My Honor Was Loyalty (2016) - full transcript

Balance, and surviving.

Balance is the balance
itself of the Nature.

Surviving is the challenge
that Nature imposes.

There's no purpose in
life without challenges

Surviving has yet shown
great roots in every soul.

As a small seed of a tree grows constantly
higher, and higher toward the light

surviving is deeply implanted
in each living being.

Nature itself fights every
day for her own survival.

She struggles and keeps going on

Sometimes showing us incredible landscapes,

that is all the fruit of thousands of
years battling in order to stay alive.



She also imposes hard choices.

She governs over laws that we often ignore.

Love, love is engine.

This engine who pushes
everything and everyone.

As Nature loves the fruit
of her own survival,

every living being loves
as well all the fruits

that Nature offers, living
according to her rules.

This, is perfect balance.

Human beings translated love in many
different ways while times was passing on,

but love was always there.

She might be different from
one century to another

but she kept pushing people to act.

Sadly, She kept changing.

People started to lose those values
that weren't suppose to ever die.



Love for other human beings,

love for one own family,

love for one own Country.

Hundreds of years will pass,

and we won't love Nature anymore.

Nothing remains the same.. when
around you there's only death

My name is Ludwig Herckel. I
volunteered in the first division

SS Leibstandarte Adolf
Hitler when I was 20 years

old. Yesterday I got promoted
to Unterscharfuhrer.

Today I lead my men for the first time.

- What's happening? I
- I heard something coming from that way

- In front of us

- Understood
- What we do?

- Hold the position Understood.

Am bush!! Retreat, retreat!

I felt quite stupid hiding like
a rabbit leaving my men behind

I wouldn't let it happen again

Come here...!

- What do we do now?
- Shut up!

- They came up so fast, what do we do?
- Shut up now! They will kill us!

Did you see anybody else?

Shit we need to get out of here.

What's the plan now?

We need to be the most silent we
can and get back to the Company.

-I'm not hearing anything, we can go

- You've lost your weapon
- Don't worry..

You go first.

We shouldn't be very far. How are you?

-I'm doing fine

- You're name is Steiner, right?
- Yes Sir.

- Hans was my friend..

I'm sorry

- He was a good comrade.. You will
have your time to revenge him.

- You're still alive, now let's go.

The situation was getting quite
difficult in the last months.

We were convinced to end the war
soon and finally see a united Europe.

But a year later since
Barbarossa Operation, we were

still there fighting against
soviets and partisans.

We strive to be brave and full of energy.
I'm proud to fight in this cause.

In the beautiful Westerwald
the wind whistles so cold

in the beautiful Westerwald
the wind whistles so cold

- O h, you beautiful Westerwald

Over your heights the
wind whistles so cold

However the smallest Sunshine

it pierces the heart.

That week came to the front our
new leader of the second company

'Untersturmfuhrer Kobe.

After the campaign in France he was
assigned to the SS General Quartel.

Someone says that he asked so many
times to be transferred to the front

that he finally got the authorization.

He is a great leader and a great example.

He knows when the risk is not worth it.

Everybody gets ready!

- Move!

My son will be an excellent pilot too!

- Everybody to the rig ht side!

- Take cover! On the right!

Untersturmfuhrer!
- Yes sir!

- Take the second platoon and move
straight to the first line of holes

lnfantry will come soon.
- Yes Sir. Herckel!

["LET'S go]

- Herckel, listen. We move
across the street and

hold the position in the
first line of holes.

Not over than that!

- The first understood!

- Let's move.

- Russian aircraft!
- We are too uncovered. We need to move!

'Go!

- Listen, this is the second
line, we move and go forward!

On my command!

- Take cover! -Take cover!

- Herckel! Herckel! We move!

- Position!

- Hey! Untersturmfuhrer! Kolbe! The line!

- We have to hold the line!

- Nobody must pass!

Understood! Men! Nobody must pass!

- Yes Sir! -Nobody!

- Follow me!

“OPEN fire!

- More ammo!

- Russian tanks!

- Russians! The come!!

- Keep firing! Keep firing!

My dearest wife, today
we had to retreat again.

'Rt breaks my heart to lose another
battle, but this is how it goes

I'm doing fine, but we are sad thinking
of our brothers that are prisoners now

I'm still faithful in the final victory.
We all can't

wait to battle again and
revenge our Comarades.

Most of them are just like beasts.
I can't write

you about that, but
for sure I will never

let them to put a foot on German land.

- Everything is going to be alright.

- We will make it..

- We will get back to our homes..

After our victory.

- Of course.

- We know we will win.

You know, after the taken of Poland..
We moved to France,

many people died, but.. you know..

Some sacrifices are necessary,
to bring honour to our nation..

And to our lives.

- I'm honoured that you are with us.
You are a great leader.

- But the important part is you.

To find the strength right here.

- I have total trust under your command.

And.. I will follow your example.

- Thank you Herckel. Alright? Good night.

- My dear wife, Summer is quite gone.
I often remember

our walking with the coloured trees
above us. I miss you so much, my dear.

I hope to see you soon. For the
moment we are not advancing.

The enemy keeps growing every day.
They are so many..

I'm starting getting a
little worried about this.

That's why I have to write
you through my Journal.

I don't want to give up, but I
feel more comfortable doing this.

You help me a lot during hard moments.

I hope you are proud of me
and of what I'm doing here.

Men, listen.

We leave in 5 minutes. The second
company got ordered to clear inside

an old factory 5 km from here.

Remember, we've got chosen for this job!

For the Leibstandarte!! And
for our wonderful Reich!!

- I go first with one man. You take the
rest of the platoon and cover our butt.

- Yes Sir.
- You, with me!

- Machine gun!! Everybody advance!!

Machine gun, machine gun! Advance!

Meisen come here!

Steiner! Follow me!
- Yes sir!!

- Window on the right!!
The window on the right!!

- Herckel!! The window on the right side!

Grenade! One grenade!

- Sniper!!

- Herckel!! Take two men and
fix this shit now!! Yes Sir!

Steiner! Come with me!

- You go with him!

Covering fire!!

- Move move move!

- Sniper! Move move move!

Steiner! Advance!

Fucking Commie!!

Kolbe! Clear!

Steiner! Enough!

Advance!

You good? All of you are fine?

Good job.

Meisen, on you.

I don't agree too much about Steiner's
attitude. But we were a team.

I admire the courage he showed many times.

He was often volunteering for
patrols and firing squads.

He doesn't care a lot about prisoners.
His friend Otto got stabbed with

A bayonet even though he was injured. He
decided to not spare any of the enemy.

Not even one.

I never asked him, but I'm quite
sure that now that we are retreating

he's afraid that enemies
will getto his little

brother. He doesn't want
him to fight in this war.

It's so cold here.

- Attention!!

Italy is a wonderful country.

I can't write a lot about here,
Partisan activity here is huge.

In Cuneo we lost some men, we
burned almost an entire town.

We won't stay here long, we will
be back soon in the Ukraine.

Fighting only for some meters..

Conquer again what we lost

- Stay here.

Herckel,

Unterscharfuhrer, I'm afraid I have bad
news. Ivan broke again into our lines

so get ready to move.
Unterscharfuhrer, I'm afraid

I have bad news.. Ivan
broke again into our lines

so get ready to move.

The Wehrmacht is having big losses
so we have to cover their retreat.

We will form small groups of..three or four
men to deploy a line while they pull back.

- So we keep retreating?

- Yes, I'm afraid so.

- Come here!
- Yes, I'm afraid so.

- Come here!

- Franz Johann Scholl

- Heil Hitler

- He arrived today, so please
take him into your squad.

Another kid..

Another soul..

Another target..

Another dead..

Another thought..

Another tear..

We are sent like chess pieces
in a endless chessboard.

And I still want to do my best even
if I'm just an insignificant pawn.

- Scholl! What's wrong?

- I go first
- Good idea.

- Good job, hein?

Scholl, go get the mine.

- I hate these situations

- You think we have other choices?

- And after all our efforts, we
have to cover those laser's butt?

- It seems that theirs is pretty important

Anyways, keep digging.
Stop saying bullshit.

- Scholl, you like a princess. How
did you get into the first SS?

- I volunteered

- Whatever, I bet your parents
filled out the forms for you

- Very funny, Steiner.

-Ivan will come today?

- No, not today

- The biggest part of their army will pass
north. Here only reconnaissance patrols.

- We will block those fucking Bolscheviks

- Well, thank you Steiner.

- Scholl, did you kill someone yet?

- No, not yet.

- Don't worry, you will
have your time for it.

- One more stupid than him for sure.

- At least I hope you are a good shooter.
At least that.

- We'll see it.

- Herckel, this one won't
last longer than a week.

- Steiner please shut up. Keep working

We born.. and we learn.

We learn.. and we don't teach.

We want examples to follow. We
don't care in being examples.

Other's lives are getting every
day more insignificant. So ours.

We survive.

Call of duty keeps living
in our chests. Yes,

we want to live. And we
don't know what for.

We are brothers. I see them living.
I want them to live.

I fight for this now.

- Fucking rain..
- I can't see a damn.

- Scholl, I never asked
you where are you from..

- Kremmen
- And where's that?

- North Berlin.

But then I moved to
Oranienstein, into a Napola

- Napola? Now I understand
how you got here.

- My parents wanted to. I felt obliged.

- Do you have family?

- I have a wife..

- What's her name?

- Marga rite..

- She's waiting for me at home.

A new day..

- Steiner, news?
- All quiet.

- You can rest. I'll take care of this

Get up!

- Steiner I know you are tired, but
go to Kolbe and ask for orders.

- So quiet.
- Yes..

- Ivan will come?
- Yes.

They always come.

- I didn't volunteer to argue all the time.

- He is like that

don't forget that you are an SS.

- You look like a motivated soldier,
but show that in the battle.

Not only words. We are lions!

- So?
- Orders are to hold the position even if

another group is under fire. We don't move.

- Yes Kolbe is rig ht..
If we leave the position

Russians could pass through here.

- Scholl, come to the MG.

- Do you trust him over there?
- Yes..

- Steiner, why do you
keep breaking my balls?

- Because you are a fucking recruit.

- Enough Kameraden, Steiner you calm down.

- What was that?
- One of our mines!

- Good, they're coming!

- Russians! I shoot first!

- Steiner! Grenades Grenadesl!

Keep shooting! Keep shooting!

Reloading!

- They're retreating!!!

- (Run away, bastards').!

{ease fire! Ceasefire!

More numbers to add..

- Steiner, come with me, let's take a look

Unterscharfuhrer, over here!

- Get up!

- What do we do now?

- Orders are clear. No prisoners.

- Scholl found it, so he has to shoot him.

How can you feel better when..

You have authority to stop something.

Yet you're not supposed to?

- Come on! Show us your honour!

- Shoot!

- Come on! Shoot him now!

- Are you happy now?

- Steiner, inform Kolbe
about what happened.

The patrol we blocked and
that we had no losses. Go.

- Oh yes, with Scholl.. Please stop it.

- Scholl..

Who are you writing to?

- Technically to my mother..

'Bum.

I have no idea in what to write.

- Did you write to your parents?

- No.. since months.

- Here..

- Write to them.
- No..

- Come on, write to them.

-I'm sorry.. I can't write.

- What's your mother's name?

- Margot.

- Are you doing good?
- Yes, I'm alive

- Do you eat well here?
- Yes, all the time..

- Is it warm here?
- Very warm..

We are all sun tanned.

Once again, I'm proud to
not suffer the war alone

but with my brothers.

- With love.. Steiner.

The following day we
received the order to

leave our position and
join the Company again.

- In the Napola they
taught us to be obedient

- In what Napola did you go?

- Hessan Nassau, but they taught us well

- Many of use kept studying,
but I volunteered in the SS.

If they really wanted to serve,
they should have volunteered too.

- I think so too, Scholl

- And you Unterscharfuhrer?
Why did you join the SS?

- When I was a kid, my
dad left for the front.

Even though he was too old.

My mother was very proud of this.

I hope..

That is the same for my wife as well.

He never came back, and
we had to leave our home.

We weren't able to survive with the money.
Crisis was huge.

80..

Moreover the place where we
lived wasn't Germany anymore.

That's quite heavy to realize.

My mother had to work all day long in order
to have some flour to cook some bread.

We always ate that bread..

That year for my birthday, my mother
brought me a little tuna can.

It was the first different
meal I ate after months.

Damn..

No one ever cameto say what
happened to my father.

-I'm sorry..

- While we moved, my mother
couldn't find any other job.

This was because most of the
economy was held by the Jews.

Naturally they preferred to help
Jews instead of helping us.

Often we had to hide and
sleep in haystacks.

It was the National Socialism
that finally gave her a job.

- Did you volunteer to thank the Fuhrer?

- One day, my mother received
a letter from the Gaulater

saying that our Nation was proud of
what our father did for the Country.

Nobody ever cared about it..

Now yes. That's why I fight.

Winter was approaching.
We got transferred to

the western part of
Ukraine and we were often

asked to help other divisions
as communication support.

Landscape was so breathtaking.

It was weird to combine all that
death in such a beautiful place.

My loved Margarita, snow covers everything.

For the moment we hold the line. I
feel safe with my friends, even though

It is I who is their point of strength

Here is so cold.

I don't even know what day is today.

I hope, you think of me.

'HEY guys.

- Merry Christmas -ls it Christmas today?

- Merry Christmas Steiner
- Merry Christmas Scholl

- Merry Christmas Kameraden
- Merry Christmas Herckel

- Merry Christmas Margarita.

-I'm very sick of this

Always us to cover the shit.
Always us to do this job..

That other idiots can't do.

- Steiner,

if they need our help, we go. Because
maybe tomorrow we will need their help,

and we are screwed. So,

if they need us, we go. Stop it.
Nothing else to complain about.

- Did you see around us? What do you see?

Snow everywhere! Covering
our fallen Comrades.

We should retreat once again, hold a
line, wait for them and kill them all!

- Is this what you want?
Everyday we keep losing meters,

every day we are the closer
to our homes!! This war,

it won't be only with us if
we keep thinking this way,

and if we lose a meter today, we won't get
it back tomorrow! You understand this?

Do you want your brother to fight? Do you
know what they would do to our families?

Or our women?

They will destroy everything! They
are also fighting for their land!

While I breathe, I
will do my best to get

those bastards out of my country.
Understood?

You just think about your fucking job.
You are a

fucking soldier just like
me, we don't count a damn.

And remember that this talking
is undermining military moral!

You are an SS. Remember that! You
know they could execute you for that.

Should I report you? Uh?

- I'm sorry my friend..
But this is how it goes.

This is totally shit, but
we can't do anything.

What are we? Nothing.

[What did you expect]

What are we in this World?

What can make a single soldier?

How can we choose the
best, even when things

do not go as your leaders
promised to you?

The only thing I do now is dig..

Dig, and dig again.

I took an oath to my leaders...
I believed in them.

At the end of March we got transferred
to Netherlands. One thing was sure..

We were no longer training
to win in Russia,

We started realizing that we were
training in order to defend our country.

- Scholl, a little higher.

..good, you got it.

I miss my wife so much but I feel
uncomfortable about getting back to her

None of us went home.

They were so much worried about the war,

that they didn't want to
waste one single day.

Things got worse and worse

Americans landed in Normandy

Now we started to feel real fear
in being completely surrounded.

France is quite different from the East

even if there were debris everywhere,
it looks sarcastically happier.

I received other men in my platoon.

Many of them were just drafted boys..

It was weird to lead drafted SS in the
First Division, it was very weird.

The fuhrer wasn't sparing anyone.

Kolbe refused any promotion.
He didn't want to leave us.

He got assigned again at Hitler's
office but he never left.

He's the man I admire the most

We hold the line.

Beating the Allies would
have been an excellent

propaganda to get our
revenge on Russians.

We should have known..

It wasn't like that.

Americans are advancing
right into our line,

we need to attack right now and stop them.

Sturmscharfuhrer Prunelle came today
and will join the Second Company.

I want you to fight with all your strength!
Like lions!!

It's time to push them back!

Lions..

Faces were getting pretty the same.

Results were always the same.

- Are you nervous? Because all of this?

Don't get discouraged.
We'll totally make it.

Alright. Five minutes.

- Alright, we will move together.
You, you and you, with me.

I will move on the left side. Understood?

Once again. Another battle.

Another big question.

Mil I be alive in an hour?

Together..

So desperate

Tired.. I feel my hands so heavy.

Sick.

Convinced souls. Dead.

Is this my time to go?

I need to see you one more time..

Sturmscharfuhrer! Sturmscharfuhrer!
I move forward!

Alone.

You watch over me.

No soldiers. No bombs.

Take care over me

Don't abandon me

Don't abandon me

Your light is life.

Your light is life.

I love you..

- Are you alone?

Who are you?

- You are lost.

- I guess so too..

Americans defeated us. I believe.
They went that way.

I woke up all alone. Do
you have some water?

I lost mine.

Thanks.

- You belong to which company?

- First Division SS

Leibstandarte.
- Ah the first one..

- My names Herckel, Unterschafuhrer
- Untersdnarfuhren.

- And you? oh, a regular soldier.

What division?

-21th

We were in Caen.

- Why are you all alone?

- Where are you from?

- From a small town, West Germany.

- Braunschweig?

- Me too, but I have never seen you before.

- Me too, but I have never seen you before.

- Me neither, what's your name?

- Hermann Dietwolf.

- Well, you don't look German.. aren't you?

- Well, you don't look German.. aren't you?

- Ah no no

My mother is from Spain.

You know that Jews work for us, right?

- Of course.

- And we hate them, right?

- They are the ruin of our Nation.

- Yes, sure..

Do you know that we are killing them all?

Do you know that we are killing them all?

- What..

We send them to work camps, for us.

- Sure, that's what they tell you.

- I don't know, I've never
been in work camps.

- I don't know, I've never
been in work camps.

- I didn't believe it as well..
But I've seen it with my eyes.

- Where?

- In Poland..

- In Poland..

I was patrolling around a Train Station.
Trains came from everywhere filled of Jews.

Then they were sent to
several working camps.

One day a train arrived with women. They
got separated before getting on to it.

One day a train arrived with women. They
got separated before getting on to it.

Someone caught a Jew
hiding in the town. They

wouldn't send him with
the women, so they

brought him behind the Station.

SS were talking about a
special treatment for them.

SS were talking about a
special treatment forthem.

Do you know what's that?
- No.

- Since that moment, I'm
scared to see my wife.

Among those women.

Her father is Jew..

And her name's Eleonor.

We fell in love. and we
changed her last name.

We fell in love. and we
changed her last name.

We married and we moved to Braunshweig.

Since I was drafted, I'm scared to
death that they might find her.

That's why I desert.

That's why I desert.

I suffered that guilt for too long..

Now I can't any longer.

Is this bad...?

Is this wrong...?

- She gave me this, before I left.

- I won't let them get her.

- So what are you going to do?

- I don't know..

I will surrender to the Americans.
- Surrender?

- They will help me!

- They will help me!

The war won't last too long.

- maybe not.

- Good luck Unterscharfuhrer

- Good luck Unterscharfuhrer

- Good luck Dietwolf.

- You were lucky.

- Here you are Herckel.

I heard all about you.

But listen, you never took your leave.

Next week there is a plane going
to Germany. You go on it. Alright?

- You are alive!

I felt totally different
going home ordered by Kolbe

I didn't feel like a coward.

My dearest wife. I'm coming to you.

- It's so weird to be
home after so much time.

- That's what you say.. without
you here is so boring..

What do we eat today?

I reserved two places for
tonight at the restaurant.

We go to Haussmann's
- Oh! That's great!

- You are so beautiful.

Shall we go? Come.

- What...?
- You are gorgeous.

- Thank you.. But.

How is at the front?

- Russia, was a disaster.

- So many cities are bombed.
Here we are so lucky

- This is a small town.
They don't care about here.

-I'm sick of this situation

if the Fuhrer..
- Don't talk like this please.

- You're right..things aren't good.
But I

love you so much and I
love Germany so much.

I won't give up. And we
all want to do our best.

- I imagine, it's not easy at all..

What does a man have to fight for?

What's the meaning of love?

Love. Isn't this beautiful? You»

Time for love. Time to be brave.

Duty is something we can't avoid

But love.. is something a
man can't live without.

I want to stay with you.. now.

Doubts keep staying inside me

I need answers.

- Eleonor?

- Eleonor?

I met your husband in Normandy.

Are you there?

- Hello, my name's Ludwig Herckel.

- What do you need?
- I met your husband at the front..

I found out that we
didn't live so far.. and

I came to visit you.
He told me about you.

Don't worry, I won't do anything to you.
- Does he live?

- Yes.

- Is he doing well? ls he injured?
You can tell me.

- He's doing fine. He wasn't
injured when I met him.

- If you see him again,
please salute him from me.

- I will do it. Now I have to go.
Nice to meet you Miss Dietwolf.

Unterscharfuhrer
- Comrade, what's going on?

-I'm driving two Gestapo officers.

Gestapo?
- Yes Sir.

- Heil Hitler
- Heil Hitler

- [What happens]

- Please let me go! No.1

- What's going on?

- Do you know this girl? -No.

- Her husband is a dirty traitor, and
checking on his documents we found out that

she's not German, but she's from Poland.

Unterscharfuhrer, are you sure
that you don't know this woman?

- No, but what did she do?

- My name's Eleonor, my name's
Eleonor, I'm not Polish!

- I bet she was a Jew

- Are you insane? Why did
you had to shoot her?

- Unterscharfuhrer..

Your documents please.
- Of course.

Unterscharfuhrer, so you don't know her.
- No, I already told you so

- Heil Hitler
- Heil Hitler.

- You can't catch me, you can't catch me!
Oh one soldier!

- Come kids, time to go home.

It's hard to hide what you feel inside.

Your men expect to find
strength inside you.

I got promoted when I got back here.
I'm very

disappointed about how
things are going.

Whatever the Third Reich is doing,
I need to find a new motivation.

Or I will die soon.

Scharfuhrer Herckel, I introduce
to you Sturmscharfuhrer Prunelle.

So you can talk later and get to
know each other. You leave us now.

- So.. What are you writing?

- Nothing important.
- Good.

- I heard you have some feelings
that could undermine moral

from you.

No more!

Lead your men, understood?

- You know that we are surrounded?
Do you realize it?

- Yes, I know.
- Shall we all die like dogs? ls it right?

- That's our job, that's what we do.
We fight until the final victory.

The final victory! I'm trying to
keep you away from judgment Herckel!

- We're fighting for nothing, Kolbe!

- You need to calm down.

- Why do I always have to follow
your great ideas, Scholl?

Nothing!

- I'm more stupid than you because
I end up following you. Nothing.

- Oh wait, you bet I find candies here?

Here! Check this out.

["LET'S go]

- Hey Steiner, you know that this fucking
weather reminds me a lot of your home?

- Why you always have to say bullshit?

Your home is even worse.
- No whatever, you're wrong.

- It rains bombs, come on!
- You're just jealous!

- Let's move!

- Come on, you know that I'm
just kidding with you..

- Steiner, here's full!

- Nice.

- Is it you that stink so much?

- Yes Scholl, I only fart when
you are around. Let's go, move!

- "Come on, come on".. Yes I come.
You stink of shit, I'm coming.

- Did you call me, Sir?

- Scharfuhrer..

What ever you're doing..

It must stop right now.

Or I will send you to judgment.

- It won't happen again.

- I leave in one hour.
Get back to your men.

- Are you escaping, Sir?

-I'm very sick of you.

This is not longer a game!

I gave you an order!

Get back to Kolbe's platoon and
do your job. I will do mine.

Dismissed, Scharfuhrer.

This is what we do..

We fight. Until the end.

-I'm sorry for being rude today.

L really want to do my best,
especially in front of the others.

But I understand how you feel.

While you were home, I had to escort a
Standartenfuhrer for an inspection.

Sometimes is hard to understand
if something is right or not.

But you have to do it.
Of course you have to.

Why do you have those weapons?
They belong to who?

Talk now!

They probably were a starving family..

He told me, that I had to shoot them.

He ordered me.

- Her, her name was Eleonor, a girl
who lived.. not very far from me.

She got shot. They killed
her, because she was a Jew.

L.. I only wonder now..

What the world will think of
us, when all of this will end.

- If we lose this war...

we are cursed forever.

I never killed a Jew.

- Herckel, are we moving?
- Yes, tomorrow morning.

- Are they going to transfer you?
- No.

We keep staying with kolbe.

- Herckel, listen.

What's going on?

- I don't know..

I'm just very tired.

- At the radio they said that Americans
executed 13 German Prisoners

- Don't believe in everything they say.

I don't believe it.
- Alright my friend,

l'm with you tomorrow.

[What if Dietwolf is right]

- Herckel, an American soldier. The only
survivor of a Patrol. Check him out.

- Look.. Dog tags.

- Untersturmfuhrer

- They can kill how many the want,
they are not going to win this war.

What.

- Why do you have this? Look at me!
Why you have this?!

Answer me! Bastard, fucking bastard!

Answer me!

- Bastard! Bastard!
- Herckel! Stop it!

No point to look at

No strength to hold

Any sense, any reason.

- Where is the Untersturmfuhrer Kolbe?

Thank you.

- Oberschiitze Hans Von Grobel

- Do you have your Soldbuch?

New soldiers kept coming.

New meat. to send before getting caught.

Time to leave No energy

I will kill them all those bastards.

- Grobel, take your stuff.
You come with us.

Eleonor.. Dietwolf.

One killed by them.

The other killed by us.

What am I fighting for?

- Herckel! Take three man, go that way!

Shit!!! Shootl! Herckel Shootlll!

Shoot him! Herckel Shoot him! Come on!'.

Are you stupid? Why didn't you shoot?

- Pull back

Steinerl! Steinerl!

Run..!

It only takes few seconds.

Nobody wants to die this way.

After years you become numb..

Yet you have to fight.

Of course you have to.

You have to.

Steinem.

- It's hard to believe.

- He died in my arms.

- The only thing we can
do now, is to honour him.

Nothing else.

- So what happened to your ugly faces?

Steiner!!

- Hello Kameraden

What's going on?

Everything is alright?

Time for sleep, alright? Good night.

- To you, Steiner.

We kept losing men. The war was not
going to last too much longer,

and the more the days were passing on,
the most I was fighting for my wife.

For my lovely Germany.

We were destroyed and we raised

We were destroyed again.

- First and Second platoon here!

- The second platoon goes first.
The first follows backwards.

Understood? Did you understood?

“OPEN fire!

- Did you see where the sniper is?
- I don't know!

{ease fire! Ceasefire!

- Kolbe! Where's Kolbe?

I'm so sorry to leave you here, br0ther..

Scharfuhrer'. Retreat! Now!!

- First and second platoon retreat!
Move move move!!

-I'm sorry for Kolbe, Herckel.

Can I help somehow?

- Can you bring him back?

- I understand.

- For what.

Are we fighting for?

- You know, I love my Nation.

I don't care about politics anymore.

I only fight, for what I love.

My dearest Margarite

in a place where I can't find
out what my real duty is,

I can only tell you that I did my best.

I tried to be a good
example, a good Soldier.

I never gave up even when I
was feeling discouraged.

I hope to see you soon and hug you again,

telling you that I did everything I could.

I really fought for you. For my house.
For my land.

I love you so much.

The War didn't last too much longer.

Soldiers realized that the
Allies were pressing all around.

Their offensive became more desperate.

But they kept fighting.

Sometimes they could see
little sparks of hope..

Other times they could only wait.

Wait to live.

Wait to die.

Even if we fought for the
freedom against their tyranny

Soldiers did fight for their
lives, for their country.

Many of them didn't want
to see another defeat.

Many of them were terrified to see their
enemies in their cities, in their homes.

But they had to do it they had to be there.

Waking up, they had to
embrace their rifles,

and finish what their leaders had begun.

Another bullet another bomb, another run.

Run.. to catch the life..

Run.. to live one more day.

German Leaders were accused of
terrible crimes against humanity

but we learn that those crimes
were committed by all of them.

Those responsible of crimes
were punished as they deserved.

But do we know if the guilty
ones are only in their army?

They were pushed to do everything
they could, instead doing nothing..

Sadness. hopeless. desperation.

- Unterscharfuhrer..

- I tried.. to do everything I could..

- I cannot anymore..

Their honour, was loyalty.

While generals were ready
to die for their Leader,

Soldiers were ready to die to defend
their people, their brothers.

Politicians are often wrong,

but soldiers took oath to their lovely
Nation, as my husband did to ours.

They fought until the end.

Even when age didn't call them to duty..

Even when they could had only hope a
bomb didn't fall into their house.

We all want to feel comfortable being
in the right part of the situation,

but we don't wonder too much if dropping
atomic bombs on people is right also.

Millions died. Millions will die tomorrow.

And we won't do anything.

History is written by winners.

They are able to tell us what happened.

They are able to tell who the evil is.

They can show us other armies' crimes.

They can hide their owns.

We judge too much often
about thing we don't know,

we always look for someone to point the
finger against, because it's easy.

But I could never deny that thanks
to that evil german Soldier

my husband is still alive.

I won't teach to my children to
believe that they were all fight.

But I will teach that I opened
my eyes, and I saw that

they were not all the same.