The Trial of Adolf Hitler: A Novel

With the fiery collapse of Berlin only hours away, Adolf Hitler, alone in the Führerbunker, commits his final error of the war: his suicide attempt fails.

Looking upon this as a divine sign that his struggle is not yet finished, a crippled, half-crazed Hitler flees the bunker to the Bavarian village of Emmaus. His true identity masked by scars and wounds, his is taken for just another refugee and slowly nursed back to health. For the next twenty-five years he is known as Werner Busse, a leading citizen. But as the years advance, Hitler realizes that he cannot cheat death twice. In a final challenge to civilization, he reveals his true identity to a West German prosecutor and demands to be tried. His position: how can the world continue to condemn him and the policies of his Reich after twenty-five years of ever-increasing bloodshed and horror? Were his acts, in fact, any worse than those of the world leaders who followed him?