29 Jan The Odessa File
The Odessa File, WWII Movie starring Jon Voight
(1974) In 1963, Peter Miller, a German reporter, happens to be in the neighborhood of an elderly Jewish man who has just committed suicide. The attending police officer, a friend of the reporter, gives Miller a package which had been lying next to the body. It is a scrapbook with a letter describing the events at Riga concentration camp, where the man and his wife had been taken some twenty years earlier. Miller reads the documentation of the horrible conditions and in particular of the cruelty of the SS officer who was in charge of the camp.
The reporter, played by Jon Voight, is determined to track down the camp commander. Immediately he discovers that the members of a secret postwar Nazi organization are just as determined to stop him.
There are many differing opinions as whether “ODESSA” existed — one worldwide organization created to help Nazis escape Germany with new identities. Even if there wasn’t an “ODESSA” per se, there certainly were Nazi networks that did precisely this.
And through the years, many of the Nazi criminals have been caught. The story of Hunting Eichmann was related in a book by Neal Bascomb.
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