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About Discord: The Ripper of Buchenwald (Unabridged)

The Ripper of Buchenwald cuts in to the Nazi brass… In 1939, Warsaw, Poland, is invaded on their east and west borders by German and Russian forces, and the small Polish army is easily overwhelmed. The people of Warsaw, among them Dr. Otto Steiner and his great love Ariel, are rounded up and put on trains and shipped to secret Nazi prison camps. The ‘unwanted’ get transported in large groups, in box cars, which had recently been used to transport farm animals. Around the time of the Warsaw invasion, there had been mutilated corpses found that were being attributed to a shadowy figure known as ‘The Ripper of Buchenwald’. After the prisoners arrive at the prison camp, the murders begin anew, and are again thought to be the work of the Ripper. As Otto is a Medical Doctor, and Ariel his Nurse, the Nazis direct them to perform autopsies on the mutilated corpses. They discover the killer has an apparent affinity for Nazi victims, and is seemingly emboldened by each kill, terrifying the Reich’s upper echelons. As the war continues, along with the killings, circumstances change for Otto and Ariel. The Commandant of the Prison Camp, along with others who know of the Ripper’s killings in gory detail, silently blame one another and point fingers as to who could be responsible. As the killer gets closer in proximity to the Army’s leaders, nerves fray to the point of snapping.