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It’s May 1945 and Germany has just surrendered. The country is in chaos – five million former soldiers, foreign nationals and those liberated from the concentration camps, all trying to get home. And hiding somewhere are the top Nazis.

Seen through the eyes of a US Army Sergeant at the stripped-out hotel in Luxembourg where the prisoners are taken, they track down and arrest Kaltenbrunner (Himmler’s Deputy), Frank (Governor of Occupied Poland) and others. But former Reichsmarshall Goering didn’t have to be caught - he surrendered himself along with 16 monogrammed suitcases and a valet.

But word gets out where they are being held and Prison Commandant Andrus feels under attack from all sides - the Nazi Underground might attempt to release the prisoners, there might be an attempt to lynch them, but above all he has to stop the prisoners committing suicide. And when they’re transferred to the prison in Nuremberg, it’s no safer.

Cast:
Sergeant Monelli - ELLIOT COWAN
Colonel Burton Andrus - JOSEPH ALESSI
Herman Goering - NIGEL LINDSAY
Agent Matteson and other roles - CLIVE WOOD
General Patch and other roles - HARI DHILLON
Rudolf Hess and other roles - JOSEPH MYDELL
Ernst Kaltenbrunner and other roles - JONATHAN CULLEN
Gisela von Westarp and other roles - ROSIE SHEEHY
Robert Ley and other roles - JASPER BRITTON
Admiral Doenitz and other roles - NICHOLAS WOODESON
Winston Churchill and other roles - ANDREW WOODALL
Prison Doctor and other roles - ILAN GOODMAN
Intelligence Officer and other roles - MARK EDEL-HUNT
Evening Post Reporter and other roles - NATHAN WILEY

Sound Designer - ADAM WOODHAMS
Studio Manager - MARK SMITH
Original Score - METAPHOR MUSIC
Writer and Director - JONATHAN MYERSON
Producer - NICHOLAS NEWTON

A Promenade production for Â鶹Éç Radio 4 and Â鶹Éç Sounds