Hans Georg Jakobowicz

Burn, Berlin, Burn! Hans Georg Jakobowicz

Who was the Reichstag arsonist? Eighty-five years later, the identity of the person who set fire to Berlin's parliament building remains a puzzle. This story tells of actual and speculative people in 1933 who might have known and of others whose lives were singed by that blaze and its aftermath-the Nazi party's rise to power. Two of those people meet again in the 1970s at the UN in New York, challenging each other with questions of guilt, forgiveness, eros, and judgment.