Ratline

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 Ratline 

Date	1945 - ?
Interest of	Carl Burckhardt
Description	Channels where by prominent Nazis were spirited out of Europe to South America.

As Peter Dale Scott notes, no one was actually in charge of these structures, but as deep state milieux, they were unofficial, criminal enterprises run in decentralised fashion. The Vatican was of key importance to many of them.

Ratline escapees

Some of the Nazis and war criminals who escaped using ratlines include:

• Adolf Eichmann, fled to Argentina in 1950, captured 1960, executed in Israel on 1 June 1962
• Franz Stangl, fled to Brazil in 1951, arrested in 1967 and extradited to West Germany, died in 1971 of natural causes
• Gustav Wagner, fled to Brazil in 1950, arrested 1978, committed suicide 1980
• Erich Priebke, fled to Argentina in 1949, arrested 1994, eventually died in 2013
• Klaus Barbie, fled to Bolivia with help from the United States, captured in 1983, died in prison in France on 23 September 1991
• Eduard Roschmann, escaped to Argentina in 1948, fled to Paraguay to avoid extradition and died there in 1977
• Aribert Heim, disappeared in 1962, most likely died in Egypt in 1992
• Andrija Artuković, escaped to the United States, arrested in 1984 after decades of delay and extradited to Zagreb, Yugoslavia, where died in 1988
• Ante Pavelić, escaped to Argentina in 1948, initially survived an assassination attempt in 1957, but died of his wounds in Spain in 1959
• Walter Rauff, escaped to Chile, never captured, died in 1984
• Alois Brunner, fled to Syria in 1954, died around 2010
• Josef Mengele, fled to Argentina in 1949, then to other countries, dying in Brazil in 1979. Remains exhumed in 1985 and probably destroyed.
• Johann Feil

 

Related Documents

Title	Type	Publication date	Author(s)	Description
Document:Their Will Be Done	article	1 August 1983	Martin A Lee	How the CIA targets powerful hierarchies for infiltration and influence. The Roman Catholic Church's claim to be the one and only authentic 'Church of Christ on Earth' does not exempt them from exploitation by deep politicians. This article powerfully demonstrates both the Catholic Church's power and its susceptibility to the machinations of Mammon. As they say in South America, "When the CIA goes to church, it doesn't go to pray."
File:Martin Bormann - Nazi In Exile.pdf	book	1981	Paul Manning	A deep history of transnational corporate ownership networks originating from the fascist junction of state and economic power in Germany before and during WWII

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