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...

together. The ratlines were supported by clergy of the Catholic Church. Starting in 1947, U.S. Intelligence utilized existing ratlines to move certain...

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...

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...

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...

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...

attacked Vatican policies. After World War II, Hudal helped establish the Ratlines, which allowed prominent Nazi German and other European former Axis officers...

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...

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...

create an unstable structure similar to the ratlines of a sailing ship. However, unlike ascending ratlines leaning inward using one's legs for upward progress...

futtock shrouds can be used to gain access to the tops. Sailors ascend ratlines on the ordinary shrouds until nearly at the top, then transfer to the futtock...

The Genocide of Serbs in the Independent State of Croatia (Serbo-Croatian: Genocid nad Srbima u Nezavisnoj Državi Hrvatskoj / Геноцид над Србима у Независној...

Aarons & Loftus, Ratlines, pp. 218-219 Aarons & Loftus, Ratlines, p. 219 Aarons & Loftus, Ratlines, p. 220 Aarons & Loftus, Ratlines, p. 221 Ralph Blumenthal...

ODESSA" network, which helped exfiltrate Nazis from Europe. Other Nazis used ratlines to escape post-war Europe to places such as South America. In response...

– 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...

1972 thriller The Odessa File. The escape-routes have become known as "ratlines". Known goals of elements within the SS included allowing SS members to...

false name Reinaldo van Groede. Here he became a leading figure in the ratlines sponsored by Juan Perón to rescue Nazis from prosecution in Europe. Given...

and other fascists fled to South America through the use of ratlines. Many of these ratlines were supported by the Catholic Church. The first movements...

Blue Division, and after the war worked with Rodolfo Freude to set up ratlines to assist fleeing Nazis get to South America and find employment. Notable...

The Counter Intelligence Corps (Army CIC) was a World War II and early Cold War intelligence agency within the United States Army consisting of highly...

sheltered both men in Rome and arranged for them to leave for Syria via the Ratlines. Later both men with Stangl's wife and children fled to Brazil, where Wagner...

Vatican personnel in the smuggling of war criminals, the so-called post-war "ratlines". Goñi found out that the British Envoy D'Arcy Osborne had intervened with...

death sentence. Assisted by a network of former SS members, he used the ratline to travel to Genoa, where he obtained a passport from the International...

dismissed. Krunoslav Draganović (1903–1983), Catholic priest, organized Ratlines. Tomislav Filipović-Majstorović (1915–1946; born Miroslav Filipović), Franciscan...

is a tripod, with ratlines in form of small crossbeams between the two poles aft; on the newer ones a bipod is used, and ratlines are replaced by wooden...

central Iraq, the Iraqi equivalent of the Ho Chi Minh trail. A second "ratline" runs from the Syrian border through Tal Afar to Mosul. Although estimates...

Draganovic of the Pontifical Croatian College of St. Jerome assisted the ratlines spiriting fugitive Nazis out of Europe. Although Catholicism in Germany...

Carmel Offie List of Axis personnel indicted for war crimes Project MKNAOMI Ratlines (World War II) Unit 731 – Japanese human experimenters who were recruited...

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However, up to 10,000 Nazi war criminals eventually fled Europe using ratlines. German forces withdraw from Finland: On 25 April 1945, the last German...