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Mr Böhm.

Good morning.

Must have dozed off.

Well then.

See you later.

Mhm.

Come on, lad!

Heave-ho.

Good morning, everyone.

Does anyone here have anything to smoke?

Him over there.

A cigarette?

A puff.

Excuse me.

Comrade.

Comrade.

Rath? Is there a doctor here?

- Yes. - Come along.

Or would you like to, Dr Kornfeld? - After you, Mandel.

Let’s have a look.

Oh, we’ll have to stitch that up.

Put him on that crate over there. Give me a hand.

Come on.

Stop it, Karl!

Stop it!

You’re joking.

I know that man.

He was in the murder squad. He made a statement.

A service record book.

Krajewski, Franz, sergeant.

Grand Ducal Mecklenburg 90th Fusilier Regiment.

Take photos of the crime scene. Face, stab wound, everything.

What did he say?

I’ll explain that to you later. Take your photos first.

Mr Gräf.

At the risk of you misunderstanding me.

Not a word to my colleagues in the Homicide Department

about today’s discovery of the body.

Why?

I want to work on this case in peace

and I don’t want you to talk about it.

That’s rather odd, colleague.

Yes, a lot of things are odd these days.

I want to stop Wendt’s people from

snatching this case away from us as well.

You must help me.

I don’t trust the new colleague in Pathology.

If I turn up at the post-mortem, they’ll run straight to Wendt.

That’s the impression I get too, yes.

They don’t suspect a thing when it comes to you.

You’ve got to go there anyway.

That’s right.

Right. - Thanks.

Right.

I’m the youngest of the six Luxemburg

siblings: Anna, Maxymilian, Mikolaj, Jozef and Rozalia.

They were born in Zamość …

I was born in Warsaw.

On my mother’s side …

Oh dear, oh dear.

Well then, good luck, Elisabeth.

Ah, it’ll all go wrong.

Mrs Luxemburg?

What are you doing here?

How do you know who I’m meeting?

Pardon? I’m meeting Mrs Luxemburg.

Clara Luxemburg?

That’s correct.

Please do take a seat, ladies.

Thank you for managing to arrange this.

Kawa Polska with sugar, salt and cinnamon.

- I’m afraid not. - A mocha, then.

Likewise. - With pleasure.

Thank you.

I owe you an explanation.

You’re wondering: Who is this woman?

Why have we never heard of her before?

Quite right.

- Why is she authorised to convey her

late sisters’ deepest wish to us?

Yes.

Hmm.

Thank you. - You’re welcome.

Well, I am the youngest of the six Luxemburg siblings.

Anna, Maxymilian, Mikolaj, Jozef, Rozalia.

They were all born in Zamość,

but I was born in Warsaw.

After we moved, after our late father had to endure his bankruptcy,

through no fault of his own.

My mother’s side of the family, the

Löwensteins, moved to Berlin early on,

long before Mikolaj married his Anni in Wilmersdorf.

They still live there today.

As the baby of the family, I had elderly parents,

They died when I was in my fourth year.

And so I was immediately taken in by

Anni’s family, took her

surname, Kazimirowska, and that was

how any trace of my relationship to Rozalia vanished.

They spoke of their sister’s deepest wish.

That’s right. - Hmm.

It’s a note she jotted down

in the run-up to the founding

party congress for her speech.

The KPD?

That’s correct, yes.

Erm, she delivered her keynote speech on the party’s programme

and the political situation.

That was item 3 on the agenda, after Paul Levi, before Hugo Eberlein.

You know that? - The Moscow training ground.

Well, anyway.

She was, after all, still a member of your party, the SPD, up until that point.

Saying goodbye wasn’t easy for

her, as she confided to our brother.

But she couldn’t accept what she saw as bourgeois tendencies …

Well, Mrs Luxemburg, that is, after all,

well known to everyone here at the table.

Of course.

The note.

The wish.

What did your sister have in mind?

The Popular Front.

What? - What?

An alliance of both parties against the reactionaries.

Why didn’t she mention this proposal in her speech?

In her speech. - Yes.

Yes.

Pressure.

Pressure? - Yes, pressure.

You’ve already mentioned it.

Apart from my sister, Paul Levi was

there, Hugo Eberlein, Karl Liebknecht,

Hermann Duncker, Paul Lange, Wilhelm

Pieck, Ernst Meyer, and so on. What strikes you?

No women.

Those gentlemen did not want there to be a joint,

friendly alliance of left-wing workers’ parties.

But that was precisely Rosa Luxemburg’s deepest wish.

That is why I am meeting with you here today.

You are the left wing of fascism.

Your party’s aim is the dissolution …

Social democracy is …

Hold on!

May I ask you a question?

Of course. - By all means.

So, even in the face of this – how shall I put it?

– crisis in our democracy, do you consider a temporary

alliance for the next election out of the question?

No.

Oh, really?

If your party were to join our KPD

unconditionally, we could certainly envisage working together.

Wait a moment.

A discussion would not be productive at this stage.

I am giving you 24 hours to think it over.

I am in close contact with influential figures from the

press and the judiciary, who are calling for this merger.

If you care at all about my

sister’s life’s work or the

future of Germany, we have no time to lose.

Tomorrow, 10 am, 25 Bayreuther Straße,

I shall be waiting for you.

Have a lovely day, ladies.

That’s Inspector Rath, yes.

Where did that photo come from, then?

Paris.

That’s where he was arrested, after a few twists and turns.

Paris? I’m afraid that’s not within my remit. Not yet, anyway.

A party matter, you said?

It’s a case of high treason.

I made sure he didn’t end up in the regular prison system.

On the contrary. He must disappear – for good.

I will do everything in my power.

That Commissioner has been a thorn in my side for quite some time.

What exactly brought him to Paris?

At first it was an internal party matter.

Now it’s a state secret.

He helped an enemy of the movement to escape.

I’m not at liberty to tell you any more than that.

I’m sorry.

Detective Superintendent.

Government Councillor.

What can you tell me about Commissioner Rath’s whereabouts?

Commissioner Rath failed to report for

duty following a botched arrest.

He has been reported missing.

A nationwide search is underway, that’s all.

What was this failed arrest all about?

A murder case in the medical sector.

A medical assistant working for a certain Dr Forster was murdered.

Oh, really? - Inspector Rath

tried to apprehend this man, who

may well be a suspect in the crime.

He didn’t succeed.

And after that, he disappeared.

You can call off the search.

Why on earth is that?

Because Inspector Rath has been found.

Abroad, where he had gone without permission.

Where exactly?

Paris.

You don’t know what took him there?

No. I’m afraid not.

High treason is being alleged.

The Chief Constable has suspended him from duty,

with immediate effect.

How is your new team of staff getting on, by the way?

A useful tool, isn’t it, the one

the Chief Constable has given us?

The biggest increase in posts in

the history of the civil service.

After such a short time in office.

Where is Gereon Rath now?

Miss Ritter, you should be aware of the following: if

you know anything about his illegal activities and

conceal it from me, then you’ll be committing a criminal offence.

And then it’ll be me who’s after you.

Mr Katelbach.

Ms Elisabeth, I almost didn’t recognise you.

I see. But you took a look at me anyway.

Yes, I admit it. But how could I not, with such a feast for the eyes?

You look smart.

Where have you been?

I’ve been to the hairdresser’s. And you?

I’ve run out of cigarettes. I’ll be back in a moment.

Mhm.

Criminal Investigation Department, stay where you are. We’re checking your details.

- Go over there. - ID.

ID. - ID.

Stop!

There! Over there.

Stop, don’t move!

Open up! - Open up!

Open it immediately!

Name? - Matern.

Max.

Lager Mitte.

Next.

Jonigkeit, Müller, Schmidt …

Thanks, Heymann.

You can thank these two luminaries here.

Mandel has been sewing.

We took the thread from your suit.

Don’t touch that!

I think you’d better not get up just yet.

Where are we?

Tempelhof. SA barracks. In limbo.

Join the queue over there.

Henning?

Czerwinski?

Henning!

Czerwinski! Henning! - They can’t hear you.

How do we get out of here?

I’m afraid the only way out of here is the same as the way in.

In a lorry.

Camp North! Camp North?

They’re picking up whole cells and taking them to Oranienburg.

- Hmm. - It always goes round in turns.

Cell one, cell two, and so on.

How many men guard a transport like that?

One or two up front in the cab.

And two Brownshirts at the back with the prisoners.

Armed.

Yes. Then we’ll have to…

On the journey.

Right, in here now.

Matern? Max? - Brock?

Where did you pick him up?

- Party headquarters. - Being transported to Camp North.

Well, any new leads yet, Chief Inspector?

What’s it to you?

Right, Krajewski, Franz.

“Discharged from military service. Pasewalk military hospital. Forster.”

The connection.

Yes? Ritter, Homicide Division.

What do you want?

Since our last conversation, further questions have arisen.

I need to speak to you. In 15 minutes.

Right. I’ve got something to tell you as well.

You don’t seem to want to understand

that we’re working together, do you?

I suppose I still need to get used to it, yes.

Well then, have a good meal.

Here I am. What did you want?

You first.

Let’s walk a few steps.

There’s been another murder victim.

Franz Krajewski, the man who was in my office yesterday.

I hope to find out more details from the pathology department shortly.

But Krajewski appears to have been

stabbed in the same way as Strelow.

And both of them were in Pasewalk at the end of the war.

I gathered that from his service record book.

What? Yes.

Like Wosniak and Forster.

And Hitler.

He wants to destroy all traces that lead to the military hospital.

Files, photos.

He’s having them eliminated, one by one.

Everyone who saw him there.

So that no one can contradict his version of the story.

We must gather everything together before we take it to Gennat.

After all, this concerns the Reich Chancellor.

He won’t be gentle with us either.

How do you explain the murders of the receptionist and the policeman?

I suppose they were in the wrong place at the wrong time.

Hitler is after witnesses, Forster above all.

Why did you want to speak to me?

The schnapps. Or, to be more precise, the cognac.

Which cognac?

You know which cognac I mean.

A very special one from France.

And this cognac? Did you want to drink it?

No, but I’d like it back.

Does it belong to you or to Mr Rath?

I’m listening.

To Mr Rath.

I see, I thought as much.

Have you ever considered that

Mr Rath was assigned to Forster?

By whom, exactly?

I’d been thinking it was the National Socialists.

It wouldn’t be the first time. Out of the question.

Are you sure about that?

You see?

Right.

Now we’ll wait for the post-mortem results.

And then we’ll plan our next steps, agreed?

What’s going on over there?

An SPD rally against Hitler.

We shouldn’t go back to the castle together.

You’d best call it a day.

Hmm.

How many are there?

The police estimate 200,000.

If the Communists had joined the march,

the figure could have reached half a million in Berlin alone.

It’s easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle than

for a Communist to turn up at a Social Democratic demonstration.

Apart from Dr [so-and-so] and her hard core.

Social Democrats of Berlin!

Berlin, Berlin remains red!

We are the Social Democrats!

At least.

The Chairman of the Social Democratic Party, Otto Wels,

takes the floor.

Bravo!

Comrades!

Friends!

Berliners!

No!

Today, we are all united by a single idea.

Whether man or woman,

whether radical or

moderate, we will

prevent the barbarians from ruling us!

Jacky! Well, look who’s here

– Lotte’s a Social Democrat.

I’m not.

What are you, then?

One of us – what about you? Well, same here.

But a bit redder than most people here.

I didn’t realise that. Come along.

Comrades.

Lotte’s one of us.

Friendship.

Friendship. We know each other from Koppeneck.

Hmm.

Here.

... the free press, everyone’s right.

A good vantage point for the bonfire.

Nothing and no one will stop us!

Pardon?

How can it be that we’re not preventing such

a massive event?

The SPD knows exactly who they’re protecting.

The Weimar Constitution.

Yes, and tomorrow the KPD will turn up and

mobilise half a million people, or what?

Why can’t you manage to intern more enemies?

Because there are laws.

But to deal a truly devastating blow,

We need a change in the legal situation.

And there must be grounds for it.

A national state of emergency.

That’s what we need.

You’re right.

We must suspend the Constitution.

Exactly. The question is, how do we bring that about?

It didn’t work.

We’ve got to get inside, set the fire from within.

Mr Böhm!

Mr Böhm. I’ve just come from the pathology department.

And? – Too late.

I was told the case has been closed.

So Franz Krajewski’s body has been released.

What? - Well.

For cremation? Was the body taken to the crematorium?

If there are no next of kin, then the body is cremated.

To cover their tracks, or what?

Do they take us for fools?

Or are they just brazen now?

They’re getting to know me.

We didn’t have time.

And we didn’t have the keys either.

We had to secure some documents that you withheld from us.

Government Councillor Wendt would like to ask you a few questions.

Now.

No, I don’t have time right now.

Yes, you do.

Come on!

- You certainly do. - Over to you.

Come on now!

Mr Böhm, you can go and see him now.

So, do you intend to visit us more often, Mr Litten?

The SA are standing outside his door. They want to intimidate him.

And his clients as well. - I see.

For the time being, I’d also sit on that sofa over there …

Yes, of course, Mr Litten.

But tomorrow morning I’m expecting two ladies for coffee.

So I’ll need the room.

Of course.

Ladies coming round? What on earth is she on about?

What sort of ladies are coming round?

She never has ladies round.

Fancy another coffee? Nah.

But shall we meet up later?

Not just yet.

Too late.

Did you do your military service?

Third East Prussian Grenadier Regiment.

We could do with you.

Matern, Max.

First Lieutenant Heymann, Second Jäger Regiment.

Let’s see who else we can find here.

Who’s served in the army?

- Me. - Then I’ll take the liberty

of organising our escape from here.

Any objections?

Good.

Most of you are academics, correct?

Yes.

I’m a tradesman.

A blacksmith?

A blacksmith.

ID check.

- The Reichstag? - Mhm. Very well guarded.

We can’t get in there unless we climb over.

Perhaps there’s another way.

That’s the man I was telling you about.

He can’t see very well, and his German isn’t great.

Come along with me, then.

If I’ve counted correctly, it’s our turn tomorrow.

A quick, sharp stab.

The crucial question:

Who’s up for it?

I’ll do it.

We should take them both out at the same time.

Sure.

On your signal?

After that, we’ll use the weapons to take control of the driver’s cab.

Sounds like a walk in the park.