The Axe of Wandsbek
movie
View on VideBits →1934, Hamburg. Adolf Hitler is about to visit the city. Hamburg's executioner falls ill, and is unable to deliver the sentence of four communists who are awaiting capital punishment in jail. Fearing that this would spoil Hitler's visit, SS leader Footh offers a local bankrupt butcher, Albert Teetjen, 2,000 Marks in order to carry out the verdict. The broke Teetjen agrees and follows suit. When his neighbors hear of the execution, they shun him. His wife cannot tolerate her husband's deed and puts an end to her life. Eventually, Teetjen also commits suicide.
Cast & crew
Barbara Nüsse · Burghart Klaußner · Christa Siems · Dietmar Mues · Edgar Hoppe · Gisela Trowe · Roland Schäfer · Ulrich Matschoss · Vera Tschechowa · Horst Königstein · Heinrich Breloer