The Odessa File

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The Odessa File is a thriller novel by Frederick Forsyth about a struggle between a young German reporter and the ODESSA, an organization for Ex-Nazis. A movie adaptation of the same name was released in 1974 starring Jon Voight and directed by Ronald Neame.

On the November 22, 1963, the day JFK was assassinated, a young German reporter happens to see an ambulance on a highway. He chases the ambulance and discovers an elderly Jew, a Holocaust-survivor who has committed suicide. He obtains the diary of the Jew and faces the Nazi Crime for the first time in his life and discovers a secret. He makes up his mind to hunt a Nazi who is mentioned in the diary. This is the beginning of Odessa's horror.