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    The ratlines (German: Rattenlinien) were systems of escape routes for German Nazis and other fascists fleeing Europe from 1945 onwards in the aftermath...
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    Look up ratline in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Ratlines (/ˈrætlɪnz/) are lengths of thin line tied between the shrouds of a sailing ship to form a...
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  • Ratlines are climbing aids in rigging of sailing vessels similar to a rope ladder. Ratline or ratlines may also refer to: Ratlines (World War II), escape...
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  • The Ratline: The Exalted Life and Mysterious Death of a Nazi Fugitive is a 2020 book by Philippe Sands that examines Otto Wächter. The book has three...
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    Rattlin Ratlines (2006)" SF Weekly.com [1] List of groups 2002-2008 on official Festival Maritim website. Picture of Salty Walt & the Rattlin' Ratlines in...
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    – 5 July 1983) was a Bosnian Croat Catholic priest associated with the ratlines which aided the escape of Ustaše war criminals from Europe after World...
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  • attacked Vatican policies. After World War II, Hudal helped establish the Ratlines, which allowed prominent Nazi German and other European former Axis officers...
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    called "Rats," the accepted term (since the 1850s) for a New Cadet. The VMI ratline is a tough, old-fashioned indoctrination-system which dates back to the...
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    March 2008. Phayer (2000), pp. 50–57 Welle, Deutsche (1 March 2020). "The ratlines: What did the Vatican know about Nazi escape routes?". DW.COM. Archived...
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    in his Dictionary of 1769, the knot is much older, having been tied in ratlines at least as early as the first quarter of the sixteenth century. This is...
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