Gerald Steinacher Knihy

The story of how Nazi war criminals escaped from justice by fleeing through the Tyrolean Alps to Italian seaports at the end of the Second World War and the role played by the Red Cross, the Vatican, and the Secret Services in smuggling them away from prosecution in Europe to a new life in South America.

How the International Committee of the Red Cross emerged triumphant from the dark days of World War II, escaping its ambiguous wartime record to re-affirm its leadership in world humanitarian affairs and help rewrite the rules of war in the Geneva Conventions.