The Ratline

CONTENTS

Note to the Reader

Principal Characters

Prologue: Rome, 13 July 1949

Map 1: Austro-Hungarian Empire, 19018

1. 2012, Hagenberg

2. 1901, Otto

3. 1908, Charlotte

4. 1929, Vienna

5. 2013, Hagenberg

6. 1933, Vienna

7. 1934, Berlin

8. 1938, Vienna

9. 2014, London

10. 1938, Vienna

11. 1939, Kraków

12. Bronisława

13. 1941, Kraków

14. 1942, Lemberg

15. Michael

16. 1943, Lemberg

17. 2014, Lviv

18. 1944, Lemberg

19. 1944, Bolzano

20. 1945, Thumersbach

PART III: FLIGHT

21. 2015, New York

22. 1945, Hagener Hütte

Map 2: The Mountains, 1945–8

24. 1948, Salzburg

25. 1949, Bolzano

Map 3: The Line South 1949

26. 2016, Warsaw

27. May 1949, Vigna Pia

Map 4: Rome 1949

29. June 1949, Rome

30. July 1949, Santo Spirito

31. The Five Burials of O.W.

32. 2016, Hagenberg

33. Testament

34. September 1949

35. The Bishop

36. Cold War

37. Wollenweber

39. Lauterbacher

40. Persilschein

41. Los Angeles

43. 2017, Rome

45. Café Doney

46. Lake Albano

47. Exhumation

49. 2018, Albuquerque

50. Wiesenthal

52. 2018, Hagenberg

Epilogue: Rome, 13 July 2019

Acknowledgements

Illustration and Map Credits

Also by Philippe Sands