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🗓️ 4 February 2025
⏱️ 61 minutes
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As World War II drew to a close, multiple Nazi officials saw the writing on the wall: Germany would lose the war, and members of the Nazi party would have to answer for their crimes -- if, that is, they were caught. In a desperate bid to avoid justice, various factions of the SS and other Nazi officials created secret international escape routes called ratlines. Just how big was the operation? Tune in to learn more about the mysterious organization called ODESSA, and why it remains a subject of intrigue and controversy in the modern day.
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0:00.0 | Fellow conspiracy realist, have you ever been on the losing side of a war? |
0:07.5 | Yeah, this was for the war criminals. |
0:09.6 | Have you ever needed a GTFO really quickly? |
0:15.8 | Yeah. |
0:17.0 | Have you? |
0:18.3 | Please write to us. |
0:19.8 | But by the way, this is, seriously, we hope that's never happened to you. |
0:24.7 | We hope that you are not a war criminal. |
0:27.5 | This episode, I think, stands out to both of us because it combines history, it combines |
0:34.6 | conspiracy, it combines crime, not just on a local, but on an international |
0:40.7 | scale. And in short, Matt, we're talking about something called Odessa. Yeah, we're going to get |
0:48.5 | into it through the rat lines. We're going to find our way through paperclip. It's kind of like paperclip. You'll |
0:56.5 | remember that one. Do search for that. If you don't remember it, let's just dive in and see where we get |
1:01.6 | to. He was a Boy Scout leader, a church deacon, a husband, a father. He went to a local church. |
1:10.2 | He was going to the grocery store with us. |
1:13.0 | He was the guy next door. |
1:16.2 | But he was leading a double life. |
1:18.8 | He was certainly a peeping time, looking through the windows, looking at people, fantasizing about what he could do. |
1:25.9 | He then began entering the houses. He could get into their home, |
1:29.4 | take something, and get out and not be caught. He felt very powerful. He was a monster, |
1:35.8 | hiding in plain sight. Someone killed four members of a family. It just didn't happen here. |
1:44.3 | Journey inside the mind of one of history's most notorious killers, BTK, through the voices of |
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