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East Berlin Kaulsdorf Prison

Commander Brehme,

a rebel TSF unit has entered Berlin.

The Werewolf Squadron is presently engaging them, under Rosalinde Buch's command.

Understood.

The pilots I trained are strong.

Irisdina...

Oder-Neisse, River Area Fort Seelow Heights

BETA wave 19 is penetrating our final defense line.

General Nerlinger, it's only a matter of time until the fortress falls.

We'll be wiped out at this rate.

Evacuate the fort.

No! I refuse to allow us to abandon the base!

If we abandon this place, what will happen to Berlin?

What will happen to our children?

We are the National People's Army.

We fight to protect our nation, to protect East Germany.

We cannot retreat!

East Berlin National Broadcasting Center

The revolutionary army is taking over this building.

Take us to the studio. Hurry!

I'm sorry for being rough.

Let's hurry.

Who are these guys?!

Theodor, enemy approaching at nine o'clock.

Beatrix Brehme!

Bring down the Werewolves' judgment on these filthy rebels.

For the future of this country,

666th Squadron, attack!

Follow me!

Right!

Theodor!

Why, Beatrix Brehme?

You have so much power. Why join the Stasi?

Walther!

Because this country, under Stasi rule, is my ideal.

Freedom and equality are useless against the unprecedented threat of the BETA.

We must gather the people under our control with a complete surveillance state,

and bring all our might to bear against the BETA.

Education, ideology, economics...

We shall use everything against the BETA.

The creation of the ultimate military state...

For that to happen, the Stasi must rule absolutely.

Shut up!

We're not robots.

You can't just—

That's what the world wants!

Humanity can never come together as one.

Someday, the BETA will destroy them.

So I am offering East Germany as a sacrifice to save this planet.

That was my vow with Jürgen Bernhard.

Anyone who gets in my way is an enemy of humanity!

It's over.

...san!

Please... listen to me.

I am with the NPA's 666th TSF Squadron.

Ursula Strachwitz.

One of the pilots who took part in this revolution,

and the daughter of General Alfred Strachwitz, who once saved this country.

I was born as an East German,

and my father sent me to West Germany

to protect me.

In West Germany, I changed my name, grew up,

and volunteered as a soldier because I wanted to see my father, who was still in East Germany.

I came to East Germany as part of a UN force.

The 666th Squadron saved me during a battle with the BETA.

For the next several months, I fought in many different battles as one of them.

The Battle of Oder-Neisse,

the Battle of Fort Neuenhagen,

Operation Neptune.

During my time there,

the squadron leader, Captain Irisdina Bernhard, told me the truth.

That my father had planned a coup d'état to save East Germany,

and was purged by the Stasi.

And that Captain Bernhard was carrying on his will.

A symbol of the revolution, huh?

I won't let you!

I won't let you interfere!

I'll protect my friends!

My father and Captain Bernhard were trying to fix this country.

Where parents inform on children, children on parents,

husbands on wives, and wives on their husbands.

Is this really how a country should be?

A country where your father's existence is erased,

where you're forced to shoot your brother or kill your sister with your own hands...

Is this really a happy country?

The answer is "absolutely not."

Right now, my friends are fighting the Stasi.

They're trying to use the revolution to cut the chains binding this country.

My father always told me that if West and East Germany came together,

they could defeat the BETA!

If we can believe in our neighbors, rather than suspect them,

we can overcome any hardship!

This country doesn't need the Stasi.

Let's open the path to the future together!

That's just a stupid dream.

Anett!

Sylwia!

Jeez...

You always just slow us down...

Sylwia!

Theodor, take care of the captain!

Walther!

Damn it!

Irisdina,

your pilots are indeed strong.

I'm amazed they made it here.

However...

Down with the Stasi!

We won't give in to terror anymore!

Free East Germany from the Stasi!

What the hell do you think you're—

Everyone...

They're all trying to fight the Stasi.

You can still fight... Right, Balalaika?

Theodor!

I'm going to the prison.

You protect Katia!

Leave it to me.

Kaulsdorf Prison

Lieutenant Colonel, we've found the target.

Glad to see you doing well.

Would you accompany me, Princess?

Defeat the Stasi!

Damn it...

Sir, we can't take the car any farther.

Fine.

It'll be a bit cold. I assume you don't mind.

So revolutionary fervor is getting to them?

The masses are so ignorant, foolish, and incorrigible.

The world doesn't want a unified Germany.

Because they don't want a German superpower?

Precisely.

Beatrix wants a nation ruled by the Stasi,

but at this point, that will be difficult.

Still, I can do it.

With your help, that is.

Fortunately, I've found a sponsor to back me up.

America?

You probably made contact with the CIA, didn't you?

At a time when everyone is rising up to protect the Fatherland,

you're looking for a new master, huh?

No...

Pilots of the 666th.

We've sighted someone matching Captain Bernhard's description in the city.

We'll take you there. Hurry.

Roger!

You have no ideology to protect,

and no friends to believe in.

You see the bonds between siblings and family as mere tools.

You are a pathetic man.

The only thing you need to get by in this twisted world is power!

Ideals and ideology are nothing but platitudes!

You think so?

Even if they call me an enemy of humanity,

I won't lose!

I have things I've been entrusted with.

I have things to protect.

Their ideals...

Their hopes!

I...

We...

...will make our ideals a reality.

No one can snuff out the last light!

Iris...

The only ones who can call me that

are my friends!

You bitch!

Captain...

Captain!

Axmann!

I'm not done yet!

Someday, you'll realize...

the limits of your ideals...

Only my ideals, and Jürgen's, can bring humanity victory...

Don't underestimate us!

This is Fort Seelow Commander General Valeria Nerlinger.

Attention, all units.

We have failed to defend the Fatherland.

The Oder-Neisse Line will soon be breached.

We shall fight to the last man.

In the meantime, please evacuate as many people from East Berlin as you can.

No...

We didn't make it in time.

It's too early to give up.

You...

We're here, Comrades of the 666th.

It's been a long time, potato-heads.

The cavalry's here!

We'll only come to save you this once.

We're here to clean up your mess!

Theodor...

Anett?

The captain...

Captain Bernhard...

Irisdina...

There's no need to cry.

I have completed my work.

There are others I can entrust with the rest.

Ursula... No, Katia...

I leave this country's future to you.

What your father, and my brother, decided to protect...

A world where everyone can be happy.

Yes!

And I'll protect her for as long as I live.

Theodor...

Can you show me the city of Berlin?

It really is a beautiful city.

It's the new Berlin.

The one you made.

Beatrix...

Five years ago, I killed my brother, Jürgen, with my own hands.

But I had to keep living anyway.

To carry out the wish entrusted to me.

My sin will never disappear.

So I risked my life to protect the people of this country...

That was the one and only way I could atone.

For that, I sacrificed many friends.

I don't regret it.

Everyone fought to protect that last light.

And so did you.

Iris,

I forgive you.

Thank you.

Everything is over now, isn't it?

Yeah, it's over.

So you're free now.

Free, huh?

I don't know what to do with that.

Maybe we should all go and have fun somewhere.

That sounds great.

But where should we go?

All I know is the battlefield.

When I was a kid, my family always went to a lake south of Berlin.

I'm sure you'll love it.

I see.

That's...

something to look forward to...

Irisdina...

Iris...

I loved you...

I wanted you to be happier than anyone.

You didn't have to love me back.

You didn't have to answer me.

Even so, I...

I wanted...

to protect you.

Three Months Later Berlin

The revolution ended.

The Stasi were dismantled,

and East Germany began reunification talks with West Germany.

We found a path on which we could live and think for ourselves.

But it was a path purchased at the cost of violence and blood.

Was that right?

I don't know.

What will happen to this country now?

Will our ideals be able to avoid being tainted forever?

Where does this path lead?

That's why we can't lose sight of it.

No matter how deep the darkness around us,

we must not forget...

We vowed to protect this smile.

That was our promise.

Because it's the light of hope that illuminates the future.

U-Um...

Welcome back.

I'm back.

The Road Continues...