"SymphonyNo. 5 in C Minor" "air raid siren" "BOMBS exploding" "LOW-FLYlNG aircraft" "Dr Furtwangler, the Reich Minister." "Dr Furtwangler, I apologise forthis powerfailure." "Iwas so enjoyingthe performance." "In times like these we need spiritual nourishment." "BOMBS exploding" "But lwelcome this unexpected opportunity... ..oftalkingto you." "When you came to the platform tonight, lthoughtyou weren'twell." "You lookedtired." "Get awayfrom this bombing, awayfrom the war." "You should go abroad." "Yes, you looktired... ..even in this light." "Look atthem." "Men, women, kids." "Boy, didtheylove him." "AdolfHitlertouched something real deep, savage and barbaric and itwon't go away overnight, it's gotto be rooted out." "You knowwhat lthink?" "lthinktheywere all Nazis." "Andtheirleaders, nowon trial in Nuremberg, couldn'thave done it alone." "It's these people." "They gave allthe help thatwas needed." "That's him." "Furtwangler." "Wilhelm Furtwangler." " So, you've neverheard ofhim?" " Nope." " You've heard ofArturo Toscanini?" " Sure." "He's as big as Toscanini, maybe even bigger." "He's like Bob Hope and Betty Grable rolled into one." "Jeez, and I've neverheard ofhim!" "You were in insurance before the war." "Right.Aclaims assessor." "Conscientious, determined, dogged." "They said lwas dogged?" "They saywhen you went on a case, you stayed on it." "We can'ttake everyNazi in this countryto trial, it's impossible." "So we're goingforthe big boys in industry, education, lawand culture." "Like the bandleader?" "Well, he's more than that, Steve." "He's a great conductor." "Agifted artist." "Butwe believe he sold himselfto the devil." "Yournumberone priority is to connecthim to the Nazi Party." "Don'tbe impressed byhim. lwant ourfolks to knowwhywe fought." "FindWilhelm Furtwanglerguilty." "He represents all thatwas rotten in Germany." "Stay put, Steve.There's some other stuffthat I'd like you to see here." "Background." "Oh, one thingthatmaybe a problem." "OurOccupation Authorities in Wiesbaden have a duty to help these poorunfortunates with theirdefence." "Theykeep repeating, "We mustbe just, we must appearas beingjust."" "I onlyhave one thingto sayto fuck'em!" "You answerto no one butme." "is thatunderstood?" " Showhim the film." " Yes, sir." "That is the hand that droppedthe bombs ondefenceless Rotterdam, Brussels, Belgrade." "That is the handthat destroyedthe cities, villages and homes ofrussia." "That is the hand that heldthe whipoverthe Polish..." "Nextreel, please." "..French and Norwegian slaves." "That is the hand thattooktheirfood." "Sanitary conditions were so bad that heavy equipmentwas brought in to speedthecleaning up." "This was Bergen-Belsen." "Remember men, no fraternisation." "In a Germantown ifyou bowto a pretty girlor pat a blond child, you bowto Hitler, you bowto his relgnofblood, you caress the ideology that meant death and destruction." "You never know who is a member ofthe NaziParty." "Don't be fooled." "Don'tfraternise." "Cigarettes, chewing gum?" "Cigarettes, chewing gum?" "The heatingwill be fixed bytonight." "Fraulein, this is MajorArnold." "This is yoursecretary, Fraulein Emmi Straube." "Herfile is on yourdesk." "They sentherfrom Admin." "I'll leave you to it." " Do you live here in Berlin?" " Yes." " You do shorthand andtyping?" " Yes." "OK." "Let's see here." "Howlongwere you in the camp for?" "Three months." "It says here because ofyourfather?" "Myfatherwas one ofthe officers in a plot againstHitler." "They arrestedthe plotters andtheirfamilies." " Andyourmother, too." " She was in Ravensbruck." "Andyourfatherwas executed?" "I'll callyou Emmi, you call me Steve, OK?" "I've got a list ofstuff I'd like you to getforme." "Ifyou need anything, letme know." " Major..." " Steve." "There are messages foryou." "A Lieutenant DavidWills called from the Allied Kommandatura CulturalAffairs office in Wiesbaden." "I don'tknowwho he is." "Dr Furtwanglerhas calledwanting to knowwhen you wish to see him." "Do you thinkyou can getme any ofthat?" "Oh yes, Major, I have recordings ofall his symphonies." "I keptthem safe duringthe bombing." "Myfavourite is the Seventh Symphony." "Mine's the Eleventh." "Buthe onlywrote nine, Major." "I'm kidding, Emmi." "Do you have a record player?" "No." "Ours was damaged." "What's in those files?" "The members ofthe Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra since 1934 andtheirquestionnaires." "Major, what am I to tell Dr Furtwangler?" "You tell him nothing, Emmi." "Just say you knownothing." "We'll keep himwaiting while I get acquaintedwith his case andwith the witnesses and, God help me, with Beethoven." "MARKETHUBBUB" " Wo finde ich Grammophone?" " Da drueben, gegenueber." "Yeah." "Lieutenant Wills reporting to MajorArnold, sir." "ForChrist's sake, I hate that shit." "Cutit out." "I'mvery sorry." " l'm Steve Arnold." "What's yourname?" " DavidWills." "Liaison officer." "Allied Kommandatura CulturalAffairs Committee." "Sounds like fun." "So they sentthe big guns to check up on me?" " Are we recruiting children now?" " l guess so, sir." "Don't call me "sir" or I'll make you listen to Beethoven." "Where you from, David?" "Iwas born here. ln Leipzig." "I escaped in '36." "My parents sentme to my uncle in Philadelphia." "Theywere to follow, butthey delayed and..." "Ourname was Weill." "It doesn't soundwell in English, so my uncle changed itto Wills..." "Come in, Emmi." "This is youroffice too." "Emmi, this is Lieutenant David Wills." "He's here to watch overus." " l guess you admire musicians?" " Some." "Don't.This is a criminal investigation, David." "Musicians, morticians, doctors, lawyers, butchers, clerks." "They're allthe same." "We have a duty, a moral duty." "SymphonyNo. 5 ltworks!" "Hallelujah!" "Herr RudolfWerner." "Sit down, Werner." "lwantyou to understand why you're here." "This is an investigation into Wilhelm Furtwangler, former Prussian Privy Councillor, bannedfrom public life underControl Council Directive No. 24." "He's appliedto come before the TribunalforArtists ofthe Denazification Commission." "I'm interested in whathe was up to from 1933 to the end ofthe war." " Understood?" " Yes." "RudolfOtto Werner- wind section since 1936." " Whatinstrument didyou play?" " First oboe." "Yourquestionnaire says you were nevera memberofthe Nazi Party." "Absolutelynot." "No, Iwas nevera Nazi." "I'm a musician." "Slowdown." "Fraulein Straube has to take down whatyou say." "Straube?" "Anyrelation to Colonel Joachim Straube?" "Myfather." "It's an honourto meetyou." "Yourfatherwas a greatpatriot." "Dr Furtwangleris a greatmusician." "He opposedthe Nazis." "Lateron, he helped many Jews escape." "Buthe was a Prussian Privy Councillor?" "Hermann Goeringjustmade him his Privy Councillor, no questions asked." "But Dr Furtwanglerstood up to him andto DrGoebbels." "He also conductedforHitler." "Yes, that's true, buthe refused to give the Nazi salute." "In Hitler's presence, thatwas a brave act." "Brave?" "To celebrate Hitler's birthday with some heroic piece by Wagner, butwithoutthe Nazi salute?" "Bravo!" "Itwas Beethoven's Ninth." "Do you reallythinkitwas brave?" "Didn'the bowto him and shake his hand?" "No, no, no, I give you myword. lwas nevera memberofthe Nazi Party." "I am in the percussion section." "I playthe timpani." "Theywould neverhave allowed it- mybrotherwas marriedto a Jewess." "And Goebbels said..." "Please take this down carefully, it's important, Fraulein?" " Straube." " Straube." "Are you related to Colonel Joachim Straube?" "Myfather." "He was..." "He was a greathero." "Goebbels, yes, he said, "There's not a single filthy Jew leftin Germany on whose behalf Dr Furtwanglerhas notintervened."" "No-one could have been less ofa Nazi." "Butthis was the guywho conducted forAdolf on his birthday?" "He was forcedto do that." "He refusedto give the Nazi salute." "He kepthis baton in this hand." "Andwhat aboutthe Nuremberg Rally?" "No, we played on the evening before the rally." "The evening before, I see." "Yes, sir, Dr Furtwangler was absolutely clearaboutthis:" "politics and art mustbe kept separate." "Politics and artmustbe kept separate. I'll rememberthat." "But see ifyou can help me with something ljust don'tunderstand." "I'd reallylike to knowwhy allyou guys are so crazy abouthim?" "What's his secret?" "Well, I can only tellyou from my own experience." "Soon after ljoinedthe orchestra, we rehearsed the Third Symphony ofBeethoven." "There are several difficultpassages forthe timpani, one particularcrescendo." "Duringthe break, I asked howhe wanted itplayed." "He was studying his score." "He didn'tlook up." "He said, "Justwatch me."" "So, ofcourse, I did." "I neverstoppedwatching him." "The moment came and suddenlyhe turnedto me and oureyes were locked." "There was something in his look that simply demandedthe crescendo." "I shall neverforgetthis look." "Itwas a moment of... magic." "Didyou eversee AdolfHitler's eyes when he was making a speech?" "I've seen him on films." "Yes." "Was itlike looking at Furtwangler?" "I don'tknowwhatyou mean." "When you gotto the crescendo." "Do you think an orchestra, 120 orso guys, could be orchestrated?" "I guess it's possible." "So, what does the Ruskiwant?" "Colonel Dymshitz has asked speciallyto see you." ""Dim-shits"?" "MURMUR OF conversation" "What are they doing?" "They're sorting out some works ofartthe Nazis stole from occupiedterritories- who really owns what?" "That's Colonel Dymshitz, on the farside- arthistorian." "Head ofthe famous Leningrad Museum ofArt, an expert on German culture." "Cette peinture n'appartientpas a l'URSS, mais a la France." " Whatwas that?" " The picture belongs to France." "C'estun Braque, qui avec Picasso etaitun des pionniers du cubisme." "I knowwho Georges Braque is." "We can produce the provenance ofthis Braque." " Hello, Major. I'm Colonel Dymshitz." " Colonel." "So, Major, tell me, have you questioned Dr Furtwangler?" "Notyet." "I hadtwo meetings with him." "He's a greatmusician, maybe the greatest conductor in the world." "His Brahms, Beethoven, Schubert, unequalled." "I'll come to the point. I offered him a very attractive position - conductorof the StaatsoperUnten den Linden." "He refused." "But lwanthim. lwanthim badly and lwantyourhelp." "Just a moment, you should have discussedthis with me first." "I'm discussingwith you now." "Major, lwantyou to drop the investigation, save everybodytime andtrouble." "We can't drop a case justlike that." "I'll give you anotherconductor in exchange- writers, musicians, actors..." "What do you care?" "But I like Furtwangler." "He's myfavourite conductor." "Mine and Hitler's!" "He's ourfavourite conductor." "I clickmyheels and bowatthe same time." "You had a properupbringing." "That's right. lwas raised very strictly." "We were very German." "Only speakifyou're spoken to." " And don'twave yourhands about." " Respectyourelders." " No elbows on the table." " Eating is eating and..." "Talking is talking." "lthinkwe'd betterget on." "Right, so this is goingto be veryformaltoo now;" "Lieutenant DavidWills requests the company ofFraulein Emmi Straube at dinner, anynight she cares." "David, I needto askyou something." "Have you heardthis rumour the British foundthe HinkelArchive?" " Yes." " So, whatis it?" "The British occupythe building where this guy, Hinkel, ran the Nazi Ministry ofCulture." "It seems they've discovered a secret archive." "What's thatmean?" "I don'tknow, butthe rumouris Hinkel kept a file on every artist working in the Third Reich." "Jeez." "Andyou thinkthe British will share itwith theirAllies?" " Major Richards will letus know." " That's big ofhim." "OK, I betterquestion the nextwitness." "I betyou a bottle ofchampagne, he'lltell us the baton story inside ten minutes." " Five minutes." " lt's a bet." "Emmi's the witness." "Helmuth Alfred Rode, secondviolinist since 1935." "What's a secondviolinist?" "Not good enough to be a firstviolinist." "Good." "Accordingto yourquestionnaire, you neverjoinedthe Nazi Party." "Me?" "Never." "Never." "Everyone nowsays that, butin my case itis one hundred percenttrue. I'm a Catholic." "ltwould be againstmy conscience." "Are you interviewing Dr Furtwanglertoday?" "I'll askthe questions, Helmuth." "Excuse me." "He refusedto give the Nazi salute when Hitlerwas in the audience." "The problemwas howcould he avoid givingthe devil's salute and I saidto Dr Furtwangler," ""Whynot enterwith the baton in yourrighthand?"" ""lfyou give the salute to Hitler with the baton in yourrighthand, itwill looklike you're going to poke his eyes out."" "He was really grateful to me forthat." "Afterthe concert, I stole thatbaton as a memento ofa great act ofcourage. I still have it." "I should have broughtit." "I hope I'm not going too fastforyou, Fraulein...?" " Straube." " Straube?" "Anyrelation to Colonel Joachim Straube?" "Myfather." "I'm honouredto be in yourpresence." "Yourfatherwas a true patriot." "Do you have a question, David?" "Howdidthe orchestra react to playingforHitler's birthday?" "We playedthe evening before." "Itwas 19th April notthe 20th." "Do you knowHans Hinkel?" " Do I knowHans Hinkel?" " That's what I asked." "Do I knowHans Hinkel?" "Howabout answeringthe question?" "Hans Hinkelwas in the Ministry ofCulture, howcould I knowhim?" "I hearthe... ..the British have his archive- records, files." " Do you knowwhat's in this archive?" " Howcould I know?" "OK, you can go, Helmuth." "Get out." "SymphonyNo. 5" " Wollen Sie?" "Setzen Sie sich." " Nein, danke." "Furtwangler." "Major!" "He's here." "Shutthe door, Emmi." "Sit down." "We're goingto keep himwaiting." "Emmi, getus some coffee." "Don't offerhim coffee." "Don't even greethim." "Fraulein." "Fraulein, howlong am Ito be keptwaiting?" "OK, Emmi." "Go gethim." "Dr Furtwangler." "I didn'thearanyone invite you to sit down." "Sitthere." "lwantyou to knowwhy you're here." "You're bannedfrom public life underControl Council Directive No. 24." "We're reviewing yourcase forthe TribunalforArtists ofthe Denazification Commission." "Do you understand?" "I've been cleared bythe Denazification Tribunal in Austria." "Whatthey do in Austria doesn'tinterestme." "OK?" "I have yourquestionnaire here." "Gustav Heinrich Ernst Martin Wilhelm Furtwangler, born Berlin, January 1886." "Orchestral conductor." "Andyou sayhere you were never a memberofthe Nazi Party." "Thatis correct." "You were a Prussian Privy Councillor, butnot a memberofthe Party?" "I received a telegram from Goering telling me lwas a Privy Councillor." "Iwas given no opportunity to accept orrefuse." "Afterthe dreadful attacks ofnovember 1938 on the Jews, I stopped usingthe title." "What about Vice President ofthe ChamberofMusic?" "You usedthattitle, didn'tyou?" "I suppose thatwas because DrGoebbels sentyou a telegram, saying, "Dear Mr Vice President."" "I don'tthink Goebbels sentme a telegram. lwas told in a letter." " l don'trememberexactly." " Theywere heaping honours on you." "Privy Councillor, Vice President ofthe ChamberofMusic..." "Andyou weren'tin the Party?" "Howdo you explain that?" "Goering and Goebbels battled forcontrol ofGerman culture." "Iwas simply a pawn." "I resignedfrom the Musikkammer, andfrom being Musical Director ofthe Berlin Philharmonic in 1934." "Why didyou resign, Dr Furtwangler?" "I condemned whattheywere doingto music, making distinctions between Jews and non-Jews." "Formy part, the only divide in art is between good and bad." "Eventually, Goebbels summoned me." "He said I could leave the country iflwantedto, butunderno condition could I everreturn." "I believe you have to fight from the inside notfromwithout." "I asked myself, whatis the duty ofan artist?" "To stay orto leave?" "Then he demanded I acknowledge Hitler as responsible forcultural policy." "Well, thatwas a fact and it seemed pointless to deny." "I simply acknowledgedthatHitler and his MinisterofCulture were solelyresponsible forthe cultural policy ofthe Reich." "I had no responsibility whatsoeverfortheircultural policy." "Art and politics should have nothingto do with each other." "Why conduct at a Nuremberg rally?" "I did not conduct atthe rally..." "I conducted on the evening before." "That sounds like the small print in one of ourinsurance policies." "Andwhat about April 19, 1942?" "The eve ofHitler's 53rd birthday?" "The big celebration." "You conductedforHitler, didn'tyou?" "Was thatin keeping with art and politics having nothingto do with each other?" " Thatwas different, Iwas tricked." " Howcome?" "Could I have a glass ofwater, please?" " Please, Fraulein?" " Straube." "Thankyou." "Thankyou." "Iwas in Vienna, rehearsing, when Goebbels called and said I hadto conduct atHitler's birthday." "I'd always managed to wriggle out ofsuch invitations, pleading previous engagements, illness and so on." "Also, Baldurvon Shirach, who controlled Vienna, hated DrGoebbels andwould do anythingto thwarthis wishes." "Butthis time, Goebbels gotto my doctors before me, theywere frightened off, and Von Shirach was threatened." "I had no alternative butto conductforHitler." "Believe me, I knewl had compromised and I deeplyregretit." "Doesn't sound much ofa trickto me." "Sounds like you made a deal." " l made no deal." " l don'tbuythat." "It's the truth." "I hearyou helped a lot ofJews to escape." "Howdidyou do that?" "I don'trememberin detail, there were so many." " Didyou call someone you knew?" " l don'tremember." "Letme help you.You picked up the phone and made a call," ""Hi, Adolf?" ".Wilhelm speaking." "Listen, old pal, there's a Jew-boymusician lwantyou to help." "He needs a permitto getto Paris."" "Ormaybe you called Goering orGoebbels?" "You were in the same shithouse as them." " May I ask a question?" " Sure." " When will my case be heard?" " Yourguess is as good as mine." "I needto work and make myliving." "I live offthe generosity offriends." "Tough!" "Tough!" "Then whyis it, that another conductorwho was a Partymember, and playedthe Horst Wessel before his concerts, has been cleared?" "While I have to wait andwait andwait?" "I don'tknow. ltwasn'tmy case." "Why didyou escape to Switzerland?" "What?" "Why didyou escape to Switzerland justbefore the warended?" "I learnedthatthe Gestapo was aboutto arrestme." " Whywere they goingto arrestyou?" " l'dwritten a letterto Goebbels." "ltlamentedthe decline ofmusical standards due to racial policies." "You didn't complain aboutthe racial policies, just aboutthe musical standards, is thatright?" "So, howdidyou learn thatthe Gestapo was outto getyou?" "During an interval at a concert here in Berlin, Albert Speer, the MinisterofArmaments, saidto me," ""You looktired, Mr Furtwangler, you should go abroadfora while."" "I knewexactlywhathe meant." "You sure knew a lot ofpeople in high places." "It's true that a lot ofpeople in high places knewme." "You were close to allofthem." "To Adolf, to Hermann, to Joseph, to Baldurand now, Albert." "So let's hearthe truth." "Let's come clean." "Whatwas your Partynumber?" "Major, you should do yourhomework." "You have no idea howstupidyourquestions are." "David, do you remember I said I had a question forWilhelm thathe wouldn'tbe able to answer?" "Are you readyforthis, Wilhelm?" "It's a tough one." "Why didn'tyou get out when Hitlercame to powering '33?" "Why didn'tyou leave Germany?" "I have a list ofnames ofpeople in yourprofession who got outing '33." "Bruno Walter, Arnold Schonberg, Max Reinhardt..." "Theywere Jews, theyhadto leave." "Theywere rightto leave." "I could notleave my country in herdeepestmisery." "Afterall, I am German." "I stayed in myhomeland." "is thatmy sin in youreyes?" "See, David?" "He can't answerthe question." "I'll askit again, Wilhelm." "Don't give me anymore intellectual bullshit." "PHONE rings" "MajorArnold's office." "Yes, he is." "It's Major Richards for Lieutenant DavidWills." "DavidWills here, sir." "You wantme to tell him?" "OK." "Major Richards wants a word." "Why can'the just askforme?" "Why does he have to askforyou first?" "Goddamn British, so correct." "Steve Arnold." "I've had enough ofthis, I'm leaving." "Dr Furtwangler, please." "It's not advisable." "When Iwas a child, myfathertookme to one ofyourconcerts." "You conducted Beethoven's Fifth Symphony." "Iwas deeplymoved." "And I've loved music eversince." "Iwas gratefulto you." "And I've admiredyou." "Howcouldyou serve those criminals?" "Howmany?" "Jesus, that's dynamite!" "Dr Furtwangler." "Well now.Aren'twe all sociable?" "I've gotto hand itto the British, David.You knowwhatthose guys are?" "Decent." "Tell me, Dr Furtwangler, do you knowHans Hinkel?" "I knowofhim." "Adespicable human being." "He was in the Ministry ofCulture." "His job was to getrid ofJews in the arts." "You knowwhat else the little creep did?" "He keptfiles, 250,000 files." "Do you knowwhat's in them?" "No, but I knewhe had informers everywhere, even in my orchestra." "Who?" " lwasn'ttold. ljustknew." " How?" " lwas warned." " Who warnedyou?" "Goering because Hinkel was workingforGoebbels." "What did Goering say?" "He told me one ofGoebbels' men was watching me." "He read a report on me, everything I saidwas quoted." "Oh boy, you're goingto love this." "Those files contain the details of everyworking artistin this country." "Those files willtell us who joinedthe Party, who informed andwho was helpful." " Name?" " DavidWills." "Overthere." "Fantastic!" "The only condition is we have to do the workhere." "lwantyou to collect allthe files on the boys in the band." "Have a look atthis." "Schubert." "String Quintet Adagio" "Bravo!" "Well played!" "Bravo!" "Dr Furtwangler." "Moving, do you agree?" "Whenever I hearSchubert I am moved." "Do you agree?" "The tempiwere a little too correct, butthatmaybe because ofthe rain." "Herr Doctor, I understandyou have difficulties with the Americans?" "lwantyou to know I amyourchampion." "We can help." " What does he mean bytoo correct?" " l don'tknow." "Route 66" "# Oklahoma Cityis mighty pretty" "# You'll see Amarillo, Gallup, NewMexico" "# Flagstaff, Arizona" "# Don'tforget Winona, Kingman, Barstow, San Bernadino" "# Won'tyou gethip to this timelytip:" "# When you make that California trip" "# Getyourkicks on Route 66" "# Nowyou go through St Louis, Joplin, Missouri" "# And Oklahoma Cityis mighty pretty" "# You see Amarillo" "# Gallup, NewMexico, Flagstaff, Arizona" "# Don'tforget Winona, Kingman, Barstow, San Bernadino" "# Won'tyou gethip to this timelytip" "# When you make that California trip" "# Getyourkicks on Route 66 #" "What's this?" "The office party?" "May ljoin you?" "So, whathave you two been up to tonight?" "Hey, don't I owe you a bottle ofchampagne?" "David, you're a lucky guy." "I invited Emmi here, but she turned me down." "You musthave hidden depth, David." "Route 66" "Come on, Emmi, let's dance." "I promised hermother, we have to go." "# Travel myway, take the highwaythatis best" "# Getyourkicks on Route 66 # ltwinds from Chicago to LA" "# More than two thousand miles allthe way" "# Getyourkicks on Route 66 #" " Don't see me to my door." " l promisedyourmother." "Well... ..sleep well." "Major, lfoundthis on Helmuth Rode." "You remember?" "The secondviolinist?" "Look, he's Austrian, not German." "PHONE rings lt's this that's more important." "whistles" "Pssst." "Lieutenant Wills, telephone." "Whatis this, a railway station?" "DavidWills." "Hello." "Who in Wiesbaden?" "Major?" "Helmuth." "Guess what I am holding in myhand?" "Do you like guessing games?" "Love 'em. I give up, whatyou holding in yourhand?" "It's Dr Furtwangler's baton which I stole." " The one he keptin his righthand?" " You remember." "Howcould lforget?" "Showme." " Showyou?" " Yes, showme." "lwantto see you do it." "Pretend I'm Adolf." "You have the baton in yourright hand, butyou give me the salute." " Nothere, ifanybody should see." " Do it, Helmuth." "Do itright." "You look great doingthat." " Andyou nearly poked my eye out." " Exactly." "Don'tworry, itwill be our secret." "Mr!" "Here, Mr!" "Great catch, kid." "So you wantedto see me?" "You don'tusuallywork on Sunday." "All in the cause ofhumanity, Helmuth orshould I callyou 1-0-4-9-3-3-1?" "What?" "1-0-4-9-3-3-1 ordo you mind ifljust callyou "one"?" "You knowwhat I say you are, Helmuth?" "I say you're a piece ofshit." "Thatbastard!" "Who's the bastard, Helmuth?" "Hinkel?" "Why?" "He promisedto remove yourfile?" "Andwhat aboutbefore that?" "Whatwere you a memberofin Austria?" " lwas a member..." " Speak up." "Iwas in the Communist Party." "Iwas a Communist." "That's whatHinkel had overme." "He kneweverything." "That's howhe made me cooperate." "I see, he made y ou cooperate." "And noware you a Communist again?" "You don'tknowwhatit's like to wake up everymorningterrified." "You don'tknowthat!" "Iwould neverin mywildest dreams, everbecome a secondviolinist in the Berlin Philharmonic." "When they gotrid ofthe Jews in the orchestra, it gave people like me a chance." "Helmuth, have you heard ofplea bargaining?" "Talk aboutpower, I have the powerto give you work and make yourlife easier." "Yourpastwon'tbe mentioned." "But I have to get something in return -that's plea bargaining." "I can give you freedom ofmovement, freedom to work... ..but I need something in return." " Major, he's a man ofgenius." " Fuckthat, Helmuth." "You wantto discuss symbols here?" "This guywas a frontman." "He was the piper, buthe playedtheirtune." "I'm not aftersmallfish, I'm after Moby Dick." "Come on, Helmuth." "Hardfacts." "Well, the onlything l know is he's an anti-Semite." "Ofcourse." "You, too." "Like everyone else in this goddamn country." " l've remembered something else." " Yeah?" "FurtwanglersentHitler a birthdaytelegram." "He did?" " One ofyourpeople told me." " One ofmy people?" "Yes.Acorporal. US Army." "AJew." "He said he'd seen the telegram in the Chancellery." "Son-of-a-gun." "We'llfindthe corporal andwe'llfindthe telegram." "But I need documentary proof." " Do you knowofanything like that?" " No." "That's whywe hated him." "We admired him, butwe all hated him because he didn'thave to join the Party." "He didn'thave to deliver a report aftereverytrip abroad." "He got everythingfrom them, everything." "He was filthier than any ofus Partymembers." "There's a rumour- l don'tknowifit's true, but askhim about Von derNuell." " Neverheard ofhim, who is he?" " Amusic critic." "He gave Furtwanglerawful reviews, butraved aboutHerbertvon Karajan." " Who's he?" " Abrilliant conductoralso." "Von derNuell called him "The Miracle von Karajan"." "Furtwanglerwas outraged andthey sayhe had Von derNuell conscripted into the army." "It also happenedto anothercritic." "Well, true ornot, it's not such a bad idea." "Critics give you bad reviews, you sendthem to the Russian front." "Butifyou reallywant to get Furtwangler, askhim aboutHerbertvon Karajan." " The Miracle Kid." " Yes." "You maynotice he can't even utter his name." "He refers to him as "K"." "And..." "Askhim abouthis private life." " His private life?" " Yes." "It's all in here- his women." "Who orderedyou to gatherinformation abouthis private life?" "Hinkel?" " Where do you stand on allthis?" " On allwhat?" "On Furtwangler?" "I don'tknow." "You representthe US now." "We have a moral dutyto be just." "MajorArnold also has a moral duty." "Ourdutyis to help Furtwangler, so lwantyou to look atthis." "These are the Nuremberg trialtranscripts." " You understand German, right?" " Hm-mn." "That's the evidence ofDahlerus." "He's a Swede, a friend ofHermann Goering." "lwantyou to studyit and use it." "We'llfindyou some otherstufftoo." "We needto build a defence case based not on feelings, not on prejudice, but on facts." "Lieutenant Wills." "HerrSchlee, timpanist." "Herr Romer, cello." "HerrSchmidt, viola." "They are willingto help." " We've ordered coffee. I hope you..." " Ofcourse." "The whole orchestra willvouch forhim." "We need names and addresses of musicians saved by Dr Furtwangler, people he helpedto escape abroad." "Let's go somewhere less public." "To cooperation." "Iwas in Vienna. I hadwith me an Austrian chauffeur." "He spenttime in the camps." "We were looking atthese Viennese cleaning up the bomb damage, scavengingforrottingfood, butt ends, anything." "I said, "To think a million ofthese people came outto welcome Adolf on the dayhe enteredthe city, a million of'em, and nowlook at'em."" "And Max said, "Oh, notthese people, Major."" ""These people were all athome hiding Jews in theirattics."" "Do you getthe point, Colonel?" "The pointis they're all full ofshit." "Furtwangler is in a different category." "We're dealingwith degenerates here." "Degenerates?" "He's a great artist." "That's whyhe didn't getthe hell out ofhere when he hadthe chance?" "I putthatto him, he couldn't answer." "Why didn'the go and do itin America like that Italian, Toscanini?" "Perhaps he believed he couldtry to preserve some importantthings like an orchestra, a school." "Maybe he has an old mother who can'tbe left alone." "Orbrothers, sisters..." "Colonel, he had no sisters, no brothers, only a lot oflove affairs." "Anyway, Major, why should he leave his country, his mothertongue, his family, his history, his past, his future?" "Justbecause nowsuddenly there is a dictatorship?" "Why?" "Numberone, ifallthatturns rotten, whatifthey surroundthe space with barbedwire, Colonel?" "Don'ttalk aboutthings you knownothing about." "He was in a dictatorship." "Art and politics, I heard all aboutit." "Arts belongto the Party." "Ifyou wantto be a conductor, you have to have an orchestra." "You can only get an orchestra ifyou have contactwith a power." "All overthe world you needthe right contacts andyou have to make compromises." "This is what I'm saying." "He musthave had Party contacts." "There are good Partymembers who help andthere are dirtynon-Partymembers who inform on you." "Ofcourse they gave him privileges and suddenly, Steve, suddenly you notice thattheylike you, theyhonouryou and suddenly you're the directorofthe best museum in the world, forexample." "Which museum?" "Museum?" "No, I said orchestra, sorry." "Believe me, Steve." "Help me, Steve." "You say you answer forsomeone from high up." "Itoo, orderthis from high up..." "veryhigh up." "We want Furtwangler." "I'll give you in return the whole orchestra, fourorfive conductors." " l need him, Steve." " No can do." "Let Furtwanglergo, please." "I have a duty." "Duty?" "I'm sorry." "GLASS SMASHES" "Duty!" "Fucking duty!" "Trouble is, you Americans want everyone to live like you." "We liberated Berlin, Major, notyou!" "We have a duty also, to bring backthe best ofGerman culture." "I'm goingto get thatfucking bandleader." "No deal!" "No fucking deal." "Then you're goingto kill me." "You'llsee ruins." "You'llsee flowers." "You'llsee some mighty pretty scenery." "Don't let itfoolyou." "You are in enemy country." "The NaziParty may begone, but Nazithinking, Nazitraining and Nazitrickery remain." "Somewhere inthis Germany, there are two million ex-Naziofficials." "Out ofpower, but still inthere andthinking..." "thinking about nexttime." "Only yesterday, every business was part ofHitler's system." "Practically every German was part ofthe Nazi network." "They believetheywere born to be masters." "Don't argue." "You are not being sent into Germany as educators." "You are soldiers onguard." "Youwillobservetheir local laws, respecttheir customs and religion." "Youwillrespect property rights." "Youwill not be friendly." "Youwill be aloof, watchful and suspicious." " Haben Sie Bruckner?" " Ja, hab ich." "Die Siebte." " Wie viel?" " 200." "I read Furtwanglerwas askedto lead the New York Philharmonic in '36." "Toscanini suggested it." "He would have become the most celebrated conductorin America." "When he made his decision, he didn'tknoweverything." "Especiallynotthe way people like you do, who return from exile andfeel you have a rightto pass judgement." "Because you are blameless, you think you knowwho deserves forgiveness." "You have no idea howpeople lived." "When he shookHitler's hand, was he pleased?" "I don'tknow... butyou and I already knowthathe has saved lives." "In Bruckner's Seventh, do you know where the Adagio begins?" "Ofcourse." "Putit on and I'lltellyou when to playit." "Itis nownine o'clockprecisely." "I do notintendto be keptwaiting." "Don'ttalkto me like a secondviolinist." "Go backinto the waiting room." "Miss Straube will come getyou when I am ready." "Jesus God, who the hell does he thinkhe is?" "Who the hell does he thinkhe is?" "Wouldyou like some water, Herr Professor?" "Whatis he doing here?" "Dr Furtwangler!" "Come in, come in, sit down." "Take this one, it's more comfortable." "lfit's too hot, open yourtie." "Iwish to say something." "Go ahead, be my guest." "When I last sawyou lwas unprepared." "In these pastweeks, I have thought carefully and I've made some notes." "You have to understand who I am andwhat I am." "I am a musician and I believe in music." "I am an artist and I believe in art." "Artin general, and music in particular, has forme mystical powers which nurture man's spiritual needs." "I must confess, however, to being extremelynaive." "I insistedforyears on the absolute separation ofart and politics." "My entire life was devoted to music because- andthis is veryimportant- because lthoughtthat I could, through music, do something practical." "Andwhatwas that?" "To maintain liberty, humanity and justice." "Gee, that's a thing ofbeauty, honestto God." "I'm goingto tryto rememberthat." "Liberty, humanity and justice." "Beautiful." "Butyou said "naive"." "Are you saying you were wrong?" "That art and politics can'tbe separated?" "I believe they should be separated, butthattheyweren't, I learnedto my cost." "Didyou learn thatwhen you sentthe telegram?" "Was thatthe white flag?" "Whattelegram?" ""Happybirthday, dearAdolf." Something like that." "You're on yourknees saying," ""OKAdolf, you win." "You're the numberone man."" "What are you talking about?" "The birthday greetings you sentto Hitler." "I neversenthim anykind ofgreetings." "Think carefully, Wilhelm." "Notin yourname." "As Privy Councillor." "This is utterlyridiculous!" "Yes, David?" "ShowDr Furtwanglerthe evidence to refresh his memory." "You won'tfind it because no such telegram exists." "Well, ltried." "You've gotto admit ltried." "Ithought I mighttrap you, Wilhelm." "But David here was too quickforme." "Smartmove, David." "Smartmove." "No, I don'thave the telegram, but I knowit exists." "Andwe'll keep lookingforit because I believe you sentit." "You're wrong." "Art and politics, art and politics." "Let's take a look atthat." "You andthe Berlin Philharmonic played in countries the Nazis had conquered." "Are you sayingthat conducting in occupiedterritories from 1939 on wasn't a commercialforAdolf's rule?" "We neverofficiallyrepresented the regime abroad." "We performed as a private ensemble." "Iwas a freelance conductor." "You know, you should've written ourinsurance policies forus." "You've gotmore exclusion clauses than Double Indemnity." "What do you imagine people thought?" "The Berlin Philharmonic's run by Dr Goebbels andthe Propaganda Ministry, but Wilhelm's freelance, so art and politics are nowentirely separate?" "You believed ordinary people thoughtthat?" "I have no idea whattheythought." "No?" "No, because I had only one intention." "My onlyintention, whatever I did, was to showthat music means more than politics." "Tell me about Von derNuell." "Von derNuell?" "Yes, Von derNuell." "Von derNuell?" "Howlong is this goingto go on?" "I saythe name, then you sayit." "I sayit, then you sayit." "We could go on all day." "You knowwho Von derNuell is?" "Edwin von derNuell, music critic." "Yes, I knowwho he is." "is ittrue that he gave you bad reviews and praisedthe young Von Karajan... called him a miracle, said he was betterthan you." "So you had him conscripted into the army and nowhe's missing?" "That's an outrageous lie!" "You didn't callyourbuddy and say," ""God in heaven!" "Didyou see what Von derNuellwrote aboutme, the greatest conductor?"" ""lwanthim gone."" ""He hadthe nerve to accuse me ofnotplaying modern music."" ""Send him to Stalingrad." ls thatwhatyou did?" "You don'tlike criticism, do you?" "You didn'tlike hearing someone was betterthan you." "The name Von derNuell nevercame up in talks with Goebbels?" "Well, once." "He said he had read whatthis man wrote aboutme." "What did he say?" ""Don'tmind him." "His job is to criticise, yours is to conduct."" " Whathappenedto Von derNuell?" " l have no idea." "You reallyhave no idea?" "I'lltellyou whathappened." "He died... in Stalingrad." "I'm sorry." "Thatyoung conductor..." "What's his name?" "That Miracle Kid." "You knowwho I mean." "Von Karajan!" "Butyou called him something else." "What didyou callVon Karajan?" "Sayit." "I'll sayitthen, "Little K"." "is thatright?" "You couldn'tbearto sayhis name." "Stop playing games." "Why you should bring up..." "Why you should bring up another conductoris beyond my understanding." "I'lltellyou why." "We talked about playingforHitler's birthday andyou said Goebbels gotto yourdoctors, you were tricked." "That's true." "I have a different storyto tell." "I don'tthinkyou were tricked." "Notin the way you describe." "Ithink something else happened." "I've seen the Hinkel archive and records ofphone calls, and putting it alltogether, this is what lthinkhappened." "Ithink Goebbels said, "lfyou won't conductforAdolf, we'll getthe Miracle Kid, the guy Von derNuell thinks is the greatest conductor."" ""He's notjustwillingto conduct, he's offeredto sing Happy Birthday."" "Admitit." "Kworriedyou, didn'the?" "He always worriedyou." "In 1942, he's 34 years old, you're already 56." "Goebbels and Goering keep saying, "lfyou won't do it, Little Kwill."" "Nevermind art and politics and bullshit aboutliberty, humanity and justice because I don't care howgreatyou are, that's the oldest storyin the book." "The ageing Romeo jealous ofthe young buck." "You didn'tleave the country when you should have because you were frightenedthat once gone, you'd be supplanted bythe Miracle Kid, the Party's boytwice over." "Flashy, talented Little K." "This is absolute nonsense." "Well, I'm justbeginning to develop mytheme." "Don'tyou saythat in classical music?" "OK, so they played on yourinsecurity." "That's human, understandable." "But one guy doesn'tlike Little K as much as he likes you." "The numberone man, yourpal, Adolf." "He thinks you're the greatest." "When he says, "Iwant Wilhelm for mybirthday", theybettergetyou." "So Josefthreatens you with K and it's to hell with the Ninth in Vienna, I'll give itto Adolf forhis birthdayin Berlin." "That's the trickthey played." "They gotyou bythe balls andthey squeezed hard." "Why didyou stay?" "Why didyou playforthem?" "Whywere you the flag carrier fortheirregime?" "Jealousy." "Ofcourse, there was a conspiracy againstme..." "Acampaign, even abroad." "Wilhelm, I'm talking about ordinary, everydayreasons, which is whywe'll discuss yourprivate life." " Do you have illegitimate children?" " Major, I don't see how..." "David!" "David!" "What are you?" "Counselforthe Defence now?" "Didyou hearthe question?" " l have..." " What?" "I said I have illegitimate children." "I don'tknowhowmany." "You like the women, don'tyou?" "Before every concert, you got a woman in yourdressing room and gave her the old conductor's baton?" " This is offensive!" " You bet!" " And irrelevant!" " Not so, Counsellor!" "Yoursecretary wasn'tjustyoursecretary." "She procuredwomen foryou, didn't she?" "As many as you wanted." " Stop this, please, stop now!" " No, lwon't stop!" "Hitlerofferedyou a beautiful house and bomb shelter." "I refusedthem both." "Butyou see what I'm getting at!" "You get a house, you're highly paid..." "What do you do, stay orleave?" "stay!" "That's not a good argument." "lfdr Furtwanglerdid enjoythese... ..privileges, itwas ofwho andwhathe is." " lt's true ofanyleading artist..." " Butit doesn'tmake them saints." "They've still gotto getup and piss in the middle ofthe night." "They can still be vindictive, envious and mean justlike you and me." "Well, justlike me." "Can'tthey?" "OK, Wilhelm, go home now." "Go home andthink about these past 12 years." " l don'tunderstand." " No, that's yourproblem." "You understand nothing." "We'll callyou." "Go." " Major?" " What?" "Yourmanner." "Mymanner?" "Why don'tyou go downstairs, get a cup ofcoffee and calm down?" "Now, sir." "What's the matter, Emmi?" "What's going on with you?" "What's wrong?" "I'm sorry... ..but I have to leave." "I'llfind otherwork." "You have to get someone else, that's all." "Whatis this?" "I can't do this. lt's notright." "What's notright?" "I've been... ..questioned bythe Gestapo..." "..justlike that... justlike..." "justlike you question him." "Emmi, stop." "lwantto showyou something." "Letme showyou andthen ifyou wantto leave, you can." "Please." "Please." "His friends, they didthis." "And he gave them birthday concerts." "Buthe had no idea." "Alot ofpeople had no idea." "I..." "I only... ..realised whatwas really going on... ..when I got arrested." "lfhe had no idea, why didthe Jews need saving?" "This is my question, Emmi, to all Germans." "Why didthe Jews need... ..saving in this country?" "Why?" "Ifpeople had no idea?" "Iwould like to go now, please." "Embraceable You # l love allthe many charms aboutyou" "# Above all, lwantmy arms aboutyou" "# Don'tbe a naughtybaby... #" " Can I askyou a favour, Major?" " Yeah." "When you question him again, could you treathimwith more respect?" "With more what?" "More what?" "Major, he may justbe the greatest conductorofthis century andthatmerits respect." "I don'tunderstand a thing aboutyou." "You're a Jew.Are you a Jew?" "Yes, I am a Jew." "Butfirst I'm a human being." "Ahuman being." "Good!" "I'm relieved." "lthoughtyou'd say a music-lover." "This man, this great artist, has made anti-Semitic remarks like you wouldn'tbelieve. I've seen..." "Showme somebodywho hasn't and I'll showyou paradise." "Where are you feelings, David?" "Where's yourhatred, yourdisgust?" "Where's yourfucking outrage, David?" "Think ofyourparents andthen think ofhim conducting" ""Happy Birthday, dearAdolf"." "I mean..." "ForChrist's sake, whose side are you on?" "Growup." "Just growthe fuck up." "Come backto work." "May I come in?" "You can influence whathappens there." "What good can you do byleaving?" "Ifyou go, you're giving up." "Howwillyou help Furtwanglerorme?" "Don'tthink aboutleaving." "Stay." "Everybody says what a great benefactoryou were to the Jews." "But I have things here you said andwrote." "Listen to this." ""The JewcomposerSchonberg is admired bythe Jewish lnternational."" "Andwhat aboutthis?" ""Jewish musicians lack a genuine affinitywith ourmusic."" ""Jewish musicians are good businessmen... ..with fewscruples, lacking roots."" "Do you denythis?" "Those attitudes do not existing me." "Just answerthe question - no explanations." "Speakingto Partymembers, I usedthe language, ofcourse I did." "Everyone did." "Butit's notme." "Then who is it?" "Who was speaking?" "Major, maybe we have to balance those things againsthis assistance to his Jewish colleagues." "This is a transcriptfrom Nuremberg." "ASwedish man, Birger Dahlerus, testified in cross-examination thathe had metHermann Goering." ""lfirst sawGoering embroiled in an argumentwith Dr Furtwangler, who was vainly seeking to keep his Jewish concertmaster."" "Emmi, pick one ofthese, any one, and read it out, please." ""Dr Furtwanglerrisked his life to help anyone who asked him."" ""ltestifyto having seen hundreds ofpeople lined up outside his dressing room afterconcerts to askforhis help."" ""He neverturned anyone away."" ""Afterhe heard me play- l am a violinist- he gave me moneybecause lwas unable to feed myfamily andthen he helped me to escape."" ""He helped countless others."" "That's only one letter." "Howmanytimes have ltoldyou lwas in insurance?" "You think I can't smell a phoney policy?" "He helped Jews, thatwas justinsurance, his cover, because allthe while he was maestro ofall he surveyed." "See, Wilhelm, Ithink you were theirboy, theircreature." "You were like an advertising slogan." ""This is whatwe produce- the greatest conductorin the world."" "You went alongwith it." "You didn'tneedto be a Partymember." "I should have asked notforyour Partynumber, butforyournon-Partynumber." "Justlike otherwell-known artists." "Emmi, putthe record on." "Do you knowwhatthatis?" "Ofcourse I knowwhatitis." "OK, so whatis it?" "Bruckner's Seventh.The Adagio." "Who's conducting?" "I am." "Do you knowthe lasttime itwas played on these airwaves?" "Howcould I knowsuch a thing?" "I'lltellyou, then." "The lasttime this music was played was afterthey announcedthat yourpal Hitlerhad shothimself." "Listen to it." "Didthey pick Little K's recording?" "Didthey pick some otherconductor?" "No, they pickedyou andwhy?" "Because you representedthem so beautifully." "When the devil died theywanted his bandleader to conductthe funeral march." "You were everythingto them." "I have always triedto analyse myself carefully and closely." "Staying here, I believed... lwalked a tightrope between exile andthe gallows." "You seem to be blaming me fornothaving been hanged." "I did not directly oppose the Party." "Itold myselfitwasn'tmy job." "lfltook any active parting politics I could nothave remained here." "But as a musician, I am more than a citizen." "I am a citizen ofthis country in that eternal sense to which... ..to which the genius ofgreatmusic testifies." "I knowthat a single performance ofa greatmasterpiece is a more vital negation ofthe spirit ofBuchenwald and Auschwitzthan words." "Have you eversmelled burningflesh?" "I smelled itfourmiles away!" "Fourmiles away, I smelled it!" "Have you everseen the gas chambers?" "The crematoria?" "Have you seen the mounds ofrotting corpses?" "You talkto me about culture, art and music?" "Are you puttingthatin the scales?" "Are you setting culture, art and music againstthe millions putto death by yourpals?" "Theyhad orchestras in the camps!" "They played Beethoven, Wagner!" "The hangmen... played chambermusic athome with theirfamilies." "I don'tunderstandthe German's relationship with music.Whymusic?" "Yourpals you could call to save a fewJews when millions were being annihilated?" "Yes!" "I blame you fornot getting hanged!" "I blame you foryourcowardice!" "You strutted and swaggered, you fucking piece ofshit." "Kingpin in a shithouse." "You talkto me aboutwalking a tightrope between exile andthe gallows, and I sayto you, lies!" "I believe in music, what could I do?" "Look aroundyou!" "See the country you served!" "Look atpeople who had real courage, who tookrisks!" "Who riskedtheirlives!" "Like Emmi's father." "Emmi." "Emmi, take yourfingers out ofyourears." "I'm talking aboutyourfather." "Myfatheronly joinedthe plot when he realised thatwe could notwin the war." "Whatkind ofa world do you want?" "Whatkind ofworldwillyou make?" "Do you honestlybelieve thatthe only realityis the materialworld?" "Ifso, you will be leftwith nothing." "Nothing butfeculence." "Feculence more foul than thatwhich pervades yournights." "Howwas Ito understand?" "Howwas I to knowwhattheywere capable of?" "No one knew." "I don'twantto staying this country." "Yes, I should have leftin 1934." "ltwould have been better ifl'd left." "Gethim out ofhere." "Thankyou, Fraulein." "You have been mostkind." "Sons ofbitches." "MajorArnold." "Getme GeneralWallace." "General?" "About Furtwangler." "I don'tknow ifthe case will stand up..." "SymphonyNo. 5 in C Minor" "Turn that down. I'm on the phone." "Nevermind." "Ourjournalist will do whatwe tell him." "BEETHOVEN'S SYMPHONYNO. 5 ECHOES in THE distance" "Turn it off!" "We handedWilhelm Furtwangler overto the authorities." "He was charged with servingthe Nazi regime, with uttering anti-Semitic slurs, performing at an official Nazi Partyfunction andwith being a Prussian Privy Councillor." "Dr Furtwanglerwas acquitted." "I didn'tnail him." "But I sure winged him." "And I knowl didthe rightthing." "Furtwanglerresumed his career, buthe was neverallowed to conducting the United States." "He died in 1954." "Little Ksucceeded him as head ofthe Berlin Philharmonic."