Hot Ash

SS Sturmbannführer Hans Schwarz is a true soldier of the Reich. Rising from the very bottom of the service ladder to the honored position of inspector of concentration camps, he knows firsthand about the monstrous practices and sophisticated methods used by the commandants of the "death factories" and their aides. However, as he visits these terrible sites again and again, Hans increasingly feels the resistance to the bloody system brewing within him. Treblinka, Sobibor, Auschwitz, Ravensbrück - all these "conveyors" of improving the human race evoke an irresistible desire in Schwarz to side with the prisoners and overthrow the hated Hitler regime. Perhaps the reason lies not only in the atrocities of the fascist executioners, but also in Hans's distant past, having been born in another country and under another name…