It’s the Eastern Front, 1944. The Russians are pushing the German Army back through Romania. Major Kurt Fleischer, war-weary commander of an elite troop of German soldiers, is ordered to escort a female scientist, Professor Anna Kappel, from the Nazi Occult Department, the Annenerbe, into a mysterious forest behind enemy lines. His orders come from the highest level, Himmler himself. If the mission fails; there will be no reprieve for him and his men. A bona fide suicide mission in Fleischer’s eyes