In 1941 the SS sent one of its most feared policemen as far from Berlin as it could, to the German embassy in Tokyo. Four years later he was still there, living in a resort hotel at the foot of Mount Fuji with what was left of the embassy. Then two American war correspondents drove up from Yokohama to get him. Built from the embassy's own telegrams, the counter-intelligence files, the newsreel footage and the court record that followed him home.
In 1941 the SS sent one of its most feared policemen as far from Berlin as it could, to the German embassy in Tokyo. Four years later he was still there, living in a resort hotel at the foot of Mount Fuji with what was left of the embassy. Then two American war correspondents drove up from Yokohama to get him. Built from the embassy's own telegrams, the counter-intelligence files, the newsreel footage and the court record that followed him home.