Bataclan #4

In the closing days of World War II, a German soldier exchanges uniforms and papers with a dead soldier to avoid being shot. He is captured and spends years after the war as a prisoner in Russia. When he is released, he looks up his wife, who he had treated badly during the war. But he had been reported killed during the war and he discovers that she is happily married to another man with whom she has had a daughter. Now a changed man, Ottmar follows his conscious and decides not to disrupt their lives by telling them that he is still alive.

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