISH GRANDSON BEGAN A QUEST . . . TO DISCOVER THE TRUTH. 'One of the most unsettling books to have been written about the Third Reich not because of the brutality with which it engages but because of the story of the hatching of great wickedness in a most prosaic life. If there ever was a personification of the banality of evil, it is Martin Davidson's Grandpa Bruno. It is two stories in one - both riveting - that of the dentist's transformation into unswerving SS officer and of the grandson's appalled discovery. Woven together they make for unforgettable, haunting reading' Simon Schama 'Absorbing, highly readable and painstakingly researched' Niall Ferguson 'Riveting' The Times 'Fascinating, scrupulously researched, compelling' Sunday Times 'Brave, engrossing, shocking' Herald 'Fascinating, compelling, highly recommended' Evening Standard

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Martin Davidson, who has two degrees from Oxford University, is an award-winning filmmaker and author specializing in historical and cultural subjects. His many director credits include: Simon Schama's A History of Britain, Albert Speer: The Nazi Who Said Sorry (A&E); Leni Riefenstahl's Triumph of the Lie (BBC); and The Nazis and 'Degenerate Art' (BBC). He is the author of five previous non-fiction books. At present he is the commissioning editor for history and business at the BBC.