Ruta de escape

In July 1949, a man with an acute liver disease was admitted to a hospital in Rome. Monks have taken him there and he registers under the name Reinhardt, which turns out to be a fake. He is visited by a bishop, a doctor and a Prussian lady. The patient ends up dying and the Prussian lady sends a letter to the family. The real name of the mysterious patient is Otto Wächter, and the letter from the Prussian lady will reach his wife, Charlotte, and then pass to her children. He is the youngest of them, Horst, who is located by Philippe Sands, and when he visits him in the castle where he lives almost secluded, he tells him that "it is not true that my father died of an illness". What then is the truth? And above all: who was the fake Reinhardt actually called Otto Wächter? Using an inquiry procedure similar to that used in his previous book, the highly acclaimed East-West Street, Sands reconstructs the life of this individual who studied law in Vienna, left the city for Berlin, returned as a Nazi hierarch and dismissed from his charges to the Jewish professors he had had at the university. He was later assigned to Krakow, and there his signature is stamped on documents that led to the death of thousands of people, mostly Jews. And why did he end up in Rome? He was there on his way to South America, fleeing incognito, protected by some member of the Vatican...