The Shadow of the Past
Description
A physician and his spouse flee Nazi concentration camps and secretly enter America. Years later, the doctor spots a former camp guard as one of his patients and murders him for revenge. Now he has to hide his crime from a smart detective investigating the killing.
A doctor and his wife escape the clutches of the Nazi death camps and illegitimately migrate to the US. Later, the doctor recognizes one of the camp guards among his patients and kills him to exact his revenge. But he must cover up the act as an intelligent investigator probes the case.
Dr. Benno Koenig, a friend of the poor, treats a slum rent collector suffering from an eye injury, then recognizes the man, Karlheinz Meier, as the commander of the Nazi concentration camp in which he was confined. Fearing Koenig will seek revenge for his treatment in the camp, Meier threatens to expose the fact that Koenig is in the United States illegally. In a rage, Koenig stabs him, then maintains the murder was justified—until a young punk is arrested for it.
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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