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ΔΆΣΟΣ ΘΕΏΝ

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ΚΆΠΟΤΕ ΓΝΩΣΤΉ ΓΙΑ ΤΗΝ

ΔΙΑΚΟΣΜΗΤΙΚΌ ΣΤΥΛ ΜΠΑΡΌΚ

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Σύμφωνα με τα κίνητρα του Balys Sruoga

ΜΥΘΙΣΤΌΡΗΜΑ «ΔΆΣΟΣ ΤΩΝ ΘΕΏΝ»

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ΣΤΗ ΜΈΣΗ ΤΟΥ ΤΟ

20ΟΥ ΑΙΏΝΑ ΣΤΗ ΓΕΡΜΑΝΊΑ

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ΘΑ ΜΠΟΡΟΎΣΕ ΝΑ ΕΠΑΊΡΕΤΑΙ ΓΙΑ ΣΤΡΑΤΏΝΕΣ.

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ΝΑ ΚΑΤΑΛΆΒΕΙ ΤΗΝ ΕΣΩΤΕΡΙΚΉ ΚΑΤΆΣΤΑΣΗ

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ΕΝΌΣ ΣΤΡΑΤΌΠΕΔΟΥ ΣΥΓΚΈΝΤΡΩΣΗΣ ΚΆΤΟΙΚΟΣ

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ΘΑ ΠΡΈΠΕΙ ΝΑ ΑΛΛΆΞΟΥΜΕ ΟΛΌΚΛΗΡΟ ΣΚΕΠΤΙΚΌ ΜΑΣ.

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ΠΡΏΤΑ ΑΠΌ ΜΠΆΝΙΟΥ, ΧΡΕΙΆΖΕΤΑΙ Η ΚΟΙΝΉ ΤΩΝ

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ΝΑ ΣΤΑΛΕΊ ΣΤΙΣ ΑΠΕΡΙΌΡΙΣΤΕΣ ΔΙΑΚΟΠΈΣ.

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ΤΟΥΛΆΧΙΣΤΟΝ ΓΙΑ ΈΝΑ ΔΙΆΣΤΗΜΑ

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ΜΥΑΛΌ ΜΑΣ ΘΑ ΠΡΈΠΕΙ ΝΑ ΑΝΤΙΚΑΤΑΣΤΑΘΕΊ

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ΜΕ ΤΑ ΠΡΩΤΌΓΟΝΑ ΈΝΣΤΙΚΤΑ

πείνα, αυτοσυντήρησης.

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Πρέπει να γίνει μια σαφής διαχωριστική γραμμή

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μεταξύ ενός άνδρα και ένα θηρίο,

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μεταξύ ζωής και θανάτου.

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Μητέρα του Θεού!

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Τι κάνεις εδώ;

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Τι κάνεις εδώ, Σερ!

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Μαρία!

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Maria, who's that man?

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Maria!

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What's going on?

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Who, sir, would you be?

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Who would you be, sir?

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Take your documents, Professor.

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You're coming with us.

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- What documents? - A passport.

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It's a misunderstanding.

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I'll be right back.

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I'll make herring with

hot potatoes for dinner.

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Okay.

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I'll be right back.

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What have you been doing for

the past two weeks, Professor?

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-Τις τελευταίες δύο εβδομάδες, θ... - κάθονται.

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Έχω ήδη πολύ απασχολημένος,

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Έχω μετάφραση ενός παιχνιδιού σε στίχο...

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Παρακαλώ καθίστε.

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... σε στίχο, στο Ίαμβος, για το θέατρο.

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Έχω επίσης γράψει μια μελέτη

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την αναγέννηση της Φλωρεντίας.

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Μπορείτε να δώσετε διαλέξεις στο Πανεπιστήμιο.

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ΘΑ ΠΡΈΠΕΙ ΝΑ ΈΧΕΤΕ ΠΑΡΑΤΗΡΉΣΕΙ ΥΠΉΡΧΑΝ

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ΌΛΟ ΚΑΙ ΛΙΓΌΤΕΡΟ ΟΙ ΜΑΘΗΤΈΣ

ΚΛΕΙΣΤΌ ΤΈΛΟΣ ΔΕΝ ΑΦΉΝΕΙ ΚΑΝΈΝΑΣ.

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ΤΙ ΕΊΝΑΙ ΑΥΤΆ ΠΟΥ ΛΕΣ;

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ΧΘΕΣ ΈΔΩΣΑ ΜΙΑ ΔΙΆΛΕΞΗ

ΣΤΟ Ο ΓΕΡΜΑΝΙΚΌΣ ΡΟΜΑΝΤΙΣΜΌΣ

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-ΚΑΙ ΥΠΉΡΞΑΝ ΑΡΚΕΤΟΊ ΜΑΘΗΤΈΣ.

-ΑΡΚΕΤΆ? -ΝΑΙ, ΑΡΚΕΤΆ!

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ΊΔΙΩΝ ΤΩΝ ΛΕΤΤΟΝΏΝ ΚΑΙ ΕΣΘΟΝΏΝ ΑΠΆΝΤΗΣΕ

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ΓΙΑ ΤΗΝ ΠΡΌΣΚΛΗΣΗ ΜΑΣ ΝΑ ΚΙΝΗΤΟΠΟΙΉΣΕΙ.

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ΑΛΛΆ ΑΥΤΉ Η ΧΏΡΑ?

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ΓΎΡΙΣΕ ΔΎΟ ΑΝΆΠΗΡΟΥΣ ΚΑΙ ΤΡΕΛΌΣ

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ΣΤΟ ΓΡΑΦΕΊΟ ΠΡΟΣΛΉΨΕΩΝ.

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ΤΙ ΘΈΑΤΡΟ ΕΊΝΑΙ ΑΥΤΌ?

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ΕΊΣΤΕ ΔΗΜΟΦΙΛΕΊΣ ΜΕΤΑΞΎ ΤΩΝ ΜΑΘΗΤΏΝ.

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ΔΕΝ ΈΡΧΟΝΤΑΙ ΓΙΑΤΊ

ΕΠΙΡΡΟΉ ΣΑΣ.

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ΔΕΝ ΕΊΜΑΙ ΔΗΜΟΦΙΛΉΣ ΣΤΗ ΧΏΡΑ ΜΟΥ.

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ΔΕΝ ΔΙΑΒΆΖΩ ΕΦΗΜΕΡΊΔΕΣ,

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ΔΕΝ ΕΝΔΙΑΦΈΡΟΜΑΙ ΓΙΑ ΠΟΛΙΤΙΚΉ,

ΕΊΜΑΙ ΑΠΛΆ ΈΝΑΣ ΚΑΘΗΓΗΤΉΣ.

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ΑΝ ΘΈΛΕΤΕ ΓΡΆΨΤΕ ΚΆΤΩ ΕΙΔΙΚΌ ΕΊΜΑΙ ΠΟΙΗΤΉΣ ΚΑΘΏΣ ΚΑΙ.

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-ΝΑΙ, ΈΝΑΣ ΠΟΙΗΤΉΣ. -ΠΟΙΗΤΉΣ

ΜΠΟΡΕΊ ΕΠΊΣΗΣ ΝΑ ΕΊΝΑΙ ΕΠΙΚΊΝΔΥΝΟ.

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ΠΏΣ ΜΠΟΡΕΊ ΝΑ ΕΊΝΑΙ ΕΠΙΚΊΝΔΥΝΟ?

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ΠΏΣ?

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ΜΠΟΡΕΊΤΕ ΝΑ ΔΏΣΕΤΕ ΔΙΑΛΈΞΕΙΣ.

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Ειρωνικά σας σχόλια,

κρύος παρατηρήσεις σας.

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Αυτό που ξέρετε πώς να το κάνουμε.

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Ό, τι συνέβη τόσο γρήγορα.

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A trip in a crammed train to Tilsit,

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a drive by truck from Tilsit to Gdansk.

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Swamp, forest and then

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in front of our eyes

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a sign on the gates of

the concentration camp:

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"Everyone gets what one deserves".

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Attention! Caps on! Caps off!

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Attention!

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Fresh air.

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A resort.

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- What do you mean a resort?

- A seaside resort, pine trees.

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Hello, Lithuanians.

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We knew you're coming.

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We've been waiting.

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And earlier on, we've been waiting

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for the Lithuanian sausage.

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Pork fat.

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You'll put your suitcases

and coats into the cart.

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Golden teeth, watches, rings,

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all gold

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you must give to the Reich.

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Have a watch?

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Have a watch?

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Get in line, you morons.

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Faster.

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How many of you stinking pigs are there?

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A watch?

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One. Two. Three.

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I said stand still.

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Asshole.

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I'm here to see Commissar Hinkst.

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I was at the educational administration.

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I was told my husband should be here.

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Madame, I can't help you.

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Please.

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I don't know if he's alive.

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When they took the Professor,

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they said not for long.

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It's been two weeks.

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You are the Professor's wife?

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Yes.

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I was his student.

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He's safe and sound.

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Can I see him?

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Unfortunately, the Professor is not

in Lithuania. They took him away.

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Took him away? Where?

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I don't know. The Gestapo

doesn't give answers.

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Forgive me, Madame.

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Christ...

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Sir...

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Please look, officer, how

they've dressed me.

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See?

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Sir, sir officer, sir officer...

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Look...

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Be kind, could you find anything better?

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Christ, just look how

they've dressed me, huh?

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Could you find anything?

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You think this is a store?

It's a concentration camp,

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you fucking dead meat! Mouth!

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Do you have golden teeth?

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Of what use are you to the Third Reich?

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What can you do?

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I can write poems.

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I can write plays.

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I can type.

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I could teach theatre history in the camp,

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lecture on Stansilavky method...

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Shut up, piece of shit.

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Mouth!

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You don't have golden teeth either?

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What can you do?

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I can build a house.

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I can make good beer.

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- I can make schnapps. - Schnapps?

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The entire neighbourhood

knows Tadas' schnapps.

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Schnapps good.

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Yes, good.

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You have syphilis?

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Mouth!

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Eh, sure you have syphilis.

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What can you do?

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I can herd cows.

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That means nothing. Son of a bitch.

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Andrzej Germinski. Polish.

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A former boxer. A former

officer of the Polish Army.

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Arranged boxing matches in the camp.

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Andrzej had an exemplary fist

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while the teeth of the

prisoners weren't that strong.

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Bruno Monschtet. A

German from Gdansk.

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Head of the camp's political division.

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A bookkeeper by profession.

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Αποφασίζοντας δεκανέας.

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Για μένα, ένα νέο κατάδικος, συμβούλεψε να βάλει

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η συνείδησή μου σε σειρά:

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για να απαλλαγούμε από το παρελθόν της πνευματικής μου

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και να αρχίσει τη ζωή ενός εγκληματία.

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-Γιατί συνελήφθησαν σας; -Δεν ξέρω.

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Δεν ξέρω γιατί συνελήφθη.

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Είμαστε εδώ για πολύ καιρό;

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Μέχρι το τέλος του πολέμου.

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Τι? Θέλετε να κάνετε

ρωτήσω κάτι;

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Αυτό είναι το διαβατήριό σας.

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Ενδέχεται να χάσετε το κεφάλι σας

αλλά ποτέ αυτό τον αριθμό.

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Κόκκινο τρίγωνο. «Schutzahft - politisch».

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«Schutzahft - politisch»;

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Προειδοποίηση σύλληψης της πολιτικής ασφάλειας.

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Είστε στο στρατόπεδο για τη δική σας ασφάλεια.

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-Δική μας ασφάλεια; -Ναι,

για την ασφάλειά σας.

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Είστε τέτοιου είδους εγκληματίες

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που αν ήταν ελεύθερη, δίκαιη

Λιθουανοί, την κοινωνία,

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εξοργισμένοι από τη συμπεριφορά σας

θα δάκρυ σας σε κομμάτια.

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The German government, worried...

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- about your welfare, put you.

- We... into the camp.

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We're the intelligentsia.

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You want to protect us from the society?

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How? To protect us from the society?

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No, no, no, for such criminals

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there's another paragraph

- a warning arrest -

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so they wouldn't commit more crimes.

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Those are criminals,

thieves and murders.

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They wear green triangles.

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We protect the society from them.

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And we protect political

ones from the society.

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There must be order. Understand?

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Photographer of the camp.

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Commandant Hoppe's

nephew Friedrich Lege.

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He dedicated himself to

Stutthof town's widows

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and grass-widows, not only

in photographic matters.

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For kleptomaniac tendencies

he was reduced to a sergeant.

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Only because of the uncle

he was sent from the marine

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to the concentration

camp for rehabilitation.

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Concentration camp is a

complex mill of the Reaper.

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In the camp you have to be both

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a psychologist and prophet.

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In the camp no one ever

tells you what to do,

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you have to understand it yourself.

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A stick helps to understand.

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Your worst enemy in the camp

is not the SS, not a Capo,

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not the lice. Not even a crematorium.

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Your worst enemy is yourself.

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If for an instant you give

in to your lower instincts,

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forget who you are,

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and who you are supposed

to be, you're dead.

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Get up!

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Crawl!

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Get up!

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Crawl!

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Ah, lawyers, advocates, prosecutors,

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your rule is over, eh?

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Now you're in my hands.

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You shaved asses.

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I assign punishments here.

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Your new life will begin here, huh?

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Wacek Kazlowski. Polish.

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Amateur executor.

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A celebrity of the camp.

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Did away with several dozen prisoners.

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The old prisoners told that Kazlowski

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killed his own brother in the camp.

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Everyone had to go

through Kazlowski's hell.

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It was like quarantine of the newcomers.

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The ones who didn't

go to Abraham during

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these first few months

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could consider themselves

to be experienced prisoners.

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The Poles hung Wacek after the war.

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Who wants to eat?

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Who wants to eat?

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You're the Professor?

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Franz Bloy. From Cologne.

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A thief. The green triangle.

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Do you want to eat?

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I have cutlets, want some?

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- Want some cutlets? - I do. - Come.

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Come, I'll give you some.

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Hurry, hurry.

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Wait here.

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Waiting for cutlets, aren't you?

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Shit! Shit! Shit!

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Franciszek Rozinski. Polish.

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Son of the Zakopane mountains.

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He was a musician before the war,

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played the pipe.

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He got into the camp because

of a misunderstanding.

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Before the war he was shy, gentle,

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wouldn't hurt a fly.

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In the camp he became famous for

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sadism and alcoholism.

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Franz Bloy. A German from Cologne.

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Kind hearted and gifted

with various talents.

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A tailor by profession, thief by vocation.

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Ah, the Professor!

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Well, did you eat the cutlets?

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Were they good?

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Shit, I didn't eat any cutlets.

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Didn't give any?

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That's how, but I told them to.

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So the gutters ate them, huh?

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Can't trust anyone.

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Come to me tomorrow,

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- I'll give you some myself.

- Tomorrow is tomorrow.

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We have to live till tomorrow

or see it in a dream.

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Listen, what kind of

creatures are biting us, huh?

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Pediculus humanus vestimenti.

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Bed bugs, you book rat.

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But they bite just like the pubic lice.

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Once I brought pubic lice from the city.

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Tirus pubis.

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What?

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The pubic lice. Tirus pubis.

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Ah, Lithuanians!

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Caps off, caps on.

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Good day.

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Look who's come to visit us.

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Good day.

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Good day.

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Here you go, we're trying bit by bit,

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will they permit it or not...

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- Good day. - Good day,

it's nice to see you.

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Well, what do you think, Professor?

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I think you stand wrong

at "attention", you see.

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Have you ever seen a samovar, a kettle?

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Attention!

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Caps off!

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Caps on!

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March!

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You see, the common sense rules

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do not exist in the concentration camp.

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Everything that we've learned in life

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has to be tossed away, has to be erased.

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Common sense is replaced

by the instincts of starvation,

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cold, physical pain,

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self-preservation.

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The most important thing

in the camp is to adjust.

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To adjust, to adjust, to

adjust! A human dies.

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A beast is born.

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A beast. Who doesn't understand this,

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does not last long in the camp,

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goes up in smoke through the

chimney of the crematorium.

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You can kill a man in the camp.

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There will be no questions,

no responsibility,

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no court, no consideration.

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You can kill a man for your pleasure.

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Most importantly, you see,

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the fear of death disappears.

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The fear of cold,

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the fear of physical pain remains.

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But not of death.

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You today, me tomorrow,

what's the difference?

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Everything goes away,

everything goes by.

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Yes, but somewhere

deep in the subconscious

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there is a whisper that

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it's better that you today

and me tomorrow.

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I realize that a camp on the stage

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and a camp in reality

are two different things.

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On the stage you need

to find some artistic

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form to unify the whole performance.

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But please, refuse all these "Heil Hitler",

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these exaggerated moans.

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A stick.

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It is the most important tool in the camp.

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Use the stick wherever it lands.

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Wherever it lands, you see.

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Turn off the light!

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That's why I think there should be

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no props in the play.

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...no property.

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Property on the stage

is like a live mouse

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in the teeth of a painted cat.

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Let's reject it, let's not

eviscerate the subject,

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let's refuse all these clichés.

Let in some fresh air.

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What were you?

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Who, me?

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A professor. A professor

at Munich University.

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I was a poet.

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Now, as you see, I'm uprooting a stump.

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Uprooting a stump.

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Want an easier job?

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Who, me?

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Martin. A criminal by profession.

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Sweat out like this and

you won't last a week.

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And remember,

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moving is what matters in the camp.

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Take branches from

here and bring there.

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Take branches from

there and bring here.

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The same tomorrow. And

the day after tomorrow.

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Forest of the Gods.

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That's how people called this

place from the ancient times.

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Once upon a time,

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Gods live in this forest,

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not of the German origin

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but Lithuanian Gods,

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descendants of Perkunas, Patrimpas.

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Forest of the Gods, a little known recess

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near the Baltic Sea.

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After the war between

Poland and Germany,

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in the fall of 1939,

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the SS men moved into the swamps

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together with several hundred

ragged prisoners in stripes.

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Most of them were Poles from Gdansk

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doomed to death.

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Felling of the forest began,

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uprooting of the stumps,

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flattening of the surface.

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Forest of the Gods turned

into a concentration camp.

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The highest authority

in "Forest of the Gods"

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was held by Rudolf Hoppe,

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Commandant of the Stutthof camp.

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He was a typical head

of the German family.

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Maybe at home he wasn't

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a bad daddy at all.

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The Commandant was very proud

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of his extraordinary position

and his SS uniform.

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The prisoners nicknamed him

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Graf von Stutthof because of his pride.

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Commandant Hoppe

wasn't a thug after all.

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He never hit prisoners himself.

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I'd like to have this

sakura's branch for a gift.

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How beautiful...

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Let me call you

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sakura's branch.

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The highest priest accused them,

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"We forbid you..."

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Jehovah's Witnesses,

researches of the Bible.

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A German sect refusing to join the army.

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This was also a crime.

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The representative of Jehovah's

Witnesses in women barracks

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was Frau Belenke.

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A woman of great energy, very brave.

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Commandant Hoppe was less hard

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on the German prisoners

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Frau Belenke was well aware of that.

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Frau Belenke, you're in

the prime of your life.

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But you're here in the camp.

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You are free,

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just put a signature.

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Think of your home.

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A woman should bring up her kids.

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Just sign

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that you refuse this

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Jehovah's Witnesses nonsense.

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And off you go.

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You Nazis, what right do you have to put

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innocent people into

concentration camps?

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You should be the

ones to go up in smoke

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through the crematorium chimney.

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I'll wait for the day

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when you Nazis all get shot.

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I'll leave the camp myself.

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Without any signature.

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Out of here, you old witch!

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Out!

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Nazi pigs.

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Fugitives were one of the greatest

misfortunes for the whole camp.

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Both the SS and

prisoners despised them.

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There were reasons for that.

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The whole camp had to stand still

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till a fugitive was found,

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beaten, bloody, ripped by dogs.

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One would be returned to

the camp, dead or alive.

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The prisoners stand for long hours.

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What names could a crowd

of thousand prisoners

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call such a fugitive?

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The entire surrounding of the camp

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was full of police and the SS agents.

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It wasn't a bright idea to

run away from the camp.

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And yet people did.

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The Ukrainian Stepan was

an incomparable fugitive.

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A circus acrobat from Lvov.

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Three times escaped,

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three times was caught.

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For one such a loser

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thousands of people had to suffer.

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So then...

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How did you climb over the fence?

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With rubber shoes.

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Yes, like that, but

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what about electricity?

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Of course, you wore galoshes.

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And your hands?

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I wrapped them in rubber

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and climbed over.

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And the guards? Didn't they see you?

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Where were the guards?

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Maybe in a women barrack?

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Good... very good.

453

So that's our fences now? Shit!

454

So that's our guard! Shit!

455

Do you want to the front?!

456

Do you?!

457

A cigarette? Do you smoke?

458

Good boy. Why shouldn't you run?

459

Especially

460

if these idiots

461

don't guard you. So run.

462

Yes! Good. Run, run.

463

Walter Sauer. A German.

464

According to his documents,

465

he was sentenced seventeen

times for children torture.

466

He ended up in the camp

for an innocent thing,

467

for hopeless alcoholism.

468

After an attempt on Hitler strange

audience turned up in the camp.

469

All of them were nice specimens.

470

One better than the other.

471

Psychopathologists of most interest.

472

Oskar Belanau, owner of

several hotels in Munich,

473

a member of the Nazi party.

474

He stole the whole truck of meat.

475

He didn't work in the camp,

476

was busy organizing things to eat.

477

Rainer Nietzsche, a garden architecture.

478

He loved to say that he got into the camp

479

because of intimate relations

with the Polish girls.

480

It was rather cocaine

than the Polish girls.

481

Then this perverted

crooked looking citizen

482

was brought in.

483

His documents said neither this nor that,

484

some indefinite relations with a cow.

485

At the beginning prostitutes

486

were described as the

elements avoiding work.

487

They protested against saying they

488

weren't avoiding work.

489

They were working, all the time!

490

Later on the Commandant listed

the prostitutes in a political group.

491

They were given the

right to wear red triangle.

492

Women with children also got

here, some still breast feeding.

493

An infant is also a human, so the infants

494

were given red triangles

of the political criminals.

495

Prisoners were killed slowly

in "Forest of the Gods".

496

Hard labour drained out their health.

497

Several dozen prisoners

managed to survive

498

from the very first day of the camp.

499

Those were extraordinary people,

500

people of great physical strength and will,

501

protected by the very destiny.

502

Through the hard work, cruelty,

503

and desire to live they managed

504

to get into the authorities.

505

So the true power of the camp was

506

in the hands of the prisoners.

507

Hey, shitheads!

508

Take the corpses from

the block to the hospital!

509

One, two, three...

510

Franciszek! Franciszek!

511

What?

512

Why did you give me the papers

to sign that nine died today?

513

There's only eight! Can't

you count, you pig?

514

Eight? I counted nine myself.

515

You go ahead and count

how many are there.

516

Listen, if you don't find the ninth

corpse, beware, I'll put you in its place.

517

Now where are you

hanging about, shithead?

518

Where's your place, huh?

519

Sir Straffurer, Sir Straffurer...

520

What are you saying there?

521

My stomach aches.

522

What are you saying there, fuck face?

523

Where's your place?

524

Lie down, I tell you! Lie down!

525

Well? What did I tell you?

526

How many? Nine.

527

Nine.

528

Professor, I wake up in the morning

529

and I see that my foot

is in Andrzej's mouth.

530

I try to pull it out but

it's fast in his teeth.

531

I pull it out and I see that he's dead.

532

Could it be I suffocated the

poor thing with my foot?

533

See how things happen.

534

Well that's some poetry, huh?

535

Well that's some poetry, huh?

536

Momento tu more, momento tu more...

537

Rainer Kliauge. A German.

538

Capo of the belt weaving

workshop. Slimy character.

539

The prisoners called him Fraulein Capo.

540

Before the war he sang,

danced in an operetta

541

and was considered for a man.

542

Before the Easter he

caught the spotted typhus

543

and gave his sole to the Lord God.

544

Fraulein Capo,

545

would it be possible to smoke?

546

Where do you think you are,

547

in a resort, you book rat?

548

A resort? What are you staring at, huh?

549

Does it hurt?

550

- Does it hurt? - It does.

551

Aha. It does...

552

Attention!

553

- This one? - A professor

from Munich University.

554

You!

555

Into the office!

556

Change his clothes.

557

Martin Fott. A German

from Düsseldorf, Capo.

558

Got into the camp for a murder.

559

The prisoners called him Capo the

Benefactor. Too bad he hanged himself.

560

- Do you have golden teeth? - No.

561

Open your mouth.

562

It's good you don't.

563

After I record your teeth in

the book of registration,

564

you'll have to look after them,

property of the German Treasury.

565

- Do you have golden teeth?

- Ne. - Open your mouth.

566

It's good you don't.

567

After I record your teeth in

the book of registration,

568

you'll have to look after them,

property of the German Treasury.

569

What the fuck are you doing

in the camp if you're ill?

570

- Surname? Nationality? - Ukrainian.

571

- What's your nationality,

swine? - Orthodox.

572

Your nationality, not religion!

573

- Russian. - Repeat.

574

Russian!

575

Good boy! So then say you're a Russian.

576

Where was your Ukraine

before the war, asshole?

577

There is no Ukraine and there won't be!

578

Poland!

579

So, shithead,

580

how do you know

581

there is meat in the soup?

582

There has to be meat in the

soup, Herr Commandant.

583

So you refuse to eat the soup?

584

I do, Herr Commandant.

585

I can't eat meat because of my religion.

586

Okay...

587

I was told you read English books

588

in the camp, correct?

589

Yes, Herr Commandant, I do.

590

So you think England will win this war

591

and you tell this to everyone?

592

Yes, Herr Commandant.

593

I'm convinced the Germans

have already lost the war.

594

Out!

595

Shithead!

596

Out!

597

Pigs!

598

Mr. Germinski! Mr. Germinski!

599

Mr. Germinski, the banker of Liubek

600

went to Abraham but he's still on the list.

601

- What should I do? - Cross him out.

602

Why did you beat that Ukrainian?

603

Give me the soap.

604

You asked him to tell the truth and he did.

605

Why to beat him?

606

Do you know, Mr. Professor,

607

what these Ukrainians did to us,

Polish soldiers, when the war started?

608

They shot at us from the ambush.

609

Not this one. He's too stupid.

610

Can't tell a gun from cannon.

611

And why then do you beat the Poles?

612

It's necessary to beat them.

I do good beating them.

613

I teach them life. Most importantly,

614

beat them while they're well. If

you don't, they'll weaken and die.

615

Your theory is very

gloomy, Mr. Germinski.

616

So what, no one beat you

Lithuanians at the beginning?

617

How many of you will be left after a year?

618

In the best case maybe five.

619

You know, Mr. Professor,

620

from the whole group of Polish prisoners

621

I came to camp with I

am the sole survivor.

622

Do you understand what that means?

623

Son of a whore, you're

so naive, Professor.

624

You learn from books but not from life.

625

It's not people' fault, it's the system.

626

The Germans created the system.

627

We execute it.

628

Try uniting the prisoners

629

and you won't be able to talk to them.

630

Everybody is hungry in here.

631

I broke the bones of one

slimeball, you know why?

632

Because he ripped out the

liver of a recently dead man

633

and stodged it raw!

634

Now you tell me, Mr. Professor,

635

was that prisoner born a cannibal?

636

No, he was born like a normal person,

637

had a father, mother, a motherland.

638

The camp turned him into

a cannibal, understand?

639

When you go up in smoke through

the crematorium chimney,

640

maybe then you'll understand

that I was telling the truth!

641

Book rat, get the fuck out of here!

642

Son of a bitch, fucking hell!

643

Piece of shit! You fucking swine...

644

Arno Pliac. A German sergeant.

645

Head of the camp's post office.

646

Before the war in Gdansk

he scraped horse manure

647

with an iron stick from

the tracks of a trolley-car.

648

The most pedantic creature

in the whole camp.

649

"Only devil knows

650

how long I'll be cooped up in the camp".

651

No!

652

You can't use devil's name in a letter.

653

In a letter you can write,

654

"I received the letter

and a package well."

655

"Thank you very much,

please send more".

656

"I'm safe and sound".

657

"I feel great, kisses to all".

658

Sir Statführer,

659

but then I shouldn't bother

writing at all, you see.

660

You'll rubber-stamp papers like that,

we'll sign and everything will be fine.

661

Out!

662

"It's a terribly boring business

to sit behind the rusty wires".

663

How dare you write

"behind the rusty wires"?

664

Don't you see anything else in the camp?

665

Don't you see the birches growing?

666

I told you what to write, you are well.

667

Sir Statführer,

668

how can I write I'm well

when I'm truly sick?

669

- Look at my... - Out.

670

Sir, take pity, be merciful,

671

send this letter.

672

Look, we'll fix everything, look, here,

673

I'm crossing out this sentence, right?

674

And this one.

675

Here, send this letter, sir Statführer.

676

And in the next one I'll definitely write

677

that our electric wire shines like silver,

678

that, as you say, there are three birches,

679

two stumps, and two mushrooms.

680

Send this letter and in the next one

681

I will definitely write

that I'm well according

682

to all the existing rules of the camp.

683

Be so kind, send this letter.

684

Out.

685

Thrash him so that water boils in his ass.

686

How many?

687

Thirty.

688

Mr. Professor, you're a wise man,

689

help me get rid of my doubts.

690

What doubts?

691

Is my surname, Klawan, truly Germanic?

692

Are there no Jewish letters in it?

693

Klawan.

694

Now I could be wrong.

695

According to the theory of racism,

696

all names ending in "an" are Mongolian.

697

What do you mean?

698

Kaftan, sarafan, hooligan, sultan, moron.

699

That's Mongolian names and nouns.

700

But Professor, what you've just named

701

are the names of things

702

while my surname is a

person's last name. Klawan.

703

But there are plenty of last names.

704

For example, Kazakhstan, Yerevan,

705

Afganistan, Gengis Khan. All Mongolian.

706

Professor, my last name

is purely Germanic.

707

Inflection "an" is a pure inflection

of Germanic language.

708

German, Norman, Japan.

709

So the Japanese also belong to

the Northern Germanic race?

710

Of course! How else the Führer

711

could make a union with them?

712

Okay then.

713

If the Japanese are Germanic,

714

then in your case the theory

of racism doesn't apply.

715

So, in other words, my

last name is Germanic.

716

Yes. Klawan.

717

Yes, Klawan.

718

Thank you, Professor.

719

Peter Klawan. Sergeant.

720

A total idiot.

721

Was born and grew up in Estonia.

722

Served some German baron.

723

Klawan's heart was wide as the sea.

724

All kind of garbage could fit in.

725

In the camp he became

interested in his family tree.

726

He never really realised

727

whether he's Estonian,

Mongolian or German.

728

Oh fuck.

729

Wacek!

730

Shit. Come here.

731

You swine.

732

Come here.

733

Fuck yourself.

734

We'll hang Wacek

Kazlowski after the war.

735

Mr. Professor.

736

The numbers of two people

737

need to be changed in the book.

738

You won't be scared, will you?

739

August Zagorski.

740

A Pole from Gdansk, used to be a barber.

741

One of the leaders of the Polish

underground in the camp.

742

Very honest and respectable man.

743

Registration book of the prisoners,

744

piece of shit, not a book!

None of the ends meet!

745

What's that?!

746

- Wife? - Yes.

747

This is my family.

748

A son?

749

A daughter.

750

Prisoners are not allowed

to have photographs.

751

Zagorski, twenty five,

752

so that water boils in his ass.

753

Fucking hell!

754

Hang both!

755

What do you think, Professor?

756

You see, that phrase

has to be said very...

757

...very indifferently, very

simply. You hang every day.

758

By the way, you are similar to...

759

...to Corporal Traugot Mayer.

760

He had right here, under

his lashes, two letters SS.

761

In other words, I won't sell my beliefs.

762

My play is a creative presumption.

763

Alas, everything works differently in life.

764

You won't be neither hanged

nor killed on the stage.

765

What I've gone through, believe me,

766

I remember perfectly.

767

And what I've written is imperfect.

768

The dialogues are too long,

769

they lose their strength.

770

Remarks. They have to be

shortened. I don't know.

771

I don't know.

772

Excuse me, can I help?

773

Friend, what's the matter?

Stand up, you'll freeze.

774

You don't feel well?

775

Let go, let me go...

776

What did I spit out?

777

What?

778

- Maybe it's your tongue. - What?

779

My tongue is okay.

780

Maybe teeth?

781

Teeth are also fine.

782

It's better to leave your teeth at home

783

when going to the camp.

784

Listen, what did I spit out?

785

Maybe my tonsillitis?

786

That's right, tonsillitis.

787

Good, I won't suffer from tonsillitis.

788

Zygfrid Heidel.

789

A pure Bavarian. Obershtürmbamführer,

790

the chief doctor of the camp.

791

He was a veterinarian in civilian life.

792

The prisoners called

him "Bocian Bawarski",

793

"Bavarian stork".

794

He used to fake death certificates.

795

He would write "frei Tot",

796

meaning the prisoner died his own death.

797

No, my eye. My eye, kaput.

798

Caps on. Show your tongue.

799

What's with the book rat?

800

Probably pneumonia.

801

I told him he'd go up in smoke

802

through the chimney of the crematorium.

803

God damned fleas.

804

And take him to the barrack.

805

Christmas is soon.

806

Tomorrow is Thursday.

807

The day after tomorrow is Friday.

808

A letter day.

809

My wife stopped writing

for some reasons.

810

Here, Professor, take the beet.

811

It improves blood.

812

Tadas Dailide. A brewer from Birzai.

813

Arrested because of a misunderstanding.

814

He made homebrew in the camp

815

what helped him to survive.

816

After the war he emigrated to America.

817

Son of a whore!

818

Love was strictly forbidden in the camp.

819

But what is wired fence to love?

820

Lovers communicated mostly

821

through intermediates, the postmen.

822

The authorities always caught the letters.

823

Usually they were in Polish or Russian.

824

Our office had to translate

them into German.

825

We would swear translating those letters.

826

No one else on earth

but the camp prisoners

827

would ever write such stupid letters.

828

I, Kristina, take you,

Krzysztof, for my husband.

829

I swear to love you forever,

830

to be faithful and honest in marriage.

831

I swear to stay with you,

832

in sadness and joy, in

health and sickness,

833

in wealth and poverty.

834

Help me God and all the Saints.

835

Hang both.

836

The priest as well.

837

To Wacek's health!

838

"I still remember, Wacek, your face..."

839

"...your eyes, your lips, your chin..."

840

"It's been ages since I saw you".

841

"Maybe it's not much left to wait,

842

maybe I'll see you soon?"

843

"I need no one but you, Wacek!"

844

"When will I see your blue eyes again?"

845

So that's how my wife writes.

846

Once I was enlisted in the Polish Army.

847

And wife loved me.

848

The camp ruined everything.

849

I lost my health here.

850

My nerves are completely eaten.

851

When did you get the letter?

852

Three years ago.

853

Three years.

854

To Wacek's health!

855

And, Wacek,

856

my wife wrote to me

857

that she went to the Gestapo

858

and asked about me.

859

And they said I was shot.

860

As if I were a criminal.

861

Poor thing.

862

Lord, oh Lord, how she's suffered.

863

The newcomers said that

Vilnius has been bombed.

864

"I need no one but you, Wacek".

865

If I return to freedom

866

they'll put me right back into the camp.

867

I refused to register as a German.

868

So my wife, little fool,

869

went and registered herself.

870

She was trying to help.

871

If I return to freedom I'll

end up back in the camp

872

for contamination of the race.

873

"I need no one but you, Wacek,

874

no one but you".

875

To Wacek's health!

876

Thank you very much, thank you.

877

Let me introduce myself. I am

Franz Bloy from Cologne.

878

A prisoner like you.

879

This concentration

camp was built in 1939

880

not far from Gdansk,

for the Poles to sizzle.

881

As a part of evacuation plan

882

on their way to Abraham.

883

There, a chimney.

884

That's a crematorium.

885

This is the chimney through which

886

sooner or later we'll all go up in smoke.

887

If you have golden watches

you can give them to me...

888

- Wacek, don't touch the Lithuanians,

understand? - Yes, Mr. Zagorski!

889

And don't overload them with work.

890

Give them more soup, they're

hungry, do you understand me?

891

- I'm warning you, Wacek. -

I know Mr. Zagorski, I know.

892

Fucking hell!

893

Do you have syphilis?

894

Do you have feeble-minded relatives?

895

Do you have a tendency to a suicide?

896

Do you smoke?

897

I do.

898

Sir, you'll have to cut down.

899

The cigarette situation

is poor in the camp.

900

Do you drink?

901

Excuse me, what did you say?

902

Sir, do you drink vodka?

903

Do you like drinking?

904

Well yes, a little.

905

You'll have to quit.

906

You'll have to lead a

sober life in the camp.

907

Remember three things:

908

Don't drink water from the well,

909

you'll get cholera.

910

Watch your legs, illnesses will start.

911

And thirdly, don't get

your kidneys beaten.

912

On the whole...

913

...it's possible to live in the camp.

914

Out! Out! Out!

915

Attention!

916

Who are they?

917

Lithuanians.

918

Lithuanians are our biggest enemies.

919

We'll find a mine for each of our enemy.

920

Yes, here and now!

921

Out! Out! Shit...

922

Do you have what I've asked for?

923

No.

924

Two stamps and an envelope.

925

We don't have stamps.

926

We have envelopes. Want some?

927

Maybe not.

928

- Franciszek... - Well?

929

I need a carrot. But...

930

...not a frozen carrot.

931

We don't have carrots.

932

Want a beet, you old pervert?

933

Do you?

934

Then out, go away, get out of here!

935

- Mr. Superior. - Well?

936

- I bought tooth powder

from you. - So be happy!

937

- But it's not usable. - What

do you mean not usable?

938

You don't know how to

use that's why, go away.

939

It hardened, turned into a piece of chalk.

940

- I'm asking you to exchange

it. - We change nothing here!

941

So what I'm supposed to do now?

942

What do I care! Eat it!

943

Give back my money.

944

Listen you, fucking book rat,

945

It's not a Gdansk market!

946

It's a camp store!

947

For fuck's sake, give back my money!

948

Motherfucker, I'll show you your teeth,

949

I'll knock your teeth out, asshole!

950

I'm closing! Everybody out!

951

I'm open only to the officers, out! Shit!

952

Yesterday I took my mother to hospital,

953

so, I'd like to buy her

fresh cottage cheese.

954

But everything is so expensive.

955

Cut it into pieces, the hell with you.

956

Otherwise you fool me

957

and I won't know whose mug to hit.

958

- Good day, Professor. - Hello.

959

How are you?

960

- How is your wife and

daughter? - They're away.

961

For long?

962

Yes, but they'll come back.

963

Then buy some dresses. New,

pretty. For your daughter.

964

Maybe I will.

965

You know what, I'll buy this one.

966

And that one.

967

Yes, yes, editor, yes.

968

That sentence in red must remain.

969

What are you saying?

A drastic sentence?

970

But we're not talking about

sentimental things here.

971

It's about a concentration

camp. Such was the reality.

972

No point to bullshit,

973

no point to throw dust in the eyes.

974

Yes, dear editor, yes, I'm

aware of what I write.

975

Editor, I can't stand clichés.

976

What's wrong with that sentence?

977

What?

978

What's wrong with the sentence

979

"They rushed along to Abraham"?

980

Yes, they were killed!

981

This is getting disgusting.

982

You can't poison people

with such clichés.

983

Be kind, my angel,

984

leave that sentence, it's

absolutely innocent.

985

My style will be ruined if you take it out.

986

Yes, yes, the Germans appointed a Pole

987

to be the chief of the

barrack, that's correct.

988

Who? You don't like the

pregnant Polish woman?

989

Well yes, a pregnant

Polish woman participated

990

in the Warsaw revolt and arrived

991

to the camp in uniform.

992

But this episode only highlights

993

the heroism of the Polish nation.

994

I know you're the editor in charge.

995

Yes, you have the final word, I know.

996

I'm tired of defending every sentence.

997

Cross out the entire chapter, if you want!

998

But I won't let you cross out

separate sentences! Understand?

999

Fucking asshole.

1000

Shit.

1001

Lithuanians!

1002

We received an order saying

1003

that from this day on

1004

all you become prisoners of honour.

1005

From this moment

1006

I, Commandant Hoppe,

1007

am your direct chief.

1008

You don't have to get your hair cut

1009

as required in prison.

1010

If it's still growing!

1011

From now on

1012

work is not obligatory

1013

but if you wish, you can work.

1014

As a volunteer.

1015

You can write letters and

receive packages every week.

1016

But not a word about politics

1017

nor camp life in your letters.

You're still prisoners.

1018

Even though prisoners

of honour, yet prisoners.

1019

You are free within the

territory of the camp.

1020

Only with my permission

you can walk around,

1021

you can sing,

1022

you can pray, you can laugh.

1023

You're even allowed to dance!

1024

S, steward Vladas. The

soul of steward Vladas.

1025

Maybe cheating?

1026

We invited Julius Caesar.

1027

Ask.

1028

Soul of steward Vladas,

1029

tell us, when will the war end?

1030

You'd better ask when we get out of here.

1031

We'll get out of here when the war ends.

1032

One...

1033

...nine...

1034

You know, I also had a suit in Vilnius.

1035

Of good English wool.

1036

The Jew Levin made it for me.

1037

I wonder who's wearing it now?

1038

- Here? - Yes, here.

1039

Sir, shall we?

1040

We knew the war was coming to an end.

1041

The authorities changed their

position towards the prisoners.

1042

The camp had no eye doctor

so Commandant Hoppe

1043

allowed me to go to Gdansk

for a specialist to examine.

1044

The head of Gdansk

eye clinics, a professor,

1045

having found who I was

1046

examined my eyes for the whole hour.

1047

Talked friendly as if with a colleague

1048

and ignored the fact that

Germans were waiting

1049

outside the door for their turn.

1050

I'd let you walk alone in the town

1051

but you know, they'll stop you,

1052

ask for your documents.

1053

Will suspect you escaped from the camp,

1054

both you and me would get into trouble.

1055

Let's better walk together.

1056

Donate to Hitler.

1057

Karl Janke, a German from Gdansk.

1058

Who knows why he

ended up in the Gestapo.

1059

Poor Janke, ended his

life in a Siberian camp.

1060

Could we listen to the radio?

1061

You know, they often tell news

1062

from the front on the radio.

1063

No, no, no, it's politics.

1064

We fear politics like death.

1065

You eat, eat.

1066

Thank you.

1067

Don't worry, we won't starve.

1068

- Mother, Gertruda and I will

consider your offer. - Professor.

1069

Father, are you going to eat?

1070

How is my son-in-law?

1071

Doesn't harm you too much, does he?

1072

Karl? A wonderful soldier.

1073

Are you really a professor

from Munich University?

1074

I was.

1075

Ah, you're a convict now.

1076

That is life.

1077

To everybody one's own.

1078

The irony of fate,

1079

from the letters of my wife I found out

1080

that when I was at the eye clinics

1081

she and my daughter came

to Gdansk at the same time.

1082

They wanted to go to Stutthof.

1083

But the Germans forbade it.

1084

The roads were blocked.

1085

We lived hoping the meet again.

1086

I received her last letter after Christmas.

1087

What happened, sir corporal?

1088

Why aren't the prisoners going to work?

1089

Sunday, a choir, a symphony.

1090

Is it a seaside resort or

a concentration camp?

1091

It was my idea.

1092

- Your idea? - Yes.

1093

I convinced the Commandant

1094

that at least every second Sunday

prisoners need to have a day off.

1095

They are criminals, yet humans.

1096

And Commandant

perfectly understood me.

1097

He says, "Wonderful

idea, so from now on

1098

you'll be on duty each

Sunday without exception".

1099

He trusts me, Professor.

1100

You know, last Christmas

1101

he gave me a watch, look.

1102

Pure silver.

1103

And then I say to him,

1104

I grew up in a culturally

different country, Estonia.

1105

And, well, I'm against

physical punishments.

1106

Our Commandant

1107

is a very well educated man, so he says,

1108

"I'm also against physical punishments".

1109

Well, but...

1110

To decorate the gibbet,

1111

it was also your idea, wasn't it?

1112

No, this is Commandant's idea.

1113

You remember, Professor,

1114

you said to me once...

1115

"Memento mori" - remember

you might be hanged.

1116

So today we'll perfectly mark

this Commandant's idea.

1117

We've decided to hang a

Russian pilot, a woman.

1118

Right, if it's such a holiday,

1119

maybe the war is already over?

1120

Yes. The Germans will end the war.

1121

What are you talking about?

1122

The Russians are already

by Vysla, sir corporal.

1123

No, the Russians won't win the war.

1124

And so won't the English.

Even the Americans.

1125

Yes, maybe we, the

Germans, will lose the war.

1126

Maybe... Maybe the Russians

1127

will take over the entire Europe.

1128

Maybe Europe will be communistic.

1129

But we, the Germans, her Professor,

1130

are the nation of talent

and we'll rule Europe.

1131

Maybe via foreign hands, but we will.

1132

After the war, when a human

1133

gets out of blood and starvation,

1134

when he looks around

and shakes off the ashes,

1135

when he feels a wish to be

reborn, theatre will help him.

1136

A human full of blood, dirt and death

1137

will want to see light in the

theatre, poetry and love.

1138

The new post-war theatre should be

1139

a theatre of emotions, beauty and love.

1140

It should portray the truth

that we so much long for.

1141

Okay.

1142

And here I finish my

lecture on the theatre.

1143

If God wishes and one day

we all meet here again

1144

then I'll tell you about the

great German romantic

1145

Ernest Teodor Amadeus Hoffman.

1146

It's been a hundred

years since his death

1147

but he remains a mystery up to this day.

1148

A phenomenon.

1149

Literature studies...

1150

Men, let's split up or we get sticks.

1151

You know, at the end of my life

1152

I'll probably start going to the theatre.

1153

How are the rehearsals going?

1154

- Where are the actors?

- Having lunch. - Sorry?

1155

Lunch break.

1156

It's cold here.

1157

I'll ask to bring some firewood.

1158

You know, my eyes are getting weak.

1159

Go to a doctor.

1160

I want to talk to you.

1161

Tomorrow is a conference

of the Writers' Union.

1162

They will consider the manuscript

of "Forest of the Gods".

1163

They'll consider you, do you understand?

1164

I don't know if they permit to print it.

1165

It's not up to me.

1166

I know it's not up to you.

1167

They've been considering

it for twelve months.

1168

The editor has latched onto

the Polish word "vypirdaliaj".

1169

"Vypirdaliaj" is a common

word in the camp,

1170

just like "scheisse",

1171

like "kurwamac". "Vypirdaliaj

litru samogona",

1172

"Vszhyski zemby vypirdaliaj".

1173

You have to understand

- it's not the words.

1174

You have your truth.

It's your truth, keep it.

1175

But you have to admit

that an artist's truth

1176

might be subjective.

1177

There is another truth. It is categorical.

1178

It's almost a warning or

maybe even a judgment.

1179

Your friends from Stutthof

have been sent to Siberia.

1180

By mistake.

1181

You also might be such a mistake.

1182

Do you understand?

1183

- Let's talk in the car. - What?

1184

We'll talk in the car.

1185

Let's go.

1186

Friends, during the Great

War of Motherland

1187

the talent of the United Nations' writers

1188

became a conception weapon

1189

to defeat fascism that

instigates national hatred.

1190

Friends, I'm amazed at the position

1191

of the author of "Forest of the Gods".

1192

He survived the hell of

fascism concentration camp

1193

but not a word is mentioned

about the resistance fight

1194

which, as we all know, went on in there.

1195

No smoking here.

1196

It can be claimed that the author

cynically mocks the German victims.

1197

The impression is that

1198

the very prisoners are

guilty for all the sufferings

1199

but not the fascist butchers.

1200

The author hides behind

the apolitical mask,

1201

the so called humour of a hangman.

1202

This book is dangerous,

good for nothing, my friends!

1203

We would do a favour

to our enemy if printed!

1204

Hanged himself...

1205

Son of a cunt.

1206

Shoot all the Jews.

1207

Then kill Russians and

Poles, as soon as possible.

1208

You have twenty four hours

to eliminate the camp.

1209

Yes sir Standarterführer!

1210

I wonder who comes first,

Russians or Americans.

1211

If the Russians, I have

to pin in the red star.

1212

If the Americans, then red doesn't fit.

1213

Everything's all right.

1214

Welcome home.

1215

I'm sorry, this is a front joke.

1216

- Who's there? - The neighbour.

1217

Hello!

1218

Electricity frequently

goes off in this building.

1219

I want to give you an oil lamp, Professor.

1220

It could be useful.

1221

- You probably work a lot. - Thank you.

1222

Sign.

1223

I respect all beliefs and disbeliefs.

1224

I just don't believe in sudden rebaptism.

1225

Do you know how many change-overs

1226

I saw in the camp?

1227

You've announced the

crusade to your past.

1228

Yes, you're the power people.

1229

I understand.

1230

You have to agree, fawn upon

and no one will touch you.

1231

Argue, go against and hell

knows what might happen.

1232

But I don't believe all these

enthusiastic approvals.

1233

What's the essence of

all these speakers?

1234

Began with clichés and

finished with clichés.

1235

I believe and let it be!

1236

A conference of the Writers' Union!

1237

Not a single creative thought,

1238

no communication, no

creative discussions!

1239

Creators have always created

1240

and always destroyed

theories from the essence.

1241

Why am I telling you all this?

1242

You understand it yourself.

1243

Every creator creates what he saw,

1244

how he perceived the

world. One's own way!

1245

"Forest of the Gods", it's

such an innocent subject!

1246

I wrote it in two months.

1247

The discussion took twelve months!

1248

Discussion, discussion, discussion!

1249

And it's not the end yet!

1250

It's clear for me though.

1251

I'm starting to hate this piece.

1252

I don't want to see it, I

don't want to hear about it.

1253

"Forest of the Gods".

1254

You are all looking for politics

1255

and get angry when you don't find it.

1256

I didn't write any.

1257

If all these people stayed in the camp

1258

for as long as I'd been,

1259

with legs swollen, kidneys beaten,

1260

heads smashed, starving,

1261

scrambling for a piece of bread,

1262

they'd understand that a person in

a camp no longer thinks of politics.

1263

The most important thing is to survive.

1264

To survive, to survive, to survive!

1265

To write what never was...

1266

What I never saw,

1267

to brag about my sufferings.

...I don't want this.

1268

I don't want to and don't know how.

1269

When the firewood arrives,

give them this note.

1270

Good people!

1271

Let this old bison die.

1272

You're an influential man.

1273

I should be afraid of you.

1274

You know what, from this same office

1275

I was sent to the camp,

only by a German officer.

1276

Who's there?

1277

Me.

1278

Who's "me"?

1279

Me, me.

1280

Ah, Professor.

1281

Good day. Came to say goodbye?

1282

Yes, yes, they closed your camp.

1283

Completely closed.

1284

We'll keep performing, but...

1285

Will perform something.

1286

Maybe it's good they've closed it.

1287

Who needs a performance?

1288

About a live mouse in the

teeth of a painted cat?

1289

I don't know if it's even

possible to perform.

1290

Who is he?

1291

I know him.

1292

That's Manfred Freiwald.

From Lauenburg.

1293

A German, the researcher of the Bible.

1294

Worked in the library of the SS.

1295

Yes, that's Manferd Freiwald.

1296

Later transferred to the sawmill.

1297

Was terribly afraid of death.

1298

He hid in the hospital when he found out

1299

he was to be shot.

1300

He died when he fell off the scaffolding

1301

while building a boiler.

1302

No, that's a Russian from the sixth block.

1303

He wanted to escape.

1304

He tried to escape in spring,

they caught and shot him.

1305

So that's life.

1306

So why is he walking

here if he was shot?

1307

Gentlemen, this is

Mr. Professor, a Lithuanian.

1308

A book rat from the administrative office.

1309

They say he wrote a book

about the camp after the war.

1310

But nobody would print it.

1311

Too bad.

1312

The world would have

learned funny stuff about us.

1313

In memory of the writer Balys Sruoga.

1314

In 1957, ten years after the writer's death,

1315

the Soviet censorship gave permission

to print the novel "Forest of the Gods".

1316

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