DID THE POPE HELP NAZI WAR CRIMINALS? There are three countries in Rome - Italy, then Vatican City, and then the smallest micro-state nation in the whole world - KNIGHTS of MALTA. This is a tiny nation with United Nations observer status and a population of around 1,000 people - most of whom are former spies and military intelligence commanders - and they are all linked with the Vatican. KNIGHTS OF MALTA issue passports from their suite of posh offices in Rome. They own no land (officially) but are classified as a proper country - yes, a proper nation state and have diplomatic BLACK BAGS with which they smuggle anything (legally) they like across international borders.
Rumours abound regarding the 'Rat Lines' which are escape routes allegedly provided to NAZI war criminals by KNIGHTS OF MALTA officials - and British Author CHRIS EVERARD has been to Rome investigating how more than 8,000 former SS Nazi men ended up being given asylum in England!
In his new TV series, Chris Everard asks who exactly were the NAZI war criminals that were given KNIGHTS of MALTA passports? Well, it reads like a Who's Who of scoundrels; most researchers claim the following people were given sanctuary and new identities by the Vatican Knights diplomatic service;
Klaus Barbie, the cruel Gestapo officer known as the “Butcher of Lyons;” Franz Stangl, Commandant of the notorious Treblinka extermination camp; Gustav Wagner Commandant of Sorbibor extermination camp and Alois Brunner, a brutal official in the Jewish deportation programme.
Of the most famous to escape along the ratlines were Adolf Eichmann, the chief architect of the “Holoucast” and Dr Joseph Mengele, the “White Angel” of Auschwitz concentration camp. Not least was Deputy Fuhrer Martin Bormann. Incredibly, an entire Waffen SS division - the notorious “Galician Division” - consisting of 8000 men were smuggled to England and given “free settler” status.
Rumours abound regarding the 'Rat Lines' which are escape routes allegedly provided to NAZI war criminals by KNIGHTS OF MALTA officials - and British Author CHRIS EVERARD has been to Rome investigating how more than 8,000 former SS Nazi men ended up being given asylum in England!
In his new TV series, Chris Everard asks who exactly were the NAZI war criminals that were given KNIGHTS of MALTA passports? Well, it reads like a Who's Who of scoundrels; most researchers claim the following people were given sanctuary and new identities by the Vatican Knights diplomatic service;
Klaus Barbie, the cruel Gestapo officer known as the “Butcher of Lyons;” Franz Stangl, Commandant of the notorious Treblinka extermination camp; Gustav Wagner Commandant of Sorbibor extermination camp and Alois Brunner, a brutal official in the Jewish deportation programme.
Of the most famous to escape along the ratlines were Adolf Eichmann, the chief architect of the “Holoucast” and Dr Joseph Mengele, the “White Angel” of Auschwitz concentration camp. Not least was Deputy Fuhrer Martin Bormann. Incredibly, an entire Waffen SS division - the notorious “Galician Division” - consisting of 8000 men were smuggled to England and given “free settler” status.