Conversations with an Executioner : 255 Days Imprisoned with the Nazi who Destroyed the Warsaw Ghetto - 'A MASTERPIECE OF 20th-CENTURY LITERATURE' THE TELEGRAPH

Warsaw, 1949: freedom fighter and journalist Kazimierz Moczarski is being held in a maximum security prison, accused of being an enemy of the state by the Polish secret police. A survivor of the Warsaw Uprising, he is horrified to find himself locked up in a cell with the notorious Nazi official responsible for the destruction of the Warsaw Ghetto, and the death of over 50,000 people: Jürgen Stroop.

For 255 days Stroop talks to Moczarski of his life, entirely unrepentant of the crimes for which he would soon be executed himself. Conversations with an Executioner is Moczarski’s first-hand account of these extraordinary exchanges, an insight into the mind of one of history’s most brutal war criminals, and one that unflinchingly examines some of humanity’s darkest moments.

Never before published in the United Kingdom, Conversations with an Executioner is a book of enormous historical importance, written in masterful prose by a writer who tragically wouldn’t survive to see his work published.

Author: Kazimierz Moczarski

Poland, c 1939 to c 1945 (including WW2), Autobiography: historical, political & military, True war & combat stories, 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000, Second World War

Published on 27 Aug 2026 by Duckworth Books.