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I just finished reading "The Odessa File" again.
One of the most believable books written and with a good plot as well. No super heroes or unbelievable death-defying actions.
A young German freelance writer read the diary of a WWII concentration camp survivor and finds the motivation to find a concentration camp SS officer.
There are only two factual mistakes. The author equates men with lower SS serial numbers to senior rank over those with higher numbers; and he confuses the motto on the SS daggers with that of the Hitler youth. That is little when compared with much of the fiction churned out.
Anyway, a good read and cheap on Amazon/eBay.
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if any of you saw the movie,,forget it! - the book is way better!!
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Is it a historical fiction book?
Von zwei Übeln wählt man besser das, was man schon kennt.
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Absolutely !! Totally fictional.
Except .... Edouard Roschmann was really the Commandant of Riga, he did escape after the war to South America.
And .... ODESSA, in the opinion of the experts really did exist.
Still a very good story.
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Just ordered used from amazon for $4 shipping included used! They also have "Blind Spot" - Traudl Junge DVD for around $8 and Hitler's Last Secretary - Traudl Junge (book) for $6. CHEAP.
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Von zwei Übeln wählt man besser das, was man schon kennt.
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When I spoke with Traudl Junge, I didn't have her book on me at the time but another book about her from another author, but she was kind enough to sign it for me.
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Wow, pretty cool you met her. At the end of "Blind Spot", the narrator says she mentioned that she was just beginning to "forgive herself", and then died the next day. May or may not be a true account, but it could have happened. 
Last edited by spacey; 06/30/2012 05:07 AM.
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Thanks Dave, a really good read. Got it for 0.98 on Amazon.
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