Goodbye Karl Erich
Description
In a German village still reeling from World War I, Dr. Heinrich Stammler struggles to break the silence of a mute boy, Carl Erich, who has been traumatized by the death of his soldier father. As the boy slowly recovers, he is seduced by the Nazis and becomes a threat to the doctor’s life.
Karl Erich Mueller, struck dumb by his father's death in World War I, learns to speak again with the sympathetic and persistent treatment of Dr. Heinrich Stammler. Young Mueller, who promises never to forget what Dr. Stammler has done for him, goes to Munich for a warehouse job, which he promptly loses. Now in the ranks of Germany's unemployed, he does something which the doctor can never forgive: He joins Hitler's Nazi party.
A German doctor named Dr. Heinrich Stammler tries to help a silent boy called Carl Erich speak again in their village after World War I ends. The boy cannot talk because he saw his soldier father die in the war. When Carl Erich gets better, the Nazis win him over and he becomes dangerous to the doctor who helped him.
CBS Radio Mystery Theater is a radio drama series created by Himan Brown that was broadcast on CBS Radio Network affiliates from 1974 to 1982, and later in the early 2000s was repeated by the NPR satellite feed. In New York City it was not aired by the then all-news WCBS but by its originating station, WOR, which produced and announced it as simply Radio Mystery Theater.
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