![]() In his new book, “The Ratline: The Exalted Life and Mysterious Death of a Nazi Fugitive” (Knopf), Sands returns to Horst Wächter and the father he barely knew but refuses to renounce. ![]() He followed up in 2016 with “East West Street: On the Origins of Genocide and Crimes against Humanity,” part family memoir, part deeply researched examination of the Jewish legal scholars whose ideas led to the prosecution of Nazi war criminals - including Hans Frank, the governor general of occupied Poland - at Nuremberg. ![]() But “My Nazi Legacy” was only the start of his journey into the themes of complicity and culpability. The film might have seemed a temporary detour in Sands’ career as an international lawyer specializing in genocide and human rights. It was a study in contrasts: Frank acknowledged the guilt of his father, Hans, and denounced him Wächter, hunkered down in his family’s crumbling castle, insisted his father, Otto, was a good man doing his best in a bad situation. ( New York Jewish Week via JTA) - I first met Philippe Sands when he was promoting his 2015 documentary “My Nazi Legacy: What Our Fathers Did.” It told the story of Niklas Frank and Horst Wächter, two men whose fathers were among the Nazi perpetrators of the Holocaust. ![]()
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