Professor Emil Freuhoffer is the scientist with a fixation on dolls who was kidnapped from his native land of Austria by The Nazi Commandant Heinrich Moebius and forced to work on the "resurrection machine" and working for Moebius to develop a machine that can reanimate the dead. The seductive Uschi a Nazi, tries to motivate the doctor only to be interrupted by Moebius. He demands a demonstration of the machine. He brings in a Chinese man and slits his throat. The machine makes him walk for a moment only for him to decay and fall down.