"ODESSA" did it really exist, does it still exist today?

Question

The n**i orginasition, not the city. It seems very shadowy, and the evidance about it's existance seem fragmented. What do you think.

Answer 1

i have a cd by a band named odessa....... but i think it did exist. bit sceptical as to if it still does

Answer 2

Yes proud Canadian nailed it on the head.  That's good book by the way.

Answer 3

ODESSA, which stands for the German phrase Organisation der ehemaligen SS-Angehörigen, which in turn translates as “Organization of Former Members of the SS,” is the name given to an international n**i network alleged to have been set up towards the end of World War II by a group of SS officers in order to prevent their prosecutions for war crimes. This half-fictional organization, only partially based on real events, takes its name from Frederick Forsyth's 1972 best-seller thriller The Odessa File, which fictionalized an SS network named ODESSA (the above cited Organisation der ehemaligen SS-Angehörigen) that smuggled war criminals to Latin America.

The purpose of such networks was to establish and facilitate secret escape routes, later known as ratlines, out of Germany to South America and the Middle East for hunted members. With alleged ties to Argentina, Egypt, Brazil, Germany, Italy, Switzerland, and the Vatican, they operated out of Buenos Aires and helped such World War II war criminals as Adolf Eichmann, Josef Mengele, Erich Priebke, Aribert Heim, Edward Roschmann, and many other SS members to find refuge in Latin America and the Middle East.

SS-Obersturmbannführer Otto Skorzeny and Sturmbannführer Alfred Naujocks were both believed to have been active in such organizations, but positive proof for these suppositions has not yet been produced. Similarly, General Reinhard Gehlen’s entire intelligence organisation, which was employed and protected by U.S. intelligence within a few months after the end of the war, came under suspicion of being a satellite group of the ODESSA. In Argentina, Rodolfo Freude was allegedly a member of the network. It is alleged that Hans-Ulrich Rudel was active in the Argentina group of the ODESSA. Alois Brunner is alleged to have escaped to Syria using the resources of the ODESSA.

Persons claiming to represent the ODESSA claimed responsibility in a note for the 9 July 1979 car bombing in France aimed at anti-n**i activists Serge and Beate Klarsfeld.

In December 2002, the Argentine government in Buenos Aires refused calls from the Wiesenthal Center for the release of 58 files dealing with the escape of n***s to Argentina. However, two of the files were opened in July 2003 and the Argentine government since then has cooperated with the investigations.

Answer 4

probably The n***s were very successful in getting some of the worst war criminals out of Germany and to places like South America with the help of people in the Vatican who provided passports.