Name: The Ratline: The Exalted Life and Mysterious Death of a Nazi Fugitive
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Author: Philippe Sands
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The Ratline: The Exalted Life and Mysterious Death of a Nazi Fugitive

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Physical Book

Author

Philippe Sands

Publisher

Alfred A Knopf

Year

2021

Language

English

Pages

448

Format

Hardcover

Dimensions

16 x 24 cm

ISBN13

9780525520962

The Ratline: The Exalted Life and Mysterious Death of a Nazi Fugitive

Philippe Sands (Author) · Alfred A Knopf · Hardcover

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Synopsis "The Ratline: The Exalted Life and Mysterious Death of a Nazi Fugitive"

A tale of Nazi lives, mass murder, love, Cold War espionage, a mysterious death in the Vatican, and the Nazi escape route to Perón's Argentina,"the Ratline"—from the author of the internationally acclaimed, award-winning East West Street.

"Hypnotic, shocking, and unputdownable." —John le Carré, internationally renowned bestselling author

Baron Otto von Wächter, Austrian lawyer, husband, father, high Nazi official, senior SS officer, former governor of Galicia during the war, creator and overseer of the Krakow ghetto, indicted after as a war criminal for the mass murder of more than 100,000 Poles, hunted by the Soviets, the Americans, the British, by Simon Wiesenthal, on the run for three years, from 1945 to 1948 . . .

Philippe Sands pieces together, in riveting detail, Wächter's extraordinary, shocking story. Given full access to the Wächter family archives--journals, diaries, tapes, and more--and with the assistance of the Wächters' son Horst, who believes his father to have been a "good man," Sands writes of Wächter's rise through the Nazi high command, his "blissful" marriage and family life as their world was brought to ruin, and his four-year flight to escape justice--to the Tirol, to Rome, and the Vatican; given a new identity, on his way to a new life via "the Ratline" to Perón's Argentina, the escape route taken by Eichmann, Mengele, and thousands of other Nazis. Wächter's escape was cut short by his mysterious, shocking death in Rome, in the midst of the burgeoning Cold War (was he being recruited in postwar Italy by the Americans and the U.S. Army Counter Intelligence Corps or by the Soviet NKVD or by both; or was he poisoned by one side or the other, as his son believes--or by both?) . . .

An extraordinary discovery, told up-close through access to a trove of family correspondence between Wächter and his wife--part historical detective story, part love story, part family memoir, part Cold War espionage thriller.

Philippe Sands

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Philippe Sands (London, 1960) is a writer, lawyer, and professor of International Law at University College London. He has participated in prominent international trials held at the Court of Justice of the European Union, the International Court of Justice, the International Criminal Court, and the European Court of Human Rights. Among the cases he has been involved in are the trial of Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet, war crimes in Yugoslavia, the genocide in Rwanda, the invasion of Iraq, the tortures at Guantanamo prison, and disputes over the Chagos Archipelago, among others. He is the author of the essays Lawless World, about the illegality of the Iraq war, and Torture Team, about the use of torture by the Bush administration. He is a regular contributor to publications such as Financial Times, The Guardian, The New York Review of Books, and Vanity Fair, and a commentator on CNN, MSNBC, and BBC World Service.

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