38 Londres Street | Philippe Sands

The house at 38 Londres Street is home to the legacies of two men: Augusto Pinochet and Walther Rauff.

On the run from justice at the end of the Second World War, Rauff crosses the ocean to southern Chile. He settles in Patagonia, managing a king crab cannery at the end of the world. But there are whispers about this discreet and self-possessed German – rumours of a second career with Pinochet’s secret intelligence service.

In 1998, Pinochet is in a London medical clinic when the police enter his room and arrest him on charges of crimes against humanity and genocide. Philippe Sands is called to advise him on his claim to immunity, but will instead represent a human rights organisation against him. Years later, Sands makes a discovery which reignites his interest in the case and leads to a decades-long investigation into Pinochet’s crimes, his unexpected connection to Rauff and the former Nazi’s possible connection to Chile’s disappeared.

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