In 1944 many Germans in Eastern Prussia believed like Lena von Mahlenberg, daughter of a local aristocrat, that Hitler would surrender and spare them from being invaded by the vengeful Russian Red Army. He didn't and they had to flee.
Berlin, Germany, 1935. The day Karl Weiss, a Jewish painter,...
Summer 1944. Walter Proska is about to return to the Eastern...
In late 1920s Berlin, Franz Biberkopf is released from priso...
