The Ratline – Ep 1. Secrets in the Castle
Intrigue
BBC
4.6 • 4.6K Ratings
🗓️ 18 September 2018
⏱️ 20 minutes
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Summary
Philippe Sands investigates the mysterious disappearance of senior Nazi, Otto Wachter, who was indicted for mass murder. The Ratline is a story of a curious death, political intrigue, spies, Nazi hunters, shadowy forces in the Vatican and a son grappling with the sins of his father. In episode one of this ten part series we travel to a castle outside Vienna to meet an old man who believes his Nazi father was murdered, and a voice from the past offers up clues to how it might have happened.
Producer: Gemma Newby
Sound Design: Neil Churchill
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| 0:30.8 | BBC this is the BBC. This is the Rat Line, a new series from the BBC. It's about Nazis, spies, |
| 0:39.8 | love, death, secrets and lies, and a family called the Vecters. |
| 0:47.0 | Spring 1940. Spring, |
| 0:54.7 | 1942 Austria. |
| 0:56.2 | The Baroness and her six children are at their summer house in Zell Amse, |
| 1:01.3 | in a Dilic lakeside town near Salzburg. |
| 1:05.0 | They're bronzing themselves in the mountain sun, boating, |
| 1:08.7 | frolicing in the lake. |
| 1:11.3 | She writes to her husband, the children are thriving and becoming strong swimmers. |
| 1:17.0 | Swimming is important in this story. |
| 1:21.0 | The Baron can't be with them this summer. It's a shame, but he's much too occupied with his work 700 miles away in a place called Lemberg, which used to be called Loveauph. In a letter to his wife, he writes, |
| 1:37.0 | there's a lot going on in Lemberg. He just doesn't have time to join his family, not right now anyway. |
| 1:45.0 | There is indeed a lot going on in Lemberg. |
| 1:51.0 | Over the course of four months in 1942, Lemberg's Jewish population was |
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