“Legal” Killing

Abstract

Morgen had come to Buchenwald as a specialist in crimes of corruption, delegated by Himmler to clean up rampant theft and fraud on the part of SS officers in the concentration camps. In the course of investigating Buchenwald’s commandant, he was repeatedly stymied by a lack of live witnesses. Prisoners who could have testified to the commandant’s crimes were dead. Further detective work revealed that they had been murdered, and so Morgen found himself with a murder investigation on his hands. And once he began to investigate the murder of witnesses, the trail of evidence led to other murders, committed for a variety of reasons and by a variety of means.