Hotel Lancaster

<p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Johanna was beautiful beguiling cunning ... with a lust for wealth. She sought out the very rich plying the steamship lines from Italy to Argentina. Konrad Ackermann was young naive ... a former captain of the SS who abandoned Berlin as the Russian troops stormed the Führer bunker in April 1945. Konrad Ackermann ... who financed his escape with a stash of solid gold coins the Brotherhood coins minted by Martin Bormann to fund a resurgent German Fourth Reich. Konrad Ackermann ... who Gela Pientka identified as the man who murdered Marianne.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>In the chaos of a defeated Germany important people began to die as they sought refuge along the clandestine routes called ratlines between the ruins of Berlin and sanctuary in South America. Rumors spread of a fanatical SS officer financed by stolen Nazi gold who hunted those who abandoned their Führer in those dying days.</span></p>