The Last Request: 1
The Man Who Calculated Death
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4.9 • 598 Ratings
🗓️ 18 March 2025
⏱️ 38 minutes
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Summary
Suzanne and Stephanie Rico dig through their deceased mother's office searching for clues to their dark legacy--a flying bomb built in World War II by a brilliant Nazi grandfather they've never met. We learn more about their mother's extraordinary life, her death, and how the sisters' quest to understand their own troubled ancestry began. When the tantes, Aunt Heide and Aunt Traute, help create an itinerary through Germany, the odyssey will take Suzanne and Stephanie from the remote ruins of a military base to an underground concentration camp to the Bavarian farmhouse where their grandmother died in 1945.
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| 0:00.0 | She had some secrets. |
| 0:02.8 | Mom had some secrets. |
| 0:04.4 | She did. |
| 0:05.4 | My sister Stephanie and I are sitting in our mom's messy office, |
| 0:08.8 | surrounded by a sea of paperwork. |
| 0:11.9 | There's just a treasure trove of information here. |
| 0:14.4 | The room is narrow, lined with books. |
| 0:17.1 | And at one end, a picture window looks down into California's Silicon Valley. |
| 0:22.3 | Here's Harper Magazine October 1946. |
| 0:25.7 | But we're not paying attention to the view. |
| 0:28.2 | Search for war secrets. |
| 0:30.1 | We're focused on piecing together the war story our mom spent most of her life trying to forget. |
| 0:36.4 | Those are so old, they almost feel like they're going to crumble if I touch them. |
| 0:40.1 | Dog-eared photographs add to the mystery. |
| 0:43.6 | People staring out at us who've been dead for decades. |
| 0:47.4 | And one has eyes just like our moms. |
| 0:50.9 | Wait, wait, wait. |
| 0:51.9 | Who is that? I don't know. |
| 0:56.0 | Somebody in a loincloth. |
| 0:58.0 | Yeah, that's our grandfather, I believe. |
| 1:01.0 | Our grandfather, Robert Lesser. |
| 1:05.0 | He looks young and handsome, a big grin on his face as he flexes for the camera in that silly loincloth. |
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