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The ratline : the exalted life and mysterious death of a Nazi fugitive / Philippe Sands. by Sands, Philippe, 1960- Alfred A. Knopf, 2021. Call #: 940.534779 S221r Subjects Wächter, Otto, 1901-1949.   Wächter, Otto, 1901-1949 -- Friends and associates.   Wächter, Otto, 1901-1949 -- Death and burial.   Wächter, Horst von, 1939-   Nazis -- Galicia (Poland and Ukraine) -- History -- 20th century.   War criminals -- Galicia (Poland and Ukraine) -- History -- 20th century.   Fugitives from justice -- Galicia (Poland and Ukraine) -- History -- 20th century.   War criminals -- Austria -- Biography.   Fugitives from justice -- Austria -- Biography.   Nazis -- Biography.   World War, 1939-1945 -- Atrocities.   Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) ISBN:  9780525520962 (hc) Alternate title:  Exalted life and mysterious death of a Nazi fugitive Edition:  1st American ed. Description:  xviii, 417 p. : ill., maps ; 25 cm. Notes:  "This is a Borzoi Book" -- T.p. verso. "Originally published in Great Britain in 2020 by Weidenfeld & Nicolson, an imprint of The Orion Publishing Group Ltd., London, in 2020" -- T.p. verso. Bibliography:  Includes bibliographical references and index. Summary:  "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."--Publisher. Holds:  0   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Item type Status   Central Library Adult Nonfiction 940.534779 S221r Adult books Checked in Add Copy to MyList Central Library Adult Nonfiction 940.534779 S221r Adult books Checked in Add Copy to MyList

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