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 ...

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.

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, ...

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.