Charlotte held onto the papers through many moves, across decades, in an effort to prove her husband wasn’t culpable, which is exactly Horst’s rationale for passing them along. He was indicted for mass murder, probably more than half a million people. I first met Horst in about 2011, so it's been about 10 years. Sarah Shun-lien Bynum, author of the story collection “Likes,” a finalist for the Times Book Prize in fiction, talks about her destabilizing work. Poet Amanda Gorman, who discussed her future campaign for president in a new cover story for Vogue, already has endorsements from powerful figures. Black descendants of Bruce’s Beach owner could get Manhattan Beach land back under plan. 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. As he said to me, he hardly knew his father, but he knew his mother very well. 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? Essential to the story are diaries and letters kept by Otto’s wife, Charlotte. Auf YouTube findet man The Ratline with Philippe Sands, ein von der Juristischen Fakultät des University College London bereitgestelltes Interview auf Englisch. East West Street author Philippe Sands uncovers secrets and lies on the trail of Otto Wächter, his devoted wife – and the son brought up to believe his father was a decent man Rabbi Lawrence in conversation with Philippe Sands, international barrister and acclaimed authour of "East West Street" and "The Ratline". Read an Adaptation from Philippe Sands’s New Nazi-Era Saga, East West Street. Philippe Sands gave a terrific talk by Zoom on the 5th June. 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Poet Amanda Gorman for president? How much did Charlotte know about what the Nazis were doing to the Jews of Poland and Ukraine? And it's a complex situation. How conscious was Horst of what you lost when your family was sent to the death camps by his father's administration? At the end of the war, as his colleagues were being tracked down and prosecuted, Otto fled. Der deutsche Begriff „Rattenlinie“ hat sich als ungelenke Übersetzung von The Ratline aus dem amerikanischen Englisch eingebürgert. This is a Soviet document. Did you ever lose patience with Horst, with that repetitive claim that his dad was a good man? 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. Lawless World: America and the Making and Breaking of Global Rules by Philippe Sands 324pp, Allen Lane, £12.99. Sands has been here before. Mike Pence joins Simon & Schuster’s political roster with two-book deal. Can you describe this trove, how big it is and the implications of it? Otto and Charlotte’s fate rose and fell with the Nazis. Horst was born in 1939, so you get a sense of his age. How do we get to a more stable democracy? But I can quite see some would be troubled by the idea that I'm trying to put the accent on the perpetrators rather than the victims, which is, of course, not my position. KKK fliers, White Lives Matter rally: Huntington Beach confronts ‘storm of hate’. Her most recent book, My Life in Middlemarch, was a New York Times bestseller. Former VP Mike Pence has a deal to write two books. 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. 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. Add some “good” to your morning and evening. And his mother, Charlotta, loved him. There are a couple of crucial years that are completely missing in her diaries, which I suspect may not just be an accident, that they will have been destroyed. Wächter, a high-ranking Nazi officer, was indicted on war crimes for his role in the mass murder of more than 100,000 Polish citizens but escaped capture and trial until his death under mysterious circumstances in 1949. International law is a subject that, on the face of it, has little drawing power. 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. Well, we are sort of. It's obviously a huge question. At some point in the filming of the BBC documentary, My Nazi Legacy, Nicholas Frank, the son of Hans Frank, who had been Adolf Hitler's lawyer and was hanged at Nuremberg for mass murder, said of Horst, "You know, he could be a new kind of Nazi." He looked at it. Audience Relations, CBC P.O. Start with the end and it hardly seems a question: Otto was a high-ranking Nazi official in Poland and Ukraine during World War II; he oversaw the creation of Jewish ghettos and deportations and two of his close colleagues were executed at Nuremberg, Germany. British novelist John le Carré, who anatomized Cold War spycraft and sometimes even influenced it, has died after a short illness at the age of 89. 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. He sort of went, "Mmm hmm." Can a book about a powerful Nazi and the struggle to pierce his son’s abiding belief in his father’s blamelessness be relevant seven decades after the end of World War II? It's a concoction.". In 1992, original ‘Real World’ cast member Kevin Powell sparked vital conversations about race. L.A. is gloriously unstable ground for Sarah Shun-lien Bynum’s slippery stories. 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. Carli Lloyd on 2020: Worst of times, best of times as soccer star reunites with family. 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. A variety of newsletters you'll love, delivered straight to you. Was Otto a true Nazi believer, a killer, a mass murderer? 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?" Philippe Sands The PEN Hay Lecture: Words, Memory and Imagination - 1945, and Today Hay Festival 2018 , Tuesday 29 May 2018 Watch a clip from the documentary following renowned lawyer Philippe Sands as he meets the sons of two prominent German officials who had been instrumental, during the … I want to also understand Horst's motivations for speaking with you, because many of his family were against it. Philippe Sands is professor of law at University College London. He's not a Holocaust denier. 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. Now the world is reopening. We remain in good relations and we're in contact quite a lot, even though our views are different. You can see the full 90min talk on YouTube by clicking HERE. 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 mean, it's pretty shocking stuff. 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. It was incredible, actually. He lived through the war as a young child. The Women’s Prize Trust reaffirmed trans author Torrey Peters’ eligibility for its prize in fiction after an open letter contested her nomination. 5 poets address complications of calling L.A. home. 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. To mark the publication of the German language version of The Ratline, which follows his prize-winning book East West Street, Philippe Sands explores the ideas that underpin his new work, an account of the lives of Otto Wächter, an Austrian SS Gruppenführer indicted for mass murder, his wife Charlotte, from the moment they met Vienna in April 1929 to his unexpected death in Rome in 1949. [I] put it into the computer, and it was extraordinary material because the thing to understand about this book is it is, in part, the story of the horrors perpetrated by Otto von Wächter. Philippe Sands - See the talk on YouTube here. Horst, the fourth of their six children, was the most devoted to her and shared Charlotte’s archives with Sands. In fact, I would say Charlotta Wächter is the beating heart of the book. Philippe Sands has been tracking the subjects of “The Ratline” for many years. In a gripping new BBC production, Philippe Sands examines the mysterious ‘loving husband’ in Lviv responsible for the death of his grandfather’s family … Joseph Alexander, 96, a slight man with a Polish accent, wearing a Hawaiian shirt, spoke on a sunny Sunday to a rapt crowd of about 30 at the Los Angeles Museum of the Holocaust. We just heard you speaking with Horst Wächter, the son of notorious Nazi Otto von Wächter, and it sounded like you were friends. And I'd seen one or two items from this vast trove — all the letters, the diaries, the photographs, correspondence, everything between his mother and father from 1929 to 1949 — and I said, "You know what, why don't you give that to a museum? He takes refuge in the idea that [his] father never actually killed anyone personally, and that's his escape route as the child. And he said, "Well, it doesn't prove anything. Horst got very upset and he said to me, "How can I prove that I'm not a Nazi?" In his latest book, The Ratline, British author Philippe Sands pieces together the life and death of Otto von Wächter. Why don't you give it to the Holocaust Museum in Washington, D.C.?". And I disagreed with that. Few of Otto’s papers remain, but those that do show him sometimes being curt, others being needy. Review: Belly up to the bar with John Boehner for nostalgic tales of government paralysis. 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 … Written by Jason Vermes. Carefully, gently, meticulously, he’s engaged every protest, every excuse, every question Horst has raised to show exactly who Otto was and what he did. 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.' Well it was said to me. The evidence against Otto von Wächter is solid. Indeed, it is not questionable. The community is planning counterprotests and pleading with public officials to do more to intervene in the face of white supremacists. Afterward Otto fled to Germany, where Charlotte eventually joined him. Of course, he was not. His talk in 2017 on East West Street was one of the highlights of that year and this one was just as rivetting. Reams of documents reveal everything from mundane daily details to Charlotte’s bitterness over Otto’s mistresses, followed inevitably by renewed devotion and denial. 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. His 2015 documentary about Horst and Niklas Frank, released in the U.S. as “What Our Fathers Did,” and his 2018 BBC4 podcast “The Ratline” explore this story, but neither has the space this book does to dig into the emotional pull between Charlotte and Otto.
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