"Wager n gramophone" "Parsifal is the German ideal." "A combinatioon oof stengt determinatioon and purity" "Hello, gentlemen!" "My soon Adoolf" "That used to be my desk before I retired, which is why you need to apply yourself at school." "Stupid old fool." "He's perfecctly normal for a boy his age." "He's God's curse on me for marrying my niece." "Uncle, don't be absurd." "Yoou 'll get What yoou Want in the end" "You'll be a painter, an artist... anything yoou Want." "Oh. my little genius." "You little bastard." "You burned my beehives again!" "(Father grunts with effort)" "Uncle. doo yoou k. nooW What I think.?" "." "I think." "We shoould tak.e him oout oof schooool." "He 's soo talented an artist and what does he need with science and mathematiccs?" "." "(.Groans)" "Uncle?" "." "Uncle." "What is it?" "." "Oh. my Good!" "Adi." "Ai, quiccky." "C ome help me with your father." "Uncle?" "." " I ' m going to V ienna, Mother." " What?" "." "I want to see opera." "Great opera." "I want to study at the Fine A rts Academy." "It's too far." "You' ll get lost." "I ' ve heard too many stories of Jews and gypsies takng advantage." "I am not a boy, Mother!" "She's very sicck She won't live until C hristmas." "She has cancer of the breast." "It's a lie." "I k.now it's hard." "She'll do anything to ruin my career." "TEAC HER.." "Yoou may begin." "At the end oof 30 minutes." "I Will coollect the sk.etches. and this time toomoorrooW the names oof thoose Whoo have passed this part oof the e x.minatioon Will be poosted oon the doooor." "M OHER.." "Did yoou doo Well in yoour drawing e x.m?" "." "Were you accepted?" "." "Someday I shall be a great artist, M other." "I k. nooW yoou Will." "Angela... .. I k. nooW he 's oonly yoour half-broother... .. but I want you to tak..e care of him as if he were your own." "He's so sensitive." "I doon 't k. nooW hooW he 'll survive Withoout me." "Y es." "Amen." "(ell tolls)" "Adi, I know it's hard, but you have to be brave." "Don't tell me how to feel." "You didn't love her." "She was only your stepmother." "You wouldn't know how to love anyone." "You're just a lump, a peasant." "Good for nothing but breeding more bitches lik..e yoou." "I'm soorry." "Herr Hitler." "Yoou doon 't have a style." "Your people are lik..e buildings." "There's no life to them." "P erhaps if you tried architeccture or theatrical design." "I ' m truly sorry." "I have a class to teach." "Best of lucck...." "I'm all right." "I'm just waiting for my inheritance, that's all." "It's the Jews' fault, you know." "They swarm intoo oour coountry." "steal the bread froom oour tables." "Just ask... our mayor." "Well said." "Herr Dooctoor!" " They are wolves." "C R OD :" "Hear, hear!" "Beasts of prey in human form!" "Soup!" "Soup!" "(.C oughs)" "It's all their fault, you know." "They swarm into our country, tak...e the food from our mouths." "And here we are, German and hungry." "(.C hucckes)" " It's not funny." " I'm sorry, I thought..." "I thought yoou were a Jew." "You look..." "Iik..e one." "(Banging)" "Coome oon." "Wak.e up!" "Out oof yoour bed." "Coome oon." "Yoou 've goot ten minutes too get oout oof here!" ""My dearest sister..." "My studies are gooing very Well here." "My art is getting a loot oof attentioon." "I 'll be famoous befoore yoou k. nooW it." "I looook. foorWard too my upcooming birthday." "When my inheritance is due." "I Woonder. coould yoou bring it in persoon?" "." "I 'll Wait foor yoou in the railway statioon." "under the big cloock.. "" "Adi?" "." "It's you." "Angela." "Goodness, what happened?" "." "I thought you said you were doing fine." "A bit of bad lucck...." "Do you have it?" "." "I wish you would have said something." "You could have come home." "Say hello to your Uncle Dolf, Geli." "She's a shy girl, but very affecctionate." "Well, it's the Jews." "It's the Jews." "They run the galleries and won't buy my paintings." "The Poles...they work..or nex to nothing, so I can't get a job." "That's terrible." "You know, there's plenty of work..in Linz." " Oh, you must be joking." " No, I ' m serious." "Here." "Happy birthday." "Our father work...ed hard for this." "Linz - it's the last place I would go." "You can't stay here." "Of course not." "The sooner I leave this Babylon of races the better." "I'm off where the real Germans are." "War!" "War!" "Austrian Archduk...e's assassination leads to war!" "Come closer." "Let me speak.!" "England, France and Russia are joining forces against our ally Austria." "We must stand with her," "(.C heering)" "Our lives are noothing. oour coountry is everything." "We are now only Germans!" "War!" "War!" "War!" "War!" "ALL:" "War!" "War!" "War!" "War!" "War!" "War!" "War!" "War!" "War!" "War!" "War!" "War!" "War!" "Congratulations, Private..." "Hitler." "As yoou Were oone oof oonly 600 too survive yoour... baptism oof fire... .. it's my privilege to promote you to the rank.. of corporal." " Thank..you, sir." " Welcome to the war." "(Distant gunfire)" "SERGEANT:" "I need one of you men to deliver a message." "Here, Sergeant!" "Stay down." "Stay down." "T ak...e this to Lieutenant Guttman at the command post." "Wait for a reply." "(Whines)" "Sit." "Foo x.I. sit." "Sit!" "Looks lik.e your fiancee's got a mind of her own, Adi." "Foxl, sit!" "Sit!" "(Men laugh )" "You mak...e a fool out of me." "Yoou try too humiliate me." "You must learn...to... sit... down!" "That's enough." "(.Screaming )" "Everyoone Was k.illed. the entire coompany Wiped oout." "The entire company - ex.cept me, of course." "Even my dog, my little Foxl." "Just seconds before the bomb landed, she led me outside as if she k.new." "She's so loving, so affecctionate... and then in one brief moment... she's gone." "No, she's not." "I think.... she's in the stew." "Sorry." " Just shoot it ooff.." " Yoou 're jook.ing." "Put the pistol to my toe... and bang!" "Tick.et hoome." "For every toe you shoot off, ten men die because you aren't there to protecct them." "Battles are lost, ground is given up, ground that we've won through blood and sacrifice, that your brothers died for!" "And you sit there playing cards!" " Corporal, that's enough." "HlTLER.." "Yoou ooWe yoour lives." "I will not put up with this." "You're well enough to walk..." "I'm sending you on leave." "I want you gone by morning." "Y es, sir." "Pacifists." "Marx.ists." "Soocialists." "Jews." "They call themselves Coommunist nooW and they're everywhere - e x.ept here. at the froont." "Who pissed in your brain?" "." "Please." "Do you know any Jew soldiers?" "." "Hm?" "." "Look.. around you." "Do you see any?" "." "I ' m a Jew, Adi... so shut up and eat." "This has to get through as soon as possible." "We don't have much time left." "It's dangerous." "If either of you mak.es it, you'll deserve an I ron C ross." " Y es, sir." " Y es, Corporal?" "." " Nothing, sir." "I foollooWed yoour oorders. sir." "I deserve this medal." "I risk..ed my life." "We all risk... our lives - every day." " You gave me your word." " Believe me, if it was up to me..." "I did believe you." "Anyone else would have laughed." " What do you mean by that?" "." " I've always stood up for your people." "When anyone said, "Oh, you can't trust them"... .. I pointed to you, sir." "T ak.e a deep breath, gents." "You can almost smell the French perfume." "Wait till We get too Paris." " Attentioon!" " Sir!" "Good evening, gentlemen." "I ' m here to tell you you'll all be paccking out in the morning." " We're being deployed to the eastern front." " But, sir, we're only 50km from Paris." "They'll think..we're on the retreat." "Those are General Hindenburg's orders, Corporal." "There's your prize." "Now go tell the men on the front lines." "Sir!" "This is no way to win a war." "M ustard gas!" "Mask.s oon!" "Mustard gas!" "Mask.s oon!" "Mustard gas!" "You're not blind, Corporal." "Gas wouldn't do that." "It irritates the eyes, swells the lids." "Once we have these bandages off, you will see as well as ever." "How long will it tak..e...to get bacck?" "." "T o get bacck..to the front?" "." "Don't think.... about that, think.... of the future." "Do you have a wife?" "." "Afiancee?" "." "I don't have any time." "I have to get bacck!" "I have to get bacck..to the front." "T o push." " A message, Herr Docctor." " T o push!" "Gentlemen... may I have your attention?" "." "I have an important announcement to mak..e." "Earlier today, the army high command agreed to negotiate the terms of surrender." "The war is over." "No!" "DOCT OR.." "We must place oourselves nooW at the mercy oof the victoors..." "Shut up!" "Shut up!" "DOC T OR.... and pray they Will be generoous." "Shut up!" "It isn't the end." "It's the beginning." "DooWn With the Kaiser!" "Death to the Kaiser!" "We're all together, comrades!" "Death too the Kaiser!" "Y eah!" "(.GGunshot)" "The Free Coorps Militia." "led by Captain Ernst Röhm and oothers. tooook. back. the city after a tense tWoo Week.s oof Coommunist rule." "What happens now that Germany's best-k..ept secret is out - that the demobilised soldiers of the war are still acctive and armed in our countrysides?" "." " Herr Gerlich, you will be late." " Don't worry, Frau Schmidt." "These things never start on time." "With the collapse of the monarchy and now the Communist regime, what new form of government awaits us?" "." "Deep feelings of nationalistic pride are springing up against..." "No, no... in defiance of the Communists, of anyone who think.s Germany is finished." "All right, everybody." "Come on now." "Let's get started." "Let's get started." "What are you doing here?" "." "Sorry." "Sorry." "Judge." " Ah, Herr Gerlich." " Thank...you for waiting." " I couldn't very well start without you." "Off.icially the Reds are goone. but the army needs too mak.e sure they stay goone." "It's my joob as head oof Army lnfoormatioon too prevent the soort oof civil unrest that happened last spring from happening again." "I gather you' re very outspok..en in your nationalist leanings." " I believe in Germany, sir." " Gooood." "There are nearly 50 political facctions in this city at the moment and I use informants to identify the more aggressive ones." " Dooes this interest yoou?" "." " I nforming, sir?" "." "One oof these grooups is the German Woork.ers ' Party." "led by a man called Antoon Dre x.Ier." "They gather in the back. roooom oof a beer hall." "Just an e x.cuse too ha ve a drink.." "I e x.pect. but pay them a visit and tell me What they're planning." " I doon 't drink.. sir." " Just listen. then." "But interest equals slavery." "The Berlin-centred economy, which is currently collapsing... .. leaves us no other choice than to declare Bavarian independence." " Waiter, two more beers." "The state of Bavaria must separate from the rest of Germany and form its own nation." "I nsane." "Of course, we are a different society." "We are predoominantly Cathoolic. they are noot." "We' re all German." "C ulturally, perhaps, there are similarities, but even there..." "What about Parsifal?" "." "Lohengrin?" "." "Young man, I'm talking about reality not fairy tales." "You're talking about the purity of the German people...which is no fairy tale." " As I Was saying. interest equals..." " Find out who he is." " What's this?" "." " My repoort oon the German Woork.ers ' Party. sir." "I only ask.ed for a few words." "They' ve ask..ed me if I 'd lik..e to join." "I haven't... accepted yet." "Should we be concerned about them?" "." "That's all I need to know." "It's club life of the lowest form, sir." "But I lik..e the underlying politiccs." ""The Nationalist agenda must include elimination of the Jews. "" "What's this have to do with your report?" "." "Just some thoughts of my own I added." "You disagree?" "." " It's just not feasible." " Oh, it's very feasible, sir." "Just drive them oout." "Depoort them if necessary." "C an you imagine a world without them?" "." "How pure." "HooW hooly." "Do you think...there are any Jews in V alhalla?" "." "Do you have my papers, Mayr?" "." "Y es, Captain Röhm." "I should lik..e to introduce you to Corporal Hitler, sir." "He 's oone oof oour infoormants." "If you'll ex.cuse us, C orporal." "He's an odd one, isn't he?" "." "It is my pleasure to introduce to you our guest speak..er for this evening." "Many of you may remember him by his comments at our last meeting." "Soo please Welcoome Herr Adoolf... .. Adolf Hitler." "When I was a boy, I heard the story..." "Louder." ".. I heard the story of the Holy Grail... .. and how it could only be found by one who was pure of heart." "I ndeed, we have a history of purity in this country." "But We have fallen oon hard times." "Our military is in tatters." "our economy collapsing." "But it's not poverty or weakness that's our problem..." " Speak.. up." "..it's indiff.erence." "Is anyone listening?" "." "That's the problem nowadays, isn't it?" "." "No-one cares." "No wonder we face extincction." "Pride... pride is a weapon." "A sword to be used against our enemies." "But don't be deceived." "They are strong." "Stroonger than We are." "And it's not the French or the English I'm talking about." "Our enemies..." "live among us." "Soocialists." "Coommunists." "The foreign invaders who come to our country to destroy us and tak..e over our lives!" "In the six.. moonths since the fall oof the Coommunist goovernment." "the new German demoocracy has given birth too doozens oof poolitical factioons." "But noone is grooWing moore rapidly than the German Woork.ers ' Party." "newly dubbed the P arty of the National Socialists, whose fiery speak.er... .. Adolf Hitler..." ".. preaches against the influence oof fooreign invaders." "Who alone are responsible for the moral decadence that now riddles our society?" "." " The Jews!" " The Jews!" "Y es!" "Who call themselves German, unwelcome, unwanted," "I nvading our government, stripping us of our savings, raping our families and our heritage." "I tell you friends, this is war - a war that is soon to turn." "For the invaders will become the vicctims!" "MAN:" "Helloo?" "." "Frieda." "Herr Hanfstaengl." "Oh, it's good to see you." "Look... at you." " Who's this?" "." "Is this little Egon?" "." " M m- hm." "He look.s just lik..e you did when you were his age." "Frieda, this is my wife Helene." "She was raised in America, but don't worry, she's bred from good German stocck...." " Her family's from Bremen." " Oh, how do you do?" "." "I apologise for the mess." "I ' ll have it clean by morning." "Frieda, don't worry yourself." "It's lovely." " lt'll be just fine." " Would you lik..e to hold him?" "." "Y es, I'd love it." "Ssh." " He's so gorgeous." " Come." "You lik...e it?" "." "It's extraordinary." " It's everything that you promised." " And this isn't the half of it." "There are such opportunities here for us now." "Germany is starting to rebuild itself and we are going to mak..e pots of money." "Darling, it's impolite to talk... about money." "It' ll be good for the country, too." "Wait till you hear my plans." "Don't bother me with your plans." "You just let me handle the dinner parties." "C R OWD C HANT:" "Hitler!" "Hitler!" "Hitler!" "Hitler!" "Sit down." "Where have you been?" "." "It's almost time to start." "Oh, and come in the front next time," "My supporters would slow me down." " It seems a little empty tonight." " Nonsense." "The crooWd is bigger than last time." "Unfoortunately." "there are soome Coommunists oout there." "So, go easy on the rhetoric." "A riot would only get us in the papers." "Isn't that what we want?" "." "Universal military service shall be abolished in Germany." "Germany will pay war reparations for all damage done to Allied civilians and their property." "Responsibility for the outbreak... of the war... .. rests solely on German shoulders." "But a few of the demands of the T reaty of V ersailles." "I mpossible, you say." "It Will break. us." "But don't you see, that's the point?" "." "They want to break... us." "And Whoo doo I mean by "them "?" "." "I mean the Reds." "These fools who spread a disease called C ommunism to empty-headed dreamers." " Look... who's talking." " Right!" "Rubbish!" "The moost eff.ective medicine is a bullet." "That's the best way to cure us of these idiots." " ldiots are men lik..e you with nothing to say!" " Shut up!" "Marx.. was a Jew." "The C ommunist Party is run by Jews." "It's all a plot to destroy Germany." "T o bastardise our blood." "I nfiltrate our lives." "They want to wipe the Aryan race from the face of the earth!" "Fritz, you're writing." "No, I'm just thinking, that's all." "About?" "." "About what's happening." "M unich." "Bavaria." "Germany." " My three rivals." " It's so ex.citing." "Sophie, Germany is at the crossroads of history." "We grew up with the Kaiser telling us what to do and we're finally thinking on our own." "We have the Communists on the left, the Free Corps joining forces with the right." "It's one big political brawl." " That doesn't worry you?" "." " Why should it?" "." "Nothing good ever comes from brawls." " When are you men going to learn that?" "." " When are you women going to learn that extraordinary times demand extraordinary measures?" "." "Y es - war, assassination..." "All right, all right." "I won't argue with you on that." "But I promise you that whatever comes of this brawl will be extraordinary." " Here." "Go." " We need more men lik..e you in the party." "Oh, we hate the Communists " "Whether or not we'll do anything for the party is entirely up to you." "Here." "Go!" "You know, I've always been a great admirer of yours - your reputation, your war medals." "Oh, my war medal is here." "I'm prouder of this than of any I ron C ross." "Speak... of me, Herr Hitler, you speak... of all my men." "We' re all soldiers here." "These men, together with thousands and thousands of others, served our country well." "Even after they were abandoned by the army they continued to fight" " to put down a Communist revolution." " Y es." "Now, all of a sudden," "Why?" "." "I doon 't understand." "But if my men can crush a revolution, they can also create one." "Because they love this country as much as you or I do." "Y es." "The only little problem is... they're unemployed." "Y es." "nuta Not so long ago, we Germans thirsted after blood nuta We had half the world in trenches, nuta We were close to vicctory, how come we lost the war?" "." "nuta Where were all those leaders that we counted on before?" "." "Oh, my God." "Ernst, is that you?" "." "Friedrich." "Friedrich Hollander, my God." "What are you doing here?" "." "I run this place." "I direcct this show, I write these songs" " I am this place." "Freddie and I went to school together." "We were er...sparring partners." " I n the fencing club." " That too." " And this beautiful lady is?" "." " His current sparring partner." "Helene Hanfstaengl." "It's a pleasure to meet you." "Friedrich Hollander." "That's my wife." "nuta..poison gas nuta And now that we have seen the face of war nuta We're not the same men that we were before..." "Everyone's depressed - bad for the economy but ex.cellent for cabaret." "German people don't need democracy, for God's sak...e, they need music, laughter, someone to tell them what to do" " so they can get in line and follow." " Don't tell me you' ve become a nationalist?" "." "I'm a satirist, Ernst, nuta Who just fell and scraped your knee?" "." "nuta It's time for fun and games again in Germany..." "Speaking of humour, I'm going to hear Hitler tomorrow - would you lik..e to come?" "." "Hitler?" "." "The anti-Semite?" "." "The National Socialist anti-Semite." "Call them Nazis just to piss them off." " I hear he's fascinating." " Well, that's very open-minded of you." " Yoou mean foor a jew?" "." " Yes." "I'm not supporting him, for God's sak..e." "I need new material." "nuta..the face of war nuta We're not the same men that we were before nuta And we can say without hypocrisy nuta Oh, the next one that we fight will end in vicctory!" "We will survive." "That's what they tell us." "What they mean is - they will survive." "We surrendered in Noovember at a time When We Were perched oon the edge oof victoory." "betrayed by the cowards and the traitors within our rank..s." "SUPPORTER.." "C ommunist pigs!" "How do we fight them?" "." "We unite." "We must join together for a greater Germany." "C lean him up a bit, he might be worth something." "He's a cartoon." "We will sacrifice, we will struggle, yes, but only then will we triumph." "And we will triumph!" "With the hero Lohengrin as our model and the music of Wagner as our inspiration, we will hang the profiteers, crush the Communists." "We will disinfecct our country of the Jewish vermin." "Funny...after 500 years you'd think..." "I'd be used to it." "Ernst." "Ernst?" "." "We will triumph!" "We Will triumph!" "We will triumph!" "We will triumph!" "C R OWD:" "We will triumph!" "We will triumph!" "Ex.cuse me, Herr Hitler." "(Hitler hums softly)" "(Ernst accompanies him)" "I heard you speak..." "last night." "You mentioned Wagner." "Ssh." "I was told I could find you here, that you never leave." "Herr Hitler, I was wondering..." "Ssh, just... just play." "I k.nooW soome peoople who would love to hear you speak..., who are not lik..ely to go to a beer hall." "The wealthy." "I've met a few." "Armchair politicians who care more about their money than they do their own country." "But as your party's propaganda leader you must know that to defend their money, they'll spend a good deal of it." "That is, if someone they trust tells them it's a safe bet." "That's where I come in." "Herr Hitler..." "I can mak..e you very popular." "Far more popular than him." "But yoou have too admit the cooloour catches the eye." "Why doon 't yoou have a pooster?" "." "And a flag?" "." "Yoour picture shoould be everywhere." "With yoour name in large letters." "Yoou might coonsider a moore distinctive looook.." "Foor e x.mple. When yoou think. oof Lenin." "yoou think. oof bearded and bald." "Noot that that's attractive. but..." "but it dooes stick." "With yoou." "Baroness, we never talk... so openly about politiccs in America." "That's all we talk.... about here." "Of course, there are some things we don't mention... .. such as C aptain Röhm and his Free C orps." "Now that the Reds are gone they still want money." "So what do we do, my dear?" "." "Don't talk...to me about democracy." "Masses can't lead themselves." "I n the old days, one man decided what was best for the country and there was order and discipline." "Now everyone votes on everything and the result is chaos." "I assure you, Baron, it work.s in America." "There they have states with governors under a president in Washington." "Here we have the Prussian state, the Bavarian" "The struccture is essentially the same." "It's not the same thing, Ernst, and you know it." "Germans need to be led," "He doesn't have to be smart, merely pliable." "And a bachelor... so the women will vote for him." "Well said, Captain Göring." "This person you've invited tonight, Herr Hanfstaengl, he has the work..ers' ear?" "." "Some of the work...ers but mostly the middle class, which is far better for our purposes." "I think...you' ll find him... rather persuasive." "He is at the moment a diamond in the rough though - and I do mean rough." "(Door bell rings)" "Herr Hitler." "I'm Helene, Ernst's wife." "He's told me so much about you." "Come." "With respecct, the Kaiser's a coward." "Better off without him really." "No, we need someone with courage, courage to drive out these foreign agitators." "A man who would smile in the face of the machine gun and scare the rabble shitless." "Would that be you, sir?" "." "No, Captain Göring, not me, sir." "I'm just a voice crying in the wilderness." "Above all, we must remove the Jews." "They run our bank.s, they lost us the war." "They're responsible for the economic disaster we're in." "Sir, my father was a Jew and a stronger patriot could not be found at this table." "I am the man I am today because of him." "Baroon... surely he wasn't talking about your father." "He meant the Communist Jews," "You will ex.cuse us, Frau Hanfstaengl." "Darling." "Herr Hitler." "Please." "Please accept my apologies." "I'm sure he meant no disrespecct." "My husband and I have several Jewish friends." "What this man is doing is heating up the hatred in this country to boiling point." "And all for his own purposes, I might add." "May God forgive you and your husband for supporting him." "HlTLER.." "I toooo k.nooW What it's lik.e too be mistak.en in a friend." "If he has deceived you as to his heritage, who knows what else is he capable of?" "." "Yoou 're a very gifted speak.er. Herr Hitler." "I think...it is an honour to be at this table with you." "I began life as a quite gifted artist, C aptain Göring." "And I brought something I want you all to see." "Simple." "Aryan." "What does it mean?" "." "It means the unconquerable." "Do you lik..e it, Frau Hanfstaengl?" "." "It's very... hypnotic." "T ell us, Herr Hitler," "Well done." "Thank...you." "Thank...you." "HlTLER.." "The turning pooint in my life Was When the blindfoold Was ripped froom my eyes!" "And only then will we triumph." "And we will triumph!" "The Jew in all his terrible shame!" "We will hang the profiteers!" "We recognise him." "We recognise him." "We will mak..e them pay!" "C R OWD:" "We Will triumph!" "We Will triumph!" "We Will triumph!" "We will triumph!" "(.C hanting drowns out argument)" "(.GGunshot)" "(.Arguing stops)" "What's going on?" "." "Herr Hitler...we er..." "Who is this?" "." "My new friends." "What are you arguing about?" "." "We have been approached by the German Socialist Party to join forces." "Our principles are similar, we can negotiate a new platform to eliminate our differences, and together both parties will be even stronger." "Er...some of the others here disagree." "I see." " Would you lik..e to know what I think?" "." " Y es, of course." " I think...you're a traitor." " But Herr Hitler...." "Compromise is not possible!" "If their members wish to quit their party and join ours that's another thing, but our principles are our principles and cannot be changed!" "Once again, Drexler, you prove my point." "This is a tedious, amateur organisation and you are a jealous fool." "Which brings me to this." "Who wrote this?" "." "Don't pretend you don't know what it is." "One of our own members calls me a dangerous demagogue." "Are you out to destroy me?" "." "I tell you, sir, I don't need you or your Party." "I will form my own Party." "(Distant crowd chant for Hitler)" "Herr Hitler, Herr Hitler!" "Please." "You're right." "Of course we will not merge if that is how you feel." "There are soome Whoo questioon yoour financial ties. that is all." "We' re not a Party of the bourgeoisie, it's..." "It's bound to have an impacct." "The leadership." "What?" "." "I want you to step down, name me as your successor." "Y es." "Y es, of course." "The committee must approve unanimously." "Then mak..e a public announcement." "May I have your attention?" "." "The leadership committee has just made an important decision." "I no longer feel qualified to lead our struggle so it is my privilege to present you with our new leader." "Our new Fhrer... ..Adolf Hitler." "(.C rowd chant for Hitler)" "Oh, my God." "No, no, a little higher." "That's good." "That's very good." "Beautiful, marvellous." "No." "No." "Y es." "Wonderful choice, my Führer, but don't you think...this look...is better?" "." "Ex.cuse me, Herr Hitler, a message from Bavarian Prime M inister V on Kahr." "It seems I ' m being ask..ed to cancel my speeches." "Not ask...ed, ordered." "The C hancellor wants to pay war reparations and honour the T reaty of V ersailles." "As a coonsequence. the peoople are ready too rioot." "Kahr's oordered a state oof emergency." "placed himself in charge." "He adds..." "" If Hitler speak.s, it may only stir things up. "" "Stir things up." "Stir things up?" "." "Have you been to the mark..etplace?" "." "Do you know how much it costs for a loaf of bread these days?" "." "500, 000 mark..s." "500. 000 mark.s." "The wheelbarrows aren't big enough to carry the money in!" "And he's afraid I ' ll stir things up?" "." "You tell Commissar Kahr this is not a time for silence, this is a time for revolution." "Right, well, I suppose that leaves me." "HANFST AENGL:" "I know you're upset." "Of course you are." "Commissar V on Kahr is accting rashly." "Herr Hitler, you mustn't tak..e it personally." "We both want the same thing." "Right now V on Kahr think.s that he doesn't need you." "You must be clever and show him that he does." "That you have the support of the people." "Hm?" "." "I want to show you something." "This is an article by an editor named Fritz Gerlich that is, on the whole, complimentary." "Everyone who's anyone reads him and... he alsoo happens too Write Coommissar oon Kahr's speeches." "I think. yoou shoould pay him a visit." "I bak..ed these this morning." "I hope you lik..e them." "You must have been very brave, Herr Hitler." "The lroon Crooss is noo small feat." "Thank...you, dear." "I ' ve heard you speak..., Herr Hitler." "You' re very persuasive." "You know, we share some beliefs - the need" "Y es, well, we need someone to tak..e charge... ..throw out this T reaty of V ersailles, refuse to pay the war reparations." "War reparations." "I agree with that." "What's that?" "." " It helps me to k..eep notes during an interview." " What?" "." " That way when I get bacck......" " This isn't an interview." "What made you think...that?" "." "Kahr's a fool." "I know he's your friend, but he has to realise I am not the enemy." "If he Wants too mak.e a stand against Berlin." "fine." "I Woon 't stoop him." "I n facct... .. I should be his partner." "But you have fundamental areas of disagreement." "You both wish to lead." "Lead?" "." "I have no ambition to lead." "So long as Kahr k..eeps us a place in his government, that's all we want." "A little..." "little piece of the cak..e, as it were." "You know... you know we could use a man lik..e you." "You could perhaps... write for us." "On behalf of the Nationalist Socialist Party." "Y es." "But I don't write propaganda." "Who said anything about propaganda?" "." "I'm talk.ing aboout the truth." "Look... around you." "I mmigrants, Jews." "Stealing everything we work...or." "The German Jews?" "." "Any party that comes to power will surely guarantee that..." "We're talking about Jews here!" "They're noot citizens." "They have noo rights." "You are supposed to be a Nationalist." "You should know better." "I will never compromise on the Jews." "Never." "GERLlC H:" "He 's insane." "A coomplete psychootic." "He may be a coompelling speak.er oon stage. but  in person I could see into his eyes and what I saw was... ..terrifying." "And I intend to shut him down." "With all due respecct, C ommissar V on Kahr..." "you need to handle him with care." "Don't worry, I will." "I know how to deal with Adolf Hitler." "KAHR.." "There Were oover 40 poolitical murders last Week.end." "Reds k.illing SA." "SA k.illing Reds." "General V on Lossow and C olonel Seisser here are very concerned, as am I." "Well, if my party had a voice in your government, perhaps we might find less violent ways of expressing ourselves." "Which is ex.acctly what I'm prepared to offer you." "I n...a few week..s' time, General V on Lossow" "A putsch to bring the national government under our control." "Would you lik..e to be part of that putsch?" "." "Y es, of course." "Then you must be very quiet." "Yoou can speak.." "give the impressioon oof business as usual." "but you must also promise me... .. if you wish to play any part in our government, there will be no more violence." "Berlin mustn 't believe We have designs against them." "You have my full support." "HlTLER.." "Just k.eep yoour men quiet." "I can't do that." "Of course you can." "You' re the leader, they listen to you." "I pay them to listen to you." "It's not a question about money, it's the principle." "If there's a Red anywhere near, there's going to be a fight." "Look..... don't care how you do this... ..just k..eep them quiet." "He won't listen." "We have to find some other way, some kind of figurehead." "Mak..e it tighter." "So, how is your father, Hess?" "." "V ery well, General Ludendorff, he sends his best." "Who is this?" "." "May I present Herr Hitler, to you, sir?" "." "I believe you've met before at one of Captain Göring's soirees." "Oh, yes." "Er, what can I do for you?" "." "No, no, that's too tight." "Let it out." "Your Ex.cellency is the... our... heroic leader of the Nationalist Right, while I'm but its spok..esman." "No, more, more, I can't breathe." "I was wondering if I could perhaps discuss a little plan I have, we're confident of gaining Your Ex.cellency's support." "Support?" "." "For what?" "." "We' re planning a transference of power." "Bavarian Commissar V on Kahr has seen the wisdom of joining the National Socialists for a march on Berlin." "Well...good for you." "Those idiots at the Reichstag haven't learned their lesson, so kicck....them out." "We need true Germans running this country again, lik..e we had with Bismarcck..." "I knew him, you know." "Hm." "M y God, what a man." "So... what's your plan?" "." "And can you carry this off?" "." "I won't be made a fool of, you know." "Your Ex.cellency, we are confident of our success." "By the way, I ' m speaking next week... at the C ircus.one." "I would be honoured if you would be my guest." "For many years, my friends," "I was lik..e a prisoner - blindfolded," "What had I done to deserve this treatment?" "." "I did not even know who my enemy was." "An innocent vicctim of greed and of hatred and of cunning!" "(.C heering)" "I n recent years we have all suffered lik..e this." "Germany more than any of us." "(.C heering)" "Y et there is no need to live in darkness." "The turning point in my life was when the blindfold was ripped from my eyes." "And I coould see my enemy. oour enemy - the jew!" "We recoognise him." "We recognise him." "Nooboody leaves." "Noo-oone." "We see how his filth and his greed have staggered the heart of this great country." "We must crush this vermin!" "We must wipe this plague from our nation!" "What we say tonight will soon be forgotten." "What we do will live on for a thousand, thousand years!" "(.C heering)" "What's the matter?" "." "Lossow has said we have to wait two more week.s before they tak..e acction." "HANFST A ENGL:" "Seisser Was in Berlin." "Some important meeting." "Kahr wouldn't see me." "But in two days he intends to address all the right-wing political facctions at one of their beer halls." "All of them, that is, ex.cept you." "He's outfox.ed you, lad." "He clearly intends too foorm a cooalitioon With all oof yoour coompetitoors and create a new government without you." "He broought yoou intoo this simply too k.eep yoou quiet." "We' ll move without them, then." "We 'll seize Munich." "We 'll march oon Berlin." "The people are with us." "Listen to them." "Gentlemen, our time has come." "(.C heering )" "I ' ll confront Kahr here." "Röhm and his men wait here." "We surround the barracck..s...then attacck...." "Once the situation is secure," "Half of my men will cut the lines at the telephone ex.change." "The rest of us will secure the military barracck.s." "No information in or out of M unich unless I say so." "Gentlemen... .. I know this is often said and deeply felt... ..but none more deeply than tonight - may God and the people of Germany be with us." "We're brothers, you and I." "T ogether we will mak..e history." "GUARD:" "Your papers, please." "I couldn't sleep last night worrying about this speech." "His popularity's rising." " If people don't hear the truth..." " Don't worry." "They will." "T onight we unify the other parties and put an end to Adolf Hitler." "nuta The circus rules nuta And I'm the lion tamer nuta An all-or-nothing savage autocrat nuta I cracck... my whip nuta The k.ing oof all the jungle nuta Just starts too purr nuta Lik.e he 's my pussycat" "nuta But smell the stench nuta You can't escape the jungle nuta And though at peace nuta The animals still roar nuta Those darling beasts nuta They long to slay each other nuta Only my whip nuta Keeps them froom gooing too War" "nuta They throw an attacck......" "Gentlemen, history has brought us to the edge of chaos... .. and nooW We have a chooice." "nuta Men acct lik...e beasts nuta Beasts acct lik...e men nuta They both need training now and then" "Or we can, with courage and faith, leap... nuta What's that drumming?" "." "What's cooming?" "." "(.GGunshot)" "The national revolution has begun." "The building is surrounded." "No-one may leave." "Any trouble, you will be shot." "I nside." "I nside!" "Stay calm." "Remain in your places." "We have the building surroounded." "Get me Ludendorff." "Sorry to surprise you lik..e this, but then you' re no stranger to intrigue, are you?" "." "I am forming a provisional Reich government." "I will be in charge of the police," "General Ludendorff will be in charge of the army, and I will have a post for each of you." "I need your support." "KAHR.." "Yoou seem too have planned this Well." "And where is General Ludendorff?" "." "If he suppoorts yoou. as yoou say he dooes." "why is he not here?" "." "Oh, so the little man pulled it off, did he?" "." "Give me a moment." "Keep your heads!" "Stay calm!" " He's a little late." " Gentlemen. please!" "What's going on?" "." " You sure he's coming at all?" "." " Shut up!" "Stay calm!" "Shut up!" " Tak.e yoour seats." "Remain calm!" " Ludendoorff's here." "He's here." "Your leaders are with us." "Will you join them?" "." "Will you stand behind us?" "." "The German revolution begins tonight!" "(T elephone rings)" "Y es?" "." "Good." "Come on." "Come on." "Come on." "Stop." "There's an armed group heading towards the barracck.s." "Fall bacck!" "Get out of my way!" "HlTLER.." "What doo yoou mean they fell back.?" "." "I can't believe this is happening." "Nobody does anything right." " Where's your conscience?" "." " Conscience." "A Jewish invention, sir." "Conscience." "Do you mind if we visit our wives, General?" "." "They'll be worried." "Of course, of course," "Mobilise the army." "Now." "What the hell's happening?" "." "There are too many of them." "Somebody must have betrayed us." "What are you doing here?" "." "Where's Kahr and the others?" "." "Oh, I let them go." "Their wives were a concern." "That's all right." "They said they Woouldn 't nootify the authoorities." "Good God!" " Follow me." " Let's go." "We' ll tak...e to the streets." "We' ll tak...e to the streets." "We' ll go to the War M inistry." "There were ,000 people at the C ircus Krone the other night." "As soon as they know what's happened, they will support us." "Fire!" "Hurry up." "Retreat!" "Get him oout oof here!" "Fall bacck...., fall bacck!" "C hildren!" "Papa!" "Mama!" "Go." "Drive." "(.GGroans)" "(Rings)" "Hello." "Darling, it's me." "I've got to get out." "It's all gone sour." "Don't let anyone in." " Tak.e the children and goo too yoour moother's." " Ernst, what happened?" "." "I'll call you there." "Frieda!" "Frieda!" "HlTLER.." "I k.nooW a safe place." "T urn right up ahead." "(Banging at door)" " You're frightening the children." "Get the door." "Go, Frieda, now." "(Frieda screams)" "Frieda!" "Frieda, stop it!" "Shut up!" "Shut up!" "Now tak...e the children outside." "Go on." "Now." "Gl RL:" "M ummy!" "(Banging at door)" "MAN:" "Frau Hanfstaengl. oopen the doooor!" "We k. nooW he 's in there!" "Frau Hanfstaengl!" "Open the doooor!" "Up you come." "C ome on." "Herr Hitler." "(M utters) Of course, that's what..." "that's ex.acctly what they want..." "HANFST A ENGL:" "He 's oon a hunger strik.e." "If he dooesn 't testify. oor Woorse. if he dies." "they'll coome after everyoone. including us." " You' re out of your mind." " Someone has to answer for the putsch." " For God's sak...e, it was treason." "He won't listen to his men, but he lik..es you." "A ll you have to do is shore up his confidence." " No." " Helene!" "Our lives, our future, depend on this." "I bak..ed these myself." "You mustn't lose hope." "So many people believe in you." "Do you?" "." "The first time I saw you... .. I knew that you were a great... man." "(.Journalists clamour)" "There he is." "JUDGE:" "Let us prooceed." "General Ludendorff... you have been accused of high treason." "How do you plead?" "." "Not guilty." "(M urmurs of approval)" "Adolf Hitler... ..you have been accused of high treason." "How do you plead?" "." "Guilty." "(.Outcry)" "Herr Hitler, are you a German citizen?" "." "Are you talking about a piece of paper or the blood that runs through my veins?" "." "Answer the question." "No." "In Noovember oof last year you led a putsch against the Bavarian state and German Reich." "You coerced and threatened Commissar Kahr," "You have been accused of high treason and called an enemy of the state." "If a thief tak..es your money and you tak..e it bacck..." "does that mak..e you also a thief?" "." "(.Applause)" "HlTLER.." "I n 1 91 we were betrayed by the November C riminals, the ones who claimed to be our leaders." "They ended the war, signed the T reaty of V ersailles." "And that...was high treason." "This is supposed to be an interrogation, not a speech." "I was simply taking bacck..." "that which was stolen from us five years before." "Namely the right... the right to defend ourselves against the wishes of an incapable parliament." "I used no force." "I used no force." "I was supported by Commissar Kahr." "Why isn 't he oon trial?" "." "If I'm guilty of anything... then I am guilty of fighting to defend the rights of the German people." "Fascinating, isn't he?" "." "Fritz, please!" "What is it?" "." " Please just..." " Sit down." "..open the door." "What's wrong?" "." "T oday I was absolutely convinced that it would be over." "That he would be exposed as cold-blooded and psychotic." "But they cheered him, Sophie." "Hitler stooood up in a coourt oof law and claimed that all he Wants is too give the natioon back. too its peoople and the people believed him." "Even the judge was impressed." "He's figured us out." " Figured who out?" "." " P eople." "You've met him." "He's not human." "He's studied people in order to appear human, but all he's discovered is our fear and our hatred." "And now we're all running toward a monster we should be running from." "Extraordinary times demand extraordinary measures." "You said that once, remember?" "." "When all those drunk..s in the beer halls were throwing mugs at each other?" "." "I told you nothing good would come of it." "That was then." "Coome inside nooW." "I'll fix.. yoou soomething too eat." "Fritz?" "." "Thank...you." "For what?" "." "GERLl C H:" "Stop the presses!" " Stoop the presses!" "GERLl C H:" "Stoop the presses." "We 've goot a new froont page." "Listen... everybody." "We have a new front page." "On the night of the putsch, C ommissar V on Kahr was promising an initiative that would have turned this country around had he been heard." "I know because I wrote it." "T onight, we are the voice of sanity." "Listen." ""History has brought us to the edge of chaos and we now have a choice." "Either We can jump intoo the abyss oor." "With coourage and faith." "Ieap too the oother side. "" "HlTLER.." "I demand freedom!" "GERLlC H: " The abyss is Hitler's party oof Natioonal Soocialism - a party oof intoolerance and hatred." "false imagery and false hoope." "A pit oof noonsense and ooutright lies. "" "They deserve to be hung!" ""He 's an agitatoor Whoo believes oour fears Will drooWn oout oour reasoon." "And the worst we can do - the absolute worst - is to do nothing. "" "A ll right." "Let's get to work..." "T raitor!" "JUDGE:" "General Ludendorff... the coourt finds yoou noot guilty and releases you from custody." "Herr Hitler..." ".. the coourt finds yoou guilty oof treasoon." "Y es!" "You are hereby sentenced to a fine of 200 gold mark.s... .. and five years in Landsberg prison." "You will... you Will be eligible for parole... in nine months." "(.C heering)"