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Hey, over there!

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Where to?

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Inside.

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Come over here.

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Oh, right, SA.

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What are you doing here?
- To hand something in.

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Not today.

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The club’s closed.
It’s closing time.

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We’ve got to get over there.

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She’s got to come round here.

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Mr Jacoby. Good evening.

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Mr Nyssen, we can begin.

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Yes, let our guest of
honour have another little sip.

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But he doesn’t drink alcohol.

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Exactly. He has to refuse
every three minutes.

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Alfred, please.

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That dandy from...
- No, thank you.

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Madam,
there’s no fizz left at all.

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I’ll be happy to fetch
you a fresh glass.

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Please keep a low profile.

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Trust me.

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You’re quite right.

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Long live our new Reich
Chancellor, Adolf Hitler!

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Long may he live!

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Hurrah! Hurrah!

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Charlotte!

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There.

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Guard!

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Criminal Investigation
Department. Someone’s climbed in.

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Where?
- Up there!

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Oh, God.

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Alert the fire station on Unter
den Linden. Quick! Come on!

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Ten more minutes.

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My beloved Helga, distinguished guests,

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and last but not least,
dear Mr Hitler!

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It is now almost a
whole month since we

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elected you as Chairman
of Deutsche Reich AG.

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If I may introduce them,
from left

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to right: Günther Quandt, Friedrich

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Flick, Carl Bosch, Alfried Krupp,

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Ferdinand Porsche, Karl Merck,

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Wilhelm von Opel,
Hermann von

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Siemens, Franz von Papen
and Alfred Hugenberg.

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Yes, I am familiar with you all,
gentlemen.

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I thought
I would not need to introduce the

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supervisory board of
this company to you,

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But does the dog remember
the hand that feeds it?

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What did you say, Nyssen?

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Yes, what did I say?

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I’m talking about my ten-point

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plan, which I had sent to you

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to support your election campaign.

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Point one: economic policy.

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It should be, and will
be, guided by the state.

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The state dictates
what the nation needs,

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and the economy— all
of us here—will deliver.

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You’ll see, it’s not
entirely wrong…

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Mrs Nyssen.

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Helga?

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Come along, I’ll see you out.

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Helga?

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I’m sure she’ll feel
better in a moment.

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Where was I? Right.
Economic policy.

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It should be national, but …

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Please come along.

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Wegener, what’s this all about?

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Excuse me, madam, but
we have to go that way.

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Where to?
- That way.

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- Where are you taking her?
- Out.

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That’s not a bad idea.

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What’s the matter? What are you
waiting for? The connection’s been cut off.

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What?

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Bloody hell!

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The timer?

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Come on, then.

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- What’s happened?
- Gereon?

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We’ve got to go back in.

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What?
- Yes.

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Gereon, what are you doing here?

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What are you up to?

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Mrs Nyssen …
- Let me go!

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Madam, you must …
- No!

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Mrs Nyssen!
- No! No, Gereon! No!

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Alfred! No! Let me go!
That’s enough, Helga!

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Alfred! No! Alfred!
- Please come with us.

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Alfred!

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You, your jacket. Quick!
- Gentlemen, the white wine.

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Six o’clock sharp – one
of the most important ones.

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And if you’ll allow
me to mention

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one of the issues
that is personally

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closest to my heart: self-sufficiency.

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Just a moment, please.
I’m not quite finished yet.

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We consider it essential
that our people’s food

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supply is secured
within our own borders.

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Yes, actually that fits
quite well now, doesn’t it?

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Let us now turn to

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what is probably of most
interest to you all: weapons.

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Do pay attention!
– Excuse me.

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Oops.

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My trousers are wet.

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As you know, my engineers have
been developing various types of

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rockets for some time now.

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We should make use of this technology,

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particularly when it comes to colonisation.

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Bear in mind,
from space,

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we can reach any point on Earth

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in a matter of seconds.

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Every location, every
country and every continent.

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The combination of military

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weapons and technological

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progress will propel Germany to

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the top of the world in no time at all.

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Nyssen AG stands ready, ready to

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unleash the elemental forces to

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subjugate the enemy and
gravity, anytime, anywhere!

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Now, let’s get out of here quickly!

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You can’t go any further
here. There’s a fire.

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We have to get through
there. – Not now.

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Things could kick off here at any moment.

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Who are they? What’s
in those canisters?

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Get out of here!

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That wasn’t the fire brigade, was it?

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You go upstairs, I’ll
take this floor, OK?

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OK.

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... will this be
the Germany that

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we have reimagined
in this circle,

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...will also become a reality.

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Alfred Krupp will
become Minister for

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Economic Affairs,
whilst the Ministry of

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Defence is probably best left in my

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hands, as I was able to
explain to you in point six.

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Yes, that brings me straight to …

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point nine.

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I beg your pardon,
but we are faced

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with an extraordinary
situation here.

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The Reich Chancellor
and the President of

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the Reichstag are
urgently needed in the city.

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Perhaps we should continue our

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consultation at another time.

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Get out!

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Everyone out!

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Get out! Outrage!

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What a pathetic worm.

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The greater your will
to greatness, the more

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obvious your destiny
of utter insignificance.

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You are a nobody,
an infantile wannabe,

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A pathetic nobody. Hush, Mum.

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You can’t tell me what to say.

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Shh! What’s that all about?

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Can you hear that?

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Something’s ticking.

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Nonsense, you’re the one ticking.

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And not in the right way.

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There’s something there.

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It’s a bomb.

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An explosive charge, no doubt about it.

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You’ve got to defuse it, lad!

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It’ll go off in less
than a minute.

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We’ve got to get
out of here! Come on!

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You’re coming with me now!

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No.

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You’ll do as I say! No!

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Just go on then.

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Come with me.

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How? Come with me.

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I’m begging you.

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You’re begging me?

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Yes, I’m begging you.

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Get out of this room.

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You want to keep me in
this world, for as long as

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possible, so you don’t
have to face me in the next.

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I beg you.

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My dear boy, my

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dear, my dear, dear boy, I …

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I do love you so much.

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Please.

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It’s all right, Mum.

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We’ll go together.

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The two of us.

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Jacoby? Have you forgotten something?

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What’s this all about?
Open the door!

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Hands up!

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Don’t move!

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This will have consequences.
You realise that, don’t you?

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- Mr Jacoby.
- Przybylski!

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Open the door!

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What are you still doing here?
- Przybylski!

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You’re supposed to open the door!

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Do you trust me?

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Yes.

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What are you up to?

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Citizens of the German Reich.

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In a few days’ time, you will
be electing a new parliament.

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Whoever you vote for,
that is your decision.

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The people are the sovereign
of a country, and no one else.

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Any political force that runs counter

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to this principle must be stopped.

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Today we have

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opposed the misguided
path of the ‘Führer principle’.

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The Reich Chancellor
Adolf Hitler is dead.

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He and his followers have
forced us into this act of violence.

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For the alliance of fascism
and capital knows but one goal.

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War.

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In war, man loses his
soul, his compassion.

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His love for nature and the world.

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What remains is a spectre,

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broken in body and mind.

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We,
we ourselves are these spectres.

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We,

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the former comrades,
the ghosts of war.

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Today we have
killed one of our own.

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It was our final
service to this country.

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Even in 100 years’ time,
people will still marvel at this,

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what we have achieved in
these few years since the war.

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The achievements of
science and medicine,

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of psychology and pharmacology,
of film

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and literature, women’s rights,
freedom

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of the arts and the
press, freedom of

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speech and constructive debate, and, last

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but not least, our unwavering
stance against war.

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The hatred, the envy, the violence,

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All this arises solely from the

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oppressive nature
of authoritarianism.

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Our action will prevent
the

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German people from

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degenerating into human

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machines,
devoid of feeling, compassion and love.

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We are not machines.

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We are merely the broken
automatons of the last war,

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and we are now
retreating into the darkness.

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Open up!
Unlock the door!

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What on earth is going on here?

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But with this act,
we have made way

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for something new
and free in Germany,

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for openness and
expansiveness in the world.

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It is now up to you,
the German people,

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to forge the path ahead.

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Vote for him …

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In the name of humanity.

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Potocznik, do something.

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In the name of dignity

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and in the name of freedom.

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Get out of here!

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I’m calling it a day!

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Police, drop it, now!

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Switch it off, for God’s sake!

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Everyone out of here, now!

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Right then, lad!
- Charlotte!

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Come on! Come on, get out!
- Come on, over here!

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Gereon, stay here!

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Let me go!

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Get out of here!

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Anno, come on!

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He’s alive!

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Hitler! He’s survived!

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We’ve got to get out of here!

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Anno!

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Over there! Come on!

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Gereon?

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Gereon.

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Shh, shh!

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Gereon!

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Breathe calmly.

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In.

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And out.

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Let go of your thoughts.

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And take a deep breath.

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In.

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And out.

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I’ll guide you.

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Step by step.

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Step by step.

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All the way...

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to the end.

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Gereon!

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“Ladies and gentlemen,

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we apologise for
the false report.

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The Reich Chancellor,
Adolf Hitler, is unharmed.”

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However, we have received news

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that the Reichstag is ablaze.

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Communist agitators
have started a fire

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and in so doing have
unequivocally expressed

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their contempt for
the German people.

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Our Reich Chancellor Hitler …”
- Arrest them!

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“… calls upon the German people
to show the greatest possible unity.

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Quote:
‘Do not let any of these arsonists

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or the Communists behind them
get away.

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They want to destroy our state

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and subjugate our
country to the Soviet Union.

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Let us hunt them down
to the furthest corners,

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to the ends of the earth.

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Let none of them get away.

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Tonight they have shown
us their true colours.'"

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Hans Litten, arrested on the
very night of the Reichstag fire.

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As a staunch opponent
of Hitler, Hans Litten was

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tortured in various
concentration camps until he

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took his own life on 5
February 1938 at Dachau

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concentration camp to
avoid further interrogation.

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Ernst Gennat remained
head of the homicide

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investigation unit even
under the Nazis and was

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promoted in 1935 to the rank of
Government and Criminal Councillor.

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He died in Berlin in August 1939.

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Let’s begin.

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Rosa Helfers.

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In 1933, she was
dismissed from all her posts.

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From 1935 onwards,
she was under surveillance

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by the Gestapo; in 1944
she was arrested and

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interned in the Buchholz
re-education labour

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camp, where her health
was permanently damaged.

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From 1945 onwards, she played a decisive
role in the reconstruction of the SPD.

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Ernst Thälmann, leader of

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the Communist Party of

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Germany, arrested on 3 March 1933.

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In August 1944, after more
than eleven years in solitary

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confinement, he was shot, presumably
on the direct orders of Adolf Hitler.

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Otto Wels, party
chairman of the SPD.

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Under his leadership,
on 23 March 1933, the

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Social Democrats were
the only party to vote

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unanimously against
Hitler’s Enabling Act, upon

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which the National Socialist
dictatorship was founded.

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Otto Wels died in exile in Paris, two

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weeks after Hitler’s
invasion of Poland.

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Immediately after the
Reichstag fire, all the

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fundamental rights enshrined in
the constitution were suspended.

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Newspapers that did
not toe the Nazi line were

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systematically banned, and
journalists were persecuted.

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One of the most prominent
victims was Carl von Ossietzky.

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The future Nobel Peace
Prize laureate died after five

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years in prison as a result of
the ill-treatment he suffered.

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In the election on 5
March, which was no

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longer free, the NSDAP did make gains but

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failed to secure the absolute
majority it had hoped for.

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It was the last election
held in Germany until 1948.

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In early July 1934, Hitler had

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numerous internal
party opponents

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murdered in the wake of
the so-called Röhm Putsch.

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This, as portrayed by propaganda

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During the events also
known as the ‘Night of the Long

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Knives’, the former
Reich Chancellor Kurt von

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Schleicher and his wife Elisabeth
were also among the victims.

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Rudolf Diels, founder
of the Gestapo, handed

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over his post to Heinrich
Himmler in 1934 and

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subsequently became
District President in Cologne.

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In 1957, he was killed
in a hunting accident.

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We’ll wait outside.

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Dr Edmund Forster returned to

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Germany after his trip to Paris.

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On 31 August 1933, he
was suspended from duty

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for alleged remarks
against National Socialism.

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A few days later, he took his own life.

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Ernst Weiß based his last

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novel, *Der Augenzeuge* (The

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Eyewitness), on Dr Forster’s
notes and conversations.

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Following the advance
of German troops

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In 1940, he slit his
wrists at his hotel in Paris.

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For the economic elite,

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their support for the
Nazis paid off handsomely.

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Not least through the massive
use of forced labourers,

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they were able to increase
their private fortunes and

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prove themselves to be compliant
enforcers for the terror state.

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Hardly any of them were held to

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account after the war.

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“Charlotte.

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It is unpleasant enough when the air

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over the country
becomes toxic and smoky.

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But to a certain extent,
one can shut this air out.

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One can close one’s windows

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tightly and retreat into the

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four walls of a
secluded private life.

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One can shut oneself off,
put flowers in one’s room

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and to cover
one’s ears and nose when out on the street.

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The temptation to do so
is great, even for me.

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My brother said that in 100 years’ time

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people will look back
on us and our era

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and marvel
at just how far we had come,

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how many new and
good things we tried.

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And how often we failed, too.

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Perhaps.

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But what is now being called the
Thousand-Year Reich everywhere,

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it will make us forget all that.

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Until we, too, forget
what we once were.

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One thing, however, I do know:

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that I shall never forget
what you meant to me.

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That is how I think of
you today and tomorrow.

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And I already miss you so much

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more than anything else in my life.

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Your laughter,

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your eyes,

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your radiance.

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Even the city has turned
grey for me without you.

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The city of Berlin,

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which you showed me,

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where we were happy for a while.

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The city that no longer exists.

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Our Berlin."