Phillipe Sands

True life story of SS beast General Otto Wächter becomes major BBC podcast hit

The gripping 10-part series called the Ratline is told by respected international law barrister Phillipe Sands, whose own family were murdered by Hitler’s monsters. The way into Wächter’s life is through his son Horst, a man obsessively reluctant to admit his father’s guilt despite all the evidence. When his father writes in a letter: “Tomorrow I have to have 20 Poles shot,” Horst dismisses it as poor phrasing.