The Odessa File Page #4

- Marx?

They used to pick up

their old-age pension together.

Can you make a description of him?

Old. Thin. Long white hair.

Always wears a grey scarf.

Herr Marx?

May I sit down?

I'd like to talk to you about your friend,

Salomon Tauber.

- He's dead.

- Yes, I know.

Are you an official?

No.

Not from the authorities?

- The police?

- I'm a journalist. Peter Miller.

Before your friend took his life...

...he set down his experiences

at Riga Concentration Camp.

A diary.

You were at Riga, too?

Auschwitz.

In the diary, your friend

wrote about an SS officer...

...named Roschmann.

Captain Eduard Roschmann.

I want to find out anything I can about him.

Maybe even he's still alive.

Something.

Roschmann is still alive.

- How do you know?

- Salomon saw him.

Yes, I read that. That was in 1945.

That was three weeks ago.

Here in Hamburg.

Are you sure?

He saw him coming out of the opera

with some friends.

Why didn't he go to the police?

He did. He reported it.

But the police said he had no evidence.

That's why he killed himself.

You see, he'd come up against the Odessa.

The Odessa?

He should have been like me.

All I care about is getting a boat to Israel,

that's all I want.

Odessa? I don't know

what you are talking about.

Come on, Karl.

It's a secret organization of some sort.

How much have you heard about it?

Just stories, whispers, rumours.

Leave it alone, Peter, please.

Where is the diary?

- I've got it safe.

- I want it back.

What's the matter?

You're sorry you gave it to me?

I gave you it because I thought

it might make a human interest story...

...not an investigation.

You gave me the diary because you were

moved, and you thought I'd be moved by it.

- I am.

- It's police property.

You don't want me to follow it up

or to go after Eduard Roschmann?

Monika, we are busy.

The children just want to say good night

to Uncle Peter.

- Say good night, then. But quickly.

- Good night, Erik!

Good night, Uncle Peter!

- Good night, Uncle Peter.

- Good night, little Gretel.

Now, straight to bed.

I'll be up to put the light out.

Why are you so scared?

I'm telling you, don't get involved.

It's not your affair.

War criminals are a police matter,

but the police won't do anything about it...

...so I'm going to.

- State Attorney General's office.

- Which department?

- War Crimes.

- Second floor. Room 223.

Thank you very much.

Riga, and the name was?

Roschmann, Eduard.

What's going on here?

- This gentleman wanted...

- I heard him.

Who sent you here?

I'm a journalist.

Come into my office.

Can I see your card?

Why are you so interested

in Captain Roschmann?

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