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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