Ep6. The Ratline - The men who murdered Nazis

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4.6 • 4.6K Ratings

🗓️ 24 September 2018

⏱️ 22 minutes

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Summary

Otto contracts a strange illness and Charlotte rushes to Rome to be by his side. Philippe talks to an old friend who was working for British intelligence in 1949 and explores who might have been after Otto and why. A story of life, love and a curious death told by writer and barrister, Philippe Sands. A cold war mystery that reveals shadowy forces at work and consequences that stretch across generations. Producer: Gemma Newby Sound Design: Neil Churchill

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0:00.0	This is the BBC.
0:10.6	On a Sunday afternoon, July 3rd, 1949,
0:15.0	Otto Vector, husband, father, lawyer, Nazi on the run,
0:21.0	hunted for war crimes, fell ill.
0:25.6	I'm a poor little humshin today,
0:28.4	lying in bed, panting with a fever,
0:31.4	41 to 42 degrees.
0:34.4	I never handed his bad as that.
0:36.4	I felt like my blood was boiling.
0:41.4	It was more than just a cold.
0:43.4	Two days later, he wrote to his wife,
0:46.4	I suffered with the heat for three hours
0:48.4	under three blankets.
0:50.4	By the evening, I was desperate.
0:54.4	And the next day, on July the 6th,
0:57.4	your hummy is summoning all his strength to write a letter.
1:03.4	The two really, very nice, very kind doctors
1:08.4	are tearing their hair out.
1:17.4	That will be the last letter that Otto Vector ever writes.
1:24.4	I'm Philippe Sangs, and this is the Rat Line.
1:35.4	Document number 00508, issued by the Central Registry for War Criminals.
1:41.4	Date of crimes, 1942 to 1945.
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