Dr Max Aue is a family man & owner of a lace factory in post-war France. He is an intellectual steeped in philosophy, literature, & classical music. He is also a former SS intelligence officer & cold-blooded assassin. He was an observer & then a participant in Nazi atrocities on the Eastern Front, he was present at the siege of Stalingrad, at the death camps, & finally caught up in the overthrow of the Nazis & the nightmarish fall of Berlin. His world was peopled by Eichmann, Himmler, Goring, Speer &, of course, Hitler himself. Max is looking back at his life with cool-eyed precision; he is speaking out now to set the record straight.