Hitler's S.S.: Portrait in Evil (1985) - full transcript

(Dramatic Music)

apart from hitler rome is worth a 
whole bunch of them put together (chanting)

so hoffman i think we may proceed. the child

is to be christened johannes verner is 
that correct? no, just hans hans verner

sorry i'm sure you appreciate this is a solemn

occasion and nonetheless so because of 
the troubled times in which we now live

station master albrecht hoffman you as a proud 
servant of the state railroad no less than your

wife girder and your sons carl and helmut are 
gathered here today goodbye pastor thank you

why did you contradict the pastor i didn't 
i told him it was hansen not your hands

what's wrong with that i noticed you didn't 
contradict him when he called you station master

what's that supposed to mean well it obviously 
means that that promotion the railroad's been



promising you all these years has finally 
been granted by god or someone close to them

if that's the kind of nonsense they teach you in 
university you might just as well have stayed here

and been unemployed like carl if we're going 
to stand around here all night we're going to

freeze to death yeah why don't you folks go home 
carl and i are going for a drink echo you bet

by hans and don't forget the man in there says 
you have a great future and he should know it's

his profession does this mean you two are going to 
be out all night i know unless we get very lucky

new

there somewhere i'll tell you here

hey walter what what kind of circus 
have you got back there tonight

a nazi circus i thought you like that kind my 
brother does he thinks of the wave of the future

yeah well come on what happened at the 
meeting are you a member now or what

helmet how long are you back for uh just a weekend 
i have to be back in munich on tuesday hello carl

the last time i saw you was when helmet took me to 
that football match wasn't it ah the only game we

lost all season what are you doing here i thought 
you were training to be a teacher no no no mitzi



has now decided to become a singer which means 
that instead of just punishing children she can

punish everybody that's always been the secret of 
helmut's child the fact that he doesn't have any

you've noticed that too huh where do you do your 
singing wherever they'll let me do you know that

please just off the bat sir i'm starting there 
next week fraulein templar are these fellows

paying for your time or what no uncle walter 
you are that's what i thought you tomorrow

oh incidentally how's the new brother oh 
he's fine and we don't need any more jokes

about good tunes on old violins either don't be 
silly i think it's marvelous oh yeah just what

we need six million unemployed and a new baby 
uncle walter what's happened to the lousy beer

do we have to wait forever for it all right 
sonny if you ordered it it'll be there

listen you little poison dwarf why don't you go 
home before somebody steps on you hey fellas this

dump's full of stinking socialists or commies 
i don't know all pigs smell the same to me

let's get out of here

come on now buy a drink somewhere respectable

hey guess we didn't have to pay for our drinks

good evening gentlemen i'm afraid 
we don't appear to have a table

at the moment well that's all right we want 
the bar this restaurant has no bar here my snap

would you be kind enough to ask that young 
man his companion to join me for a drink

how are you sit down sit down ah this must 
be your brother carl of whom you always spoke

so well oh yes every time i tried to praise 
helmuth's academic talents he would say

no here professor i would much rather 
be able to play football like my brother

and is that what you have now become a 
footballer not exactly no ah uh what will

you gentlemen have to drink ah beer rubies 
here meister please two beers here prophecy

so how are you finding life at the university 
well munich's certainly an improvement on this

place but i don't know as things are i sometimes 
wonder if being at the university isn't just

a bit irrelevant but in three years yes in 
three years i can be an assistant professor

helping to prepare other students for jobs that 
don't exist you don't believe in the acquisition

of knowledge for its own sake not when we have 
six million unemployed roaming the streets now

if you're looking for a practical solution i uh 
i must admit that uh the academic life does have

a certain uh aspect of irrelevance uh how about 
you now that you are no longer a footballer what

are you up to i'm an unemployed motor mechanic 
i know it it's very difficult for young people

today to know what to do i must confess that i 
am rather happy that i'm no longer young myself

speaking of solutions carl has been thinking of 
joining the nazis do i take it you disapprove

well don't you it's not the party i would have 
chosen for myself but that can hardly deter carl

you are his brother i should think you'd find 
your opinion much more relevant i just don't

think they'll deliver what carl seems to think 
they're promising they may call themselves

national socialists but if they ever get to power 
you can be sure you'll never see anything that

even remotely resembles socialism makes you so 
sure of that oh i don't doubt your stormtrooper

friend rome has dreams along those lines but 
hitler certainly doesn't i never did i'm afraid

he may have a point there but i can certainly 
understand why you would find their uh promises

new order in all this chaos very appealing you 
can oh yes but i must warn you you may find the

price for all this good order and discipline a 
rather high one well i got that the nazis have

better soup kitchens than all the others and 
these days that should be reason enough for joy

good to see you helmut thank you 
carl good luck thank you very much

why don't you have to embarrass me like that 
for embarrassment well he's jewish isn't he

so what well that you don't go asking people 
like that what they think about joining the

nazis i don't see why not don't tell me you 
don't have the courage of your convictions

look if you're gonna start apologizing for 
things you haven't even done yet you may

not be quite what the nazis are looking 
for anyway oh yeah but it may interest

you to know that i'm not just thinking about 
joining them i already did i signed up this

cunning little afternoon well that's fabulous now 
if anybody gives me any trouble i can just set my

little brother the stormtrooper and don't 
count on it i got you all i'm gonna have

scrapes as it is you drag me into don't you mean 
whatever listen i don't like this dump let's go

hey just a minute yes you didn't 
you hear me say heil hitler

that is not a greeting with which i am 
familiar is that right well you soon will be

maybe you should start practicing 
on then hitler let's hear it

don't i know you yes of course i do

you're that jew professor from the academy 
aren't you my name is ludwig rosenberg and

yes i am don't you know better than to address a 
man from the essay without first removing your hat

now pick it up and we'll start again shall we

why don't you do it yourself

go on there pick it up

oh

oh thank you thank you very much it's 
all right know how i'm done i hope not

you'll hardly be able to indulge in that kind 
of gesture if you decide to join the party

well thanks again

night my brother the stormtrooper eh yeah you 
weren't exactly a spectator yourself on the

contrary that's exactly what i was and that's 
exactly what i'll be the next time you start

something forget it come on let's go see if we 
can find anything open well i can see you've got

a great future with the nazis huh first day in the 
party you start out by beating three of them up

one

hey oh you're too much for me 
have you tried the schleicher yet

it's about time you had a couple of 
decent scars to show don't you think

they're just a little bit old-fashioned 
hell no the girls love them that's enough

do i know you what's your name hoffman helmut 
hoffman you could be good but you're vulnerable

be careful with that left arm without 
balance you're always holding are you

at the university what subject classics you do 
better to take a serious interest in fencing

just a minute

yes

be here at eight o'clock tomorrow we'll 
see if we can make anything of you

who's that bizarre character you don't know him

that's reinhard heydrich personal assistant to 
heinrich himmler in the ss oh yes those people yes

they tell me if you ever need a friend 
he'll sell you one so why should you worry

he wants to make a fencing master of you 
knows maybe you'll end up at the olympics

meanwhile he may do better to drum up some votes 
for uncle adolf i understand you may be needing it

stop it carl what's the matter with 
you nothing i just got a job that's all

i thought you already had a job driving 
for those sap no no that's just part time

i don't get paid for it this is for money i'll 
be working as a mechanic down at the bus garage

are you going to be in for supper tonight i'm 
sorry after the meeting not another fight with

us red front people no no it's a proper election 
meeting they said that rome's going to be speaking

i don't like that man he looks just like 
a pig huh i'll tell him you said sir

taking yours on down to munich now 
i'm driving beagler he lives here oh

yeah lucky lutz will be going down to hanover 
i'll probably be up all night here they come

never mind i should tell him to 
keep his ss clowns out of your way

damn it all man they're only ever supposed 
to be the fuhrer's personal bodyguard

now they're ordering everybody about even me you 
know what it's hardly a real soldier amongst them

however when hitler becomes chancellor there'll 
be some radical changes in that department too

very radical your driver may be prettier 
than mine but uh doesn't seem to know much

about motor cars yours doesn't look too 
bad either maybe i'll borrow it one day

huh

is

fear please

is

hmm

hello hello where's hollywood where he's in munich 
says he won't be back till christmas what are you

drinking uh nothing for me you know the rules all 
right give me one of those creme de mont yes a

creme de mont it's only colored water but they'll 
still charge you an arm and a leg for it that's

all right i just got a job doing what beating up 
old ladies uh no no that's just in my spare time

so what do you hear from helmut well not much

only seem to hear from him when he 
wants something yes i've noticed

well i liked your song only one i just got here

what have you been up to in that lantern's outfit 
of yours i'm sure we had an election meeting you

seem to be having elections every three months 
yesterday well this one could be important why

is that your people planning a little push 
if they don't get enough of a little push

i don't know you better ask hitler he 
never talks to me about that kind of thing

oh hell there's steiner i'm sorry 
i'll have to go he's the owner

wants me to meet someone who needs a 
singer for a place he's opening next year

says it's something really 
exclusive you just imagine can't you

thanks for coming by and uh say 
hello to helmut if you get a chance

wake up carl the foreman's watching you

what do you think it's gonna hold up well 
what it needs is the crankshaft for grinding

yeah i can't see them forking 
out any money for that

just make sure the bearings are all right and 
then we'll increase the oil pressure a bit

go on listen when i took you on you said 
that you'd be willing to join the union

that's right right you never told me you were 
the nazis well you never asked i'm right that's

true enough don't you think it's a bit of a 
contradiction i mean being with the nazis and

wanting to join the union i don't 
see why we both want the same things

come on don't tell me you're one of those 
people who actually believes that the

nazi brand of socialism has got anything to 
do with the brotherhood of mana or something

why not because the fact is if your friend hitler 
ever got what he was after there wouldn't be any

trade union socialist and otherwise that's 
nonsense it was not going to do anything to

hurt the unions i like you carl once more you're 
a pretty good mechanic but you don't know a damn

thing about politics never mind it turns out you 
don't have to fight about it now anyway will we

have you heard been on the radio all this morning 
heard what for god said the elections you dummy

the nazis lost 2 million votes 
and 34 seats in the reichstag

34. that's right that's 34 notes is 
about to go warm the back side somewhere

else

you're improving but not as much as you should 
tell me have you had any more thoughts about

coming to work with us yes that's for the 
party the ss is the party or very soon will

be has anyone told that to rome or his 
essay stormtroopers yeah they're just

the foot soldiers of the movement make no 
mistake it's the ss that will be in control

yes but apart from anything else i still 
have two years at the university left

two years before you become what exactly some 
impoverished teacher of literature probably

is but frankly i don't believe 
in the parties of allah believe

didn't i care what you believe i want 
your intelligence not your belief you can

forget about teutonic knights and germanic 
destiny leave that to people like himmler

i'm talking about an organization that's going 
to control not only the party but every aspect

of the state itself now tell me the truth wouldn't 
you like to be part of something like that well

it sounds fine but i mean the party has yet to get 
to power and judging by the last election results

that could be some time and besides i understand 
they're running short of funds is that a fact

are you attending any lectures 
of vital importance tomorrow

then i suggest you join me for a trip to the roar

you're not lacking intelligence 
hoffman you're lacking information

thank you

kurt von schroeder controls 
the biggest bank in cologne

the one on the right's fogler united steel

the other one's bertker he 
manufactures baby food nice combination

that's emil kierdorff he'll be celebrating his 
85th birthday next week that's if he makes it up

the stairs meanwhile he owns enough coal fields 
to keep europe warm through the next ice age

our chancellor von schleicher says germany 
is on the road to recovery pretty won't be

there to see it well how long do you think his 
government could last two months maybe three

and then why then according to our revered 
constitution president hindenburg will confer

the title of chancellor on someone else and 
ask him to form a government yes but who

who indeed hindenburg will of course listen 
to these distinguished gentlemen after all

they own the country why shouldn't 
they have a voice in running it

here to decide who's going to be 
the next chancellor they already

know who's going to be the next chance 
that's simply the price they're haggling

over they think they're getting a lap 
dog for their money a mongrel that can be

house trained but surely they'll be demanding 
some kind of price for their support obedient

workers docile trade unions plenty of profits 
nothing he wasn't planning to give them already

of course they'll expect to hear a lot less 
inflammatory talk of a second revolution from

rome and his essay friends in fact they'll be 
expecting to hear a lot less from rome altogether

do you think that's too high a price to pay

well who needs revolutionaries when the 
revolution's already been achieved exactly

hey

what on earth were you thinking 
of it's much too old for him

rubbish he understands it 
perfectly don't you father

you should be wearing your comb why'd 
you think i bought it yeah oh no this no

you can't do it like that you have to undo 
it first you'll give it to me all right

no no leave it oh but it makes me look like a 
anyway it's too expensive everything you bought

they're much too expensive you must have 
used your whole allowance now don't worry

i'm gonna be earning some money you won't have to 
support me anymore you're not thinking of leaving

the university i already have i turned in my books 
a week ago you're not going back but you're still

going to teach you're still going to be a teacher 
aren't you no but listen i'll be earning more than

i would after 10 years as a teacher 10 years 
are you going to be some director of a bank

or something all right maybe not quite that much 
right away but it'll certainly be more than i get

from teaching and i'll finally be doing something 
doing exactly what i'm going to work for a man

called heydrich he's in munich and he's setting 
up or a heydrich you talking about the ss yes

i thought you didn't believe in all that 
overheated nazi philosophy well of course

not it's primitive rubbish but listen all that 
ideological nonsense those lunatics keep spouting

is neither here nor there they'll probably be told 
to drop it when the party gets into power anyhow

what now you admit we're gonna get into power sure 
you'll win but then you are going to be faced with

actually running a highly complex modern state 
and those crazy idealists like your friend

rome wouldn't even begin to know how it'll take 
practical young professionals to run this country

some somebody with common sense people like 
you i suppose that's right people like me

do you really believe all of that but of 
course i do why shouldn't i i don't know

helmut sometimes i think you just believe whatever 
happens to be convenient for you at the moment

oh come on hey is is

in honor of our new chancellor hitler if i 
gave away free drinks every time we got a new

chancellor i would have been broke a long time ago 
yeah sure you can probably remember when bismarck

was chancellor yes i can then they didn't have 
songs to honor pimps then either the horse vessel

well you're talking about horse vessel was killing 
a fight against the communists back in 30. i don't

care if he was killed by a trooper performing 
monkeys he was still a pimp then all the same

so what if he was in his spare time we've all 
got to make a living haven't we i don't see why

you have a real talent for making friends don't 
you never mind if he makes jokes like that in the

future you can probably have him shot anyway it's 
time i picked up mitzi from that glorified brothel

did you ever look her up like i told you yeah just 
the ones she didn't seem very pleased with you why

but for one thing she never seems to 
hear from you unless you're in town

what's the point of hearing from me when i'm 
not in town i don't know you do take her a bit

for granted though don't you oh you think 
so do you come on girls are always getting

upset about something she'll be all right you 
want to come with me what floor to hold your

hand cheer up the fuhrer says this thing will 
last for a thousand years i'll see you tomorrow

what's that are they afraid they'll 
lose you no it's just a bit of nonsense

i suppose it's supposed to make 
us feel as if we really belong

what do you think will happen now

well like i told you hitler 
will wait for hindenburg

if you're going to berlin i don't 
suppose you'll be back here that much

well maybe not not for a while

what would have happened if i'd been 
pregnant last year but you weren't

but suppose i had been well you seemed more 
upset that you weren't pregnant not now

anymore

aha so a young hoffman is 
off on his travels again man

hello what are you doing here i just came to 
say goodbye to dr lieberwicz well he's leaving

the country no no things haven't quite come to 
that yet no he's giving some lectures in hamburg

all the same it certainly looks as though 
we're in for some bad times again doesn't it

you mean the official attitude toward the 
jews i mean the official attitude towards

everybody certainly can't imagine that the jews 
will be singled out for preferential treatment

well i think you'll find that the anti-semitic 
aspect of all this will blow over sooner than

you think yes that's what a surprising 
number of my jewish friends keep saying

i wish i could share their optimism so um 
you're off to munich again eh uh berlin

i've taken a job i'm going to work 
for the security department of uss

yes yes you're leaving the university 
to enter the ss but why helmut why you

do you remember that piece from goethe 
you used to quoted us something about

making decisions you must the hammer or the anvil 
be that's it that's the one well i finally decided

the people like us hoffman's have been the anvil 
long enough maybe it's time we started doing some

of the hammering yes mind you if gert had spent 
much time in the blacksmith shop he might have

noticed that the hammer tends to wear out much 
sooner than the anvil i'm sorry i've disappointed

you haven't i just tried to do your hammering 
with a little discretion won't you helmet

so

what's happening who the hell are 
you what do you think's happening

we're celebrating may day 
workers of the world unite

parkmon reporting from headquarters transportation 
section you're late we have to send for another

driver i haven't read the standard fjord 
to hanover last night we just got back

that's right who are you 
rudolph language secretary

you've got it wrong little man as 
from today this union is suspended

and this is government property so go celebrate 
your labor day somewhere else i'll take them

he needs an ambulance

scrotum

oh

yes

let's see come here come here come here

will you ask him if i can have another 
drink because i don't think he can hear me

in fact i think he's deaf are you 
deaf huh i think you'd better leave

why is that it's all right heinz i know him i'll 
take care of it why don't you get us a cab oh

we're gonna go someplace else 
another drink oh god shall we go

you know what we did today why don't 
you tell us about it in the cab

i don't want to tell you about it

because

because i forget that's why

but i do think that we should have another drink

i certainly do think

yes speaking who is it helmet who do you 
think well how should i know it isn't as

if you called every day anyway they simply said 
berlin and announced the obersten fewers if it

were a message from god oh i see our switchboard 
people tend to be a bit military in their manner i

suppose that's what they're paid for anyway listen 
i'm coming home this evening we could have dinner

i see the aubergine is visiting the 
provinces so i get to have dinner

yes all right listen carl's here i think he 
wants to speak to you carl what's he doing

there he got a bit drunk last night i'd let him 
tell you about it himself all right put him on

uh isn't this uh back my eyes office anymore no 
two doors down thanks and who are you half man

assistant to heydrich another one he's got so many 
special assistants no one ever knows what they're

all doing uh nobody except heinrich you mean 
exactly come on carl what have you been up to now

never mind that now listen you're the one who's 
supposed to know everything the hell ordered that

action against the unions yesterday uh i'm sorry 
to disappoint you but this happens to be one of

the times when i evidently don't know everything 
i'll tell you what i'll talk to you about it

tonight i'll give you a call when i get in okay 
bye i forgot to introduce myself becca attached

to set dietrich's headquarters leap standard ah 
one of the fewest personal bodyguards well if i

ever need anybody's shot i'll know who to come 
to aren't they always happy to be of service

there you are where have you been there's mrs 
lunder in the front room she wants to talk

to you here where have you been all night she 
says that you were at some union office where

her husband got hurt or something why didn't you 
tell me because i just got in but what happened

what's it all about nothing the union's been 
suspended we took over the offices that's all

but why why did you do that because it's full 
of bolsheviks that's why communists if you like

mr lungner is the communist well 
how should i know what he is

did she say anything about 
me did she say how he is

she doesn't know yet doctors 
say he's got a broken spine

the police came last night 
they say it was an accident

i'm sure they're right but we could said we should 
speak to you first first before lodging a formal

complaint against the sa against those members 
of the sa responsible for mr langner's injuries

you saw what happened you could be 
a witness my husband always speaks

very well of carl i'm sure he'd be the 
first to help us if it were possible

apparently not i'll request my section leader's 
report if there's something in it you ought to

know i'll tell you about it that's presumably 
the same report the police based their opinion on

right

damn it carl if you don't stop pursuing 
this thing you're gonna talk yourself

straight into a concentration camp do me 
a favor mitty tell him will you tell him

what what i've just been trying to get into 
his thick head i think he's trying to tell

you that the business of throwing elderly trade 
unionists downstairs is too important to subject

the discussion amongst the rank and file of 
the essay and whose side are you on anyway

listen as things stand longer is still entitled 
to a pension you start stirring things up and

they'll probably decide he doesn't even qualify 
for that your name will stink and he'll starve

is that what you want listen it wasn't just some 
isolated little event you know it happened all

over the country and it was ordered by the parties 
yeah in that case maybe it's high time we had the

second revolution there isn't going to be any 
second garbage collection sooner you realize

it the better for you yes why is that because if 
rome doesn't stop talking about taking over the

army and antagonizing the entire establishment 
there's gonna be one hell of an explosion and

when the smoke clears you'll have disappeared 
you know who's gonna get rid of him the ss rome

has been hitler's personal friend longer than any 
of them hitler doesn't have any personal friends

oh come on drink up this place is too 
expensive for us to be wasting the good wine

remember the first night we were here the 
night i told rosenberg that you were thinking

of joining the party when was he amused 
he wasn't offended if that's what you mean

i suppose you know they kicked him out of his 
job last week what how do you know who told you

my landlady's cleaning woman works for what the 
hell does it matter who told me you talk as if it

was some kind of big surprise to you all right i'm 
sorry it wasn't a surprise i just thought he might

have had the sense to retire before it happened 
you'd have found that less embarrassing would

you

get this man

i'll see you outside i trust the hair 
stream fiora found everything satisfactory

to you oh why yes of course excuse me yeah well 
he found it adequate look i can keep the change

anyone would think i kicked rosenberg out myself

well i think your ss people can take on 
the sa you really think your roman is

bulletproof

yes that's marvelous news 
we'll be with you for breakfast

come in

oh hoffman

you won't be getting my sleep tonight you have 
to be in munich by seven o'clock tomorrow morning

yes sir anything else sir tell me is 
it still your opinion that the essay

have become nothing more than 
the party's garbage collectors

so you think alfiero has neglected 
and betrayed his old comrades do you

don't you sir i was beginning too often i must 
confess i was beginning to but that's all going

to change now we're meeting with hitler tomorrow 
rome and all general officers of the sa this time

it'll be the army and those damn politicians 
that'll be dancing to our tune for a change

all right hoffman i'll let 
you know where to pick me up

just a minute

you know you should be an officer by now probably 
would be if you weren't always so damn provocative

you stand easier langer business for instance

demanding to see your section leaders report 
did you imagine that would do you any good

no sir i thought it might do 
mr langner some good and did it

all right never mind

come in

do you think that the army finally believes 
that rome is about to move against them

no i don't think they really believe 
it but i'm sure they'll be very happy

to have been persuaded of it and having 
been persuaded of this clear and present

danger will they tolerate whatever measures we 
may think necessarily well if they've already

agreed to cooperate presumably they'll tolerate 
anything that appears to be in their interest

yes that's what i think too tell me 
hoffman is it your intellect or your

relatively humble position that causes you to 
agree with me on this occasion perhaps both

perhaps you mean perhaps we ought to 
promote you in order to really find out

so go on get out stand by in your 
office this could be a long night

well my friend things are 
finally beginning to happen

i've just been told to take two companies at the 
leap standards down to munich the furious personal

bodyguard i thought he was in the rhineland 
yeah he's meeting with rome with the rest

of that essay scum in the morning all of them and 
rome's hometown of the lake the entire leadership

oh um remember asking me about ever wanting 
anyone shot well maybe now's the time if

you've got anyone in mine thanks if i happen 
to think of anyone i'll send you a telegram

if i'm going to be stuck here all night 
i'm going to need cigarettes no no no

no i'll get them if anyone wants 
me i'll be about 20 minutes

yes i'm sorry i was asleep listen this car there 
yeah no what are you talking about well it has

been known hasn't it i'm sorry to disappoint 
you but he doesn't make a habit of staying

here any more than you do all right all right but 
listen this is important have you seen him at all

yes i saw him this afternoon he said he was 
going to munich tomorrow driving bigger yes

i suppose so why see if you can find him don't 
call the neighbors tell him yourself tell him

to report sick tomorrow do whatever he wants 
but stay home what's going on what's happening

i can't talk now just tell him and tell him to 
keep his mouth shut i'll try and call tomorrow

oh

oh

i

so

i'm

i have a message for you

what's your name my name what the devil do you 
mean my name i'm groping fury beagle get out

you're under shake him arrest what about then can 
i leave him there put him in with the others tell

these people who i am they know who you are but i 
haven't done anything what have i done what have

you done what have you done you're a traitor all 
traitors you're going to be shot all of you shot

yep good now we can finally get moving 
inform your duty officers that all

further instructions will now qualify as direct 
orders from the fiora himself bring me gildish

clelson eric ministry of transport

see to him personally then report back 
to me i shall need you again later

klaus numbers involved with rome 2. not 
that i know i know but now we have the

opportunity we might just as well be 
thorough get me keller and heidemann

ready

hey

damn it's a hell where did 
you idiots learn to shoot

chancellor has condemned you to death

sentence to be carried out immediately 
but dietrich you're my friend

the fuhrer would never do this i can't believe 
he would do this believe whatever you like

what about rome fiora is a man of great 
sentiment he may decide to pardon him

ready

hey lovely fiona hi hitler

hitler indeed pure theater what pity we 
couldn't provide him with a better audience

hoffman speaking i thought you were going to 
call me back we haven't heard from carl since

someone says the sa has been disbanded 
or something do you know what's going on

uh no i don't but i'll certainly try and find out

should i call you later no don't call me 
i'll call you at home okay yeah goodbye

don't worry if i know carl he's probably decided 
to stay on in munich and get good and drunk

cheer up another 24 hours and our little house 
will be in splendid order the situation in munich

has been resolved the fuhrer is still vacillating 
about rome but the others have all been dealt with

no problem with the uh rank and 
file were you expecting any well

they'll grumble a bit but when it comes 
to the point they'll do what they're told

everything in order yes sir good good the 
fiora has just got back from munich i'm on

my way to the chancellery now do you have 
any thoughts just the question of rome sir

yes well one naturally admires the fuhrer sense 
of loyalty but i'm afraid the full support of the

army won't be forthcoming unless rome is properly 
disposed of yes that's guring's view too but i

think the fiora feels that losing rome might upset 
the balance within the party well then perhaps

the fuhrer should be reminded that the balance 
within the party is whatever the fuhrer chooses

as for rome well as our young 
friend here once observed

who needs revolutionaries when the revolution 
has already been achieved did he now

incidentally if the furore were to be persuaded 
of the necessity of eliminating rome who would

you suggest as a reliable person to make the 
arrangements how about i care like camp commandant

oh yes of course what am i thinking of i'm sorry 
the last few days have been very trying iker

miker

i care

of this prison i have to 
tell you that this really is

most irregular irregular 
bit damn it's a direct order

rome arrested and dismissed

you have forfeited your life the furore will 
give you one more chance to draw your conclusions

you have 10 minutes excuse me but what 
am i to do about this prisoner he does

not appear in my report what's 
the charge that is the problem

he has not been charged but i believe he 
struck an ss officer did he did he indeed

i'll let you know

what about that other prisoner

why don't you send it to icaru 
maybe he can teach in some manners

hello hoffman

you fancy singing horse wrestle dear

so what time is your train back 7 20 won't they 
even tell you how long they're going to keep him

there i told you they don't have specific 
sentences at what they're pleased to call

re-education you get out when they decide you're 
ready for it but why can't i go and see him that

man you worked for heydrich he could get him out 
couldn't he if he really wanted to i already told

you i'll talk to him it isn't exactly easy it's 
mitzi she's picked up hans at the kindergarten

it's really been a tremendous help to 
me you don't seem to realize it's gonna

be bad enough telling heydrich where carl is 
never mind asking him to do something about it

i didn't know you'd be coming i just took the day

off to come and tell him about carl 
i have to go back in an hour or two

would you like some coffee no thank you isn't 
there anything you can do i don't know why

the both of you have to keep going oh not me i 
didn't put him there in the first place did i

you hungry and listen to fellow peterson 
may be a degenerate but he's got a good

nose for food like it is genuine black 
bread straight from the officer's mess

don't worry i don't have to do any 
favors that you wouldn't approve of

all right nice out wait a minute

there's a man dead here we decided to stay in this 
place bring him up around corner in the morning

i was wondering if i could um raise 
the subject of your brother in dhaka

i'm a little bit surprised you 
didn't bring up the matter sooner

or did you perhaps suppose we might 
remain unaware of the situation

well the fact is the fact is that by security 
people have already looked into it they tell me

that your brother is relatively harmless given the 
right direction he could even be of some use to us

unfortunately a release from dachau is solely 
at the discretion of the commandant nevertheless

nevertheless surely an official request from 
this office issues orders not begging letters

anyhow i have no intention of having my 
personal requests on file with an ambitious

dwarf like is that perfectly clear yes sir

on the other hand if it amuses you to see ike 
yourself you can give him my regards if you like

i imagine he'll be interested 
to listen to what you have to

say i'm sure he's quite aware that 
his name is on our files as well

and if he should let you have him 
make sure that your brother learns

to behave himself or you might find that 
you're running short of friends yourself

so reinhardt tristan eugene 
heydrich sends his regard say funny

i almost thought he didn't like me do 
you think i'm being too sensitive here

so hoffman we haven't really had 
time to get acquainted have we

never mind perhaps you'll 
come back and see us again

sign this what is it it confirms 
that you've been well treated

that you won't discuss this place 
with anyone after your release

i'll hit that

did you want to eat

i'm going back to berlin i just came by to let 
carl know that i spoke to the people from the

garage it seems we have some influence there 
we all right the ss if you prefer anyway they

say you can start there again next week do you 
think that's what he wants what else can he do

i don't know but you might have asked him first 
you don't understand they're going to be watching

him now if he doesn't settle down and stay out of 
trouble they could send him straight back to dhaka

they who's they helmut you mean your people don't 
you you mean the ss look i don't like some of the

things that have been happening any more than 
you do but the only way you're going to change

anything is from the inside you're not going to 
change anything from the inside on the country

they're changing you where do you think carl would 
be now if it weren't for my position in berlin

one day you'll wake up and find out 
you're no different from the rest of

them and meanwhile you won't have changed 
a thing oh really and how is it you know

so much about it have you added political 
science to your other accomplishments no

i just know because i used to be in love with you

you don't have to worry about carl 
making any trouble i don't know

what they did to him in that place 
but he won't even speak to anyone

all he wants to do is play with hunts

well anyway tell him about the job

good luck

so

uh

may i come in yes of course of course come in 
by all means i welcome i know it's not quite up

to the standard of my old villa the longstrasser 
but as you probably know your people i mean the uh

the authorities decided that it was too good 
for me and so they confiscated it i'm told

that they're going to auction off the contents in 
order to pay for their uh expenses yes i know i

managed to buy back a few of your books most of 
the best stuff had already gone i'm afraid but

elective affinities

i wonder what goethe would have to say now well 
anyway i just thought you might like to have them

nice you you're very kind to think of it very 
kind indeed i'm most grateful the fact is i

only really seem to feel like reading newspapers 
these days uh even your uh national socialist one

well i suppose i should oh may i 
offer you a cup of coffee i've become

very good at making coffee no i really must go

well uh thank you for the visit 
it's always good to see old friends

why don't you just i mean 
have you thought of emigrating

where would i go i don't know england 
america what would i do there teach of course

i'm afraid the study of german literature 
is not going to be a very popular pursuit in

the near future don't you agree besides it's 
rather late in life to learn a new language

anyway i'm much too german i 
would probably get homesick

the latest reports from paris indicate 
that the life of ernst von roth

third secretary of the german embassy there 
who was shot two days ago by the jewish student

gruntspan is still hanging in the balance 
rights minister dr joseph goebbels said

today

why didn't you tell me you were coming

is anything wrong no no no i just got a couple 
of days leave would you rather i stayed in berlin

hello hans you've been promoted how do you know

that can't you see he's right though i 
didn't have to do anything very clever

for it it happened sooner or later anyway can i 
see your gun no not now oh go on let me see it

hans if you want to go to your meeting it's 
time to go and wash your face in a minute no now

so what's been happening you tell me you're 
the one who always hears everything first

well how's carl goes to work and comes home 
he never talks never tells anyone what he's

thinking well at least he managed to stay 
out of trouble did you hear the radio today

about our man at the embassy yes and that 
poisoned dwarf goebbels is playing it up

for all it's worth isn't he do you think 
there'll be trouble well i don't know

but if i had any jewish friends i'd certainly 
advise them to stay home for the next few days

hans can't wait to join the hitler youth ah 
well you won't like that will you i don't know

perhaps it'll be better than him being unhappy 
because all of his friends are in it and he isn't

have you seen anything of missy

huh nothing at all she's got a job working at a 
club in munich you know oh yeah so they tell me

well come on carl there must 
be some news in this hole

rudolf longner finally died yesterday 
if you think that qualifies as news

who's rural of london he was the foreman at 
the bus garage the job in the wheelchair yeah

what was the matter with it

he had a broken back having a 
broken back isn't good for you

i want to make a statement 
what at least tommy knight

yes concerning the death of rudolph 
longnecker of what address buckmonstrasse 27

logna backmastrasser

isn't that the fellow used to work at the baskaras

didn't he just die a couple of days ago 
yes of injuries caused by members of the sa

in may 1933 just a minute now what's your name 
tough one carl hoffman that's it yes hoffman

what are you talking about that case was 
closed years ago my statement's going to

reopen it listen son i already know your 
name but i can just as easily forget it

i've learned to forget a lot of things these last 
few years why don't you do the same and go on home

i just want you to take my statement 
now listen any statements i take here

go straight to the gestapo they won't 
like your story they won't like you either

do you really want to end up in dakao

schumacher come here and witness a

statement

well huffman how are you my old friend fine no

tell me when do we last see each other 
anyway i don't know march that's right

just after we went into austria wasn't it yeah

it's a funny thing you know germany gets bigger 
all the time and yet the world itself seems to

get smaller is that a thought of your own or are 
you quoting from a book i should have read no no

ah the fact is

i had a call from a friend 
in stuttgart this morning uh

fritz ritter maybe you know written 
is with the gestapo isn't it well

as far as stuttgart's concerned you 
could say he is a gestalter anyway

guess who's being interrogated right 
there in his office your brother carl

you know a character your brother isn't 
he what's he supposed to have done now

you didn't know well he's been making rather nasty 
allegations about something that supposed to have

happened way back in 33. tell you the truth 
all right i think fritz will just soon drop

the whole thing but um i mean after all what's 
the point of sending young carol back to dachau

trouble is um princess got a bit of a problem 
there well surely he's free to do whatever he

wants yes of course but that's not the problem 
now his problem is uh rather similar to yours

what you might call a family matter see fritz 
has this brother in laura wants to join the

ss and i i think he'd be a real asset but 
the point is he can't produce that aerial

family tree they make so much fuss about at 
least not one that goes right back to 1800

it's not his fault of course but uh there are 
some distinctly non-aryan uh skeletons in this

particular cupboard which makes membership of vss 
quite out of the question well you want me to talk

to heidrik about it no no no no that wouldn't be 
a good idea at all no but um on the other hand

you do have access to uh idle 
brands department don't you

they deal in those genealogical certificates i bet 
you could get fritz a really nice one couldn't you

let me think about it uh i uh i told 
fritz i'd call him right back well

it could save a lot of wear and tear on 
your brother too it's going to take time

i'm sure fritz can wait for a week or two

ah stood guard double seven double one please

hello frets becca here listen um that problem 
you were telling me about yes yeah i just

talked to him it's all settled yeah so now you 
can just uh drop that hoffman thing can't you

i see

it's already on your books

what listen um he must be just about due 
for military service around there anyway

yeah right well why don't you just 
give him to the army a little early

exactly why deprive the country of another soldier

who knows we may be needing people 
like that before long fine thanks fritz

you know if you and i really cooperate there's 
probably no end to what we could achieve

when i am

a golden day

oh

will make us young

this is

thank you we hope you enjoyed 
our entertainment ladies and

gentlemen that's all we have for you 
tonight oh one thing i almost forgot

someone asked me a request would 
i sing the polish national anthem

anyone know it you know well no matter it'll 
be obsolete by christmas anyway like the jews

where have you been what happened to you 
you know i know i called helmet in berlin

after girl told me you've been arrested 
is it awful it's better than doc huh

sit down how long are you here for do you 
want a drink ah sure i'll have a beer please

well we're just outside of town i have to 
be back in barracks tomorrow night brandy

this is carl a friend from stuttgart hello

now we really know there's going to be a war

there's an idiot from the armed services 
entertainment department over there

next thing we know we'll all be in warsaw making 
jokes about the polish navy did he offer you a job

what do the nazis want me for they 
have enough clowns of their own

and hitler thanks and i heard you 
saying well yes what did you think

you know what i think oh why don't 
you two nauseating lovebirds go home

go to bed do it for the fatherland 
leave me to adjust my machias in peace

i'll go and get my coat good night putsy 
see you tomorrow thanks nice and hit loop

maybe there won't be a war after all

i'm not until tomorrow anyway

tell me hoffman have you been doing 
anything reprehensible recently

not that i'm aware of well if you had 
you'd certainly be aware of it wouldn't you

but our people in berlin persist in having doubts 
about you they seem to feel you lack a certain

this dedication just your manner all 
the same is best to keep it in mind

poland take a good look in a few days it will 
have ceased to exist the fury's already given

the final orders however in the interests of world 
opinion it will be a good thing if the poles are

shown to be guilty of extreme provocation we 
have therefore arranged for a number of incidents

there in gladwelds for instance on 
the night before the outbreak of

war our radio station will be attacked and 
captured by a detachment of poles they will

broadcast some inflammatory propaganda and 
then retreat back again across the border

also at least it will appear i take it these 
marauding poles will in fact be people of our

own 150 ss offices in polish uniform and are 
too capable of broadcasting in polish of course

150 isn't there a danger that some of 
them will eventually talk no not at all

now in order for these incidents to have 
credibility these poles of ours must

suffer a few casualties that's where you come in

providing suitable bodies is gestapo muller's 
responsibility however mueller tends to be a bit

crude i don't want the entire area littered with 
a bunch of dead clowns i want corpses that look

like polish soldiers you will therefore select 
seven suitable candidates and deliver them to

where would the selection take place 
you're familiar with black how are you

hey john beg to report prisoners 
ready for inspection sir

really steve

this is just to keep the goods on ice so 
to speak until we get them the gliders

we'll provide them with some convincing 
bullet holes when the show opens

thank you hello hoffman keller tells me the 
tanks are only have you heard of anything

oh by the way fritz sends his regards three 
twitter i'll get started my friends let go

his brother-in-law has just been objected 
to the officer school in branchwork

amen

congratulations hoffman i just 
heard from muller he said that the

goods that you delivered are just the thing

i notice here though that you 
selected only one political prisoner

all the rest were from the habitual criminal 
category is that some kind of indication of your

political sympathy or is it simply that you think 
that criminals make much likelier-looking polls

you have been listening to the ever-popular man

later in the program we shall be playing you 
some selections excuse me later in the programme

with

what's up

have you seen carl hoffmann

oh no i thought i was too late

i've got to tell you

can't think of anything else 
to be coming back for can you

hey come on often the poles are waiting for you

let's don't worry

now as our panzers roll onto warsaw 
poland must pay dearly for her continual

and unprovoked aggression against germany 
which culminated in the cowardly attack on

our radio station in glyphics shortly 
before the outbreak of hostilities

in countless towns and villages our boys 
are greeted as well-known liberators

from the polish regime that has consistently 
persecuted the german-speaking population

for those struck and backs people yes 
this section has been extremely thorough

is he submitting reliable figures yes 
admirably so we estimate that of all the

so-called upper classes in poland only 
three percent remain to be dealt with

did you get by the boots from shredders yet oh 
i did these chargers closed they took them away

what do you mean they took 
him away he's not jewish is he

well don't look at me i have nothing to 
do with what happens here in stuttgart

and anyway if you're talking about the schroeder 
i remember the one that used to be a socialist i

guess he just couldn't keep his mouth shut the old 
fool should know better do you really believe that

billy i don't believe anything what has it to 
do with belief nothing i'm talking about reality

god in heaven you're talking about 
one silly old man if you had any idea

what they are doing to tens of thousands of 
people believe that why don't you why don't i what

go on why don't i what

resign you don't understand anything nothing

if you're writing to carl

you better give it to me she keeps 
thinking kyle will be coming home soon

but from the way our traffic's moving east

the railroad people reckon will be starting 
on the russians any day now what do you think

what yes probably who knows

so you're finally back eh

i don't know how you do it do you manage to fiddle 
more leave than anyone in the ss so tell me what

illicit pleasures have you been pursuing this 
time huh well speaking of pleasures a similar

scent for you yet no what for well naturally 
is reassigning a lot of hydrax assistance

do you mean to say you didn't know you see that's 
what happens when you spend all your time on leave

you don't even know what's happening in your own 
department what heidrick's leaving for prague

he's just been made rights protector of bohemia 
nice title eh it's very grand what does it mean

well i suppose it means that checks are going to 
get a good kicking and if heidrick isn't taking

you with him you better help him has a job for 
you or you'll find yourself fighting russians

heydrich seems to think quite well of you in fact 
you could almost describe him as your guardian

angel we shall obviously have to find something 
worthy of your talents very good i'll let you know

by the way this brother of yours has he been 
behaving himself i take it he must have been sir

i believe they've made him an officer

oh

and now i have a wonderful surprise for 
you we bring you an enormous expense all

the way from hollywood california 
america's darling shirley tempah

oh i'm so sorry last monday the furu 
declared war on america so surely can't come

it wasn't monday it was tuesday we have our own 
darling from berlin the wonderful mitzi templar

when i am

oh

my

oh

expecting someone else

i never knew what cold was 
hello you come here often

no use my telling you to go 
home to bed this time is it

what a perfect time for me to go sightseeing 
i'm told this village is an absolute

gem of soviet architecture better hurry 
the truck will be here for us at midnight

drive

so hoffman you've lost your guardian angel eh this 
is griffin phil dr bess currently attached to the

foreign office he's interested in the measures 
taken concerning the murder of reinhard heydrich

i shall be appointing you to keep him 
informed yes sir what is the situation present

it's a matter that hasn't previously been 
my department sir nevertheless it is now

and i presume you have at least kept 
yourself informed as i understand it some

ten thousand persons have been arrested and 
a further one thousand two hundred executed

in addition the village of lititze in which 
the assassins were believed to have taken

refuge has been liquidated and the inhabitants 
it was the inhabitants i was referring to sir

uh why don't you close that door

the bombers will be here soon enough without you 
showing them the way what's that freight doing on

siding five eastbound rerouted from frankfurt but 
hanover will commandeered the loco there's no way

we get it shifted before daylight there are people 
in there aren't there yes i know jews from holland

look don't worry about it where they're going 
they're in no hurry see you in the morning

you hope

the berlin train is just pulling in 
now it's about time too uh listen

uh do you know anything about that freight on 
siding five yes it's ready to roll as soon as

the burning train clears the line good they fix 
the tracks all but the down line for frankfurt

working on it now it's been quite a 
night eh doesn't it just oh thanks

you took your time the way you people are 
running the trains it's a wonder i'm here at all

my relief will be hidden you want to wait 
we can walk down to the house together

fine i'll get some coffee the damn train 
took 12 hours i'll see you in the hall yes

this resettlement can you tell me where they're 
going to send me don't worry you'll like it

next

jewish what took them so long getting round 
to you no system is quite perfect i suppose

rosenberg eh rosenberg you taught 
my brother gerhard gerhard oh yes

very intelligent boy he was killed at smolensk 
sorry so now you're reporting for resettlement

don't you know what resettlement 
means yes you're ill

unfit to travel

go home disappear if anybody 
asks you show them this take it

next on your own headband

come on with that shortcut

my brother carl's at starring grad in spite 
of the enemies suicidal attempts to react

to this believed city the iron will of the 
german soldier in the streets of stalingrad

is once again justifying our viewers unshakable 
faith in the unswerving loyalty of these people

who are those people partisans 
partisans well why don't you ask them

come in

so you're one of the boys has been suspendedly 
trying to leave our people in uh stalingrad eh

yes well i can't understand is why they 
should detach you from your regiment at

the present time and post you to us would 
it be because of your political opinions

i think it probably has more to do with 
the fact that my regiment no longer

exists hmm

let's hope you find your 
time with us more profitable

i'll see you in the most later we make quite 
a tradition out of celebrating new year's eve

oh

gentleman it is nearly midnight and before 
we usher in the new year i would like to

suggest we observe a minute of silence 
to honor those comrades that have fallen

just a moment sir we're doing this all 
wrong you remember sir you're supposed

to change uniforms with the newest officer 
in the mask mustn't break with tradition

all right all right

what am i going to say

well the colonel is about to request a minute of 
silence for all of our comrades that have fallen

in battle this last year 
that's a good idea very good

but as you know our fuhrer the greatest general 
of all time has been kind enough to take over

the conduct of this war himself and if his 
performance at stalingrad is anything to go by

perhaps we should add a couple of minutes for the 
poor idiots to be slaughtered next year as well

i'm serious i'm serious that's 
three minutes of our time

right three minutes just think if we were being 
asked to observe a minute for all the people that

we've slaughtered and our friends in the ss have 
slaughtered i spend the rest of our lives in total

silence i want this man transferred 
to a punishment battalion

yes sir but i don't think that's all 
together justified i want it done by

morning

chance nine months ago they're 
happy to leave me for dead

these days something like this 
practically quality is a one

it's sending me back to the front it's your 
unfold i should cut it off why aren't you

seeing me again in all right yeah don't be so 
sure they'll probably prop you up in a tank

good luck

but another truth they won't be 
seeing me again in a hurry either

oh

meyer meyer in 1940 hermann goering said if the 
british ever bombed berlin you can call me meyer

make way for the degenerate please hal 
hitler i don't know where you find your

nerve doesn't take much nerve to play the 
fool being a messenger boy that takes nerve

otto wants me to carry an envelope to 
his underground friends and flutters down

here's to comedy and all its practitioners 
and who might they be hard hitler

don't look now but i think we're being

ignored

how do you do i have just heard that 
carl has not returned to his unit

do you think he's hurt no damn fool is deserted 
i don't know where the hell he thinks he can go

but if he should get in touch with you turn 
for god's sake to steer clear of balloon

i'll let you know if i hear anything

why wasn't i introduced oh she's just a 
family friend from stuttgart not your type

at all and who's the old fairy with her he's a 
comedian quite funny but they tell me his jokes

tend to be a bit political oh he's harmless 
just likes to sail a bit close to the wind

hello

that's what i like about you you greet 
me as if you're expecting somebody else

i want you in a shelter i hate 
them it's like waiting to die

sorry

what time is it day six what does it matter 
you don't have to go anywhere anyway do you

i'm not today anyway i gotta keep moving it's 
the only way to survive but how can you live

that's not the problem i even have rationed 
documents to feed an army travel documents to

transport one but helmut says they're looking 
for them they've been doing that for nearly a

year you're surprised how much of the scarf the 
second country i've seen in the last few months

but if you're listed as a deserter and they 
get you military police can only discover

that if they hold you long enough to check 
back with somebody else otherwise if your

papers are good if you don't let your 
face get too familiar then they believe

you're in transit because your papers say 
so yeah let's eat we'll talk about it later

brow line templar well labor yes what is 
it is it important i'm just getting dressed

no no i'm sorry i was just listening to 
the radio they say there's going to be

an important announcement i thought you might 
want to listen oh yes thank you i'll do that

we now bring you an important announcement 
from the rights minister of information

dr joseph goebbels men and women of 
germany shortly before noon today

thursday the 20th of july a group of despicable 
traitors made an attempt on the life of our fuhrer

adolf hitler by placing an explosive 
device in his front line headquarters

the chief perpetrator of this 
treacherous act the country stolfenberg

i can now tell you that because of 
what i can only describe as divine

you idiot why now why today well i 
wanted it to be sooner but the trains

aren't running on time anymore you know 
what's happening on there i can imagine

they're arresting everyone on site it's gonna 
be the night of the long nights all over again

do you have any travel papers i'm 
supposed to be in transit to munich

and that's where you better go now no i want him 
to stay here you can't they've already arrested

your comedian friend that's impossible 
but he's got nothing to do with all this

it makes no difference he's on the list they'll 
get the name of every soul he's ever known

that means they'll be coming here you better 
sleep somewhere else tonight both of you

he's right trouble is every time you're 
right homewood everything gets worse

but he wouldn't tell him anything 
he wouldn't talk everybody talks

how can you say you don't know any names 
you know your name not you all right let's

start again your name my name is gerhart this 
gentleman's name is becca and this man is hoffman

now let's see what other 
names we remember shall we

or perhaps you prefer to tell us some more jokes

why don't you see what you can do

i'm afraid our friend just retired 
from the entertainment business

maybe he just didn't know any more jokes

so

if you're looking for the 
hoffman's they're not here anymore

they were in there both of them what about 
the boy boy oh no he wasn't there then

hunts went to berlin long before that berlin 
the volkswagen boxster you know the new defense

force they've said yes yes i know are you sure 
he said berlin yes hans tomizer himself said he

was going to defend berlin to the last round or 
something i think there were some brothers too

uh my name is hoffman i understand 
someone is looking for me

are you sure

ah what the hell are you doing here you must 
be out of your mind did you know that hans

was in the volkswagen that he's here in 
berlin yes he's in the barracks of dawn

he's 13 years old do you think i don't know that 
some of the boys out there are even younger what

the hell can you do you can get him out 
you can get him out and you can get him

the hell out of berlin you bring my friend 
the hop stream if you're a large schnapps

and how carl how do you imagine that i can 
punch you in that house oh sir that's how

you have people shot tortured 
beaten to death but you can't make a

13-year-old boy disappear i've never 
done those things no no nobody we've

had other people doing it for us now 
you're going to get hands on yourself

look those kids will probably 
never even leave the barracks

in any way how much longer can all this 
last you've been saying that for 12

years don't worry carl it won't last what 
did you say when they crippled longer

what you said when your people murdered the last 
of the opposition don't worry carl it can't last

i'm going to change things from the inside right 
it's probably what you told rosenberg isn't it

don't worry professor nothing lasts

forever but we were wrong helmet 
they're all dead all of them

and we might as well be too

and it is going to last forever

all right carl i'll go and get him i don't know 
what good it'll do but if that's what you want

does he know about his parents yet

an air raid two weeks ago

both of them

do you know what someone said to me today

enjoy the war the peace is going to be

terrible did you see mitzy she all right 
she should have left berlin long ago

she had some weird idea that you want 
to stay where you'd be able to find me

i'll meet you there both of you you and hunts

all right but for god's sake be careful those 
lunatics out there are shooting deserters on sight

you better let me go first

hello hunt hello now listen i only have a few 
minutes you see that corner over there do you

think you can get away to meet me there after 
dark i don't know they say we're going to the

front tonight yes i know that's why i want to 
get you out of here you want me to run away no

no now listen you'll be coming with me we can go 
home don't you want to go home but i can't i'm a

soldier we're going to defend berlin the owner of 
our people shut up you idiot what are you a parrot

i'm sorry hans but it's all gone 
there is nothing left to defend

you're going to dessert too aren't you 
stop talking about deserting don't you

understand anything it's all over you'll be 
getting killed for nothing you pig i hate you

you're a traitor just like 
carl you're all traitors

alright hans leave it now we'll 
go home and go home together

give me my rifle

going back to your friends

i'm sorry it seems we taught 
our little brother too well

perhaps you're right perhaps this 
thing really does last forever

but what are you going to do

well they say the imperial guard 
is supposed to die with the emperor

though i think you'll find my source 
will just crawl back into the woodwork

you'd be surprised how many new identity papers 
will be showing and everyone beyond reproach

you say hello to mexico

identity papers don't i know you

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