ABSTRACT

The hunt became the search. Few were the SS who, like Ziereis, found themselves caught in the cavalry-style round-ups instigated by the local commanders of Patton's Third Army. The SS had long studied their means of slipping through thè Allied net and obtaining new identities and abodes, with the help of four escape networks of which the most important were ODESSA and Grüne Haus. What is most surprising is that neither Himmler nor Kaltenbrunner, chief and deputy-chief of the SS, made use of them.