"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)" "This way please, Herr Hitler." "There's a courtyard you can exerccise in." "You are welccome to have as many visitors as you wish." "Herr Hess is living just next door and ccan serve as your seccretary during your stay here." "If there is anything we an do to make you more comfortable. please let us know." "Is something wrong, sir?" "They're dying." "T ake them away." "I don't like dying things around." "Y es, sir, and if I may say so, sir, it's an honour to serve you." "Welccome, My Führer." "Thank. you, Hess." "Well, it's lovely, isn't it?" "Only two things missing, an audiencce and an inccome." "Perhaps I'll write a memoir." " What do you think?" " It's an ex.cellent idea." "Good." "Then I need a publisher." "(.Coughs)" "I was thinking." "Now that Hitler's in jail and we've nothing to worry about, why not go to Americca?" "Darling, she's sick." "We'll find a doctor." "Better than anyone here and get her well." "From now on," "I promise..." "My family before everything." "Herr Hanfstaengl..." "There's a ccall for you from Landsberg prison." "Austria's lovely this time of year, isn't it?" "I was..." "I esccaped by pure luck." "I thought my being outside might be helpful..." "Y es, yes, how very generous of you." "As a cconsequencce, I've seen more of your wife lately than of you." "Y es, she's a great admirer of yours." "And you're not?" "Of ccourse I am." "You know I'd do anything for your... our ccause." "I'm writing my memoirs." "Four-And-A-Half Years Against Stupidity." "Lies and Cowardice." "Effective title. don 't you think?" "Y es, yes, it's very good." "You might cconsider shortening it bit..." "A h, you see?" "You see?" "You 're good at these kind of things." "That's why I want you to be my publisher." "But, Herr Hitler," " I'm taking Helene and the cchildren to Americca." " No, you're not." "I'm tired of you running out on me all the time." "Our daughter's very ill..." "Now you listen to me..." "I've kept your name out of this." "It would be very hard on your family if you were suddenly in prison too, don't you think?" "You ccan stay and help me with my book." "Now that you're absent, the Party lacks leadership." "And sincce my name has been cclosely tied to it, I feel I must ccontinue with it." "By the way, Röhm think.s it's a wonderful idea." "He feels that with my politiccal musccle behind him he ccan rebuild his army." "I might even, at some point, run for president." "You needn't worry, we'll have a placce for you when you return." "How very thoughtful of you." "T ake a letter, Hess." "Party Headquarters." "I hereby resign from politics." "I want nothing more to do with the Party." "I'm too busy writing." "But sir, without you, the Party is finished." "Exactly." "T oday it seems to me providential that fate should have cchosen Braunau as my birthplacce." "I n this little town, Bavarian by blood, lived my parents..." "My father. a civil servant..." "No." "Make that "dutiful ccivil servant. "" "My mother. devoted above all to her children." "Once. as I was strolling through the inner city." "I suddenly encountered an apparition in black kaftan and black hair locks." "" Is this a Jew?" was my first thought." "And then my question assumed a new form." "Is this a German?" "They are strong." "Stronger than we are." "We need more room to live, to expand, sustain ourselves!" "Germany will either be free of Jews, or there will be no Germany!" "We need a leader, a man of great vision, a man with the ccourage to grind his enemies' bones into the dust!" "And he lives!" "He lives today!" "And he will lead his people to victory!" "(.C heering)" "It's been an honour, my Führer." "The fever's down." "I finally got her to sleep." "Thank." "God." " Can we begin now?" " Y es, darling." "Of ccourse we ccan." " There you go." " What is it?" "HELENE:" "What is it?" "Ahhh..." "Look." "A whole zoo." "A rhino, a lion, a tiger, a giraffe, a monkey." "It's just what I wanted." "Unccle Dolf!" "Ha, ha, ha, Egon!" "Merry C hristmas." "Merry C hristmas." "I have a gift for you." "A gift for you." "Hanfstaengl." "Helene." "You're looking lovely, as always." "Herr Hitler." "What a surprise." "Did they make you break. rocks in prison?" "No, no, Egon, but I did something mucch harder than that." "Thank. you." " I wrote a book.." " Are you publishing it, Daddy?" "No, I'm afraid not, Egon." "We only publish art book.s." "You mean there aren't any pictures?" "No, no." "No, pictures." "But it will sell very well and whoever publishes will make a lot of money." "If you wish to talk. about business or politics..." "Of ccourse not." "It's C hristmas." "That's not why I ccame." "Gl RL:" "Mommy!" "Would you excuse me, Herr Hitler?" "Our daughter's not been well." "We've both been up all night." "No." "No." "I'll go." "You rest." "(.Girl ccries)" "Is she very ill?" "Y es." "We don't..." "We don't know what's wrong with her." "Helene..." "I..." "All the time I was in prison, I thought only of you." "You saved my life..." "when you took. the gun from my hand." " Please, Herr Hitler..." "I have never admired a woman as mucch as I admire you." "You're so brave... so beautiful." "You are the perfect woman, wife...and mother." "Thank. you." "She wants her mother." "Gl RL:" "Mommy!" "Mommy!" "No, you don't drink., do you?" "Right." "So, tell me, what are your plans?" "You ccan only keep the fox out of the henhouse for so long." "Even when he's promised he's through." "Y es, well, you're a publisher, or at least that's what they say." "You should know better than to believe everything you read." "As soon as my plans are set." "you'll be the first to know." "I n the meantime..." "I'm off to the ccountry." "Happy C hristmas." " Adi!" " Good morning, Angela." "Oh!" "Gosh, it's so good to see you." "It's succh a long time." "Everyone in Linz is talking about you." "I've beccome the famous half-sister." "Oh, your mother would be so proud!" "I'm glad you ccould ccome." "So, this is the house?" "I ccan manage that." "Oh. speaking of proud mothers..." "Geli's cchanged quite a bit sincce you last saw her." "Unccle Dolf," "It's my pleasure." "I always think. it important for family to stick. together." "Don't you think?" " Y es." " Y es." "I'm honoured that you asked me to publish your book., Herr Hitler." "It will make quite an impression on this ccountry." "Only a war veteran like you ccan understand what the bourgeois publisher ccannot." "I must warn you. though." "I don't expect huge sales at first." "The ecconomy's too good." " Democcraccy seems to be working." " That's only temporary, I ccan assure you." "Our poor ccountry hasn't seen the end of hardship just yet." "I can 't help but notice." "Herr Hitler." "the mountain air has done you good." "Not to mention ccertain other distractions." "What do you mean by that?" "Er..." "Beautiful vistas." "The lake." "My Führer!" "We just recceived an urgent message from M unicch." "The Party needs to know who you support in the presidential elections." "Hindenburg or Ludendorff." "Ludendorff, of ccourse." "Why not?" "He's not expected to win, Führer." "I n fact, he's expected to lose quite badly." "A ll the more reason, then." "Geli!" "Thank. you." "Unccle Dolf," "It's so beautiful." "Hide?" "I'm not hiding." "But all those men ccoming to see you." "Why don't you ever go into the ccity to see them?" "I think.... you would like that?" "It's very nicce." "Have you ever been to M unicch?" "I've never been out of Linz." "P erhaps I'll take you sometime." "Would you?" " Would you really?" " I said perhaps." "Off you go." "Wait!" "Wait." " Are you all right?" " Y es, I'm fine." "I'm just not quite used to this yet." "Come with me." "Come ccloser." "Come." "Move ccloser." "I n a ccirccle, around me." " Like this?" " Y es." "Y es." "Faster." "Faster, faster." "Y es, um..." "Stop!" "Please." "Y es." "Ouickly." "OQuickly." "OQuickly." "Faster." "Faster, faster." "Faster." "Y es." "Stop!" "I'm freezing, Unccle." "Shh!" "Don't say...anything." "Geli!" "Don't... move." "Through so-called "assimilation ". the Jew defiles our ine xperienced young blonde girls and thereby destroys something given to the earth by God's good gracce." "Paranoid ramblings, Fritz." "Paranoid ramblings." "Nobody takes him seriously any more." "Case in point, you keep writing about him, but nobody is buying our newspapers." "He is yesterday's news." "P eople do not ccare any more." "We must make them ccare." "Do you know, accccording to him, the Jews have a plan for world domination and that we must act ruthlessly." " He's preacching war!" " Well now, that's ridicculous." "There are over half a million Jews in every walk. of life and profession." "Some of our most succccessful ccitizens are Jewish." "How ccan he wage war against them?" " Read the book.." "See for yourself." " I have done!" "Now, you listen to me." "You ccannot ccontinue to give front-page ccoverage to a man whose book. sold what?" "5, 000 ccopies?" "Now, as your friend, I apprecciate your passion, but as your publisher I must warn you, you are losing us money." "Now, you have a deccision to make, Fritz." "Do you wish to ccontinue to write for this paper?" "You know I do." "Then we have an understanding." "No more Hitler." " When are you ccoming back?" " How ccan I possibly return to M unicch?" "I don't mean to M unicch, I mean to the Party." "The longer you wait." "the harder it's going to be to come back." "There's dissension in M unicch and already there's a stronger presencce up in the north." "Ah." "Herr Strasser." "Herr Strasser," "A very powerful speaker who is demanding the party divorcce itself entirely from you." "What's his name?" "Joseph Goebbels." "Are you in or out of politics?" "I need to know." "I'll tell you what I need." "Someone I ccan trust." "I'm not surprised we lost." "We are running a politiccal party without strong leadership." "Call a meeting in M unicch." "I want all the party leaders in attendancce in three days." "Three days?" "My Führer, the leaders in the north will not have time to organise..." "You're right, you're right." "Make it two days." "Angela. pack up your daughter's luggage." "Geli's off to the city." "It's unfortunate... but if my defeat forcced the party to ccall you out of retirement, it was ccertainly worth it." "T ogether, you and I will re-unite our shattered army." "I beg your pardon." "You should beg everyone's pardon." "We're in this mess beccause of you." "We lost the putscch beccause you were late." "You released V on Kahr so he ccould ccall in the government troops." "And now this ineffective, laughable ccampaign." "I have never been spoken to like this in my whole life." "If you had, you wouldn't have beccome succh an embarrassment!" "Stop the ccar." "Stop the ccar!" "Stop the ccar!" "You won't be joining us for the reunificcation?" "How very unfortunate." "(.C hurcch bell tolls)" "(room falls silent)" "Ah, Gregor Strasser." "How good to see you." "I'm glad Berlin ccould spare you on succh short noticce." " Your agitation almost ccost me my parole." " It wasn't meant to, my Führer." "Of ccourse not." "Have you met my niecce?" "The famous Geli." "This must be Herr Goebbels." "the young man who so desperately wants me out of the Party." "T ake ccare of her, Hess." "I had hoped the reports of your bickering had been exaggerated." "Sit, sit." "Where's Ludendorff?" "He's feeling unwell." "But I'm glad the rest of you ccould ccome." "The purpose of this meeting, gentlemen, is to solidify the party under me." "I expect your full support." "We must enter government by legal means." "then we ccan take it apart." "Our new policcy is to win elections." "Agitation is a thing of the past." "Meaning what?" "The SA are to be bridled, Ernst." "They may sing, marcch, ccarry flags, but they must keep calm unless I say otherwise." "We're not a Sunday shooting cclub, Adolf, we're a militia." "Not any more." "My personal seccurity will now be handled by the SS." "Your men give off the wrong impression." "I don't give a damn about impressions." "But without the SA, without us, our loyalty..." "The wheels of history have turned!" "The plan has changed." "Oh, I'm sorry to hear that." "Does anyone else wish to leave?" "During my absence." "you fought, you bickered, you made no progress whatsoever." "Therefore, I propose to relieve you of the responsibility of leadership." "The interests of this movement, from now on," "If I should fail, I will stand down." "But I will not fail." "I n this struggle, there are but two possible outccomes." "Either the enemy passes over our body, or we will pass over theirs!" "If I should fall... wrap my body in the swastika banner." " Sieg heil!" " Sieg heil!" " Ah." " Hello, how are you?" "I don't understand." "What's the point?" "Why should I ccampaign for others?" "You ccan't run for president, my Führer, unless you have your ccitizenship." "You ccan't get your ccitizenship unless you have friends in the Reicchstag." "These people want to invest in you." "not the Party." "You 're the most visible symbol we have." "Excuse me." "Are you all right?" "I'm fine." "I was so sorry to hear about your loss." "She was succh a beautiful cchild." "Well, this party's been a relief, really." "It's given me something else to think. about." "It's tomorrow, when there's nothing to do, that I dread." "Then perhaps I ccan help." "Herr Hanfstaengl," "I've been meaning to ask." "about your musiccal training." "Herr Weidman is helping us accquire some property in the ccentre of town." "With your undoubted skill as a hostess." "perhaps you might like to help him raise funds?" " I'd be honoured." " Yes." " Yes. thank you." " Good." "Oh, thank." "God!" "Oh." "Maurice I could hardly breathe in there." "M m, would you like one?" "I'd love one, but he wouldn't approve." "Your unccle is a good man." "He's protective, that's all." "He's a monster." "You ccan't imagine what he ask.s of me." "And this will be our Führer's officce." "Grand, spaccious, inviting in the sun." "As he does." "We need your support as we begin our ccampaign for seats in the Reicchstag." "But before we rebuild our nation," "And what better placce to start than here?" "That was wonderful." "It's like you've been doing it your whole life." "I'm so proud of you." " Thank. you." " Let's ccelebrate." "Just us." "We'll go to the ccabaret." "Oh, I don't think. the ccabaret's" "Besides, I have to work." "Iate." "Right." "Of ccourse." "(T o the tune of Habanera from Carmen) nuta) If it's raining if it's sunny nuta) If you're freezing or dripping sweat" "Friedricch." " How are you?" " What are you doing here?" "Um... having a drink." "Seeing an old friend." "I have a rival." " I need solacce." " Solacce?" "Unbelievable." "Let's see." "You weren't at the synagogue the SA attacked last night." "Does that give you solacce?" "nuta) Go blame the Jews nuta) The Jews are guilty..." "P eople were killed, Ernst." "Go home." "We don't serve your kind any more." "nuta) So blame the Jews if we have flaws nuta) It's not our fault beccause the Jew's the ccause nuta) For all our flaws nuta) Oh, it's a shame but true nuta) Whatever's wrong the Jew's to blame" "nuta) So blame the Jews. go blame the Jews nuta) The Jews are guilty and it's not new news nuta) You don 't need brains to read the clues nuta) The guilty party always is the Jews" "nuta) So blame the Jews. if we have flaws nuta) It's not our fault because the Jew 's the cause nuta) For all our flaws nuta) Oh. it's a shame but true nuta) Whatever's wrong the Jew 's to blame" "This will be your new bedroom." "You may deccorate as you wish, you' ll be spending a lot of time here." "Unless you're with me, then a bodyguard must accccompany you at all times." "This is a dangerous world, Geli." "And I'm here to protect you." "There, take it!" "Now I have nothing left!" "Move along!" "Out!" "Out!" "(Woman ccries out)" "Don't buy from the Jews!" "It's ridicculous." "The SA's broke, hungry, spoiling for a fight with anyone." "Can I write about it?" "No, beccause Hitler doesn't sell papers." "Do you know what does?" "Gossip." "Look. at today's front page." "Bavarian Farm Girl Has Religious Visions!" "We've published ten editions of that in the last four days!" " She gives people hope." " So does Hitler!" "People don't want the real news." "It's depressing." "They don't want to hear about anything they might have to do something about." "It's as if we've all beccome stupid, gone blind!" "What on earth is happening to you?" "What..." "Sincce when have you beccome so ccontemptuous of people, Fritz?" "Don't raise your voicce." "Somebody has to." "You're so busy sccrutinizing him you ccan't see you're beccoming like him." "You're losing the best part of yourself!" "You ccan't stay like this." "You'll either have to go forward, or step back." "but where you are at the moment is wrong." "I ccan't go forward, I'll lose my job." "If I lose my job..." "The only other cchoicce is to be ccontent with silencce." "But I know you better than that." "The opposition papers are implying things about your relationship with your niece." "T rust these Jews to paint everyone as dirty as they are." "But it's not just them." "P eople in the party are also beginning to object..." "She's my niecce, for God's sake!" "We go to the opera together!" "Hold on, ccould you?" "Herr Hitler, I haven't yet seen a photograph that ccaptures your eyes." "It would be a shame to deprive us of their power." " What's your name?" " Eva." " Eva Braun." " Eva." "She's a very pretty girl, your niecce." "Y es." "No!" "Please!" "Unccle..." "He didn't mean anything!" "I swear." "Uncle." "Please." "Please, you're ccrazy." "He's not..." "Shut up!" "Leave it!" "No..." "Please." "See him again and I'll have him killed." "Please." "I want to go home." "I don't want to be here any more." " Of ccourse you do." " No." "I don't!" "I ccan't stand this any more." "You won't let me do anything!" "You won't let me make friends," "I'm sick of your speeches." "I'm sick. of your parties!" "I'm sick. of you!" "Listen to me!" "You're different from other girls." "You're sweet." "Sweet and innoccent." "And you don't understand what men like that want to do." "Now, your Unccle Dolf is here to protect you." "You will never be left alone with a man like that again." "Six-and-a-half million votes." "1 07 seats." "We're the seccond biggest party in the Reicchstag." "Herr Goebbels," "How would you like to be my new M inister of I nformation?" "I'd be honoured, my Führer." "Hanfstaengl, your wife has prevailed upon me to promote you too." "I thought Press Seccretary might suit you." "Thank. you, Herr Hitler." "Excuse me, my Führer." "Fräulein Geli was ccaught outside getting into a taxi." "She asked to be taken to the train station." "Excuse me for a moment." "You must never ever," "Do you understand me?" "Now, listen." "Listen, listen, listen." "I had a dog like you oncce." "Couldn't get it into her head who her master was." "Kept running away." "So I penned her, she esccaped." "I beat her, she tried to bite me." "I cchained her and she strangled herself." "She was stupid, Geli." "Don't be stupid." "(M uffled squeal)" "T ake her home." "(.Car door slams)" "(T elephone rings)" "Hello." "What is it?" "Adi, we ccan't leave it like this." "It's not right." "And I ccan't bear it." "You ccan't bear it?" "What about me?" "What about me?" "It was my gun!" "This is all I have left." "This room will not be toucched." " But, Adi..." "Don't you see?" "The goddess of history is watcching over everything I do now." "Everything." "Everything." "Your ccitizenship, your new German ccitizenship." "Thank. goodness your family cchanged its name, or else we'd all be saying "Heil Scchicklgrüber!"" "Here's to the next Reicch's President." "I think it's wonderful." "I think. it makes you look. brave... and strong... and determined." "Thank. you, Fräulein Braun." "I think. so too." "Heil Hitler." "Heil Hitler!" "The new German citizen." "Adolf Hitler." "is running for President." "As Hitler makes history with his Germany flight." "his message is loud and clear." "A vote for the Führer is a vote for the future!" "Heil Hitler." "(.C heering )" "HlTLER:... as our model and the music of Wagner as our inspiration." "we will hang the profiteers." "We will crush the Communists." "Behind us is Germany." "With us is..." "GERLlC H:" "The Führer is now running for Reich president and we 're going to give him a run for his money." "Sepp, find out about his accccounting practicces, write an articcle about them." "Maria, get on the ccampaign trail." "Find those that have heard him speak." " Speak. to those that disagree." " Herr Gerlicch, you said no..." "No Hitler, yes." "T emporary insanity." "Am I forgiven?" "I want him stopped!" "What does this mean?" "You said that you would stop." "I'm doing my job." "The job of every newspaper is to reflect its time." "Don't you think. if we ignore..." "Everybody out!" "OQuick., get out." "Come on." "Move." "Out, everybody out." " Next time, it ccould be a bomb." " Don't you see they're angry beccause..." " I'm sorry, Fritz." "Fritz, you're fired!" "Will you be having luncch today, Fräulein Braun?" "Not today, Angela." "It's all there is, you know?" "I beg your pardon?" "He treated my daughter the same way." "C hained her." "Then abandoned her." "I don't know what you're talking about." "There 's a locked room upstairs." "Would you like to see it?" "Don't toucch." "He'll know you've been here." "You ccan't ccompete." "You're alive and she's a memory." "His memory." "Not mine." "Not the real Geli." "I can 't bring her back and I can 't change what I allowed to happen." "but I ccan warn you, Fräulein." "It's not going to get any better." "This is his ideal." "Not you." "Never you." "What's this?" "He hates fresh flowers." "He put it there himself, my dear." "I want you gone from this house by morning." "Of ccourse, I'm happy to take on another cclient." "I'm not exclusive to the National Soccialists," " What's it ccalled?" " The Straight Path, after a quote from St Paul." " Oh, a religious paper?" " I n its way." "My cclient only ask.s that you not exerccise editorial ccontrol over what he writes." "I'm a printer my friend, not a publisher." "I only ccare if the ink. smears." "Thank. you so mucch." " Did he sign the ccontract?" " Y es." "But Fritz, this man prints the Nazi papers." "This is the last placce you want to publish." "On the ccontrary, Sepp." "This is the one press Hitler ccan't afford to destroy." "Him." "Why the gloomy faces?" "30% of the ccountry voted for me." "That's a far ccry from 40 people in a beer hall." "But we didn't win, my Führer." "P erhaps we need to rethink. our strategy." "If we don 't deliver on our promises." "our cconstituents will look. elsewhere for a leader." "I wouldn't worry about that." "A ll the right-wing factions are now backing us." "Hindenburg has no cchoicce but to offer me C hanccellor." "With all due respect, my Führer, you and Hindenburg don't exactly see eye to eye." "The C hanccellorship is the seccond most powerful position, why would he offer it to you?" "Beccause of the trouble I ccan ccause if he doesn't." "You wanted to see me, Adolf?" "Would you excuse us for a moment please, gentlemen?" "Please sit down." "Now it's very important that you don't speak." "Not a word." "I just want you to listen." "Understand?" "I ' ve heard some rather disturbing news about you." "Really?" "Shhht!" "Not a word." "Rumour has it I'm to be used as target practicce." "Really?" "Shut up!" "Let me finish, please." "Over the years, the SA has beccome rather stubborn." "As you know." "I'm having a terrible time trying to steer them away from the concept of revolution." "They have to be lock. step behind us." "They' re too rebellious." "So... .. as of this moment," "Call it a kind of test." "If you succcceed, then perhaps I ccan forget about this whole nasty business." "Clear?" "Thank.s for stopping by." "And, Ernst... please don't try this again." "The cchallenge faccing any new C hanccellor is how to deal with the National Soccialists." "If they paralyse the Reicchstag again, whicch they do whenever they don't get what they want, we'll be forcced to hold another election," "C hanccellorship is a thankless job, Your Excellenccy." " I wouldn 't wish it on my worst enemy." " I know, Papen, I know." "Door!" "Look., I've dediccated my life to this ccountry and I intend to leave it in ccapable hands, so I ' ve asked General von Scchleiccher here to be my new C hanccellor." "Congratulations, General." "He has turned me down." "He has, instead, suggested you," "Franz von Papen, to be the new head of this government." "You're cconservative, Catholicc..." "Your Excellenccy, President Hindenburg, I..." "I'm not..." "Good, that's settled, then." "Now..." "Let's begin with the largest threat to our democcraccy, Herr Hitler." "Any suggestions?" "M ight I suggest we put him in a position where we ccan ccontrol him?" "What position did you have in mind?" "Vicce-C hanccellor?" "You must be joking." "Not at all." "The Vicce C hanccellorship is the third most-powerful position in Germany." "My party's popularity demands a great deal more than third placce!" "What preccisely are you asking for, sir?" "I want the C hanccellorship, sir." "Oh..." " That's my job." " (The General cchuckles)" "I wouldn't laugh, General." "Perhaps I'll take your job, as well." "Herr Reicch President, surely you ccan see I'm a forcce to be reckoned with?" "The sooner you appoint me C hanccellor," " approve my ccabinet..." " I will never appoint you C hanccellor!" "How dare you presume, sir?" "You're nothing but a Bohemian ccorporal!" "If I made you head of this government, how would I answer to God?" "And how will you answer to Germany if you don't?" "Good day, sir." "HlTLER:." "Stupid old fool." "I don't ccare what he says to God, I only hope it's soon and in person." "Get me Röhm." "I'll show Hindenburg what answering to God look.s like." "Ne xt on the Reichstag agenda." "I propose a bill regarding the alloccation of monies." "Gentlemen, we're leaving." "By leaving, you will ccause the dissolution of this elected body and oncce again, by law, forcce a new election." "Stop them." "230 seats." "We're the largest party in the Reicchstag." "We are blessed by the providencce of history." "Heil Hitler!" "How dare he demand the C hanccellorship again!" "I don't ccare how many seats Hitler holds, he will never be C hanccellor as long as I am alive." "The most he ccould be is my postmaster general." "He ccould lick. my behind when he puts on the stamps!" "May I make a suggestion, Herr Vicce President?" "After your last suggestion, the Nazis took. over the Reicchstag!" "They're getting stronger all the time." "Stronger and stronger." "They're making a mockery of our government." " Of us, gentlemen, of us." " I have an alternative, Herr Reicch President." "Gregor Strasser is Hitler's seccond-in-ccommand." "He's very well-liked in the Party." "I'm sure he would be more than willing to accccept the Vicce C hanccellorship." " You have spoken to him?" " Y es." "He hates Hitler." "This would divide the National Soccialists and neutralise the Party." "The one thing I do not want, gentlemen, is for my presidenccy to end in anarcchy." "Sorry, Papen, but I think." "General von Scchleiccher needs to try his luck. at the C hanccellorship." "Herr Reicch President, please." "It's cclear to me he had his eye on this position all along." "He only used me to flush out the enemy." " Give me one more cchancce, sir." "General, I hereby appoint you Reicch C hanccellor." "Good luck." "The Party is mucch more than you." "You say that yourself." "As Vicce C hanccellor, block. the Communists, inccrease our popularity." "And how would you deal with traitors?" "I'm not a traitor, my Führer." "T raitors are defined, Strasser, not by themselves, but by the people they betray." "You will refuse Scchleiccher's offer and you will resign your Party position, effective immediately." "Herr Graf!" "Show this man out." "Oh, my God." "I should be back. by nine." "Make sure Egon is fed and put to bed." "You know, Helene," "I'm starting to think. you're more involved in party politics than I am." "(.Giggling)" "Do you find this amusing, Frieda?" "I do not, Frau Hanfstaengl." "I was only reading the paper." "Something amusing in the papers?" "That's news." "Listen to this." "Accccording to his own raccial profiling," "Hitler's nose is the same nose as that of Attila the Hun. a foreign invader if there ever was one." "How dare you bring this into my house?" "It's Jewish propaganda, and should be burned." "I'm sorry, ma'am." "But I don't think. you have any right to tell me what I ccan and what I ccan't read." "I'll speak. to you in the morning." "Argh!" "Adi..." "Get me Hess." "Look. at my new skirt." "You like it?" "I bought it today." "What...what...." "Kiss me, kiss me, yeah, kiss me." "Oh..." "Shhh...." "Ah!" "Set up a meeting with V on Papen." "Look. there is no doubt that Hindenburg made the greatest mistake of his life." "appointing Scchleiccher C hanccellor." "They both publiccly humiliated you." "This is your cchancce to get even, gain that power back.." "He'll never appoint me C hanccellor again." "I don't know why..." "But he would appoint you Vicce C hanccellor, under me." "That's the point." "The ccabinet would be reliably cconservative." "I'd leave these things to you." "You're far more experiencced than I." "There is one minor problem, Hindenburg..." "Hindenburg hates me." "He must be persuaded." "If there's one thing about him that hasn't diminished with age, it's his vanity." "A well-placced publicc letter from you ccould work. wonders." "And a few disruptions in the Reicchstag." "My dear Reich 's President Von Hindenburg." "all the great heroes of Germany were benevolent men who loved their people, and who were loved in turn." "Like Parsifal." "Like Lohengrin." "Like you." "Germany is fortunate to have you as its leader." "I give you my loyalty and my undying respect." "Will the National Soccialist Party please return to their seats?" "Will you please return to your seats!" "Scchleiccher, this is a pricce I thought you'd never have to pay." "Get me Hitler." "You mustn't misbehave like this." "I'm sorry." "You ccould have ruined everything I worked for." "I'm sorry, Adi, it's just that..." "I get so lonely and I need more time with you." "You must be patient, Eva." "I still have enemies." "Even when I'm made C hanccellor there are loose ends I must tie up." "Do you promise to be good?" "Do you promise?" "I promise." "Do you solemnly swear to ccarry out the obligations of the officce of C hanccellor" "without Party interests and for the good of the nation?" "I do." "A nd do you further swear to uphold the Constitution, support the President and respect the right of the Reichstag." "so help you God?" "I do." "(Men sing as they marcch )" "Sieg heil!" "Sieg heil!" "Sieg heil!" "Sieg heil!" "Sieg heil!" "Sieg heil!" "Sieg heil!" "Sieg heil!" "Sieg heil!" "Sieg heil!" "We must crush this vermin." " We must remove this contamination." " Someone please turn him off." "Herr Gerlich." "My name is Georg Bell." "I've read your paper." "We have a ccommon enemy, you and I." "As of today, all of Germany does." "I'm what you might ccall an angry ex-Nazi." "I used to work. for Röhm till he fired me." " Y es." "I heard there was a falling out." " I wish to supply you with information." "Damaging information." "I think. it'll help you." "(T elephone rings)" "Hello?" "You may be using a pseudonym but I know you're the one writing these things, Gerlicch." " Morning, M ueller." " I can 't print this!" "Your last articcle was bad enough." "He'll destroy my presses and sabotage my business." "He won't destroy your presses." "He needs them to print his paper." " If anything, he'll destroy me." " You 're playing a losing game. my friend." "We have a ccontract." "I expect you to honour it." "You're not long for this world." "I don't want to hear it." "Extraordinary times demand extraordinary measures, remember?" "This isn't about history." "This isn't about politics." "It's about your life, Fritz!" "Whicch also happens to be mine." "This." "This is me." "And this, this is you." "Two individuals with different ways of thinking." "But look. what happens when we ccome together." "I love you, Sophie." "But if I don't do this," "I'm frightened, Fritz." "This is outrageous and not a word is true." "You expect us to believe that?" "What are you insinuating?" "I had nothing to do with this." "And you?" "This was a private internal memo about using agitation in the SA!" "Do you have any idea how mucch damage you've done to us right now?" "I don't know how Gerlicch got hold of this, but if you let me go to M unicch, I will find his sourcce of information." "It's too late for that." "Hindenburg read your articcle and ccalled the Führer this morning." "People everywhere are attacking Jewish businesses." "The ecconomy's tumbling, everyone's cclose to rioting, and this articcle is the last straw." "If we don't bring this under ccontrol, and soon, Hindenburg says he'll decclare martial law and he 'll bring the army in to do it." "Now's the time to storm the Presidential palacce, take over the government..." "Are you mad?" "Put me in ccharge of the Army and I'll unite them behind you." " This is our cchancce." " Great idea." "Why didn't I think. of that?" "Could it be beccause the Army cconsider you a swine?" "At the mere suggestion." "they flew the Nationalist Soccialist flag, rather than subordinate themselves to you." "You and your SA, Ernst, are nothing more than politiccal dinosaurs." "You have refused to evolve like the rest of us." "Oh, believe me, Adolf, you don't want to meet what we're ccapable of evolving into." "And to think he was once a friend of yours." "Now he's just one of many who ccan trip us up." "And the list keeps growing." "He's right, you know." "Sometimes primitive forcce is the only way." "It helps if there's some kind of legal reason behind it, of ccourse." "Something outrageous to provoke a response." " Are there any suspects?" " Any arrests?" "What actions will you take?" " Could this be a Communist plot?" " What happened?" "Apparently a Dutcch Communist broke in and set the fire." "P olicce have him under arrest." "T ell Röhm he ccan still be of some servicce." "You were talking about an enemies list." "That's not a bad idea." "This, this is a signal from God." "We are under siege." "The terrorists have opened fire and we will fire back.." "It's good to see so him happy." "This is an outrageous crime and someone will answer for it." "But this ccompletely overrides the C onstitution." "Effectively it puts you in ccharge." "These are troubled times, sir." "The Constitution ccould not anticcipate them." "A national monument has been destroyed." "Our democcraccy is under attack." "If we are to wage war in these foreign infiltrators, ccertain ccivil rights must be suspended." "When power is seized instead of bestowed, the hand that seizes it is often burned." "The Reicchstag must approve this before I sign anything." "I n order for the government to ccarry out the neccessary proccedures against terrorism," "Reicchstag must support an Enabling Act." "This act is your opportunity to hand power over to those who ccan wield it most effectively." "From now on, all legislation will be handled by the Administration, whicch will have sole right to make cconstitutional cchanges." "Freedoms of speecch, assocciation, and the press are temporarily suspended." "Privaccy rights in relation to telephone and postal ccommuniccation are revoked." "Order, order." "It's very good, sir, but use a larger typefacce for Hitler." "Hitler's just ccalled an emergenccy meeting of the Reicchstag." "He wants their approval for something he ccalls the Enabling Act, whicch will turn this ccountry into a policce state with him as absolute ruler." "My God." "No matter what he does, he just gets stronger." "I'll bet the Nazis set the fire themselves." "There's something I haven't told you." "Oncce this is out," "My job as Röhm's press seccretary was just a front." "He hired me to get financcing outside of Germany." "Financing?" " For what?" " The SA." "He agreed to sign a ccontract with a man in London in exchange for exclusive oil imports to Germany." "The Nazi Party was giving ecconomicc inccentives to a foreign investor?" "What happened to Germans for Germany?" "Exactly." "We've got to get this news to Hindenburg." "And." "Bell. we 've got to get you someplace safe." "Sepp, I've got ccontacts in Berlin." "I'll put you in toucch with them." "Go home, pack. your bags, go to the train station." "Bell will bring my report to you there." "We've got to hurry." "The government assumes the right to intervene in any situation to restore order." "The right to draft laws passes from the Reicch's President to C hanccellor." "I offer the Reicchstag the cchancce for peacce in Germany!" "Never!" "If you respect our Constitution..." "Will the Vicce C hanccellor return to his seat!" "I will take any refusal as a statement of opposition!" "Gentlemen. you must decide." "Will it be peacce, or war?" "nuta) Deutscchland, Deutscchland über A lies nuta) Über alles in der Welt nuta) Wenn es stets zu Scchutz und T rutze nuta) Brüderlicch zusammenhält nuta) V on der Maas bis an die Memel nuta) V on der Etscch bis an den Belt" "nuta) Deutscchland, Deutscchland über alles nuta) Über alles in der Welt nuta) Deutscchland, Deutscchland über alles nuta) Über alles in der Welt" "Everybody out." "Get everyone's papers." "Out!" "Out!" "Everybody must be searched." "Who is your sourcce?" "No-one." "Halt!" "I said, who is your sourcce?" "Argh!" " You two." " Frau Helga Dorfman." "I wish to see my husband." "He ccan't be seen." "He's in protective ccustody." " Protected from whom?" " His enemies." "Have you sccheduled a trial date?" "Why would my answer be any different today than the answer I gave you yesterday or the day before?" "This is a noticce from the Reicch ccourt." "It says that no ccharges are pending against him." "If there are no ccharges, why ccan't he be released?" "He's in protective ccustody." "Next." " Frau Marta Krauss!" " We will not go away." "We will not go away." "Next!" "The jails are filled to capacity and their wives are ccausing an international ruckus." "We ccannot try these men and we ccan't release them." " Camps." " What?" "What about those ccamps?" "What else?" "Hindenburg is dying and we've not yet resolved the issue with Röhm." "Of ccourse, there's the Army." "The cclock. is ticking, my Führer." " I'll speak. to Röhm." " I've spoken to Röhm and he does nothing." "I said I'll speak. to him!" "We were friends once." "Ernst." "You saw my potential before anyone else." "You speak. your mind, unlike the others and you've always loved your men more than yourself, whicch is rare in a leader." "But...you refuse to bend." "Why?" "You have power." "I don't want the power, I want justicce." " My men were promised..." " I don't ccare." "I don't ccare." "I don't give a damn about promises." "You know this." "You know this." "Ernst, the SA are not now," "You must stand down." "You're right, Adolf." "We were friends oncce." "And I will always speak. my mind." "I will not betray my men." "I'm truly sorry to hear that, Ernst." "Gather up your leaders and meet me at Bad Wiessee at the 30th of June." "You are under arrest." "My dearest Sophie." "I don 't know when. or if." "I will ever see you again." "I don 't say this to shock." "I say it because I must ask one more thing of you." "Please live." "Thank. you." "Urge others to speak out." "even when what they have to say is not popular." "Tell them to embrace courage as a gift." "and pass it on to their children." "(.C oughing )" "Where are we?" "Just outside the village of Dacchau." "What are we doing here?" "You have always been my hope." "the promise of goodness and truth and devotion." "K.nowing that those qualities still survive in this world" "Iets me leave it with a lighter heart." "Don 't mourn." "I 've given everything I have to this struggle." "and my only option now is to give the last. most precious thing." "It will mark this moment in time for ever." "so that people will remember." "Yours always." "Fritz." "A ll right." "One for you." "One for you." "There you go." "Herr Hitler," "Y es, of ccourse." "Well, you see, it's my 20th reunion." "Helene and I have been planning a trip for over a year." "You're not going to desert me again, are you?" "No, I'm not." "Why do you never ccall me Führer?" "I beg your pardon?" "Why do you never address me by my proper title?" "I didn't know..." "If you'd like, I ccould..." "I'd like that very mucch." "V ery well." "My Führer." "V ery good." "Bring me something back." "Preferably yourself." "And your lovely wife." "Yes. we certainly do." " I need to speak. with you." " Yes. my dear. we do." "Will you excuse me, please?" "He said we ccan go." "Helene, we ccan ccatcch the night train to Hamburg and be on a boat by tomorrow morning." "This is a new beginning." "I promise." " I'll be a husband again, a father to Egon." " You've said that before." "I know I have..." "I'm not going with you, Ernst." "This is my ccountry now and I won't abandon it just when it needs me most." "I'm not abandoning..." "I've finally found someone whom I ccan believe in." "My Führer, you must make a deccision." "They need your order." " My Führer, you must make..." " Y es, I heard you!" "Give him a gun." "I know you think. this is a betrayal, but C hief of Staff Röhm was planning my assassination." "I had no cchoicce." "My Führer." "And so. in his honour." "I will bring you all into the Reicchswehr Army." "You will oncce again fight for a strong Germany." "Heil, Führer!" "Subsequent to the death of President Hindenburg, the officce of Reicch President will be ccombined with that of Reicch C hanccellor." "The Army has devised an oath of unconditional loyalty to the person of the Führer to be taken by every officcer and soldier of the A rmed Forcces." "Do you hereby swear allegiancce?" "We do." "T oday the old Reicch and its finest leader enter V alhalla." "At the same time," "A time of peacce and prosperity await us!" "The 1,000-year Reicch has begun!" "Sieg heil!" "Sieg heil!" "Sieg heil!" "Sieg heil!" "Sieg heil!" "Sieg heil!" "Sieg heil!" "Sieg heil!"