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A gripping true crime investigation into the murder of the relatives of Albert Einstein, set against the backdrop of Nazi-occupied Florence during WWII
Italy, August 1944. A unit of German soldiers arrives at a villa near Florence. Villa Il Focardo is home to Robert Einstein, cousin to the most famous scientist in the world, Albert Einstein a prominent enemy of the Nazi regime. Twelve hours after arriving, the soldiers have vanished and a family is dead.
This crime and what happened next still haunts those who survived. In The Einstein Vendetta, Thomas Harding recounts the story of an until-now untold true crime, one that unspools to reveal Italy's brutal wartime history its fall to fascism, antisemitism and bitter partisanship and a family's search for justice.