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The S.S. officer's armchair : uncovering the hidden life of a Nazi

The S.S. officer's armchair : uncovering the hidden life of a Nazi

Book 2020

Based on documents discovered concealed within a simple chair for seventy years, this gripping investigation into the life of a single S.S. officer during World War Two encapsulates the tragic experience of a generation of Europeans. One night at a dinner party in Florence, historian Daniel Lee was told about a remarkable discovery. An upholsterer in Amsterdam had found a bundle of swastika-covered documents inside the cushion of an armchair he w...