Hostages of the SS

Original title: Wir Geiseln der SS

• 2015
• •
• Ended

• Drama
• War & Politics
• Documentary

★ 7.0 TMDB Rating · 1 votes

April 1945. In a dramatic operation the SS transports 139 special prisoners, and kin of the prisoners, into the Alps. The plan: to use the prisoners as bargaining chips in possible negotiations with the Allies. During the journey a number of prisoners plan their escape and experience six days between liberty and death, their fates in the hands of ruthless and increasingly nervous criminals. But the hostages band together and turn the tables with a clever ploy: they call in the Wehrmacht to aid them…

Seasons

1

Episodes

2

Episode length

~52m

First aired

Apr 7, 2015

Networks

ARTE

Original language

German

Origin

Germany