The Death's Head Chess Club

Haunted by his actions during World War II, a former Nazi officer turned Catholic bishop attempts to make amends with a Jewish chess champion. SS Obersturmfuhrer Paul Meissner arrives in Auschwitz from the Russian front wounded and fit only for administrative duty. His most pressing task is to improve camp morale, and he establishes a chess club, and allows officers and enlisted men to gamble on the games. Soon Meissner learns that chess is also played among the prisoners, and there are rumors o