THE RATLINE

As Governor of Galicia, SS Brigadesführer Otto Freiherr von Wächter presided over an authority on whose territory hundreds of thousa nds of Jews and Poles were killed, including the family of the author's grandfather. By the time the war ended in May 1945, he was i ndicted for 'mass murder'. Hunted by the Soviets, the Americans, the Poles and the British, as well as groups of Jews, Wächter went on the run. He spent three years hiding in the Austrian Alps before making his way to Rome and being taken in by a Vatican bishop. H e remaine...[Read more]