5/13/2023 0 Comments Treasure hunters book order![]() ![]() ![]() A man called Willhelm Hoettl fed the story to Simon Wiesenthal who fed it to Anthony Terry at the Sunday Times where Freddie picked it up and all these people put their spin on it. I’ve spoken to Freddie and he all but admitted it, but because of his book the myth persists. I read it as a teenager and loved it.Īh, well, the problem with Odessa, which stands for Organisation of Former SS Associates, you can look the German up, is that if you’d been in the SS and were trying not to get hunted you’re not going to call your organisation that, are you? So, basically, it’s bollocks. So he ended up with two men in mind – his real villain, Edward Roschmann, the Butcher of Riga, and the hero of his book, Peter Miller, who hunts Roschmann for reasons that become apparent at the end – there might be people who haven’t read this book. Freddie had been Reuters correspondent in Germany and was aware that there was a significant number of former Nazis ending up in government and Simon Wiesenthal told him about Odessa. His publishers said: ‘Do Nazis first and mercenaries later.’ That’s publishing pretty much to a T. Now, Odessa File is Freddie’s second book (I always call him Freddie), and after the enormous success of Day of the Jackal he was thinking of doing something about mercenaries in Africa. Foreign Policy & International Relations. ![]()
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