Germany, 1945... In an American de-Nazification camp near Munich, four thousand men await the verdicts on their pasts. Men like...

Professor Sperling, eminent neurologist, giving evening classes in brain surgery to fellow prisoners.

Internee Laffrentz, corpulent civil servant, whose sole concern is the size of his food ration.

Manfred Hauser, ex-SS officer accused of atrocities in Poland, now tortured himself by his wife's advances to the camp commandant.

Camp 7 once rang to the sound of German jack-boots. Today, the only sound is the shuffling footsteps of men who gambled on conquering the world-and lost...