"THE ENCLOSURE" "Hats off!" "Hats on!" "Come on or I'll kick your ass!" "This is a funeral!" "Be dignified!" "Forward, march!" "A Kapo victim!" "Swoboda the Czech!" "This is a special quarry" "Defend yourself!" "He's sabotaging' your work!" "Kill him!" "You refuse to obey?" "Kill'im!" "It's your last chance!" "You're slowing' down the work!" "You're sabotaging' the job!" "And you harm the laborers!" "Get going!" "No!" "..." "Jump!" "Sabotaging German materiel is a crime" "Send his number to the office" "Be at the main gate tomorrow" "Hats off!" "Hats on!" "Swoboda's had it" "Shut up!" "Work!" "SOS from next door" "Karl Schongauer you ever think of your mama?" "Yes, sir" "After victory, there'll be an amnesty" "Your mama'll be waiting for you" "Think of her sorrow if you don't return" "Let's clear up this radio business" "I want your help" "Yes, sir" "Unfasten him!" "I've known you 10 years." "You're.." "...a German!" "You can't disappoint your mama who works for the Führer and the Reich" "You must respect her!" ""Karl Schongauer :" "born Hamburg, 1900"" ""Shipyard laborer"" ""Joined Navy at 1 7"" ""Supported 1918 sailors revolt"" ""Twice arrested and released"" ""Sailed on a Norwegian freighter"" ""Shipwrecked off Reykjavik"" ""Sailed again on an italian ship"" ""Put ashore at Dakar after a knife fight... "" ""... in which he was badly wounded"" ""Spent 1 year as lumberjack"" ""1924: returned to Germany"" ""Speaks French and Oualot"" ""1928: joined Seamen's Union at Hamburg"" ""1930: fought against the SA"" ""Twice wounded and arrested"" ""1933: arrested again"" ""Sent to Orianenburg... "" ""... 1st concentration camp"" ""1937: with a bunch of professional thieves... "" ""... and assassins... "" ""... helps build camp to be known as Buckenwald"" ""1938:" "Dachau"" ""1939:" "Mathausen"" ""1941:" "Tatenberg"" "Get me Scheller!" "You've been here?" "3 weeks" "And before?" "I was in a "luxury train", sir" "The commander wants you" "Well?" "He's with the Gestapo" "Nothing else to say?" "Karl, you're in charge of the clothing room" "We found there copies of "Soldiers of the West"" "...a program for traitors Jews and Freemasons" "Talk!" "You know what that means" "All Germans stand together against treason!" "And that?" "I don't know shorthand" "I was in the Navy in WW!" "And learned to operate a radio?" "But not shorthand!" "Stop mocking us!" "To get news, you need a radio" "Who built it?" "Who dared to?" "Death!" "Death!" "Prisoner 24" "Sentenced to death" "Hang the sign for traitors on his chest" "Agreed?" "Half your ration?" "A fourth" "Not enough" "I'm never mistaken" "Interesting!" "Pour!" "It's not joke!" "You're married 2 children a laborer..." "A watchmaker" "I'll stop if you act difficult!" "Laborer or watchmaker, it's the same!" "You're not retired!" "How can I see the future with that?" "You're a Jew" "I'll tell ya anyway" "A happy childhood..." "A Ukrainian Jew in 191 7 with the cossacks didn't have fun!" "Your "Mount Jupiter" isn't very good" "Really?" "Wait!" "Your "Mount Mercury" isn't bad!" "Meaning?" "Commerce" "As always for a Jew!" "Here's your arrestation" "A great and lasting misfortune!" "You'll have a hard time" "Give me a fourth of your ration tomorrow and..." "I'll tell you the rest" "Your kids will live to old age" "Your wife'll be ill but she'll get well" "As for you..." "Well?" "For a fourth of your soup?" "Will I get out of here alive?" "Tell the truth and I'll give you 2 soups" "Your "Mt Mercury" will save you" "You'll end up as a merchant in Paris" "Don't worry about us" "You heard?" "They'll send a report to Himmler" "It's all treason" "Sheller, do you know anything?" "If I hadn't been wounded I wouldn't be here" "That would've been better for you" "I heard you know something about blackmarket sugar?" "Schongauer said that?" "How did you know?" "He wants to ruin my honor but that won't save him!" "He's a hypocrite!" "I want to be judged!" "You're brave, Scheller!" "My honor comes first!" "I'm not accusing you" "It's just a rumor" "Then let's clear it up" "Insinuations are fatal" "The Gestapo insinuated the camp authorities are too easy on the political prisoners" "You exaggerate!" "They're not wrong!" "What do you mean?" "We must destroy the enemy's morale and not let them die with such assurance" "I saw 2 men at the quarry" "When one thought his life depended on the other, they fought like dogs" "That's how to handle Schongauer" "But it would have to last more than 3 min." "At least 24 hours" "I've known him for 10 years since Oranienburg where he was a prisonner and I was a sergeant" "Tell him his life depends on another man's death and he won't believe it" "The other man will!" "Schongauer will have to play the game" "Then he'll talk" "How long will it take?" "24 hours" "The bet's on!" "I'm ready" "If I win, I get your auburn horse" "I like him" "Schongauer says you got him with blackmarket sugar" "If you win you'll pick one of my 3" "You won't be disappointed" "They're all noble animals" "The execution is delayed" "Empty enclosure 3 and put Schongauer in it" "At once" "Put 1 of the condemned in with him" "Keep me informed" "Is the fence good?" "I'll electrify it" "No!" "I want no suicide!" ""Execution suspended for No 24"" ""He'll be put in Enclosure 3"" "A suspended execution!" "It's the first time!" "The Russians're getting close!" "Careful, Reverend!" "North Quarry: 2 dead" "Underground factory : 2 dead" "West Quarry: 6 dead" "Kapo 70.31 ... to report to the main gate tomorrow morning" "It's postponed for unknown reasons" "Get info on the man they're parking with Karl" "Swoboda was injured" "How?" "His head's smashed in" "Had it?" "Yes" "Send him to Ward 2" "That Kapo's killed 9 guys already!" "He gets the gas chamber tomorrow" "We just got his number" "We must save Karl" "That's more urgent" "I need help from the Slavs" "We need info" "He's in the enclosure" "Your group has some money left?" "2.000 German marks, $100 and... 12 pounds sterling" "We need dollars" "I'll tell the Slav group" "You can count" "The prisoner list" "Everything's in order" "Let's visit your zoo!" "Quite a variety!" "Stein..." "David Stein?" "What's a Jew doing in here?" "He's a favorite of Kapo Casimir" "He fixed watches for the section" "And now?" "He fixed the Commander's cuckoo clock" "Enough!" "Get that cancer out of here!" "A big merchant!" "I've never been mistaken!" "Alright!" "Still alive?" "Russians are hard to kill!" "Jew, it's not for you!" "Jew, you've 24 hours ...to prove you're at least half a man" "The man in the enclosure wants to kill you" "Prove you're stronger." "Kill him" "Then you can continue fixing watches" "He said..." "I understood" ""I'm a traitor to my country"" "What's up?" "Your group?" "What barracks?" "Who is your group chief?" "You deaf?" "You speak German?" "All Jews speak German!" "I'm French" "I speak a little French" "I learned in Dakar but I've forgot a lot" "From Paris?" "Yes, Belleville" "I thought all Jews knew German" "Shit, you understand..." "Understand?" "For 5 cigarets?" "You're crazy!" "You'll end up in the oven!" "Karl knew too much" "All that sugar Scheller sells!" "So he turned on Schongauer" "Cigarets?" "Let's see" "Yes or no?" "Lily Marlene!" "He's in the enclosure to make him talk" "His name's David Stein" "No. 73.421 , a watch repairman" "Why's he in there?" "I don't know" "David Stein" "No. 73.421 , a watch repairman" "Nothing on him" "He arrived in the Jan. convoy" "But they're all dead?" "Yeah, it's odd" "Swoboda just died" "He's got to replace Karl in the enclosure" "They're the same size same hair" "He's unrecognisable from his beatings" "It's set for tonight" "Tell the Slavs to set up the warning system" "The Soviets'll see to the guards" "You see to liaison" "Got the dollars?" "Yes" "And the head cook?" "He's doubtful" "I got an idea" "There's a militiaman on the tower between 3 and 5" "He wants lot of... 1 .000" "German marks" "Offer him $50 now and... $50 for afterwards" "I'll see him" "Give the warning!" "The code?" "2 blinks to see if the road's clear." "2 blinks means yes" "The militiaman says yes but he wants $100 first" "It's risky" "One error and we've had it!" "It's too late to stop now" "You risk hanging 30 comrades and you as well" "Anyway, give the guy his $100" "But how'd the Jew manage ...to save his hide till now?" "The Jan. convoy?" "And where'd they send you?" "To the death cell" ""Long live Christ the King!"" "A catholic" "He must be Polish" "One of your fellow Jews!" "Do you read Hebrew?" "Not well" "So we'll never know what it means" "All the Jews in your convoy died!" "You're not a Jew!" "A pity the Gestapo doesn't think that!" ""Ciao Giuletta!" Another cuckold!" "The camp is full of'em" "Like Casimir" "You know who I mean" "The Kapo who gathered the watches" "He had an easy life" "He got hung" "He wasn't completely a slob" "A friend?" "No, but he let me fix watches instead of working outside" "Restless?" "Why're you so itchy?" "If you're an informer you're doin' a loosy job" "G'night!" "We'll get rhumatism" "Another convoy" "With weapons from the underground factory" "This?" "I doubt if you'll beat the Reich with that" "What's wrong?" "What do you want?" "And you?" "Getting ready for V-Day?" "Get some rest" "I'm not sleepy!" "Dumb ass!" "Everyday they kill men here!" "Cremations, gas chambers, underground factories" "And you're scared of a stick!" "You're a man only cause you wear pants!" "The SS officer told you nothing?" "Who?" "The SS must have told you!" "What?" "One of us must die before tomorrow" "If you kill me, they'll make you an Aryan?" "Says who?" "The officer" "Scheller?" "Now I understand" "What'll you do?" "Think it over!" "The doc wants you at Revier 2" "The Latin group's to get Karl out" "Led by?" "You" "It only makes you piss" "3 weeks ago we stole some lard and cooked it with some field artichokes." "Great!" "in the early days at Oranienburg in Nov. '33 we "organised" sausage and cabbage!" "How long you been in?" "3 years here, making a total of 1 1" "1 1 years?" "It's great!" "Don't be a schmuck!" "But it seems impossible!" "You know the KZ?" ""A colossal ham, cooked and smoked brick-red... "" ""... arrived with a Charlotte sauce"" ""There were so many vegetables... "" ""... that one kind would have been enough"" ""Then, a fruit salad marinated in alcohol"" ""Then, a carp in red wine"" ""Then, a huge crystal platter arrived... "" ""... with a multi-layered pudding... "" ""... of macaroons, strawberries and ice cream"" "It's from a book found in the camp latrine" "You know "Buddenbrooks"?" "The German have memorised it" "The Italians, Czechs, French and Poles, too" "You know Jewest cooking?" "They use lots of sauces, huh?" "Yes, a lot... but how can I tell you?" "We used to light the candles on Friday in winter" "The frost was like flowers" "In the next room it was nice and warm" "The family's there" "We felt secure and at peace" "We'd say "Have a good Shabbath and be happy"" "Religion and family are your history" "With me, nothing happened" ""1933-1940, 7 years"" ""Nothing happened"" ""Memories are guards on the far side of the barbed wire... "" ""... kept at a distance"" ""They're more ferocious than the kapos"" ""The sky has solidified each head... "" ""... each call"" ""Stars and moon are spotlights"" ""God is a spotlight"" ""On each barracks they set... "" ""... the sights seen by condemned men's eyes"" ""Like 2 teachers tied to a doghouse... "" ""... howling for 3 days about... "" ""..." "Man's disappearance from Earth"" ""1940-1944: almost a century"" ""The century when Serioja arrived from Pinsk and... "" ""... died here, his bladder... "" ""... broken by boot kicks"" ""The kitchen, the whorehouse"" ""The dead red triangles who tried to get free"" ""Shadows the guards try to control but... "" ""... hands of the night in the camps!"" "The guy from the Slavs" "What's up?" "It's hell to get here!" "The order is to fire on anyone who goes near the enclosure" "That'll make it hard" "Between 2 and 5 a. m the tower guard will close his eyes" "He's a militiaman" "But his hours may be changed" "We'll have to check" "We know" "Come on" "This way 2 barrels to make a ladder" "2 brooms and blankets for the fence" "By barracks 12 that's our entry" "One last question" "Could Weissenborn who known Karl well mistake him for Swoboda?" "Look!" "Got cigarets?" "I got a bargain for you." "Shoes and... a blanket" "I want pants and a pass" "You been playin' with yourself?" "Ok, just the pass" "I got 24 inches of pork sausages stolen for you" "Take them!" "Glad?" "It's for you!" "I'm not hungry" "Everyone's always hungry!" "Eat, Anna!" "Food is life!" "Don't refuse!" "Let me comfort you" "Got any morphing?" "You saw what happened to Casimir?" "Shit!" "Food's better than a hypo!" "Get out!" "See that girl" "She's Anna Capek" "In Prague she was fantastic against the Nazis" "After she was arrested she got morphine treatments" "Then, into our brothels" "Let's check on the guard" "They haven't changed yet" "Good luck!" "Bullets won't hit me!" "Barracks 32!" "Why did you turn it on?" "I thought I heard a noise" "Go!" "Stop!" "He's wounded!" "We'll look for bullet wounds tomorrow" "That's 2 shots tonight" "You smoke?" "You're dying to" "Yes" "Take it" "I don't want it" "You like to bet?" "I already have 10 times tonight" "And won" "Still believe what the SS said?" "Destiny's stronger than the SS" "3 tries" "My turn" "The last" "Still wanna play?" "A lottery's the best way, eh?" "A night's along time" "Just for fun!" "If you want" "The shortest!" "Let's see yours!" "Never mind" "You cheated!" "Nonsense!" "I don't understand German" "Of course" "It's your land" "You speak German now?" "I know your language" "Head up!" "Eyes right!" "Attention!" "Hats off!" "Hats on!" "On the double!" "Death!" "Death!" "Kill all Mankind!" "Who wants that?" "The Germans" "No!" "Keep calm or I'll..." "You're all spare parts in the same machine the machine's Hitler" "Jew, how dare you say that to me!" "Sure! "Dirty Jew!"" "Shut up!" "Sure!" "Give the orders!" "Stop!" "I didn't want to!" "Round 1 for you, Scheller!" "That Jew pig'll make me win my bet!" "Please, a bit more racial sensitivity!" "There's German blood here!" "The inferior race can't win!" "Karl plays dirty!" "He'll win!" "The Gestapo won't say we've been too easy!" "That's true, Scheller!" "There's always work to do!" "Is something going on in the camp?" "Something special, sir?" "I'm an old campguard" "After 1 1 years, you can smell it" "A short walk and I can flair the camp atmosphere" "Tonight something's up" "The man you fired at was... no sleepwalker!" "Clear it up before going to bed" "Yes sir!" "Draglovic's hit!" "Being treated?" "Yes" "What else?" "Scheller's patrolling the camp" "Wagner?" "He's had it!" "The guards're still up there?" "We gotta tell the latins to call it off at once" "I'll go!" "Tell the French doc to cancel everything!" "Post 2: all's well" "A Slav got it." "The committee says to stop everything" "What?" "What's happened?" "We're to sit tight!" "There's trouble!" "Understand" "I can't stop it now!" "Orders are orders!" "Alright?" "I'm to direct the operation" "But I'm not to risk my life" "That doesn't mean stopping the operation" "You want me to go?" "After getting you in as head of Revier we can't take that risk" "But it must be done" "If you disregard orders I'm against it" "What orders?" "I've been used to risks since 1934!" "That's no reason" "My rule is to never back down" "In this situation, that rule means nothing" "I disagree" "No time to waste" "You have morphin?" "A little" "I got it from kapo Casimir" "I need a dose" "Why?" "To make Anna Capek help us" "No, it's too precious!" "For the dying!" "Think of the living!" "I'm a doctor" "We could play chess for it but I've no time" "I'm responsible for the operation" "But the orders!" "Not to expose ourselves!" "I planned on using that woman" "The change of guard!" "We must find out if he's our militiaman" "If he is, we go!" "We gave him $100 not just to make him fat!" "I'll get the girl" "You speak French?" "Follow me." "I've got something for you" "What do you want?" "Come here" "I'm worthless." "Leave me alone" "Sit down" "Can you go outside?" "Each job is worth its pay" "One now; 3 more afterwards" "Alright" "Can you go to the enclosure 3's watchtower and see if the guard is an SS or a militiaman?" "I'm ready" "SS or militia." "Understand?" ""Crying isn't a sad thing but... "" ""you need something to cry over"" ""That's impossible here"" ""My memories are with those I left behind 1 1 years ago"" ""Now I've nothing"" "I should remember my street where I went to school..." "The steps to my house" "My friends" "I thought of all that a lot at first too much" "It's worn out!" "I can't tell the truth from what I've imagined since then" "It's unimportant" "True or false, there's nothing left" "It's all a vacant field" "I've been scared for 4 years" "You can't imagine..." "Scared to meet a cop, to go out at night to be seen be caught" "Then I was caught" "I was scared I'd be questionned, beaten and deported" "And I was deported" "And it continued" "Fear of smothering in the train... of getting typhus or not arriving..." "I arrived" "My fears have continued" "Always more of them!" "I didn't know so many existed!" "There's no end to them!" "I was put in the death cell" "I said to myself..." ""This time it's over"" ""You'll never come out alive"" ""So forget the small things"" "But it's like taking a watch apart" "You spend hours on it" "Death's the same way but you don't want to see it all!" "Now I'm sure" "I've already died 100 times in different places killed here and there by a kapo or a firing squad or exhaustion" "Like Muslims who pull blankets over their heads" "It's all a nightmare!" "Then I thought that reality can rarely be foreseen" "My father said..." ""To foresee means to prevent!"" "So I tried again" "I found all I needed" "Alone, I invented all that happens here" "And I'm not crazy" "For the worst is yet to come" "And I said to myself..." ""What I imagine is what will happen"" "So with all my heart I hoped for my immediate execution if only to end those hammers in my head!" "It's so simple!" "The Swedes sent Red Cross inspectors here" "The camp officials knew of it in advance" "The Swedes didn't" "All the inspectors were sent to the crematorium on the double!" "The Red Cross?" "An error" "And no protests?" "The fight earlier wasn't bad" "Now we understand each other and know each other" "As best as we can in a camp!" "Listen it's not the Man that counts but his struggle!" "You are nothing and so you are going to die" "So you want to kill me?" "The last night that we spend together and..." "Who's there?" "Don't mutter!" "What's your name?" "Rademacher, Lt!" "We're not in the militia!" "Yes, sir!" "Go on!" "Your age?" "18, sir" "From where?" "From Brno..." "I mean, Brunn" "What do you do?" "I've been sick, sir, very sick" "If you only knew!" "Wounded?" ""ARMY WHORE"" "The wounded?" "They're all in the infirmary" "Show me" "If you've a bullet wound speak up!" "Each with a bullet wound is to give his number" "Step forward!" "10 more seconds" "Or I'll punish everyone" "Quick, or you'll be in trouble!" "I don't think we've any bullet wounds here but I suggest individual inspections" "Individual inspections!" "Attention!" "Dysentery" "Pleurisy" "Pneumonia" "Fractured skull" "Fractured arm" "Angina" "Uremia" "Pleurisy" "It's a protégé" "On the tower... militia" "Your belongings?" "In the back room" "What's that?" "We're crowded" "Outside, at once!" "Will you see the other patients?" "Hide!" "It's time!" "Lock all barracks!" ""Remain calm... "" ""... for your own good"" ""If anyone moves, he'll be shot"" "It's time" "Time for what?" "To do something" "Who?" "Us?" "It's our only chance" "Or we go to the slaughterhouse" "No chance" "Yes!" "There always is!" "What?" "It's not electrified!" "But the outside fence is" "Where'll you go?" "The bombs are close" "It's a miracle!" "It's obvious!" "Such miracles lead to the crematorium" "I got 2 kids." "I must do something" "We're 7.000 here" "The organisation's saved over 300 times the wives and children" "Well!" "You'll get 10 men shot in reprisals!" "Nothing!" "Good luck!" "Just yell" "Help me!" "Get back!" "I can't" "You can see it's no use!" "Attempted escape means death!" "Quick!" "Quick!" "Now it'll be electrified!" "What a fight!" "Bleeding much?" "I'll do a new bandage" "I'm used to concentration camps" "Believe me when the old KZ die the war'll be over" "I've seen almost of my comrades disappear" "We're only a handful of survivors" "The war's ending" "Today or tomorrow, who cares..." "But the camps are finished" "We've hung on till the end" "There's no place for us here or there" "We're too tough... too violent" "We couldn't live otherwise" "Freed we'll end up in jail after 8 days of peace" "The war's over" "Say good bye to me?" "I ended the war" "Note the date" "It's a body" "It's the kind of visit we get here!" "A Czech?" "You needed a dead man." "You'll have 2." "Scheller'll be glad" "He did this?" "No, it's not him" "There'll be some noise soon" "The door?" "I didn't lock it!" "Your name?" "Torberg" "We need men on the eastern front..." "That does it!" "He's going to the tower!" "Odd!" "Nothing's happened" "Must be a tactic" "How?" "See if there's a message on the Czech" "Nothing" "Well?" "The body doesn't worry me." "It's..." "Anything?" "An attempted escape during the raid" "We electrified the enclosure fence" "What man?" "With the grey pants" "Ah, the Jew!" "Put the spot on the enclosure" "What is it?" "Must be a short circuit" "So fix it!" "That's the 2nd time tonight" "It's Scheller!" "Why?" "Fixed it?" "We'll see if it holds" "What's wrong?" "Sir, my son just died on the eastern front" "The pigs're resting!" "Don't let them sleep!" "It's part of our war on all fronts!" "Attention!" "OK" "You watch and I'll go" "No need" "If there's danger, the guard'll shoot us" "Let's go!" "It's time" "It's electrified!" "Change clothes with the Czech!" "Hurry!" "I can't" "Hurry up!" "We may get killed, but go!" "You won, comrade!" "They'll find a body" "I'll help you" "Good luck, comrade" "Disguise yourself!" "Hurry up!" "Here!" "It's gold" "If the Jew talks, we've had it" "He won't" "Hide the blankets and brooms" "I don't even know his name" "73.421" "And you're 24" "What a distance we had to travel to meet together at Tatenberg" "Tatenberg!" "I'd never seen it on the map" "It's like "24"" "a number like any other" "Now..." "Tatenberg" "They're all I know" "Daylight" "It's cold" "The crematorium must be out" "You're sure?" "Wiped out by the Jew?" "Alright..." "Send me a report" "Scheller?" "Hello..." "You've heard?" "The test is over, 12 hours in advance" "Won the bet?" "..." "You?" "Sorry you made me win under such conditions" "A Jew made German blood flow!" "Take care of it" "He's already up" "Contact the infirmary" "I've had no news" "I just heard Karl died" "How?" "Fritz heard a phone call to Weissenborn" "Good" "You know "Death in the Final Fight"?" "Could you play it later?" "Where?" "On the square" "We'll be killed!" "It's a forbidden song!" "It's for Karl" "Just 3 bars... and it's risky!" "Swoboda... no one'll recognize you" "The following are to come to the main gate: 12.382, 14.624, 20.378..." "You can have my things" "Be brave" "You've saved 3 doses of morphin" "Any news?" "Swoboda the Czech is saved" "If the Jew keeps quiet, we'll put Karl on the transfert list" "What?" "You killed a German!" "What's going on?" "Take him!" "The gas chamber!" "We've recaptured Warsaw!" "Soon the kids'll start school"