Otto Wächter, Austrian baron, lawyer, high-ranking Nazi official, governor of Krakow and Galicia, organizer of the Krakow ghetto, fugitive, fugitive from justice for three post-war years, planning to move to South America, but his flight was interrupted by sudden death in Rome .

Wächter's Nazi career and his exemplary Aryan marriage developed against the backdrop of terrible events in which Otto was directly involved. Decades later, his son Horst decided to make family documents public in order to find justification for his father. Philip Sands, a British lawyer and writer, author of the world-read East West Street, having gained access to the archives of the Waechter family, restores its history in detail. This is how a book appeared, which is at the same time a documentary investigation, a spy detective story, a family saga full of drama, and an indictment.