Markus Roth

Markus Roth (Max MacKenzie), a fictional German-Jewish chess master imprisoned in Auschwitz, comes up in a flashback told by Meyer Offerman (Al Pacino) about a nightmarish game of human-chess that he was forced to play. Markus Roth slashed an "X" into the throat of the Nazi perpetrating the game, Heinz Richter, allowing Jonah Heidelbaum (Logan Lerman) to identify him later on.