The Man Who Met the Trains

A top administrator in the Federal German armed forces measures the machinery of murder at Auschwitz according to the effiency principle, and deems it a triumph. Militaria dealers market all the components for a do-it-yourself SS officer. The film assembles on, piece by piece, from a price list: the complete Hauptsturmführer for 2,921 Deutschmarks, ready to meet the trains arriving at Auschwitz with the appropriate aluminium lurex armband at 45 Marks.

• Walter HeynowskiDirector
• Walter HeynowskiWriter
• Gerhard ScheumannDirector
• Gerhard ScheumannWriter

• Gerhard ScheumannNarrator (voice)
• Walter NiklausNarrator (voice)