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The Disappearance of Eduard Roschmann, Commandant of the Riga Ghetto

This documentary explores the chilling true story of Eduard Roschmann, the SS officer known as the Butcher of Riga. From his rise as commandant of the Riga Ghetto during the Holocaust to his mysterious disappearance after the Second World War, Roschmann’s life reveals how justice was often outpaced by history itself. Through meticulous research, survivor testimony, and international investigations, this film traces his postwar escape through the Nazi ratlines, his reinvention in Argentina under a false name, and the cultural storm that followed the release of The Odessa File. When renewed extradition efforts finally exposed him, Roschmann fled once more—this time into Paraguay, where he died in secrecy. This episode is not only about one man’s evasion of justice but about the broader failures of postwar accountability. It asks how so many perpetrators managed to vanish—and how the world’s memory, decades later, still reckons with their crimes.