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Why them? Why there? What caused a nation of 'Dichter und Denker' to be transformed into one of 'Richter und Henker'. HOttlland attempts to answer those questions by examining the life and times of Wilhelm Georg HOttl, a former high- ranking member of the Austrian SS and SD. The trail begins in Vienna in 1915, moving up through a culture of envy, past people and events that influenced a young man to make a fateful leap aboard the Nazi bandwagon at the age of 19. Tracing his rapid advance within the 'seething ranks' of the SS, which saw him emerge as a heeded advisor in the SD intelligence...

" He was a very dangerous person....He only looked out for his own advantage. He was very crafty and impenetrable. You couldn't pin anything on him. But he was a swindler nonetheless." Edith Frischmuth (former member of the Austrian Resistance)

Unlike many Nazi colleagues whose careers finished at the end of a rope or in exile, the former Austrian SS officer and SD operative returns to Austria in late 1947, ready to embark on a series of equally opaque activities. Taking advantage of the rivalry created by the growing Cold War, HOttl resumes plying his wares,...