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03846aam a2200721 i 4500 001 DCEDB1B26C3611EB950DD8342DECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20210211010044 008 200622t20212020nyuab b 001 0beng 010 $a 2020022095 020 $a 0525520961 020 $a 9780525520962 035 $a (OCoLC)1196821000 040 $a DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d OCLCF $d OCLCO $d YDX $d IZ8 $d OCLCO $d ILC $d IOU $d SILO 042 $a pcc 043 $a e-au--- 050 00 $a DB98.W26 $b S26 2021 082 00 $a B $a B $2 23 100 1 $a Sands, Philippe, $d 1960- $e author. 245 14 $a The ratline : $b the exalted life and mysterious death of a Nazi fugitive / $c Philippe Sands. 246 30 $a Exalted life and mysterious death of a Nazi fugitive 250 $a First American edition. 264 1 $a New York : $b Alfred A. Knopf, $c 2021. 300 $a xviii, 417 pages : $b illustrations, maps ; $c 25 cm 500 $a "A Borzoi Book" -- title page verso. 500 $a "Originally published in Great Britain in 2020 by Weidenfeld & Nicolson, an imprint of The Orion Publishing Group Ltd., London, in 2020" -- title page verso. 504 $a Includes bibliographical references and index. 520 $a "The life and mysterious death of Otto Wachter, former Governor of Nazi-occupied Poland, who died in the Vatican after World War II"-- $c Provided by publisher. 505 0 $a Prologue: Rome, 13 July 1949 -- Love -- Power -- Flight -- Death -- Epilogue: Rome, 13 July 2019. 520 $a Baron Otto von WaÌchter: 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. Sands, given full access to the WaÌchter family archives and with the assistance of the WaÌchters' son Horst, writes of WaÌchter's rise through the Nazi high command, his family life as their world was brought to ruin, and his four-year flight to escape justice. Given a new identity, on his way to a new life via "the Ratline" to PeroÌn's Argentina, WaÌchter died in Rome. Was he being recruited in postwar Italy by the U.S. Army Counter Intelligence Corps or by the Soviet NKVD-- or by both? -- adapted from jacket 600 10 $a WaÌchter, Otto, $d 1901-1949. 600 10 $a WaÌchter, Otto, $d 1901-1949 $x Friends and associates. 600 10 $a WaÌchter, Otto, $d 1901-1949 $x Death and burial. 650 0 $a Nazis $v Biography. 650 0 $a War criminals $z Austria $v Biography. 650 0 $a Fugitives from justice $z Austria $v Biography. 650 0 $a World War, 1939-1945 $x Atrocities. 650 0 $a Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) 600 10 $a WaÌchter, Horst von, $d 1939- 655 7 $a Biographies. $2 lcgft 941 $a 20 952 $l GOPG641 $d 20240710053419.0 952 $l GZPE631 $d 20240305020847.0 952 $l YEPF572 $d 20231012011647.0 952 $l BOPG851 $d 20231010023454.0 952 $l WBPB115 $d 20230209023842.0 952 $l KHPB566 $d 20230126011729.0 952 $l CQPE926 $d 20220824010448.0 952 $l GAAX314 $d 20220730010143.0 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20220526014940.0 952 $l WAPD715 $d 20220203011402.0 952 $l XEPE697 $d 20220202021523.0 952 $l HNPC845 $d 20210821010326.0 952 $l WXPD305 $d 20210526011056.0 952 $l USUX851 $d 20210505012556.0 952 $l GBPF771 $d 20210504013852.0 952 $l CAPH522 $d 20210415010208.0 952 $l CDPF771 $d 20210302014930.0 952 $l TCPG826 $d 20210302010510.0 952 $l ZLPD437 $d 20210226140312.0 952 $l BAPH771 $d 20210211010413.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=DCEDB1B26C3611EB950DD8342DECA4DB 994 $a C0 $b IOUInitiate Another SILO Locator Search