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A NETFLIX ORIGINAL SERIES

BERLIN, FALL 1943

CHARITÉ SURGERY WING

What's going on?

Dr. Sauerbruch is featured in the Weekly Review.

Today?

-Yes, today. -But--

They are all here for your exam, little sister.

Otto!

Ensign Marquardt reporting for duty.

Oh, God, you lost a lot of weight.

I can't say the same about you.

I'm scared, doctor.

You won't feel a thing. I'll give you a sleep-inducing drug.

When I wake up,

I'll be a cripple.

Take a wide shot.

That's good.

Exciting.

Surgery is not my forte.

-Where is Artur? -There.

You can sit there, I have to stay. Exam candidates sit in the first row.

I love that you're here.

Good luck!

Ladies and gentlemen, the Weekly Review would like to report

how our famous Chief Surgeon Sauerbruch prepares our doctors for the front.

I would ask the students to join us in the first row.

Could you please make space?

I have an exam today.

Your contribution to our ultimate victory

is surely more practical than theory.

Surprise, I can do both.

Still.

He's on his way, he left the car door open.

Choose the right thread length, only 13 inches, not an inch longer.

Good day.

Good morning!

Good morning, professor.

First assistant, you are second.

Don't screw it up, or everyone will see how you get fired by Sauerbruch.

-Professor Sauerbruch-- -Careful, I am sterile.

Not that sterile.

Colleague De Crinis.

The head of the psychiatric ward wants to learn something?

The audience could get confused.

Such an old student.

I really would not want people to think that I am a student of yours.

Are you going to begin with surgery?

I could not do that to my exam candidate.

She might have her baby before I am done with surgery.

Where are you?

-Here. -Are you hiding?

Show us what you have learned.

Explain the case to us and the viewers.

The patient's name is Paul Lohmann.

He's 22 years old, with a femoral combat fracture.

He received first aid at the field hospital,

and he has a secondary gangrene infection--

So, you think the leg is gone.

Should we amputate?

Yes, we should, but--

Our young colleague here is a little discouraged,

regarding the future of this leg.

Not really.

This is an ideal candidate for a Sauerbruch's Rotationplasty.

That means that the infected part of the leg will be removed,

but a lot can be preserved and converted

to hold a prosthetic.

Sounds like magic.

Be more specific.

The femur is cut with the aid of a saw,

and then remove the bone with a bone retractor.

Once the foot and knee are cut,

the lower leg bone is turned around,

in order to fit the foot

and replace the femur with the rest of the leg.

After the wound is healed, a prosthetic can be attached.

You did learn something after all.

Have a seat.

Martin, come, show us what you got.

A shrapnel wound from the Balkan Wars on his thigh.

They sent him from the field hospital

for an amputation.

Well, now?

Is the leg completely gone?

Not with Sauerbruch.

This patient here received my rotationplasty method.

We encountered problems.

Blood flow to the leg was cut off for too long.

I am very happy that you can walk as well as you do.

All right.

I will make a incision on the thigh,

and work my way from the iliac crest and knee

all the way to the bone.

I will remove the bone with great care

of the surrounding blood vessels and nerves,

including the muscles.

The anesthesia is wearing off.

You cannot read the meter?

You are useless, you are out, next.

Come on, go.

-Sorry. -Sure, sorry.

Apologize to your patient.

You are blocking the light, damn it.

We can learn something from his manic temperament.

Good catch.

Surely you noticed that this fracture is the perfect sample case

for your doctoral dissertation.

This guy, Lohmann,

could have done it to himself.

Nobody can work like that, Fritsch.

Write a letter to Dr. Conti, he needs to send me Dr. Jung

from Strasbourg.

I am tired of those butcher apprentices.

Mrs. Fritsch?

Is there any coffee left for a dictator's butcher apprentice?

Good morning.

My dear Dr. Sauerbruch, you are already a butcher's assistant.

You should get the Iron Cross for putting up with me.

With oak leaves.

And the base made of gold.

It's a very humble residence, but we do have two rooms.

Our little cottage.

This would be yours.

-Do you have everything? -Of course.

Are we going to celebrate?

I should have some noodles with cheese.

You lost so much weight.

Tell me, how was it at the front?

How it was...?

We'll make you whole again.

Mom sent me a food parcel.

-They have almost everything there. -Is she coming for the birth?

She's afraid. A lot of trains can't get through.

I haven't seen her for a year.

I hoped to see her before I have to go back.

You have only two semester down,

-how is that going to work? -Well...

it's enough to amputate,

not for childbirth.

Is it time?

No, not yet, my tenant is kicking.

Good.

Do you want to feel?

-Yes. -Right here.

Yeah, like that.

CHARITÉ WOMEN'S HOSPITAL

Yes.

Congratulation on your doctorate.

Thank you, but I don't have the title yet.

The baby needs to stay in there, so I can finish my dissertation.

The baby agrees.

It does not look like...

it's getting ready to come out.

Have you had any false labor pains?

-No. -Why is that?

We have to wait.

The baby can turn into position even right before delivery.

Could it be a placenta previa problem?

Unusual for first-time mothers, no need to worry.

The fertile bloodlines of both of your families suggest

that you could have a lot of babies.

The baby will turn around soon.

Don't think like a professional,

your job is to be a happy mother.

-Good evening. -We're still closed.

We're delivering the food stamps for the wedding party on the 15th.

All right, one second.

Too bad we don't have the apartment to ourselves anymore.

Our togetherness is going to be over soon.

We wanted a bowl with seltzer and white wine instead of sparkling wine.

I think it's going to be a bowl with cabbage.

Did you hide any strawberries?

The stamps are not enough for a good bowl.

You can have a beer with a shot.

And some meatballs.

I have to go to the black market for that, costs extra.

I can even get you a lobster, without stamps.

One lobster for 26 people?

Those lobsters are skinny anyway. Better price, better merchandise.

Meatballs.

Comrades, you need to drink your water.

Hello. Otto Marquardt, I'm the new guy.

Do you have stronger painkillers?

I need something.

You got morphine an hour ago.

That wasn't enough. Do you have any tank chocolate?

They are not painkillers.

Very effective combined with morphine.

Everyone takes it.

Just one second.

But not more than two, okay?

Pervitin is very strong.

That's all useless,

all of it.

In the end, we all leave as cripples.

I don't feel useless, and a wooden leg won't get athlete's foot.

-Do you have a girl? -No.

My fiancée.

She won't marry a cripple.

Lohmann.

Good to see you again. Do you remember me? Second battle of Ladoga.

I was working at the 161 field hospital under Dr. Weidner.

Marquardt.

I'm the new assistant.

-Otto Marquardt. -Yes.

How'd you get a million-dollar wound?

Not so loud.

I might get in trouble.

-I didn't say you did it. -Me neither.

No front line for you.

-Be happy, you're done with it. -Wanna switch?

I rather have my leg back.

Be careful what you're talking about.

The rules are different here.

Well, Helmut, show me.

-Can you feel that? -It's prickly.

That's good.

Want to go back to school?

No, I can't write with the cast.

Time to get active again, Helmut.

You can use your left hand.

Oh, no, Professor Bessau.

Not even I could do that with my two left hands.

Be careful, your own kids will control you just fine.

With your help, Nurse Käthe,

my kids will have a great upbringing.

My wife and I will have a party for our wedding.

I had exams, so we're a little late.

-Would you like to join us? -My pleasure.

Nurse Käthe, you too.

Me?

With all the big shots?

I would feel completely out of place.

I have good news, your position was confirmed by headquarters.

You don't have to join the front line as long as you are here.

I don't believe it. Thank you.

Yes, but now you have to deliver.

It's the only way to make you my successor.

I am very happy to finish my studies here.

I've only been in a field hospital, but that was enough.

The other paramedics had to gather soldiers at the front line.

And I thought we were getting a war hero.

I can assure you that our work behind the lines is very important.

Our staff surgeon wanted me to guess a patient's sugar level

by tasting his urine.

Have one, Nurse Christel.

No.

I would say, 95.

Are you ducking out?

Or are you too prudish?

That's apple juice.

You're the worst.

Naughty assistants are sent back into combat.

Nurse Christel.

-Were is Paul Lohmann? -From the report?

Right here.

What do you need?

I'd like to talk to him, I need his case for my dissertation.

What is the topic?

Psychiatric diagnosis for suspicion of self-mutilation.

Lohmann's not a good case.

The angle of the shot proves that he didn't harm himself.

Lohmann can give me the details.

He will not.

We want him to get better after this trauma.

Should my dissertation adviser make

an official request for Lohmann's file from Dr. Sauerbruch?

Do you really think Professor De Crinis has nothing better to do?

You won't finish anyway.

You're going to be a mother, not a scientist.

I don't think that's any of your business.

And for that, you were never a good role model anyway.

Good day to you.

Good day.

Later.

After the boss leaves.

I have something for you, too.

Mrs. Fritsch, please pull Mr. Lohmann's file.

-De Crinis wants the Lohmann file. -Why?

-Mrs. Waldhausen's dissertation. -Waldhausen? What does she want?

To check if he did it to himself.

What did the field hospital report?

Let's check the file, so Lohmann won't get into trouble.

It doesn't matter what he did, he paid for it.

I am not fixing patients for their court-martial.

He won't dare.

CHARITÉ PLAZA

Protecting our youth,

our military manhood and political decisions

makes it necessary to forbid any and all same-sex practices.

We have colleagues

who distinguish them by same-sex predators and victims.

But it's scientifically proven

that both groups are unnatural,

psychopathic, criminal sex offenders.

Psychotherapy is useless in those cases.

The punishment is supposed to be a deterrent,

with the exception of the onetime seduction of minors,

and entails castration along with jail.

Worse cases are punishable by death.

The SS is already executing those offenders.

You can see, gentlemen,

we got your back,

here in our homeland, even in your showers.

Oh, my.

I went over.

We'll talk next week about methods to battle combat fatigue.

Professor?

Do you have a minute?

Anytime, Mrs. Waldhausen.

It's about my dissertation.

Please.

There's a problem with the surgical ward.

I wanted to question Paul Lohmann today.

Margot Sauerbruch won't give me access. She feels it was not self-inflicted.

She should leave that to a psychiatrist.

Can you pull the file?

It's always the same thing.

Mrs. Sauerbruch thinks that because her husband is great, so is she.

Her ambition is pathological.

She doesn't want children either.

She has a daughter from her first marriage. In boarding school.

Well, a kid is not welcome to hold court.

I will make sure that the Wehrmacht gives me his case for assessment.

Not even Sauerbruch can go over that.

What did your sister want from Lohmann?

Anni was here?

She got into a argument with Dr. Sauerbruch.

I can tell you about the fights I've had with her.

There.

-She used a comb to hit me when I was 10. -Want me to kiss it?

You want to protect me from Anni?

She invited me to the Café Salvasan on Sunday.

Come with me.

Marquardt, I need help moving Mr. Müller.

I'll back in a minute and four seconds, don't go away.

Where is Müller?

Later.

How well do you know Lohmann?

Lohmann? Not well, why?

De Crinis wants his file.

And?

He is the chief psychiatrist.

He's picking foot soldiers and giving them court-martials.

-Because of what? -Self-mutilation.

Lohmann? No way.

It's undermining our military force.

He would never do that.

How do you know?

It'd be good if someone from his unit vouched for him.

That he was a brave soldier and helped the cause.

I don't know him that well.

Tada!

Dad, you scared me.

I'm good with the generals we have.

Would you say a Dr. General is not a real general?

Look at my badges.

The Knight's Cross.

Your dad only wants to keep up with his sons.

Welcome back, Peter.

Good that Ada let you go for once.

Is that right?

She doesn't know I'm here. You know Mom.

Did I tell you that I met Hitler at the Wolf's Lair?

Thank you.

His dog, Blondi, would not let anyone else pet him.

He did not like that.

"I've lost my only friend."

Animals love us Sauerbruchs.

Please don't tell.

Our professional opinion is...

that he is crazy, no doubt.

He said...

that he would like to go as far as India, total bullshit.

I had to think about a dissertation.

About hysterical war-blindness.

One Ensign Hitler from Braunau was mentioned.

Old Bonnhöfer showed it to me.

I miss Bonnhöfer at the Charité.

De Crinis cannot compete with him.

He sold out for his career.

Field post from Hans and Friedrich.

They are both well.

One is bored in the barracks, the other one in Lapland.

I probably won't be bored.

I was transferred to the 14th Panzer Division at the Russian front line.

I am very happy for you two. I wish you plenty of healthy kids.

Is that your cousin?

-You have a career-- -One second.

Are you Dr. Waldhausen's brother-in-law?

Good-looking fellow, huh?

He's a rare breed

that's usually married off quickly, huh?

To the Waldhausens--

And my lovely Anni.

--I have to admit, today I have two hearts beating.

I'm almost a bit jealous, my dear Waldhausen.

It's not what you think.

No, no, but this great girl...

will be missed in my hospital.

Please don't forget your mentor.

A toast for this great couple.

My wife and I are thankful, for all of your wishes.

The arrival of our child is a reason to celebrate as well.

-Its name will be Adolf. -Especially if it's a girl.

-Cheers! -Cheers!

Thank you for the fine wine.

It's from the busy multipara, the wife of Goebbels, Minister of the Interior.

The buffet is open.

Professor Bessau.

I just finished my speech.

Great that you made it. May I offer you a drink?

Yes, please.

To your future at the Charité.

Thank you.

Professor Bessau.

My dear.

Thank you for your support.

I'm happy he wasn't drafted.

I like to have the best around me.

Thank you.

Some of them have to go out and fight.

My brother, Otto Marquardt, Professor Bessau.

If you'd seen what I have,

no liquor from Goebbels could make you forget it.

It's hard to determine your hardship here at home.

It's hard to stay decent,

observing what the barbarians are doing to the civilians.

Excuse him.

He's had one too many.

Otto, what's wrong?

You're lucky.

Let's have a toast...

no battlefield for you.

-Should I take you home? -No need.

The German Wehrmacht has experience in retreat.

Artur.

Three Blind Mice

Otto went to war

The Wehrmacht arrived at enemy territory

Our homeland burned--

The Wehrmacht arrived at enemy territory

You can turn the light off.

Good night.

And now, back and up.

Stretch.

And to the side.

Stretch.

And to the other side.

And down.

Stretch.

Morning exercise?

You do it, I get stuck in the hoop.

Otto's changed.

He was our sunshine.

Not mine.

Artur!

-We don't know what he went through. -You're right.

As long as he doesn't make trouble.

He won't.

I have to go.

I have a subject group at Wiesengrund.

A group of eight for researching a tuberculosis vaccine.

Lucky you.

WIESENGRUND CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL

Dr. Walter.

Dr. Waldhausen.

Professor Bessau sent me.

Welcome to Wiesengrund.

I would like to start right away. I need to be at the Charité before dark.

Here are your test subjects.

Do we have sterile syringes?

Yes, right here.

Thank you.

Mommy.

This is Heinz.

Hello, Heinz.

One-point-seven fluid ounces should do. Do we have the parents' consent?

It's not needed for these types. They're rejects of the state.

-Are you certain? -Of course.

Very well.

Just a little sting.

I will enter the dosage, you will observe the reaction.

How are you, little brother?

Good.

-Really? -Yes.

-You look like you're going to blow up. -Thank you, charming.

Did the baby turn around?

Not yet.

Professor Stöcke said I shouldn't look at it professionally.

-Okay, then. -You could help me today.

I have to transfer a patient to the psychiatric ward.

Lohmann?

Yes, him. For a psychologist to judge his credibility.

His leg got shot off. Did he make that up?

It's important to find out if he harmed himself.

We can't let people get away with it.

You should know best, we need every man against the Russians.

Lohmann is innocent.

De Crinis will not harm him.

These cases are determined with proven scientific methods.

That's why I get to write a dissertation about it.

Mr. Lohmann, we'll transfer you to the psychiatric ward.

Why the psychiatric ward?

My head is fine.

Just a couple of questions.

You'll be back in no time.

Greetings from Professor De Crinis.

Why is the Wehrmacht interested?

You'll have to ask Professor De Crinis.

Thank you.

Hail Hitler.

You received your injury at the Battle of Lake Lagoda?

Lake Ladoga.

North of Gatolovo.

Gaitolovo, no problem.

We have a secret report that states that the shot was set up.

They found discharge residue on the wound.

I know you think I did this to myself, but that--

You wrote to your fiancée that you really wanted

to come back home.

I did not shoot myself.

Both of my comrades who were there with me can testify on my behalf.

-Ensign Kröger and Henlein? -Yes.

They're dead.

Tell us what happened.

Mr. Lohmann?

We were under heavy fire.

For two hours.

We were sitting ducks in our hideout, the three of us.

The machine gun jammed.

Kröger tried to fix it,

but he got shot in the stomach, then fell on me.

The enemy stormed towards us.

The Russian thought I was dead because Kröger was on top of me.

He shoots at Henlein.

I knocked him off his feet,

but he fought back.

He shot me in the leg during the fight.

Henlein was struck,

but managed to shoot him in the head.

That saved my life.

I lost a lot of blood.

I woke up after I was given an infusion.

Kröger and Henlein?

I never saw them again.

Their injuries were more severe, so they took them to the field hospital.

They thought my injury was not as bad...

until the leg became infected.

Kröger died from his injury.

He never regained consciousness.

Henlein gave a statement before he died...

similar to yours.

You could have both made the story up,

in order to go back home.

What are you doing here? Want to take him back?

I want to give a statement.

I'm Anni Waldhausen's brother.

I want to testify for Lohmann.

Call someone to take him back.

Great to meet Anni's brother.

You know Ensign Lohmann?

Our station took care of his grenadier regiment.

Where did you work at the Battle of Lake Ladoga?

At the first-aid station, Gaitolovo.

How would you know how he received his injury?

I didn't see that, of course.

But I was Dr. Schulte's assistant who gave him first aid.

Dr. Schulte is dead,

but I can testify that it was a shot from a distance.

Lohmann could not have done it himself.

-Would you testify to that under oath? -Yes.

Thank you, you may go now.

I vouched for Lohmann before De Crinis.

You don't even know Lohmann.

I'm a very good liar.

So, Lohmann won't be court-martialed.

Let's hope. You never know with De Crinis.

Maybe he wants to set an example,

for self-inflicting a injury, that will make its round.

Why does Anni trust De Crinis so much?

You have to ask her that.

She never took her younger brother seriously.

That is a mistake.

As punishment, I'll eat all the marmalade.

We will send the German soldiers not one, not two, not three!

We will send the German soldiers

with four marmalades to the front!

Are you crazy?

-What's up? -You idiot.

If you were going to lie, why didn't you talk to Lohmann first?

He explained very well how he got shot at close range.

Then you come along and lie about its distance.

I can convince De Crinis

that you have a big heart and just wanted to help.

He'll omit your report.

Don't do that again.

Without me, you both would have been court-martialed.

CHARITÉ PROSTHETIC WORKSHOP

These are the critical parts where it could break.

Better let the wood dry.

But so far, it looks good.

Forty-five ounces?

-Forty-two. -Very nice.

We're going to make him walk again.

Well? Lohmann?

Let's give you a new leg.

What is your shoe size?

Thirteen.

You're a Bigfoot, you could stand on one leg.

The wound healed nicely.

No swelling.

All right, Mr. Heim will create a plaster cast.

He will use it

-to build the custom prosthesis. -Lohmann.

Do you exercise your muscles?

-Do you hear me? -Yes.

Make sure he stops taking Pervitin, it's addictive.

I understand.

-What is your name? -Otto Marquardt.

-Anni Waldhausen's brother. -Oh, our expecting mother.

Yes, exactly. I still live in her house.

After the baby arrives, it'd be good...

to be on my own.

Heim, my assistant needs a bed. How about the bed in the storage room?

Yeah, that works.

Many thanks.

You won't get bedsores here.

Children's hospital.

-Surgery. -I'll take it.

Women's hospital.

Lohmann?

GERMAN WEHRMACHT

All right, Mr. Fischer.

-Take your temperature. -Thank you.

Lohmann?

Paul!

Do you hear me?

Do you hear me? Paul!

Paul.

Do you hear me?

They're watching a report. Call Martin and have him prepare a gastric lavage.

His circulation is getting better.

Where did he find them?

Pervitin is only given to help with withdrawal symptoms.

We have to lock the stuff up.

GERMAN WEHRMACHT

A summons to his court-martial for hindering the cause...

by self-inflicting his wound.

Professor Sauerbruch helps his colleagues.

The führer himself gave this great doctor,

who is a titan of his field,

the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross.

They sent him from the field hospital

for an amputation.

Is the leg completely gone? Not with Sauerbruch.

I will make an incision on his thigh...

Chief Surgeon General Sauerbruch

was honored for his great contribution to our medical advancement.

His great technique is like a virtue.

Who is this gifted surgeon?

And so lovely, too.

And patient.

I would like to meet this man.

I totally agree.

You all just want me to become an actor so I'll get off your backs.

War report from Leningrad.

Did you know that De Crinis was court-martialing Lohmann?

You said nothing would happen.

Someone lost his leg for the cause,

and that's how they thank him?

Leave her alone.

-Sorry, I forgot that I'm gagged. -Otto!

Be quiet.

What is it?

Artur, help me, something's wrong. Blood.

Subtitle translation by Konstantinos Arvanitakis