Odessa file

             ODESSA - organization of former members of the SS
             SS - run by Himmler, killed over 14 million people
             SS members made new identities when the war was ending
             Peter Miller - freelance writer in Hamburg, Germany
             Karl Brandt - a police officer who was an old school mate of Miller's
             Salomon Tauber, was in a concentration camp, and gassed himself (suicide), kept a diary through his life which Brandt gave to Miller.
             Five men in Cairo, (2 German) opposed Kennedy
             He survived the Death March to Magdeburg
             He thinks he spent 6 days and 7 nights on the train
             "Butcher of Riga" - commandant of the Riga ghetto - he ordered the
             execution of about between 70,000 and 80,000 Jews.
             5 AM June 22, 1941 - Hitler invades Russia
             Riga- capital of Latvia
             They were given half a liter of soup, which was basically water maybe with a small piece of potato in it
             Bringing food into the ghetto - punishable by immediate death
             Olli Adler - Roschmann's secret girlfriend - a Jew who helped people in the ghetto - she brought them medicine which she had stolen from the SS stores
             He has to bring an old woman to be killed - she tells him to swear to her that he will live, and get out of the ghetto alive
             She tells him to live and get out so that he can tell people all around the world what happened to the Jews
             She tells him to swear on the Torah (the Jewish sacred texts) that he will do these things that she is telling him
             He swore that he would live, no matter what the cost
             Decided he would keep a log of significant events and dates on his feet and legs of what went on while he was in Riga so that he could one day tell people what really went on there
             Tauber became a Kapo on April 1, 194
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