A biography of Auschwitz camp doctor Joseph Mengele, who sent thousands to the gas chambers and tortured hundreds more with experiments. Mengele went missing until his remains were discovered in 1985.
Slaget om Huertgen-skoven i efteråret 1944 fortælles af nogle af de amerikanske soldater der deltog heri. Kampene var blandt de blodigste i 2.verdenskrigs forløb, væsentlig begrundet i dårlig forberedelse og planlægning. De amerikanske tab var 24.000 døde og 9.000 sårede.
"For nearly five months, starting in mid-September 1944, American GIs battled for the Huertgen Forest, a fifty-square mile tract of extremely inhospitable terrain. Unfortunately for the American soldiers involved, the Huertgen Forest campaign turned out to be one of the deadlies…
"For nearly five months, starting in mid-September 1944, American GIs battled for the Huertgen Forest, a fifty-square mile tract of extremely inhospitable terrain. Unfortunately for the American soldiers involved, the Huertgen Forest campaign turned out to be one of the deadlies…