Tribunal

"Tribunal" is an episode of The Outer Limits television show. It first aired on 14 May 1999, during the fifth season. Leon Zgierski, an inmate of the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp in 1944, is forced to watch as his wife is shot and killed by S.S. Obersturmführer Karl Rademacher — and two SS guards drag away Leon's daughter to what he believes are the gas chambers. The murder is witnessed by a mysterious man who writes in a notebook, holds... more

"Tribunal" is an episode of The Outer Limits television show. It first aired on 14 May 1999, during the fifth season. Leon Zgierski, an inmate of the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp in 1944, is forced to watch as his wife is shot and killed by S.S. Obersturmführer Karl Rademacher — and two SS guards drag away Leon's daughter to what he believes are the gas chambers. The murder is witnessed by a mysterious man who writes in a notebook, holds up an antique watch and vanishes in a flash of light. Many years later, Aaron — Leon Zgierski's son by a second marriage — becomes obsessed with tracking down Rademacher and bringing him to justice. Aaron is sure he has finally found Rademacher in the United States, living under the name Robert Greene — but is unable to find enough evidence to convince the authorities to prosecute Greene. Aaron confronts Greene and angrily denounces him as a war criminal with little success. Greene insists that he is not Rademacher, but — realizing that he... less