The Ratline : the exalted life and mysterious death of a Nazi fugitive / Philippe Sands.
"The life and mysterious death of Otto Wachter, former Governor of Nazi-occupied Poland, who died in the Vatican after World War II"-- Provided by publisher.
"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 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?)"-- Provided by the publisher.
Record details
- ISBN: 9780525520962
- ISBN: 0525520961
- Physical Description: xviii, 417 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
- Edition: First American edition.
- Publisher: New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2021.
Content descriptions
General Note: | "A Borzoi Book." "Originally published in Great Britain in 2020 by Weidenfeld & Nicolson, an imprint of The Orion Publishing Group Ltd., London." |
Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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North Kansas City Public Library | 940.5347 SANDS 2021 (Text) | 0001002434668 | Nonfiction | Available | - |
Caruthersville Public Library | 940.53 SAN (Text) | 38417100648965 | Non-Fiction | Available | - |
Cass County Library-Northern Resource Center | B WAC 2021 (Text) | 0002205437789 | Adult Biography | Available | - |
Douglas County Public Library | B WACHTER (Text) | 35633000337680 | Adult Biography | Available | - |
Jefferson County Library-Windsor | BIO WACHTER (Text) | 30065010115753 | Biography | Available | - |
Montgomery City Public Library | 940.53 SAN (Text) | 31927000026162 | Adult Nonfiction | Available | - |
Morgan County Library | 940.53 SAN (Text) | 35319000151970 | Adult Nonfiction | Available | - |
Scenic Regional-Union | B WAT (Text) | 3007241154 | NonFiction | Checked out | 04/24/2024 |
Scenic Regional-Warrenton | B WAT (Text) | 3007193192 | NonFiction | Available | - |
Trails Regional-Corder | B WAC (Text) | 2205037233 | Adult Non-Fiction | Available | - |