The Jewish Nazi

Benjamin Bauman, a contemporary Jewish Orthopedic Surgeon, is blinded by a flash of light while driving his car. When the light subsides, he quickly discovers he is now driving another car in another time period. He panics and crashes the vehicle into a light pole.

After self diagnosing his injuries and taking in his surroundings, Ben blacks out. When he awakens he finds himself in a Berlin hospital, and only a stone's throw away from Hitler's headquarters on the Wilhelmstrasse, in heart of Nazi Germany.

It is Christmas Day, 1937.

To the people around him Ben is Karl Schroder, a high-ranking Generalarzt and well respected Chief Surgeon in the hospital where he is now residing as a patient. Ben knows nothing of Karl’s past. Among a host of other surprises, however, he now speaks his native english and fluent german, a language alien to him a only a few hours before. Moreover, he learns the married Karl has been romantically linked to an empathetic nurse, Elsa Hirsh, who is tending to his wounds.

As his trauma level soars, Ben rushes to find a mirror and discovers his journey has not physically altered his appearance. Odd news! Why do they think he is this Karl character? He then peers out a window and realizes he has been propelled into the worst place and time to be a Jew—Nazi Germany. Bad news!

So far, his only piece of luck is nobody seems to realize who he really is. After a brief examination from a Nazi doctor and Hitler loyalist, Ben's “memory loss” and sudden knowledge of a new language is “scientifically” attributed to the blow in the head he received during the accident.

From the German perspective Ben’s new language is American English, the language he retained during his trip into the past—a language Karl did not speak.

This miraculous infusion of a language after a traffic accident soon intrigues members of Hitler's inner circle and brings the reluctant Ben face to face with the likes of Hermann Goering, Joseph Goebbels, and Adolf Hitler himself. Conversely, Ben meets and befriends the famed American broadcaster and author, William L. Shirer. With nurse Elsa in the mix, Ben is slated to become one busy time traveler.

In summation, Ben’s obvious goal is to try return to the present, but as time goes by he feels he was propelled into the past for a yet to be determined mission. If so, what will his mission be? Was he sent to kill Hitler, warn England and America of a looming world war, alert the Jews of the impending holocaust? Or ... is it something more benign, like simply trying to stay alive before he is discovered for who he really is, Benjamin Bauman, a most reluctant Jewish Nazi.