Dr Max Aue is a family man and owner of a lace factory in post-war France. He is
an intellectual steeped in philosophy, literature, and classical music. He is a
lso a former SS intelligence officer and cold-blooded assassin.
He was an obs
erver and then a participant in Nazi atrocities on the Eastern Front, he was pre
sent at the siege of Stalingrad, at the death camps, and finally caught up in th
e overthrow of the Nazis and the nightmarish fall of Berlin. His world was peopl
ed by Eichmann, Himmler, Goring, Speer and, of course, Hitler himself. Max is lo
oking back at his life with cool-eyed precision; he is speaking out now to set t
he record straight.
