Caroline Moorehead

It’s still impossible for Horst Wächter to recognise his father as a Nazi war criminal

Otto Wächter was responsible for the deaths of hundreds of thousands of Jews, but to his son he was just obeying orders

Tall, young, blond and energetic, with ‘his own ideas on humane and good governance’, Otto Wächter was the model Nazi
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