Plot: In late-1950s Frankfurt--in the aftermath of the shocking Nuremberg trials, thirteen long years after the end of WWII, and with Germany eager to return to normalcy--the idealistic and ambitious young public prosecutor, Johann Radmann, daringly accepts a case about a Waffen SS guard in Auschwitz. Now--as more than 8,000 people worked at the nightmarish death camp, and with the infamous war criminal, Josef Mengele, enjoying a tranquil life in Argentina--the righteous attorney undertakes the herculean task to unearth evidence in the mounds of dusty files at the U.S. Army Document Center. Teachers, doctors, lawyers, workers, neighbours, and fathers, almost everybody has a skeleton in the closet. What will it take to find the truth in the labyrinth of silence?
Alternative Plot: Upon learning that many former Nazis returned to their pre-war lives with no penalty, an ambitious German prosecutor (Alexander Fehling) vows to bring them to justice.
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