Jankowski, a Polish prisoner from Auschwitz, arrives at the Buchenwald concentration camp hiding a little boy inside a suitcase. When the prisoners and members of the camp's covert resistance group discover the boy, his innocence moves many, yet his possible discovery by the camp guards threatens them all.
Based on a true event, Naked Among Wolves was the first German film about life in a concentration camp. This landmark film, starring the young Armin Mueller-Stahl, "has warnth, compassion and optimism about the survival of the human spirit even in the most inhumane of circumstances." (US Conference of Catholic Bishops)