***SPOILERS*** Paul Luklas as American art dealer and later, after visiting Nazi Germany, fanatical Nazi Harr Martin Schulz more or less repeats his role as the crazed but not too bright American Nazi leader Dr. Kessell in the 1939 movie "Confession of a Nazi Spy" as he throws his best friend Max Eisenstein's,Morris Carnovsky, daughter Griselle, K.T Stevens, to the wolves or the Gestapo just to show how loyal he is to the his Fuhrer-Adolph Hitler- and Fatherland-Nazi Germany. That's after Grisell the star of the play ran from the Munich theater to Martin's place chased by a mob of die hard Nazi fanatics who besides being exposed by Nazi enforcer and race inspector Charles Hatton as being Jewish they not much cared abut her rotten performance and demanded their money back. With an I don't want too get involved Martin slamming the door in her face as she pleaded for help Griselle was shot to death by the Gestapo without even being told what crime if any that she committed!
Meanwhile back in the states in the city of San Francisco Martin's good friend Max gets a telegram coldly telling him his daughter, by not going into details, Griselle met an unfortunate accident by slipping in the bathtub on a bar of soap and bashing her skull in. It was Martins's son Heinrich, Peter van Eyck, who's engaged to marry Griselle who felt that there was something very fishy in her untimely death and planned to get to the bottom of it by checking out all the facts. Back in Germany Martin gets all these letters from Max that are censored by the Nazi postal service as well as Gestapo hinting that he's up to something no good and may even be an American spy. At first cutting himself off from his Jewish friend Max, to show how loyal he is to his Fatherland, Martin tries to contact him through his wife Elsa, Mandy Christians, to plead with Max not to send him any more letter that could end up with him being sent to the local Dachau concentration camp!
****SPOILERS**** Unable to stop the flow of incriminating letters and facing arrest Martin tries to blow his brains out only to chicken out at the very last minute. With the Gestapo assisted by a squad of Nazi SS storm troopers knocking at his door Martin knows that his goose is cooked but is unaware of who's the person who cooked it: His son Henrich who found out the truth behind Griselle's death and how he allowed it to happen. Who in return stuck it to him big time by, in sending him all these censored letters, turning his beloved Nazis against him.
Meanwhile back in the states in the city of San Francisco Martin's good friend Max gets a telegram coldly telling him his daughter, by not going into details, Griselle met an unfortunate accident by slipping in the bathtub on a bar of soap and bashing her skull in. It was Martins's son Heinrich, Peter van Eyck, who's engaged to marry Griselle who felt that there was something very fishy in her untimely death and planned to get to the bottom of it by checking out all the facts. Back in Germany Martin gets all these letters from Max that are censored by the Nazi postal service as well as Gestapo hinting that he's up to something no good and may even be an American spy. At first cutting himself off from his Jewish friend Max, to show how loyal he is to his Fatherland, Martin tries to contact him through his wife Elsa, Mandy Christians, to plead with Max not to send him any more letter that could end up with him being sent to the local Dachau concentration camp!
****SPOILERS**** Unable to stop the flow of incriminating letters and facing arrest Martin tries to blow his brains out only to chicken out at the very last minute. With the Gestapo assisted by a squad of Nazi SS storm troopers knocking at his door Martin knows that his goose is cooked but is unaware of who's the person who cooked it: His son Henrich who found out the truth behind Griselle's death and how he allowed it to happen. Who in return stuck it to him big time by, in sending him all these censored letters, turning his beloved Nazis against him.