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    origins of the first ratlines are connected to various developments in Vatican-Argentine relations before and during World War II. As early as 1942, the...
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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 systematic persecution and extermination of Serbs committed during World War II by the fascist Ustaše regime in the Nazi German puppet state known as...
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    The final battles of the European theatre of World War II continued after the definitive surrender of Nazi Germany to the Allies, signed by Field Marshal...
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    world participated in World War II. Most were neutral at the beginning, but only a relative few nations remained neutral to the end. The Second World...
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    The European theatre of World War II was one of the two main theatres of combat during World War II, taking place from September 1939 to May 1945. The...
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    The history of Argentina during World War II was a complex period that began in 1939, after the outbreak of the war in Europe, and ended in 1945 with...
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    During World War II, a number of significant economic, political, and military changes took place in Latin America. The war caused considerable panic in...
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    Operation Paperclip (category Aftermath of World War II in the United States)
    cover-up of Japanese war crimes Carmel Offie List of Axis personnel indicted for war crimes Project MKNAOMI Ratlines (World War II) Unit 731 – Japanese...
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  • Hotel Terminus: The Life and Times of Klaus Barbie (category Documentary films about war crimes)
    Holtzman Guido Vildoso Izieu Jacques Vergès Jean Moulin Paul Paillole Ratlines (World War II) Régis Debray "Hotel Terminus: The Life and Times of Klaus Barbie"...
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    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...
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    Union (Italy, 1923) Positive Christianity Religious nationalism Ratlines (World War II aftermath) Eatwell 2003. Laqueur, Walter (25 October 2006). The...
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    colonial projects before 1871 German inventors and discoverers Ratlines (World War II aftermath) Mainly Lutheranism, with Reformed and Anabaptist minorities...
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  • to the post-World War II pursuit and apprehension of individuals who were not citizens of the Third Reich at the outbreak of World War II but collaborated...
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    Catholic priest associated with the ratlines which aided the escape of Ustaše war criminals from Europe after World War II while he was living and working...
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    people was the creation of the Socialist Republic of Macedonia after World War II, as a new state in the framework of the Socialist Federal Republic of...
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    manager of Operation Bernhard during World War II under the control of the Reich Security Main Office (RSHA). After the war, he moved to Peru, where he was...
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  • which helped exfiltrate Nazis from Europe. Other Nazis used ratlines to escape post-war Europe to places such as South America. In response, Nazi hunters...
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    Die Spinne (category Aftermath of World War II in Germany)
    Die Spinne (German for "the spider") was a post-World War II organisation that helped certain Nazi war criminals escape persecution. Its existence is still...
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  • policies and indirectly attacked Vatican policies. After World War II, Hudal helped establish the ratlines, which allowed prominent Nazi German and other European...
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    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...
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    of Argentina Richard Walther Darré Carlos Fuldner Charles Lescat Ratlines (World War II aftermath) Rohter, Larry (March 9, 2003). "Argentina, a Haven for...
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  • Aunt Anna's (category Aftermath of World War II in Germany)
    the Franciscan monastery in the capital of South Tyrol, Bolzano). Ratlines (World War II aftermath) Gerald Steinacher, Nazis on the Run, Oxford University...
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  • after the war worked with Rodolfo Freude and Karl Nicolussi-Leck to set up ratlines to assist fleeing Nazis get to South America and find employment. Notable...
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    At the end of the Second World War and in the immediate post-war period, the College was a prominent node in the "ratlines" used to extract Nazi and...
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    Pope Pius XII (category World War II political leaders)
    involvement of Vatican personnel in the smuggling of war criminals, the so-called post-war "ratlines". Goñi found out that the British Envoy D'Arcy Osborne...
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    Clara Stauffer (category Spanish people of the Spanish Civil War)
    Falangist and Nazi ratline operator. She was a member of the Sección Femenina, a women's Falangist group, during the Spanish Civil War. She served as its...
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    Seat 12 (category Pope Pius XII and World War II)
    Pius XII Pope Pius XII and Judaism Pope Pius XII and the Holocaust Ratlines (World War II aftermath) Religion in the Soviet Union Mindell, Cindy (November...
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    Otto Skorzeny (category German World War II special forces)
    SS-Obersturmbannführer (lieutenant colonel) in the Waffen-SS during World War II. During the war, he was involved in a number of operations, including the removal...
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  • formally indicted for committing war crimes or crimes against humanity on behalf of the Axis powers during World War II, including those who were acquitted...
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