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Episode 6 - The Killing Machine

The Allies start to uncover the Concentration Camps in Germany. But now the investigators start to hear about the special camps in the East, their only purpose mass-extermination.

When Allied soldiers first encounter the Concentration Camps in Germany, it’s hard to believe: millions worked or starved to death. But now the investigators start to hear about the camps in the East – especially a place called Auschwitz – designed only to exterminate.

And in Hamburg, two Jewish German refugees now lead the British Army investigation into Tesch & Stabenow AG. It appears to be a harmless pest-control company...but it also marketed Zyklon B, the principal poison gas used in the camps. The trouble is, the British Administration needs Tesch & Stabenow to keep working, needs its products to fumigate factories and ships in the harbour. Featuring Mark Edel-Hunt as Captain Anton Freud and Andrew Woodall as Sergeant Fred Pelican, War Crimes Investigators.

Cast:
Roger Barrett - LUKE NORRIS
Charles Bendel - HENRY GOODMAN
Robert Storey - HARI DHILLON
John Amen - JOSEPH ALESSI
Robert H Jackson - JOSEPH MYDELL
Colonel Leo Genn - NICHOLAS WOODESON
Captain Anton Freud - MARK EDEL-HUNT
Sergeant Fred Pelican - ANDREW WOODALL
Bruno Tesch and other roles - JONATHAN CULLEN
Alfred Zaun and other roles - NIGEL LINDSAY
Emil Sehm and other roles - JASPER BRITTON
Titles - LEWIS MACLEOD

Sound Designer - ADAM WOODHAMS
Studio Manager - MARK SMITH
Casting Director - GINNY SCHILLER
Original Score - METAPHOR MUSIC
Writer and Director - JONATHAN MYERSON
Producer - NICHOLAS NEWTON

A Promenade Production for ´óÏó´«Ã½ Radio 4 and ´óÏó´«Ã½ Sounds

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