Germania

Hans Klug has a past he doesn't want revealed. A former East German border guard and American expert with the Ministry for State Security Hans now ekes out a meager living as an interpreter. He is accosted on the street by a woman who demands 100000 euros or she will expose his role in the death years ago of an escapee at the frontier.<p>Hans seeks assistance from his former colleagues who in return for the money ask him to help locate the Black Vault a chamber built by the Nazis beneath the streets of Berlin filled with gold and diamonds looted from death camp victims. The key to the vault is held by an SS-man who escaped to America after the war. Only Hans with his fluent English is the right man for the job of traveling to America to track him down.<p> Many obstacles stand in Hans' way including a former Communist party official a neo-fascist history professor at a Bible college in Virginia and the daughter of the SS-man. Hans must deal not only with these present perils but the shame of the past-his grandfather a highly decorated SS-officer helped destroy the Warsaw Ghetto.