Shortly after The Great Escape of seventy six Allied airmen from the infamous Stalag Luft III, fifty of the recaptured men were shot on the direct orders of Hitler. It was a chilling and brutal act, in defiance of both international law and the Geneva Convention. Outraged by this crime, Churchill's government swore to pursue justice at any cost and formed a team of military police that was sent to hunt down the killers. It became a manhunt that spanned over three years and a search that would lead the men into the darkest realms of Nazi fanaticism.