"Berlin July" "Mom, I don't want to go there by myself" " Oh Vicky..." "I've explained it often enough." "But if Berlin is dangerous for me, it's dangerous for you too." "And if the bombs keep falling..." " I'll come too." "I promise." "I have something for you." "It was your granny's." "It will protect you." "Viktoria Mahlenberg , is that you?" "Then come along." " I want my mommy to come too." "Your mommy has to contribute to the war effort." "Say goodbye to your mommy." "I'd never been separated from my daughter." "By now the National Socialists had drawn 40 countries into the war." "We have to be brave now, both of us." "We were hit at full tilt by the backlash." "Now come." "Supplies were dwindling." "A normal life in Berlin had become impossible... especially as the Allies were now even attacking us during the day." "We had to send our children to the countryside for safety." "I had no idea that a telegram would soon call me to my father's sickbed." "Hoping for a reconciliation, I headed home for the first time in eight years." "March of Millions Part 1" "East Prussia August" "Careful on the platform side." "Get on board, hop to." " I won't be too far away." "Friedrich." " Move it." "Heil Hitler, Countess." "Welcome home." "Fritz?" "My goodness." "Did you get spruced up for my sake?" "Excuse the delay." "I told him the State Railways are also punctual in wartime." "The weather is changing." "We had to bring in the hay." "Madame Ia Comtesse." "François Beauvais." "You have no other baggage, Countess?" " No, Fritz, this is all." "Come." "No car, unfortunately." "Not enough petrol." "Board the train, please." "Thanks,I can handle it." "Mrs Meister." " Welcome." "It's an honour." " Anneliese, Helene." "Welcome." "Welcome." " Hello." "Hello." "Little Lena." " Grandma Herta.You look well." "Dietrich." " Welcome." "How is he?" "Babette." " Lena." "Good, good that you're here." "Come, let's go inside." "Such a joy in my old age." "Finally some life in the house again." "She didn't recognize me." " Oh, child." "Why didn't the little one come?" "I was so looking forward to it." "Two days before your telegram came, I had to send her to the country." "Why do you live in Berlin, with all those bombs?" "You've lost weight." "I'll fatten you up again." "Count Rüdiger is with him." "I think it will make it easier." "That he wants to see me at all." " He doesn't know..." "Lena, I didn't tell him..." " That I was coming?" "Yes?" "After you've taken your medicine." " Stay out of it." "You're not my doctor." "Maybe you'll take it from someone else." "Hello, Father." " Lena?" "Wonderful." "Lena, it's Sophie's birthday." "The party is at Gernstorff Castle." "Heinrich will also be there." "It'd be nice if you came too." " Of course." "Berthold, remember your medicine." " Thank you, Uncle Rüdiger." "What are you doing here?" "Did he summon you behind my back?" "Babette sent a telegram." " Did she now?" "Well, even if they say I'm finished, I'm not dead yet, not by a long shot." "Here everything goes on as usual." "But what are you doing here?" "Leaving your post in wartime?" "Aren't you a teacher?" "The schools have been closed, Father." "But now I'm here, with you." " Nonsense, Lena." "You chose against your family a long time ago." "It's one's duty to follow one's conscience." "Those are your words." " Now, after eight years?" "I don't need you, Lena." "We can manage on our own." "Naturally this burden sometimes puts a great strain on the individual troops." "Waltraud, it's impossible that 69 hens lay only 18 eggs." "22 eggs and 64 hens, Mrs Meister." " Yesterday there were still 69." "Those Polacks steal like magpies." "It's the French." "Give them a ringer and they take your arm." "You'll see,the Führer's super weapon will make them retreat once and for all." "Hands off, Fritz." "The men work hard and are hungry." "They need more food." "I've told you before, François, the portions are carefully measured." "We need more food." "At attention." "Good heavens, you scared me." "My otherwise so punctual brother lets me wait hours... while I arrive punctually from the front." "I'm sorry, Lieutenant Gernstorff." "A meeting in Königsberg." "Come." "Why do you have a car and I don't?" " I'm older than you." "I'm smarter than you." " Right,Judge Advocate General." "That's why you drive army material halfway across East Prussia." "Mom loves this music." " We love this music." "Did you know she's back?" " Who?" "Lena, at Mahlenberg." "She'll also be there tonight." "Father and you can hatch old plans again." "Are you jealous?" " Of course. it's all I ever envied you for." "Now take me to Hollebens." "Carl's been killed in action." "Look, you wore it to the summer ball that time." "The next morning I told Father I was pregnant." "He still hasn't forgiven me for having Vicky against his will." "Eight years." "Eight years, Babette, waiting and hoping." "He never answered one letter, as if I were a leper." "He didn't even write when Ludwig was killed." "If you hadn't written me..." " Don't give in now, Lena." "God forbid." "You're needed here." "Two weeks ago they inducted the coachman, and my Georg." "Georg?" "I didn't know that.Where to?" " To France." "Who manages the estate now?" " No one. it's one big chaos now." "Georg put a lot of trust in François." "He does a lot now." "A prisoner of war?" " Yes, imagine." "Well, he's an engineer or something." "He hates us." "He's probably a Communist." "Lena, we need you here." "How will we manage?" "Just POWs, foreign labourers and us, women and children?" "And Fritz can't wait to follow his father to the front." "I hardly recognized your Fritz." "He's become a real man." "He's still a child." "But he has good chances in the party, you know." "He can really make a career if he keeps his head cool." "Maybe get an education." "The party really does things for us." "I know, you can't stand them." "Father wants me to leave." " Lena, stop it." "You'll get your daughter from the camp, you hear?" "You belong here, and you know it." "Outrageous." "I'll complain to Königsberg." " That's enough." "What are you doing with our horses?" " War is war, also for you." "Now shut it." "Hold on." "I'm Countess Mahlenberg." "How dare you take our horses?" "The horses are important war material." "War material?" "They're work horses, as we have no petrol any more." "Wait." "No horse leaves my estate." " I have orders." "Here." "You believe in the final victory?" "You believe in the Führer, right?" "Without a doubt." "Then you don't want this estate to become unprofitable." "It's the basis for nourishing our population." "The Führer wouldn't want that." " Right, our Führer cannot want that" "Alright, tomorrow I'll talk to your superior." "See to it that all the horses come back safe and sound." "Easy." "Exactly, and now I want my daughter to come here." "But I'd never have entrusted her to you if I'd known that." "I won't accept that." "You'll hear from me again." "In these times, family cohesion is all that counts." "I'm glad we're united like this today." "To the women." "You're the backbone of our system." "To you, my dear Sophie, and to you, Lena." "We're glad that you're home again." "Thank you." "I wish they'd left you in France." "As judge advocate general..." "Father, I'm careful." "I hear about lapses of order and discipline." "When you're so deep in shit, you forget about order and discipline." "We're just cannon fodder for our great Führer." "Good evening, everyone." " I knew he'd come." "Mother." "I'm sorry I'm late." "Lena, my dear." "Your letters keep me alive." "You're not at the front?" "As you see, Father, I'm standing right here." "I have two days leave." "The front will collapse with or without me.The war is lost." "You sound like those amateur officers, Stauffenberg,Treskow and their ilk... who almost gave the front away." "I'd shoot him, if they let me near him." "Shoot him like a mangy dog." "But maybe it's better not to, so that everyone sees, including you... that we do not only fight, but murder." "We,the armed forces." "Ferdinand, stop telling scare stories." " No honourable German soldier..." "Women, children, Poles,Jews, Russians." "We shot and buried them with spades." " Stop it." "The acting district leader has come to congratulate me in person." "Without the intention of interrupting a family evening." "Congratulations." " Thank you." "Good evening, honoured Count." "Let me get changed for you." "Excuse me." "Lena, why did you come back.." "To this horribly boring place?" "Because we're all shackled to you, to our parents... to our estates and possessions, whether we like it or not." "Yes, and sooner or later we all learn that we must submit." "If we were children, and this life..." "You do want children, don't you?" " I have a daughter." "Of course, you have a daughter." "But these terrible families only want sons, Lena.They only want sons." "I had three sons." "Since Constantin was killed, I only have two." "But I have him, my darling." "I still want a daughter and a grandchild." "I'll take you upstairs, Mother." "Six or seven children, I believe." " Sleep well, Sophie." "Good night." " Good night, Mother." "Imagine,Viktor's been transferred to Bucharest." "And Benjamin got married during his last leave from the front." "He wanted at least one person to mourn for him... when he keels over in the mud." "Ferdinand?" "It gives me a headache to hear you talk like that." "Tell me about yourself" "Mom?" "I can't go back to this war." "I'm powerless.Talk to your father." "I'm sorry your father keeps rejecting our words of advice." "All we need is a collective effort." "He's just as interested in the integrity of East Prussia as you, Mr Herrmann." "In that case I've misunderstood him, dear Countess." "But you, you seem to be a little more farsighted." "My daughter is at a camp in Bavaria." "I'm having problems getting her here." "Would the party want a German mother to be separated from her child?" "Definitely more farsighted." "Heil Hitler, Heil Hitler." "Ferdinand, you won't get through to him like that" "Where do these people come from?" " From MemelTerritory and Lithuania." "They left two months ago." "Are you hungry?" "Do you need milk?" "Everyone will receive food." "They can sleep in the shed." "Fritz, arrange for blankets and mattresses." "Luise?" " Sit, Asta, and lie dead." "Luise, come." "Mattresses in the back, please." "Mr Beauvais, can you help me?" "Helene, shall I tell you something?" "Louis, what did he say?" " I won't tell you." "Anyone who hasn't eaten yet?" "Oh well, the Russians came in the last war, and now they'll come again." "Dietrich, what's the matter with you?" "Is anything wrong with Father?" "Yes." "That's enough." "This is the third group already." "They shouldn't have left with those ridiculous carts." "How will they survive?" "They didn't go voluntarily." "They were forced to." "You think anyone here or elsewhere will take them in?" "You taught us that we families have an obligation." "You've always helped, my whole life." " I don't want it, Lena, period." "Sleep well." "Lena, it can't be true that the Count wants those children and old people..." "Babette... they can all stay." "And?" "Will it be fixed by tomorrow?" "Pretty unstable." "To go all the way to Pomerania..." "Very unstable." "The wood is rotten." "Rubber wheels are better." "And a lighter construction with cross bars." "We could build a prototype, for us." "You could be hanged for the mere suggestion, Mr Beauvais." "No one needs to flee." "No one." "East Prussia is safe." " When the Russians come... everyone will die, especially the Russians." "They'll think we're traitors, see?" " No Russian will come this way." "The war will end in Berlin long before." " And if the war is lost?" "Aren't you afraid?" "Good night." "We must be careful." "She checks everything." "She asked about work, about food." " Did you tell her the whole truth?" "Also about those shitty beds?" " Enough." "No discussion." "Least of all with her." "We shouldn't expect any solidarity from those aristocrats." "Have you seen Asta?" "Has anyone seen Asta?" "Asta the dog." "A young puppy." "Come." "Come on." "You too, get in." "Well done, comrade." "You'll amount to something." "You can't do that, not with Mikolai." "Let him go." "Not you, Mikolai." "Why did you do that?" "Why did you do that?" "Let go.What's going on?" " Ask him." "He called the SS." "You?" " Mikolai is innocent." "They should take me." "I'll go." " Making a martyr of yourself won't help." "I'll go." "Are you the county leader or aren't you?" "So do something." "I demand that you take immediate action." "You have no right." "You come uninvited... and dare arrest my men, whom I badly need to work on the land." "I demand that you release them." "First of all, we were called for." "Second, it seems they stole from you." "That can't happen." "We'll replace the lost manpower, of course." "I want my people back." "These men work day and night... so we can meet our delivery quotas." "We don't even get petrol from the state." "Countess, don't waste your time on thieves and swindlers... who skin you alive." "Two Poles, one Russian and a Frenchman." "A violation of the Convention of The Hague." "Frenchmen have to be reported to the Red Cross." "And Russians and Poles..." " Don't count." "It's touching how you fight for your men." "Right, Schulz?" "The Mahlenbergs were always..." " Old-fashioned." "That good old welfare mentality." "They look after their people, Schulz." "Even if they don't deserve it." "Give my regards to your father." "I'm giving a concert next week" "I hope you and your father will come." "Countess, by your leave." "Schulz." "Commander." "By order of the acting district leader, you can take your scum with you." "If it was up to me..." "But it's never up to me." "Stop, stay here." " Wait." "What's for dinner?" " The countess is looking for you." "Did you tell on those men, Fritz?" "They steal from us." "They're thieves and swindlers." "I have to protect all of us." "I promised Father I would." "Francois, for you." "I couldn't prevent Janek from being shot." "I'm really sorry." "As for the food, I'll take care of it." "From now on you'll get enough to eat." " We're here against our will." "We work till we drop and get treated without respect." "Should I be grateful?" " I came with good intentions." "I'm not a servant." "I'm not a Prussian slave." "I demand that none of your people will flee for the duration of the war." "And I demand absolute loyalty." " Loyalty." "That's a mutual pact." "You built an escape wagon behind our back" "If that comes out, we'll all be hanged for defeatism." "Is that what you mean by loyalty?" " We all just want to survive, Comtesse." "Stop calling me 'Comtesse'." "It's what you are." "You command and we obey." "Back home that no longer exists, and hopefully it will soon end here too." "Sit down." "Your lot is not so bad with us." " As good as it can be without freedom." "I demand that you destroy the wagon, immediately." "Do we have a deal?" "Lena?" "We have to go." "As you command, Comtesse." "Heinrich, I know I'm late." "Forgive me." "Come." "If we're lucky, the Americans will soon reach Berlin." "It's just a question of time." "Army Group Middle is being overrun." "500,000 men against 160 Red Army divisions." "They're coming with more than two million men." "They'll break open the front." "You think Herrmann will help me with Vicky?" "Hitler reinforces the west front, while..." " Heinrich." "I talked to the acting district leader." "He'll look into it." "I'm out of petrol." "Maybe Father is right Maybe we will lose everything." "Is that what he says?" " No." "But it's what he thinks." "He's given up." "We can't give this up." "We mustn't lose this." "We have to fight." " I've never given up, Lena." "I've never stopped hoping." "Would you really have married me, despite the disgrace?" "A child from you is no disgrace." "If you ask me today..." "I will always fight with and for you." "Always." "And I could be a good father to your daughter." "Father?" "I've made a decision." "I will marry Heinrich." "Don't get married for my sake, nor because of Mahlenberg." "Do you love him?" "Didn't you say marrying out of love is a luxury one should deny oneself?" "In the future it'll be the only one left to us." "Yes, I'm fond of him." "I've always been, and I need him now." "Your marriage won't help us here." "The war has taken hold of our minds." "It will destroy us all." "Father,there have always been wars." " This time it's different." "We've been complicitous with them... and therefore carry part of the blame." "Do you remember?" "Like in the old days." "I don't want to go." "I want to get married too, like Heinrich." "Then you have something to hold onto when you die." "Ferdinand, don't talk nonsense." " You will marry him, won't you?" "Come on, get off the track." "Don't worry, Lena." "He's not as exciting as I am... but you'd never have married his stupid kid brother anyway." "You're too much for me." "Now come, please." "At least he'll always look after you." "I can't even look after myself." " Come on now, get off." "Mommy." "Well?" "Look, here's Uncle Ferdinand." "Vicky,the last time I saw you you were this tiny." "No way, I was never that small." " Thank you." "It was a pleasure to accompany your daughter." "Goodbye,Viktoria." "Take care of yourself." "For my sake, you hear?" "Board the train, please." "Let's go.The doors are closing." "Father." " Send Viktoria in by herself." "I'll wait for you." "So you are Viktoria." "Viktoria Alexandrine Christine von Mahlenberg." "Yes, I'm Berthold Alexander Christian." "That's rig ht." "Mommy always told me you were very sad." "And now, are you ill or are you angry?" " What do you mean?" "On my last birthday, Ilse, my mommy's friend... asked Hans why we weren't in the country with my grandfather... as the city was being bombed all the time, so then Hans said:" "'Because the grandfather dislikes his daughter, dislikes children... and is an angry old man!" "Why are you an angry old man?" " Am I?" "Yes, perhaps." "When life doesn't keep its promises... when one gets disappointed too often... when one has learned to obey but has never learned how to love... one becomes very lonely,Viktoria." "Then you're just lonely, Grandfather, and not angry." "Oh Lena, what are you crying for?" "You have such a wonderful daughter." "And your Heinrich spares no expenses." "Lena,today is a feast day." "Look at all that petrol." "Things are finally looking up again." "Heinrich returned to the front and visited us when he could." "Thanks to our concerted effort and Uncle Rudiger's connections... we had a good harvest that year." "Father was also doing better every day." "I could hardly imagine ever leaving Mahlenberg again." "Even when in the fall the Red Army set foot on German soil... and I saw the horror of war with my own eyes..." "I still believed the Nazis would never abandon East Prussia to destruction." "October" "To our Countess, for her leadership." "We'd be helpless without her." "To Lena, our hope." "Cheers." " Thank you all." "To you." "Without you, Mahlenberg wouldn't exist." "Lord Almighty, we praise Thee" "Lord, we praise Thy strength" "For Thee the earth turns and admires your creation" "Juri,hurry up." "And they took their trophy to Summsemann... who, of course, as soon as he had encountered the Man on the Moon... had feigned death." " Are you coming?" "I told you to go bed." "Tomorrow I'm going out to the Held." " I don't want you around the prisoners..." "But they're my friends." " Don't argue with me, okay?" "It seems your mother has different plans for you." "That was my wedding dress." "It fits." "For the eve of the wedding..." "For the eve of the wedding you'll wear this." "I drove the men crazy with it." "Oh, lovely." "It looks wonderful on you." "Can I help you?" " Please." "Come, come, to the barn." "Bring all the little children." "Helga." " And blankets." "Mikolai." "Over there." "Here, quickly." "Come." "With rifle butts, with boots." "And my Friedrich, my Friedrich..." "'Woman, come.'" "And again, and again..." "Lena." "I can't reach Doctor Schramm, he's at the army sickbay." "No one can help us." "And yet, we can't just leave." "We can't just leave everything behind." "It's impossible." "Shall I carry the young lady across?" "We need water." " And linens." "Mommy, what's wrong with Mommy?" "Try to sleep, you hear?" "Sleep." "Go, go." "You must go away." "Go." "Come on, wake up." "Why won't you wake up?" "Come." "François?" "Perhaps the grief over our dead is greater than our hatred." "I don't know if that's possible." "My brother was 29 when he was killed." "It happened just outside Paris." "My brother was only 19." "Even if you don't believe me, I have nothing to do with them." "No one of your class has anything to do with them." "With these dirty stupid Nazis." "Are you married?" "Do you have children?" "I have a daughter." "I'd do anything to protect her." "No matter how high the price." "I know." "You have no idea." "Maybe I have no idea about you." "But we can at least respect each other." " You shut your eyes to reality." "Your truth and mine don't go together, because you don't respect mine." "Oh yes, I do." "Because I respect all people, each and every one." "Because I live in a world of responsibility and tradition." "That's why I'm getting married." "That's none of your business." "No, it's none of my business." "Or maybe it is." "It won't save you, Lena." "Bonne journée, Comtesse." "We have no chance of winning the war." "Hitler's only hope, for the Allies to be divided, is a grave mistake." "The Allies are of one mind that none of them will make peace... with Hitler or a National Socialist government." "Every additional day of righting is meaningless and only means..." "Have you lost your mind?" "Listening to the enemy?" "Those are lies." "Nothing but vicious, base lies." " Continue cutting." "Waltraud." "Meyer, Albrecht." " Yes." "Fritz, old people and children." "That's not what the Fuhrer wants" " He does, Mother." "He commands it." "He summoned us and we'll obey him." "We're the Home Guard." "A paltry bunch of old men and children." "Don't be ridiculous." "For you, Mother, we're doing it for you." "For Grandma, for the Countess." "We defend the country, the Reich." "We'll break the enemy's will to destroy." "We'll force them to retreat." " Fritz, let's go." "That's what the Fuhrer wants, for the final victory." "He's never heard anything else, not from you either." "Ladies, don't forget to polish while talking." "I want everything done right." "Where's your mother?" "I give you free reign and what do you do?" "You secretly build a new wagon." "You put us all at risk." "All you care about is to bring yourself to safety." "How can you be so irresponsible?" "Go on, say something." "I ordered him to." "I want you to leave the estate, and soon." "You and the child must get out in time." "It's the only right thing." "You've never known what's right for me, Father." "Le coq est mort, Ie coq est mort il ne dira plus cocodi, cocoda" "Ferdinand?" "Yes?" "Ferdinand, I'm so glad you're back." "Did Mr Breuer pick you up, or Mr Eder?" "Mr Breuer's at the front, Sophie, and Mr Eder is getting Lena.Who is that?" "Ferdinand is here." " I see." "You're on leave?" "Markoffs." " Thanks for the invitation." "But it's only natural." "Is your daughter coming?" "Very good." "Lena,you look wonderful." " Thank you." "Let me give you a hug." " Of course." "Lena." " Sophie." "Berthold, old friend." "I'm glad to see you, and your granddaughter." "Ferdinand." "You always had more feeling for form than for content." "Form, dear Ferdinand, gives structure to content, and thus helps me survive." "600 years of tradition, culture, decorum." "Obliterated, over, destroyed." "It took him only 11 years." "I'm scared." "I'm terribly scared." "I don't want to play a role any more, big brother." "I want to live." "Did they let you go, Ferdinand?" "You're marrying the woman I adore." "I wanted to be there." "Did they let you..." "I'm coming." "You didn't come to my recital last week." " Yes,a pity." "My father insisted on spending the evening with me." "Fathers always control their beautiful daughters." "Mr Herrmann?" "I'm bursting with jealousy." "Ferdinand." " Sister-in-law." "I knew you'd come, I knew it." "I'm so glad you made it." "Ferdinand." "Lena, would you excuse us for a moment?" "Of course." "I've made inquiries." "Your absence hasn't been reported yet." "They told me you're on sick leave, Ferdinand." "You know what you're doing?" "Do you know what happens to deserters?" "Deserters who flee out of cowardice..." " Cowardice?" "Have you ever heard them scream?" "Or watched someone bleed to death?" "But you all have no idea here." "What a wonderful broken family we are, don't you agree?" "You and your district leader should evacuate the population, and in time." "You can't think that way, Count." " You can't, I can." "That's the difference." "For desertion you get the death penalty." "I'll have to report you." "You play lord over life and death, without making your hands dirty?" "I do what I have to do." "I don't turn away from it." "You always talked the crooked straight." "But at least you used to have no fear." "You want to sqeal on your own brother." " You're putting all our lives in danger." "Why didn't you let someone sign you out?" "Anyone." "Why didn't you?" "Would you sentence me to death and have me executed?" "Ferdinand..." " I'll gladly decide for you, big brother." "I don't want to burden you with this guilt." "Above all, I want to spare Lena." "She doesn't deserve that." "No." "Accept this ring as pledge of my fidelity." "I love my brother and am innocent." "May the Lord unite us at another, better time." "In everlasting loyalty, your Heinrich." "How many does it seat?" "Twenty." "The rest will have to walk." " We' re with 85." "We won't go until we seat everyone." "Going on foot will be suicide." "It's your job, your responsibility." "Can I rely on you?" "You'll supply the necessary material and tyres." "We'll convert the old wagon and build a few more." "For your people and for mine." " For your people and for mine." "No time, no material, no tyres." "It won't work" "No waiting, Francois.We must go." " All or none." "Four." "Four steps." "Come, Waltraud." "Come on." "And a smaller one to go inside." " I know, Helmut." "Here, Mrs Meister." "Heinrich wrote us from the front." "He's doing well." "Sophie, you will take the train to Aunt Caroline." "I talked to the station provost." "You'll get a good seat." "Stop." "I want it to stop." "Silent night, holy night" "All is calm,all is bright" "Round yon godly tender pair." "Holy infant with curly hair" "Sleep in heavenly peace" "Sleep in heavenly peace" "Those were very peaceful days." "Many of us still hoped this wouldn't be our last Christmas at Mahlenberg." "The Red Army's big offensive began on January 12." "The German army was powerless." "It was defeated and overrun." "Suddenly the front was nearby, but we had to wait for a trekking permit." "It seemed the fate of the East Prussian population didn't play a role any more." "The horrid party proclamation that in East Prussia a wall of corpses... would confront the enemy was to become reality." "You won't take any prisoners of war, certainly not without a permit." "I forbid it." "I'll get a permit." "They must give it today." "Out of the question.With 20 POWs you will put everyone's life at risk." "Also that of our women and children." " Father, I gave my word and I'll keep it." "Out of the question, no." "Everyone can take what he can carry, but the prisoners will go alone, period." "You were born here, you know the people, you feel for them." "Mr Schulz, it's your responsibility... that the women, children and old people are evacuated in time." "I can't.There are explicit orders from the Fuhrer and the party." "The party is ruining our country and you're lending a hand." "I can't give you a trekking permit, dear Count" "East Prussia is a stronghold." "The people are the stronghold." "Dear Countess, that goes for you too." "Who leaves will be sentenced to death." "Those are the instructions." "Exactly." "East Prussia shall be defended to the last man." "The only evacuation allowed is that of machines and material.That's how it is." "The Count forbids it?" "Waltraud, why?" "Speak up, why?" "Why us?" "What will happen now?" "Listen,the Countess must keep her word." "Let's wait." "Then we'll all die." "The Count has decided, and the Countess has betrayed us." "We'll go by ourselves, right now." "I wanted to flee" "Move it." "I've seen it done faster." "How stupid those people are, right?" "Leaving home in this weather." "You're here to protect the population, not to destroy it." "Who flees now doesn't belong to the German people." "Now it's final victory or downfall." "If we go down, we'll take you lot with us." "Especially you lot." "Left, and left, and left..." "You hold the fort, Schulz." " Heil Hitler." "The rats are leaving the ship already." "We have to go." "We can't wait any longer." "You can't leave now." "I have to." "Your Countess betrayed us." "Men, children, everyone out." "Go on." "Come on, hurry up." " They're only prisoners of war." "You're mean, very mean." "Go away." "I like Mikolai much better than you." "My mommy is not a betrayer." "She doesn't give up on anyone." "'The light so strong,the sky so high, the distance so mighty) says Hans Lehndorff." "Look at it, Lena, for the last time." "You'll never see it like this again." "Stick to the plan." "If we miss each other, we'll meet up at the Lahnstein estate." "You will have to force them." "Make haste." "May God be with you, my child." "No, you can't stay here, by God." "You have to pack" "Only what's really necessary." "Warm things: caps, scarves, socks, coats." "Helene?" "Nothing large, only what you can carry." "A rucksack is best." "That's not a request, but an order." "It's crazy, Lena.You can't do that." " The Red Army has overrun the front." "It's madness, with this freezing cold." "We never harmed anyone, so no one will harm us." "Where should we go?" "I'm not leaving." "Babette, wake up." "I heard the grenades." "They're here, you understand?" "Tell Francois and his people." "We're leaving in two hours." "Food, lovely food." "Come." "But the dogs have never been allowed..." "Father, why haven't you packed yet?" "We have to go." "Father, I beg you." "We don't have anytime left." "They're gone.They're not there any more." "They're gone." "Who's gone?" " The men." "I told Francois I wouldn't let him put your lives at risk." "We had an agreement." "I've never broken my word." "Go, Lena, go." " Nothing." "You have no time to lose." "What are you doing?" "Did you pack?" "Is everyone ready?" "We've really looked everywhere." "She's gone." "Vicky is gone." "Vicky is gone?" "Father, I'm riding out by myself to ind Vicky." "You'll have to lead the march." " Only you can, Lena." "I'm not leaving." "Father, that's impossible." "You can't stay." " Some things are as irrevocable as death." "You can't undo them, not even if you're young and strong like you." "The responsibility is all yours now." "Father, it concerns my daughter." " You'll ind her, if that's your destiny." "But now it's about 65 people." "Those women and children outside, their lives are in your hands." "But I won't manage." " You will, Lena.You're strong." "Much stronger than me." "It's been proven, my child." "I've always been proud of you." "Even if I left you to your own devices all those years." "I only ask you for one thing:" "Forgive me." "Otherwise I can't forgive myself." "Now go, my child." "This is the women's hour." "Go." "We'll ind her, Lena." "We'll definitely her." "Let's go." "Grandpa, carry me." "Don't turn around, just don't turn around." "If it gets too cold, get off and walk." "Move about, you understand?" "Vicky, what are you doing here in this cold?" "How could you sneak that child along?" " I didn't know." "I'm your guardian angel, till Mommy comes." "Lena, we can't go on any more." "You really thought we'd ind them here, 20 POWs and a little girl?" "Francois must have taken a back road." "We'll leave at two in the morning." "We'll make more headway." "That's a detour for us." " No, Louis, it's important for the child." "Tomorrow I'll take you to Lahnstein, to your mommy." "Come on, get out" " Don't shoot." "Hello, Father." "One should follow one's conscience." "Those are your words." "I don't need you, Lena." "Mommy." "I will always fight with and for you." "Ferdinand is here." " You're on leave?" "To the women." "You're the backbone of our society." "Women, children, Poles,Jews, Russians." "We shot and buried them with spades." " Stop." "For desertion you get the death sentence." "I'll have to report you." "Would you sentence me to death?" " No." "I love my brother and am innocent." "In eternal loyalty, your Heinrich." "Helga." " Wait." "How will we manage?" "Just POW and foreign labourers." "You can't do that, not with Mikolai." "Frenchmen have to be reported to the Red Cross." "East Prussia shall be defended to the last man.Who leaves will be executed." "I demand absolute loyalty." " I'm not a servant." "We won't go until we seat all." "Can I rely on you?" "For your people and for mine." "With 20 POWs you risk everyone's life." " I gave him my word and I'll keep it." "Out of the question, no." "We'll all die." "We'll go alone, right now." "Lena,Vicky is gone." "Vicky." "I'm going to ind Vicky." "You must lead the march." "Only you can, Lena." "The responsibility is all yours." "But I won't manage." " You will, Lena.You're strong." "Now go, my child." "This is the women's hour." "Let's go." "Just don't turn around." "March of Millions Part 2" "Mrs Meister, at the next crossroads we'll head northeast." "Lena, we can't go on any more." "We have to ind shelter for the night." "I know." "East Prussia January" "We'll leave at two in the morning." "We'll make more headway." "Tomorrow we'll reach Lahnstein." "That's a detour for us, Francois." " No, Louis, it's important for the child." "Everyone is free to go his own way." "We'll go to Lahnstein together and drop off the girl." "Objections?" "Then that's what we'll do." "With all my might I tried to fulfill my task to look after my people." "One didn't have eyes any more for the suffering of others." "Did you see the farmer, Mrs Schaller?" "Vicky had been gone for Eve days." "There are over 90 people here already." "In the barn, the house." "I don't know where else to put them." " At least a place to stable the horses." "Where can we sleep?" "The children are exhausted." "I have no room." " Martha Schaller?" "Mrs Schaller." "Good to see you." " Countess, is that you?" "It's really you." "What an honour, what a joy." "Come on,Waltraud, don't just sit there." "Hop to it." "Soon we won't have to take it any more, my child." "Just sleep it off and tomorrow you'll be fine." "I made space for you in the little room." " That's not necessary." "You can't sleep in the barn, Countess." "Really, I insist." "Thank you." " I found this too." "Martha, keep it for yourself." "We have plenty, really." "Mikolai." "It's your turn." "I sent my guardian angel to Mommy, so that she'll ind me." "Tomorrow I'll take you to Lahnstein, to your mommy." "And now, sleep well." "Lahnstein Estate" "I've heard that the road is blocked." "We have to head north." "Johannes, has Lena finally arrived?" " No." "Cousin Erich from Allenstein is here." "The Russians are coming from the north and the south now." "If you wait any longer, they will cut off the road across the Nogat and Vistula." "We're going to wait for Lena." "And as long as Sophie is this ill..." "Let me go say hello to Erich." "Lena, Lahnstein is that way, but we keep making all these detours." "It's no use." "Did you really think we'd ind them here?" "Who'd take in 20 POWs and a little girl?" "Not even normal people ind shelter." "Lena, Francois must have taken a back road." "She'll kill herself trying to find that girl." " Did you tell her, Babette?" "We can manage without men." "It's not easy, but we can." "Grandma Herta, that's not what this is about." "Where would Fritz be now?" "And Georg?" "If I'm not at Mahlenberg, how will they ever ind me?" "Georg would never leave his home, you understand?" "Never." "But what am I saying?" "You don't understand me." "Jean thought we'd go to his country." "He also lives in the countryside." "'Ma petite paysanne', he always says." "Search the cottage." "Everyone out, move it." "Out with you, hands raised." "Vicky." "Vicky, quick" "Hide yourself." "Come on, move it." "Come on, move it." " Don't shoot." "Come on, get out" " No problem." "Go on, get out." " No problem." "Come on, let's go." "Hurry up, get out." "Come on, move it." "How is it?" "It's clear." "Documents." "François?" "That's Alexei." "He fled from his masters, afraid that the Russians would kill him." "Countess, he says your horse has to be fitted with new studs." "That would be of great help." "If he wants to, he can come with us." "He could ride Hector or Linda." "I understand." "Stop." "Go on." "Go on." "Jean." "Why did the Lord equip us with reason?" "Get down." "Get down." "Mikolai?" "Mikolai?" "Sophie." " Rudiger." "You're responsible for 150 people." "I'm not going without you." " You have to." "I want you to go." "I'll come with Lena." "We'll meet up at Lilienfelds or Kleist." "It's the first time you talk to me since Ferdinand's death." "Let's go." "I'm hungry." "Well, imagine that." "Here." "Morphine." "Liquid gold." " Will you come with us?" "My place is here." "Good morning." "Good morning." "Why didn't you wake me?" " I wanted to, but Babette forbade it" "Countess, we managed to convince the farmer and the old man to come with us." "Good.Just not too much baggage." "Once we reach Lahnstein, it'll be better." "If we reach Lahnstein." "And it can't get better any more." "Alexei, Helene, I need your help." "We have to move the car." "Grandma, I beg you, don't tell Lena." "And in spring you will all come back... and say it was senseless and crazy." " But child..." "How else will Georg and Fritz find me, if everyone is gone?" "She can't do that." "There's no way, she can't do that." "She's right, she's really right." "We're not making any headway." "And if the Russians come?" "War or no war, the Russians are also only human." "Today we'll reach Lahnstein." "It's not far any more." "I am a traitor swine." "Well,Grandma Herta?" "You're so cold.What are you doing?" "Didn't I tell you to move about?" "Why doesn't anyone listen to me?" " Oh Lena..." "Where's Babette?" "Where's Babette?" "Uncle Johannes." "Magdalena." "Good to see you." " At long last." "My sweetheart." "Oh, my sweetheart." "Lena." " Sophie." "I'm going to Mahlenberg, Mrs Meister, where at least I have my own bed." "I won't take another step today, nor will you." "From the Baron's secret cellar, to celebrate." "Thank you, François." "Thank you." "Where are your men?" "Did they all get some food?" "Why won't he speak?" "Did he say anything to you?" " No, nothing." "Babette must have returned to the farm." "I'll be back before Vicky wakes up." "Thank you." "Enough potatoes to last half the winter, Babette." "If only Georg knew, Mrs Meister, that I was at some stranger's farm." "Or that I'd even left Mahlenberg." " I'm going to get some wood." "Though I didn't want to." "I only did it because that child left with the men." "Otherwise I'd never have left" "Mrs Meister?" "Babette, Babette." "Lena, let's go." "Babette and Mrs Meister are in there." " You stay here." "Wait here." "Don't take as much as one step, okay?" "Babette?" "Where's Mrs Meister?" "What are you doing here?" "Looking after Viktoria." "I don't want her to run away again." "Well,then get into bed." "Are Francois and Mommy back yet?" " It will be a while,Vicky." "By the time you wake up, she'll be back." "Come, Babette." "Lena, wait." "Come, this way." "I know where we are." "I know the area." "Come, this way." "I'm alright now, I'm alright." "We have to go, we have to..." "Thanks for coming." "I'm here because your daughter begged me." "Why didn't you wait for me at Mahlenberg?" "We had an agreement." "You and your father broke your word." "But you aristocrats don't care." "I told Vicky that Mikolai and the others continued on their way." "What about the others?" "Dead." "Dead, all of them." "Jean, Louis, Vladimir, Dimitri, Igor, dead." "They couldn't wait to go." "I forced them to wait." " I didn't let them go." "There was nothing I could do." "Nothing." "He died next to me." "Like my brother." "Mikolai." "A child." "All civilians must be transferred to the cellar and barn." "We have women, children and sick people." "How dare you, at this time?" "I have men to take care of." "I'm sorry, dear lady." "We're only doing our duty." " Duty?" "Please, stop giving me that claptrap." "An entire population is on the run because they weren't evacuated." "Civilian and military structures are falling apart." "Exactly, because everyone shuts their eyes to the truth." "Our valiant army is reduced to a few louts, since the best are dead." "I expect you to respect the house rules and that you camp in the barn." "Heinrich." " Mother." "Good that you're here." "Please see to it that the gentlemen behave properly." "Babette?" "Babette, you mustn't give up now, you hear?" "Remember I told Father I was pregnant and he disowned me as his daughter?" "Driving home the cattle, I went way out into the river." "Suddenly you were there.You pulled me from my horse and shouted at me." "You told me I had to live, you hear?" "You said there's a reason for everything." "Whether you understand it or not, you must live." "Babette, I need you." "Stay with me." "You can eat the soup in the library." " Send for the bowls, as I won't serve you." "I have new marching orders from Colonel Metzger." "I will escort you." "You take care of everything here." "It's too much." "Why won't you look at me?" "Since Ferdinand's death you haven't talked to me." "As if it was my fault." "It wasn't my fault, you know." "Even if you make me feel that way, always." "I was better at school, I had success in my studies." "I was successful." "I did my best." "But you just cared about your darlings, Constantin and Ferdinand." "You don't see me." "Why don't you see me?" "I will go and bring her back." " Yes, bring Lena back." "Go." "Uncle Heinrich, take me with you." "Vicky, I can't." "It's not a game." " He'll ind your mommy." "Yes." " And Francois and Babette." "Promise?" "Promise." "Mahlenberg probably looks the same." " Your father saw it coming." "He wanted you to leave even before Christmas." "I just didn't think it was possible." "I didn't believe that... that we'd lose everything." "We must reach Lahnstein before the Russians." "Vicky will be fine." "This snowstorm also slows down the Russians." "We'll get there before they do, Lena." "I'll go look after Babette." "Is no one sleeping tonight?" "Come on, get into bed." "We're going back." "We must have passed them." "Easy." "Are you okay?" "Thank you, Francois." "Thank you for coming to my aid." "Thanks, I'm okay now." "Heinrich." "What about Hector?" "Francois,tomorrow we'll look for Mikolai.You promised me." "We won't find him, Vicky." " What do you mean?" "Where is he?" "Why won't you tell me?" "Is he dead?" "Yes,Vicky, he's dead." " No." "The Germans shot him." "How can you do that?" "How can you talk like that to a child?" "Telling her the truth?" "Should I've kept lying to her?" "Lena, is that what I should have done?" "What does your truth do, except cause more grief?" "Your truth." "And wherever I am, God is with me." "Even if I never see Him, I know for sure that God is here." "Amen." "Dear God,thank you for bringing back my mommy." "And forgive me for not watching over Mikolai." "Although you could have watched over him as well." "At least now he doesn't have to fear the Germans and Russians any more." "Give him some every two hours." "And he has to drink a lot." "If he doesn't want to, just use a spoon." "The Russians have taken Osterode, Deutsch Eylau, Allenstein..." "Mohrungen and Preussisch Holland." "All roads leading West are cut off." "We'll have to cross the lagoon." "Is this goodbye for ever?" "Give me another chance, Lena." "The Red Army surrounded us." "East Prussia had been isolated." "Our only option was to cross the frozen Baltic Sea lagoon." "The retreating German army did the same, doubling the danger." "Exhausted, unprotected and across fragile ice... we continued our westward trek" "Await your turn, follow the markings." "Don't go left or right, and keep moving." "You mean the ice isn't evenly thick?" "It's the only way. 30 kilometres." "Go left or right and you're dead." "Heil Hitler." "Heil Hitler." "You can't take everything." " Leave it." "Hands off my wagon." "What's going on?" " He's forcing us to leave everything." "But he only wants it for himself" "Major, I'm a man of honour." "The wagon has to be unloaded." "Waltraud." "Fritz?" "Fritz, Babette's little Fritz." "Wait here." "Babette, your son." "Fritz?" "Administrator Georg's son?" " Yes, Count, at your service." "It's for your own safety." "The load has to be redistributed." "Some of the wagons are too heavy." "I don't care if you approve or not." "Fritz is and always will be my grandson." "God wanted me to rind him, and I'll take him with me before the Russians come." "The party assigned him to my service." " To hell with your party." "It betrayed you and sold you out" "The boy is underage and belongs with his Home Guard unit." "Since it no longer exists, he belongs with his family." "And if you deter us any longer, I'll report you." "Mom won't get oft She doesn't see why the load must be redistributed." "Helene?" "Helene, we..." "He's asleep." "Is he doing better?" "He'll recover." "But now he's asleep." "No." "Our Father,Who art in heaven, hallowed be Thy Name." "Thy kingdom come,Thy will be done, on earth as it is in heaven." "Give us this day our daily bread and forgive us our trespasses... as we forgive those who trespass against us." "And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil." "For yours is the kingdom, the power and the glory for ever." "Amen." "We'll make it, together." "With God's help." "It's a girl." "Planes are coming." "Quick, get underneath." "Vicky, Sophie, come quickly." "Come on." "Under the wagon, Lena." "Stay under the wagon,Vicky." "Mom, where are you?" "Vicky?" "Pull, I say." "Pull." "Vicky." "God, no." "Francoise Francois." "No." "Maybe it was all meant to be." "Maybe it's important." "We people just don't count." "Whether we live or die." "This will help against the pain." "What's wrong with you?" "With that you save me, all of us." "Because it gives us hope." "Now help me lay this man down." "Not now." "Later." "Why do you run from me?" "I don't it into your world?" "You're in danger." "I'm afraid that..." "You have to leave." "I implore you, you have to leave." "Everyone heard her on the ice, shouting your name." "You're in danger." "You're both in danger." "The next day we set out again." "After four months on the run... which brought indescribable suffering and privation... completely bereft, via Thuringia we finally reached Bavaria." "But here too, no one wanted us." "We don't want any strangers here" "This war couldn't come to an end." "Bavaria April" "Lena." " Well, what do you say?" "We're mobile again." " Great." "I have good news, Lena." "Milk" "I had to pay for the milk with the coals." " The ones Fritz stole?" "Alexei and I got something else." " Potatoes and apples." "Wonderful, cough it up." " Who has too much should share it." "That's called petty larceny, Babette." "Now come, or it won't be ready in time." "Good day." "We're on our way to Regensburg." "We belong to 413 Rifle Battalion, but we got lost" "They all bolted and left us behind." "Well... if you're not deserters and don't stink like hell, it'll be alright." "Are you hungry?" " Yes." "There's enough for three more." "Come along." "Got you." " Got you." "All the best." "Countess." " Thanks a lot." "Judge Advocate General." " Major Gernstorff?" "Over there are three soldiers without unit." "Lena." "Shouldn't you have brought some food?" "What unit are you from?" "413 Rifle Battalion." "We're looking for it, Lieutenant" " Do you have marching orders?" "No, Lieutenant." " Documents?" "Who are those three?" " They joined up with us a while ago." "What are they doing?" " Weapons." "Schmidt, Kuhler." "These men will be taken into custody." "Why do they do that?" "The war is almost over." "Sophie, they can't do that They're taking those boys." "Of course." "Go ahead and verify it I'm sure they're telling the truth." "Every castle, farm and town hall in Dlngolfing and Erding... even private dwellings, everything is overcrowded." "Nobody wants homeless bands like us." "Nobody will take us in voluntarily." "We don't need anyone's bed, nor anyone's' lice: we have our own." "In the village everyone talks about capitulation." "It will come." "All that suffering, only to capitulate in the end." "We'll get those Communist swine." " Stop talking nonsense, Fritz." "What we need is peace, you hear?" "Peace." "Thank you." "Wilhelm is having nightmares again." "Heinrich, if we see your father again..." "I want you to know how much you mean to me." "You've protected us and given us security." "But between us..." " Lena, this is not the right time." "Has there ever been a right time?" "You don't have to love me like I love you, Lena." "The love marriages... they make one unhappy... because it's never a real match." "But we, we made it." "Major, it's time." "Heinrich, stay here. it's all over." "Continue sleeping, Mother." "I'll be back soon." "Gentlemen, I ask you for your verdict." "Guilty." " Guilty." "Guilty." "Fire." "The Führer's Headquarters report that our Führer, Adolf Hitler... this afternoon, righting to his last breath... has given his life for Germany." "Hitler committed suicide.The Russians took Berlin, and the Americans Munich." "On May 8, peace had come at last." "As uncertain as our future was, so sure was I... that it would not resemble the world we had come from." "And I wasn't the same any more." "We have enough Prussians." "It's more than enough." "I'm looking for my husband." "Everyone is looking for someone, but what can we do about it?" "Would you be..." " My name is Gernstorff" "Countess, what an honour." "The Count isn't here, he's in Munich." "But come, come on in." "There you are, Max." " You two, get undressed." "It's no good." "Bathing won't help either." "I always wanted a life where everyone had the same chances." "My Fritz too." "That's how it should be." "Socialism without nationalism, that's all I want." "Communists believe in the same thing." "But you hate the Russians, Mother." " Yes, but I also hate the Germans... who murdered the women and children in Alexei's village." "Mother,that's enemy propaganda." "Are there just dirty swine and traitors here?" "Fritz." "Why do you tell her that bullshit?" "Lies and slander." "He made us great.The Führer made us great, and you he has destroyed." "Have you lost your mind?" "Is your head filled with dung?" "You betrayed him too, Mother." "We've failed the Führer." "Sophie." "I look ridiculous." "I was in Munich. it's not easy... to ind a regular job and a place to stay." "I'm not used to begging." "Sophie, aren't you exaggerating?" "Barbara can do that." "Or our good Resi." "Not Barbara:" "Babette." " Of course, Babette." "I'd like a cup of black tea." "I'll make it." "I can't stand that lordly manner." "I could only just stomach it from you." "Sophie just told us." "You had them shot." "You had those poor soldiers shot." "Why?" "What difference did it make?" "Lena, I've never acted contrary to official applicable law." "Never." "Which means you conferred absolution on this regime." "You don't get it." " Lena, try to understand." "We're very tiny cogs." "We couldn't stop it." "What should I have done?" "You're one of them." "You're not one iota better." "Lena,you expect too much from me." "The hero you always wanted, that's not me." "When I'm a judge at the Supreme Court, then you'll understand." "Rudiger?" "Come to bed." "I always wanted one of my children to be like you." "That they wouldn't always do what others expected of them." "I've also always done what was expected of me." "Sooner or later one has to show one's true colours." "If I'd done so, I wouldn't have sent off the man I was afraid to love." "I've always avoided it." "Conventions, compromises." "How did your father always put it?" "'The circle of guilt'." "Now it's catching up with me." "Sophie always understood." "Yet she's put up with me for a long time, don't you agree?" "To me you were always... my dear little daughter-in-law." "Even as a child." "Hello?" "It's often pain that makes one realize one has lost something." "I looked for you at the castle in Regensburg... but you weren't there." "Then the Americans helped me." " If I'd known..." "I'm working for the Allied Control Council." "I will help distinguish the guilty from the innocent." "I don't want to lose you again." "Thanks for everything." "All the best." "Come on,Wilhelm." "Come,Vicky, we have to go." "Francois, come." "Thank you." "Merci beaucoup." "It belonged to my mother." "I will wait for you." "I'll come, I promise." "Once I've brought everyone home, I'll come with Vicky and Wilhelm." "An estimated 30 million people in Europe lost their homes in this war."