Krysí stezka - Láska, lži a zločiny nacistického uprchlíka – Sands Philippe (2021)

A story of Nazi lives, mass murder, love, Cold War espionage, and a mysterious death in the Vatican. Baron Otto von Wächter, an Austrian lawyer, husband, father, high-ranking Nazi official, senior SS officer, former governor of Galicia during the war, creator and overseer of the Krakow ghetto, accused as a war criminal of the mass murder of over 100,000 Poles, pursued by the Soviets, Americans, British, and Simon Wiesenthal, on the run for three years, from 1945 to 1948... Philippe Sands pieces together Wächter's extraordinary, shocking story in gripping detail. With full access to the Wächter family archives – newspaper articles, diaries, tapes, and more – and with the help of Wächter's son Horst, who believes his father was a 'good man', Sands writes about Wächter's rise within the Nazi high command, his 'blissful' marriage and family life as their world was brought to ruin, and his four-year flight from justice – to Tyrol, to Rome, and to the Vatican; on a journey to a new life via the 'ratline', the escape route taken by Eichmann, Mengele, and thousands of other Nazis, to Perón's Argentina, where he received a new identity. Wächter's escape was cut short by a mysterious, shocking death in...