About Fritz Bauer
Fritz Bauer was a German Jewish judge and prosecutor. He played an instrumental role in the post-war capture of former Holocaust planner Adolf Eichmann, and in bringing about the Frankfurt Auschwitz trials. After the Harzburg Front was founded in October 1931, Bauer was one of the driving forces behind the creation of the Iron Front, whose stated purpose was to defend democracy. The city council of Stuttgart was dominated by the Social Democrats, while the Nazis won only 1.1% of the vote in the Stuttgart municipal election of 1928. In 1928, after receiving his PhD in law (at 25, Doktor der Rechte in Germany), Bauer became an assessor judge in the Stuttgart local district court. In November 1933, Bauer was transferred from Heuberg to a newly founded prison, Oberer Kuhberg concentration camp, located in former Army barracks in Ulm, where the guards were professional policemen instead of the SA, and conditions were better.
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