Twist of Fate
1989
📺 1 Season
🎬 2 Episodes
📅 Ended
🌐 EN
⏱️ 90 min/episode
Drama
SS-Lieutenant Colonel Helmut Von Schreader conceives an unusual plan to escape the aftermath of the Second World War by disguising himself as a Jewish Concentration Camp victim. Under the alias of Ben Grossman, Von Schreader is liberated from the camps and immigrates to Palestine where he joins the Zionist movement. Twenty five years later, living as a hero of Israel and a General in the Israeli Army, the underground SS organization ODESSA locates Von Schreader and orders to him to again serve the cause of the Third Reich.
Seasons
Season 1
After becoming involved in the July 1944 plot to kill Adolf Hitler, SS Colonel Helmut von Schraeder blackmails an SS doctor to perform plastic surgery, allowing von Schrader to assume the identity of a Jewish man named Benjamin Grossman.
Cast
Crew
Director
Ian Sharp
Writer
Jules Victor Schwerin
Producer
Larry White, Larry White, Henry Platt
Network
NBC
Production
Jadran Film, HTV, Columbia Pictures Television
Keywords
israelbased on novel or bookconcentration campholocaust (shoah)ss (nazi schutzstaffel)zionismbased on true storyminiseriesthird reich (iii reich 1933-45)assassination attempt