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Based on the true story of Willi Herold, a German deserter who found an abandoned captain's uniform in 1945 and used it to impersonate an officer — executing prisoners and commandeering a POW camp. A darkly comic film about authority, obedience, and the collapse of a murderous state.
CinemaMapped has mapped 1 real historical location where the story takes place, spanning Germany.
Army deserter Willi Herold finds a dead officer's uniform in the final weeks of the war — impersonating a captain and executing prisoners at a penal camp wit...
Willi Herold was a 19-year-old Luftwaffe corporal who found a captain's uniform in April 1945. Exploiting the chaos of Germany's collapse, he gathered followers and arrived at the Aschendorfermoor penal camp, ordering...
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