Germany, 1945. Soldier Willi Herold, a deserter of the German army, stumbles into a uniform of a Nazi captain abandoned during the last and desperate weeks of the Third Reich. Newly emboldened by the allure of a suit that he has stolen only to stay warm, Willi discovers that many Germans will follow the leader, whoever he is.
Keywords: 1940s , army-captain , black-and-white , desertion , impersonator , nazi-officer , prisoner , third-reich-iii-reich-1933-45 , world-war-ii