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***SPOILERS*** On the lamb from the world court for the last 20 years former Nazi doctor who's specialty was liposuction, as well as dissecting concentration camp inmates, and now world renowned nuclear physicist Jermias "Jerry the Lipp" Lippowski, Francis Lederer, is planning to make his escape from the long arm of the law as well as the Israeli Mossod by checking out of his rat infested basement hideout in Zürich Switzerland to a Middle-Eastern country, who's at war with Israel, to help it out in it's nuclear arms development program.

With the help of mystery man Sif Barani, Albert Paulsen, the "Lipp" has been arranged free passage to this un-named Middle Eastern Arab, take your pick, country with the help of the secret underground Nazi organization "Spider" who one of its member is Martin Rutke, played by future "Hogan Heroes" Sgt. Schultz actor John Banner, has a safe house for Lippowski ,or just plain "Lipp" as he likes to be called, in Austria for him to stay cool until the heat, in those looking for the "Lipp", blows over. Right from the start the "Lipp" had a close call when Mossad agent, Stephen Hill, and his partner former concentration inmate Saul Baratseff, Dane Clark, cornered him on the streets of Zürich only for him to slip away from them. The Israeli agents now try to kidnap the "Lipp's" 24 year old daughter Conatanze or "Connie" Lipp, Gila Golan, and hold her hostage until her dad the "Lipp" turns himself in to the police or better yet the Israeli Mossad who plan to have him tried in Israel as a major war criminal!

***SPOILERS*** If things weren't bad enough for the "Lipp" they get even worse with his #1 bodyguard and laboratory assistant the very Aryan and master race looking Gerd Hoffman, Eric Braeden, who's job it is to get the "Lipp" out of harms-way is in fact working with the Israeli Mossad to capture and bring him to justice! It's Connie being captured and held hostage by the two Mossad Agents that has her dad the "Lipp" blow his cover and make an attempt to give himself up that has his own man, or those working for Barani, blow him away. As bad a person as the "Lipp" was he still had feelings for his young and Innocent, in not knowing what he did in WWII, daughter Connie that had him risk and eventually lose his life in trying to save her. Feelings that he didn't have for the many victims that he experimented on back in his concentration camp days in WWII.

The plot of this episode of "Kraft Suspense Theatre" was most likely inspired by the very public capture, trial and execution of the Nazi, Adolf Eichmann, in the early 1960s by the Israeli Mossad. This show finds two agents (Steven Hill and Dane Clark) on the tail of a death camp doctor, the infamous Dr. Lipp (Francis Lederer) who did evil experiments in Buchenwald during the war. However, just before they take the creep into custody in Switzerland, the plan falls apart and he escapes. Now it's a matter of time--either Lipp will find a way to escape the country and evade justice or the scum will be returned for trial and, almost certainly, execution.

Along the way, they meet up with a guy who claims to work for the German secret police (Eric Braeden)--but he might just be working with the scum trying to help Lipp. Regardless how he is, they're all certainly looking for Lipp...and his daughter might be the key.

In addition to the cast listed above, John Banner ("Hogan's Heroes") and Albert Paulsen (a baddie in tons of shows, including "Mission: Impossible"). They along with the less famous Gila Golan. Miss Golan plays Lipp's daughter which is a bit ironic, since she's a Polish lady (most likely born Jewish--though no one is positive since she was an orphan) and now lives in Israel. It's equally ironic that that Banner also played the bumbling German soldier, Sgt. Schultz, as in real life, he had fled his native Austria just before WWII began because he was Jewish and naturally feared for his life. Here in this show, he plays a real Hitler-lover!!

So is all this intrigue worth seeing? Well, the acting certainly is nice--which isn't surprising given the cast. There also is a lot of action and twists as well as an enjoyable script. Well worth seeing.