The Man Who Met the Trains

09/01/1989

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0hr 12min

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Documentary

STORY

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.

CAST & CREW

    Cast

  • Gerhard Scheumann
  • Walter Niklaus

    Directors

  • Gerhard Scheumann
  • Walter Heynowski

INFORMATION

    Production Companies

  • DEFA-Studio für Wochenschau und Dokumentarfilme

    Production Countries

  • East Germany

LANGUAGES

  • German