The Ratline – Ep 10. Persilschein

Intrigue

BBC

True Crime, Society & Culture, Personal Journals

4.6 • 4.6K Ratings

🗓️ 8 October 2018

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

Philippe and the team work out the identity of the mysterious man Otto lunched with on Lake Albano, and discover he too is connected with the Nazi Bishop. They take a trip to the lake to meet the Priest who buried the man and he reveals an unbelievable family secret.

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.

In this episode, Dame Sue Black is incorrectly described as a forensic pathologist. She is a forensic anthropologist.

Producer: Gemma Newby

Sound Design: Neil Churchill

Transcript

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0:00.0	Choosing what to watch night after night the flicking through the endless
0:06.8	searching is a nightmare we want to help you on our brand new podcast off the
0:11.8	telly we share what we've been watching
0:14.0	Fladiated.
0:16.0	Load to games, loads of fun, loads of screaming.
0:19.0	Lovely. Off the telly with me Joanna Paige.
0:21.0	And me, Natalie Cassidy, so your evenings can be a little less
0:25.0	searching and a lot more auction listen on BBC sounds this is the BBC.
0:48.0	On a brilliant January afternoon in 1974, Charlotte Vesta, who enjoyed being referred to as the Baroness, left her home and strapped a large wooden cross onto the roof of her car. She then drove to an Austrian churchyard
0:57.3	to bury her husband for the second time. And the Let us pray. Lord Jesus Christ, we ask you to bless this grave and send your angel to We are bearing the
1:25.0	bearing the body of our brother Otto Gustav in the ground here.
1:30.0	But we ask you, dear God, to free his soul from all the chains of sin.
1:37.0	You gave man who deviated from your commandments a just punishment in death.
1:42.0	You promised paradise to the repentant thief. We ask
1:47.1	you to take our brother into your eternal bliss.
1:52.4	25 years after his death in Rome, Otter on Vechter, lawyer, father, Nazi, fugitive, was finally at peace.
2:03.0	We have made me son in life in the air.
2:05.0	Comfort us in our sorrow by our faith and our desire to see our brother again.
2:11.0	With the hope of eternal life. Amen. I'm Philip Sans and this is the Rat Line.
2:27.0	Document number 0000 508 issued by the Central Registry for War Criminals, date of crimes
2:38.6	1942 to 1945.
2:43.0	Town crime committed in Lvov.
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