The Ratlines That Saved Thousands of Nazis from Prosecution

Who was responsible for helping thousands of mass murderers escape?

Three years after World War II ended, Frank Stangl, a leading Nazi war criminal, escaped prison in Austria. Stangl was the commander of both the Sobibor and Treblinka extermination camps. 

Stangl made his way to the Vatican, where he met Bishop Alois Hudal, a fellow Austrian. Hudal handed him forged documents that allowed a Nazi war criminal to travel to…