Before the Court of Heaven

Award-winning historical fiction based on the true story of Ernst Techow, a fascist assassin who helped murder the highest-ranking Jew in Weimar Germany, Foreign Minister Walther Rathenau in 1922. On trial for his life, Techow receives an unfathomable offer of forgiveness that sets him on a harrowing journey of redemption. BEFORE THE COURT OF HEAVEN is inspired by the history of how Germany's Weimar democracy became the Third Reich – a cautionary tale for today. A vivid history of Germany from the beginning of the 20th Century to World War II and a tender love story. Scholars of history and the Holocaust from Middlebury College and the University of Vermont Center for Holocaust Studies have vetted BEFORE THE COURT OF HEAVEN for historical accuracy. It has won 10 book awards.