The most powerful scene in the 2025 film “ Nuremberg ” occurs when the prosecution shows documentary footage from the liberation of Nazi concentration camps. Amid the image of unspeakable horror, a calm voice describes how prisoners were murdered at Mauthausen in Austria. The speaker is an American GI who survived the camp.

Lt. Jack Taylor was an experienced agent of the Office of Strategic Services, the wartime precursor to the CIA. In late 1944, he parachuted into Austria to lead a mission code-named “ Dupont ,” intended to gather intelligence on German troop movements near the Hungarian border. The mission quickly fell apart when his team’s radio was lost. “Our mission seemed doomed to failure from the start,” Taylor later said.

Captured by the Gestapo on Dec. 1, 1944, Taylor

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