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Chatwin, Patagonia, and the Bodleian: Searching for a Nazi SOLD OUT

Philippe Sands Interviewed by Richard Ovenden

Saturday, 25 March 2023

12:00pm

1 hour

Weston Lecture Theatre

£7 - £12.50

Leading international lawyer Philippe Sands discusses his search for Walter Rauff, a Nazi criminal who escaped to Chile, using the Bruce Chatwin archive at the Bodleian.

Rauff was a bit character in Sands’ book, Ratline, an account of the life of SS Brigadeführer Otto Freiherr von Wächter, governor of Galicia, who presided over the deaths of hundreds of thousands of Jews and Poles, including Sands’s grandfather. Rauff was another SS officer. He turned up in Rome before escaping along the ratline to Syria and then to South America where he worked for Pinochet as an interrogator. During the event, he will be joined by Chilean poet Mariana Camelio via a video link.

Sands is professor of Law at UCL and a practising barrister. He has been involved in many of the most important international cases of recent years, including Pinochet, Congo, Yugoslavia, Rwanda, Iraq, Guantanamo and the Rohingya. He is author of Lawless, Torture Team, and East West Street, winner of the Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-fiction. Camelio is bachelor in hispanic literature and author of Isla Riesco, nominated for the 2020-2021 Santiago Municipal Literature Award. She is part of the general coordination of the Ronald Kay Archive and the Frank Ocean writing and translation collective. Here they talk to Bodley’s Librarian Richard Ovenden.

Presented by Bodleian Libraries

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The Oxford Literary Festival sponsors, donors & partners

University of Oxford Netflix European Union Delegation of the European Union to the United Kingdom Cultural Relations Platform Supporter of the festival's Voices of Europe programme Owen Mumford Supporter of programme of science and medicine and annual science and innovation award Bodleian Libraries Festival cultural partner Oxford Martin School Festival ideas partner Spanish Embassy Event generously supported by the Spanish Embassy Cervantes Institute, London Republic of Panama Event generously supported by Republic of Panama Italian Embassy Supporter of Italian programme The Dorchester Hotels Collection Festival London hotel partner International Literary Properties Festival literary heritage partner Blackwell’s Festival on-site and online bookseller The Randolph Hotel by Graduate Hotels Sponsor of the festival crime fiction programme Jim Mellon John Roberts Lady Hatch Patron donor for the programme of Irish literature and culture Tim and Marion Stevenson Martin and Elise Becket Smith Miles Young Masumi and Jonathan Dobson Pank Koria CEO of Project People Carole and John Allen David Isaac Jill Dunsmore Mary and Cecil Quillen Supporters of the programme of American literature and culture Anna Hunter Exeter College Exeter College: college home of the festival New College Worcester College Worcester College Lincoln College Lincoln College St Cross College St Cross College Trinity College Trinity College Critchleys Accountants to the festival Pasture to Plate Compassion in World Farming Symington Wines of the Douro Valley Princeton University Press Prestige publishing partner European Bank for Reconstruction and Development Jewish Book Week Partner of Jewish programme Foodbuy Thje Menu Partners Institute of Hospitality Project People Royal Academy of Arts British Academy Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies Oxford United Football Club Racalia Olive Oil Olive oil from Sicily BBC Radio Oxford Local radio partner Bear Ram Elk Festival Digital Strategy & Web Design Paul Bloomfield Ltd University of Oxford Alumni Office Alumni Office Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies Conference Oxford Felicity Bryan Associates CAV Oxford The Sheldonian Theatre Oxford University Images Oxford University Images Oxford University Department for Continuing Education Oxford Brookes University OX magazine Ox in a Box K T Bruce Photography K T Bruce Photography The Litmus Partnership Schoolreaders La Leccia Literature Ireland Confucius Institute Pusey House James Currey Society