The Odessa File
Revenge is sweet. That was the bottom-line of this movie about the Nazi SS who escaped trial in Nuremburg forming an organisation to give the other Nazi SS cover and new identities.

Kowing that it would not be possible to bring him to justice legally, would you risk life and limb to kill a man who you know murdered your father?

A young blonde, blue-eyed freelance journalist, Peter Miller, discovers the diary of a dead old Jew, Saloman Tauber, who commits suicide,  thanks to his friends in the police. In the diary, Miller reads of a cold-blooded SS commandant captain Eduard Roschmann, who had cruelly murdered one hundred thousand Jews in Riga, Latvia and was in hiding.

When he starts his investigation, he receives warnings, and they seem to be getting more and more life threatening. But he pushes on, getting help from Simon Wiesenthal and other people who are working for the Israeli intelligence to finally track Eduard Roschmnann down Finally, Miller meets Roschmann where he confronts him with the murder of his father who was a corporal in the Germany army, but not in the SS, and kills him.

I had read the book before, and frankly, the movie does no justice to the book, which is written by, no prizes for guessing, Frederick Forsyth. The book,The Odessa File, is un-putdown-able, and followed byThe Fist of God, makes the the best double digest ever.