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Kiss the bride.

Ah, I'm not-not used to it yet in-in public.

Not used to it.

Come on, Karl, kiss her.

He's not used to it yet in public.

I have to change that, I think.

Bravo!

Josef, I think you should start the toasts.

Oh, no.

My friends,

a drink first to the happy couple.

To Inga Helms Weiss,

the newest member of our family,

and my son, Karl.

To the happy couple.

And since the Helms and the Weiss families

are getting to know each other, I propose a toast

to my in-laws, Frau Helms and Herr Helms.

Frau Helms, Herr Helms.

Their son, Hans.

And all their friends and relatives.

And now a toast to my brother, Moses Weiss,

who has come all the way from Warsaw

for this wonderful day. Moses.

Moses.

And to my wife's dear parents, Frau and Herr Palitz.

Less introduction. More champagne.

Moses Weiss?

Did anyone talk to your sister

before she went ahead with this?

Nobody can talk to her.

Oh, Papa, it's your turn now.

I...

I'm afraid our family is not so famous as yours, Dr. Weiss.

No, Herr Helms, we're all friends here,

all good Berliners.

Moses, too?

I also drink to the married couple.

And my beloved wife,

and my son, Hans,

who is now serving the fatherland.

No better training for a young man.

What branch? Infantry.

I was in the infantry myself.

Captain Second Berlin Machine gun Regiment.

My kaiser gave me this,

Iron Cross First Class.

So I have said all I can.

To everybody, good luck

and happiness.

Oh, Karl, come on.

Let's see if you can dance

better than you can kiss in public.

Dance with me?

No. I can't stand your perfume.

I'm not wearing any.

I'm naturally sweet.

Nah!

Ah, Moses.

Congratulations again.

Now, Moses, I know what you're thinking.

Not much of a Jewish wedding, was it?

Simple ceremony, no breaking of the glass.

Josef, I understand.

You mustn't think too harshly of us.

We still celebrate the High Holy Days.

Please, no more excuses.

I'm happy for Karl.

Uncle Moses, you dance with me.

Oh, little Anna, my dancing

leaves much to be desired.

Oh, please. Oh, go on, Moses.

Please, come on.

Yes, yes. Yes.

You'll be sorry, you'll see. No.

Are you happy, Berta?

If Karl is happy, I am happy.

You didn't answer me.

I answered as best I can.

They are lovely people.

They're a nice parents.

Look, Karl is so much in love with her.

Yes.

I can see.

Moses, eh, Helms?

It doesn't concern us.

They're a good family.

You don't read the newspapers?

Inga getting involved in something she may regret.

Oh, she'll be fine.

Listen, they're good Jews.

Positioned.

The old man a war hero.

It's a pity you couldn't have postponed the wedding

for a few months. What do you mean?

There's a rumor that the Party

may soon forbid mixed marriages.

It would have saved you a lot of heartaches.

Oh, don't look so terrified.

You may be all right.

All right, all right.

First drink this.

Sit up, sit up.

A simple nicotine reaction.

It's an old remedy, tea.

How are you feeling?

Better, thanks. Ah.

I can take the champagne.

I must have swallowed some tobacco.

Oh, Hans, that uniform doesn't make you a man.

He's always had a weak stomach.

I hope they feed him well in the army.

Oh, yes, I'm sure they do.

Besides, you have a doctor in the family now.

Excuse me.

What kind of physician are you, Dr. Weiss?

A good one.

Manners, Rudi.

Dr. Weiss...?

Uh, general practice.

I have a small private clinic.

I was wondering about your practice,

seeing as your brother's from Poland.

I'm from Poland, too, originally.

But you practice in Berlin.

I consider myself almost as German as my wife.

I went to medical school here.

As a Pole, what do you think of the political situation today?

My friend, I never discuss politics.

Ask me about a new treatment, and I'll have an opinion,

but politics, never.

I guess it's changed since my day, the army.

You were in France?

Yes.

Bordeaux, Chemin des Dames, Metz.

Let's pray we never have to fight again.

No more wars.

I'll drink to that sentiment, madam.

Field Marshal von Hindenburg,

there's an officer for you.

Courage, honesty.

The old guy.

Still one of the finest.

That's who should be looking after things in Germany...

The generals.

Someday the generals will take care of

that crowd.

What crowd?

I can see what you're wearing.

Some good army men, and they'd pack up.

Fantastic.

The militarists are on your side of the family.

Grandpa still thinks he's in uniform.

Mama always said he should reenlist.

What are things like in Poland, Moses Weiss?

I run a small pharmacy in Warsaw.

I can tell you about prescriptions.

Yes, you are all our guests today,

so no more politics.

Yes, why don't we all sing something?

Karl, go ask the accordionist to play something nice.

We can all sing.

Something we all know.

What about "The Lorelei"?

It's not approved.

Oh, please play it.

Surely, Heine is appropriate at a wedding.

Madam, I like the song myself, but...

Please play it.

Oh, please, I love it also.

♪ For she is a legend that haunts me ♪

♪ And keeps playing tricks with my mind ♪

♪ The day winds slowly... ♪

This is your ball, kid?

♪ And gently blows around ♪

Okay, Rudi!

I'll get even with you, come on.

♪ In cool of evening she's smiling ♪

♪ Her beauty soft and fair... ♪

Forgive me, my office is a bit disorganized.

It's quite all right, Dr. Weiss.

Mrs. Dorf, you have a slight systolic murmur.

So quiet, it can barely be heard.

Absolutely nothing to be concerned about.

Is-Is there anything that can be done?

I'm going to give you something for the anemia,

which has something to do with the murmur.

Don't overexert yourself.

Moderate exercise is fine.

I'm not afraid of exercise with two babies in the house.

Marta, perhaps we can get a maid a few days a week.

No, Erik, we can't afford one.

Well, try to take it a bit easy.

Don't try to be the perfect Berlin housewife,

scrubbing and ironing all day.

You're much too pretty for that.

Of course, let me know if the weakness continues.

I want to see you in a month, all right?

You're quite sure it's nothing serious?

I'd want to know, Doctor.

On my honor.

It's what we call a grade one murmur.

People live active lives with it.

We'll clear up the anemia,

and you'll be as healthy as you are beautiful.

Dorf...

Dorf... weren't you related to the family

that had the bakery on Kleinstrasse?

I'm their son.

Well, why didn't you mention it?

My husband is hesitant to presume

on old friendships, Doctor.

Presume? I treated him for the chicken pox

when he was ten years old.

Tell me, how are your parents?

My father died a few years ago.

He'd lost the bakery during the Depression.

And my mother, she lives now in Munich.

I'm sorry.

I certainly remember

those wonderful stollen on Thursdays.

I think it was Wednesdays.

I used to deliver them.

Well, I defer to you.

It's a pity.

There were so many good people who were hurt in those years.

That's why I'm so proud of my husband.

Marta, please.

He finished law school in spite of everything.

You have a right to be proud.

Let me know how you feel.

The tonic should help.

And don't worry.

Thank you, Dr. Weiss.

Good-bye. Good-bye.

Good-bye.

Who's next?

Mr. Lowy.

"Warehouseman wanted..."

"Kitchen assistant..."

"Night watchman..."

Not much for a fine legal mind.

Be patient, Erik.

Patient?

Marta, I'm going to have trouble

paying for those visits to the doctor.

He'll trust you until you get a job.

I don't want to live like that,

running up bills, begging people to carry me.

We can borrow from my parents.

I have done all the borrowing I care to.

Oh, darling...

you're too modest.

You don't convince people how bright you are.

Oh, yes.

Top tenth of my law school class and unemployed.

Perhaps you should...

try something other than law.

Oh, my tireless wife.

Your heart murmur is no match for your will.

Come on, I'll buy you an ice cream.

Dr. Weiss said you should have nourishing foods.

Erik, don't reject my suggestion out of hand.

But, sweetheart, it's always the same suggestion.

Yes, let my Uncle... talk to Heydrich

about his brilliant young friend, Counselor Dorf.

Well, at least let him make you an appointment.

Marta, you know I'm not political.

And my father was a Socialist.

What would he think if I ended up with people

who used to bash his head at rallies?

Times change.

Erik, there are lots of good union members in the Party now.

I know all about your indifference to politics

and how you hate civil servants.

I'm a failure.

You are not.

Oh, Erik, I love you so much.

I want so many good things for you and for the children.

Heydrich will look at me and make me a clerk.

I'm no fire-eater.

I hate guns, I hate parades.

I'm a baker's son who worked his way through law school.

And with a wife too pretty and too good for him.

With a wife who will be angry

and harm her poor heart...

if her husband doesn't do her this favor.

Schemer!

You win.

Dorf, Erik.

Age 24, born in Berlin,

graduate of the University Law School.

No Party affiliation.

Well, not until this moment.

Why the sudden interest?

I need a job.

Now, that is refreshing.

You don't know how many braggarts I have to listen to.

Sycophants and connivers

full of love of the Party, the Führer and the Reich.

It's such a relief to talk to a man who just wants a job.

I respect the Party and the work the Führer is doing. Naturally.

Sit down.

Young lawyer, good education,

shut out of his profession

because some Jew or Socialist got the job.

I make no excuses.

Why not? We know who our enemies are.

What do you know about us?

That you are the police arm of the State,

internal and external security.

I confess I have trouble keeping the SS,

the SD and the Gestapo separate.

So do we.

It doesn't matter, I run them all.

Under the benign leadership

of the Reichsführer Himmler, of course.

What do you feel about Jews?

Neutral.

I like an honest man.

I hope, General, you don't regard me as an honest fool.

Not at all.

This pure bigotry of true believers is admirable.

But at times it's better to be neutral, analytical,

cold.

Because you see, the Jewish world conspiracy...

Bolshevism and capitalism

conspiring to crush Germany... Is a cold analytical thing.

Racial poisoning by Jews,

infiltration into our national life,

betrayal of German ideals... Very real stuff, Dorf.

Oh, I've read the Führer.

Then you know what importance he attaches to our racial policies.

In fact, they're central to our program.

We will solve a multitude of problems:

economic, military, governmental,

simply by attacking Jews.

Yes, sir, if others will agree.

It's an exciting prospect.

I'm afraid you'll have to forget some of the notions

you learned at law school.

My mind is open. Good.

I'm partial to open-minded people.

Especially if they start with a good mind.

You were in the top ten of your class

and a commendation from your professor.

Good.

I'm afraid, General, I'm not a military type.

I've never fired a gun.

I haven't worn a uniform since I was a Boy Scout.

That's the easiest part of the job.

Any idiot can put on a uniform.

I'll send you to Personnel.

They'll arrange a security check.

Security? Routine stuff...

Racial purity, political affiliations.

I have to assume you wouldn't walk in here

without being lily-white.

No danger there, General.

You know, in a way, I'm sticking my neck out.

Hitler once said he'd never rest

until it was a disgrace for any German

to be a lawyer.

I'm joking.

Welcome, Dorf.

Thank you, sir.

Heil Hitler.

Oh, that's very good.

Without a prompt from me.

Heil Hitler.

Peter, look at Daddy.

Marta, please, he's too big to be hauled around.

Peter, how do you like your father?

Oh, Peter.

It's only Daddy.

The uniform's too much for him.

Almost too much for me.

Erik, you look heroic.

The boots are too tight.

I'm glad I don't have

to wear it all the time.

Oh, but you must.

People will respect you.

The shopkeepers must know...

That's how we'll get the best cut of meat.

Aw, my shrewd Berliner.

Well, why not?

When you get a chance to have power, influence,

why not use it?

Yes, why not?

Peter?

Peter, it's only Daddy's uniform.

Oh, I'm afraid my first day as a policeman is a dead loss.

It's like a scene from the Iliad.

Hector goes to put on his shining helmet with the plume,

and his little son moves away in terror,

screaming and frightened at the aspect of his own father.

I can't recall the rest; something about Hector

asking Zeus to make the boy braver than he was.

I'll make you both brave.

♪ ♪

Yes, who's next?

Ah, Herr Dorf.

Come.

Oh, sit down.

I, um, I assume

this is about your wife.

Pity I never saw her again.

She's all right.

A bit tired now and then.

The murmur wasn't serious, but she must be very careful.

I take it you're the patient today.

I'm not here as a patient.

What then?

"Security Service.

Lieutenant Erik Dorf."

What have I done?

Do you know a woman named Elka Gutmann?

Yes, she used to be our maid.

Dr. Weiss, you know it's illegal to treat Aryan patients?

I did that out of... out of habit.

I... I used to have a great many Gentile patients.

You and your wife included.

I'm reluctant to come to you this way,

but it's for your own good.

I understand.

I don't usually run these errands.

I'm in administrative work.

You don't make house calls. You're a specialist.

Yes...

rather like that.

Someone told me you treated an Aryan.

I thought it best to advise you before anyone else did.

All this is beyond me.

A few years ago, I examined your wife.

I-I prescribed for her in this very office.

I was your family doctor.

Why haven't you left Germany?

You're not a poor man.

Good question.

Get out.

Get out while you can.

The Jews get ill.

They need medical care.

If all the doctors left, who would take care of them?

It's only the old and the poor who have stayed.

Doctor, things won't get easier for you.

How much worse can they get?

We're no longer citizens, we have no legal rights.

Our property can be confiscated.

I can't belong to a hospital.

I can't get any drugs.

In the name of humanity, what else can you do to us?

You mustn't come to me for help.

No appeal on the basis of past associations?

No appeal.

I bear you no personal malice.

Leave.

Leave.

It's not that easy.

Superb!

Bravo!

Oh, Papa!

No fair sneaking in.

Mama and I were rehearsing.

Anna is right. This was supposed to be

a surprise for your birthday.

Your favorite Mozart, too.

You would like one of the hard ones.

It was superb! I can't imagine it could be played any better.

Oh!

Anna, could you leave us for a few minutes.

I'd like to talk to Mama privately, hmm?

I bet I know what about.

Are we leaving or are we staying?

Anna...

Do you remember the Dorf family?

The baker? Hmm.

The ones you took care of all those years

and who owe you so much?

Their son just called on me.

To pay old debts?

Young Dorf is a member of the Security Police.

He came to warn me about treating non-Jews.

He said I should leave the country.

How kind of him.

Berta...

Hmm?

Maybe we should make the move.

It's been a long time.

We should have left three years ago, after Karl was married.

What are you saying, Josef?

That I made us stay?

No, my darling.

It was a mutual decision.

We both made the decision.

Oh, Josef, we're no good at these games.

I told you, in this very room,

when the attacks began,

this is my country as much as theirs.

I do not fear those barbarians.

You needn't chastise yourself.

I'm needed here.

Look at the people in my office.

But it's odd how the Nazis keep insisting all Jews are rich.

They should see my patients.

Oh, my beloved husband.

It's true.

We both made the decision.

Things were going to get better.

Hitler was just another politician.

Didn't your father assure us it would all pass?

Which forced you to justify my foolishness.

Maybe it isn't too late.

That railway fellow that Inga knows.

We'll talk about it later.

If not us, the children must get out.

Berta, we have been playing the Nazi's game too long.

We have been lingering here, waiting for the next blow.

Think about Karl, and Anna and Rudi.

We will survive.

This is the country of Beethoven,

Schiller and Mozart.

Unfortunately, none of them are in office right now.

Call Karl and Inga, Berta.

Ask them to dinner.

We've got to reexamine some very important matters.

Hey, that's a foul! Why didn't you call it?

Dirty Jew.

Stop it.

Get him off of me.

That's enough! Weiss.

Ulrich. No more fighting!

Leave it to a Jew to fight dirty.

Come on, Ulrich, off the field if you want!

What's he doing still playing for them?!

Let me go!

He's right. Weiss out!

What do you mean out?

I've been in every game this year!

You're suspended for fighting.

You can't do that!

Go on, Weiss. Get off the field.

Go!

Sorry, Rudi.

My friend at the railway station

says you may be able to bribe your way out,

but they'll want a great deal of money.

Well, perhaps I can arrange that.

Where does he suggest we go?

He didn't say.

There's no place left to go, Papa.

Sure about that?

France, perhaps. Switzerland.

The Swiss are turning Jews back, the French, too.

Nobody wants us.

That's right.

I heard a rumor.

The United States won't even let in

enough German-Jews to fill the German quota.

They've already turned some back.

Who cares?

We have each other.

Isn't that right, Mama?

Of course, Anna.

I'm so ashamed.

Perhaps if I talk to that man again.

It's no use.

We've a waited too long.

Perhaps, Berta, the children,

that organization that was sending children to England

and the United States.

Josef, that was closed down long ago.

We can always run into the woods and hide.

We've got to try the embassies, then, the American, British.

Perhaps we can go to Poland.

Technically speaking, I'm still a Polish citizen.

Papa, I hear it's almost as bad there.

We are going nowhere!

Not for the time being.

Mama always has her way.

Maybe 'cause she's always right.

Hitler has Czechoslovakia.

He has Austria.

What more does he want?

It's enough for him to digest all that Austrian pastry

and that Czech beer.

And you believe him?

He is a politician.

All this hatred against the Jews is political.

As soon as he gets what he wants,

he will forget about us.

Mama's right.

Some of them really aren't against us.

It's just politics.

My father says that the generals

disagree with what is going on.

Oh, these awful things.

Yes, I think we can be optimistic.

Anna, clear the table, will you?

I'll help. Mama, don't get up.

A cowardly and murderous act

by the International Jewish conspiracy. Louder, Rudi.

The gunman is identified

as Herschel Grynszpan a Polish Jew,

who shot down Herr vom Rath in cold blood

with no provocation.

Already, spontaneous demonstrations

against Jews are reported.

The German people will rise in their anger to avenge...

Rudi, turn it off.

No, I want to hear it.

Herr vom Rath was shot outside the embassy.

Doctors say he is in critical condition.

Good for you, Grynszpan, you should have killed him.

Rudi! Turn it off!

Rudi, do as your mother says.

And now...

It's all right. It's all right.

I'm respected in this neighborhood.

Take that, Jews!

Cowards.

Hello?

This is Lieutenant Dorf.

Oh, no.

Yes, I'll be there at once.

Bad news?

Vom Rath just died.

Oh, the poor man.

They want me at headquarters.

Some kind of security measures are to be invoked.

Dad, did the bad people kill vom Rath?

Yes, Peter, but they'll be punished.

Jews killed him.

And they're all bad.

Dad's going to punish the bad people.

That's why he's got a gun.

I feel so damn foolish with that gun.

It's symbolic, Erik.

No one expects you to shoot anyone.

They'd be in for a big surprise if they asked me to.

I'm not sure which is the right end.

It's begun.

What has?

Reprisals.

But you said security measures.

Goebbels has had this kind of thing in mind for a long time.

Heydrich will have to control them somehow.

Just hope it doesn't hold up my promotion.

Damn near three years and only a lieutenant.

I was up for captaincy, but...

Heydrich will have other things on his mind now.

This is your chance to impress him.

Darling, don't hide your light under a bushel.

You're smarter than all those hoodlums he keeps around him.

Marta, I'm not a street brawler.

I don't like to fight or tell others to fight.

But you have a mind, Erik.

You're a lawyer.

A man who knows the law and understands people.

The general knows that.

Then speak up.

Don't just be Heydrich's errand boy.

Give him advice.

Heydrich doesn't need my advice.

He's brilliant.

Then help him out.

Encourage him.

He knows how smart you are.

He just wants some action from you.

Yes...

action.

Mom?

Will the bad people come in here?

No, Peter.

We're all perfectly safe.

Damn scheming cripple, Goebbels!

Turned his fighting psychopaths loose.

They're beating up Jews.

Burning houses without any planned system!

Is he acting on orders? Oh, I doubt it.

Looking to make a name for himself,

get high marks from the Führer.

But aren't reprisals necessary?

Yes.

But we just bluffed the Allies

into the Munich Pact.

We are decent, peaceful fellows, aren't we, Dorf?

Even the foreign press has begun

to speak well of us, but after this...

Arson, riots!

Damn Goebbels!

If I may say so, sir,

it isn't even his area of responsibility.

We're the police arm.

Yes, but it would look even worse

if our uniformed men started to burn down synagogues.

Then let them do it as civilians.

No Party banners and no insignias.

And absolutely no uniforms...

Gestapo, SS, SA, nothing.

The righteous anger of the German people

rising against the assassins.

A civilian action, as it were.

Yes, sir.

Enraged citizens.

Of course, we must somehow

get across to the police not to interfere.

We might warn your police units

to adjust their measures accordingly,

which will mean hands-off.

You amaze me, Dorf.

Put out the order.

I'm beginning to appreciate what a fine legal mind can do.

Thank you, sir.

It's a marvelous notion.

Tell them to put on business suits,

and mind you, Dorf, no damage to German property,

and all resisters must be shot.

Bring me the papers

on Lieutenant Dorf's promotion to captain, will you?

Oh!

My name is Captain Heinrich Palitz!

Let me go...!

Police!

Police! Police!

All right, Captain Palitz,

beat the drum.

Go, Captain!

In dozens of German cities, outraged patriotic citizens

are punishing Jewish conspirators

and Bolsheviks believed to be part of the assassination plot.

Jews suspected of involvement in the attack on Herr vom Rath Hello? Mama?

Are being arrested and interrogated. Mama, what is it?

Authorities are convinced... Oh, my God.

No, no. No, lock the doors.

What is it?

Children,

leave the room. RUDI: No.

You stay also.

Mama, what happened?

Grandfather was beaten and marched away.

Most of the stores in the street were burned.

Was he badly hurt?

Mother didn't say.

Oh, Josef, what are we to do?

I hope Karl and Inga got home safely.

Police. Call the police.

Police? They're in with them.

I'll get Grandpa. BERTA: No!

No, wait!

Wait. We must all just... wait

until this ends. You can wait, not me.

Rudi! Rudi!

Rudi...

Rudi! You cannot go out and fight them!

They mean to kill people!

All they need is an excuse! Papa is right.

You must not antagonize them.

They've got all the excuses they need!

Rudi! Rudi!

Rudi, wait for me! Anna!

Anna! Anna, I forbid it!

Come on over here!

All Jews out! Jews out!

All Jews out!

Jews out!

All Jews out!

Jews out!

Grandpa! All Jews out!

Look who's with him.

Jews out!

All Jews out!

Jews out!

All Jews out!

Jews out!

All Jews out!

Jews out!

All Jews out!

Jews...

Satisfied?

Shut up!

Do you know what you are?

Filth... that's what you are.

Oh, Rudi.

Filth! Filth!

You stay here.

Filth! I'll get him.

Filth! Filth!

Let go of him. He's hurt.

What's it got to do with you?

Leave him alone... He's an old man.

You want a fight?

Huh? Fight with me.

Inga's brother-in-law, Rudi Weiss.

Why don't we let them go?

Get off the streets, Weiss.

All Jews out!

Jews out!

All Jews out!

Jews out! All Jews out!

Oh, Grandpa.

Oh, Grandpa, Grandpa, did they hurt you?

No, I'm a tough ol' bird.

I'll survive. Heinrich!

Oh!

Heinrich!

Oh!

Oh, my darling, my darling!

Grandpa.

Now, Mama, Mama, Mama, Mama.

My books.

My books.

Go upstairs, Grandpa.

I'll clean up. No, no!

Listen.

Wagner.

Genius.

The reports on the action, sir.

36 deaths.

The foreign press will not raise a fuss over that.

70 synagogues burned.

Over 800 Jewish shops and businesses burned.

Arrests?

30,000.

30,000... they'll fill Buchenwald overnight.

And the press has given it a name: Kristallnacht.

"Night of broken glass."

Drink?

No, thank you, sir.

You've not many bad habits, have you, Dorf?

Rarely drink, don't smoke.

Ideal family man.

You, uh, think we've stirred up a hornet's nest

with this Kristallnacht?

There will be protests, perhaps retaliatory action,

boycotts and so on.

Anything else?

Very little.

Few governments will stick their necks out for Jews.

Jews have always been fair game.

It's almost is if there's a moral precedent

for punishing them.

That's marvelous... "a moral precedent."

I'm sorry if I said something stupid.

Not at all. "Moral precedent."

And religious precedents.

And above all...

racial precedents.

May I return home, sir?

Mm-hmm.

Saskia, my love.

Who?

Saskia.

Rembrandt's wife.

Oh.

He never tired of painting her.

More likely, he couldn't afford models.

Eh, always the realist.

Well, I suppose... both reasons were valid.

I'm not Rembrandt, am I?

Just another unemployed

commercial artist.

I won't let you say it. It's true.

Even my father knows it.

He wanted me to study medicine.

And me, with my dreams of being another Picasso.

Karl, you are a fine artist!

Adequate.

Inga, please, just sit down.

You know, I can't even earn a living.

They aren't hiring Jews anywhere.

So, of course, the agencies aren't interested.

I haven't had a commission in months.

Well, we'll manage.

We always have. Hm.

God, how I love you.

No more than I love you.

Would you please go back to your seat now?

No.

Inga.

There's no life left here for me,

and I... I don't want harm to come to you because of me. Shh, shh.

I won't...

I won't listen to this.

Karl...

that proper mother of yours,

she took all the fight out of you.

Look at me.

Look at me.

I see the most beautiful girl in all of Germany.

And a very stubborn one.

I'm going to try and get you some new identity papers.

Inga... Then we can move somewhere else

where they don't know us.

Bremen, Hamburg...

Inga... Then you can work.

Inga, you're dreaming... It is the same all over Germany.

"The Synagogue of Munich destroyed by fire."

"Citizens groups angered by the Jewish domination

"of the banks and the press raided the Jewish quarter today

killing several innocent..." No more!

Look at me.

You must leave me.

For your own safety.

Kiss me.

Will it change the world?

Couldn't hurt.

Police. They asked for Karl.

Mama! You should have warned us!

It's no use... they're all over the neighborhood.

Police, Brownshirts. You could have lied!

We could have been arrested

for hiding one of them.

Inga, you make trouble for us.

Weiss, Karl?

Yes? You have ten minutes

to pack a bag and come with us.

What has he done? Why are you taking him?

Routine questioning.

No, no, no. What is his crime?

What has he done?

Who knows?

I follow orders.

A few hours questioning, and he'll be home.

I'm... ready now.

No.

No. I know about this routine questioning.

I know about visits to the police station.

People go, and they don't come back.

Inga... it'll be all right.

I am his wife.

I'm going along. Suit yourself, madam.

But you will not be allowed to stay.

Come along, Weiss.

Get in touch with Hans.

Some of those people that he knows,

ask him to help us.

I will not.

You brought this on us.

Let the Jews suffer for what they've done,

not us, not our family.

Inga! Don't go!

They don't want you!

Inga! They didn't come for you!

Inga!

Oy! Easy, Doctor.

They really did quite a job on you, didn't they?

Six of them.

They wrecked my printing press, smashed the type.

Familiar story.

My father-in-law's place also.

Well, I guess there's no place to hide.

But I hear the worst is over.

Göring is sore at Goebbels for the riots.

Stole the show from him so he's calling off his dogs.

You believe that, though?

Mr. Lowy, I don't know what to believe anymore.

You know, all this picking on the Jews...

What did we ever do to them?

All that business about killing Christ,

that was long time ago.

I suspect the Nazis couldn't care less

about Christ or his teachings.

But then I'm not a theologian.

I'm just a general practitioner.

There you are. Good as new.

Excuse me.

Josef. Ah.

I'll be a moment.

Mama.

Mama.

Papa.

This will be your new home.

Everything lost.

We could only take what you see here.

They robbed everything.

Some heroes.

You will be safe here.

Mama, you will be comfortable in Karl's old room.

We have no right to make it harder for you.

Oh, don't be silly.

It's a great honor to have you here.

Rudi, Anna, take these

into Karl's room.

It doesn't make sense.

Germany needs a strong economy.

We are part of that economy.

Grandpa, I'll help you unpack.

Poor Grandpa. Rudi...

Dr. Weiss speaking.

Ah, Inga.

Karl?

Yes, I understand, but what did they say?

What did they tell you?

Nothing?

Inga, would you like somebody to come over there?

All right.

What is it?

Has something happened to Karl?

They've... they've arrested him.

He's being held at the Central Police Station.

No, no, Inga's waiting at the station.

She'll call back later.

Mama, Karl never did anything.

That's right.

You'll see, he'll be released.

We are being punished for my pride, my stubbornness.

No, no.

I must... I must see that Mama and Papa are comfortable.

Rudi, you will do the shopping.

The list is with the basket.

Berta? Hmm?

Try to get some rest.

I'll get you a sedative, all right?

I'm fine.

You have a patient waiting in the office.

So I do.

Huh? Yeah.

Yeah.

Dirty bastards.

What shall it be, La Boheme?

Traviata?

Heydrich wants to take us to the opera.

Oh, Erik, I'd be embarrassed.

All those rich women in their gowns.

You'll be the prettiest one there.

You're going to have to socialize more, Marta.

I'm quite content to look after the children.

And to keep house for my husband...

Captain Erik Dorf.

I can't believe it.

A few suggestions from me,

a few ideas I've been kicking around,

now he knows I'm there.

And to think that you once looked down on...

What did you call it... Police work?

You'd be astonished by your husband's confidence.

Today I untangled a knot for Heydrich.

It seems that German insurance companies are liable

for all that broken glass.

Well, I said, let them pay

and then let the government confiscate the money

on the grounds that Jews provoked the riots.

Well, that was the truth, wasn't it?

Yes, of course it's the truth.

Kiss Daddy good night.

Ah, you smell like spring flowers, children.

I'm no flower.

You're not?

You're sweet like your mother.

Daddy, why does everybody hate the Jews?

'Cause they killed Christ.

Didn't you learn that in Sunday school?

Come on, you two, off to bed now.

Erik, don't stay up too late now.

Why, who can that be at this hour?

I'll get it.

Herr Dorf.

Oh, uh, Dr. Weiss.

May I...?

Come in. Thank you.

I apologize, but I was afraid if I telephoned,

you would refuse to see me.

I told you, Doctor, you were not to come to me.

I have nowhere to turn.

Herr Dorf, my son Karl was arrested.

Not a word from him, where he was sent... nothing.

He has never had a political thought in his life.

He's an artist.

I can't help you.

We have we done to you?

What crime have we committed?

My father-in-law is a decorated army veteran.

His home, his shop were burned.

My... my family, my sons,

they feel as German as you do.

These measures are not directed against you

and your family personally.

Well, that doesn't make it any easier...

They are part of long-range policies.

For your own benefit as well as ours.

But lives are being wrecked.

People are being destroyed. Why?

I can't discuss this with you.

Please, Dorf.

You're an officer in the SS, you have influence.

Help my son.

I told you not to come!

Erik?

Is anything wrong?

No, dear, I'll be right in.

Your wife perhaps will understand.

Let her put herself in my place.

Let her feel about her son as we do about ours.

Herr Dorf, you sat in my office.

You trusted your wife's health to me.

Erik?

Is that Dr. Weiss?

What is he doing here?

It's some business with his son.

He wants you to intervene?

Yes.

Tell him to leave.

You can't endanger your career.

Tell him you refuse to help him.

I already have.

I cannot help you.

Oh... maybe just a word from him,

to know where he is or how we could get him released.

I can't.

Oh, no, Herr Dorf, please, please...

Good night.

Now hold still, son.

This is going to hurt for just a moment,

but only for a minute.

Oh! No, hold still.

You've got a bad sprain.

Please.

I have a patient in here.

Office of Immigration.

Herr Dorf sent you?

I don't know any Herr Dorf.

You are Dr. Josef Weiss?

Groningstrasse 22. Born in Warsaw, Poland.

You are here on a special visa?

Yes.

You are ordered deported to Poland.

You are to be at the Anhalter Station tomorrow at 6:00 a.m.

with food for one day and one bag.

My wife and children...

The order applies only to you.

Give this to the officer in charge tomorrow.

Now, hold still, son, hold still.

Your hand will be fine in a second.

Goldpeck, Morris.

Ponsilife 34, Berlin.

The name of the whore who gave birth to you?

My mother is no whore!

All Jewish women are whores.

Name of the whore who gave birth to you? She's no whore!

Name, address, occupation?

Weiss, Karl.

Wernstrasse 12, Berlin.

I'm an artist.

One of those lying Jew cartoonist, Weiss?!

Promoting Bolshevik propaganda?!

It says here that you were denounced by a Party member.

The Jew Communist.

No, I-I'm just a commercial artist.

Who would say such a thing about...?

Just answer the questions!

The name of the whore who gave birth to you?

But who would denounce me?

I said, the name of the whore who gave birth to you?!

My mother is not a whore.

Can't hear you.

Name of the whore?

Berta... Berta Palitz Weiss.

The pimp who raped her?

Dr. Josef Weiss.

What crime did you commit to be assigned to Buchenwald?

I did nothing. Try again.

What crime did you commit?

I have done nothing.

Let us pray in silence for the children of Abraham.

Outside the synagogue is burning,

and that, like this church, is a house of God.

In many homes, an inflammatory newspaper is being distributed

warning us that if we show any sentimentality toward the Jews

we commit treason.

This church and this priest

will pray for the Jews.

For all victims, we shall pray.

For all those facing terrible ordeals,

for all the innocent.

Fool.

Let's go.

Father Lichtenberg?

Yes?

My name is Erik Dorf.

"Captain Erik Dorf.

Security Police."

I listened to your sermon with much interest.

And what did you learn from it, my son?

That you are a kind man but misinformed.

But I know what is happening to the Jews.

Father, Pope Pious concluded a concordat with Hitler.

The Vatican regards us as the last bastion

between Christian Europe and Bolshevism.

But that does not justify tormenting the innocent.

No one is being tormented.

But I've seen Jews beaten on the streets,

sent off to prisons for no reason.

They are enemies of the Reich,

and we are engaged in a war, Father.

A war against armed enemies

or against defenseless Jews?

Father, I appeal to you to be more temperate in your remarks.

I will follow my conscience.

Don't let it lead you astray.

You must be aware that almost to a man,

church leaders are actively supporting our policies.

Well, in that case, I must draw a distinction

between what Christianity teaches

and how some people distort and betray that teaching.

Such an intelligent young man.

Our gift to the new era.

Special deportation train for the Polish border

will depart in five minutes.

All passes must be stamped...

If you cry, Berta, you'll make me very angry.

I'm not crying, Josef.

Josef, how we will miss you.

This may be the best thing

that has ever happened to us.

My brother Moses will meet me,

I'll get work.

When Karl is free, you can come.

Josef, I will go with you.

No, Berta.

Now, the children need you.

You and Inga must keep trying

to get Karl out of prison.

Oh, Josef...

how did this happen to us?

It wasn't our doing.

But I'm feeling better about things.

This business will open our eyes.

I made us stay.

My beloved wife, no more of that foolish argument.

You should sell the apartment and the clinic,

find a smaller place.

And you must not make every night call that comes in.

And you will wear your boots in the rain and snow.

Poland is very damp.

And you must not sell the piano.

Anna must continue her lessons.

Follow the guards to the train.

Proceed in an orderly fashion.

Anna, Rudi, Inga, say good-bye to Papa.

Oh, Papa.

We'll come stay with you.

Uncle Moses can find us a home and you can work again.

Yes, of course, of course, of course.

But meanwhile, there-there are the old folks

to look after and Karl.

I'm... I will be fine.

Work at your music, Anna.

Help your mama.

Rudi.

Rudi...

Maybe you could go back to school.

Life doesn't begin and end with a soccer game.

You have to prepare yourself for a career.

I know, Papa. I'll try school again.

Inga.

They can never defeat us as long as we love each other.

Remember your Latin, Berta: Amor vincit omnia...

"Love conquers all."

Special deportation train for the Polish border

will depart immediately.

All passes must be stamped at the main gate.

Papers will be checked on train.

Those without deportation orders will be removed from the train.

Families of deportees must remain behind the main gate.

Each passenger will be permitted

to carry no more than one piece of luggage on the train.

Hey, Dr. Weiss.

Mr. Lowy.

You, too? Well, I-I guess they got most of us.

You know my wife.

How do you do? You see, Berta?

I'm the only doctor to be deported

with his own supply of patients.

Last names beginning with the letter A through the letter G

will board the train from Gate Three.

H through M will board from Gate Five.

M through S from Gate Four.

T through Z from Gate Six.

We should have run away.

They'll never do that to me.

Oh, you're so tough.

What will you do when they come for you,

the way they came for Karl and Papa?

I'll fight.

Come along, children.

Take the place on the end.

Good morning. I'm Weinberg from Bremen.

Weiss, Berlin.

Be glad you're in where it's warm.

Outside, you wouldn't last two weeks.

You a tailor?

Artist... I did some textile designing,

so they assigned me here to the tailor shop.

Listen, does anyone ever get out of here?

Get to work! No talking!

Just getting him started.

Start sewing these on the left side.

A good way to learn about your fellow prisoners.

Red triangle: political prisoner.

That means anyone who disagrees with them.

Green: common criminal.

That could mean telling a joke about Hitler.

Purple: Jehovah's Witnesses.

Black:

what they call shiftless elements, schnorers and so on.

Pink: homosexuals.

Brown is for Gypsies.

Gypsies?

Sure. Buchenwald's full of them.

They give the guards fits.

The SS buried two Gypsies alive yesterday.

When they dug them out,

their tongues stuck out like sausages.

I know who that's for.

Don't we all.

And this?

Idiots, morons, feebleminded.

What is their crime?

Useless.

You should see the guards when they start working on them.

Teasing, beating...

Weinberg, I can't believe this.

Can't you?

There's a house where they take the loonies

and crazies, half-wits, cripples... gas them to death.

Gas?! Less talk and more work.

Real music... half the Berlin Philharmonic is here...

The Jews.

Diathermy, examining table,

autoclave...

medicines.

These are all of them, Doctor:

the office, the garage, the front door and the back door.

You are most kind, Frau Weiss.

I wish I could say the same about your people.

I apologize for the way this was done.

I knew your husband professionally.

Yes.

Before he was dismissed from the Central Hospital.

Other times,

other customs, Frau Weiss.

And the reimbursement we are supposed to receive?

The Party's reviewing your case.

We shall be at this address, care of the Helms family,

if you have word for us.

There'll be no word.

They've stolen father's office and our home.

Come on, Mama.

Just a minute, Rudi.

Mama...

can we take the piano with us?

Maybe later, Anna.

There'll be very little room.

We really must go now.

I know.

Let's play "The Lorelei."

We sang it at Karl and Inga's wedding.

Remember?

All right.

Rudi, go tell Grandmama and Grandpapa we're leaving.

Yes, Mother.

♪ She cast her spell that enchants me ♪

♪ No happiness can I find ♪

♪ For she is a legend that haunts me ♪

♪ And she plays witch with my heart ♪

Grandma, Grandpa, it's time to go.

Grandpa?

♪ The mountain's glory is glistening ♪

♪ A swan came drifting by ♪

♪ In cool of evening she's smiling ♪

♪ Her beauty soft and fair ♪

♪ Her eyes are dazzling and shiny ♪

♪ She slowly combs her hair. ♪

Now who'd like some more ice cream?

Say, "No, thank you" to Major Eichmann.

No, thank you, Major Eichmann.

Mom, can we go to the carousal now?

Oh, I'm afraid all that ice cream and pastry will go

round and round in your stomachs.

If you get ill,

perhaps Major Eichmann will provide medical care.

You want me to take them, Marta?

No, I'll take them.

I'll just watch.

My poor stomach can't take it.

Excuse me.

Come on, Mom!

Your... your wife is ill?

She has a heart murmur.

She tires easily.

She's fine, otherwise.

Charming woman.

I'm always gratified to show my operations

to someone from Berlin.

Train scheduling, warehousing, processing.

Now that we've got Czechoslovakia,

I'm afraid there's another quarter of a million Jews

to worry about.

They say you're a man who gets results without riots.

It's a matter of organization.

You'd be surprised how Jewish leaders

cooperate with us.

Honey draws the flies, not garlic.

That, and obedience to any orders I give.

You understand the phrase?

Yes.

How did you know?

I've seen your file.

I manage to get a peek at everyone's.

Your father... Klaus Dorf,

baker, died 1933,

suicide, killed himself with a Luger.

Apparently was a Socialist.

I'll be damned.

Get used to it, Dorf.

Spy versus spy.

It's how we survive.

It's now how I intend to survive.

How then?

By obeying orders as you do.

Excellent.

Of course it's always a good idea to know your weak points.

Even Heydrich's had his problems.

They say there's a Jew in his family tree.

I don't believe it.

Went to court to end the rumors.

There's something fishy in his background.

At least that's what they say.

I wonder what they'll say about me.

A hardworking, intelligent aide

to the chief of the Gestapo and the Security Service.

Now Heydrich's memoranda

is infinitely more readable since you took over.

"Resettlement."

"Relocation."

"Redefining the Jewish problem."

Wonderful synonyms for throwing the Jews out

and taking what they own.

I'm always pleased to provide amusement

for a brother officer.

I see I've... I've upset you.

I'm not concerned.

You needn't be.

We're all afraid of Heydrich.

Himmler, Göring, Goebbels.

Sometimes I think even the Führer himself.

Heydrich's got a file on everyone.

Come on, Mom!

Oh, this is too much excitement for them and for me.

Marta, I think we should go to the hotel and rest.

Can we go on the carousal again?

No, Peter.

You really want to go?

Yeah.

I'll take them.

Thank you.

Dad! Dad, hurry!

It's gonna start soon.

We can't thank you enough, Major.

What a glorious day.

We'll never forget it.

I've enjoyed it as much as you have.

Your husband's a very lucky man.

I know.

To have come so far in his job.

To have Herr Heydrich's trust and yours.

I meant his wife, his beautiful children.

That's what Germany really means, doesn't it?

Home, family, honor.

And to think I had to bully him into joining the Service.

He's changed.

As we all do in the Service.

To all of us,

especially our children.

Mom!

Jews.

Halt!

Put your bags down.

Empty your pockets.

You will take only ten marks out of Germany with you.

You Jews stole from the German people,

and we reclaim the money in their name.

Just plain crooks.

Show me the money.

Okay.

What's that?

That's a graduation present from my wife.

Those Polish pigs won't care.

They don't know about doctors.

Open!

All right, move along, move along.

Families stay together.

Move, move. Keep moving.

Move right ahead. Faster.

Quiet. No talking.

You got family here, Doc?

Yes, I wrote to my brother.

No talking allowed.

He's a pharmacist in Warsaw.

Me and wife, we've got nobody.

Get your papers ready.

Proof of citizenship.

Come on, come on, come on.

Move, move.

Where's your passport?

All right, what are you waiting for?

Come on, come on.

Move along. Move along.

Come on, come on.

Have your passports ready.

So, you're here. Yes.

Moses.

How was the trip?

Oh, not quite the Orient Express.

We were diverted a few times.

Oh, the dust.

The curse of Poland.

You didn't say much in your letter,

but... we heard.

Bad things.

Karl is still in prison.

They haven't even told us where.

Yes, I know.

You've heard from Berta?

You're keeping something back from me.

Berta managed to get a phone call through last night.

Yes?

The Palitzes are dead.

The old people took their own lives.

Good God.

Well, what did Berta say?

She said they died peacefully.

I'm sorry to have to be the one to tell you this.

That good old man.

So proud of being a German.

And that... that gentle old lady.

They left them nothing, Moses.

I hear that from now on things will improve.

They'll gradually let up on the Jews;

eventually they'll open all the jails, you'll see.

But now you'll come with me to Warsaw, hmm?

Oh, I've arranged for you to work

in a hospital there.

And there's a room for you in the apartment,

if you don't mind living over the pharmacy.

The railway station isn't very far.

No, no, let me, let me.

We'll take the train to Warsaw,

and-and I have a lunch for us.

Like the old days, Moses.

Remember those fishing trips? Yeah.

We didn't catch much fish

but we ate a lot of sandwiches.

Doc.

We overheard.

I'm sorry. I knew old Mr. Palitz, sir.

He was a real gentleman.

Thank you, Mr. Lowy.

This is my brother, Moses.

This is a patient of mine, Mr. Lowy.

And Mrs. Lowy.

Some way for Jews to meet, between Germany and Poland.

They don't mark the roads here with kilometers

but with anti-Semites.

Doc, I was just thinking.

Me and the wife, we've got, uh,

we've got no place to go.

All our relatives are kaput.

Do you mind if we go along

with you?

No charity. Nothing.

I'm a printer.

But it would be nice

if we could be with people that we know.

Well, Warsaw is no paradise.

We gave up on paradise long time ago.

We'll settle

for a bed and a cup of tea.

Of course.

Certainly you must come with us.

Come along.

Can I carry your case for you?

Here, that's it.

I'm only a sergeant.

I can't go poking my nose into SS headquarters.

But just to find out where Karl is.

That isn't too much to ask.

Inga, Muller can't stick his neck out

for, for...

Say it.

For my Jewish husband.

I'm pretty sure he went to Buchenwald.

Buchenwald?

A civilian prison near Weimar.

It isn't so bad.

At least, that's what I hear.

Can I get to see him?

Can I write?

Write, maybe.

Don't say I told you.

Inga, I like your parents.

I like you.

So far, there's nothing in the regulations

against you for marrying a Jew,

but my advice is... leave him alone.

Good advice.

Yes, Muller's right.

Ah, when I think of all that fancy family of his:

a doctor, that wife...

all your marriage did was bring trouble!

Stop it!

I won't let you talk that way.

We have a right to be mad!

Taking this family in!

Stop it!

It's a bad business hiding Jews.

Herr Muller, I beg of you, can I get a letter to him?

Could he buy his way out?

Rich Jews, sometimes,

but a poor artist like your man, no.

Please, help me.

Muller, don't get yourself into trouble over one of them.

It's bad enough we've got them living next door!

I'm disgusted with all of you!

I want that Jew bitch and her kids out!

No! They are my family!

We warned her.

A beautiful Aryan girl like that mixed up with... Jews.

Muller, you are an old friend.

You will say nothing about...

About your Hebrew in-laws?

Not a word.

Threats from England and France...

That they will intervene on Poland's behalf...

Are regarded by the Führer as bluffs,

creations of the international Jewish conspiracy.

The Poles, of course, must come to their senses

and agree to the reasonable request of the German people

for the restoration of land stolen from them.

At the same time, informed sources in Warsaw

said they see no prospect of war,

and that the negotiations over Danzig

and other boundary disputes can be resumed.

There is strong sentiment in Poland,

it is said, to accommodate...

Poland, you're next.

Mama, why doesn't anyone believe him when he says

he's going to do those things?

People deceive themselves when they're frightened.

Like us.

We're no different than those dumb governments!

That pig Muller thinks Karl is in Buchenwald.

I'm going there.

They won't let you near him.

Yeah, well, I'm going to try.

I must see him.

Any chance of us getting out?

Muller gave me no hope, but I'm going anyway.

I'm leaving Berlin.

Where are you going?

I don't know.

I won't let them grab me off the street.

But your mama and Anna.

I can't do them any good here.

Inga, you'll have to look after them.

You think I'm a coward to run away?

No, Rudi.

No, never a coward.

What were you two talking about?

Did I hear you mention Karl?

No, Mama.

I wish Karl was here.

It wouldn't be so bad if we were all together.

And Papa.

Papa is fine.

He's working in the hospital in Warsaw.

Rudi, test me on dates.

Sure, Anna.

New regulations have been published today

concerning activities of the Jews.

They apply to all Jews in all areas of Germany and Austria.

Go to hell!

That won't help, Rudi.

It'll help me.

Are you gonna test me on dates or not?

Okay, okay.

1521. Diet of Worms.

Jews who were

formally government employees are canceled.

Synagogues are... 1618.

The start of the 30-Year War.

All Jewish documents and passes must be sent and delivered... 1776.

American Revolution.

Failure to comply will mean immediate arrest.

1814. Defeat of Napoleon.

By a Jew will deemed a capital offense.

It's good that you keep up your lessons, Anna.

In spite of everything, you must prepare yourself for life.

Do you know where you're going?

Anyplace they can't find me.

Well, how will you live?

Here, take this.

It may help you.

Will you write to me and tell me where you are?

Maybe.

Tell Mama not to worry about me.

Take care of her.

And be nice to Anna.

She's a fresh kid, but she's okay.

Oh, Rudi.

If you see Karl... tell him I'll see him, too, someday.

Bye, Inga.

Good-bye, Rudi.

Good-bye, little brother.

No!

Hey, what's going on?

Spies.

No! No!

No! No! No...!

No plan. No pattern.

The Poles gave up too quickly.

We overran that bloody country so fast, we can't establish procedures.

If the goal were clearer, perhaps we could.

Can you tell me what the goal is?

The elimination of Jewish influence from Europe.

The depopulization of large areas now occupied by Slavs.

The use of Poles and Russians

and others Slavs as labor.

Yes, but what does that really mean?

Impoverishment? Banishment?

Transportation?

Sterilization?

Extermination?

Come on, you've read The Führer.

Annihilation of millions of people

is obviously out of the question.

Obviously.

Some form of containment, perhaps.

Quarantine.

Do the Jews serve a purpose?

Purpose?

Tell me, Dorf, how much is conviction

and how much opportunism?

I'm no psychologist, sir.

Do I believe the Jews have to be removed from society?

Of course.

But supposing this racial stuff were nonsense.

Jews have intermarried with Aryans for centuries.

Then why are we so adamant on eliminating Jews?

The practical side.

Anti-Semitism is the cement that binds us together.

Christians may disagree on a number of things,

but as men of conscience, they can unite in the hatred of Jews.

Yes, but haven't the Jews earned that hatred?

Of course.

Christ killers.

Well poisoners.

Agents of Satan.

Murderers of Christian children.

Well, Himmler might believe that garbage,

but you and I know it's medieval crap.

Lies... but politically useful lies.

In a way, the ground has been prepared for us.

So... ideology or the old traditions go hand-in-hand

with practical modern policies.

Precisely.

Why do you think we've had no opposition?

Why do you think the French and English barely protest?

Because, deep down, they have a sneaking admiration

for the way we're handling the Jews.

What was that word you used before?

Quarantine.

Isolate the germ carriers.

Why don't we start, um...

eastward movement.

Create vast ghettos.

Let the Jews run them.

The word "ghettos" may be misunderstood.

And what do you suggest?

Autonomous Jewish Territories.

Autonomous Jewish territories.

Marvelous.

Will these be permanent communities?

Let's just say...

steps towards regulating the Jewish problem.

Oh, my God, Dorf, I'm getting like you.

Using language to say what I don't mean.

Trust Heydrich to find the most beautiful woman.

Who is she?

She happens to be my wife!

Why, for goodness sake! Uncle Kurt!

Ah! What a marvelous surprise!

I didn't know you were in Berlin. I'm in and out.

My brother Clarence's little boy, the studious one.

Look at you now,

an SS Officer.

I'm impressed.

A very minor officer, Uncle.

Why are you here tonight?

I'm under contract to the army.

The generals consider these affairs a sort of bonus

for my keeping up with the timetables.

I wish Papa was alive to see us now.

I'm sure he'd be proud.

But Marta is dazzling, Erik.

I love her more every day.

And it's more than love.

It's admiration. Respect.

She seems to have won the respect of your chief, as well.

He hardly looks the "Blonde Beast."

The "Blonde Beast"?

Oh, just a street expression.

That was a great honor to me, General.

Not at all, Frau Dorf. The honor was mine.

Dorf, your wife is charming.

We must arrange an evening at the opera.

Uncle Kurt!

Erik...

Oh, yes, forgive me.

General, my uncle, Kurt Dorf.

It's a great honor to meet you, sir.

Dorf, Kurt.

Let me see...

hired by General Van Brauhich.

Civil engineer.

In charge of road building in the occupied territories.

I had no idea how well-informed you are

concerning humble road builders.

Excuse me.

Erik, don't you think you should ask

Major Eichmann's wife to dance?

Remember how nice he was to us in Vienna?

Hmm?

Yes, dear.

Uncle Kurt, please dance with Marta.

Forgive me, Marta, but I'd rather not dance.

I'm so stiff after wandering about those dusty roads.

But we'll have champagne.

To you and Erik and the children.

Affection and good wishes from...

the bachelor uncle.

Thank you, Uncle Kurt.

He's a charming man, that Heydrich.

Not at all what I expected.

What did somebody call him...?

"The Young God of Death."

Oh, that's dreadful.

Who'd dare to say anything like that?

Political enemies, I suppose.

Uncle Kurt, he's a refined and sensitive man.

He could have been a concert violinist,

if he hadn't chosen to serve Germany.

I'm quite sure he's a very fine man but...

policemen tend to make enemies.

He's no policeman.

And neither is Erik.

I'm sorry, Marta.

I really shouldn't go into politics.

That's why I'm still a civilian, I suppose.

But how lovely you are and how lucky Erik is.

A wife, children, career...

We're simple.

We became part of the new Germany.

And so you did.

Well, you could sound a little more convincing.

But I'm part of it, too.

I know what a good job the Führer has done.

Everybody working again.

No strikes.

Stable currency.

And as soon as France and England offer peace,

we can get on with the job.

Then you and Erik are in agreement.

The only difference is he wears a uniform and...

you don't.

My dear Marta!

How marvelously you simplify things.

But you know... you could be right.

In spite of my age and those dusty roads,

I'm going to ask you to dance.

That would be lovely, Uncle Kurt.

Give your baggage to Mr. Lowy over here, please.

He'll see about living quarters.

There'll be eight and ten to a room.

Give your baggage to Mr. Lowy over there, please.

He'll give you your assignment.

Go down to the end of the platform.

I'm Rabbi Kosh.

Hi.

It's a miracle any of us survived.

Mm. I'm Dr. Weiss.

My brother, Moses.

We're on the Jewish Council of Warsaw.

How is it here?

Well, it's not exactly

the Garden of Eden but, uh, it'll get better.

There's a dead infant in that car.

The mother won't leave it.

Mrs. Lowy...

We need your help.

Mr. Lowy will take you to the city.

Here, come...

Come on, you can trust me.

I'll take care of you and the baby, hmm?

Okay... now, come on.

A blessing on you for helping us.

I'm not sure I like this business

of being on the Jewish Council,

deciding who gets how much to eat,

who gets a place to sleep, who will live, who will die.

Well, somebody has to do it.

And people respect you, Josef.

- And they trust you. - Do they?

Ever since we were children

playing across these very same tracks,

I've always trusted you.

You were the clever one.

Do you... do you remember the day

you won the chemistry prize?

Mm... and the principal wouldn't let me accept it in the auditorium.

That's right.

Because you were of the Hebrew persuasion.

But you stole it from his office...

The certificate...

You remember! Yeah.

Oh, yes, and Papa...

with that run-down drugstore.

He made me take it over because I was the stupid son.

You had no choice, Moses.

No, no choice.

Then or now.

That really hurt you...

a long time ago.

No, I-I didn't mean that.

Pampered son, medical school.

I never called you, I never wrote to you.

Well, you were a busy man... Wife, family, career.

I'm sorry, Moses.

That kid was in the first invasion.

He doesn't talk much about it, but he saw plenty.

Those 88's really gave the Polacks a good scare, eh, Hans?

They're good guns.

Me, I guess I'm too old... A behind-the-lines soldier.

I've been transferred to Buchenwald.

Buchenwald? Guard duty... administration.

I'd rather be up-front like Hans,

but they need guards in these prisons.

Buchenwald... You said Karl was there.

Did I?

Yes. Right after he was arrested,

you said most of them were sent to Buchenwald.

Maybe he was.

Muller... will you try to find him for me?

Find out how he is?

Inga,

there are 10,000, maybe 20,000 prisoners there.

Well, surely you can find him.

Karl Weiss of Berlin, an artist.

I'm sure he's all right.

Better inside than in Poland, eh?

Hans, you can tell her what happens to Jews in Poland.

I heard it gets pretty rough.

The old ones with the beards go first.

They string 'em up in the town square.

I'm telling you,

it's going to get worse for Jews.

Here in Germany, also.

Now that the damned English and the French are fighting us.

And everybody knows it's the Jews that got them into this.

He's right.

Inga, those two next-door, they are a danger to us.

Inga, darling, Muller knows what he's talking about.

Maybe your mother-in-law and her daughter should leave.

No. They are my family as much as you are.

But you can get us all in trouble!

Yeah, harboring criminals,

protecting fugitives... It's a... bad business.

And you should stop trying to see Karl.

He brought this on you.

I can't believe this is my family.

Look who's talking.

Look who brought Jews here

in the first place.

Damn you!

Damn you!

Mama...

do you think anyone plays our piano anymore?

Papa? Mm.

There's no harm in trying.

Soon it will be a new year.

Let us hope it will be a better one.

Mama, we must never give up hope. Mm.

Ooh! You're very cold.

Oh, I'm always cold.

Josef says it's my blue blood.

What were they yelling about?

Nothing important.

Your parents want to throw us out.

Anna.

Perhaps if Anna and I found...

a place with one of Josef's patients.

Papa's patients are gone...

In prison or just gone.

Anna, please.

There is no hope.

Karl is in prison, and Rudi ran away!

Never a word from him!

And Papa, in Poland, where it's like they came after him!

Mama, you're acting as if this is a play,

writing letters, talking about Papa's patients.

It does no harm.

You always had that notion

that you were someone special, so fine,

so educated,

the Nazis would never hurt you or your children!

And look! Look what's happened to us!

Anna, your mother can't be blamed.

New Year's Eve, and who knows if any one of us

will be alive for the next New Year!

Anna.

No...!

Anna...

Please, please, my baby, don't...

don't cry.

Rudi wouldn't like it, hmm?

Rudi...

Yes, we'll soon hear from Rudi.

No. Rudi will get us out, I know...

No! No, I... No, I won't listen to any more lies!

Anna!

No! I'm running away, too!

Inga, stop her!

No, wait a minute.

You don't have any money, you don't have anyplace to go.

Rudi was strong and tough.

Oh, leave me alone! I know I can't go anywhere!

Anna? Please!

She'll be all right.

Streets are full of police... They'll send her right home.

Please...

Please?

Oh, please let me go.

Let me go to my house.

Oh, please...

Please?

Please... please...

Please...

Oh, please, don't...

No, no...

No, stop...

Anna!

Anna, Anna...

Anna...

Mama...

Oh... Mama!

Mama...

Oh, Mama...

Oh...

With the surrender of France,

the Führer has announced

he has no more territorial claims in Europe.

France thus joins Holland, Belgium, Norway, Denmark,

Austria, Czechoslovakia, and the greater part of Poland

in forming the New Order of Europe.

Regarding the occupation of France,

French citizens who do not resist

and are not part of the Bolshevik-Jewish apparatus

will be decently treated.

And the Führer has reaffirmed

his friendly and fraternal relations

with the people of the Soviet Union.

Wait, wait, it'll come the Russian's turn.

When will our turn come, Weinberg?

Don't ask me, Weiss.

Maybe I'd be better off in the quarry,

where they'd kill me in a hurry.

Don't say that.

I hear some rich guy bought his way out.

50,000 Swiss francs.

His wife got it to the SS Commandant.

His wife.

I haven't heard from my wife in over a year.

Why should you be different?

We're talking about wives.

Like that, huh?

Don't tease me, Weinberg.

Business, Weiss, not sex.

One of the SS sergeants pays me for it...

Presents for his mistress.

Good rye bread.

A bonus for lace drawers I made for his girl.

Take half.

I shouldn't, Weinberg.

All I ever do is complain. Take it.

Thank you.

Mmm...

Swallow fast, hide the bread.

Aw, the hell with him.

Hey, Weiss.

Eating in the barracks is forbidden!

Lay off, Mellneck... you kapos are worse than the SS.

You're a Jew, aren't you? You're one of us... give us a break!

Shut up. I do what I do because they tell me to.

Like bother us over a lousy bit of bread?

Doctor's son from Berlin, eh, Weiss?

Learning to be a tough guy.

Give me that bread! No!

Mellneck, lay off!

Weiss, give it to him! It's mine! It's mine! I won't!

Give me that bread! Cut it out! For God's sake,

Jews don't fight Jews!

Give me back that bread! Give it to me!

Give me that bread! Give me that bread!

Give me the bread, you... you...

Give me... give me the bread!

Give me...!

Fighting in barracks!

You're both on report! Call the guard!

Weiss didn't mean anything!

I'm the one who sneaked the bread in.

Shut up!

Inga... Inga...

Easy, Weiss, don't waste breath.

I want to tell him... "You win.

"You can do anything you want to me.

Kill me."

Listen, Weiss...

I'm no religious man but...

I heard a rabbi say, the day before we were arrested,

every one of us who lives...

is a sanctification.

I don't want to live.

Sure you do.

Groan if it'll help.

Don't be ashamed.

So you're Heydrich's new boy.

Sit down.

Heydrich's eyes and ears.

I guess they sent you to Warsaw to check up on me.

I know what they think of me:

Hans Frank,

loudmouthed governor- general of Poland.

By no means. You're highly regarded.

Like hell.

I'm here because I'm a smart lawyer.

Bailed Hitler and Göring out of jail

a hundred of times in the old days.

I'm aware of your legal services to the Party.

It gives us something in common.

I'm a lawyer, too.

Are you?

Heydrich's hiring a better class of clerk?

Oh, don't be insulted.

I've heard a lot about you...

A master of terminology.

I try to follow up on Heydrich's requests.

Less modesty, Captain.

This stinking Warsaw, for example:

"Autonomous Jewish Territory."

Your phrase for a walled-in sewer full of Jews.

We asked you to build a wall around a ghetto.

Our directives...

Our directives?!

You don't issue directives! You carry them!

That damn wall!

So Heydrich can keep shoving Jews at me!

Disease! Filth! Corruption!

The Jew dregs of Germany, Poland, Czechoslovakia, Austria!

Autonomous Jewish Territory!

These Jews are going to have to disappear.

Disappear?

I can see through that baby face.

You know what I mean.

No such plan is contemplated.

You'll ask me to do your bloody work for you.

Well, don't be surprised if I start without your permission!

What the hell do you know?

I was head of the Party's legal office

when you were in short pants.

Yes, Heydrich has a file on your legal career.

Does he?

Interesting details.

Your passion for justice.

Objecting to the murder of Ernst Röhm...

Not at all what the Führer had in mind

for the government of Poland.

I heard you were just another boot-licker.

Apparently you're not.

How many streets are they going to close?

Seems they do intend to wall us in.

11 miles of it.

Some wall.

Keep us in and the Poles out.

It's a damn prison.

It seems to me they're trying to make Warsaw the supreme ghetto.

At the least a ghetto is something we can understand!

We'll be allowed our schools, our hospitals...

An administration.

They need us.

For how long?

I beg your pardon?

How long will they need us?

What do several million poor Jews mean to them?

Dr. Weiss, we have no option but to cooperate.

To provide the work details, coordinate housing.

I've seen those work details.

People taken away, worked to death, shot, beaten.

That's right.

I've been on them.

In the ghetto of Razuk, the Jewish Council

failed to deliver the work quota.

The council members were hanged.

We must cooperate with them.

Poland's been conquered.

We are what we have always have been...

victims.

And why all this attention if we're no threat to them?

We must obey orders.

We must crack down on smugglers

and resistors.

Resistance is foolish.

Foolish!

We can only pray for things to get better.

At first, she was not so bad,

but in the last few months,

she doesn't speak, Doctor.

She recognizes no one.

Since the incident.

Yes.

What can I do to help?

Well, is there no, uh, special therapy or, um, a sanatorium

that could help her?

Perhaps I can help.

Nurse, we have a patient for Hadamar.

Inform them.

Yes, Doctor.

Hadamar?

A hospital for mental problems.

Will she be treated very well there?

Within the limitations of a wartime economy.

Your sister-in-law can stay here

for the rest of the day.

We'll arrange transportation.

You can bring her things here tomorrow.

Anna...

you know me.

Listen, darling, when you feel better,

your mama and I will come visit you.

I promise you that.

Oh, no, wait.

Am I doing the right thing?

These problems are best handled by professionals.

Yeah.

Give my regards to your mother-in-law.

Oh...

Thank you.

Good-bye, Anna.

"It is with much regret

"that we must inform you

"of the death of your daughter,

Fraulein Anna Weiss."

Mama, you don't have to read this again.

"Although we did all we could to help, we gave her every care,

"she refused to take nourishment,

"did not respond to medication,

"and on June the third, died of pneumonia and malnutrition.

"In view...

"of the unsettled conditions now prevailing,

"we have taken the liberty of cremating her remains

"and providing burial...

near the sanatorium."

Mama, perhaps it's better.

We don't know if Anna would ever have been well again.

She loved everyone.

Oh, Mama...

Oh, God...

"No more clothing vouchers to be issued to Jews.

"All Jews failing to have registered with the police

"must do so at once.

"All Jews must be in possession

"of their yellow identification cards

"at all times.

"Jews may not use public transportation.

"Jews may not use

"public libraries.

"it is forbidden for Jewish children

"to attend public schools.

"It is forbidden to sell luggage, knapsacks, valises

"or leather to Jews.

"Jews may not carry knapsacks or valises

"without police permits.

"It is strictly forbidden for Aryans

to trade or do any business whatsoever with Jews."

Hey, you with the knapsack.

Let's see your papers. Give us the sack.

He will not.

You...

Give me that knapsack!

Huh?

It's mine!

He never paid me for it.

I want it back!

You sold it to him?

Yes, I sold it to him,

before you put up those... those new rules!

Look, don't try to get away with anything.

You owe me for it.

And if they confiscate it, who's out the money?

Quick, in the back room.

Why did you do that?

Because you were in trouble.

You're not a Czech.

I'm a German.

Mm-hmm.

A Jew.

What are you doing here?

I ran away.

Ah.

I'm Rudi Weiss.

My name is Helena Slomova.

It's been a long time since I held a girl's hand.

Too busy running.

Where will you go now?

I don't know.

I'm sorry.

That's all right.

I didn't mind.

Is this shop yours?

No, it's my father's.

But my parents were sent to Poland.

I don't know where.

I haven't heard from them.

Why were they arrested?

They said my father was a Zionist agent.

Zionist.

People who want to go to Palestine.

What's so funny?

It's just that there weren't very many in Berlin.

Old men with beards, kids with ear locks,

rattling cans for coins.

Better close up, Helena.

Gestapo is checking the shops.

Thank you.

I will.

Come.

Come with me.

I've been alone too long.

I'm glad I found you.

All because of your knapsack.

Don't you have a boyfriend,

relatives who will come here, wonder who I am?

That doesn't matter anymore.

I used to be a proper girl, but, uh...

I live from day to day now.

Helena Slomova,

who rescued me in a luggage shop.

It's going to get worse, you know.

You saw those regulations the Germans put up.

More people will be sent away

like my mother and father.

What will you do?

I don't know.

I wish I could go somewhere.

Palestine.

There are ways of getting out.

Come with me.

With no money? No papers?

I got this far.

Yes, but I would be a hindrance to you.

You'd be surprised what a diet of turnips can do.

Helena, the worst thing is to be alone.

My father's gone.

My brother's in prison.

My mother and my sister might

just as well be in a prison in Berlin.

I need someone to hold;

to talk to.

I'll teach you to sleep in haystacks

and steal from farmers.

It sounds awful.

Better than staying here,

waiting for them to come and get you.

When I was a little girl in Hebrew school,

we learned the story of Ruth.

Who was she?

You only have to know one part:

"Whither thou goest...

I will go."