"A film of the class wars" "Which does not revolve around the casualties" "Or the agony of death" "A film about the orientation of labour" "Which does not revolve around the pains" "Or agonies of the working day" "Between Two Wars" "Because I could get no financial support for this film" "I had to finance it by other means" "Within the culture industry" "The conventional way" "Mona loves freedom" "I earned money" "By composing text for image material" "I agreed to all work that demands" "To cloak sensuality with words" "That being the conventional way" "Ina loves life Eva loves death" "When she was a nurse with the Red Cross at the Western front in 1917" "She asked the soldiers what they were fighting for" "And what they were dying for" "What are you fighting for and what are you dying for?" "What I saw and heard" "I attempted to comprehend in a materialistic way" "Namely, I attempted to learn from the dying of the dead" "For the sake of the life of the living" "They're sending us to war so that we conquer French-Lorraine" "Here below me" "Lie gigantic iron ore deposits" "Their seams run deep" "The ore here" "Has a high amount of iron" "This war is not only about" "The iron ore of French-Lorraine" "The German iron-industry has suffcient ore, at the River Lahn" "In the Dill region" "At the northern edge of the Harz, and in southern Germany" "And quality ore is imported at low cost from Spain and Sweden" "On this basis" "French hegemony" "Which prevailed since the middle ages" "Has been comprehensively broken" "I asked each and every one" "And what each of them knew privately" "I had to compile into the comprehensive" "Text of war" "The comprehensive text of war" "It's all about the ore in French territory" "German industry" "Has sufficient ore deposits of its own" "We fight and we die in France, because" "German industry" "Has sufficient ore deposits of its own" "And because" "Germany managed to break French hegemony" "Thus Germany industry expanded its production sites" "And therefore" "They send us to war so that we conquer French-Lorraine" "Delusion" "Resources" "Comprehend the contradictions as a unity" "Not every bullet finds its aim" "If every bullet found its aim" "Where then would the king find soldiers?" "Soldier, give me your rifle" "During this war I tried to develop a theory of the rifle" "What is that 'a rifle'?" "What does it represent?" "They hand a soldier a rifle" "And he fires it" "If he hits he kills an enemy soldier" "And enemy territory can be occupied" "Including the ore underground" "If the soldiers fires but misses" "At least he's firing off the bullet" "Which the man who wants the ore deposits" "Had produced" "Which is to say," "In the attempt to capture an ore deposit to make him rich" "He can cover the ground above the ore with iron" "This makes him rich, too" "Simplified, it can be said" "From the muzzle" "A bullet emerges" "Which may kill an enemy" "Defeat an army" "Conquer enemy territory" "This rifle muzzle" "Is therefore the potential source of profit" "Here a shell is ejected after each shot" "It falls to the ground" "Whether the bullet hits its target or not" "Even after ten years" "The ground remains rust-coloured" "And therefore a certain source of profit" "Certain source of profit" "Potential source of profit" "That is what a rifle is" "The war is lost" "Alsace and Lorraine are in French possession" "Above the cathedral of Strassbourg" "The town hall of Diedenhofen (Thionville)" "The tricolour flag waves in the wind" "The smelters and furnaces of Lorraine are lost" "Among them the Thyssen steel mills in Hagendingen" "In Mainz" "French dragoons watered their horses in the Rhine" "At the Deutsches Eck in Koblenz, the Star-Spangled Banner was raised" "Good day" "It's 5 o'clock" "My work has finished and yours begins" "I had a dream last night" "I dreamt of a bird that laid eggs and began to brood them" "Then it got hungry" "It pecked a hole into the first egg" "And emptied it" "After a while" "The brooding had been exhausting" "It pecked open the next egg" "In the dream I was one with the bird" "That laid eggs" "And wanted to brood them" "But had to eat in order to brood" "And thus drained itself" "The chemist Kekulé was researching the formula for benzol" "He knew" "Benzol has six parts Carbon and six parts Hydrogen" "But on paper he did not know how to add up the valences" "Then he had a dream" "Again the atoms danced before me" "Long sequences" "Pressed together tightly" "Everything in motion" "Coiling itself snake-like" "And behold" "What was that?" "One of the snakes seized its own tail" "And mockingly the shape spun before my eyes" "Thus Kekulé proposed this formula" "Ring-shaped" "What is the meaning of" "A bird eatings its own eggs in order to feed while brooding" "Kekulé at least had his own dreams" "You use mine" "Science" "Has to fuse with the workers' dreams" "A story" "A story of the time between the wars" "Do not neglect" "The spirit of the 20s" "I will now ask you questions" "The answer to which is rather simple" "They may seem offensive" "But I beg you to reply" "Only by not skipping any steps" "One gets from the simple to the complex" "That is the Socratic method" "In order to produce coke" "Heat is required" "What fuel do you use" "In the furnace chambers of your coking plant?" "We use the so-called coking-gas." "It is a gas itself produced during the coking of coal" "We direct it back in order to coke further coal" "How many calories are needed to process coal into coke?" "About 1,000" "How many calories does coking gas offer?" "About 4,000" "You waste 3,000 calories" "In 24 coking chambers 24 hours per day" "What else should we do with the gas?" "I had a dream" "What gas is produced in your smelters" "When you smelter iron from the ore?" "The so-called furnace gas" "What happens to it?" "A part of it we redirect into hot-blast stoves" "Any surplus is burnt" "For 24 hours every day you burn furnace gas" "How many calories does it have?" "About 1,000" "What else are we to do with it?" "I had a dream" "A furnace burns up a proportion of its fuel without making any use of it" "A coking plant" "Is fuelled by a type of gas containing 4 times the energy needed" "Engineering sciences today have the task" "To redirect any type of energy" "Generated at any point of the production process" "To where it can be of optimum use" "Between mine, coking plant, steel works and smelter" "We have to install a network of pipelines" "I'm actually a farmer" "A sow has dropped 20 piglets 2 or 3 will be weak, the sow will eat them" "Sows do eat piglets" "But piglets" "Are much too valuable, they cannot be used as feedstock" "But that is what happens if we continue" "To use the coking gas in the coking plant" "No farmer would dream of it" "To fatten the sow with piglets" "In order to lower the feed costs" "Your plans have a future" "Industry must adopt" "Agrarian economic methods" "I wanted to narrate this story by use of those machines" "With which this story was in fact produced" "But I remember the summer of 1976" "As a time of straining to see vestiges" "As is typical of one's childhood places" "If I heard of a factory being demolished" "I found it even more impossible to convey its story" "I need not be ashamed at these feelings" "Things disappear out of sight" "Before they are even half understood" "My dreams did not lead anywhere" "That is Ypres" "Where we learnt" "That the battle of masses is the same as the labour of the masses" "The trench the same" "As the assembly line" "That is Verdun" "One million died there" "And we learned" "That the proletarian has no home" "Here we learned" "That the Russian comrades turned around their rifles" "You learned much in the war" "We can talk, or look out the window" "The price is the same" "We learned" "That we have to study the world" "Coal liquefaction, ore deposits" "Integrated design" "Coking gas" "Horizontal ovens" "Regenerative ovens" "Bunsen's analysis of furnaces world market prices" "Sales and production cartels" "Company stake and fusion" "Partial and total capital" "We learned much in the war" "During peace time study material has grown even further" "If I could, I would stop time" "Because events" "Have a headstart on our understanding" "A story" "Can not revolve around two persons" "A story can not revolve around two worlds" "A story can not revolve around two classes" "Because two" "That's already a totality" "Between the iron and coal works in this region" "I've installed a network of pipelines" "The smelter supplies" "Furnace gas to the coking plant" "That gas is good enough to fuel the coking chambers" "The coking plant supplies the smelter" "With coking gas" "Which is used to fuel the open-hearth furnace" "Any surplus" "Of coking gas goes toward the town's gas supply" "Any surplus of furnace gas" "Is redirected to the steel-mill" "Where it is used in the steel processing" "Surplus gases are converted into electricity" "In this way they meet the coal mine's energy demands" "Steam, too, is redeployed" "Hardly any energy byproduct" "That doesn't find an application" "That is rational" "But it will not work" "Suppose" "I was the smelter manager" "And you" "Are the manager of the coking plant" "I say" "Today we have no ore to process" "We cannot supply you with coking gas" "What woud you say?" "You have to supply us with coking gas" "Without it" "We cannot produce any coke" "Or only at much higher cost" "How might the smelter manager respond to that?" "We cannot continue" "To produce crude iron only to stockpile it" "For the sole purpose of supplying you with coking gas" "And yet" "It's a rational design" "Two types of rationality are in conflict" "Technical vs. economic rationality" "I've heard you are writing a film script" "Which takes seriously the curiosity of the masses" "Supposedly its budget is 50,000 mark" "In other productions that can be the cost of a single actor" "A man from a wealthy family" "The war's chaos damaged his career" "He worked on our furnace and" "Developed a fondness for this world so unknown to him" "An isolated individual" "Perhaps." "People like that are important to us" "Otherwise news of fundamental changes in the production process" "Is only revealed to us 100 years later" "In text books" "Your party" "Should infiltrate engineering offices with spies" "I have some simple questions for you" "Insultingly simple" "Why is a furnace located in one place" "Wasting furnace gas" "That would be needed in a coking plant" "While in another place, a coking plant" "Is wasting coking gas" "That would be needed at the smelter" "Why is there no exchange of gases?" "Because the coking plant is owned by 'A'" "While the smelter is owned by 'B'" "Why should that be an obstacle?" "Because they are competitors" "It is necessary to convince them" "That above and beyond their competition is a mutual interest" "To lower costs by utilizing their energy byproducts" "The French" "Mainly have access to ore" "The Germans mainly have access to coal" "But steel production requires both, ore and coal" "But the two countries cannot be convinced to establish" "A joint steel industry at the midway point between coal and ore" "And thus to utilize energy cost-effectively" "Instead, they wage wars" "That will cease once in both countries" "The capitalist order of robbery is abolished" "And once socialist planned economy has been initiated" "Only then" "A rational use of energy will be possible" "I do not agree" "We should compose a flyer" "On which is encapsulated in a single moment" "What in actual life is the difference between" "A worker's life and an exploiter's life" "But that never gets mentioned" "It does not have to be mentioned today" "But in future" "Here is my draft" "Spontaneous egoism" "Is the result of the fact that" "The capitalist method of production wastes energy" "While in technical terms these energies" "Could already be utilized in the production process" "While on the one hand humans are being exploited" "Thrown into the maelstrom of the assembly line" "On the other hand, natural resources are depleted criminally" "If they are not serving particular capitalist interests" "Marx elucidated this contradiction of" "The forces of production colliding with the limits of the relations of production" "Capitalism Our future" " Our world" "I've begun taking photographs" "Currently I'm taking photographs of factory walls" "Because they imperviously, insurmountably encapsulate" "The capitalist rationality of production" "The owner cannot eclipse them" "The very wall he owns" "Blocks his view of the totality of society" "I have begun taking photographs" "One picture is insufficient" "Two pictures must be taken" "Objects" "Are very much in motion" "By means of at least two pictures" "The direction of that motion" "Might be captured" "Genuine class consciousness is not reached" "Without recognising capitalist economy and" "The state which creates the economy's legislative frame" "One should think for oneself" "And read texts" "About economy and related matters" "And anyone" "Lacking class consciousness" "Is an obstructionist to us" "Because he believes in 'goodness'" "Blindly" "He acts rashly" "In serious situations" "And in times of turmoil he tends to believe the windbag" "Rather than the honest revolutionary" "Being" " Consciousness" " Base" "Base - superstructure - struggle" "Individual - criticism - totality" "Truth is tangible" "We arrived in Germany too late" "To take part in a revolution" "And too early" "To avoid feeling" "The reactionary stupidity and cowardice of one's people" "In the form of murder and torture" "Yet the world has changed" "Subsequent generations divided" "Life's necessities" "Are restricting once again" "But feelings of exaltation and revolt" "Always return to memory" "Task" "And objective" "Remain remembered" "The point of view from which to direct" "Global change remains intransigent" "Books will cross one's path" "I realize and develop" "I would like summarise in a single statement" "The real-life difference between" "Us and the exploiters" "For instance" "To discuss" "The differing conceptions of 'time'" "Of the bourgeoisie" "And ours" "While the bourgeois" "Can construe a connection" "Between any set of events" "Past or future" "Our entire life" "Simply dissolves" "Your plans will be successful" "You may continue the merger" "The companies are practically bankrupt" "The owners no longer pose an obstacle to progress" "They will settle for honorific positions" "On the board of directors" "We will start a company" "Which will be like" "A well-oiled cogwork" "Write a newspaper article" "An opinion piece" "Write the following" "Present times demand higher production levels" "Without increased usage of resources or time" "Rapid expansion or restriction of production" "Without significant loss of time or money" "Low manufacturing costs" "Economic benefit, and thus higher wages" "By precise deployment of the worker" "In a production process that is minutely regulated" "This, then" "Are the aims of an organised, human will to production" "You should use the term 'rationalisation'" "Germans are attracted to scientific terminology as the moth is to the light" "Give an example" "Such as" "A smelter" "A steel mill" "In close proximity" "But different owners" "The ore mines for the smelter are far away" "The steel mill owns an ore mine nearby" "But its smelter is far away" "What needs to take place?" "They have to merge" "The smelter shuts down its remote ore mines" "And draws on the steel mill's mine for its resources" "In turn, the steel mill shuts down its remote smelter" "Using the iron and gases of the nearby smelter" "You should point out that" "Even before the war 20%" "Of German engineering business equity" "Did not yield any profit" "And nominal capital of all stock corporations" "At the time the amount of 14 billion" "Only yielded a profit of 1.1 billion" "You should ask:" "And today" "They are profitable?" "Point out the level of debt" "And the debacle looming even over industrial dynasties" "Announce the rise of a superstate of financiers" "Which will be more powerful than the League of Nations" "You should stress that whoever nowadays speaks of economic problems" "Is speaking not of industry, but of international financing" "You should use the expression 'Debt and interest slavery'" "And then you might add" "That a burden shared is a burden halved" "And finally you should point out the" "Mental and financial cost of the competition of all against all" "Especially, as is customary among our industrialists" "The competition remains amicable" "Leave it to the reader" "To understand the implication" "Namely, the necessity of a merger" "If you hit the right tone, a mix of" "Erudition and general knowledge, conservatism and standardised Americanism" "You will be heard" "When one has no money for cars, gunfights, nice clothes..." "When one has no funds for films, that allow the film-time, the life of the film, to allow themselves to elapse," "then one has to put one's strength into the intelligence of the link between individual elements." "The assembly of ideas." "The assembly of ideas." "I would love to know what it means to live like a bourgeois." ""Dancing is permitted here!"" "Sometimes I wish I knew how a proletarian lives." "Well, one can only be one thing in this life." "I have now started to take photographs of the smallest, most commonplace jobs." "The opening of the preparation chambers in the coking plant." "24 oven chambers, each needing the loosening of 3 screws." "Ideas and machines are stored in the history books." "The little jobs simply get forgotten." "In the new coking plants, which have now been integrated in the network, human labour has essentially become redundant." "Roughly 60 oven chambers constitute a row." "The coal-pouring machine drives along on this row." "The lids of an oven chamber are opened, and a slide is inserted into it." "The coal glides into the chamber on this slide." "The individual oven chambers are about 10 metres long and 3 metres high, but very narrow." "Sometimes a mere 50 cm." "The oven chambers are built of incombustible stones, whose walls, heated by gas, glow bright red." "When the coke is done, after 25 or 30 hours, the mechanical crusher is put into action." "This machine resembles a large finger, sticking out of a large fist." "It runs on tracks next to the row of ovens." "The finger, a steel stamp as large as a man, squeezes the coke, which is baked in the oven into a sort of cake, through the oven door on the other side." "On the other side are also tracks, and the red-hot coke "cake" tumbles onto a specially constructed cart, which spreads and distributes it across as large a surface area as possible." "A row of ovens resembles a stretched-out house without windows." "The cart drives the oven row to a cooling tower." "There, through four openings, water pours forth in arm-width jets." "The mass of coke is inundated, extinguishing it glow." "A large cloud of steam rises from the cooling tower each time this happens." "The solidified coke has a grey, almost silver-grey colour, and the familiar porous, grainy structure." "This was when the world economic crisis arrived, which hit the Weimar Republic at the very moment the hand of the world clock stopped." "For Germany, especially, economic fortune or misfortune was the author of the future." "The stroke of fate hit the Republic from the outside." "No one could blame it for this crisis." "For the economy, it was as if the foundation had collapsed, as if the ground were quaking under one's feet, as during an earthquake." "This business, here since 1929, 1930, was founded with as much difficulty as no other since the beginning of society." "Because we have a dearth of orders, we'll have to throttle production, and cut the capacity of the blast furnaces in half." "And if I use this lever to throttle the blast furnaces, it produce less blast-furnace gas." "Thereby, the coking plant will receive less blast furnace gas, and will likewise have to be circumscribed." "As a result, it will produce less gas, which goes to one of the other blast furnaces, which will then likewise have to be curtailed." "Due to this curtailment, their production of blast-furnace gas also falls; said gas, which is needed in the downstream steelmill to heat up the crude-iron blocks before they are rolled." "The diminished gas production also leads to diminished electricity generation." "But the electricity is needed to drive the steam rollers into the steelmill." "In 1919, I could have said..." ""We won a contract for railroad ties."" ""Let's raise the blast-furnace capacity by 20 percent."" "And the engineer answered, "That's no problem"." "In 1923, I could have said, "Sales are at a standstill"." ""Reduce the blast furnace by 50%"" "And the engineer would have replied..." ""That's no problem."" "Now we have the network, and therewith a machine that can only run on all cylinders." "We have to go." "He's giving his speech in the Düsseldorf Industry Club." "Exit" "With this car, for instance, the 4th gear is made for the top speeds." "It's made for smooth, wide streets, free of traffic and obstacles." "If we drive slowly in this gear, the motor stops and the car stands still." "It is brought to a standstill." "What we need is a smooth path, on which one can go forwards, so that our machines have an outlet." "We have to act as if we were lovers." "I have managed to get my eyes on a stenograph of the speech" "Hitler gave to the Düsseldorf Industry Club." "He said:" "If all automobile factories that exist right now in the world ran at 100%, the existing collective car inventory could be replaced in 4.5 - 5 years." "If all locomotive factories in the world were running at 100%, one could replace the collective locomotive material in just 8 years." "If all train-track factories and steelmills in the world ran at 100%, one might duplicate the entire rail network in the world in 10 - 15 years." "It applies to almost all industries." "Such an incredible boom in production capacity has been achieved, that the present market conditions play virtually no role anymore." "But if Bolshevism, as a world philosophy, takes the Asian continent out of the human business community, then the requirements for the viabililty of these massively evolved industries won't even come close to being met." "Then we will find ourselves, industrially, on the same path on which the world, in other realms, has found itself a few times previously." "For instance, on several occasions prior the world has been witness to much larger tonnage capacities for ocean shipping than the available quantity of goods for transport." "Because of that, a few times in the past, certain business sectors faced crises." "If you read the history and study the methods that were chosen as remedies, then you will find one thing summarized each time:" "The quantity of goods was never adjusted to fit the shipping tonnage capacity, rather the shipping capacity was adjusted to fit the quantity of goods." "And not through the voluntary business decisions of shipping companies, but through resolutions based on political power." "This Hitler guy talks like a Marxist." "HITLER - THIS IS THE WAR" "They needed a market, and Hitler promised one that one could occupy." "They needed control of the workforce, and Hitler promised them power of control." "In the old days, one would flare off blast-furnace gas." "Then it was directed into production, which sounds reasonable." "But there was no outlet for the increased production." "So, something had to be produced that removed itself, and which dissipates in the air, like blast-furnace gas." "Which clears the clogged markets." "HITLER - THIS IS THE WAR" "In this second war, which began in 1933 at the latest, those who died had nothing else to impart to the living." "Why they died." "That could have been discerned from the previous war." "During this war, my diary is remaining empty." "I am too dejected to learn." "Between Two Wars" "Performers:" "Subtitles by stefflbw and BobbyFletcher at KG."