This is another gem from Jürgen Roland's famous Stahlnetz series. Although the style is very dated, crime stories with voice-over who act like documentaries, it still has its merits. And it does show a lot of the life ordinary people lived at that particular time in Germany.
It is interesting though, that, while taking place in Germany, some Austrian actors appear in key roles, for example Kurt Jaggberg, who can be seen in four different episodes, most of the time as a police officer. Here it is Ossy Kolmann as a police officer. But, other than Jaggberg, Kolmann does not try to hide his birthplace. He speaks plain Viennese in a few short scenes and answers "servus" instead of "Auf wiedersehen." And there is a scene where a drunken woman cannot be awakened. When he mentions the use of a bucketful of water some other person asks him if he should do it. At this point he turns almost directly to the camera and quips that he doesn't do it otherwise people would continue to think real Nazis always come from Austria!
This joke is in as much interesting because it is also one of the extremely rare moments when the not so long ago infamous past of Germany and Austria is mentioned at all. I think there are only a handful of other incidents where the word Nazi can be heard.
Another strange scene is an interogation held in French by French police, which is entertaining because of the completely different language melody.
