Philippe Sands' 'The Ratline' is a Nazi-hunter novel with a unique premise: Sands tries to prove to the Nazi's son that his father wasn't a 'good Nazi.' After the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol, the answer is obvious: Yes, in 2021, America has a Nazi problem. Philippe Sands's Torture Team exposes the American conspiracy to tear up the Geneva Convention after the attacks of 9/11, says Rafael Behr Published: 3 May 2008 So much for the rights of man I think to understand Horst, the remainder of his life — 75-plus years — is about reconstructing that idyllic past and wishing that in some way it could be once more. Spring reading: Here’s what to expect from authors featured at the 2021 Festival of Books, A year of isolation left us with a wealth of words. What does that mean to you? My grandfather was born there in 1904. He lived in the mountains for three years, something he couldn’t have survived without Charlotte, who secretly hiked up to meet him with supplies. In the opening and closing pages of your book, you have a quote from Javier Cercas, the Spanish writer that you just mentioned. How will a reopening city treat them? But I don't like some of his views and I don't like his sense of denial about what his father did. Otto and Charlotte’s fate rose and fell with the Nazis. The community is planning counterprotests and pleading with public officials to do more to intervene in the face of white supremacists. He acts as counsel before international courts, and sits as an arbitrator. Rabbi Lawrence in conversation with Philippe Sands, international barrister and acclaimed authour of "East West Street" and "The Ratline". L.A. Times Festival of Books lineup: Don Lemon, Douglas Stuart, Zooey Deschanel and more, Why L.A. is the dark heart of crime writing. Times Book Prize finalists Rachel Howzell Hall, Ivy Pochoda, S.A. Crosby, Jennifer Hillier and Christopher Bollen talk about race, place and genre. Philippe Sands: The book is really the interweaving lives of four men closely connected at different times with the city now called Lviv. Review: Belly up to the bar with John Boehner for nostalgic tales of government paralysis. If Otto had survived amid the shifting allegiances in the early days of the Cold War, he might have found himself to be an asset to the Americans, the very people he was hiding from. A British human rights lawyer and author, Sands has now spent many years working with Horst von Wächter, whose prominent father Otto von Wächter disappeared after the war and was largely forgotten. Horst, now in his 80s, is a fascinating character, willing to explore his father’s ugly history in great detail without letting go of the belief that he must have been a “good” Nazi. With Niklas Frank, Horst von Wächter, Philippe Sands. Few of Otto’s papers remain, but those that do show him sometimes being curt, others being needy. Written by Jason Vermes. It's obviously a huge question. I thought that was significant because the heart of this book, in a sense, is to understand how can reasonable, cultured, intelligent, highly-educated people like Otto and Charlotta Wächter get involved in mass murder? 6 writers chart a course. And I said, "What do you mean, mmm hmm?" Afterward Otto fled to Germany, where Charlotte eventually joined him. Box 500 Station A Toronto, ON Canada, M5W 1E6. But I'm equally conscious of the fact that Horst is not responsible for what his father did. Women’s Prize stands by its nomination of trans author Torrey Peters after open letter. The former House speaker’s memoir, ‘On the House,’ brims with fury over the Trumpy takeover of his party, tales of the good old days, not much else. In a gripping new BBC production, Philippe Sands examines the mysterious ‘loving husband’ in Lviv responsible for the death of his grandfather’s family … Reams of documents reveal everything from mundane daily details to Charlotte’s bitterness over Otto’s mistresses, followed inevitably by renewed devotion and denial. In Poland and the Ukraine, they lived a glamorous Nazi life, Otto hard at work and Charlotte hosting parties for the party’s elite. Annette Gordon-Reed, Ayad Akhtar, Héctor Tobar, Martha Minow, David Kaye and Jonathan Rauch discuss the Jan. 6 riot and what we do about it. And Horst made available to you this treasure trove of Otto von Wächter's family's letters, documents and diaries and photographs and even audio recordings. Add some “good” to your morning and evening. He takes refuge in the idea that [his] father never actually killed anyone personally, and that's his escape route as the child. Now the world is reopening. Javier and I were sitting together in the Sistine Chapel and I said to him, "Why are you so interested in the Wächters, Otto and Charlotta?" In 1992, original ‘Real World’ cast member Kevin Powell sparked vital conversations about race. Mike Pence joins Simon & Schuster’s political roster with two-book deal. Then I realized Sands was building a narrative of spycraft and power shifts so breathtaking in its twists that it requires each tiny block to resonate fully. Der deutsche Begriff „Rattenlinie“ hat sich als ungelenke Übersetzung von The Ratline aus dem amerikanischen Englisch eingebürgert. What he's responsible for is recognizing the crimes of his father, and this is something he will not do and that is problematic. Indeed, it is not questionable. The Ratline: The Exalted Life and Mysterious Death of a Nazi Fugitive. Like many in Austria and Germany in the 1930s, they both liked skiing and mountaineering and had a long courtship that ended only when she became pregnant. If he cannot break him out of his prison of belief, what hope is there for us now, in America, where we have to fight Nazis all over again? Yet when laid out side by side with the historical narrative Sands is able to reconstruct, her documents instead show what she did not see, or what she left out, or what she later tried to forget. It was the moment where Horst had said to me, "You know Phillippe, there's no proof, there's nothing." As he said to me, he hardly knew his father, but he knew his mother very well. He was half of ‘the most famous argument’ in reality-TV history. He looked at it. And if you like, they are damaged and destroyed by their own words because as the acts of killing are going on, she's celebrating the glories of life and he's writing about the absence of Jews to put powder on the tennis court or whatever. Like any relationship, I suppose, but here we’re talking about a Nazi in the middle of WWII and then on the run, and the documents provide a text from which we are trying to parse subtext. Otto dies in mysterious circumstances in 1949, and it's very obvious that Horst really loves his mother. Was Otto a true Nazi believer, a killer, a mass murderer? It is a priority for CBC to create a website that is accessible to all Canadians including people with visual, hearing, motor and cognitive challenges. At all times, when I'm with Horst, I'm very conscious that Horst's father was responsible for the extermination of my grandfather's entire family. Audience Relations, CBC P.O. We remain in good relations and we're in contact quite a lot, even though our views are different. He lived through the war as a young child. She lived until 1985. Can you describe this trove, how big it is and the implications of it? Poet Amanda Gorman, who discussed her future campaign for president in a new cover story for Vogue, already has endorsements from powerful figures. It's a concoction.". The story is told, in part, through Wächter's son, Horst, who shared a treasure trove of family letters, documents and diaries, dating from 1929 to 1949, with Sands. The Women’s Prize Trust reaffirmed trans author Torrey Peters’ eligibility for its prize in fiction after an open letter contested her nomination. The Ratline by Philippe Sands review – on the trail of the Nazi who got away A mesmerising biography of a devoted father, husband and war … Horst got very upset and he said to me, "How can I prove that I'm not a Nazi?" That the author has now spent so many years dedicated to the story of Otto — hoping to convince his son of the truth — is remarkable. At the end of the war, as his colleagues were being tracked down and prosecuted, Otto fled. Philippe Sands, QC (born 17 October 1960) is a British and French lawyer at Matrix Chambers, and Professor of Laws and Director of the Centre on International Courts and Tribunals at University College London. Poet Amanda Gorman for president? But for the most part, the material is there. A human-rights lawyer conducts conversations with two men whose fathers were indicted as war criminals for their roles in WWII - Nazi Governors and consultants to Adolf Hitler himself. And he said, "Well, it doesn't prove anything. Lawless World: America and the Making and Breaking of Global Rules by Philippe Sands 324pp, Allen Lane, £12.99. Novelist Stephen Graham Jones would never let a dead elk or a horror trope go to waste. Sands’ last book, “East West Street,” was a history based in the same part of Ukraine commanded by Otto, exploring the genesis of the concepts of “genocide” and “crimes against humanity.” The same Nazis pass through the pages of both books; most of Sands’ family didn’t survive their atrocities. Pulling from family archives, British author Philippe Sands pieces together the life and death of Otto von Wächter — a high-ranking Nazi official who was indicted for the murder of over 100,000 Polish citizens — in his new book, The Ratline. Sands spoke with Day 6 host Brent Bambury about his new book, his relationship with Horst Wächter who, to this day, denies his father's role in the Holocaust, and focusing his book on a perpetrator rather than their victims. L.A. is gloriously unstable ground for Sarah Shun-lien Bynum’s slippery stories. And it's a complex situation. By Philippe SandsKnopf: 448 pages, $30If you buy books linked on our site, The Times may earn a commission from Bookshop.org, whose fees support independent bookstores. Read an Adaptation from Philippe Sands’s New Nazi-Era Saga, East West Street. It took 30 years, and a reunion, for many to listen. I try to maintain my cool when I'm with him, even if he upsets me sometimes. and a USB stick wound its way through my letterbox in London about two weeks later. We just heard you speaking with Horst Wächter, the son of notorious Nazi Otto von Wächter, and it sounded like you were friends. But Horst needs convincing, so Sands lays out a riveting, deeply researched case that builds chronologically to show who and what Otto was. Philippe Sands gave a terrific talk by Zoom on the 5th June. Her most recent book, My Life in Middlemarch, was a New York Times bestseller. In the coming months we’ll be facing questions about what accountability looks like and how to talk to those who love and support the militants in their families. He was involved in the July Putsch in 1934, during which Austrian Nazis assassinated the chancellor but failed to take over the Austrian government. But it's also a love story, the relationship between Otto and Charlotta, which is very central for me. By Philippe Sand s. And he said, "Because it's more important to know the butcher — the perpetrator — than the victim.". Like Philippe Sands, Rebecca Mead often writes about the intersection of history and modern life. Time proved him right. Finally, I had found in Lviv, in Ukraine, the act of indictment by the Americans and the Polish authorities — mass murder, more than 100,000 Polish citizens — and I showed it to him.
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