Beyond Redemption: The Nazi Colonel who saved Jews and Plundered their Wealth - Harold Serebro, Jacques Sellschol

This book invites the reader to hecome prosecutor, defence counsel, judge and jury in a spellinding case that slipped through the net at tie post-war Nuremberg Trials.  The enignmatic Nazi SS. Colonel Kart Andreas Becher, faces charges he skilfully evaded while many of his fellow perpetrators were sentenced to life imprisonment or death.

An obedient sevant and confidant of Henrich Himmier, Besher warked closely with Adolph Eichmann, who executed Hitler's diabolical plan to wipe out European Jewry. Becher plundered the Warsaw Ghetto, supervised the economic rape of Hungary and was a platoon commander in the brutal Kommandostab-Reichsfuhrer SS, whose cohorts murdered thousands of defenceless men, women and children in the Pripet Marshes, the Ukraine and Russia.

Yet he also negotiated the rescue of 1684 Jews in exchange for their wealth, by putting them on a train bound for Switzerland instead of to the Auschwitz death-camp. He was the only Nazi ever to attempt to negotiate a separate peace deal with the Wester Allies at Himmler's behest. Having enriched himself by ransoming Jews, he accumulated a fortune in cash, gold, jewellery and art, shrewdly concealed in Swiss banks.

After the war he surfaced as a prosperous international grain merchant, doing business with prominent members of the Jewish community as far afield as South Africa. Among some he was revered as a saviour, by others reviled as a demon. Did his humanitarian gestures sanitise his soul or did motives of commercial gain condemn him to eternal guilt?

The reader must decide if he is Beyond Redemption?

"Mercy is part of justice - extenuating circumstances can result in a lesser punishment for a person who has committed a wrong. But are there some wrongs for which there can be no restitution, extenuation or recompense? Can an immoral contract ever expiate a wrong? These are some of the issues which exercise the mind on reading Beyond Redemption?"

Infamous Nazis, such as Heinrich Himmler and Adolf Eichmann take part. The events recorded in 'Beyond Redemption?" have been meticulously researched and referenced.

As the issues unfold the reader becomes riveted." -- Mervyn E. King S.C. former Judge of the High Court of South Africa and Professor Extraordinaire in the Centre for Corporate Citizenship at the University of South Africa

Westmoreland & Trent Publishing 2007, paperback