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Thank you.

We don't have to do this.

This was your idea.

It wasn't a great idea.

I know.

I was worried it was going to mess up in beautiful hands.

All right.

I'll go if you do.

On the count of three.

One. Hang on, hang on.

It breaks a bloody tower. I don't see you jump. Two.

Yes, you do.

to pick up Gerhard?

I don't know, when's his train arrive?

Saturday, half six.

Ah, the big brother returns.

I'll have to see if I can make it.

Uh -oh.

You boys are more than late.

More than late?

Yeah, and you were late.

Not more than that.

Where's your uniform, Carl?

It's at the cleaners. Like last week?

Like that?

What are you laughing at?

Nothing. Nothing?

Nothing. You need to tell me how sorry you are. For laughing at me. For

Why don't you talk to me? Why don't you shut up?

Your girlfriend's just about to tell me how sorry she is.

That's right, you little pansy.

Nobody calls my friend a pansy.

Leave.

What, Cole?

I'm gonna report you, Cole!

You hear me?

You're requested!

Morning.

Morning.

How was the night shift?

God, you look handsome.

You're spitting on me.

Morning, Hugo.

Morning. I'll give it to you when I'm done.

Good day today, eh?

Tom, it's first day at his new job at City Hall.

What do they say?

The youngest intern they've ever hired.

Are you nervous?

Not really.

I mean, a bit, I suppose, but I feel...

Ready to have you written your patriotic statement?

Never before has Germany been more fatherland to us than it is now.

And it's Athenian age, the dawn of the National Socialistic Millennium.

Examine the unblemished faces you part on the streets, their strong builds, the

industrious manner with which they carry themselves.

Gone are the plutocrats.

the wealth -infested aristocracy, gone the sprawling estates of the decadent

bourgeoisie.

They're ready for you. Today, our nation stands strong and tall on the shoulders

of our Fuhrer, Adolf Hitler.

As we distill the essence of the previous statement, two questions arise.

First, what lifts us above the other industrialized nations?

And second, point or...

All questioned, how did we arrive at this great juncture in history?

The answer to both queries is one and the same.

It's nothing less than our German perseverance, our blood, our very

That was very good.

And you're 16?

Yes, sir. Very well done. We shall use your statement in the office newsletter.

What do you think of that?

That was perfect.

A single note for Fraulein Kluge here. She'll type them up.

Or I could... Welcome to upper administration.

Thank you.

Your note.

Right now?

So you're the gifted writer they've been talking about.

The youngest intern you've ever hired.

That I've heard.

Come on.

This is your desk. But for today, all this needs to be filed in archives.

We call this the dungeon.

At least I do.

Where we file everything into oblivion.

That back there is to tell you public officials and civil servants. This here

to state employees and service workers. Chronological.

That's where we keep archived copies of banned literature locked for obvious

reasons. And these are policy updates, both regional and national.

It's all alphabetical, basically.

And all that is just other administrative things.

You'll figure it out.

Welcome to upper administration.

Adila. Morning,

sir.

It's come to this, hasn't it?

You smoking?

What happened?

She did.

See, my wife's trying to give me a quid. She's a good German.

The Führer doesn't smoke, so she stopped smoking.

Are you married?

ask if you're married, but I suppose I'm not being completely honest.

We brought in your wife this morning.

Hilda, right? And your daughter, they're just down the hall. We'll chat with

them in a few minutes.

Yeah, but you knew that, right?

That if we caught you, we'd have to bring in your family as well.

Question them?

Yeah, you thought this through before you planned your little coup, right?

Oh, maybe not.

And they always forget that part.

Well, let's not drag this out, Abu.

Who sold you the firearms?

I want you at the train station.

That was France.

That joke at the Waterloo Park.

Great food, that. Salomon, you're coming up for dessert.

Can't pass up on that now, can I? Good for you.

So, what do you think of Hugo?

Yeah, that's what I thought.

Mum sure seems happy, though, huh?

Still in the honeymoon, I guess.

Where'd you get that?

It's a shortwave. I know where it is.

Where'd you get it? The Flasher Noir.

The French black market.

You should turn it down.

The reception, I think, is incredible.

You can get news from anywhere. Russia, Holland, the BBC.

Good luck.

Mendelssohn.

I'm surprised for you.

This thing's a band composer on an illegal wireless.

That is a capital offence.

Now this is more like it. Yeah.

Band American music, completely different.

Come on, up you get. Come on, little brother.

I can't.

Yeah,

you can.

That's it.

I saw the racket.

We were dancing.

You know, just fooling around.

Yeah, well, it's getting late and I'm sure your mother will be dragging both

you to church in the morning, so you should... Drew, I'll tuck him in.

And you.

You need to go.

Fast curfew.

I'm glad you made it back home in peace.

Me too.

See you at church.

Yeah. Love you, then.

Don't have too much fun without me.

I'm done with this.

Thank you.

Night, boys.

Night.

You aren't late.

Bask out, you.

I live here.

Take this, please.

Where are you coming from?

Old Brook.

Zalem and Schwarz.

Zalem.

Religious affiliation...

Mormon? What is that?

Church.

Ah, there it is.

Jew. See?

His mother was a half Jew, right there.

How many more of your neighbours will be arrested on the street in broad

daylight without warrant, never to be seen again?

How long will you tolerate the brazen disregard for the truth?

No. No.

Girls, nice to see you. Peace.

Brothers and sisters, I welcome you here this beautiful Sabbath morning.

For those visiting today, my name is Bishop Adil Zander and I'll be

the service.

Heil Hitler!

Heil Hitler!

Our opening hymn will be Do What Is Right, Let the Consequence Follow, after

which Brother Riedemann will give us our invocation.

A building.

That's nice, of course. I'll be there for you.

How's it coming?

Dear Private Orbach, I know I speak on behalf of the whole congregation. I tell

you how proud we are of your service in this year's army. That's good. That's

beautiful. That's why you're doing this.

Oh, what about City Hall?

How's the new job?

Great. Great. Thank you for your recommendation.

A word?

You're on your way, young man. You mark my words.

Yes, sir.

This is a church. No place for siblings.

It's not a neighborhood rally.

It's right.

No. No,

no.

And what did you and Mama do today?

We went to the zoo.

The zoo?

And what did you see?

We saw a lion.

It had a huge mane.

And we even saw a wolf, which I'm not sure was a wolf or a fox. But instead

of hunting, like chasing after their food, they dig holes in the snow and

then...

And did you know that group of lion is called a pride?

Why not?

And we saw tortoises.

They had a trouble again.

God, these two lovebirds.

I'll take that.

work or church work?

It's church.

Come on, let's get you to bed, big boy.

Say goodnight to Papa.

Goodnight, Papa. Goodnight.

That makes no sense.

How have things at work?

Ah, good.

Looks like they're going to publish my patriotic statement on the department

newsletter.

You're on your way young man mark my word

Ignore

it you go in what's he going to do you go on you want to get turned in?

Don't be an idiot Solomon go

Our 12th article of faith states, and you can turn there with me if you like,

believe in being subject to kings, presidents, rulers, magistrates, in

honoring, and sustaining the law.

Would not this include our Führer and the current laws of the Reich?

Each of us must ask ourselves, can we pick and choose which of God's laws will

follow?

Only the commandments we find most convenient, the ones we happen to agree

I shall love thy neighbour as thyself.

Yes.

Your entire life you've come inside this chapel and learned of the peaceable

things of the kingdom.

Of brotherhood and kindness and love.

We can't allow a lifetime of what we've learned inside these doors to be lost.

because of what was outside them this morning.

I love my country, but there are things more important than that.

But what do we do?

Are you reading?

Thomas Mark.

They didn't burn this one today.

I guess they missed it.

Everyone's very upset.

Not everyone.

I think it's just a matter of time now.

I could hide you.

Can you go in the house? That would be interesting.

I'm not there. I'm somewhere out. I don't... I'm

German.

As much as you are.

As much as Carl or Rudy or Bishop Zander.

I'm not going anywhere.

And straight off the wire, we reported the latest unprovoked attack by Hitler's

troops, which took the lives of 17 ,000 innocent...

I'm gonna die!

Thank you.

We can't always expect to understand why things happen the way they do.

Not yet, anyway.

And people look at our little congregation and think we're sympathetic

enemy, which couldn't be further from the truth.

That's why we have to avoid even the appearance of evil.

Never let anything shake your faith.

Be true to your convictions.

And God will use you to further the work of his writing.

Am I making any sense here?

Yes.

Alright then.

I'll let you get back to your typing.

Bishop, I have a lot of work to do.

Do you mind if I borrow the typewriter?

Do you know the country without freedom?

The country of terror and tyranny?

Yes, you know it well, but are afraid to talk about it.

It is Germany.

Hitler, Germany.

Through their unscrupulous terror tactics, they are making you into

puppets to do their bidding.

Do not let your free will, the most valuable thing you possess, be taken

Germans, arise.

Make your decision before it's too late.

your office down there. I drove all of Amarbrock last night.

Yes, during an hour, right? I didn't see a single one of your men, which I've

requested twice.

And now I'm looking at a little red leaflet which calls the fear of the

deceiver of the people.

Tonight, then. Good.

I'll hit them.

Julius!

Now see how this S, the sharp S, It's an uppercase B that's been typed over with

a P.

It's an American typewriter or British. And here, the lowercase T skips every

time. See how in Hitler, it double hits. It does the same thing down here and

here.

It's a fingerprint.

He says it's the truth.

Will you stand up against a dictator who brutally invades his democratic

neighbors?

And this concludes our broadcast for this evening.

Tune in for more of The Truth tomorrow night at 10 p .m. And until then, V for

Victory.

Where'd you get this?

Found it.

Presentation isn't much, but I thought the writing was quite brilliant.

Found it where?

In my typewriter.

Well, come on.

You coming?

Where are we going?

It is past curfew. Did you know Mendel's was 15 years past 70? That explains

everything. What are you doing with those leaflets? Getting rid of them. The

mailbox was Fogu's party announcement ball. Why?

Because I can't write music.

Then what's the music?

I went out there.

Salomon wanted to be a teacher.

Those leaflets you found in your typewriter. Change all that.

A man finds one in his mailbox.

Reads it.

Can't get down to his head.

Passed it to a friend at work who passed it to another.

And another.

And then now people find out what's really going on and stand up.

Put an end to it.

I'm in.

We can change things.

Not with games, but... With these.

We know what happens if they hurt you.

Do what is right, let the consequence follow.

I love that song.

For Solomon.

How many do you want?

I don't know, 20.

We won't get caught.

Give me 25.

Go. Wait, here?

Right now? Yeah, right now.

You've got punching roll do as well. Why don't you try this?

Good morning.

Morning. Careful.

You never know who's watching.

Now, it's official.

Official.

So what are you thinking? I think it's quicker to get along now than to get

these through. Yeah. Do you want to demonstrate?

Anywhere?

Sure.

And then maybe take the bikes up there.

Hello, Carl.

You're home late.

Yeah, I'll park with you.

Where am I?

That's a lost track of time.

What do you want, Murphy?

I want you to tell me where you were.

I'll hit that.

What is getting done?

Brothers and sisters, I've been asked to say a few words about finding peace

through Jesus Christ.

Jesus

was

a revolutionary.

We like to think of him as always being kind and loving, filled with grace.

And he was.

But the scriptures say he was full of grace and truth.

He said what needed to be said. He stood up, but he did it peacefully.

For Brahmins fought with swords, he fought with words.

He was rejected by the Romans and the rabbis, Pharisees and Sadducees, even by

most of those who knew him.

But he did what was right, and let the consequence follow.

May we be filled with grace and truth.

When the moment comes for us to stand up, may we stand.

In Jesus' name, Amen.

Amen.

That was a brother.

Can I borrow your keys again?

Sorry. Okay.

Let me help you.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Elmer?

Here.

Absolutely. Yeah.

Whoa.

Nice. How was your day at the office?

Interesting. So, where to tonight?

Change of plans.

I've got some more typing to do. Goodbye, Helmut.

See you tomorrow.

Right, I'll see you.

Who was that?

Just a girl.

A colleague.

Just a girl?

What girl?

She's your colleague?

What's a colleague?

Seriously?

They didn't come from...

You stupid boy!

I want you out of the house.

You know your grandmothers.

I really don't care.

And I owe her to your mother.

Is that clear?

He won't tell me.

looks a lot worse than it is

that's

right our records say

Now please have a good evening.

You alright?

Yeah.

I saw what was on that paper.

The red one.

Do you have more?

Hitler knows we're beginning to see through him, suppressor of free nations,

murderer of millions.

The Europe suppressed by Gestapo terror must not remain unathoned.

A determined deed can still rescue you and your country from the abyss to which

Hitler has led you in his life.

Do you want to tolerate having the happiness of your lives taken from you

your children cheats out the most beautiful years of their lives?

Do you want to tolerate this?

You know what I like about you?

I like that you ate all your dinner tonight, even your green beans.

And that makes mama happy.

what else I like about you.

I like that.

Thank God Anne and Max are alright.

Yeah.

Yeah, thank God.

I'm sorry.

Hitler's false halo has fallen.

His words are nothing more than acrid bubbles that dissipate into thin air.

See the little man for what he is, a murderous charlatan.

P .S. This is a chain letter passed down.

I would never have to get caught.

I would never give them names.

Me neither.

I'll just blame all of the bishop.

Did we ever talk about my university, Professor Schwartz?

From your one year at university?

Yeah, before I dropped out.

Gottlieb Schwartz, Professor of World History.

He was... I had my eyes, you know, first time away from home and suddenly

the world's much bigger. I had my first girlfriend.

Clara?

Yes?

Schultz didn't just lecture about peoples and gods. He took you there with

words. He sort of took us under his wing, Clara and me, all of us really.

And without even meaning to, I learned about life, about loyalty and integrity,

what it means to be a good man.

And so I decided to study French literature, become a poet.

And then a friend of mine informed me that Schultz this whole time had been

sleeping with my girl.

Dear Ellie, I would love to invite you to accompany me to the opera this

weekend.

Fran Flair's operetta, Giudice's play, had always delighted me to read the

Italian flair.

Please let me know if this proposal interests you.

Your company would be most welcome.

Cordially, Herman

So you like opera?

I love it.

Are you trying to ask me on a date?

Yeah.

I want you to

pick me up.

Here.

Friday.

Best offers.

Where are we going?

Down here.

Technically, it's an operetta, but it's really... I especially like that aria.

What was it called again?

My Lictuary Kiss.

Yeah, that's the one.

It was nice.

Although Jenny Lynn would have done it better had she been alive when it was

written. Who's Jenny Lynn?

She was one of the most renowned pioneers of the 19th century.

And a favourite of Felix Mendelsohn's.

By whom he wrote Son of Pind, Bastarius.

Who's Felix Mendelssohn?

Joking.

I know who Mendelssohn was.

That's good to know since we're not allowed to listen to him anymore.

was Jewish.

Anyway.

Do you know where he was born?

Leo? Mendelssohn.

No. Right here. In Hamburg?

No, right here.

This is where we were going.

Do you know who commissioned that plaque?

I'm sure you're about to tell me.

None other than Jenny Lin.

The most renowned soprano of the 19th century.

Yeah, and more than two decades after... Stop talking.

terrain.

They're quoting bad authors.

They're quoting Thomas Mann.

Then it's Schiller. He's even got a...

Quote.

And so the English soldier could never feel that he had been misled by his own

countrymen, as was the case with the German soldier who rejected everything

coming from this source of Swindles and Punk.

You know where that's from?

No.

Monk up?

Uh, of course.

He's weaving between Schiller, Thomas Mann, the Furies, he's even thrown in a

little Shakespeare.

For good measure.

Homer.

He's quite brilliant.

So an intellectual.

A university professor or something.

Or someone who has access to pound literature.

They keep an archive.

Copies of bad books. Where?

Berlin. We're only in this region. What about City Hall?

I'll look into it first thing Monday.

Hey, do you think they could be in traffic? Good to know.

is the time to pay when man may leave the blind.

Excuse me.

What I've been trying to do since the other day was to make the priorities of

the whole thing a battle.

Then he's been with you.

An update on the Elgar River trip.

Heinrich Mons?

Heil Hitler!

I understand you archive banned books here.

Yes, yes we do. Show me.

Sir, I want to help you.

Thank you.

That is not what you just said.

What I meant was, I'm not the only one that goes down there.

What's the archives?

Who goes in there?

The archives?

Well, they keep the barren books.

And these?

He's working for someone.

He's gonna tell us who it is.

Rofo?

Look at me.

He's a stubborn one.

Take it off.

I'm sorry.

Who's the book for?

Me.

Why, you like Shakespeare.

I said get out of here.

Now where should you take all the blame? You're just a paper boy.

She's writing these.

the nefarious plan of the Fuhrer to attack the Soviet Union contrary to all

agreements and in spite of the non -aggression pact.

You wrote it.

I want to hear you read it.

If you can.

for him to know that we are beginning to see through him.

The oppressor of free nations.

They found this at his grandmother's house where he was living.

It's a half -minute video.

He's been arrested.

I knew this would happen.

No, I have a cousin in Basel. We could leave now. We could go to Switzerland.

But then what?

We run.

You know what we'll do to our parents.

To everyone.

What if they're doing to Helmut?

Enough, Mark.

You know Helmut.

He'll keep his promise.

Do I tell my parents?

We lie.

Don't tell them anything.

They were rough on you.

The fear wants peace.

A piece of Poland, a piece of Czechoslovakia, a piece of France.

No?

A friend of mine suffers from schizophrenia.

Has... delusions that he's either Adolf Hitler or Winston Churchill.

He's his own worst enemy.

And my colleagues think that you had help putting out these leaflets.

Did you?

There is no one else.

But why don't you hold off for today, and let me keep working on it.

You keep working your way, I'll keep working my way. We'll see you when... I

mean it, let's just hold off for a minute. Nah, this'll be quick. I said

off!

I need you to do something for me.

Why?

Why?

Solomon.

Solomon Schwartz.

Because of a Jew?

Yes.

And the truth.

Then explain this truth to me.

How does one person cover all of Hamburg in a single night?

How do I pose these in Hammerbrook?

I've brought Tona up in Albeck all in a single night.

How do I do that?

I can't be in two places at the same time now, can I?

I know someone's been helping you.

Who are they?

No one.

I need you to tell me the truth.

There's no...

and stop Hitler and destroy Germany.

No one is safe.

Not you, not your family.

No one.

No one!

Who was with you?

No one!

We met with him.

Yeah, he's a good party man, and your mother, she's simple. I doubt she'd be

involved in any of this.

But you never know.

We may have to bring her back in, just to be sure.

She doesn't know anything!

I wouldn't have suspected her.

But then we found this and her things.

You like her?

You're probably right.

But Eunice is gonna find out, I can promise you that.

doesn't have to be perfect.

It's a bit devastating, isn't it?

So committed to a cause only to realize you've heard those you love the most.

And did it anyway.

Send the girl home.

What happened there?

Don't touch him.

We had a letter from Gerhard.

Is he alright?

He's fine.

He said he should be home by summer.

And, you know, that's what the papers are saying too.

Things are going well in Russia.

Sit up.

Sit him up.

In court tomorrow, you'll be in a suit and tie.

Hair comb back, looking presentable. And... You'll read this.

Out loud.

Let's hear it.

I am Feudner.

I express my deepest regrets for the malicious acts of treason I have

You'll have to be more convincing than that if you want any leniency in

highest court.

Little secret.

I've had a nice chat with the judge.

Now, he doesn't want to see this come to the worst any more than I do as your

attorney.

This is your life we're talking about.

This is treason.

Now Carl, on the other hand, says Schlipper is 18, an adult, and a known

troublemaker, assaulting Hitler youth leaders and whatnot.

If you read this statement in court, put your heart into it.

All you have to do,

you know, all I want to know, let's try it again, shall we?

He went up.

All rise.

The Honorable Head Church, Karl Engert, Chairman of the Second Senate of the

People's Court, representing our Fuhrer, Adolf Hitler, in the case against

Helmut Hübner, Karl Heinz Schnibber, and Rudolf Wobbe.

Heil Hitler!

Heil Hitler!

The accusations laid before the court are preparation to high treason, aiding

and abetting the enemy in time of war.

Listening to illegal foreign broadcasts and the publishing and distribution of

seditious material.

The accused stand before you now on this day, the 11th of August, 1942.

Sit down.

The legalists that were written and distributed by the defendant on a

stolen from their church.

Mormons. That's interesting.

So religious.

And yet here you are, accused of committing high treason. I find that

Well.

My intent is to determine who actually instigated this group and whether the

ringleader wasn't indeed the adult of the group, her snibber.

We now call to the stand Criminal Secretary...

Erwin Messner with the Secret State Police, Hamburg.

How many of these leaflets were distributed?

There were 29 separate leaflets that either we found or were turned in,

copies of many of them.

But we don't know exactly how many others remain uncollected.

You believe there were more?

Yes. A number?

We don't know.

Possibly many more. I will say that the content of the leaflets was extremely

well -written. Very persuasive. None of us were expecting to find a 16 -year

-old. Persuasive?

You're saying that the words of a 16 -year -old boy could sway the German

people. I'm saying they were well -written.

I was looking for a university professor, someone older.

We have someone older right here.

Herr Schnever.

Karl Hanf.

Karl Heinz Schnibber was not the author of the Levens.

We found the typewriter. We know it was used. It's unlikely that this young man

was influenced, perhaps persuaded, by his older friend, Herr Schnibber, a

troublemaker. Isn't that possible?

Commissar?

I, uh, I don't know. Excuse me?

I don't know. I don't know. I ask if it's possible. Of course it's possible!

My client has prepared a written confession, which demonstrates very

that he was bullied into this resistance group by his older friend here, her

snibba. Bring him forward.

express my deepest regrets.

I express my deepest regret that Germany has followed a lunatic into a war she

cannot win.

No, no, no, no. The Court of Law, the accused, is free to speak.

Well, that's quite the statement.

Do you really believe that Germany will lose this war?

Absolutely.

Don't you?

And yet, it was only a year ago when you wrote, never before has Germany been

more homeland to us than it is now, in this Athenian age, the dawn of the

national socialistic millennium.

And how did we arrive at this great juncture in history? On the backs of the

conquered.

That's how we arrived here.

The power of this Reich is mired in the blood of the innocent.

In Poland, in France.

Germany's future lies frozen and dead on the steps of Russia so that Hitler can

have his living space.

Ah, yeah, the Allies are up in arms about our living space, aren't they?

Have you never heard of British imperialism, or what the Americans call

destiny?

Hmm? They're hypocrites.

It is exactly the same expansionism that our Fuhrer has achieved.

What did you think, boy?

That you'd write some little insults and overthrow the Reich?

I thought...

I would write the truth and let it overthrow the Reich.

The Reich doesn't fear your little papers.

Then why are we here?

It has become so convenient to accuse the victor.

It is the very reason Aristotle said that in the time of war, truth is the

to go. You mean Aeschylus.

In war, truth is the first casualty.

He was right.

Hitler says whatever he can to cover the truth.

That his thirst for power has cost millions of lives. Millions of lives.

German knows that we're winning this. You only know what Goebbels wants you to

know. I know that in my court you will address me with respect.

Your court or Hitler's court? My court, the Fuhrer's court, the German people's

court. The people deserve the truth. Hitler will stop at nothing. They will

Germany into the fire. Shut your mouth.

Sit him down.

The people deserve the truth. Shut his face.

Shut him up.

Shut up!

This court is in recess.

Sentencing will follow.

In the case against Helmut Huebner, Karl -Heinz Schnibber and Rudolf Wöbber, the

court pronounces all three guilty of high treason and of aiding and abetting

enemy in the time of war.

Rudolf Wöbber, you are hereby sentenced to five years'

imprisonment.

Karl -Heinz Schnibber, you are hereby sentenced to ten years'

imprisonment.

How much do you know?

For your crimes against the right, the sentence is death by beheading.

Any final words from the defendants?

Yes.

I am guilty of no crime at all.

I will die having done nothing wrong.

But your time will come.

The judge will be judged and truth will prevail.

You stay a moment, please.

to have a better life and a better journey.

You should know.

This was filed on your behalf.

Can't say.

It was denied.

You deliver this for me.

Please.

Mother, by the time you read this I will be gone.

I'm not afraid to die.

Father in heaven knows I have done nothing wrong.

And he will be the proper judge of this matter.

My deepest regret is the pain I have brought to those I love.

I pray God will protect them and bring them home.

Please remember me kindly.

And that I love you.

And that we'll see each other again in that better world.