IN THE NAME OF HUMANITY : The Secret Deal to End The Holocaust

These are revelations that will help rewrite the history of the Holocaust and the Second World War.

On April 21, 1945, one of history's most bizarre and unlikely meetings took place when a representative of the World Jewish Congress came face to face with the Devil. With Allied forces closing in and Hitler holed up in his bunker, the Reichsfuhrer SS, Heinrich Himmler met secretly with Norbert Masur to broker a deal that Himmler – architect of the genocide that had already decimated Masur's people – believed would preserve the Third Reich and convince the Allies to turn on Stalin. Days later, Himmler countermanded his Fuhrer's edict to liquidate “every last Jew” before the imminent fall of the Third Reich.

This extraordinary meeting was merely the culmination of a massive deception that had been masterminded months earlier, involving a former fascist president of Switzerland, a petite Orthodox Jewish woman, and Himmler's Finnish osteopath. Aided by Swedish and American intelligence forces, the clandestine efforts of this unlikely trio were likely responsible for saving hundreds of thousands of Jews from extermination during the final months of World War II.

Holocaust historian and New York Times bestselling author Max Wallace draws on a cache of recently declassified intelligence documents and an account from the only living eyewitness. He reveals the incredible story of the secret negotiations and their role in Hitler's mysterious decree to order the immediate arrest of his “loyal Heinrich” and his expulsion from the Nazi party.

The book's explosive revelations – authenticated by a number of the world's leading Holocaust historians – may very well help rewrite the history of the Holocaust and the Second World War.

MAX WALLACE's credentials as a popular historian were cemented when two-time Pulitzer-winner Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr. provided a cover endorsement for his book The American Axis, about the Nazi affiliations of Henry Ford and Charles Lindbergh. Wallace has worked for Steven Spielberg's Shoah Foundation, documenting the testimonies of Holocaust survivors, and as Executive Director of the Anne and Max Bailey Center for Holocaust Studies. As a journalist, Wallace has contributed to the Sunday New York Times and the BBC and appeared three times on the Today show, CBS This Morning, and Good Morning America. His previous titles are: The American Axis: Ford, Lindbergh, and the Rise of the Third Reich, Who Killed Kurt Cobain? (with Ian Halperin), Muhammad Ali's Greatest Fight: Cassius Clay vs. the United States of America, and Love & Death: The Murder of Kurt Cobain (with Ian Halperin).