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    ODESSA is an American codename (from the German: Organisation der ehemaligen SS-Angehörigen, meaning: Organization of Former SS Members) coined in 1946 to cover Nazi underground escape-plans made at the end of World War II by a group of SS officers with the aim of facilitating secret escape routes, and any directly ensuing arrangements.

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      The siege of Odessa, known to the Soviets as the defence of...

  2. Apr 26, 2024 · The Holocaust in Odesa. The Ukrainian city of Odesa was occupied by Romania, an ally of Nazi Germany, from October 1941 to the spring of 1944. Antisemitic policies in Odesa quickly escalated to mass murder. In the first weeks of the occupation, the Romanians murdered tens of thousands of Jews in Odesa and its suburbs.

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  4. ODESSA, the Organization of Former SS Members ( Organization Der Ehemaligen SS-Angehörigen ), was founded in 1944 to help Nazis flee Europe and escape justice. As early as 1947, Simon Wiesenthal began to identify routes used by Nazis to escape from Germany knowing that the fugitives had little or no difficulty obtaining false papers and seemed ...

  5. German Invasion of Western Europe, May 1940 ... Romanian-occupied Odessa, 1941-1944. Tags. Odessa Ukraine Romania occupation Axis alliance. US Holocaust Memorial Museum;

  6. In the 1930’s Odessa had a Jewish population 200,000. Odessa was occupied by the Romanians allies of Nazi Germans on October 16, 1941. About half of the Jewish population in the city managed to evacuate or flee to the east before the Romanians entered the city.

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