The General

1959. Fourteen years after the end of the Third Reich, most Germans just want to forget about what happened and look ahead. Not Federal Prosecutor Fritz Bauer, however, a German Jew who just barely escaped the camps and has since dedicated himself to hunting Nazi war criminals. That makes him a thorn in the side of former Nazi Hans Globke, who is now chief of staff to Chancellor Konrad Adenauer in the young Federal Republic.  Bauer finds his investigations sabotaged by invisible enemies at every turn. The only person he can confide in is young and passionate prosecutor Joachim Hell. When Bauer is able to get the Israeli secret service to arrest former SS murderer Adolf Eichmann in Argentina, Globke is beside himself: Will Eichmann's testimony hurt him or other Ministers? Bauer starts to get political heat, he's accused of being the "tip of Moscow's spear". When Mossad warns Bauer the German secret service BND has an informer in his circle, Bauer realizes he can't trust anyone any more. His isolation threatens to wear him down. Will Bauer be able to face down the ex-Nazis arrayed against him? A battle against impossible odds begins.