The Man Who Met the Trains

Overview

A top administrator in the Federal German armed forces measures the machinery of murder at Auschwitz according to the effiency principle, and deems it a triumph. Militaria dealers market all the components for a do-it-yourself SS officer. The film assembles on, piece by piece, from a price list: the complete Hauptsturmführer for 2,921 Deutschmarks, ready to meet the trains arriving at Auschwitz with the appropriate aluminium lurex armband at 45 Marks.

Directed by Gerhard Scheumann, Walter Heynowski

Top cast

Gerhard Scheumann

Narrator (voice)

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Walter Niklaus

Narrator (voice)

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