An investigation into the most troubling prophecy of the 20th century

October 16, 1946. At the conclusion of the Nuremberg trials, the Nazi official Julius Streicher climbs the scaffold. Before being hanged, he shouts: "The Jews will be happy! It's Purim 1946!" The world was stunned. What did he mean? It is established that Streicher was referring to a Jewish festival commemorating the events recounted in a two-thousand-year-old biblical text: the "Book of Esther." Yet his statement remains no less enigmatic.

This established historical fact is the starting point of The Code of Esther — an extraordinary adventure that will take Bernard Benyamin and Yohan Perez from Nuremberg to Jerusalem, and from the banks of Zurich to the prison of Landsberg, where Hitler wrote Mein Kampf. Through encounters and revelations, they discover that the Book of Esther conceals a secret message, and that there are, between the ancient Persian kingdom and the Germany of the Third Reich, similarities that defy reason.

This incredible storyline, worthy of Raiders of the Lost Ark and Dan Brown, is nonetheless no fiction; all the facts recounted in this book are rigorously authentic. To uncover the "Code of Esther," Bernard Benyamin and Yohan Perez conducted a long investigation, questioning numerous Jewish scholars and historians. At the end of their inquiry, they lift the veil here on the most troubling prophecy of the 20th century.