Late Nazi revenge
In March 1945, a camouflaged aircraft parachuted a six-man lynch squad into the area around Aachen, the first liberated German city. Their mission was to assassinate Franz Oppenhoff, who had been appointed mayor of Aachen by the US Army in October 1944, for "high treason". This happened on Palm Sunday 1945, on the Oppenhoff family's doorstep and in broad daylight.
Oppenhoff's murderers escaped and were able to save themselves on Nazi-German soil near Leverkusen. Trials were held against some of those involved in the 1950s, but they ended in acquittals.
Re-enacted scenes show moments of the trials. In the film, four of the perpetrators talk about the events of the time. Only one of them admits his guilt and expresses his wish to ask the widow of the murdered mayor Franz Oppenhoff, who lives in Aachen, for forgiveness.
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