"Dear Eberhard, greetings to you all." "I think of you often." "I am in good health, but I am insufficiently informed about events, as I have to rely on my guards for any information." "Hanns Martin Schleyer's letter to his son September 8, 1977" "The kidnappers' resolve is such that any refusal of their demands, and my possible execution, will only provoke them to seek out another victim." "After everything I learnt today about the intended Ponto kidnapping and my own case, it seems they will achieve their goal." "It's been proven that it is impossible to achieve absolute protection when the enemy proves to be as careful and determined as the RAF." "The authorities are making a mistake in believing that my kidnappers are not willing to take personal risks." "They don't seek danger, but they hardly shy away from it either." "Consequently, there will not only be the Ponto and Schleyer cases, but many more." "Therefore, any level-headed analysis must take into consideration all future kidnappings resulting in death." "Helmut Schmidt should know that, as well as Helmut Kohl and H.D. Genscher." "My case is only one phase of this confrontation, and the winner, as far as I can tell, will not be the BKA." "Because the value of the individuals, whose release is demanded, may motivate the kidnappers further to take unforeseen actions." "Heavenly Father, into your hands we commend your servant, Hanns Martin Schleyer, and confidently trust that he is with Christ." "We thank you for all the blessings you showered upon him during his earthly life, and we thank you for the blessings we have received by knowing him." "The leaders of our country cannot travel in tanks, and therefore will always be easy targets for terrorists." "Go to Bonn and Cologne, talk with von B. and Kurt H., and present these thoughts to them." "Of course, my kidnappers have read this letter, but it contains my own reflections from this past night." "We cannot expect peace on this front in the near future, but we can prevent an escalation if we don't wait until after the tenth attack to deal with the threat." "I remain calm and collected." "Stay healthy and optimistic." "Hopefully, we'll see each other soon, your father." ""When cruelty reaches a certain level, it is no longer important who initiated it, only that it be stopped. "" "APRIL 8, 1945- MRS WILDE, FIVE CHILDREN" "GERMANY IN AUTUMN" "It's me, Fassbinder." "It's about the interview we did this afternoon." "It's about the ending." "I know..." "It's probably paranoia or something." "Can we cut that out?" "Okay." "There's nothing to be done then." "I think that marriage is a way of living together" "that is artificial, at first, no matter how much you need it for your well-being, if you're raised the way we were raised." "I think marriage is something artificial, and I make..." "I can say this openly about marriage." "I make my films in a way that, for example, people who are married, who have a marriage that is maybe on the rocks and who see my films about marriage, they might consider reviewing their marriage openly and honestly." "For example, it would be better for that kind of marriage to fall apart as a result of my films, than for it to continue with an unquestioning attitude with people staying married without considering the consequences." "Simple." "Armin." "Armin!" "Yes." "Sleeping again?" " Go make coffee." " Okay." " Where's the telephone?" " Over there." "How come you're back already?" "I thought you'd be back tomorrow." "Why not?" "I said I'd be back today because of the editing job tomorrow." "I'd rather be in Paris right now." "You never pay any attention to what I'm saying." " Did you hear about it?" " About what?" " About the aeroplane." " What aeroplane?" "My God, Armin, the hijacked aeroplane!" "No, I haven't heard anything new." " Have you heard any news at all?" " No, none at all." "Yes, it's me." "Any news?" "No, Armin said he doesn't know anything new either." "Nothing more than what they said on the news and what's in the papers about the Special Unit, the GSG 9 or something." "I simply can't imagine them storming the plane, I can't picture it." "You know what I'd do?" "I'd blow up the whole plane." "Armin wants to blow up the whole plane." "Can you imagine?" " All because of a couple of guys there." " There are more than 86!" "Then it would be all over!" "Oh, sure, now you'll be telling us that every foreign worker in Germany will be a millionaire." " That's different." " Get my coffee!" "Okay." "Otherwise everything's all right?" "Yes, I'll call again if I find out anything, all right?" "Yes, ciao, sweetheart, ciao." "And the others in prison, they should be shot or hanged, one after the other." "Okay." "You're serious about that, are you?" "You'd like to kill or hang all of them?" "Yeah." " And who's going to do it for you?" " The state." " The state?" "The police, right?" " Yeah." "Okay, and who gives them the right?" "If they don't obey the law, then the state doesn't have to either!" "Okay." "Just a second." "One second, please." "You really think" " if someone does something wrong..." " Yeah." "...then the other can do something wrong as well, especially if he has the power of the state?" "Is that it?" "Yeah." "Okay." "Then I'll tell you..." "Okay." "This is my apartment," " and you can get out." " It's as much mine as it is yours." "This is my apartment!" "Okay, okay, okay." "Now get out." "Out, I said!" "I'll go." "Okay." "As you wish." "Armin!" " All right, but we won't discuss it?" " We won't discuss it, no." "And you think that's okay?" "Well, I wouldn't encourage anyone to discuss the matter right now." "I would be horrified if someone publicly, in a discussion..." "Like Jungk did yesterday during the interview when he indicated that criticism is legitimate, and if you cut off criticism, you'll encourage things like what just happened with the terrorist attacks." "I'm simply afraid to hear someone say that out loud." "Why?" "Well, because I don't know what someone else would do with that." "You see, I have a friend who badmouthed Böll, this was before the Schleyer kidnapping, and I defended Böll, and then he said, "You're one of those sympathisers!"" "Do you understand?" "Right now, in this chaotic situation, you don't know what people will do with your words." "And that's why I think I wouldn't encourage anyone to discuss the matter." "But I really don't understand that because..." "You see, it reminds me a lot of the Nazi era, when people simply stayed quiet to avoid trouble." "Armin?" "Armin!" " Give me Ingrid's number in Paris." " Okay." "Ingrid?" "One moment." "Hello, it's me." "Bring me a drink, Armin." "He's so bossy." "How late is it?" "I don't know, 10:00 maybe." "They're dead." "Baader, Ensslin and Raspe." "They've killed themselves in their cells." "Yes, she hanged herself and Baader and Raspe shot themselves." "Thank you." "Isn't it funny?" "Got a pistol and shot himself." "Nobody knows how they got a hold of the guns." "Yes, and an international commission must now investigate whether they were suicides or not." "What I think or don't think doesn't make any difference at all." "The most secure prison in the world, a law to prevent any contact with the outside, where nobody is allowed into their cells and the cells are thoroughly searched twice daily!" "And there were real guns hidden away." "Can you imagine?" "No idea." "No, no, I have to stay here." "I'm still not ready." "I can't." "Okay, okay, okay." "Okay, bye." "What needs to happen today for you to feel safe enough to talk again?" "Well, people who have money, and therefore influence, they have to assert their influence." "Who has influence and money?" "Someone like Mitscherlich, for example, or Jungk or even Böll." "With their reputations..." "That's exactly what they don't have..." "You've just talked about your problem regarding Böll when speaking about your friend." "Yes, people have to understand that here in our country they are, in fact..." "The masses are not really democratic." "They don't understand what that means." "They believe if you criticise the state, then you've already become..." "Whatever they call it." "But you support that by saying that you would not recommend anyone start a dialogue right now." "Well, I'd rather see this, for example, handled via the media." "Ah, nonsense." "It makes sense that they have to do a nationwide search, everybody knows that." "But they announced telephone numbers, a different number for each city, so that people can call in anonymously." "What does that mean?" "It's inviting people to denounce others." "It invites them to name names!" "And you don't really believe that anything will change or end." "It will remain in place, because that's what they want." "Yes, they can listen in if they want to." "Who cares?" "It's just Armin." "Please, pour me some more." "No, I can't get away at the moment." "I don't know why." "I'd like to very much, but I..." "Yes, I'm afraid, too, but I have the feeling I shouldn't go anywhere." "It's okay." "It's okay." "Good, yes." "Bye." "I got that just for you, and, once again, you're not eating it." " I'm sorry, but..." " It's always the same." "I'm sorry!" "What's the matter now?" "Nothing." "Then come here and eat." "Come on." "Okay, what's the matter now?" " What are you looking at?" " I'm not looking at anything." "Anita?" "It's me." "No, I..." "Yes." "Do you have any?" "Okay." "Can you send some to me?" "Three or so, okay?" "Take a cab, okay?" "Thank you." "I thought you'd quit." "I thought so, too." "But I'm depressed." "I don't know any more." "I can't work any more!" "It makes me feel good." "It helps." "I understand." "Why would you want to delegate your rights, your liberal rights, in which you believe and which you find so ideal?" "Well, I delegate those rights the moment I cast my vote." "And then the parties take over and I..." "I still believe, of course, that, in these parties, the one I voted for, reason will prevail." " I believe that." " So reason must come from above." "Reason..." "But your understanding of democracy should be such that you, particularly since you lived during the years of the Third Reich," "you should be saying, "Okay, the grassroots level, the individual... "" "I have to tell you that I have a lot of trouble with this, because I realise that there are many reasons to be irritated by a lot of things that are going on, and that criticism is necessary." "But you said you wouldn't recommend that anybody discuss the matter right now." " Right now, no, not at all." " But in doing so you reject democracy!" "When the pilot was shot in Mogadishu or in Aden, you said you'd like to see a terrorist in Stadelheim shot for every one shot in Aden." " Yes, publicly." " Publicly, yes?" " Yes." " And that's democratic?" "No, that's not democratic." "But it was also not democratic to hijack the plane and say," ""Now we're going to shoot them one at a time. "" "What if you had been sitting there, or if I had been sitting there, how would you react then?" "You have to think about that, too." "Okay." "An eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth." "Not an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth!" "But with a situation like that, you can't just start talking about democracy!" "Eight hundred and forty-three." "Yes, I think that's correct." "Franz, now medium shot, seen through the door." "He looks very lonely." "He turns..." " Armin." " Yes." " Armin!" " Yeah, what's up?" "If they find something..." "Are you crazy?" "Are you crazy?" "What are you doing?" " The police are at the door." " So what?" " Armin, the police are at the door." " I don't understand anything any more." "They went up the stairs." "Have you gone totally mad?" " If they'd come in..." " Then they'd come in." "Okay, then they'd come in." "And if one of us makes a wrong move, they start shooting, then what?" "They wouldn't do that." "And what about those times when it has happened, huh?" "It was the fault of those who were shot." "You know what you are?" "A little piece of shit." "Fine, I'm a little piece of shit." "I'm going out to get drunk." " You just said..." " In this situation." "...you don't care about the law, but you call yourself a democrat." " I do care about laws, but..." " You just said you don't." " But if people who have such a..." " No!" "Stick to what you said." "You don't care about the law." "It doesn't matter what the situation is." "And you're a democrat." " But if people..." " No!" "Answer me, please!" "They are the ones who broke the law, not me." " Fine, but so does a common murderer." " Then they're murderers, the terrorists." "Okay, sure, be that as it may, but there are no special laws for murderers." "Yeah, but if you catch them and put them behind bars," " they cannot commit those acts any more." " No?" " No." " No?" "A common murderer doesn't murder for the wrong reasons or no reason at all." "Isn't the problem with the terrorists that their reasons may be something that you can understand?" "Yes, surely, but the means are not the right ones, Rainer." "Fine, but you don't care about laws either." "You don't give a toss about the law." "I was so angry because of this situation..." "Is there any situation in which you don't care who is responsible for writing the law?" "And which laws?" ""You know, we hauled out the Jews." ""I went to the courtyard and sang Watch on the Rhine." "I was so confused." ""There, the two Jews grabbed me and started telling me stories." ""Words are good, too, Gottlieb, and what words you use. "" "Armin?" "Armin!" "Are you there?" "Yes." "What are you yelling about?" "Where have you been?" "First I was at the Eden, then the Cosy where I met someone who didn't have anywhere to sleep, so I brought him back with me." "What?" "What does he look like?" "Take a look, he's asleep." " Why don't you go in?" " Where does he come from?" "I don't know exactly." "I think he's from Hamburg." " You don't know anything else about him." " No." "Come." "Come on, take a look at him." " Throw him out." " Why?" " Because I said so." " Stop talking nonsense." "I said you should throw him out, so throw him out!" "Hey, you!" "Get up!" " Get up, come." " Why?" "You have to leave." "Somebody's gone crazy here." "All right, I'm going." "Why did you do that?" "Democracy is the most human form of government, isn't that right?" "Well, it's the least of all evils." "The least of all evils?" "Yes." "Right now it's really an evil." "Democracy?" "What would be better, something authoritarian?" "No." "Right now, here..." "Yes, what would be better?" "If it's the least of all evils, then perhaps there must be, I don't know, something good?" "What would that be, then?" "The best thing would be some kind of authoritarian ruler who is good and kind and orderly." "Gabi Teichert, history teacher." "Since the autumn of 1977, she has been seriously in doubt as to what she should teach, and is looking for the true character of German history." "Either she is building an underground shelter for the Third World War, or she is looking for prehistoric relicts." "Mayerling Castle." "The Crown Prince's lover." "The couple commits suicide." ""God save Kaiser Franz!"" "This original text of the Deutschland song is still sung today." "Suicide is committed by those who don't belong in this world." "Field Marshal Erwin Rommel, the hero of Africa, father of the current Mayor of Stuttgart, Manfred Rommel," "was killed with poison by the state in autumn of 1944." "Later he received a state funeral and public recognition." "THE GERMAN WEEKLY NEWSREEL" "His son witnessed the official state ceremony." "Gabi Teichert has gotten into trouble with the administrator." "For example, the head teacher says that her version of German history is a bunch of baloney." "He says that in its present form, it is not suited for the classroom." "Gabi Teichert replied, "I am only trying to put things into perspective. "" "October 25, 1977." "In front of St Eberhard's Church in Stuttgart." "State ceremony for Hanns Martin Schleyer." "The King of Serbia." "A murder committed by the German Secret Service in Marseilles, 1938." "In front of St Eberhard's Church in Stuttgart." "A Turkish man carrying a gun is arrested." "Come with me, please." "What shall we do with him?" "Let's put him in the car." "Drive over to K-Station." "We'll get the car there and check out the story." " Does he speak German?" " Yes." " What are you, Turkish?" " Yes, I..." "I..." "You can't run around this city with a gun, today of all days." " I bought it." " Yes, I understand, but..." "He explains he only wanted to shoot a pigeon for lunch." "When did you buy it, today?" "The High Mass and state ceremonies are televised from St Eberhard's Church." "The broadcast is shown at the Daimler-Benz plant." "Delegated employees and representatives of Daimler-Benz plants from all around the world are watching the telecast in the main hall of the Automobile Museum." "The factory floors come to a stop for three minutes of silence." "95% of the workers at this assembly line are foreigners." "The media is present." "If we keep putting the blame for terrorism on each other, we'll never be able to move ahead and reach our goals." "This burden is too great." "We all support the principles of democracy, the right to differences of opinion and points of view." "Just as those who spiritually and materially support terrorism have completely misunderstood the meaning of a democratic way of life," "so have those who recognise the human dignity of terrorists as people fully understood democracy at its core." "And then there is the large and respectable group of people who tend to find fault with our society and state." "We cannot improve our government without addressing its shortcomings." "Dear Mrs Schleyer, dear sons, honoured members of the family," "Mr President, honourable members of the funeral congregation." "Meanwhile, the closing ceremony is being prepared in the New Palace." "Settle down, everyone." "Quiet!" "Hurry up!" "Get going!" "Your usual smiling, humble, fast service." "Remember, we have to serve fast." "Please don't forget." "Trays held chest-high in front of you." "Off you go." " How many guests were you expecting?" " We were expecting about 1,100 guests, but with this sort of occasion you can never be sure." "In actual fact, there are between 450 and 550 people present." "What was the occasion?" "The funeral of Mr Martin Schleyer." "Sad affairs like this one also need to be serviced." "Are these kinds of official government receptions common?" "Well, the government often has receptions, but not under these circumstances." "What's going to happen to our dreams?" "What's going to happen to our dreams?" "In this torn land of ours" "The wounds don't want to heal" "Under this filthy bandage" "And what's going to happen to our friends?" "And what's going to happen to our friends?" "And what about you and me?" "I wish I were somewhere else" "And yet I'd rather be here And yet..." "Horst Mahler, a former lawyer, was sentenced to 14 years in prison." "He has served seven years of his sentence." "Although he has never admitted to anything," "Horst Mahler is considered one of the co-founders of the RAF." "He was on the list of prisoners whose release was demanded in exchange for Lorenz, the leader of the CDU." "He refused to be a part of the exchange." "Franziska Busch, who is part of a politically active group while privately in a relationship with an important television editor, has already read seven of Mahler's publications." "She awaits an explanation." "Mr Mahler, we're making a film about the political climate in West Germany after the Schleyer kidnapping." "You once said this date marks a turning point in the political life of the Federal Republic." "What do you mean by that?" "I see this event as being connected to other developments that began in 1945, to name a specific year, then 1967 and now 1977-78, which are all turning points." "In 1945 the political power of Germany, fascism, was first broken." "Well, its ideological power only partially, but there wasn't an anti-fascist revolution in Germany." "It did, to some degree, catch up later on in 1967 during the student revolt, when we realised for the first time what fascism really stands for, and that, above all, the social causes of fascism" "persisted not only in West Germany, but also in other countries, particularly in the United States." "In 1967 the trigger was the protest against the Vietnam War." "In 1968-69 we saw the quite obvious decline, one could call it a breakdown, of the student movement." "It disintegrated into several small, quarrelling rival groups, each waving a flag of its own." "It became clear that the population, the majority of the population, wasn't willing to show solidarity at all." "They never had and, as it turns out, no one ever expected them to anyway." "And they did not understand us, or couldn't understand us, and it was clearly our fault." "It was not the agitators or their stupidity, as people always claim, but rather that our consciousness wasn't in tune with the times." "And back then, we had the feeling things had to go further, but we realised that there were certain limits, which were apparently insurmountable." "And in our minds, we began to believe that the whole thing had broken down again, as it had so often before, because of a power barrier." "That is to say, not because of the shortcomings or the inabilities of our consciousness," " but because of the existing power structure." " Which was probably part of it." "Yes, but we have to ask ourselves how is it possible that this society, which we criticised to the core over and over again, whose rottenness we'd diagnosed many decades ago, why is this society still in such a strong, feigned and insuperable position" "to react against us?" "This was very theoretical and not based in the real world, and, therefore, detached from the consciousness of the people, who were in no way ready to fight against the social conditions of this state or support a war against it." "At that time we were not aware of it." "Otherwise it would never have come to the launch of this political action, if we can call it that." "And the subsequent developments up to the Schleyer kidnapping, and even more importantly, Mogadishu, the actual focal point of the problem," "these events laid out the grounds for this crisis, which I see as the crisis of the Left, the Left's consciousness, and are now hitting our consciousness as an actual crisis." "The developments are perceived as our weakness, and therefore a component of our criticism." "And the dramatic effect becomes clear because of the contradiction that, on the one hand, we started out by protesting and fighting against imperialism where we, for example, went to the streets to protest about the massacres" "against the Vietnamese people at My Lai, but now must see members of the movement, in an attempt to free prisoners with whom the people can in no way identify, hold hostages, defenceless civilians who are completely uninvolved," "among them women, children, and elderly." "That is, they threaten to massacre them without apparently even having asked the question if this has anything at all to do with leftist politics." "The question is, how come a person like Ulrike Meinhof is willing to kill, or at least accept it as a possibility?" "A murderer abandons the moral value system, the revolutionary surmounts it." "That means the moral rigorousness of the revolutionary, which can easily lead to an arrogant presumptuousness, at the same time provides the basis to overcome the qualms that a leftist has with regard to killing someone." "We can see the moral degeneration of the capitalist system." "We can also see the people who act within this system in a corrupt manner." "We judge them morally, condemn them, and, based on this moral judgement, we recognise them as evil." "That means we believe that personal guilt plays a role in this." "It is necessary for our liberation, and therefore it is also justified, to destroy this evil even if in human form." "In other words, killing people." "And that's why there is so much talk about sympathy for the terrorists because there's a common point of origin, which is the moral indignation about the social conditions, which is the outrage that we allowed fascism to happen," "that the state fascistically murdered, fascistically exterminated, other races, that this all had social causes which still prevail today, and that so little of this moral indignation could be turned into political action in this nation, in this country." "Where, once again, people like Dregger and Strauss can simply stand up and, by apparently defending the junta in Chile, afterwards justify Nazi fascism in this country." "Because what Strauss said in Chile is nothing other than that under certain circumstances fascism is an unavoidable evil, and can be a good thing if it maintains the social and economic system." "munich - saturday, oct. 15, 1977 late afternoon" "May I come in?" "May I?" "My God, what happened to you?" "Karl Hartung Dentist" "May I sit down?" "Make yourself at home." " Who are you?" "What do you want?" " I had an accident." " I'm sorry." " I wrecked my car." "Outside, right in front of the house." "Right in front of the house?" "I thought I'd seen you somewhere." " You should go see a doctor." " No." "No doctor." "Can I get a glass of water?" "I could get you something else as well, maybe a drink?" "No alcohol, just water." "It will do you good." "You've been to Spain." " Please wipe off the blood." " Do you have any iodine?" "In the bathroom, the upper cupboard." "I can't stand the sight of blood, either." " Are you a pianist?" " If that's what you want." "Well?" "Your guitar's over there." "Sound, action." "Wolf Biermann, The Girl from Stuttgart." ""I met a girl, and it hurt" ""Tears were streaming down her face" ""She cried, 'As if, as if, as if" ""'I killed myself?" "In Filbinger's super-jail?" ""'What a joke!" "Just like Ulrike." "As if" ""'They always twist it around to suit themselves"" "Baader, Ensslin, Raspe, the alchemists of the revolution." "I think it's both." "They did it, and it was done to them." "Desperate because of themselves, and because of us and they took the last dark step as a threesome, all alone." "But if that poor, disheartened girl was right, and if it became clear within a year that the suicide wasn't a suicide, don't fool yourself, too many would like that." "Beer would taste better." "They'd be happy about it, just like they're happy about those splendid fellows of GSG 9." "Even if it does turn out otherwise, the number of people in this lovely country who die by their own hands would increase rapidly." "What to do with the tears?" "What's to become of her?" "What about the girl?" "Especially in this blooming land of crises?" "I'll probably be seeing her picture soon." "It'll be in a row with the others in the window of the bakery, and a hand armed with a pen will scratch out the humanity in her face." "The Franziska Busch's political group is making a film, which is supposed to resemble the revolutionary films of the 1920s." "Franziska Busch has her own plans for a film." "However, she hasn't been able to convince either her friend, the television editor, nor her political group of the value of her ideas." "Workers on a balcony." "Now they go away again." "Mrs Holle." "A sparrow jumps about 60 centimetres up to the next branch." "Turn off your engine." "That was a colleague from over there, from their elite border guards." "They felt very uncomfortable about finding Schleyer." "Get out, please, and open your boot and your bonnet." "These days we pay special attention to girls." "Please move up." "Is it like this at all border crossings?" "Well, you're lucky, traffic isn't too bad around here, but in Colmar there's a two-hour wait." "You have them to thank." "Or do you think we started it?" "I always wanted to fly one of those." "You know, they get a flight bonus of almost 500 marks in addition to their salary." "And those helmets they wear..." " I saw one once..." " Most of them crash." "You can fly and see everything, but you can't be seen." "And the responsibility they have with the bombs and the whole napalm stuff..." "You need the appropriate qualifications, Abitur." "That's the difference." "Oh, well." "We just hang about here getting our feet wet." " Are you cold?" " Yes." "That's the kind of car I like, fast with four doors." "Around here we'll drive a Polo or maybe an Audi." "But we'll catch them all in the end." " Are you married?" " No." "I see." "Come here, miss." "That isn't you, by any chance?" "The chin and the hair..." "No, you don't have the fanatical eyes." "No, don't be afraid, I know it's not you." "But it could be you." "It's all right, miss." "You can go." "The German Military - Railroading during the World War 1914-1918" ""From the Maas to the Memel, from the Etsch to the Belt," ""Germany, Germany above all, above all in the world. "" "From a thick, narrowly printed book, the history teacher Gaby Teichert learnt that since 1918, Deutschland lied had been sung with the words," ""From the Maas to the Memel... "" "What fairy tales my people tell." "There stands a man, a man As strong as an oak" "He has certainly, most certainly experienced so much" "Perhaps by tomorrow he too will be a corpse" "Like so many freedom fighters" "Perhaps by tomorrow he too will be a corpse" "Like so many freedom fighters" "To battle, to battle For battle we were born" "To battle, to battle For battle we are ready" "To Karl Liebknecht we swore it" "To Rosa Luxemburg we offer a hand" ""I was, I am, I will be. "" "Rosa Luxembourg said before her death," ""Germany faces two possibilities:" "socialism or barbarism. "" "I'm not really afraid." " You're not afraid." "Why not?" " Well, if we..." "Autumn manoeuvres of the Bundeswehr." "In 1977, the manoeuvres are called Steadfast Chatten." ""Chatten ", the old German name for Hesse at the time of Christ, is mentioned by Tacitus." "The division commander." "Eight." "Stop." "Correction." "Hold on a second." "I wonder if anything is going on." "That can't be..." "I'm standing in front of the thing." "Gentlemen, up until now we have been able to carry out this operation on time despite the loss of the 4th Rifle Brigade." "An extra delay of about three hours will not throw our plan out of whack." "The 34th, I hope, and let me stress its importance to me, will take all measures necessary to ensure that, by dawn, the 34th is prepared for defence." "Is that clear, Burmeister?" "And, G-1, tell G-4 that the whole supply battalion is running around without camouflage nets on their helmets." "Go on, laugh about my pickiness, but when it's an order, then the damn thing has to be worn." "And the gentlemen from the signals battalion, Mr Carstens, have no nets on their helmets either." "Why bother to give orders if they're not going to be followed?" "That's the signals unit over there on the helipad." "Hanns Martin Schleyer, Friday-Saturday, September 9-10, 1977, addressed to von Brauchitsch." ""If Bonn refuses to give in, they should do it soon." ""Even though, as during the war, one would like to survive." ""It is never sweet or pleasant to die for the fatherland. "" "...an ideological presentation of which, in the conflict of mid-September..." "Late autumn, 1977." "The party meeting of the Social Democratic Party of Germany in Hamburg." "...the jailed terrorists in their criminal conspiracy, with terrorists on the outside, through certain people and certain methods, could plan further crimes, as already mentioned," "by talking, writing, exchanging opinions and signalling for more crimes." "Preventing this exchange as far as it is humanly possible, that's what this was all about!" "Hasn't this all been seen before?" "And on top of that there's the other nuisance, the young Leftist in college..." "The Swiss author Max Frisch participating as a guest speaker at the party meeting." "...therefore, great in theory, but incomprehensible to the working class." "As to one of these two phenomena, the police will not be able to, regardless of their increasing strength and specialisation, and have gotten closer to the people through telephone bugging, which is dubious in terms of law," "they will not be able to eliminate this general feeling of resignation." "Besides the invitation to cheerful consumerism as a condition for economic growth, what do the youth find?" "What meaning does an individual's existence have?" "What goal?" "I do not speak of Germany in particular." "Democracy should not just be saved, it needs to be established." "But that means more democracy, and that would be a goal beyond the goals of a self-centred consumer." " Good morning!" " Good morning." "Could we start?" "I have an important appointment at 11:00." "Are the people from MAZ ready?" "Please take your seats." "Good morning, sir." "Proclaiming with power, but not of power." "Ismene, my dear little sister, tell me of one curse from Oedipus which Zeus has failed to bring about in our own lives?" "Any suffering, any outrage, any sorrow, any disgrace which we have not experienced ourselves, you and me." "Some dark secret stirs thy breast." "Creon has graced one brother with funeral rites, but condemns the other to shame?" "They say Eteocles has had his burial according to our customary rites so he will be honoured by the dead below." "But as for Polyneices, who perished so miserably, an order has gone out throughout the city" "that he's to have no funeral or lament, but to be left unburied and unlamented." "A sweet treasure for the birds to look at, for them to feed on to their heart's content." "That's what people say the noble Creon has announced to you and me." "I mean to me." "For Creon this matter's really serious." "What are you planning?" "Will you help these hands take up Polyneices' corpse and bury it?" "You're going to bury Polyneices when it has been declared a crime?" "Yes." "He is still my brother, and yours as well." "I won't be caught betraying him." "Has Creon not expressly banned that act?" "But he has no right to keep me from what's mine." "No, no, we must remember we were born women, not meant to strive with men." "The strong have power over us, we must obey their decrees, no matter how cruel." "So I'll ask those below to forgive me." "Since I am so compelled," "I will obey those in control." "Excessive involvement is senseless." "I wouldn't pressure you." "Even if you were willing to do this, doing this with you would bring me no joy." "Make sure you do not reveal your intentions to anyone." "Keep it closely hidden." "I'll do the same." "No." "Announce it!" "If you don't let everybody know," "I'll despise your silence even more." "Your heart is too hot for cold deeds." "When my strength is gone, then I'll give up." "Impossible." "A human heart..." " I can't stand it." "I'll wait outside." " Should I come?" "But the costumes are excellent." "For Eteocles, who fell like a true soldier defending his native land," "there duly shall be a funeral with all those purifying rituals which accompany the noblest of corpses as they go below." "As for his brother, Polyneices, who returned from exile" "eager to wipe out his ancestral city and its native gods in an all-consuming fire," "keen to seize upon his family's blood and lead men into slavery, the proclamation of the state declares that he will have no burial mound, no funeral rites and no lament." "He'll be left unburied, his body there" "for birds and dogs to eat, a clear reminder of his shameful fate." "This is my decision." " Do you want a cup of coffee?" " No, thank you." "There is the culprit." "She buried him." "But where is Creon?" "What's the matter?" " I was just in time." " She is the one who buried him." "Now you know." "Did you know that it was forbidden?" "I'd heard." "How could I not?" "It was public knowledge." "And yet you dared to break those very laws?" "The disclaimer is not clear enough." "It's too classical." "It must be clearer." " It doesn't set itself apart enough." " The term "power" is easily misunderstood." "Under "power" one could understand "greatness" or "fatefulness", that will get us into big trouble." "This rebellious woman, this Antigone, the disclaimer sounds too noble." ""Proclaiming with power, but not of power. "" "Did you write those lines?" "It struck me as appropriate to adapt the disclaimer to Sophocles' text, thus introducing a stylistically correct chorus-like piece at the beginning." "But it's exactly because of that that the disclaimer is not clear." "The innuendo, the denied funeral, female terrorists..." "The play is set in 500 BC." "Sophocles." "It's little consolation to find out that there were already female terrorists in the fifth century BC." "I have another version of the disclaimer." "We were not destined to proclaim powerful things." "But power itself obliged us to proclaim powerful things." "Thank you, that's enough." "At the very least, it should say "forceful" instead of "powerful"." "That would destroy the verse." "And what "power" is supposed to have forced the women to proclaim "power"?" "The power of Creon who refused to permit Polyneices' burial." "The power of the law, then?" "Ladies and gentlemen, I don't think that this is the place to discuss Sophocles." "What should be discussed is whether or not the disclaimer is credible." "It also seems to me that the expression "powerful" is misleading." "The word "forceful", however, would make it clear that there is violence in the play, but that the two women disavow it." "This stylistic harmonisation of Sophocles is confusing." "I've filmed a third version of the disclaimer." "It is unavoidable that in some plays, even classical ones, there is a degree of violence." "We disassociate ourselves from any form of violence." "We say this in the name of the director, the administration, the whole company, the stagehands, the cashier and all those directly or indirectly associated with this production." "Ismene, my dear little sister, tell me of one curse from Oedipus which Zeus has failed to bring about in our own lives?" "That sound s better." "Although I must say it almost humiliates Sophocles' text." "Yes, it appears to be a bit silly, artificial, almost ironic, and irony is the one thing we can do without right now." "What if we abstain from the disclaimer entirely and just use the Sophocles text?" "I mean, if we can no longer present Sophocles..." "The next word will be "censorship" and after that "fascism"." "Ladies and gentlemen, what is this madness?" "May I remind you that in my youth there were clean editions of the classics for private schools?" "They didn't have parts like those found in Ovid's and others' writings." "We've gotten past that." "Should we now review all classics for their political parts and purge them?" "Please understand our position." "Our backs are against the wall." "I wonder if it's really necessary at this time to produce Antigone." "Refusal of burial, rebellious women." "And the gloomy oracle Tiresias, a forerunner of the prophets, some sort of early intellectual." "The young will misunderstand it as a call to subversion." "The church especially should keep an eye out." "I'm sorry, I don't quite see the significance." "The title of the series is, "Youth Encounters the Classics. "" "Exactly." "Then this means that the production will be shut down?" "Despite the 800,000 marks already invested in it?" "It's not a question of money." "We must think of the viewers." "I would suggest finishing the film and then putting it on ice until calmer times." "It is simply too fresh in people's minds." "The ending, too." "What will we show in its place?" "A rerun of the dramatisation of Bellum Gallicum by Hockner, which was a very educational play." "Violence against the Gauls, violence of the Gauls, Roman violence, violence against the Gallic people, Gallic violence, Ceasar, Vercingetorix." "At least it's a play about war, not about terrorism." "I would still like to say that the play is a very good production." "Really." "Very good." "It's just not the right time to broadcast it." "The viewers out there wouldn't understand it." "Tell me, does Sophocles' play end exactly like yours?" "Yes." "Perhaps it's better this way." "Don't hide the truth." "Why should I ease your mind with a report which will turn out to be wrong?" "The truth is always best." ""I've just heard the voice of my own son." ""You servants, go ahead, get up there fast." ""Remove the stones piled in the entrance way, then stand beside the tomb and look in there" ""to see if that was Haemon's voice I heard or if the gods have been deceiving me. "" "Following what our desperate master asked, we looked." "In the furthest corner of the tomb, we saw Antigone hanging by her neck, held up in a noose of fine woven linen." "He was embracing her and crying out in sorrow for the loss of his bride, his father's act and for his horrifying marriage bed." "The father saw him, let out a fearful groan, then went inside and called out anxiously," ""You unhappy boy, what have you done?" "What are you thinking?" ""Have you lost your mind?" "Come out, my child, I'm begging you, please come. "" "But the boy just stared at him with savage eyes, spat in his face and, without saying a word, drew his two-edged sword." "The father moved, the son's blow missed." "Angry at himself, the ill-fated boy, right then and there, leant into his own sword, driving half the blade between his ribs." "While still conscious he embraced the girl in his weak arms, and, as he breathed his last," "he coughed up streams of blood on her fair cheek." "Now he lies there, corpse on corpse." "His marriage has been fulfilled in the chambers of the dead." "The graves were covered with corrugated tin the day before to protect them from the rain." "My sisters, Gudrun, Jan and Andreas, wished to be buried in one grave." "And, well, when I came back from my holiday, the first thing I read in the paper was," ""Bury them in sewage!"" "And I knew that the people had already begun to call, for them to be left to rot." "Rommel decided for himself, without asking the city council, that they would be buried in the Dornhald Cemetery, end of story." "Well, there also lie Bosch, Bosch the industrialist," "Entrance for cemetery vehicles, sculptors and cemetery custodians only" "Theodor Heuss and Reinhold Meyer." "Regarding the burial of the three dead terrorists, it was obvious that this question had to be decided quickly and cleanly." "Clean in what sense?" "Clean in the sense of the administration or in the human sense?" "Clean in the human sense." "It would have been unbearable for me to be responsible, or collectively responsible, for the burial of the terrorists being discussed for weeks and months." "Therefore, I decided quickly, and it was binding." "Ensslin's father tried hard, full of despair, to find grave sites." "In Stuttgart he had a very hard time trying to convince the citizens, people who might not even accept the marginalised, to bury three terrorists within the city walls or within the community." "Outside on the land somewhere, okay, but not where so-called normal people are buried." " I want to be there." " We need..." "Yes, let's do it..." "First, Andreas, then comes Gudrun and then Jan." "It is a double grave with the three together." "Can the wall in between be torn down?" "That won't work." "When you look down, you see that it's carefully carved out of the stone." "I can't just go and tear out the wall." "But now they lie on the same level, next to each other, and Andreas and Jan are in one grave, and this way Gudrun is not just shoved aside or something." "It's a unity." "I think it works this way." "We should go, don't you think?" "It's a funeral just like any other, and I don't think it's okay when others refuse to take on that responsibility." "We often serve guests who aren't so desirable." "A guest is a guest." "Exactly my point of view." "It was a spontaneous decision for me after I found out that Mr Ensslin had been rejected for certain reasons." "How did you find that out?" "I was told by a couple who owned a restaurant." "They made comments that made my blood boil so much," "I went straight to the telephone and called Mr Ensslin, telling him that, I would serve food at his funeral dinner" "for purely humanistic reasons." "March." "October Angels" "Once upon a time," "October Angels came in May as foreign October Angels looking for the local November Angels." "But they were shot." "Thursday, October 27, 1977, Dornhald Cemetery, Stuttgart." "THOSE WHO ATTACK THE FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF GERMANY" "COMMIT SUICIDE" "We need to get through." "The relatives should come forward." "Please let the relatives step forward." "The cemetery, previously a shooting range, is jeopardised by dirty ground water." "While it is true that we did not think that the path these comrades took was right, in the face of their deaths and the circumstances surrounding them, this is no longer the main issue." "This unity shall stand for a long time." "Only he who is outraged, who is deeply affected and mobilised doesn't cry, but starts thinking about his options." "Clear the street, SA is marching!" "Clear the street, SA is marching!" "Clear the street, SA is marching!" "Murderers!" "Murderers!" "Murderers!" "The police, as you can see, are present." "The police was prepared." "But there was no actual plan." "The police had to intervene because a car was damaged by participants." "For the murdered comrades." "Careful." "The back door." "Thank you." "Did you open it?" "Slow down, slow down." "This is the checkpoint." "What's going on here?" ""When cruelty reaches a certain level, it is no longer important who initiated it, only that it be stopped. ""