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Closing Ceremonies

(1979)
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Under the cover of darkness, four armed men stalk through the jungle infested mountains on a private mission to kidnap a Nazi war criminal. What they find instead, hidden deep in a deserted mine shaft, is the reichsgrabgewoelbe a top secret under ground mausoleum that duplicates to the last detail Hitler's Reich Chancellery and enshrines an urn containing the ashes of a dark deity. For their discovery, three of the men are killed. Only Aaron Miller escapes, taking with him the urn and a vow to avenge the death of his brother. Their mausoleum wrecked, the exiled Nazi chieftains who built it, among them Mengele, Strausser and Mueller, are enraged. They believe it was "the Iews" who took the um and they want it back at any cost. So they turn to the one man they can trust to return it: Eduard Reichmann, former major of the SS elite paramilitary division known as the Kettenhunde, or "chain dog" commandos, for their absolute devotion and ferocity. Reichmann's plan is simple: A world leader whose identity is known only to him will be assassinated unless the urn is returned by a specific, entirely appropriate deadline, the


Genre: Mystery

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