{{Short description|2020 book by Philippe Sands}} {{more citations needed|date=July 2021}} {{Use American English|date=May 2021}} {{Use mdy dates|date=May 2021}} {{Infobox book |name=The Ratline: The Exalted Life and Mysterious Death of a Nazi Fugitive |image=The Ratline.jpg |author=Philippe Sands |language=English |pub_date=2020 |pages=432 |publisher=Weidenfeld & Nicolson |subject=Otto Wächter |isbn=978-1-4746-0812-1}}
'''''The Ratline: The Exalted Life and Mysterious Death of a Nazi Fugitive''''' is 2020 a book by Philippe Sands. It examines the life of Nazi politician Otto Wächter, especially the time after World War II until his death in 1949; it also discusses the author's meetings with Wächter's son Horst.<ref>{{Cite book |url=https://www.weidenfeldandnicolson.co.uk/titles/philippe-sands/the-ratline/9781474608152/ |title=The Ratline |date=2019-10-22 |isbn=978-1-4746-0815-2 |language=en-US}}</ref>
Prior to the publication of the book, the author presented a ten-episode podcast series in 2018 named ''Intrigue: The Ratline''.<ref>{{Cite web |title=BBC Radio 4 - Intrigue, The Ratline - Available now |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0000phy/episodes/player |access-date=2025-01-25 |website=BBC |language=en-GB}}</ref>
== Reviews == Writing for ''The Guardian'', Ashish Ghadiali states that "in Sands we have an incomparable guide who finds a kind of redemption on every road of the human experience, though never at the expense of responsibility or truth. The outcome is a feat of exhilarating storytelling – gripping, gratifying and morally robust."<ref>{{Cite news |last=Ghadiali |first=Ashish |date=2020-05-03 |title=The Ratline by Philippe Sands review – on the trail of the Nazi who got away |url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2020/may/03/the-ratline-by-philippe-sands-review-on-the-trail-of-the-nazi-who-got-away |access-date=2025-01-25 |work=The Observer |language=en-GB |issn=0029-7712}}</ref>
==See also==
* {{Annotated link|Ratlines (World War II)}}
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