A Jewish family living in 1937 Vienna, before the Nazi Anschluss of Austria, but at a time when Jews are being increasingly targeted as a consequence of ever-increasing Austrian collaboration with Hitler’s regime, before the outbreak of World War II. Klaus Xaver Neumann is a rising SS officer destined to become the infamous Kommandant of Mauthausen labour camp, near Linz in Austria. Lieutenant Joe Berlusconi is a tank commander with the US 11th Armoured Division, fighting his way from the Normandy D-Day beaches, across occupied Europe, before becoming part of the first Allied group to reach and liberate Mauthausen. Experience the emotions, hopelessness and fragile friendships formed and broken, as you follow the dramatic stories of all three before the sun rises on victory day in 1945, and on the collapse of a Reich that the Fuhrer had promised would last a thousand years. But what will a dangerous and uncertain future bring……………………