20 May 2025

From Nazi Germany to Patagonia, lawyer Philippe Sands on his

From Nine To Noon, 10:05 am on 20 May 2025
Philippe Sands, author of 38 Londres Street

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Philippe Sands is a world-renowned lawyer, writer and winner of the UK's biggest non-fiction prize for his book East West Street.

That book was the first in a triolgy - part history, part memoir - documenting the legal and personal battles to bring to account Nazi war criminals and their disciples.

His latest book, 38 Londres Street, completes the triology and focuses on two of the 20th Century's most ruthless war criminals - Chilean dictator Augusto Pincochet, and the Nazi SS Commander Walther Rauff and the connection between them. Philippe Sands has been at the Auckland Writers Festival and is now spending time with the Auckland University Law School.