The Witness House: Nazis and Holocaust Survivors Sharing a Villa During the Nuremberg Trials

"A fascinating glimpse into the very human and remarkably harmonious society created in the microcosm of an Allied guesthouse where victors, vanquished, and victims were lodged together during the Nuremberg trials. Ms. Kohl, in this very readable book written with tremendous sensitivity, contributes greatly to the neglected history of the human condition in the postwar chaos of Europe." ---Lynn Nicholas, author of the Rape of Europa: The Fate of Europe's Treasures in the Third Reich and the Second World War

"Kohl offers a glimpse of the Nuremberg trials refreshingly unlike that provided by standard histories. An improbable story of perpetrators and their victims forced to share the same domestic space, The Witness House is at once humorous, moving, and disturbing. It is a fascinating read." ---Lawrence Douglas. Amherst College, author of The Memory of Judgment: Making Law and History in the Trials of the Holocaust

"Kohl deserves hight praise for this fascinating new book, tapping into a story most people have never heard of but which provides a vital footnote to our understanding of the post---World War II world." ---Don and Petie Kladstrup, authors of Wine & War: the French, the Nazis and the Battle for France's Greatest Treasure

Christiane Kohl has worked as a correspondent to the Cologne Express, a press officer for the Environment Ministry in Hessen, and, from 1988 to 1998, an editor with Der Spiegel. She worked for several years in Rome for Munich’s Suddeutsche Zeitung and is currently the newspaper’s correspondent for eastern Germany. Her book, Der Jude und Das Madchen (2002), was the basis of Joseph Vilsmaier’s feature film Leo and Claire. She lives in Dresden.
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Anthea Bell is a freelance translator from German and French, specializing in fiction. She has won a number of translation awards in the UK, the USA, and Europe. Her translations includeW.G. Sebald’s Austerlitz (and other works by Sebald), a large selection of Stefan Zweig’s novellas and stories, and Wladyslaw Szpilman’s memoir, The Pianist