QB VII (1974): Season 1, Episode 2 - Part Three - full transcript

[Male Narrator] THIS IS THE
STORY OF THE LIVES OF TWO MEN,

WHO FOUGHT EACH OTHER IN ONE OF THE
MOST FASCINATING TRIALS IN MODERN HISTORY.

THE TRIAL TOOK PLACE IN QB VII...
QUEEN'S BENCH COURTROOM NUMBER SEVEN.

THE ROYAL COURTS
OF JUSTICE IN LONDON.

THERE, SIR ADAM KELNO, A
REFUGEE EUROPEAN DOCTOR...

AND CONCENTRATION CAMP
SURVIVOR, BROUGHT SUIT FOR LIBEL...

AGAINST ABRAHAM
CADY, WORLD WAR II ACE...

AND WORLD-FAMOUS
AMERICAN NOVELIST.

AS WE HAVE SEEN,
FOR ALMOST 30 YEARS...

THEY LIVED THEIR LIVES
ALONG PARALLEL LINES,

EACH UNAWARE OF THE OTHER UNTIL
THEY CAME INTO EXPLOSIVE CONTACT...



IN OUR TIME, IN THE
COURTS OF LONDON.

IN THEIR LIVES, IN THEIR
CONFLICT, IN THIS TRAGEDY...

IS THE HEART OF THE
STORY OF A GENERATION...

THAT HAD A RENDEZVOUS...
WITH DESTINY.

[Abe Narrating] THE
HOLOCAUST: ABRAHAM CADY.

THE TESTING OF
THE JEWISH PEOPLE...

FROM THE OVENS OF JADWIGA,
TO THE SINAI AND THE SUEZ.

RESEARCH MATERIAL. CONTRASTS.

THE BUILDING AND SURVIVAL
OF THE STATE OF ISRAEL.

WHERE THE PORT OF
ASHUD NOW STANDS.

ASHUD, 1969.

VICTIMS FROM THE HOLOCAUST...

TURNED BACK FROM
THE HOLY LAND, 1947.

TEL AVIV STREET, 1920.



THE SAME TEL AVIV STREET, 1968.

THE FIRST SCHOOL
IN JERUSALEM, 1911.

THE HEBREW UNIVERSITY
ON THE SAME SITE, 1970.

MUNICIPAL COUNCIL
BUILDING, 1912.

ISRAELI PARLIAMENT,
JERUSALEM, 1968.

AN EARLY DEFENDER OF
THE JEWISH HOMELAND, 1911.

AN ISRAELI PARATROOPER, 1970.

[Knock At Door] COME IN.

THE FIRST REVIEW OF THE HOLOCAUST
APPEARED IN TODAY'S PAPER.

YEAH? HOW WAS IT?

IT'S GREAT. FANTASTIC.

[Laughs] HOW WOULD IT BE
IF I WEREN'T YOUR FATHER?

AH, PRETTY GOOD.
UNLESS YOU FEEL SAYING,

"IT SHOULD BE ADDED TO THE BOOKS OF
THE OLD TESTAMENT," IS GOING A BIT TOO FAR.

- YOU'RE KIDDING.
- I BOUGHT THE PAPER,
I'LL READ IT. QUOTE,

"A CHRONICLE IN HEROIC TERMS. A LITERARY
EFFORT UNPARALLELED IN OUR GENERATION.

"A MASSIVE, HISTORICAL NOVEL TOLD
THROUGH UNFORGETTABLE CHARACTERS,

COMPARABLE IN THIS
CENTURY ONLY TO..."

AND NOW, GET THIS,
"WAR AND PEACE."

END QUOTE.

NOT BAD, EH?

NOT BAD.

YOU THINK THE FOREIGN
REVIEWS WILL BE AS GOOD?

THE JEWISH CRITICS LIKE A
BOOK BY A JEW, ABOUT JEWS.

I'M NOT GONNA WONDER
WHAT THE LONDON TIMES SAYS.

THEY WERE PROBABLY HARD ON GENESIS
HERE WHEN IT FIRST HIT THE BOOKSTORES.

WELL, LET'S DRINK
TO THE REVIEWS, HUH?

LE'CHAYIM. LE'CHAYIM.

THERE'S SOMETHING
ELSE WE SHOULD DRINK TO.

YEAH, WHAT'S THAT?

I BECAME AN ISRAELI
CITIZEN TODAY.

AND YESTERDAY,

I GOT MY WINGS.

FULL CIRCLE.

FULL CIRCLE.

WELL.

THIS ONE... IS FOR
YOUR GRANDFATHER.

ALAV HA-SHOLOM.

IF HE WERE HERE HE WOULD
"KVELL," AS HE USED TO SAY.

STAY FOR DINNER. FINE.

- DAD?
- YEAH?

I'M GLAD YOU'RE MY FATHER.

SIT DOWN, MR. GRAHAM.

YOUNG FOR A DOCTOR, AREN'T YOU?

I'M AN INTERN.

MY FATHER'S THE DOCTOR. MORNING.

TAKE YOUR TROUSERS OFF, PLEASE.

LEFT KNEE, RECURRENT EDEMA.

PAIN, GOES ON.

THANK YOU.

AH, LIVERPOOL.

SIT DOWN, PLEASE.

TELL ME, MR. GRAHAM,

OH, YES. WHAT DID THE DOCK
WORKERS CLINIC TELL YOU ABOUT THIS?

TOLD ME TO COME BACK. DID YOU?

THOUGHT IT MIGHT GO AWAY.

OH, YES, VERY SENSIBLE.

THINGS EITHER GO AWAY OR
EVENTUALLY THEY KILL YOU.

YOU THOUGHT YOU'D
WAIT AND SEE, EH?

YES. STEPHAN, DRAW THIS
FLUID AWAY, WOULD YOU?

I'M SENDING YOU TO AN ORTHOPAEDIC
SURGEON. DO YOU UNDERSTAND?

BUT, MEANWHILE, YOU
MUST, YOU MUST STAY OFF IT.

I'VE GOTTA GO TO WORK,
YOU KNOW. YES, YES, YES.

I'M PUTTING YOU ON DISABILITY.

NOW LOOK HERE, I'LL
SHOW YOU. [Clears Throat]

ALL RIGHT, LOOK.

SEE, THIS IS THE
PART YOU DAMAGED.

NOW, THEY'LL CUT
OUT THE BAD PART...

AND SEW WHAT IS LEFT OF
THIS PIECE HERE, UNDERSTAND?

NOW, IF THEY FIND TOO
MUCH OF THE DAMAGED PARTS,

THEN THEY'LL PUT IN
A PIECE OF PLASTIC.

PLASTIC. GOOD.

DO YOU MIND IF I SAY SOMETHING?

SO LONG AS IT'S NOT TOO MUCH...

BECAUSE IT'S ALMOST
TIME FOR LUNCH.

MY MATES DOWN AT THE DOCKS,

THEY SAID THE ONE THING ABOUT SIR ADAM
IS HE'LL TELL YOU EXACTLY WHAT'S WHAT.

THEN HE'LL EXPLAIN IT TO YOU
SO YOU CAN UNDERSTAND IT.

HE'S A REAL GENTLEMAN, THAT ONE.

THAT'S WHAT THEY SAID, ANYWAY.

WELL, I'M... VERY
FLATTERED, MR. GRAHAM.

TELL YOUR FRIENDS TO WRITE TO
THE NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE...

'CAUSE I COULD DO WITH A RAISE.

ALL RIGHT, YOU TAKE THAT.
GOOD-BYE. YOU BE CAREFUL NOW.

THANK YOU.

- YOU KNOW,
HE'S RIGHT, DAD.
- WHAT?

YOU DON'T DELIBERATELY MAKE IT
MYSTERIOUS LIKE OTHER DOCTORS DO.

I DON'T THINK I CAN STAND ALL
THESE KIND WORDS, STEPHAN.

I HOPE I'M REWARDED WITH SOMETHING
BESIDES YOUR MOTHER'S CABBAGE FOR LUNCH.

COME ALONG.

ANGELA?

ANGELA, WHERE ARE YOU?

WHAT'S THE MATTER? YOU
HAVEN'T SET THE TABLE.

NO. HAVEN'T YOU FIXED LUNCH?

THIS...

HUH?

THERE'S A PART IN IT ABOUT THE
JEWS IN THE CONCENTRATION CAMPS.

THIS IS WHAT IT SAYS.

"IT WAS IN THE
CAMP OF JADWIGA...

"THAT THE GERMANS CONDUCTED
HORRENDOUS EXPERIMENTS ON JEWISH PRISONERS,

"FOR THE PURPOSE OF
DEVELOPING METHODS OF MASS

STERILIZATION OF
SO-CALLED INFERIOR RACES.

"IN THE NOTORIOUS BARRACKS FIVE,

"THE SURGERY WAS
RUN BY DR. ADAM KELNO,

"WHO CARRIED OUT A THOUSAND OR
MORE SURGICAL EXPERIMENTS ON JEWS...

"WITHOUT THE USE OF ANESTHETICS,

USING THEM AS
HUMAN GUINEA PIGS."

MY GOD. AFTER ALL THESE
YEARS, I CAN'T BELIEVE IT.

HOW COULD THEY DARE, DAD?

HOW CAN ANYONE WRITE THAT AFTER YOU'VE BEEN
TRIED AND CLEARED RIGHT HERE IN LONDON?

WHO WROTE THE
BOOK? ABRAHAM CADY.

ABRAHAM. A JEW AND
PROBABLY A COMMUNIST, AS WELL.

I DOUBT THAT HE'S A COMMUNIST.
THEY'RE AGAINST THE JEWS THESE DAYS.

HOW WOULD HE EVEN HEAR ABOUT
THE TRIAL IN THE FIRST PLACE?

WHAT KIND OF TRIAL?

THERE'S NOTHING
TO BE ASHAMED OF.

THE COMMUNISTS
TRIED TO EXTRADITE ME...

AS A WAR CRIMINAL.

THE BRITISH GOVERNMENT TRIED
ME, FOUND THAT I WAS INNOCENT...

AND REFUSED TO GIVE ME UP.

AND THIS WAS BEFORE WE
WENT TO LIVE IN KUWAIT? YEAH.

THIS IS WHY WE WENT THERE, TO
GET AWAY FROM THE NOTORIETY.

WELL, IF DAD WAS ACQUITTED...
WELL, IT DIDN'T STOP THAT MAN...

FROM LIBELING
YOUR FATHER, DID IT?

IF IT'S LIBEL... THEN
DAD STANDS TO GAIN...

AN ENORMOUS AMOUNT OF MONEY
FOR DAMAGE TO HIS REPUTATION.

IF IT'S LIBEL?

I MEAN IF IT CAN BE
PROVED. I READ IT ISN'T EASY.

HE'S RIGHT. THIS MAN ISN'T
JUST BEING CARELESS, YOU KNOW.

HE WROTE IT DELIBERATELY,
PROBABLY HAS

DOZENS OF LIARS LIKE
HIMSELF TO BACK HIM UP.

WHY PICK ON YOU? HE
MENTIONS NOBODY ELSE HERE.

BECAUSE I AM SIR ADAM KELNO,

I'LL BRING HIM MORE PUBLICITY, MORE
THAN HE CAN HAVE ANY OTHER WAY.

I'LL BE HELPING HIM
TO SELL HIS BOOK.

PERHAPS YOU WON'T IF
YOU JUST LET IT GO BY.

HOW MANY PEOPLE DO WE
KNOW WHO READ BOOKS AT ALL?

IF NOBODY READS IT. IF
NOBODY OPENS THE BOOK.

IT IS THERE IN PRINT.
MY WHOLE LIFE.

EVERYTHING I'VE STOOD FOR, EVERYTHING I'VE
WORKED FOR, DESTROYED IN AN INCH OF TYPE.

I AM SURE HE WILL
BE MADE TO RETRACT.

- BY WHO?
- BY YOUR LAWYER. BY YOURSELF.

PRIVATELY. NO, NO.

THAT IS NOT GOOD ENOUGH.

I MUST EXPOSE HIM... PUBLICLY.

ADAM, WHAT ARE YOU DOING?

I'M GOING TO PHONE
ROBERT HIGHSMITH.

THE MAN WHO HANDLED
THE EXTRADITION CASE.

I'M GOING TO STOP
MR. ABRAHAM CADY.

ONCE AND FOR ALL. NEVER
MIND HOW LONG IT TAKES,

OR HOW MUCH IT COSTS.

SIR ROBERT, THANK YOU
FOR SEEING ME SO PROMPTLY.

YOU'RE MORE THAN WELCOME.
TWENTY-SIX YEARS. TWO KNIGHTHOODS.

THIS IS MY ASSOCIATE,
MR. CHESTER DICKS.

IT'S A GREAT PRIVILEGE TO MEET
YOU, SIR ADAM. DRINKS, GENTLEMEN?

YES, PLEASE. PLEASE.

YES, INDEED, AT QUEEN'S COUNSEL.

WELL, WE CAN USE THEM BOTH.

YOU KNOW I HAD HOPED,
FOOLISHLY, I SUPPOSE,

THAT SINCE THIS IS AN
OPEN-AND-SHUT CASE...

SIR ADAM, THERE IS NO SUCH
THING AS AN OPEN-AND-SHUT CASE.

HOWEVER, THE LIBEL IS SO PATENT,
THAT I DOUBT IT CAN BE DEFENDED.

AND CONSIDERING THE
EMINENCE OF YOUR POSITION,

I'M SURE MR. CADY'S
SETTLEMENT WILL BE SUBSTANTIAL.

I DON'T WANT A SETTLEMENT.

NO, I WANT TO BE CLEARED
OF THIS IN OPEN COURT...

SO THAT EVERYONE KNOWS NOW.

BUT IF WE SECURE YOU
COMPENSATION AND A PUBLIC APOLOGY,

WOULD YOU STILL INSIST
ON A TRIAL? YES, ABSOLUTELY.

YOU MUST REALIZE THAT THIS BOOK
IS NOT ONLY A RUNAWAY BEST-SELLER,

BUT THE AUTHOR WAS A VERY HIGHLY DECORATED
RAF PILOT DURING THE SECOND WORLD WAR.

HE PASSES AS A ROMANTIC FIGURE, AND
HE'LL HAVE THE PRESS WITH HIM ALL THE WAY.

LOOK, I HAVE TO
PROVE MY INNOCENCE.

NOT ONLY FOR THE SAKE OF MY SON
AND MY WIFE, BUT ALSO FOR MYSELF.

YOU HAVE IT BACKWARDS, SIR ADAM.
YOU DON'T HAVE TO PROVE ANYTHING.

MR. CADY HAS TO
PROVE YOUR GUILT.

THERE IS NO WAY HE CAN DO THAT.

NOW, UNLESS HE PERJURES HIMSELF AND FINDS
WITNESSES WHO WILL PERJURE THEMSELVES...

WE CAN TAKE CARE OF THAT.
YOU ARE ABSOLUTELY CERTAIN...

THAT THERE IS NOT THE
FAINTEST BASIS OF FACT...

IN ANYTHING HE
IMPLIES IN THAT BOOK.

LOOK, PLEASE. IF
THERE IS ANY DOUBT,

IF YOU HAVE ANY SUSPICIONS, THEN
I MUST LEAVE AND GO ELSEWHERE.

I AM NOT YOUR CONFESSOR,
SIR ADAM. I AM YOUR COUNSEL.

WE HAVE TO ASK
THAT OF EVERY CLIENT.

I'M SORRY, THEN.

YOU MUST UNDERSTAND MY POSITION.

YOU KNOW, I HAVE NOT
LED AN EASY LIFE, MR. DICKS.

SIR ROBERT KNOWS THAT...

IT IS LATE FOR A BLOW LIKE THIS.

[Sir Robert] PLEASE, SIT DOWN.

AND LET US CONSIDER
OUR FIRST MOVE.

[Man] MR. CADY, THIS LAWSUIT,

DOES IT MAKE YOU REGRET ANY OF THE
THINGS YOU MAY HAVE SAID ABOUT DR. KELNO?

NONE. KELNO IS GUILTY. PERIOD.

[Reporters Clamoring]

MR. CADY, WOULD YOU MIND REPEATING
THAT, PLEASE, FOR EUROVISION?

NOT AT ALL. ADAM
KELNO IS GUILTY. PERIOD.

- THANK YOU.
- DO YOU EXPECT THE CURRENT
ANTI-JEWISH POSITION...

OF SOME OF THE COMMUNIST STATES
WILL ADVERSELY AFFECT YOUR DEFENSE?

I BELIEVE IN THE GOODWILL
OF GOOD MEN EVERYWHERE.

DO YOU CONSIDER COMMUNISTS
GOOD MEN? THERE ARE GOOD MEN...

AND BAD MEN IN EVERY POLITICAL
MOVEMENT AND EVERY NATIONALITY.

DO YOU CONSIDER DR. KELNO A
BAD MAN AND YOURSELF A GOOD MAN?

I DON'T KNOW. WE
MAY BOTH BE BAD MEN.

BUT MY BADNESS HAS NEVER
INCLUDED THE FORCIBLE CASTRATION...

AND STERILIZATION OF
INNOCENT MEN AND WOMEN.

[All Asking Questions]

LADIES AND GENTLEMEN, THAT
WILL BE SUFFICIENT FOR TODAY.

THANK YOU FOR COMING.

WHAT'S THE MATTER?

YOU DO KNOW WHAT
YOU'RE IN FOR, DON'T YOU?

ONE, WE'D HAVE TO INDUCE THE POLISH
GOVERNMENT TO OPEN KELNO'S FILES TO US.

TWO, FIND THE SURVIVORS
OF KELNO'S EXPERIMENTS.

AND THREE, PERSUADE THOSE
PEOPLE TO TESTIFY IN OPEN COURT...

THAT THEY ARE SEXUAL CRIPPLES.

- SO?
- NONE OF IT MAY BE POSSIBLE.

WE'LL SEE.

MARGARET'S BEEN IN TOUCH
WITH ME. SHE WANTS TO HELP.

SHE STILL HAS IT
FOR YOU, YOU KNOW.

YOU KNOW, IN A WAY
WE'VE BEEN MAKING LOVE...

OVER THE TRANSCONTINENTAL
TELEPHONES SINCE '67?

DIDN'T DO THE TRICK, APPARENTLY.

SHE DID MARRY.

LORD NORMAN WEIDMAN.

[Laughs] SHE FINALLY
GOT HER JEW.

AND LOST HIM.

HE LEFT HER A FORTUNE.

SHE MEANS THAT KIND OF HELP.

DAVID, I COULDN'T DO THAT.

DON'T BE PROUD, ABE, YOU'LL
NEED ALL THE HELP YOU CAN GET.

KELNO WON'T SETTLE,
YOU KNOW. YOU OR HIM.

ONE OF YOU GOES TO THE WALL.

[Knock At Door]

OKAY?

AND THEN SOME.

COME IN. COME IN.

HOW DO YOU GET OVER FIVE YEARS?

WELL, YOU'VE BECOME THE KIND
OF WRITER YOU WANTED TO BE...

AND I'VE BECOME LADY WEIDMAN.

WHATEVER HAPPENED INSIDE US...

I READ THE HOLOCAUST.
YOU KNOW HOW GOOD IT IS.

YOU CAN TELL ME ABOUT
IT FOR AN HOUR OR SO.

CAN I GET YOU SOMETHING?

NO. NO THANKS.

I HAVE THE EERIE FEELING
THAT NO TIME HAS PASSED AT ALL.

I WANT TO KISS
YOU AND I'M AFRAID.

MMM. SO AM I.

WHAT ARE YOU GOING TO DO?

PROBABLY WIND UP KISSING YOU.

ABE.

FIGHT IT.

ALL THE WAY.

DAVID SHAWCROSS TALKED
TO YOU ABOUT HOW I FEEL?

HE TALKED TO ME ABOUT THE
MONEY YOUR HUSBAND LEFT.

THAT'S OUT.

NORMAN WAS A GREAT SCIENTIST. IT
WOULD AS MUCH FOR HIM AS FOR YOU.

WELL, I'M FURIOUS AT
YOU FOR MARRYING HIM.

YOU WERE A TELEPHONE.

TRUE.

I'VE TAKEN THE LIBERTY OF
DOING SOME ADVANCE RESEARCH.

THE POLISH GOVERNMENT MAY NOT CARE
MUCH FOR ANTICOMMUNISTS LIKE KELNO,

BUT THEY HAVEN'T LEARNED
TO LOVE THE JEWS, EITHER.

AND, UH...

AND SO UNLESS SOME
PRESSURE CAN BE BROUGHT...

YOU WON'T FIND ANY HELP THERE.

I'M GONNA HAVE A SCOTCH.

YOU SURE YOU DON'T
WANT ANYTHING?

YEAH, I'M SURE.

WELL, OF THE TWO POLISH
DOCTORS THAT WORKED WITH KELNO,

I'VE DISCOUNTED
DR. LOTAKI AS A WITNESS.

HE'S AN OLD-LINE COMMUNIST.

BUT THE OTHER ONE, DR. TESSLER,

HE'S A REFUGEE AND A JEW.

AND I'VE LEARNED
HE'S HERE AT OXFORD.

WEREN'T THERE WOMEN DOCTORS
WHO TOOK CARE OF KELNO'S VICTIMS?

YEAH.

DR. PARMENTIER?

SHE'S A NOBEL PRIZE WINNER.
SHE'LL CARRY A LOT OF WEIGHT.

A PSYCHIATRIST LIVING IN ISRAEL.

STILL WORKS WITH THE
SURVIVORS OF BARRACKS FIVE.

THAT'S MY NEXT STEP. GO TO
ISRAEL AND OPEN UP WITH HER.

I SHOULD'VE THOUGHT THAT YOUR FIRST STEP
WOULD BE TO GET COUNSEL TO REPRESENT YOU.

AND YOU NEED THE BEST
LEGAL MIND IN ENGLAND.

I'LL TAKE A SHOT
AT IT. WHO'S THAT?

TOM BANNIESTER.

[Laughs] AS MY BARRISTER?

WHY NOT?

HE REPRESENTED THE GOVERNMENT IN KELNO'S
EXTRADITION HEARING BACK IN THE '40s.

SINCE THEN, HE'S
BEEN IN THE CABINET.

HE HAS HIS EYES ON
10 DOWNING STREET.

HE'D NEVER RISK A CASE WITH THE
POLITICAL IMPLICATIONS OF THIS ONE.

WELL, HE MIGHT... FOR ME.

HOW DO YOU PROPOSE TO DO THAT?

BY APPEALING TO
HIS BETTER NATURE.

HIS BASER INSTINCTS.

TOM'S IN HIS 60s, AND HE
THINKS HE'S OLIVER CROMWELL.

WELL, I'M 53, AND I'M SURE
I'M THE PROPHET ISAIAH.

I STILL HAVE PLANS FOR US.

OH, THAT'S GOOD.

ONCE EVERY FIVE YEARS
ISN'T OVERLY EXCESSIVE, IS IT?

YOU'RE A DARLING GIRL, MARGARET.

BUT YOU'RE INCREDIBLY
TRANSPARENT.

OH, REALLY?

SINCE I FEAR YOU DIDN'T INVITE
ME DOWN HERE TO SEDUCE ME.

[Laughs] SEDUCE YOU? OF COURSE,
WHAT MAN EVER SEDUCED ANY WOMAN?

OH, I'M FORCED TO
THE CONCLUSION...

THAT THERE MUST BE
SOMETHING YOU WANT OF ME.

THE KELNO CASE.

AND... YOUR CONNECTION?

ABRAHAM CADY.

OH, YES, YES. I HAD
HEARD YOUR NAMES LINKED.

YOU ARE... YOU ARE
FAMILIAR WITH THE TRIAL?

OH, COME ON, MARGARET.

YOU KNOW PERFECTLY WELL THAT
THE LAST TIME KELNO SURFACED,

I REPRESENTED THE GOVERNMENT.

WELL, THIS TIME...

I WANT YOU TO
REPRESENT ABE CADY.

IT'S IMPOSSIBLE.

WHY NOT, TOM?

TOO CHANCY. AFRAID TO LOSE?

OF COURSE NOT.

NO, TOO MANY
POLITICAL IMPLICATIONS.

THE POLES, THE GERMANS,
THE JEWS. OH, MY GOD.

IT DRAGS UP TOO
MANY OLD HATREDS.

AND HATREDS ARE TO BE
AVOIDED BY ALL POLITICIANS.

BY ANYONE. LEAVE
IT BE, LEAVE IT BE.

WHY START THAT ALL OVER AGAIN?

THE GERMANS MURDERED 12
MILLION MEN, WOMEN AND CHILDREN.

AND SIX MILLION OF
THEM WERE JEWS. I KNOW.

WHEN YOU FINALLY KNOW THAT,

THAT HUMAN BEINGS REALLY
DID THIS TO EACH OTHER,

THEN YOU FEEL GUILTY JUST
BECAUSE YOU'RE A HUMAN BEING TOO.

YOU'VE GOT TO DO SOMETHING.

OH, TOM, PLEASE.

OH, MARGARET.

ALL RIGHT.

[Sighs] THANK YOU.

VERY HOT. ANY BREAD?

OH, I FORGOT IT. WHAT?

I FORGOT THE
BREAD. [Phone Rings]

OH, I'LL GET IT.

WHAT IS IT? LAMB STEW.

HELLO? WHO IS IT?

JUST A MOMENT,
PLEASE. SIR ROBERT.

HELLO.

I'M SORRY TO DISTURB
YOU AT HOME, SIR ADAM,

BUT WE'VE JUST BEEN
INFORMED THAT TOM

BANNIESTER HAS AGREED
TO REPRESENT ABRAHAM CADY.

HAVE YOU HAD ANY
SECOND THOUGHTS ABOUT

MAKING AN OUT-OF-COURT
SETTLEMENT WITH CADY?

NO.

WOULD YOU HAVE ANY OBJECTION IF WE,
VERY CONFIDENTIALLY, FELT OUT THE GROUND,

IN CASE IT MIGHT PROVE ADVANTAGEOUS
FOR YOU TO DEAL WITH CADY?

NO, I'D APPRECIATE IF YOU DIDN'T
MAKE ANY FURTHER CONTACT WITH HIM.

SIR ADAM, WE ARE PREPARED
TO GO TO THE LIMIT WITH THIS,

BUT AS YOUR COUNSEL, I MUST BE
ABSOLUTELY CERTAIN THIS IS WHAT YOU WANT.

- YES, THAT'S RIGHT.
- VERY WELL. BYE.

GOOD-BYE.

THEY CAN'T SEEM TO UNDERSTAND THAT I
CANNOT ALLOW CADY TO GO FOR A SETTLEMENT.

BUT IN A CASE LIKE THIS, YOU CAN
INSIST ON YOUR PUBLIC APOLOGY.

- IT'S NOT PUBLIC ENOUGH.
- YOU COULD INSIST ON IT
BEING AS PUBLIC AS YOU WANT.

LISTEN, WHY AM I BEING
QUESTIONED IN MY OWN HOUSE?

NEITHER OF YOU SEEM TO UNDERSTAND
HOW MONSTROUS A LIE THIS IS.

OH, ADAM. ALL I'M SAYING IS
WHAT YOU MUST KNOW YOURSELF...

THAT A LONG COURT CASE WOULD
BE A TERRIBLE DRAIN ON US ALL.

AND IF YOU LOST, IT WOULD
DESTROY US FINANCIALLY.

- WHAT DO YOU MEAN, IF I LOST?
- LEGAL TECHNICALITIES CAN
KNOCK OUT THE BEST OF CASES.

OH, YES. WHERE DID YOU
STUDY LAW, MAY I ASK?

ADAM, PLEASE SIT DOWN
AND EAT YOUR LUNCH.

I DON'T WANT ANY LUNCH.

WE KNOW HOW YOU FEEL.
YOU SEEM TO ASSUME...

THIS IS SOME KIND OF PERSONAL
THING BETWEEN YOU AND CADY.

HE'S NEVER MET YOU, DOESN'T MEAN YOU
ANY HARM. HE MADE A MISTAKE, THAT'S ALL.

OH, YOU SEEM TO BE VERY
UNDERSTANDING OF MR. CADY.

I UNDERSTAND THAT YOU WANT
REVENGE. BUT I KNOW THAT REVENGE...

CAN SOMETIMES BE AS DAMAGING
TO THE VICTOR AS IT IS TO THE LOSER.

LOOK, I DON'T MEAN
TO BE ARROGANT,

BUT I THINK YOU SHOULD SETTLE THIS
ONCE AND FOR ALL BEFORE IT MAKES YOU ILL.

WELL, OBVIOUSLY NEITHER OF YOU
UNDERSTAND WHY I HAVE TO DO THIS.

NO. I DO NOT UNDERSTAND, ADAM.

AND WHAT'S MORE, I HAVE A TERRIBLE
FEELING THAT YOU DON'T UNDERSTAND YOURSELF.

[Abe] ISN'T THIS WHERE
THE CHAGALL WINDOWS ARE?

[Man] YES, SIR. IN THE HOSPITAL SYNAGOGUE
NEXT TO DR. PARMENTIER'S OFFICE.

WELL, I'M NO LEGAL MIND,
MR. CADY, BUT I CONFESS,

I DO NOT UNDERSTAND WHY YOU
VALUE MY PEOPLE AS WITNESSES.

NOT ONE OF THEM COULD
IDENTIFY DR. KELNO...

AS THE SURGEON
WHO DESTROYED THEM,

ANY MORE THAN I CAN,
OR DR. VESCARI CAN.

WE WON'T ASK THEM
TO IDENTIFY HIM.

WE WANT THEM TO TESTIFY THAT DR. MARK
TESSLER WITNESSED THEIR SURGERY.

BECAUSE TESSLER WAS THERE,
AND HE CAN IDENTIFY KELNO.

AND DO YOU THINK IT'S RIGHT
TO SUBJECT THESE PEOPLE...

TO THE TRAUMA OF THE PAST,
TO BRING IT ALL BACK TO THEM?

WHY DID YOU, A NON-JEW,
LEAVE FRANCE TO WORK HERE,

A COUNTRY THAT MAY SOON BE AT
WAR AGAIN, AMONG PEOPLE WITH WHOM...

YOU SHARED HORRORS THAT YOU
MUST WANT DESPERATELY TO FORGET?

BECAUSE I DO NOT WANT TO FORGET.

I DO NOT WANT ANYONE
TO FORGET, EVER.

OTHERWISE, IN ANOTHER
COUNTRY, WITH OTHER PEOPLE,

IT MIGHT HAPPEN AGAIN.

MY FATHER SAID
THAT A LONG TIME AGO.

AND I SAY THE SAME THING NOW.

YOU DIDN'T COME HERE OUT
OF PITY FOR THE SURVIVORS.

AS A PSYCHIATRIST, YOU MUST
KNOW YOUR OWN INNER MOTIVES.

YOU CAME HERE TO MAKE
MORAL SENSE... A CRUSADE.

OUT OF WHAT, UNLESS IT'S
REMEMBERED AND MEMORIALIZED,

CAN ONLY BE AN OBSCENE
AND SENSELESS EXPERIENCE.

YOU HAVE NO RIGHT TO ALLOW
KELNO TO TAKE AWAY FROM THAT.

YOU HAVE NO RIGHT IN
MEMORY OF THE PEOPLE...

THAT HE AND THE OTHER
ANIMALS TORTURED AND KILLED.

I HAVE NO RIGHT. THE PEOPLE
THEMSELVES HAVE NO RIGHT.

I WANT THEM.

AND MORE THAN THAT, I
WANT YOU, DR. PARMENTIER.

I-I WANT YOUR TESTIMONY.

I'M SORRY.

A PSYCHIATRIST HAS NO RIGHT
TO CRY IN FRONT OF A PATIENT.

YES, BUT I'M NOT A PATIENT.

THE HOLOCAUST HAS MADE US...

ALL PATIENTS, MR. CADY.

THE WORLD WAS COLLECTIVELY
SICK IN THOSE YEARS.

AND STILL IS.

I'LL DO AS YOU SAY.

THANK YOU.

WHERE ARE WE GOING?

QB VII. WHAT?

IT'S THE COURTROOM.
QUEEN'S BENCH SEVEN.

[All Asking Questions]

[Reporters Clamoring]

SIR ADAM, IS IT TRUE
THAT POLISH WITNESSES,

WHO WERE IMPRISONED WITH YOU
AT JADWIGA CONCENTRATION CAMP,

WILL TESTIFY AGAINST THE STATEMENTS MADE
ABOUT YOU BY ABRAHAM CADY IN HIS NOVEL?

I'M DEEPLY SORRY THAT, UH,

I AM THE CAUSE OF THEIR HAVING
TO RELIVE THE HORROR OF THAT TIME.

WELL, IF ABRAHAM CADY WOULD MAKE SOME
SORT OF FINANCIAL OFFER OUTSIDE OF COURT,

WOULD YOU STOP PURSUING
YOUR CASE AGAINST HIM?

MR. CADY'S DESCRIPTIONS OF MY MEDICAL
PRACTICE AS A PRISONER OF THE GERMANS...

ARE TOTALLY FALSE AND LIBELOUS.

I HOPE TO SECURE A PUBLIC
APOLOGY HERE IN AN OPEN COURT.

ABE, BE CAREFUL.

OF WHAT?

MR. CADY. MR. CADY,
HAVE YOU ANY INTENTION...

OF APOLOGIZING TO SIR ADAM FOR
YOUR ATTACKS ON HIS... NONE, NONE.

THIS IS ONE JEW YOU'RE NOT
GOING TO CASTRATE, KELNO.

YOU HAVE NO DIGNITY, MR. CADY.

COME ON.

SILENCE.

BE SEATED.

PROCEED. KELNO V. CADY.

SHALL I SWEAR THE JURY IN NOW?

PLEASE RISE. AND TAKE THE
BOOKS IN YOUR RIGHT HAND.

YOU SHALL WELL AND TRULY TRY THE
ISSUES JOINED BETWEEN THE PARTIES...

AND A TRUE VERDICT GIVE, ACCORDING
TO THE EVIDENCE, SO HELP YOU GOD.

MILORD, THIS A LIBEL ACTION
BETWEEN SIR ADAM KELNO...

AND MR. ABRAHAM CADY, CONTAINED
IN A BOOK CALLED THE HOLOCAUST.

MILORD, IN THIS CASE, I
APPEAR FOR THE PLAINTIFF.

THIS IS AN ACTION FOR
DAMAGES FOR LIBEL.

A LIBEL, I SUGGEST,

AS DAMNING AS HAS EVER
COME BEFORE AN ENGLISH COURT.

WE'RE GOING TO BE ASKED TO TAKE OURSELVES
OUT OF THE COMFORT OF LONDON IN 1972,

FOR WHAT WE ARE CONCERNED WITH IS THE
NIGHTMARE OF A GERMAN CONCENTRATION CAMP...

JADWIGA, IN POLAND...

WHICH EXISTED ALMOST
THREE DECADES AGO...

AGAINST THE BACKGROUND OF THE MOST
INCREDIBLE HELL EVER CREATED BY MAN.

"IT WAS IN THE CAMP IN JADWIGA THAT THE
GERMANS CONDUCTED HORRENDOUS EXPERIMENTS...

"ON JEWISH PRISONERS
FOR THE PURPOSE...

"OF DEVELOPING METHODS OF MASS
STERILIZATION OF SO-CALLED INFERIOR RACES.

"IN THE NOTORIOUS BARRACKS FIVE,

"THE SURGERY WAS RUN
BY A DR. ADAM KELNO,

"WHO CARRIED OUT A THOUSAND OR
MORE SURGICAL EXPERIMENTS ON JEWS...

"WITHOUT THE USE OF ANESTHETICS,

USING THEM AS
HUMAN GUINEA PIGS."

I SUBMIT THAT IT IS
DIFFICULT TO IMAGINE...

A MORE DEFAMATORY
OR LIBELOUS STATEMENT.

IN A LIBEL ACTION, THE PLAINTIFF
HAS TO PROVE THREE THINGS:

FIRST, DID THE DEFENDANT
PUBLISH THE WORDS IN QUESTION?

HE DID.

SECOND, DO THE WORDS
REFER TO THE PLAINTIFF?

IN HIS PRETRIAL STATEMENT,
THE DEFENDANT ADMITS THEY DO.

FINALLY, ARE THE
WORDS DEFAMATORY?

WE WOULD HAVE TO PROVE
THAT, EXCEPT THE DEFENDANT...

ADMITS QUITE FREELY THAT THE
WORDS ARE DELIBERATELY DEFAMATORY.

TECHNICALLY, MY CASE IS OVER. I
CAN SAY TO THE DEFENDANT'S COUNSEL,

"NOW IT IS YOUR TURN,
DEFEND YOURSELF, IF YOU CAN."

HOWEVER, I WILL
NOT REST ON THAT.

I INTEND TO CALL
FORWARD SIR ADAM KELNO...

SO THAT YOU MAY JUDGE FOR
YOURSELVES THE CHARACTER OF THIS MAN,

AND THEREFORE, THE EXTENT TO WHICH
HIS REPUTATION HAS BEEN DAMAGED,

AND THE DEGREE TO
WHICH HE HAS BEEN LIBELED.

I CALL SIR ADAM KELNO.

ON WHICH BIBLE DO YOU
WISH TO BE SWORN IN?

I AM ROMAN CATHOLIC.

REPEAT AFTER ME, "I
SWEAR BY ALMIGHTY GOD."

I SWEAR BY ALMIGHTY GOD.
"THAT THE EVIDENCE I SHALL GIVE."

THAT THE EVIDENCE I SHALL GIVE.

"SHALL BE THE TRUTH, THE WHOLE
TRUTH AND NOTHING BUT THE TRUTH."

SHALL BE THE TRUTH, THE WHOLE
TRUTH AND NOTHING BUT THE TRUTH.

WHAT IS YOUR FULL NAME?

ADAM KELNO.

I SHALL NOT BEAR FALSE WITNESS.

SIR ADAM'S HISTORY
IS KNOWN TO MOST.

IT IS SUFFICIENTLY INSPIRING TO
SUFFER IN NO WAY THROUGH BREVITY.

AS A POLISH PATRIOT,

HE WAS IMPRISONED IN
JADWIGA IN THE SUMMER OF 1940.

HE REMAINED THERE
FOR FIVE YEARS,

SERVING HIS FELLOW INMATES
AS A PRISONER DOCTOR.

AS A REFUGEE FROM
COMMUNIST POLAND,

HE WAS, AT THE END OF THE
WAR, PERMITTED TO SETTLE HERE.

THE POLISH COMMUNISTS THEN
PETITIONED THE BRITISH GOVERNMENT...

TO DEPORT HIM FOR
TRIAL AS A WAR CRIMINAL.

THE GOVERNMENT DETERMINED THAT THE
CHARGES AGAINST HIM WERE BASELESS...

AND REFUSED TO
GRANT HIS EXTRADITION.

THEREUPON, SIR ADAM, FEARING THE CONTINUED
HARASSMENT OF HIS COMMUNIST PERSECUTORS,

TOOK UP A POSITION IN THE
THEN-BRITISH PROTECTORATE OF KUWAIT.

HERE HE DEVOTED
HIMSELF TO THE WELFARE...

OF THE PRIMITIVE ARAB TRIBESMEN,
WHO ROAMED THE DESERT.

OVER THE YEARS, HIS CONTRIBUTIONS
IN MEDICINE AND IN SCIENCE...

TO THESE BACKWARD AND
DISEASE-RIDDEN PEOPLE WERE SO GREAT,

THAT HE WAS KNIGHTED
BY THE CROWN...

FOR HIS ACHIEVEMENTS.

HE IS NOW, DESPITE THE
EMINENCE OF HIS POSITION,

PRACTICING, NOT IN MAYFAIR,

BUT IN A NATIONAL SERVICE CLINIC,
AMONG DISADVANTAGED CITIZENS.

- THIS IS BREVITY?
- NOW, SIR ADAM,

I MUST TAKE YOU BACK
TO THE SUMMER OF 1940.

WHAT WERE THE CONDITIONS
OF MEDICAL PRACTICE IN JADWIGA,

AS COMPARED WITH
ORDINARY MEDICAL STANDARDS?

- THEY WERE APPALLING.
- BUT THEY CHANGED,
DID THEY NOT?

YES. WHY WAS THAT?

WHEN THE GERMANS INVADED RUSSIA,

THEY HAD TO QUADRUPLE THE
PRODUCTION OF THEIR RAW MATERIAL,

BECAUSE THEY HAD TO
ORGANIZE THEIR LABOR SYSTEM...

WHEREBY THE WORKERS WERE USED UP AND
MURDERED WHEN THEY BECAME WEAK AND ILL.

NOW, YOU SEE, THEY HAD
TO PROLONG THE TIME...

OF THEIR USEFULNESS IN
ORDER TO INCREASE PRODUCTION,

SO THEY BUILT A HOSPITAL.

STAFFED BY WHOM? MYSELF
AND OTHER PRISON DOCTORS.

- WITHOUT SUPERVISION?
- NO, WE WERE WATCHED OVER...

BY SS ORDERLIES, UNDER THE
COMMAND OF AN SS DOCTOR...

DR. COLONEL ADOLPH VOSS.

HOW FAR WAS THE EXTERMINATION
CENTER FROM THE HOSPITAL?

A MILE. YOU COULD
SEE IT, CONSTANTLY?

OH, YES. I COULD SEE
IT, AND I COULD SMELL IT.

WAS THERE ANYTHING YOU
COULD DO, PERSONALLY,

TO SAVE THESE PEOPLE WHO HAD
BEEN CHOSEN FOR EXTERMINATION?

AFTER THE SELECTION, THE SS
ORDERLIES WOULD PAINT NUMBERS...

ACROSS THE VICTIM'S CHEST, AND
WE WOULD WASH OFF THE NUMBER...

AND PAINT THE SAME NUMBER ON A
PATIENT WHO HAD DIED DURING THE NIGHT.

THAT SORT OF THING.

WHEN YOU DID THIS, DID YOU
TAKE INTO CONSIDERATION...

THE NATIONAL OR RELIGIOUS
ORIGIN OF THESE PRISONERS?

- NO, OF COURSE NOT.
- WERE THERE OTHER METHODS
OF KILLING...

OTHER THAN THE GAS CHAMBER?

YES, HANGING. SHOOTING
BY FIRING SQUAD.

OR JUST BEATEN TO DEATH, AND
SOMETIMES, THE USE OF PHENOL INJECTION.

WHAT IS THAT? THE PHENOL
INJECTION IS IN THE HEART,

WHICH BRINGS DEATH
WITHIN SECONDS.

WERE YOU EVER ORDERED
TO GIVE A PHENOL INJECTION?

YES. DID YOU?

NO, I REFUSED. WERE YOU
PUNISHED FOR REFUSING?

I WAS TAKEN TO SEE
THIS COLONEL VOSS,

AND TO SEE IF I WOULD BE OF ANY
USE TO THEM BEFORE THEY KILLED ME.

DID YOU KNOW DR. VOSS
PERSONALLY? NO.

NO, I MANAGED TO
AVOID HIM UNTIL THIS TIME.

WHY DID YOU STAY AWAY FROM HIM?

BECAUSE HE WAS
CONDUCTING EXPERIMENTS.

WHAT KIND OF EXPERIMENTS?

STERILIZATION.

YOU SEE, THEY WERE TRYING TO
FIND A FAST AND INEXPENSIVE WAY...

TO STERILIZE THE CONQUERED
PEOPLE OF EUROPE...

SO THAT THE "MASTER RACE,"
AS THEY CALLED THEMSELVES,

COULD DOMINATE
THE NEXT GENERATION.

AND WHAT METHOD WERE
THEY TRYING AT THAT TIME?

WELL, PRIMARILY, HEAVY
EXPOSURE TO X-RAY...

OF THE FEMALE OVARIES...

AND, OF COURSE,
THE MALE TESTICLES.

AT THAT TIME, DID YOU KNOW THE
PURPOSE OF THESE X-RAY EXPERIMENTS,

OR THE METHOD USED? NO.

BUT AT WHAT TIME DID YOU
COME TO KNOW, SIR ADAM?

WHEN THIS DR. VOSS SUMMONED
ANOTHER POLISH SURGEON...

LOTAKI, DR. LOTAKI...
AND TOLD US...

THAT WE WERE TO OPERATE
ON SPECIAL PATIENTS.

WHAT WAS YOUR REACTION TO THAT?

WELL, OF COURSE, I ASKED
HIM WHAT SORT OF OPERATIONS,

AND HE TOLD US THAT WE WOULD EXTRACT
AND REMOVE DEAD SEXUAL ORGANS...

THAT HAD BEEN
DESTROYED BY X-RAY.

DID HE THREATEN YOU? TELL YOU WHAT
WOULD BECOME OF YOU IF YOU REFUSED?

YES, HE SAID THAT
WE WOULD BE GASSED,

THAT IT WAS VITAL
TO HIS CAREER...

AND THAT HIS ORDERS
CAME FROM BERLIN.

YOU HAD EARLIER, UNDER VOSS'
ORDERS, REFUSED TO INJECT PHENOL,

DID YOU CONSIDER
REFUSING TO DO THIS NOW?

WELL, YOU KNOW, THE SITUATION
WAS ENTIRELY DIFFERENT HERE.

BECAUSE THE PATIENTS' SEXUAL
ORGANS WERE ALREADY USELESS,

AND VOSS MADE IT QUITE CLEAR
THAT UNTRAINED SS ORDERLIES...

WOULD PERFORM THE SURGERY
THEMSELVES IF WE REFUSED,

SO IT WOULD HAVE BEEN BUTCHERY.

AND IT WAS THEN YOU
DECIDED TO SUBMIT TO VOSS?

NO. NO.

WE CALLED A MEETING OF
THE OTHER PRISONER DOCTORS,

AND WE ALL CONCLUDED THAT IN
ORDER TO SAVE FURTHER SURGERY...

AND DEATH TO THESE OTHER PEOPLE,

IT WOULD BE BETTER FOR US TO
PERFORM THE OPERATIONS OURSELVES...

THAN TO LET IT BE HANDLED BY SS
ORDERLIES WHO WERE UNTRAINED.

DO YOU SAY YOU SPOKE TO ALL
THE OTHER PRISONER DOCTORS?

ALL EXCEPT ONE, TESSLER.
WHY NOT TESSLER?

BECAUSE HE WAS A COMMUNIST,

AND ALREADY SUSPECT OF
COLLABORATION WITH THE GERMANS.

LATER ON, HE ACTUALLY
DID WORK WITH VOSS...

ON THE STERILIZATION PART OF THE
EXPERIMENTS... JUST FOR ONE MOMENT...

SIR ROBERT, I SUGGEST
YOU CAUTION YOUR CLIENT...

THAT HE IS NOT TO CHARACTERIZE
DR. TESSLER, OR ANY OTHER...

MILORD, PLEASE, I WAS DRIVEN FROM
POLAND AND ACCUSED IN ENGLAND...

BECAUSE OF THE LIES
OF THE COMMUNISTS,

AND STILL, THEY'RE TRYING
TO CONSPIRE AGAINST ME.

THE REASON WHY I'M
HERE IS TO PUT A STOP TO IT.

MILORD, OBVIOUSLY THIS
CALLS FOR ANOTHER OBJECTION,

BUT I WILL NOT MAKE
ONE AT THIS TIME.

VERY WELL.

HOWEVER, IN FUTURE,

I'D SUGGEST A DEGREE
OF RETICENCE, SIR ADAM.

ADHERE TO THE ACTUAL
ISSUES OF THIS TRIAL.

YOU MAY PROCEED.

SIR ADAM, HOW MANY
TIMES WOULD YOU SAY...

YOU REMOVED DEAD TESTICLES AND
OVARIES TO PREVENT THEIR EXCISION...

BY UNSKILLED SS ORDERLIES?

FIFTEEN OR TWENTY TIMES...

AND DR. LOTAKI? MORE
THAN LIKELY THE SAME.

HOW MANY OPERATIONS OF THIS TYPE
COULD BE PERFORMED IN ONE SINGLE SESSION?

ONE, MAYBE TWO AT THE MOST.

BUT NOT A DOZEN? NO.

OR HUNDREDS?

NO, OF COURSE NOT.

DID DR. TESSLER EVER COME INTO BARRACKS
FIVE WHILE YOU WERE PERFORMING SURGERY?

NO, NEVER. NEVER? NEVER
ONCE DID HE SEE YOU OPERATE?

MARK TESSLER NEVER
SAW ME OPERATE.

APPROXIMATELY, HOW MANY
OPERATIONS OF EVERY KIND...

DID YOU DO DURING YOUR
FIVE YEARS' IMPRISONMENT?

WHY, I WOULD ESTIMATE
AT LEAST 10,000.

AND OF THAT 10,000,
AT THE VERY MOST, SAY,

TWO DOZEN WERE THE AMPUTATION
OF DEAD SEXUAL ORGANS?

THAT IS CORRECT.

YOU ARE AWARE, IT IS PART OF THE
DEFENDANT'S DEFAMATORY STATEMENT...

THAT YOU DID NOT USE
ANESTHETICS? THAT IS ENTIRELY FALSE.

WILL YOU PLEASE
EXPLAIN TO US EXACTLY...

WHAT YOU ADMINISTERED,
AND HOW IT WAS DONE?

WELL, GENERAL ANESTHETIC
WAS UNAVAILABLE, AND, UH,

SO I USED SPINAL INJECTIONS
AS THE NEXT BEST THING.

DID YOU HAVE SOMEONE
ADMINISTER THESE SPINALS?

NO, NO. I ALWAYS
DID THEM MYSELF.

PLEASE TELL US EXACTLY
WHAT YOUR PROCEDURE WAS.

WELL, FIRST I GAVE A PRE-INJECTION
OF MORPHIA AS AN ANESTHETIC...

TO DEADEN THE GENERAL
AREA, AND THEN THE SPINAL.

DID YOU IN ANY WAY PRIDE YOURSELF
ON BEING ABLE TO OPERATE QUICKLY?

[Scoffs] NO, I
CERTAINLY DID NOT.

SURGERY MUST BE PERFORMED WITH
INFINITE CARE AND AS SLOWLY AS NECESSARY.

AND COULD YOU ALWAYS
ADHERE TO THIS RULE IN JADWIGA?

IN JADWIGA, SO MUCH
SURGERY WAS NEEDED THAT I...

TRAINED MYSELF TO WORK
FAST, BUT NEVER, NEVER SO FAST...

AS TO ENDANGER A PATIENT.

SIR ADAM, HOW LONG WOULD
THIS TYPE OF OPERATION TAKE?

BETWEEN 15 AND 20 MINUTES.

DO YOU RECALL ANY COMPLICATIONS?

YES, POST-OPERATIVE
INVOLVEMENT IN THESE CASES...

WAS SOMEWHAT WORSE
BECAUSE OF THE TRAUMA...

OF LOSING A SEX GLAND.

BUT, YOU KNOW, THE PATIENTS
WERE SO HAPPY TO BE ALIVE,

THEY WERE QUITE CHEERFUL.

[Highsmith Continues]
CASTRATION CAN BE FUN.

NO ONE DIED OF THESE
NECESSARY OPERATIONS.

WHAT AN AWFUL MAN. BECAUSE
OF YOUR CARE AND SKILL...

AND POST-OPERATIVE ATTENTION?

YES.

SIR ROBERT, AREN'T YOU
RATHER LEADING YOUR WITNESS?

WELL, MILORD, THE DEFENDANT'S
LIBEL OF SIR ADAM KELNO...

HANGS ON THE ACCUSATION OF
PERFORMING UNNECESSARY OPERATIONS.

WE WISH TO MAKE OUR DENIAL OF
THIS DEFAMATION CRYSTAL CLEAR.

PROCEED. SIR ADAM,

DID YOU AT ANY TIME IN BARRACKS
FIVE, IN THE PERFORMING OF SURGERY...

EVER REMOVE OTHER
THAN A DEAD SEXUAL ORGAN?

- NO, NEVER.
- YOU ARE
ABSOLUTELY CERTAIN?

- I'M ABSOLUTELY CERTAIN.
- WERE RECORDS KEPT
OF THESE OPERATIONS?

YES, I INSISTED ON
ACCURATE RECORDS.

I FELT IT IMPORTANT BECAUSE
THERE SHOULD BE NEVER ANY DOUBT...

OF MY BEHAVIOR LATER ON.

- IN WHAT MANNER WERE
THEY KEPT?
- IN A SURGICAL REGISTER.

LISTING EVERY OPERATION? YES.

AND SIGNED BY YOU? YES.

WHO HAD THESE RECORDS?

A MEDICAL CLERK.

UM, I FORGOT HIS NAME.

DO YOU KNOW WHAT
BECAME OF THIS REGISTER?

NO, I HAVE NO IDEA.

MOST OF THE CAMP WAS IN CHAOS
WHEN THE RUSSIANS ARRIVED.

I WISH TO GOD WE HAD IT HERE
BECAUSE IT WOULD PROVE MY INNOCENCE.

SIR ADAM,

THE LAW DOES NOT REQUIRE YOU...

TO PROVE YOUR INNOCENCE.

YOU'RE THE PLAINTIFF HERE...

NOT THE DEFENDANT.

I THOUGHT YOUR BOOK...

WAS A STUPENDOUS
PIECE OF LITERATURE.

THANK YOU, DR. TESSLER.

AND NOW WE HAVE TO
ACT OUT THE EPILOGUE.

I'M AFRAID SO.

TELL ME EXACTLY WHAT
YOU WANT TO KNOW.

WERE YOU THERE
WHEN KELNO OPERATED?

MANY TIMES.

IS THERE ANY WAY WE CAN PROVE...

THAT KELNO WILLFULLY COLLABORATED
WITH THE GERMANS ON THESE EXPERIMENTS?

THERE WAS A JOURNAL KEPT BY A
POLISH PRISONER WE USED AS AN ORDERLY.

A MAN NAMED SOBOTNIK.

IT RECORDED EVERYTHING...

THE WAY THE GERMANS DO.

AND KELNO MADE ENTRIES
AFTER SURGERY AND SIGNED THEM.

WHERE IS THIS JOURNAL?

WE TRIED TO FIND IT WHEN
THE RUSSIANS LIBERATED US.

- IT WAS GONE.
- AND SOBOTNIK?

GONE TOO.

I HATE TO SAY IT, BUT
WITHOUT THAT JOURNAL,

I THINK KELNO MAY WIN
HIS CASE AGAINST YOU.

YES.

IS THERE ANYTHING YOU CAN
REMEMBER ABOUT THIS SOBOTNIK,

ANYTHING AT ALL, EVEN IF
YOU FELT IT WAS UNIMPORTANT?

WHEN I WAS HIDING IN LONDON,

I HEARD THAT A POLISH
AGENT NAMED ZAMINSKI...

WAS LOOKING FOR ME AS A WITNESS.

HE HAD GOT TO ME
THROUGH SOBOTNIK.

SO, 25 YEARS AGO,

SOBOTNIK MUST HAVE BEEN
ALIVE SOMEWHERE IN POLAND.

ZAMINSKI IS NOW CHIEF OF
THEIR INTERNAL SECURITY.

IF YOU CAN GET TO HIM...

YES.

WELL, WE'LL TRY.

NOW I'LL LET YOU GET
BACK TO YOUR WORK.

I'M SURE SOMEONE WILL CONTACT
YOU TO TAKE YOUR DEPOSITION.

THEN HOW LONG WILL
IT BE UNTIL I'M CALLED?

I'M AFRAID I CAN'T SAY.

YOU ARE OUR MOST
IMPORTANT WITNESS.

NOT UNTIL THE END OF
THE TRIAL, I'M AFRAID.

I'VE HEARD YOU HAVEN'T
BEEN FEELING WELL.

THE SOONER THE BETTER.

GOOD-BYE. GOOD-BYE.

BUT YOU DON'T SEEM TO
UNDERSTAND, MARGARET.

I AGREE PEOPLE DO COME TO
AMBASSADORS FOR FAVORS...

BY THE DOZENS.

BUT THEY ARE USUALLY OLD
FRIENDS OR BENEFACTORS...

WHO ARE AT LEAST MEMBERS
OF THE SAME POLITICAL PARTY.

MY FATHER IS AN OLD FRIEND.

[Phone Buzzes]

ASK HIM TO COME IN, PLEASE.

YOU'RE CERTAINLY HIS DAUGHTER.

THIS IS LADY WEIDMAN.

MR. LANDAU IS NORMALLY OUR
DEPUTY CULTURAL ATTACHE.

HOW DO YOU DO? I'M
DELIGHTED TO MEET YOU.

TELL ME, ARE YOU FAMILIAR
WITH THE KELNO-CADY TRIAL?

- JUST FROM THE NEWSPAPERS.
- TELL HIM, MARGARET.

YOU DO KNOW THAT THERE WAS AN
ATTEMPT TO EXTRADITE KELNO AFTER THE WAR?

YES.

WELL, THE EVIDENCE AGAINST
HIM WAS GATHERED BY A MAN...

CALLED IGOR ZAMINSKI, SOME
SORT OF POLISH INTELLIGENCE AGENT.

- WE'D LIKE TO FIND HIM.
- NAME MEAN ANYTHING?

HE WON'T BE VERY
DIFFICULT TO FIND.

HE'S CHIEF OF THEIR
INTERNAL SECURITY

BUREAU NOW... THEIR
EQUIVALENT TO THE F.B.I.

CAN HE BE APPROACHED? CERTAINLY.

- WHAT DO YOU WANT OF HIM?
- WE'RE TRYING TO FIND
A WITNESS... EGON SOBOTNIK.

HE KEPT THE RECORDS IN
KELNO'S SURGERY IN JADWIGA.

- AND YOU'VE HAD NO LUCK?
- NONE, AND WE'RE DESPERATELY
PRESSED FOR TIME.

YOU WANT ONE OF OUR
PEOPLE TO GO AND SEE ZAMINSKI?

IT'S UP TO THE LADY. OH, ABE...

ABE CADY WILL GO HIMSELF. IT'S
THE MOST IMPORTANT THING OF ALL.

DOES THIS STEP ON ANYONE'S TOES?

IT'S A BIG FAVOR YOU'RE
ASKING, WHOEVER GOES.

- WHICH THEY WILL WANT RETURNED.
- IT ALL KEEPS UP EMPLOYMENT
IN THE INTELLIGENCE BUSINESS.

IS THAT IT, SIR?
THINK IT'LL WORK?

UP FOR GRABS. GOOD-BYE.

THANK YOU.

SIR ADAM,

WOULD YOU BE KIND ENOUGH...

TO TELL US THE EXACT
CIRCUMSTANCES...

IN WHICH YOU ESCAPED
FROM THE GERMANS?

YES, I'VE ALREADY EXPLAINED. THE
CAMP WAS OVERRUN BY THE RUSSIANS.

YES, YES, YES.

BUT WERE YOU IN THE CAMP THEN?

NO. OH. WHERE WERE YOU?

I WAS ORDERED TO A
CLINIC BY COLONEL VOSS.

IT WAS A CLINIC, WAS IT NOT,

DEVOTED TO THE CARE OF
GERMAN NAVAL OFFICERS' WIVES?

YES, THAT'S RIGHT.

BUT THEY MADE HIM GO THERE, FOR
GOD'S SAKES. SHH. HE KNOWS THAT.

AND THAT IS WHERE YOU WERE WHEN
THE CAMP WAS LIBERATED BY THE RUSSIANS.

YES, BUT I WAS A
PRISONER, NEVERTHELESS.

YES, YES, OF COURSE.

UM, SIR ADAM,

DID ANY OTHER PRISONER
DOCTORS LEAVE JADWIGA...

TO WORK IN PRIVATE
GERMAN HOSPITALS?

YES. DR. LOTAKI.

DID HE ALSO PERFORM OPERATIONS IN BARRACKS
FIVE IN CONNECTION WITH VOSS' EXPERIMENTS?

HE DID WHAT HE
WAS ORDERED TO DO.

WAS HE ORDERED TO REMOVE
HUMAN REPRODUCTIVE ORGANS?

YES, HE WAS. AND HE DID THAT?

AND HE ALSO LEFT TO
WORK IN A PRIVATE HOSPITAL.

YES, AND I OBJECT TO YOUR
ATTEMPTS TO CONNECT THE TWO.

YEAH, UNDOUBTEDLY.

BUT YOU'RE ANTICIPATING
ME. NOW, UH, TELL ME.

DID YOU WEAR PRISON
CLOTHING IN THE PRIVATE CLINIC?

GERMAN OFFICERS DID NOT
WANT THEIR WIVES TREATED...

BY A MAN IN CONCENTRATION
CAMP STRIPES.

NO, I WAS GIVEN A SUIT
OF CLOTHING. MILORD,

I MUST OBJECT TO WHAT IS
BLATANTLY A FISHING EXPEDITION.

YES. MR. BANNIESTER,

WHAT ARE YOU SUGGESTING?

PLEASE, MAKE YOUR POINT.

I'M SUGGESTING THAT YOU
COOPERATED WITH VOSS...

TO WORK YOUR PASSAGE.

IN THE FIRST PLACE, YOU WERE
A PHYSICIAN FOR PRISONERS.

YES. THEN YOU WERE PUT IN
CHARGE OF A LARGE MEDICAL COMPLEX.

YES, UNDER GERMAN CONTROL.

AND FINALLY, YOU BECAME A
DOCTOR FOR GERMAN OFFICERS' WIVES.

- YES, BUT AGAINST MY WILL.
- I SUGGEST THAT YOU
AND DR. LOTAKI,

THE ONLY TWO PRISONER DOCTORS
EVER TO BE RELEASED FROM JADWIGA,

WERE RELEASED FOR YOUR
COOPERATION WITH SS COLONEL DR. VOSS.

NO, THERE IS NO CONNECTION
BETWEEN THE TWO AT ALL.

GET HIM, BABY. GO GET HIM.

YOU SAID...

THAT VOSS WAS EXPERIMENTING...

ON STERILIZATION
THROUGH X-RAY. YES.

NOW, SIR ADAM, IS IT IN FACT...

WAS NOT THE REMOVAL OF
THE RADIATED SEXUAL ORGANS...

THE SECOND STAGE IN THE
STERILIZATION EXPERIMENT?

I'M SORRY. YOU'RE NOT
MAKING SENSE TO ME AT ALL.

NO?

I'LL TRY TO CLARIFY MATTERS.
LET'S TAKE IT STEP-BY-STEP.

UH, THESE PEOPLE WERE ALL JEWS?

- YES, THEY WERE.
- YOUNG JEWS?

THEY WERE YOUNG, YEAH.

EXACTLY WHEN WERE THEY BROUGHT
INTO BARRACKS FIVE FOR YOUR SURGERY?

AFTER THEY HAD BEEN SUBJECTED
TO LETHAL DOSES OF X-RAY.

THEREFORE, AS
YOU HAVE TESTIFIED,

YOU WERE REMOVING DEAD GLANDS.

YES. AND YOU REMOVED THEM...

TO PREVENT UNTRAINED SS ORDERLIES FROM
DOING SO AND POSSIBLY KILLING THE PATIENT.

- YES.
- SO YOU OPERATED
AS A DOCTOR...

FULLY CONVINCED THAT WHAT YOU WERE
DOING WAS FOR THE PATIENTS' WELFARE.

YES. YOU NEVER SAID
TO ANY OF THESE MEN,

"IF I DON'T GET YOURS, THE
GERMANS WILL GET MINE"?

NO. I DENY THAT
LIBEL ON MY SOUL.

- YOU NEVER SAID THAT?
- NEVER.

YOU HAVE STATED...

THAT YOU GAVE SPINAL ANESTHETIC.

YES, BECAUSE GENERAL
ANESTHETIC WAS...

I'M SORRY... WAS,
UH, NOT AVAILABLE.

AND, UH, YOU HAVE TESTIFIED...

THAT YOU GAVE
PRE-INJECTIONS OF MORPHIA. YES.

TO SAVE THEIR FEELINGS
AND REDUCE SHOCK.

YES. I SUGGEST, SIR ADAM,

THAT YOUR PATIENTS WERE FULLY
AWAKE DURING YOUR SURGERY,

AS NO MORPHIA HAD BEEN GIVEN.

I SAID THAT I GAVE THEM MORPHIA.

YES.

WELL,

WAS VOSS PRESENT DURING
THESE OPERATIONS? YES.

AND YOU KNEW WHAT HE WAS
DOING. WELL, YOU UNDERSTOOD...

THAT HE WAS EXPERIMENTING ON
HEALTHY, POTENT MEN AND WOMEN.

YES. AND AS YOU TESTIFIED,

YOU KNEW THAT HE WAS
CONDUCTING THESE EXPERIMENTS...

UNDER ORDERS FROM BERLIN...

TO FIND A PRACTICAL, CHEAP
METHOD OF STERILIZATION.

YES.

WHY DID VOSS ORDER...

THE ORGANS REMOVED
AFTER IRRADIATION?

UM, I DON'T KNOW.

DO YOU SUPPOSE IT WAS
FOR THE PATIENT'S WELFARE?

WELL? WAS IT?

I OPERATED FOR THE
PATIENT'S WELFARE.

I SUGGEST, SIR ADAM,

THAT NEITHER YOU NOR VOSS NOR
ANYONE IN THE WORLD AT THAT TIME...

KNEW WHETHER X-RAY COULD OR
COULD NOT STERILIZE A SEX GLAND.

THEY WERE
EXPERIMENTING TO FIND OUT.

THAT IS WHAT YOU TESTIFIED.
ISN'T THAT CORRECT?

EVERY DOCTOR KNOWS...

KNOWS THE HARMFUL EFFECTS
OF EXCESSIVE RADIATION.

BUT IF THIS WERE KNOWN...

IF THE STERILIZING EFFECT OF
VOSS' X-RAYS COULD BE PREDICTED,

THEN WHY WAS HE EXPERIMENTING TO
FIND OUT WHAT THE EFFECTS WOULD BE?

ASK VOSS.

[Chuckling] VOSS IS DEAD.

HE KILLED HIMSELF TO AVOID
TRIAL AS A WAR CRIMINAL.

THAT IS WHY IT IS NECESSARY
FOR ME TO ASK YOU.

WHAT WAS DONE WITH
THE REMOVED ORGANS?

I TELL YOU I DON'T KNOW.

WERE THEY NOT IN FACT
TAKEN TO A LABORATORY...

TO ASCERTAIN WHETHER OR NOT
THEY WERE STILL POTENT? PERHAPS.

WAS NOT THAT THE ONLY
REASON FOR REMOVING THEM?

I HAVE EXPLAINED REPEATEDLY
ABOUT THE UNTRAINED SS ORDERLIES!

SO YOU HAVE.

NEVERTHELESS, I SUGGEST...

THAT THE REMOVAL OF THE SEXUAL
ORGANS WAS THE NECESSARY SECOND STEP...

IN AN EXPERIMENT TO DETERMINE
THE STERILIZATION POWER OF X-RAY...

AND THAT YOU WERE
FULLY AWARE OF THIS.

THAT IS A LIE. I
KNEW NONE OF IT!

BUT WHEN THESE UNFORTUNATE
PEOPLE HAD BEEN X-RAYED,

THAT WAS NOT THE END
OF THE EXPERIMENT, WAS IT?

I WASN'T DOING THE EXPERIMENT!
I MUST OBJECT, MILORD.

MR. BANNIESTER IS CLEARLY ATTEMPTING TO
IMPLY SIR ADAM WAS A WILLING ACCOMPLICE.

HE WAS A PRISONER. HE DIDN'T
VOLUNTEER FOR THIS WORK.

THE NATURE OF MY QUESTION
IS ABSOLUTELY IN ORDER.

I AM SUGGESTING
THAT THIS SURGERY...

WAS PART AND PARCEL
OF THE EXPERIMENTS.

AND THEREFORE,
EXPERIMENTAL SURGERY.

I AM SUGGESTING THAT SIR ADAM
PERFORMED THESE OPERATIONS,

NOT TO AVOID THE
BUTCHERY OF THE ORDERLIES...

BUT WILLINGLY TO PROVIDE LABORATORY
SAMPLES FOR VOSS' PATHOLOGISTS.

I SUGGEST THAT SIR ADAM NEED NEVER
HAVE PERFORMED THESE OPERATIONS AT ALL...

AND DID SO IN ORDER
TO WORK HIS PASSAGE.

CONTINUE.

NOW, SIR ADAM,
IN EVERY INSTANCE,

YOU REMOVED ONLY ONE
IRRADIATED SEX ORGAN...

ONE TESTICLE, ONE OVARY.

CORRECT? THAT IS CORRECT.

WHY?

DID YOU BELIEVE THAT WAS, IN SOME
WAY, FOR THE PATIENT'S WELFARE?

IT DOES NOT MATTER
WHAT I BELIEVED.

VOSS TOLD ME WHAT
TO DO. PRECISELY.

HE TOLD YOU TO REMOVE ONE...

SO THAT HE COULD SEE IF
THE X-RAY HAD DONE ITS JOB.

YES. AND THEN IF IT HAD NOT,

HE WOULD DOSE THE REMAINING
GLAND WITH EVEN MORE X-RAY.

THEN YOU WOULD REMOVE THAT
ONE AND SEE IF THAT HAD DONE ITS JOB.

YOU KNEW ALL THAT AND ITS
EXPERIMENTAL PURPOSE IN FULL DETAIL.

- NO, I NEVER KNEW IT.
- THEN WHY NOT REMOVE BOTH
SEX GLANDS AT THE SAME TIME?

I TELL YOU I DON'T KNOW!

VOSS WATCHED OVER ME!

IS IT NOT A FACT THAT VOSS TOLD YOU
AND DR. LOTAKI ON SEVERAL OCCASIONS...

THAT IF YOU PERFORMED THESE OPERATIONS,
YOU WOULD BE TAKEN OUT OF JADWIGA?

MILORD, SIR ADAM IS CLEARLY
TIRED. MAY WE RECESS?

YES, HE MOST CERTAINLY IS.

- DO YOU CONCUR,
MR. BANNIESTER?
- BY ALL MEANS, MILORD.

I SUPPOSE IF ISRAEL RESPONDS,
SHE'LL BE GUILTY OF AGGRESSION.

CAN'T THE UNITED NATIONS DO
SOMETHING TO HELP THAT SITUATION?

NOBODY'S GONNA HELP
ISRAEL. THEY HAVE NO OIL.

HEY, I THOUGHT
TOM WAS BRILLIANT.

BUT IT DIDN'T WORK.
HOW CAN YOU SAY THAT?

KELNO CAN BE SHOWN
GUILTY OF MEDICAL IGNORANCE.

HE SHOULD'VE TAKEN BOTH GLANDS.

HE WAS UNDERSTANDABLY
AFRAID TO STAND UP TO VOSS,

BUT TOM DIDN'T ESTABLISH WILLFUL
COOPERATION WITH VOSS' EXPERIMENTS.

WILL HE EVER BE
ABLE TO ESTABLISH IT?

THAT DEPENDS ON MARK
TESSLER'S TESTIMONY...

AND WHETHER I FIND
SOBOTNIK IN POLAND.

I'M CONCERNED WHY SIR
ROBERT DIDN'T HAVE YOU CLARIFY...

WHY YOU EXCISED ONLY
ONE GLAND AT A TIME...

BEFORE BANNIESTER
SURPRISED YOU WITH IT.

I WAS NOT SURPRISED WITH IT.

DID I SEEM UPSET?

YES. OH.

WHY DID YOU, DAD?
WHY DID I WHAT?

MEDICALLY, I MEAN,
TAKE OUT ONE AT A TIME?

I'LL BE OUTSIDE. EXCUSE ME.

HE'S BEEN QUESTIONED
ALL MORNING.

DON'T YOU THINK HE'S
HAD ENOUGH OF IT?

SIR ADAM, YOU TESTIFIED THAT
BETWEEN YOURSELF AND DR. LOTAKI...

YOU OPERATED ON PERHAPS...

TWO DOZEN JEWS
WHO'D BEEN IRRADIATED.

- THAT IS CORRECT.
- UH,

WHO DO YOU SUPPOSE OPERATED...

ON THE REMAINING 976 PERSONS
REFERRED TO IN THIS INDICTMENT?

I DON'T KNOW. PERHAPS
IT WAS NOT DONE.

IF IT WAS, PERHAPS
TESSLER DID IT.

I SUGGEST THAT
YOU AND DR. LOTAKI...

PERFORMED THESE
UNACCOUNTED-FOR OPERATIONS.

I SUGGEST THAT YOU
ONLY BROUGHT THIS CASE...

BECAUSE YOU KNEW THAT THE
MEDICAL ORDERLY SOBOTNIK...

AND HIS REGISTER
HAD DISAPPEARED...

THAT IT WAS YOUR
WORD AGAINST TESSLER'S.

MILORD, I TAKE THE
GREATEST EXCEPTION TO THIS.

YOU CANNOT ALLUDE TO A
REGISTER THAT DOES NOT EXIST.

MR. BANNIESTER HAS ASKED SIR ADAM
HOW MANY OPERATIONS HE PERFORMED.

- AND SIR ADAM HAS TOLD HIM.
- I APOLOGIZE, MILORD.

DO YOU BELIEVE THAT SPEED...

IN A MASS STERILIZATION
EXPERIMENT...

WOULD BE ESSENTIAL TO
THE GERMAN PURPOSE?

IT MAY HAVE BEEN.

COULD IT BE POSSIBLE
THAT THESE OPERATIONS...

WERE PERFORMED IN
FRONT OF DR. VOSS...

TO DEMONSTRATE TO HIM JUST
HOW QUICKLY IT COULD BE DONE?

I NEVER OPERATED WITH SUCH
SPEED AS TO HARM A PATIENT.

WERE YOU NOT IN FACT PROUD...

OF THE SPEED WITH WHICH YOU
COULD REMOVE JEWISH TESTICLES...

AND WANT TO
DEMONSTRATE IT TO DR. VOSS?

MILORD, AGAIN, MY
OBJECTION IS OBVIOUS.

MY CLIENT HAS ALREADY TESTIFIED
THAT HE DID NOT USE UNDUE SPEED.

MR. BANNIESTER, PLEASE.

YOU ARE DISTRESSING SIR
ADAM THROUGH INNUENDO.

LET US RETURN TO
THE TIME IN 1943...

WHEN DR. MARK TESSLER ARRIVED...

IN JADWIGA CONCENTRATION CAMP.

NOW, YOU HAVE SAID...

THAT YOU GAVE HIM A WIDE BERTH,

THAT YOU STEERED
CLEAR. THAT IS CORRECT.

WELL, IN, UH...

IN DR. TESSLER'S DEPOSITION,

HE ALLUDES TO FREQUENT
CONTACTS WITH YOU.

HE IS LYING.

HE ALSO MAKES A STATEMENT THAT
ON ONE OCCASION IN NOVEMBER OF 1943,

YOU PERFORMED 14
OPERATIONS IN ONE SESSION.

EIGHT MALES WERE CASTRATED
OR HAD ONE TESTICLE REMOVED.

SIX FEMALES HAD OVARIES REMOVED
BY YOU ON THAT SAME OCCASION.

THERE WAS SO MUCH COMMOTION THAT THE
SS SENT ITS MEDICAL CLERK, EGON SOBOTNIK,

FOR DR. TESSLER TO COME
OVER TO BARRACKS FIVE...

TO KEEP THE PATIENTS
CALM WHILE YOU OPERATED.

AGAIN, A LIE.

TESSLER NEVER CAME INTO
BARRACKS FIVE WHILE I OPERATED.

FURTHER, DR. TESSLER HAS STATED
THAT YOU DID NOT GIVE THE SPINALS,

THAT THEY WERE NOT GIVEN
IN THE OPERATING THEATER...

AND THAT NO PRE-INJECTION
OF MORPHIA WAS GIVEN.

AGAIN, A LIE.

AND, UH, DR. TESSLER
DID NOT ARGUE WITH YOU...

ABOUT NOT WASHING YOUR
HANDS BETWEEN OPERATIONS?

HE WAS NOT THERE.

[Banniester] OR USING THE SAME
INSTRUMENT WITHOUT STERILIZATION?

I'M TIRED OF REPEATING
IT. HE WAS NOT THERE.

IF DR. TESSLER WAS NOT THERE, HE
COULDN'T HAVE PLEADED WITH YOU...

ABOUT THE LACK OF
ANTISEPTICS, THE SPEED,

THE FACT THAT NO GENERAL
ANESTHETIC WAS GIVEN,

OR INDEED ANYTHING ELSE.

AGAIN AND AGAIN, HE
WAS NOT THERE EVER.

I USED MORPHIA. I USED A SPINAL.

I ADMINISTERED THEM MYSELF.

I HAD TO OPERATE QUICKLY
TO PREVENT PNEUMONIA...

OR HEART COLLAPSE
OR GOD KNOWS WHAT.

HOW MANY TIMES DO I HAVE
TO REPEAT THIS, PLEASE?

UNTIL EVERYTHING IS QUITE CLEAR.

WHY DO YOU SUPPOSE DR. TESSLER
TOLD ALL THESE LIES AGAINST YOU?

BECAUSE HE'S A COMMUNIST!

HE HIMSELF CONSPIRED WITH THE
GERMANS IN THESE EXPERIMENTS.

HE PERFORMED ABORTIONS
ON THE CAMP PROSTITUTES...

AND ON THE WIVES
OF GERMAN OFFICERS.

I SUGGEST WHEN YOU LEARNED...

THAT DR. TESSLER AND
OTHER PRISONER DOCTORS...

WOULD BE HERE IN THIS
COURT AS OUR WITNESSES...

THAT YOU INVENTED A
TOTAL FICTION AGAINST HIM.

MILORD, THIS IS
SHEER HARASSMENT.

YOU'RE ON A VERY FINE
EDGE, MR. BANNIESTER.

THANK YOU, MILORD.

DO YOU DENY THAT YOU STRUCK A
PATIENT ON THE OPERATING TABLE...

AND CALLED HER
"A DAMNED JEWESS"?

OF COURSE I DENY IT.

AGAIN, IT IS MY WORD
AGAINST TESSLER'S.

AS A MATTER OF FACT, IT'S GOT
NOTHING TO DO WITH DR. TESSLER'S WORD.

IT IS THE WORD OF THE
WOMAN YOU STRUCK...

WHO IS ALIVE AND ON HER WAY TO
LONDON TO APPEAR IN THIS COURT.

[Spectators Murmuring]

[Spectators Murmuring]

SILENCE!

MRS. CZERNY, WHAT WAS
THE NATURE OF THE SURGERY...

SIR ADAM... THAT
IS, DR. KELNO...

PERFORMED ON YOU WHEN
YOU WERE A PRISONER?

HE REMOVED A CANCEROUS
TUMOR FROM AN OVARY.

- DID THE CANCER RETURN?
- IT DID NOT.

WAS DR. KELNO IN ANY WAY...

ROUGH OR STERN IN
HIS TREATMENT OF YOU?

OH, HE WAS A SAINT.

ARE YOU JEWISH, MRS. CZERNY?

NO, I'M NOT.

DID DR. KELNO SAY ANYTHING
TO YOU DURING THE OPERATION?

NO. I WAS UNCONSCIOUS.

YOU WERE NOT STILL AWAKE
AFTER A SPINAL INJECTION?

NO. DR. KELNO TOLD ME...

HE WOULD PUT ME TO SLEEP
SO I WOULD FEEL NOTHING.

AND WHEN I AWOKE,
IT WOULD BE ALL OVER.

THANK YOU.

YOU MAY STEP DOWN, MRS. CZERNY.

I NOW CALL MR. ANTON NOVAK.

SIR ROBERT, WILL YOU ADDRESS...

YOUR NEXT WITNESS
TO THE SAME POINT?

YES, MILORD.

HOW MANY MORE SUCH
WITNESSES ARE YOU GOING TO CALL?

FOUR.

I CAN APPRECIATE YOUR WISH...

TO IMPRESS ON THE JURY...

THE KINDNESS OF SIR
ADAM AS A PHYSICIAN.

THAT IS MY POINT.

UH, MILORD, NO ONE CONTENDS
THAT SIR ADAM WAS NOT KIND TO POLES.

WE ARE SUGGESTING, HOWEVER,
THAT WHEN IT CAME TO JEWS,

HIS KINDNESS WAS
OF A DIFFERENT ORDER.

WE ARE PREPARED TO ADDRESS OURSELVES
TO THAT POINT WITH OUR FINAL WITNESS.

HOWEVER, HE IS OF SUCH
IMPORTANCE THAT I WILL AGREE...

TO EXCUSE THE OTHER
WITNESSES AND GO DIRECTLY TO HIM.

THAT'S, UH, VERY, UH,

GENEROUS AND COOPERATIVE
OF YOU, SIR ROBERT.

PLEASE DO.

I CALL DR. STANISLAUS LOTAKI
OF THE POLISH PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC.

[Spectators Murmuring]

AIN'T THAT A HIT IN THE HEAD.

HOW ON EARTH DID
THEY DIG HIM UP?

I DON'T KNOW.

HOW DO YOU WISH TO
BE SWORN, DOCTOR?

I WILL TAKE A CIVIL OATH.

I AM A COMMUNIST. I HAVE
NO RELIGIOUS BELIEFS.

I, STANISLAUS LOTAKI,
I, STANISLAUS LOTAKI,

DECLARE AND AFFIRM...
DECLARE AND AFFIRM...

IS ANYTHING WRONG? I HOPE NOT.

THERE'S A MESSENGER
OUTSIDE. HE WANTS TO SEE ME.

SHALL BE THE TRUTH, THE WHOLE
TRUTH AND NOTHING BUT THE TRUTH.

AND NOTHING BUT THE TRUTH.

NOW THEY'RE GONNA SEE
WHO'S TELLING THE TRUTH.

DR. LOTAKI, WHAT IS
YOUR PRESENT POSITION?

I AM CHIEF OF THE SURGICAL
SECTION OF THE POLISH MEDICAL UNION.

WERE THE GERMANS AWARE THAT YOU WERE
A DOCTOR WHEN THEY MADE YOU A PRISONER?

THEY WERE NOT.

I IDENTIFIED
MYSELF WHEN I SAW...

HOW DESPERATELY THE OTHER
PRISONERS WERE SUFFERING.

ALL THE OTHER PRISONERS?
THEY WERE ALL SUFFERING.

I'M ASKING YOU IF YOU
DISCRIMINATED IN YOUR MIND...

BETWEEN JEWISH
PRISONERS AND THE OTHERS.

WE WERE ALL IN
THE SAME SITUATION.

IT WOULD HAVE BEEN
UNTHINKABLE TO DISCRIMINATE.

WHAT WERE YOUR DUTIES?

I WAS ASSIGNED TO DR. KELNO.

HE WAS THE CHIEF OF
THE PRISONER DOCTORS.

DID YOU FIND HE RAN A
PROPER ESTABLISHMENT?

UNDER THE CIRCUMSTANCES,
IT WAS QUITE REMARKABLE.

- DID YOU FIND HE DISCRIMINATED
AGAINST JEWISH PATIENTS?
- OF COURSE NOT.

DO YOU RECALL A DAY
WHEN SS COLONEL DR. VOSS...

ORDERED YOU TO PERFORM SURGERY
ON VICTIMS OF HIS EXPERIMENTS?

- I WILL NEVER FORGET IT.
- HOW DID YOU RESPOND?

I REFUSED.

HE THEN TOLD ME I
WOULD BE GASSED...

AND THAT UNTRAINED SS
ORDERLIES WOULD DO THE SURGERY.

HE'S BEEN REHEARSED,
DON'T YOU THINK?

NO, I RATHER THINK THIS
IS HIS OWN PERFORMANCE.

WHY WAS DR. TESSLER OMITTED?

WE BELIEVED HIM TO BE
COLLABORATING WITH THE SS...

IN PERFORMING EXPERIMENTS AND
PERFORMING ABORTIONS FOR THEM.

WAS HE A COMMUNIST?
WERE YOU? YES. YES.

AND YET YOU TURNED AGAINST HIM.

SIR ROBERT,

ALL COMMUNISTS ARE NOT GOOD,

JUST AS ALL
CAPITALISTS ARE NOT BAD.

[Spectators Chuckling]

HOW MANY OPERATIONS
DID YOU PERFORM?

TWENTY OR SO.

WELL, AFTER YOUR OWN SURGERY,
DID YOU ASSIST DR. KELNO IN HIS?

OCCASIONALLY.

WHAT TYPE OF ANESTHETIC DID HE
ADMINISTER ON THESE OCCASIONS?

SPINAL BLOCKAGE WITH A
PRELIMINARY INJECTION OF MORPHIA...

TO COMFORT THE PATIENT.

DR. LOTAKI, ESSENTIALLY,

YOU AND DR. KELNO PERFORMED
THE SAME SERVICES FOR DR. VOSS.

DO YOU KNOW THAT AFTER
THE WAR, YOUR GOVERNMENT...

SOUGHT DR. KELNO
AS A WAR CRIMINAL?

- I KNEW. YES.
- AND YET YOU YOURSELF
WERE NOT ACCUSED?

I HAD DONE NOTHING WRONG.

YOU WERE A COMMUNIST
LIVING IN COMMUNIST POLAND...

AND THEREFORE READILY AVAILABLE
TO BE ACCUSED IF YOU WERE SUSPECTED.

YES, I WOULD SAY SO.

NOW, THIS IS A MATTER WHICH
MAY BE RATHER DELICATE FOR YOU.

DR. KELNO WAS AN
ANTICOMMUNIST...

LIVING IN EXILE IN A FOREIGN
COUNTRY, AND IN NO WAY AVAILABLE.

YOU BOTH FUNCTIONED IN EXACTLY
THE SAME WAY, YET HE WAS ACCUSED.

HOW DO YOU ACCOUNT FOR THAT?

DR. KELNO WAS ACCUSED EXACTLY...

BECAUSE HE WAS AN
ANTICOMMUNIST AND AN EXILE.

AND HE WAS ACCUSED
BY A STALINIST REGIME...

THAT WAS PREPARED TO GO AND DID
GO TO ANY LENGTHS TO REMAIN IN POWER.

AND IT DID NOT END, AND POLAND DID NOT
REGAIN HER FREEDOM UNTIL STALIN ENDED.

SO YOU FEEL THAT
DR. KELNO DID NO WRONG...

AND WAS, IN FACT, THE VICTIM
OF POLITICAL PERSECUTION?

I DO. AND I WOULD NOT HAVE MADE THIS
JOURNEY FOR HIM IF I HAD THOUGHT OTHERWISE.

THANK YOU, DR. LOTAKI.

NO FURTHER QUESTIONS, MY LORD.

I'VE JUST HAD WORD WITH AN OLD
FRIEND, THE AMERICAN AMBASSADOR.

YOU'VE BEEN CLEARED
TO GO TO POLAND.

WILL ZAMINSKI HELP ME THERE?

WHEN HE HEARD LOTAKI WAS COMING
TO TESTIFY, HE AGREED TO HELP YOU.

THAT CONCLUDES THE CASE
FOR THE PLAINTIFF, MILORD.

YOU TELL TOM TO
STRETCH THINGS OUT.

THANK YOUR FRIEND
AT THE EMBASSY FOR ME.

[Phone Ringing]

HELLO. THIS IS THE
EMBASSY'S OPERATOR.

I HAVE JERUSALEM FOR YOU. RIGHT.

LIEUTENANT CADY'S ON
THE LINE. GOOD, GOOD.

- HELLO, DAD?
- BEN, I'M GLAD I GOT YOU.

ARE YOU ALL RIGHT?
ARE YOU ALL RIGHT?

THE ARAB ATTACK HAS BEEN
ALL OVER THE NEWSPAPERS.

- WELL, WE'VE SURVIVED WORSE.
- I'VE BEEN WORRIED.

WILL THERE BE REPRISALS?
THERE ALWAYS HAVE BEEN.

- BE CAREFUL.
- WE HAVE TO BE. WE DON'T
HAVE THAT MANY PLANES.

YOU KNOW WHAT I MEAN.

I'LL BE AS CAREFUL AS YOU WERE.

THAT'S WHAT I MEAN.

HOW ARE THINGS GOING WITH
YOU? WE CAN'T SEEM TO NAIL HIM.

I'M ON MY WAY TO
POLAND NOW TO SEW UP...

A PIECE OF PHYSICAL EVIDENCE
WE THINK MIGHT DO THE TRICK.

LISTEN, YOU BE CAREFUL.

RIGHT.

WELL...

WAIT.

WHAT, SON?

I LOVE YOU.

HEY.

[Banniester] DR. PARMENTIER...

YOUR WORK IS WELL KNOWN TO MANY,

BUT IN CASE SOME HERE
ARE NOT FAMILIAR WITH IT,

WOULD YOU TELL HIS LORDSHIP
AND THE JURY OF YOUR BACKGROUND?

[Parmentier] I AM A
CONSULTANT PSYCHIATRIST...

FOR HADASSAH HOSPITAL IN ISRAEL.

WE ARE CURRENTLY CONCERNED
WITH A NUMBER OF THE SURVIVORS...

OF THE MEDICAL
EXPERIMENT IN BARRACKS FIVE.

MILORD, I INTEND FIRST TO TAKE
DR. PARMENTIER'S TESTIMONY.

BUT THE DOCTOR HAS BROUGHT WITH
HER A CERTAIN NUMBER OF SURVIVORS...

OF THESE EXPERIMENTS
IN BARRACKS FIVE.

AND I PROPOSE TO PLACE
THEM IN THE WITNESS BOX...

WITH YOUR PERMISSION, MILORD.

DR...

DR. PARMENTIER, WOULD
YOU PREFER TO BE SEATED?

THANK YOU, SIR.

NOW, UH, DR. PARMENTIER,

WHY HAVE YOU BECOME
AN ISRAELI CITIZEN?

I ADMIRE COURAGE.

I THOUGHT IT WAS RIGHT TO TRY TO
DO SOMETHING FOR THESE PEOPLE,

TO MAKE UP FOR WHAT
WE HAD DONE TO THEM.

WE?

THE SO-CALLED CHRISTIAN WORLD.

YOU ARE NOT JEWISH?

I AM A ROMAN CATHOLIC.

WHERE DID YOU WORK IN JADWIGA?

IN THE MEDICAL
FACULTY OF DR. KELNO.

WHEN DID YOU LAST SEE DR. KELNO?

THIS MORNING...

IN THE CORRIDOR.

DID HE SPEAK TO YOU? NO.

DID YOU KNOW DR. TESSLER?

OF COURSE.

WOULD YOU TELL
MILORD AND THE JURY...

OF YOUR CONFRONTATION
WITH DR. VOSS?

THE STERILIZATION...

OF THE PRISONERS WAS NOT
CONFINED TO THEIR BODIES.

- VOSS, UNDER HITLER,
TORTURED THEIR MINDS.
- TO WHAT PURPOSE?

THEY WANTED TO FIND A METHOD...

BY WHICH THEY COULD
TRAIN ORDINARY PEOPLE...

TO BECOME ROBOTS...

FOR THE... GERMAN COMMAND.

WILL YOU DESCRIBE
THESE EXPERIMENTS TO US?

MILORD, I AM GOING TO OBJECT
TO THIS LINE OF QUESTIONING.

I DON'T SEE TO WHAT
POINT IT IS RELEVANT.

IT IS CERTAINLY RELEVANT
THAT A GERMAN DOCTOR, VOSS,

WAS CONDUCTING PSYCHIATRIC
EXPERIMENTS ON PRISONERS...

AND THAT HE CALLED IN A
PRISONER DOCTOR TO ASSIST HIM.

AND THAT DOCTOR'S RESPONSE,

WITH ALL DUE RESPECT TO MY
LEARNED FRIEND, IS HIGHLY RELEVANT.

YES, I THINK IT
COULD BE RELEVANT.

UH, PLEASE PROCEED,
DR. PARMENTIER.

THE ROOM HAD TWO CHAIRS.

IN FRONT OF EACH CHAIR
WAS A PANEL OF SWITCHES...

WHICH THREW AN
INCREASINGLY HIGHER VOLTAGE...

TO THE PERSON OPPOSITE.

IN THE BOOTH WAS, UH, VOSS.

AND HE HAD A PANEL OF SWITCHES.

YOU WITNESSED
THIS, DR. PARMENTIER?

YES.

THEN THE PRISONERS CAME IN.

THERE WAS A MOTHER AND DAUGHTER.

THEY WERE STRAPPED
TO THE CHAIRS.

VOSS ORDERED THE GIRL TO
GIVE HER MOTHER 50 VOLTS.

IF SHE DIDN'T DO THIS,

HE WOULD PUNISH
HER FOR NOT DOING SO.

DID THE DAUGHTER
DO AS SHE WAS TOLD?

NOT AT FIRST. SO, WHAT HAPPENED?

VOSS SHOCKED HER
AND SHE SCREAMED.

THEN HE ORDERED HER AGAIN...

TO GIVE HER MOTHER 50 VOLTS.

THIS TIME...

SHE HESITATED...

UNTIL SHE WAS GETTING...

NEARLY 200 VOLTS...

BEFORE SHE OBEYED
HIM OUT OF FEAR.

HOW MUCH VOLTAGE DID THE
DAUGHTER GIVE ON ORDER?

SHE KILLED HER MOTHER.

- IN FRONT OF YOU?
- IN FRONT OF ME.

AND WHAT HAPPENED TO YOU THEN?

I BECAME IRRATIONAL...

AND WAS MOVED TO VOSS' OFFICE.

THERE HE SHOWED ME GRAPHS...

AND CHARTS AND RECORDS.

WHAT HE WAS TRYING
TO FIND, HE SAID,

WAS THE BREAKING
POINT IN PEOPLE...

SO THEY WOULD BECOME ROBOTS
FOR THE GERMAN COMMAND.

AFTER AWHILE,

HE TOLD ME THAT WHEN THE
INITIAL SHOCK HAD PASSED,

I SHOULD BECOME
FASCINATED WITH THE WORK.

HE SAID IT WAS EXTRAORDINARY...

FOR A PSYCHIATRIST TO
HAVE HUMAN GUINEA PIGS.

HE ORDERED ME TO WORK FOR HIM.

AND WHAT DID YOU ANSWER TO THAT?

I REFUSED. YOU REFUSED?

CERTAINLY. I REFUSED.

AND WHAT HAPPENED THEN?

HE SAID HE WOULD SEND ME...

TO THE GAS CHAMBER.

DID YOU WORK FOR HIM? NO.

WEREN'T YOU AFRAID?

I KNEW THEY WERE SO
SHORT OF PRISON DOCTORS,

THEY WOULDN'T DARE
GET RID OF ANY OF US.

TESSLER WAS CONSTANTLY
RESISTING, BUT HE WAS STILL ALIVE.

MILORD...

SO YOU WERE NOT GASSED...

FOR REFUSING TO COOPERATE
IN THESE EXPERIMENTS?

I'M HERE IN LONDON.

- [Banniester] WHAT IS YOUR FULL NAME?
- BELLA SCHUMAN.

- DO YOU HAVE ANY CHILDREN?
- I'M UNABLE TO HAVE CHILDREN.

WHAT WORK DID
YOU DO IN THE CAMP?

FOR FOUR MONTHS, I
WORKED IN A FACTORY.

WE MADE PARTS FOR FIELD RADIOS.

AFTER FOUR MONTHS,
WHAT HAPPENED?

I WAS TAKEN TO BARRACKS
THREE OF THE MEDICAL COMPOUND.

DID YOU KNOW WHAT BARRACKS
THREE WAS ALL ABOUT?

I WAS PUT WITH GIRLS WHO HAD
BEEN X-RAYED AND OPERATED ON,

SO IT DIDN'T TAKE ME LONG
TO KNOW WHY I WAS THERE.

WOULD YOU DESCRIBE BARRACKS
THREE TO MILORD AND THE JURY?

WELL, THE WOMEN
WERE DOWNSTAIRS...

AND THE MEN UPSTAIRS.

AND...

THE FAR SIDE OF THE
BARRACKS WAS CAGED OFF...

AND HELD ABOUT 40 GIRLS...

WHO WERE BEING EXPERIMENTED
ON MENTALLY BY DR. VOSS.

MOST OF THEM WERE DRIVEN INSANE,

SO THEY... THEY WERE MUMBLING
AND SCREAMING ALL THE TIME.

WHAT HAPPENED TO YOU...

WHEN YOU WERE REMOVED
FROM BARRACKS THREE?

WELL, THE SS GUARDS CAME...

AND SIX OF US WERE
MOVED TO BARRACKS FIVE...

AND PUT INTO A ROOM
WITH AN X-RAY MACHINE.

AND THEN, THE ORDERLIES
TOOK OFF OUR CLOTHING,

AND ONE AT A TIME, UH,

A PLATE WAS PUT ON OUR
ABDOMENS AND OUR BACKS.

I WAS X-RAYED FOR
ABOUT TEN MINUTES.

AND WHAT WAS THE RESULT OF THAT?

WELL,

A DARK SPOT FORMED
ON MY ABDOMEN,

AND I VOMITED VERY
MUCH AFTERWARDS.

WHERE WERE YOU TAKEN THEN?

I WAS ROLLED INTO THE SURGERY
AND STRAPPED ON THE TABLE.

YOU WERE TOTALLY CONSCIOUS?

YES.

TWO MEN WITH MASKS
STOOD OVER ME.

ONE WORE THE UNIFORM
OF AN SS OFFICER.

SUDDENLY, THE DOOR BURST OPEN...

AND ANOTHER MAN CAME IN...

AND BEGAN TO ARGUE
WITH THE SURGEONS.

THEN HE CAME TO MY SIDE...

AND SAT NEAR ME...

AND STROKED MY FOREHEAD.

WHAT DID THIS PERSON SAY TO YOU?

"COURAGE. THE
PAIN WILL SOON PASS.

COURAGE. I WILL
TAKE CARE OF YOU."

DO YOU KNOW WHO THIS PERSON WAS?

DR. MARK TESSLER.

THE DEFENDANT'S
COUNSEL, MR. BANNIESTER,

REPEATEDLY SUGGESTED IT WAS DR. KELNO
WHO PERFORMED THE OPERATIONS...

YOU HAVE DESCRIBED ON YOURSELF
AND ON YOUR FELLOW PRISONERS.

DO YOU KNOW THIS TO
BE A FACT? IT IS A FACT.

HOW DO YOU KNOW? EVERYONE KNEW.

- BUT YOU'VE STATED
THE MEN WERE MASKED.
- YES.

YOU SAID ONE WAS
DRESSED AS AN SS OFFICER.

- YOU DO NOT CONTEND THAT
DR. KELNO WAS IN THE SS?
- NO.

- THEN HE COULD NOT
HAVE BEEN DR. KELNO.
- NO.

WHICH OF THE OTHER
TWO WAS DR. KELNO?

I TOLD YOU, THEY WERE
MASKED. PRECISELY.

THEREFORE, YOU CANNOT
IDENTIFY EITHER MAN.

- NO.
- THEREFORE, YOU CAN'T
IDENTIFY DR. KELNO.

- NO.
- DO YOU KNOW THAT THE GENTLEMAN
SITTING THERE IS DR. KELNO?

- YES.
- BUT YOU CANNOT SAY
HE WAS PRESENT...

IN THE SURGERY IN BARRACKS FIVE?

- NO.
- YOU SAY YOU WERE
IN GREAT PAIN,

THERE WERE STRUGGLES IN THE WAITING
ROOM, PEOPLE WERE BEING BEATEN.

YES. WOULD YOU SAY THAT YOU
WERE IN A HYSTERICAL STATE...

- WHEN THEY WHEELED YOU
INTO SURGERY?
- I WAS, YES.

- YOU WERE HYSTERICAL
AND CONFUSED?
- YES.

YET YOU REMEMBER ALL THIS IN
GREAT DETAIL ALMOST 30 YEARS LATER?

I REMEMBER.

I SUGGEST YOU THINK YOU REMEMBER
BECAUSE YOU WANT TO REMEMBER.

BECAUSE QUITE NATURALLY,
YOU WANT TO REVENGE YOURSELF.

MILORD, I THINK MY LEARNED FRIEND IS
SOMEWHAT EXCEEDING HIS PRIVILEGE.

- MY ONLY POINT IS...
- SIR ROBERT.

JUST MAKE YOUR POINT.

I SUGGEST, MRS. GOLD,

THAT YOU WERE QUITE YOUNG
WHEN THIS NIGHTMARE OCCURRED...

AND THAT IT HAPPENED
A VERY LONG TIME AGO.

THAT IS ALL, MILORD.

THANK YOU, MRS. GOLD.

YOU MAY STAND DOWN.

MR. COUNSEL, I WANT
TO TELL YOU SOMETHING.

YOU DON'T FORGET ANYTHING...

THE DAY YOU ARE FIXED
LIKE A CAT OR A DOG AT 16.

THERE ARE TWO DOCTORS THAT
TORTURED AND MUTILATED JEWS.

AND MASKED OR UNMASKED, ONE OF
THEM IS SITTING RIGHT OVER THERE...

WITH THE BLOOD
STILL ON HIS HANDS!

[Spectators Murmuring]

THE JURY WILL, OF COURSE,
IGNORE THE OUTBURST...

OF THE WITNESS.

SIR ROBERT...

DO YOU WISH FOR
HER TO BE RECALLED?

NO, MILORD. SHE HAS
BEEN THROUGH ENOUGH.

THANK YOU, SIR ROBERT.

SIR ROBERT IS MAKING
THE KIND OF GESTURE...

ONE WOULD EXPECT OF
AN ENGLISH BARRISTER.

MR. CADY? OH. COLONEL ZAMINSKI.

I AM DELIGHTED TO MEET YOU.
I'VE READ MOST OF YOUR WORKS.

I'M GLAD TO HEAR MY BOOKS
AREN'T CENSORED HERE.

WE ARE HAPPY THAT
YOU ARE HAPPY. VODKA?

TEA, PLEASE.

UH, ONE MORE VODKA.

CIGARETTE? NO,
THANK YOU. I DON'T.

TELL ME, WHAT DO
THE ENGLISH FEEL...

ABOUT THE PALESTINIAN
GUERRILLA RAIDS IN ISRAEL?

THEY'RE AGAINST THEM. IT'S
MORE OR LESS THE SAME HERE.

ALTHOUGH, TECHNICALLY,
WE'RE ON THE ARABS' SIDE.

YOU MUST BE CONCERNED
FOR YOUR SON.

THE ISRAELI AIR FORCE
WILL MAKE REPRISALS.

HOW DO YOU KNOW ABOUT MY SON?

WE SPECIALIZE IN
ACQUIRING THE SAME KIND...

OF USELESS INFORMATION THAT
YOUR INTELLIGENCE PEOPLE DO.

IT KEEPS US ALL BUSY.

I HOPE IT INCLUDES THE
WHEREABOUTS OF EGON SOBOTNIK.

WE HAVE A LEAD.

YOUR PEOPLE ASKED US TO PURSUE IT,
AND MY PARTY HAVE GIVEN PERMISSION.

IN EXCHANGE, OF COURSE, FOR
AN EQUAL FAVOR IN THE FUTURE.

YOU ARE LUCKY. I HOPE SO.

I PERSONALLY WANT TO
GET MY HANDS ON SOBOTNIK.

HE WAS RESPONSIBLE FOR MY LOSING
THE EXTRADITION PROCEEDINGS...

AGAINST KELNO IN LONDON
AFTER THE WAR. HOW SO?

WELL, YOU SAW FROM HIS RECORDS
THAT OUR WITNESS, ELI JANOS,

WAS CASTRATED BY
DR. LOTAKI, NOT KELNO.

SO, NATURALLY, JANOS
WASN'T ABLE TO IDENTIFY KELNO,

AND OUR CASE FELL TO PIECES.

YOU MEAN THAT SOBOTNIK HAD
RECORDS TO CONSULT AFTER THE WAR?

A SWINE LIKE THAT
ALWAYS KEEPS SOMETHING...

TO TRADE AGAINST THE
DAY HE GETS CAUGHT.

YOU'VE BEEN VERY
DECENT ABOUT THIS.

WHAT MAKES YOU THINK THAT
DECENCY STOPS AT THE BERLIN WALL?

YES, YOU'RE RIGHT.

THAT WAS A PATRONIZING
THING TO SAY.

WELL, HERE'S TO
SOBOTNIK'S RECORDS.

HERE'S TO SOBOTNIK'S MISTRESS.

THAT IS OUR NEXT STOP.

LENA KRONSKA, BY NAME.

SHE'S A TOUGH OLD WITCH,
AND SHE'LL BE READY FOR YOU.

ARE YOU SURE YOU DON'T
WANT ME TO INTERROGATE HER?

UH, LET ME TRY FIRST.

NOW THAT I HAVE THE AUTHORITY,
IT WILL TAKE ONLY A FEW MINUTES.

IF I DON'T HAVE ANY LUCK.

YES? ABRAHAM CADY.

JUST TELL ME WHAT YOU WANT.

I RESENT BEING TOLD TO
SEE PEOPLE BY THE POLICE.

WELL, MAY I SIT DOWN?

I DON'T CARE WHAT YOU DO,
AS LONG AS YOU DO IT FAST.

I'M INVOLVED IN A LAWSUIT IN LONDON
WITH A MAN NAMED ADAM KELNO.

PERHAPS YOU'VE READ ABOUT
IT IN THE NEWSPAPERS HERE?

I DON'T READ THE PAPERS.

WELL, A WITNESS I
NEED BADLY IS MISSING,

A MAN NAMED EGON SOBOTNIK.

I'D PAY A LOT TO FIND HIM.

[Chuckles]

WELL, YOU'LL HAVE TO FIND SOMEONE
WHO KNOWS HIM FIRST, DON'T YOU?

HE LIVES HERE WITH
YOU. NOW, SIT DOWN.

YOU DON'T FRIGHTEN
ME. WELL, OF COURSE NOT.

A JEWISH PROSTITUTE WHO SERVICED
THE NAZIS IN WARSAW DURING THE WAR...

CAN'T BE AFRAID OF MUCH.

NOW, YOU SIT DOWN
AND BEHAVE YOURSELF.

COLONEL ZAMINSKI IS DOWNSTAIRS
READY TO TAKE YOU APART...

IF YOU DON'T TALK TO ME.

WE LIVED TOGETHER AFTER THE
WAR. THEN HE DISAPPEARED. THAT'S ALL.

WE DON'T THINK HE DISAPPEARED.

WE THINK HE CHANGED HIS NAME,

HIS IDENTIFICATION...

AND BECAME SOMEBODY ELSE.

WE THINK YOU KNOW WHO HE
IS NOW AND WHERE HE IS NOW.

WELL, THINK ALL YOU WANT.

YOU HAVE NO VISIBLE
MEANS OF SUPPORT, LENA.

WE THINK SOBOTNIK
TAKES CARE OF YOU.

I WISH SOMEONE WOULD.

I WILL.

I'LL PAY YOU 1,000
ENGLISH POUNDS FOR HIM.

THAT'S FAR MORE THAN HE
PAYS YOU FOR YOUR SILENCE.

WELL, MR. CADY,

YOU CAN HAVE ZAMINSKI
START TAKING ME APART NOW.

YOU'RE CLEVER, LENA.

CLEVER ENOUGH TO MAKE
ALL THIS WORK FOR YOU.

CLEVER ENOUGH TO KEEP
YOUR SECRET FROM EVERYONE...

EXCEPT YAHWEH.

WHO THE HELL IS HE?

JEHOVAH, GOD OF THE JEWS.

SOMEDAY YOU'LL HAVE
TO ANSWER TO HIM.

JEHOVAH! YOU MAKE ME LAUGH.

WHERE WAS JEHOVAH IN
THE CONCENTRATION CAMPS?

YOU TELL ME. THAT
CRIPPLED OLD MAN.

YOU LOST YOUR MOTHER AND
FATHER THERE, DIDN'T YOU?

YES, I DID. THE MERCIFUL
JEHOVAH TOOK THEM.

THEY'LL REALLY BE PROUD...

IF THIS BUTCHER OF JEWS
WINS THE CASE BECAUSE OF YOU.

SHUT UP, WILL YOU?
YOU'RE GETTING OLD, LENA.

AND THE OLDER YOU GET,
THE MORE VIVID THE FACES...

OF YOUR MOTHER AND
FATHER ARE GOING TO BE.

THE MOTHER AND FATHER WHO HID
YOU, WHO DIED FOR YOU. SHUT UP.

AND THAT GENTILE HUSBAND...

WHO TOOK THEIR PLACE
AND DIED IN THE RESISTANCE.

YOU REMEMBERED
HIM WELL, DIDN'T YOU?

YOU HONORED HIM!

YOU BECAME THE PROSTITUTE
FOR HIS MURDERERS!

IF, UH,

YOU FIND SOBOTNIK,

WHAT WILL YOU DO TO HIM?

I'LL USE HIM AS A
WITNESS IN LONDON.

HE, UH...

HE WON'T BE PUNISHED
FOR HIS PART IN THIS?

BY WHOM?

WHO IS LEFT TO TRY HIM?

HIS NAME IS GUSTAV TOKLAR.

HE'S DIRECTOR FOR THE LENIN
TRACTOR WORKS IN KRAKOW.

MM. NO. NO.

PLEASE.

YOU WON'T HAVE HIM TO
SUPPORT YOU ANYMORE.

I'D LIKE TO TAKE
IT, BUT I CAN'T.

WHY NOT?

I LOVED HIM.

THANK YOU.

MRS. COHEN, WHAT WAS THE FIRST THING
THAT HAPPENED TO YOU IN BARRACKS FIVE?

SOMEONE PUT A
NEEDLE INTO MY SPINE.

- A SMALL NEEDLE?
- BIG NEEDLE.

- WHAT HAPPENED?
- I SCREAMED AND WRENCHED AWAY.

- AND IT BROKE IT ME.
- WHAT HAPPENED THEN?

I WAS STRAPPED TO
THE OPERATING TABLE...

STILL SCREAMING AND STRUGGLING.

[Banniester] DID ANYONE
SAY ANYTHING TO YOU?

ONE OF THE DOCTORS.

WHAT DID HE SAY?

HE HIT ME AND SAID,

"SHUT UP, YOU DAMN JEWESS!"

HE SHOWED ME MY TESTICLE
ON A LITTLE PLATTER AND SAID,

"HERE IS YOUR EGG, JEW.

ENJOY THE OTHER ONE
BECAUSE THAT GOES NEXT."

[Banniester] AND THEN?

THEN DR. TESSLER COMFORTED
ME WHILE THEY SEWED ME UP.

HE WAS THERE?

OH, YES. HE WAS ALWAYS THERE...

FOR MYSELF AND THE OTHERS.

HOW DID YOU ESCAPE, MR. BAR TOV?

A MAN IN BARRACKS THREE DIED.

DR. TESSLER GAVE HIM
MY NAME, AND I TOOK HIS.

I WAS ABLE TO GO BACK TO WORK.

AND SOON AFTER,
WE WERE LIBERATED.

SO MOISHE BAR TOV IS
NOT YOUR REAL NAME?

NO.

IT IS THE NAME OF THE MAN...

WHO DIED.

I KEPT IT IN HIS HONOR.

SO, MR. LEHRER, YOU HAVE
NEVER MADE PEACE WITH YOUR...

HATRED OF THOSE YOU
FEEL MISTREATED YOU?

NO, SIR, I NEVER
HAVE. WOULD YOU?

- THAT IS ALL, MILORD.
- ONE MOMENT, MR. LEHRER.

MILORD, MAY I
REMIND THE COURT...

OF A CARDINAL POINT IN SIR
ADAM KELNO'S TESTIMONY?

NAMELY, THAT DR. TESSLER WAS
NEVER PRESENT AT THESE OPERATIONS.

BUT MR. LEHRER, MR. BAR TOV
AND VARIOUS OTHER WITNESSES...

HAVE ALL TESTIFIED UNDER
OATH THAT HE WAS THERE.

NOW, MY LEARNED FRIEND, IN HIS
CROSS-EXAMINATION OF THESE WITNESSES,

HAS NEVER SUGGESTED THAT THEY
WERE LYING ON THIS PARTICULAR POINT.

THAT IS HIS PRIVILEGE,
MR. BANNIESTER.

MILORD, I SUGGEST THAT THE
JURY IS ENTITLED TO KNOW...

IF SIR ROBERT THINKS THAT
THESE WITNESSES WERE LYING.

IF COUNSEL CANNOT ACCEPT
THE TESTIMONY OF A WITNESS,

IT IS HIS DUTY TO
CHALLENGE THAT WITNESS.

SIR ROBERT HAS FAILED
TO DO SO CONSPICUOUSLY.

I CANNOT FORCE HIM TO
DO SO, MR. BANNIESTER.

I'M AWARE OF THAT,
MILORD. NEVERTHELESS,

I CHALLENGE MY LEARNED FRIEND...

TO PUT THE QUESTION
TO THE WITNESS.

UH...

I SUGGEST THAT DR. TESSLER
WAS NOT IN THE OPERATING ROOM.

HE WAS THERE!

YOU MAY STAND DOWN, MR. LEHRER.

[Whispering]

MR. BANNIESTER.

I MUST CALL YOU TO ORDER.

MILORD, WE HAVE JUST HEARD...

THAT DR. TESSLER HAS DIED
OF A HEART ATTACK IN OSTERLITZ.

WE MUST THEREFORE REQUEST
A SHORT ADJOURNMENT.

[Crying]

YES, OF COURSE.

GOOD MORNING.

MARK TESSLER DEAD.

YOU'LL GET YOUR MESSAGES MORE
QUICKLY THROUGH THE POLICE...

THAN THE TELEGRAM OFFICE.

WAS TESSLER CONNECTED
WITH THIS CASE?

THE ONLY WITNESS WE HAD WHO WAS
ACTUALLY IN THE ROOM WHEN KELNO OPERATED.

THAT IS BAD. HOWEVER,
SOBOTNIK COULD DO IT FOR YOU.

SOBOTNIK HAS TO DO IT FOR US.

WE'LL TAKE YOU AROUND
AND SHOW YOU THE PLANT.

AND IF YOU ARE WRITING ABOUT
INDUSTRIAL POLAND TODAY,

I CAN ASSURE YOU WE ARE TYPICAL.

IT WON'T BE NECESSARY
FOR ME TO SEE THE PLANT.

I UNDERSTOOD THAT WAS
THE PURPOSE OF YOUR VISIT.

HOWEVER, IF I CAN SHOW
YOU SOMETHING ELSE...

THERE IS SOMETHING ELSE I'D
LIKE TO SEE. IT'S QUITE NEAR HERE.

CERTAINLY. WHAT IS IT?

JADWIGA.

WHY ON EARTH WOULD YOU
WANT TO GO TO JADWIGA?

HAVE YOU EVER BEEN THERE?

NO. IT'S SOMETHING THAT
BELONGS TO THE PAST.

I'M INTERESTED IN THE PAST.

MR. CADY, IF IT'S YOUR PLEASURE,
I'LL HAVE SOMEBODY TAKE YOU.

WELL, I WAS LOOKING
FORWARD TO YOUR TAKING ME. I?

I'M SORRY. YOU'RE
DISAPPOINTING ME, MR. TOKLAR.

THE GENTLEMAN YOU CAME WITH,
WHOEVER HE IS, WILL TAKE YOU?

OH, HE INTENDS TO.

THIS IS MR. ZAMINSKI.

BUT, UH, DOES THAT
MAKE ANY SENSE?

I DON'T UNDERSTAND ANY OF IT.

YOU DON'T HAVE TO. ALL YOU HAVE
TO DO IS GUIDE US THROUGH JADWIGA.

MR. ZAMINSKI WILL TAKE US THERE.

THIS IS ALL INSANE.

DO YOU KNOW WHAT THE PARTY
SECTION WILL DO IF THEY HEAR ABOUT IT?

YES, I DO, COMRADE SOBOTNIK.

MY NAME IS TOKLAR.

WHATEVER. SHALL WE GO, COMRADE?

[Cady] THIRTY YEARS LATER.

I'M GLAD YOU'VE SEEN
TO IT THAT IT'S STILL HERE.

"ARBEIT MACHT FREI."
"WORK MAKES FREEDOM."

[Man Speaking German]

[Whispering In
German, Indistinct]

[Person Shuddering]

[Man Screaming]

[Whip Cracking]

[Woman Screaming]

[Man Screaming]

[Man Groaning, Coughing]

[Utensils Clattering]

[Woman Screaming]

[Man Screaming]

[Woman Screaming]

[Liquid Dripping]

NOW, COMRADE,

FROM HERE WE ARE
GOING TO MAKE TWO STOPS.

THE FIRST TO MY OFFICE
TO TAKE YOUR STATEMENT...

AND THE SECOND TO THE AIRPORT.

THE AIRPORT?

WHERE ARE YOU TAKING ME?

YOU ARE ABOUT TO DEFECT
TO ENGLAND, COMRADE,

TO TESTIFY AGAINST YOUR OLD
JADWIGA ASSOCIATE, DR. ADAM KELNO.

WHAT ABOUT MY CHILDREN? MY WIFE?

I'M AFRAID YOU MAY NEVER SEE YOUR WIFE
AND CHILDREN AGAIN AS LONG AS YOU LIVE.

MR. CADY, CAN YOU HELP ME?

I THINK YOU ARE
NOT LIKE THEY ARE.

I WOULDN'T BET ON IT.

THERE IS ONE WAY YOU
CAN SEE YOUR FAMILY AGAIN.

ANYTHING.

BY GIVING US THE SURGICAL REGISTER
OF BARRACKS FIVE THAT YOU KEPT.

AND HOW DO I KNOW
YOU'LL KEEP YOUR WORD?

YOU DON'T KNOW.

THERE WERE FIVE VOLUMES,

ONE FOR EACH OF THE FIVE YEARS.

I HAVE THE ONE FOR 1943.

[Banniester] MILORD...

MEMBERS OF THE JURY,

I CONCEDE THAT WE HAVE, INDEED,

LIBELED AND CAST A SHADOW...

ON SIR ADAM KELNO'S REPUTATION.

WE HAVE ACCUSED
HIM OF COMMITTING...

A THOUSAND CRIMINAL
SURGERIES IN BARRACKS FIVE...

WITHOUT ANESTHETIC.

AND WE'VE BEEN ABLE TO PRESENT
ONLY A FEW PITIFUL SURVIVORS...

OF THAT SURGERY.

WE WERE FORCED TO ADMIT
THESE DID RECEIVE AN ANESTHETIC...

HOWEVER INADEQUATE, IMPROPER
AND BRUTALLY ADMINISTERED.

YOU'VE HEARD THE EVIDENCE
OF THESE WITNESSES.

AND YOU HAVE HEARD SIR ADAM'S
MANNER OF PRACTICING MEDICINE,

THE QUALITY OF HIS ALLEGIANCE
TO THE HIPPOCRATIC OATH...

DESCRIBED BY HIS FELLOW
PRISONER DOCTORS...

AND BY THE GREATEST
MEDICAL AUTHORITIES IN IT.

I SUBMIT TO YOU...

THAT SIR ADAM
KELNO'S REPUTATION...

COULD HARDLY BE MORE DAMAGED...

THAN IT WAS BEFORE
HE ENTERED THIS COURT.

I SUBMIT THAT HE
DOES NOT DESERVE...

TO BE REWARDED FOR
IT BY A BRITISH JURY.

I SUBMIT THAT HE DESERVES
ONLY OUR CONTEMPT...

AND THE REJECTION
BY THIS COURT...

OF HIS SUIT FOR LIBEL
AGAINST MR. ABRAHAM CADY.

MILORD, LADIES AND
GENTLEMEN OF THE JURY,

IN MAKING MY CLOSING REMARKS,

I WILL STICK STRICTLY
TO THE FACTS...

AS THEY HAVE BEEN
PRESENTED TO YOU HERE...

IN QUEEN'S BENCH SEVEN.

MR. CADY'S LIBEL OF
SIR ADAM KELNO STATES...

THAT HE PERFORMED A THOUSAND
OR MORE EXPERIMENTS ON JEWS...

WITHOUT THE USE OF ANESTHETICS.

MR. CADY NOW AGREES THAT
SPINAL ANESTHETICS WERE USED.

AND HE HAS BEEN UNABLE TO ESTABLISH
EVEN A SCORE OF THE OPERATIONS...

SIR ADAM HAS DESCRIBED TO
YOU, NO LESS THE REMAINING 980.

MR. CADY HAS ESTABLISHED...

THAT SOME PRISONER DOCTOR
IN THE HELL OF JADWIGA...

ILL-TREATED AND WILLFULLY
EXPERIMENTED ON JEWISH PRISONERS.

BUT NO WITNESS
FOR THE DEFENSE...

HAS BEEN ABLE TO IDENTIFY
SIR ADAM KELNO AS THAT DOCTOR.

IF SIR ADAM KELNO WERE
GUILTY OF WRONGDOING,

WOULD HE HAVE COME INTO
THIS COURT TO DEFEND HIS NAME?

I ASK THAT YOU AWARD
HIM SUBSTANTIAL DAMAGES.

I ASK THAT YOU RETURN
HIM WITH HONOR...

TO A WORLD HE HAS SERVED...

UNTIL THIS FECKLESS LIBEL
STAINED HIS REPUTATION.

THAT IS MY CASE, MILORD.

MR. BANNIESTER, WHAT
IS THE MEANING OF THIS?

MILORD, I ASK THE
COURT'S INDULGENCE.

I HAD NO WAY OF KNOWING
UNTIL THIS VERY MOMENT...

WHETHER THE GENTLEMAN WHO HAS
JUST APPEARED IN THE COURTROOM...

WOULD BE ADMITTED INTO ENGLAND
WITH SUFFICIENT SPEED TO APPEAR HERE.

HE IS A DEFECTOR
FROM HIS OWN COUNTRY.

UH, WHO IS THIS
PERSON, MR. BANNIESTER?

EGON SOBOTNIK,

SURGICAL CLERK IN BARRACKS
FIVE TO DR. ADAM KELNO.

DO YOU INTEND TO TAKE HIS
EVIDENCE NOW? NO, MILORD.

I DO NOT. MR. SOBOTNIK HAS
BROUGHT WITH HIM A DOCUMENT...

WHICH CONTAINS ALL
THE EVIDENCE THAT I NEED.

WITH YOUR PERMISSION, I WILL
NOW SUBMIT IT TO THE COURT.

WHAT IS THIS DOCUMENT?

IT IS A PORTION OF THE SURGICAL
REGISTER OF BARRACKS FIVE.

SIR ADAM STATED HE
WISHED IT WERE HERE...

SO THAT, IF I'M PARAPHRASING
HIM CORRECTLY,

HE COULD PROVE HIS INNOCENCE.

I STRONGLY OBJECT TO
THIS LAST-MINUTE, OBVIOUSLY

CONTRIVED ATTEMPT
TO SUBMIT NEW EVIDENCE.

- ON WHAT GROUNDS?
- I KNOW OF NO PRECEDENT WHERE
A TRIAL IS AT ITS CLOSE...

WHERE THE COURT HAS ALLOWED AN
AMENDMENT TO THE BILL OF PARTICULARS...

IN THE FORM OF NEW EVIDENCE, WHICH MAY
CHANGE ENTIRELY THE NATURE OF THE CASE.

- YES, MR. DICKS?
- MILORD, I'VE ALREADY
FOUND THREE INSTANCES...

WHERE PERMISSION
WAS NOT GRANTED.

INDEED, I FIND THERE SEEMS
TO BE NO PRECEDENT. MILORD,

I CONTEND THAT THIS DOES NOT
CHANGE THE NATURE OF THE CASE,

ONLY, I TRUST, ITS OUTCOME.

I REPEAT AGAIN THAT THE PLAINTIFF
CRIED ALOUD IN THIS VERY COURTROOM...

FOR THIS SPECIFIC PIECE OF EVIDENCE
SO THAT HE MIGHT PROVE HIS INNOCENCE.

WELL, LET HIM PROVE IT NOW.

AND I REPEAT AGAIN THAT REGARDLESS
OF WHAT MY CLIENT MAY HAVE SAID,

HE DOES NOT HAVE
TO PROVE ANYTHING.

HE IS THE PLAINTIFF IN THIS
CASE, NOT THE DEFENDANT.

THERE ARE COPIES OF THIS DOCUMENT
TO GIVE TO THE PLAINTIFF AND JURY.

YES. YES, INDEED, MILORD.

THESE ARE PHOTOSTATS
MADE LAST NIGHT IN POLAND...

AND CERTIFIED BY THE OFFICER IN
CHARGE OF WAR CRIME RECORDS, WARSAW.

MILORD, MY OPPONENT HAS ACHIEVED
A CERTAIN DRAMA WITH THIS GAMBLING.

I PRESUME THAT IT MAY LEAD
TO SOME PRACTICAL RESULT.

I CONTEND AGAIN THAT THESE
RESULTS ARE WITHOUT PRECEDENT.

MILORD, I QUOTE
SIR ADAM DIRECTLY:

"I INSISTED ON ACCURATE RECORDS.

I FELT IT IMPORTANT THAT THERE COULD
NEVER BE DOUBT OF MY BEHAVIOR LATER."

MILORD, NEVER IN THE
WHOLE OF MY CAREER...

HAVE I SEEN A PIECE OF EVIDENCE
THAT CRIES OUT MORE TO BE HEARD...

THAN THIS SURGICAL
RECORD OF BARRACKS FIVE...

IN THE CONCENTRATION
CAMP OF JADWIGA.

SIR ROBERT, IF THERE
IS NO PRECEDENT,

THEN I SHALL SET ONE.

WILL YOU PLEASE
DISTRIBUTE THE DOCUMENTS?

MR. BANNIESTER, YOU MAY
PROCEED. THANK YOU, MILORD.

I WISH TO HAVE SIR
ADAM KELNO RECALLED.

NO!

YOU MUST. NO!

SIR ROBERT, DO YOU AGREE...

TO YOUR CLIENT BEING RECALLED?

IF HE WILL, MILORD.

IT'S IN THAT COLUMN.

WILL YOU, UH, SEE THAT THE WITNESS
HAS A COPY OF THIS DOCUMENT?

UH, TO ASSIST THE
MEMBERS OF THE JURY,

LET'S TAKE A PAGE
AT RANDOM, PAGE 51.

PAGE 51.

NOW, THIS LISTS...

THIRTY SURGERIES...

PERFORMED IN BARRACKS FIVE
ON THE FOURTH OF AUGUST, 1943.

GOING FROM LEFT TO
RIGHT ACROSS THE PAGE,

WE SEE TEN DIFFERENT COLUMNS.

THE FIRST COLUMN LISTS THE
NUMBER OF THE OPERATION,

THE SECOND THE DATE, THE
THIRD THE NUMBER OF THE PATIENT.

THE LETTER "J" APPEARS...

AFTER SEVERAL OF THE TATTOO
NUMBERS ON THESE PAGES.

WHAT DOES THAT DENOTE?

UH...

JEW.

- PLEASE SPEAK UP, SIR ADAM.
- JEW!

[Spectators Murmuring]

THE FOURTH AND FIFTH COLUMNS
LIST THE PATIENT'S NAME...

AND THE DIAGNOSIS
OF HIS ILLNESS.

THE SIXTH COLUMN
DESCRIBES THE OPERATION.

IS THAT ALL CORRECT? YES.

THE SEVENTH AND EIGHTH COLUMNS
CONTAIN THE NAMES OF THE SURGEON...

AND THE NAME OF HIS ASSISTANT,
SIGNED BY THE HAND OF EACH.

THE NAMES ARE THOSE OF
YOURSELF AND DR. LOTAKI.

THERE ARE NO OTHER
NAMES. IS THAT CORRECT?

YES.

WHOSE HANDWRITING IS
ON THE REST OF THE PAGE?

SIR ADAM.

SOBOTNIK.

AS YOUR CLERK? YES.

WHAT IS IN THE NINTH COLUMN?

I MUST ASK YOU TO RESPOND.

THE...

THE ANESTHETIST.

WILL THE JURY AND MILORD LOOK DOWN
THE 30-ODD OPERATIONS ON THE PAGE?

THE SIGNATURE OF THE
ANESTHETIST APPEARS IN THE CASE...

OF HOW MANY
OPERATIONS, SIR ADAM?

I COUNT...

TWENTY. IS THAT CORRECT?

- I GUESS SO.
- YOU GUESS SO. TWENTY.

WHAT DOES THE "G" MEAN AFTER
THE ANESTHETIST'S SIGNATURE?

DOES THAT STAND... "G"... DOES IT
STAND FOR GENERAL ANESTHETIC?

- YES.
- DO ANY
OF THE TATTOO NUMBERS...

OF THESE 20 OPERATIONS IN WHICH
YOU USE A GENERAL ANESTHETIC...

HAVE THE LETTER "J"
APPENDED TO THEM?

NO.

THERE ARE... FIVE, SEVEN...

TEN NUMBERS ON THE PAGE WITH THE
LETTER "J" FOLLOWING THEM, ARE THERE NOT?

YES.

AND NO ANESTHETIST
HAS SIGNED THE REGISTER...

WHERE THE LETTER "J" APPEARS.

- HOW DO YOU ACCOUNT FOR THAT?
- I TOLD YOU.

I WENT IN THERE WITH
SPINALS. I GAVE THEM MYSELF.

YOUR SURVIVING PATIENTS TESTIFIED
IN THIS COURTROOM THAT YOU DID NOT.

AND DID NOT YOU
TESTIFY UNDER OATH...

THAT YOU GAVE
SPINAL ANESTHETICS...

BECAUSE NO GENERAL
ANESTHETIC WAS AVAILABLE?

YOU WERE LYING, WEREN'T YOU?

IS THE DATE THE SAME FOR
THE WHOLE OF THIS PAGE?

YES.

YOU WERE LYING BECAUSE...

GENERAL ANESTHETIC
WAS AVAILABLE...

AND WAS GIVEN TO ALL
THE NON-JEWISH PATIENTS.

IS THAT CORRECT?

- ANSWER THE QUESTION.
- YES!

AND NOT TO THE JEWISH
PATIENTS. IS THAT CORRECT?

YES OR NO?

- YES!
- [Gasps]

THE TENTH COLUMN IS BLANK
THROUGHOUT THIS PAGE.

WHAT WAS THAT COLUMN FOR?

UH...

OCCASIONAL NOTES.

OCCASIONAL NOTES. THANK YOU.

NOW, LET'S TURN TO PAGE 71.

YOU TESTIFIED THAT YOU
NEVER PERFORMED CASTRATION...

ON MEN YOU CONSIDERED
TO BE HEALTHY.

CORRECT? YES.

LET US LOOK DOWN THIS PAGE.
DOES THE JURY AND MILORD...

SEE THE NAME DANIEL DUBROVSKY...

ABOUT ONE-THIRD OF THE WAY DOWN?

TATTOO NUMBER 114360J.

WHAT IS DESCRIBED
AS THE DIAGNOSIS?

UH,

JUST, UH, TWO LETTERS.

WHAT ARE THE LETTERS?

"S" AND "O".

WHAT DO THEY MEAN?

I DON'T REMEMBER.

I WILL HELP YOU TO REMEMBER.

"S" MEANS "SMUGGLING,"
"O" MEANS "ORDER."

THE PRISONER WAS CAUGHT SMUGGLING
EXTRA FOOD INTO HIS BARRACKS.

AND THE SS ORDERED
HIM TO BE CASTRATED...

AS A PUNISHMENT AND AN EXAMPLE.

WHAT KIND OF DISEASE
IS SMUGGLING, DOCTOR?

TURN TO PAGE 93.

DOES THE NAME MENOV
DONKER, 13214J, APPEAR?

YES.

THE DIAGNOSIS COLUMN
IS BLANK, IS IT NOT?

YES. DOES THAT MEAN
HE WAS NOT SICK?

UH, NO, IT MUST HAVE,
UH, MEANT AN OVERSIGHT.

CAN I ASK MR. SOBOTNIK
TO TAKE THE OATH...

AND TELL US WHAT KIND
OF AN OVERSIGHT IT WAS?

WHAT IS THAT IN THE
LAST AND TENTH COLUMN,

THE ONE YOU USE FOR
YOUR OCCASIONAL NOTES?

- FIGURES.
- READ THEM!

AD-911.

9.11. WHAT DO THEY MEAN?

I CAN'T REMEMBER.

IT WAS SO LONG AGO.

I WOULDN'T REMEMBER
EITHER, IF I WERE YOU.

I SUGGEST THAT THE REGISTER DOES
NOT DENOTE MENOV DONKER'S ILLNESS...

BECAUSE HE WAS NOT ILL.

I SUGGEST THAT
THE FIGURES 9.11...

DENOTE THE TIME IT TOOK YOU
TO CASTRATE MENOV DONKER...

AND SEW HIM UP AGAIN...

AS PART OF THE SS EXPERIMENT...

TO DETERMINE HOW FAST
CASTRATION COULD BE DONE.

WILL YOU DENY THAT?

SIR ADAM.

- WHAT DOES A "D" MEAN?
- DECEASED.

HE DIED OF SHOCK AND
INFECTION, DIDN'T HE?

MILORD, MEMBERS OF THE JURY,

WE'VE COUNTED THROUGH
THIS ONE REGISTER FROM 1943,

THE ONLY ONE OF FIVE
THAT HAS SURVIVED.

THERE ARE...

TWENTY-THREE ENTRIES...

EXACTLY SIMILAR TO
THAT OF MENOV DONKER...

AMONG THE HUNDREDS OF ENTRIES...

DESCRIBING THE OPERATIONS
PERFORMED ON JEWS...

WHO WERE USED AS GUINEA
PIGS BY THE GERMAN EXPERIMENTS.

AND EVERY ONE OF
THESE 23 OPERATIONS...

WERE PERFORMED
BY THIS VERY DOCTOR...

ADAM KELNO.

DO YOU WISH TO CONTEST THAT?

SIR ADAM.

THAT IS ALL, MILORD.

YOU MAY STAND DOWN, SIR ADAM.

LADIES AND
GENTLEMEN OF THE JURY,

YOU HAVE HEARD THE
EVIDENCE IN GREAT DETAIL...

AND ALSO LEARNED COUNSELS'
RESPECTIVE SUBMISSIONS.

I NEED SAY NO MORE TO YOU.

SO YOU WILL RETIRE AND
CONSIDER YOUR VERDICT.

[Stephan] HOW MUCH DID YOU REALLY
KNOW? [Angela] KEEP YOUR VOICE DOWN.

[Stephan] IF YOU DID, HOW COULD YOU
STRING EVERYBODY ALONG FOR SO LONG?

I DON'T WANT TO HEAR YOU TALK
LIKE THAT ABOUT YOUR FATHER.

HE'S A MONSTER. HOW CAN YOU
LIVE IN THE SAME HOUSE WITH HIM?

YOU WERE A VERY YOUNG BOY.
YOU DON'T KNOW WHAT LIFE WAS LIKE.

AND AT A TIME LIKE THIS,
YOU SHOULD STICK BY HIM.

I CAN'T FACE HIM.
IT'S IMPOSSIBLE.

PLEASE, DARLING. JUST STAY HOME.

LET YOUR FATHER EXPLAIN
TO YOU. LET HIM TALK TO YOU.

WHAT CAN HE EXPLAIN?

JUST REMEMBER THAT HE LOVES
YOU. NO MATTER WHAT, HE LOVES YOU.

I DON'T WANT TO HURT YOU, BUT I CAN'T
LIVE IN THE SAME HOUSE WITH HIM ANYMORE.

HE'S A MONSTER. HOW DARE YOU!

JUST LET ME GET SOME
CLOTHES. WHERE HAVE YOU BEEN?

- EXCUSE ME.
- I ASKED YOU A QUESTION!

WILL YOU LET IT GO?

YOU SICK OLD MAN.

IT MUST BE ROUGH IF YOU HATE BOTH
JEWS AND COMMUNISTS THESE DAYS.

WHO DO YOU HATE THE MOST?

BUT THEN I DON'T
HAVE TO ASK YOU, DO I?

I NEVER WANT TO
SEE YOUR FACE AGAIN.

YOU NEVER WILL.

GET OUT!

MR. CADY.

SPECIAL CABLE FOR YOU.

"LIEUTENANT BEN
CADY GAVE HIS LIFE...

"FOR ISRAEL AND
THE JEWISH PEOPLE...

"IN A SKIRMISH OVER
SINAI THIS MORNING.

THE GOVERNMENT AND THE PEOPLE
OF ISRAEL SHARE IN YOUR GRIEF."

TAKE MARGARET INSIDE.
I'LL SEE YOU IN A MINUTE.

[Spectators Chattering]

SILENCE!

MR. FOREMAN, PLEASE RISE.

MEMBERS OF THE JURY, ARE YOU
ALL AGREED UPON YOUR VERDICT?

WE ARE. FOR WHOM DO YOU FIND?

DO YOU FIND FOR THE
PLAINTIFF, SIR ADAM KELNO,

OR FOR THE DEFENDANT,
ABRAHAM CADY?

WE FIND FOR THE
PLAINTIFF, SIR ADAM KELNO.

[Spectators Murmuring]

SILENCE!

IN WHAT SUM DO YOU
FIND FOR SIR ADAM KELNO?

IN THE SUM OF ONE HALFPENNY,
THE LOWEST COIN IN THE REALM.

[Spectators Gasping, Murmuring]

SILENCE!

- IS THAT THE VERDICT
OF YOU ALL?
- IT IS.

MILORD, THE JURY
FINDS FOR THE PLAINTIFF...

IN THE SUM OF ONE HALFPENNY.

THERE WILL BE JUDGMENT...

FOR THE PLAINTIFF,
SIR ADAM KELNO,

IN THE SUM OF ONE HALFPENNY...

FOR THE DAMAGE...

TO HIS REPUTATION.

MEMBERS OF THE JURY, THANK YOU.

YOU ARE NOW DISCHARGED.

MR. CADY! MR. CADY!

[All Talking At Once]

MR. CADY, WE'RE LIVE ON RADIO
IN BRITAIN AND THE CONTINENT.

COULD YOU GIVE US SOME COMMENTS?

THE MEN AND
WOMEN OF THIS JURY...

THE MEN AND WOMEN OF THIS
JURY HAVE PLAYED BACK TO US...

WHAT EUROPE HAS LEARNED OVER
THE BODIES OF ITS MILLIONS OF DEAD.

THAT THOSE WHO HATE AND
BOMB AND STARVE OTHER PEOPLE...

BECAUSE THEY FEAR THE
COLOR OF THEIR SKIN...

BECAUSE IT'S
DIFFERENT FROM THEIRS,

OR THEIR POLITICS BECAUSE
IT'S DIFFERENT FROM THEIRS,

OR THEIR RELIGION, BECAUSE
IT'S DIFFERENT FROM THEIRS...

ARE EVIL MEN.

THAT IF THERE'S ANY COMMON MEANING
TO THE WORDS "GOOD" AND "EVIL,"

IT LIES IN THE DIFFERENCE
BETWEEN SUCH MEN AND OURSELVES.

SO AS LONG AS WE ALLOW
THEM TO RULE NATIONS,

TO...

TO COMMAND ARMIES,

TO ADMINISTER TO SECTS...

WE WILL CONTINUE
TO BE THEIR VICTIMS.

AM I SATISFIED?

IT'S A WORD THAT CAN'T
BE USED IN CONNECTION...

WITH THE ISSUES THIS
TRIAL HAS TOUCHED UPON.

BECAUSE WHAT HAPPENED...

BETWEEN 1939 AND
1945 IN EUROPE...

IS STILL HAPPENING IN HALF A DOZEN
COUNTRIES ACROSS THE WORLD.

AND IT WILL
CONTINUE TO HAPPEN...

AS LONG AS EVIL MEN
REMAIN ORGANIZED,

AND GOOD AND GENTLE MEN...

ARE DECEIVED AND PUT UPON...

AND PARALYZED BY THEM.

THAT'S THE MEANING OF, UH,

WHAT'S TAKEN PLACE
HERE IN THIS COURTROOM...

IN THIS CONTEST.

♪♪ [Chorus Singing
In Foreign Language]