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Intrigue

The Ratline – Ep 3. A lot going on in Lemberg

Intrigue

BBC

True Crime, Society & Culture, Personal Journals

4.64.6K Ratings

🗓️ 21 September 2018

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

Whilst Charlotte Wachter and her children spend the summer in Zell am See, Otto is in Lemberg overseeing the 'Grosse Aktion' - the mass deportation of Jews to concentration camps.

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.

Producer: Gemma Newby

Sound Design: Neil Churchill

Transcript

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0:37.0

Over all the years that I've been on the trail of Otto Vesta, I've come to like his son, Horst.

0:40.0

Yet there is, in our relationship, a certain complexity and a difficulty.

0:45.0

It's immensely frustrating to talk to someone who is intelligent, curious and incredibly generous,

0:52.0

and also open to knowing all about his parents past, yet at the same time

0:57.7

cannot accept what seems to me to be so clearly true. Somehow this internal denial overrides what he's smart enough

1:08.8

to see and yet I feel that there's some unconscious part of Horst that does want to get to the real truth.

1:16.4

And that's perhaps why he maintains his relationship with me.

1:21.1

Even though he knows in his heart of hearts that he's never going to get me on side in his efforts to clear his father's name,

1:28.0

maybe, just maybe in some way I'm helpful to them in delivering something like the truth.

1:35.6

I'm Philip Sans and this is the rat line.

1:44.0

Document number

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0,0005.

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Document number 000508 issued by the Central Registry for War Criminals.

1:56.4

Date of Crimes 1942 to 1945. Town Crime Committed in Lvov.

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