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In 1976, the memoirs of Bishop Alois Chudal, Otter's friend and protector in the Vatican, were posthumously

published.

In 19. In 1949, in the Santo Spirito Hospital in Rome, the Vice Governor of Poland, Lieutenant General and Lieutenant Colonel of the SS, Baron von Wector, died in my arms.

The Allied and Jewish authorities were looking for him everywhere, but I protected him until the end.

While his superior Frank was hanged at Nuremberg,

Wechter was able to live for months in Rome and an assumed name.

Not least, thanks to the touchingly selfless assistance given to him by some Italian monks,

until he was poisoned.

It seems that this passage is the reason Otter's wife Charlotta believed he was poisoned. It's also the reason we've been trying to solve

the mystery of what happened to Otto.

I'm Philip Sans and this is the rat line. Document number 0000 5058 issued by the Central Registry for War Criminals, date of crimes

1942 to 1945.

Town crime committed in Lvov.

Subject is responsible for mass murder, shooting and executions under his command as governor of District of Galicia.

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