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Sands, Philippe
The ratline : love, lies and justice on the trail of a nazi fugitive / Philippe Sands
London : Weidenfeld Nicolson, 2020
Titolo e contributi: The ratline : love, lies and justice on the trail of a nazi fugitive / Philippe Sands
Pubblicazione: London : Weidenfeld Nicolson, 2020
Descrizione fisica:
411 S. ; 22 cm
ISBN: 9781474608138
Data:2020
Lingua:
Inglese (lingua del testo, colonna sonora, ecc.)
Paese:
xx
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Abstract:
As Governor of Galicia, SS Brigadefuhrer Otto Freiherr von Wachter presided over an authority on whose territory hundreds of thousands of Jews and Poles were killed, including the family of the author's grandfather. By the time the war ended in May 1945, he was indicted for 'mass murder'. Hunted by the Soviets, the Americans, the Poles and the British, as well as groups of Jews, Wachter went on the run. He spent three years hiding in the Austrian Alps, assisted by his wife Charlotte, before making his way to Rome where he was helped by a Vatican bishop. He remained there for three months. While preparing to travel to Argentina on the 'ratline' he died unexpectedly, in July 1949, a few days after spending a weekend with an 'old comrade'.