Philippe Sands made a name for himself through
Retour à Lemberg
, a meticulous story in the footsteps of his ancestors, who came from this city in Western Ukraine.
It is on Otto von Wächter, a Nazi dignitary, who was governor of Galicia and mysteriously vanished in 1945, that his new investigation is concerned, an extension of the first.
Sands leads it with the help, nolens volens, of Horst, son of Otto.
From the administration of Galicia to the creation of an SS unit, the Wächter case is not light.
But the son hopes to collect favorable testimonies which would reveal a hidden face of the Obergruppenführer;
his humanity.
Look for the woman.
This one has the graceful features of Charlotte Bleckmann.
Otto and Charlotte form a couple both united and heckled by circumstances.
Thanks to his assignments, Otto multiplies the connections and Charlotte consoles herself as best she can: she even becomes infatuated with Hans Frank, the executioner of Poland.
His personal diary reveals the twists and turns of this
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