The Odessa File: by Frederick Forsyth.

One of the most difficult books to write about even with superlatives.

Forsyth delves into the wwII and Germany as it then was, diving in straight from the time he wrote it, with a witness who lived only for the sake of testifying at the trial of a criminal only to find out that the criminals, the nazis and the ss, are in fact not only living and doing fine but will never be tried much less punished.

His - the surviving witness's - suicide, and the discovery of his diary that is then handed over to a reporter, starts the story and brings us to the organisation that was formed to protect precisely those criminals, ODESSA.

Forsyth does not go into why they were successful in surviving and doing well, and perhaps he did not then know, perhaps it was not then known to too many, but which now is known well enough to be aired on information channels.

Complicity and convenience of US authorities who needed to spy on the newly ex-allies, the Russians, and therefore allowed the Germans to do what suited them in exchange for the spying. Germans in turn made up vastly exaggerated reports that were largely responsible for US obsession with arms race escalation and impovrishment of not only much of the world but also of people of US.