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I came across with the help of an extraordinary historian the true story of the ratline, which was that Otto Wachter stumbled into a spy ring in which the United States counterintelligence corps ...
Bookshelf ‘The Ratline’ Review: A Father’s Dark Path Researching the life of a high-ranking Nazi, the author comes to know the man’s son—first amiably, then contentiously.
THE RATLINE The Exalted Life and Mysterious Death of a Nazi Fugitive By Philippe Sands. In his brilliant, deeply moving 2016 book “East West Street,” Philippe Sands wove the story of his own ...
On the Shelf. The Ratline: The Exalted Life and Mysterious Death of a Nazi Fugitive. By Philippe Sands Knopf: 448 pages, $30 If you buy books linked on our site, The Times may earn a commission ...
[ Return to the review of “The Ratline.”. I was somewhat surprised, therefore, to see a small black and white photograph of Seyss-Inquart near Horst’s bed. It was tucked into the frame of a ...
Where does the term ‘ratline’ come from? The word ‘ratline’ was used by US intelligence officers after the war to describe a network taking Croatian war criminals to South America. It came ...
Traveling along a ratline in 1948, the notorious Auschwitz physician used the new identity of Helmut Gregor when fleeing Europe. While Mengele and other Nazi criminals are long presumed dead, ...
Ratline is a nautical term, referring to small lengths of horizontal cord that run between the shrouds, several strong ropes that affix the top of a mast to the vessel’s sides.
Ratline, directed by Eric Stanze (Deadwood Park, Scrapbook) and written by Stanze and Jason Christ, stars Emily Haack (Scrapbook, Savage Harvest 2: October Blood), Jason Christ (Deadwood Park ...
NPR's Noel King speaks with Philippe Sand about his new book: The Ratline. It's about the exalted life and mysterious death of a Nazi fugitive.