Course Description: 

Join Vermont Author Jack Mayer for a discussion: “How Germany’s Weimar Democracy Became the Third Reich: The history that inspired Jack Mayer's historical fiction BEFORE THE COURT OF HEAVEN”

About the Book:

Before the Court of Heaven is based on the true story of a fascist assassin, Ernst Werner Techow and his turning from evil. Three themes impel this novel: understanding the rise of Nazism, unfathomable forgiveness, and the complexity of redemption. A portrait of Germany between world wars, from revolution and unrest following World War I to the rise of the Nazis, World War II and the Holocaust, Before the Court of Heaven portrays ordinary people becoming complicit in extraordinary crimes.

Please register here ($15): https://cvsdvt.ce.eleyo.com/