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Odessa is the name of a city in Ukraine.
ODESSA (German: Organisation der ehemaligen SS-Angehörigen; "Organization of Former SS-Members") was an alleged Nazi fugitive network set up towards the end of World War II by a group of former SS officers.
With alleged ties to Germany, Switzerland, Italy and the Vatican, ODESSA allegedly operated out of Buenos Aires and helped Adolf Eichmann, Josef Mengele, Erich Priebke and many other war criminals find refuge in Latin America. SS Obersturmbannführer Otto Skorzeny was believed to have been active in this organization, but this supposition has never been proved.
Did ODESSA exist?
According to Simon Wiesenthal, ODESSA was set up in 1946 to aid fugitive Nazis.
Other sources, such as many interviews by the ZDF (German TV station) with former SS men, suggest that ODESSA never was the single world-wide secret organization that Wiesenthal described, but that there were several organizations, both overt and covert, (including the CIA, the Vatican, and several Latin American governments) that helped ex-SS men.
Uki Goñi, in his book The Real Odessa: Smuggling the Nazis to Perón's Argentina (ISBN 1862075816) suggests that this more complex story is the real truth.
See also: Operation Paperclip, The Odessa File
Quote
- "We knew what we did. It was necessary that we used every son of a bitch as long as he was an anti-communist" by Harry Rositzke, CIA-Russia expert
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