At the year 1946 the time of the Nuremberg Process One of the main actors of the Second World War who reportedly committed suicide Adolf Hitler is however missing The Czech doctor Herman Karel Höger is kidnapped from Prague and driven to the sanatorium of Professor Rolf Harting Jirí Vrstála The sanatorium is a disguised military stronghold most probably occupied by a Nazi garrison with prison cells and an execution chamber in the basement At night Herman is taken to a patient in whom he to his horror recognizes Hitler Fritz Diez