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"Nothing discourages us as much

as not understanding the game

upon which life depends."

From time to time,
war dreams of its absolute notion.

For some time, the planets have been
moving comradely around the sun.

On the right is the earth.

Our ancestor.

In World War One, two enemies
sought shelter in the same shell-hole.

Initially, one enemy
wanted to stab the other to death.

Then he saw that the enemy
was seriously wounded.

Before too long, the other enemy died.

They'd known each other
for nearly ten minutes.

14 seconds was how long the battleship
had before the rocket hit.

One doesn't
get to know each other at all.

"War... an act of violence

to force the enemy to do our will."

What have you brought us, Father?

Death!

Life-preservation Behavior

Remain at Home

Remain at Home

WAR AND PEACE

People worry that it all goes so fast.
- That worries us too.

From identification to missile impact,
the President has 17 minutes.

30 minutes beforehand,
we can see something coming,

but not until
17 minutes do we know what it is.

The line to launcher no. 2 is down.

Technical unit, this is an order!

Check control cable to launcher no. 2!

You know it's an emergency
when the communication lines are down.

Communication channels out of order.

What will the commander decide?

General, I'd suggest launching no. 2.

Yes!

The launch control panel is connected.

Moments later, the launch mechanism

is initiated.

A few minutes pass,

and the rocket hits its target.

What would be
the medical consequences?

Anyone who looks at
a fireball from 30 miles away

will burn his retinas and go blind.

There would be tens of thousands
of third degree burns

in the part of Omaha
closest to the Strategic Air Command.

There'd be skull fractures, ruptured
lungs, spinal injuries, lacerations

and hemorrhages.

Even at 11 or 12 miles, ordinary
windows would become deadly weapons.

Glass shards flying
at 90 miles an hour

will kill everyone in the room.

Our experience with firestorms
in conventional warfare is limited.

In WWll, the only survivors of Hamburg
and Dresden were those who fled.

By conservative estimates,
there would be 200,000

seriously injured.

More than at any one moment
in human history,

except maybe Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

It depends what you mean by survival.
Russian industrial centers are more

vulnerable than ours. They're only
better off for biological survival,

which is only postponing death,
if the infrastructure is destroyed.

And that's more vulnerable
with the Russians...

"It's a lie that someone up high

could stop a conventional war

from becoming a war of annihilation."

We are a sovereign state...

Our sovereignty is guaranteed by
the 1952 "Germany Treaty."

Our security is ensured
by the Americans.

For this they've brought
some equipment into our country.

The American presence
is governed by military treaties.

These, in turn,
suspend our sovereignty.

STOP! BORDER!

A border. The world's
most dangerous strip of land.

We, the Germans, live on both sides.

If this border is crossed,
it means war.

To prevent this,
our Russian and American protectors

planted nuclear weapons
on either side of the border.

They call it deterrence.
Once upon a time, we had other ideas.

We had dynamited bunkers
and turned artillery shells

into ovens and cooking pots.

Then they brought in new artillery.

On the US military depot in Mainz,

it demonstrated superb adaptability
to local conditions.

It is highly maneuverable.

Annie, a nuclear cannon,
is the US Army's heaviest artillery.

Nobody had asked us.

Contemporary technology
means innovative technology, making

a virtue of today's necessity.

In Gelsenkirchen harbor, submarine
hulls are used as grain silos.

New subs were launched to protect us.

The United States plan to build

eight more nuclear submarines
during the next year.

The nuclear age had begun.

In the Nevada desert, the Americans
exposed their own soldiers

to radiation experiments.

Many of them didn't survive for long.

The bomb detonates at 2,000 feet.

A giant atomic cloud forms
over the Nevada desert.

The bomb dropped from an airplane

was a highly modern
tactical construction.

A terrible new weapon of defense
in the arsenal

of the free world.

Our government was prepared.

The German Red Cross shows how to
unnerve Hamburg's seasoned waiters

with the demonstration of an NBC
protective suit for the whole family.

Our freedom, or so we learned,

was based on nuclear deterrence.

We could sleep well at night,
for we enjoyed the Americans' favor.

From time to time, relations
to the United States must be improved.

Our interests aren't always identical.

For some time now, there's been
a problem. It's called rearmament.

Our security and our lives
are dictated by military experts,

and other people
of questionable competence.

The principles of German policy
are set by the German Chancellor.

His principles, in turn,
are set by the US President.

This is called Atlantic Partnership.

Mr. President, Madame,

ladies and gentlemen...

Allow me, Mr. President,
to express my heartfelt thanks

for your friendly
and for your warm reception.

April 7th, 1953,

nearly 30 years ago,

was the first time

a Chancellor of the Federal Republic
of Germany stood on this spot.

Konrad Adenauer said at the time,

"The Germans are loyal partners

on the path to freedom and peace,

on which the United States of America

is leading all other nations."

Mr. President, today I'd like to
tell you and all American citizens:

That promise of Konrad Adenauer's
naturally still holds true today.

These foundations
of our mutual partnership

and of our deeply felt friendship

must constantly be made clear to us,

and especially to our young citizens.

For it is our shared basic convictions
which are the key to unity.

And out of our unity
comes the strength

to achieve our goals:

securing peace in freedom

through steadfastness
and readiness to negotiate.

Franz Joseph Strauss, by now
good friends with Helmut Kohl,

was mistaken in 1976 when he said...

I supported Helmut Kohl,

despite
my knowledge of his inadequacies,

and only for the sake of peace,
as a candidate for chancellor.

He will never be chancellor!

The launch of a Pershing II.
First try.

The trajectory is not ideal.

Second try.

Again, nothing.

And they had invested
so much money and effort. For years,

specialists at the US firm
Martin Marietta in Florida have been

working on a new missile, due to be
deployed in West Germany in late 1983.

Preparations are underway.

The Pershing Il,
named after a WWI American general,

is to replace the forerunner,
the Pershing l,

which is already stationed in the FRG.

But the Pershing I has one drawback:
It can only reach Warsaw.

The Pershing II is the first missile
able to reach Moscow from German soil.

Once it's launched, the Russians have
7 minutes to consider countermeasures.

That's the advance warning period.

Testing missiles
is a business like any other.

It's no different than testing cars.

I personally don't feel
that it has anything to do with war.

The Pershing II has a radar tip that,

in mid-flight, compares terrain
with stored target coordinates,

guiding missile and nuclear warhead
to within 90 feet

of its target.

This allows a so-called preemptive
strike against enemy missile silos.

What's exciting is that
it's a totally new system,

with a new guidance system
and a longer range, of course.

We see it as the key system
in the confrontation with the Soviets.

Launch of the Pershing Il, third try.

The missile is airborne. However, it
missed its target by 180 miles. Still,

in the fall of 1983, it is to be
deployed, come what may.

The Russians once behaved
in the same manner. It was 1962.

This week was overshadowed
by a terrible vision.

Despite the relief felt worldwide,
a sense of anxiety remains.

This is the document of a crisis.

The crisis began
when US surveillance planes,

equipped with surveillance cameras,

provided evidence of Soviet offensive
mid-range missiles on Cuba.

In a speech on American television,
President Kennedy disclosed

to the world what the aggressive
objectives of the Soviets were,

and announced the blockade of Cuba.

In the Caribbean Sea, on the

supply routes to Cuba's harbors,

the US Fourth Fleet
formed a naval blockade.

The aircraft carrier Enterprise
took command of a total of

60 battle-ready ships.

President Kennedy made clear
that any Soviet ship

carrying military equipment would be
captured and sunk if necessary.

When the Kremlin
threatened retaliation,

the entire US missile system,

from Greenland to Turkey,

was put on alert.

The crisis escalated.

Code 1 Alarm

for the US Strategic Bomber Command
in Omaha.

The takeoff of the 8-engine bomber

documents US government resolve

to use the full scope
of its atomic power.

As the crisis nearly peaks,

the Kremlin
makes a surprise concession.

Khrushchev promises

to pull his missiles out of Cuba.

While the West saw this success
as the result of American resolve,

the Soviets celebrated
the victory of over Napoleon.

In historical garb, they commemorated

the Battle of Borodino, in which

Napoleon was defeated in 1812
at the gates of Moscow.

The Kremlin entertained itself

with a nighttime fireworks display.

The Cuban War did not take place.

Back then, in 1962,
the Russians gave in.

They removed their
med-range missiles from Cuba.

The US had tacitly agreed to remove
their missiles stationed in Turkey.

That saved the peace.
Once upon a time, 20 years ago.

What we now see, if we see it at all,
is the Cubanization of West Germany.

There are people who don't agree.

Peace without weapons. No Pershings

in Waldheide... or anywhere else!

The Pershing II is to take the place
of the Pershing I in Germany.

In Waldheide near Heilbronn,
for example.

December 12th, 1982.
Nationwide protest against rearmament.

The nuclear missiles bases, both
old and new, make for good targets.

Hundreds of kilotons
of Soviet nuclear explosives

are pointed at this recreational area.

Behind this fence,
hidden and covered with tarps,

are half a dozen flat-bed trucks

mounted with Pershing I missiles.

The US controls 108 of 180 Pershing I
missiles deployed in West Germany.

The German Army controls 72.

But the nuclear warheads are under
the exclusive control of US officers.

The warheads are stored here,
secured by walls and electric fences.

We, on whose territory they are,

have no say, no veto against their
use, or even against their deployment.

Hiroshima, Nagasaki...

The nuclear powers have amassed
an atomic arsenal of 20,000 megatons.

Translated into the conventional
explosive TNT, and loaded

onto a freight train, one would need
exactly one billion train cars,

or a train 6 million miles long,

encircling the earth 250 times.

In other words, for each of
the earth's four billion inhabitants

there are five tons of TNT.
That's what you call overkill.

The theory of deterrence,
and when that fails,

retaliation, calls for

a nuclear attack to be answered
by a devastating counterstrike.

Of course, that's not logical.
If one half of the earth is destroyed,

why destroy the other half as well?

Naturally,
the nuclear strategists know this too.

Their conclusion:
To maintain a credible deterrence,

the enemy must think you're driven
by an irrationally founded resolve.

The American nuclear theoretician
Hermann Kahn called it

"the rationality of the irrational."

One of the followers
of this mad theory

was the American president
Richard Nixon.

Nixon seriously thought
that America's enemies

would yield to the President's will

if they were convinced
he'd lost his mind,

and that he'd risk Armageddon
to stubbornly defend

some short-sighted American interests.

When caught outdoors, carry out
the following procedures:

Shield eyes from the bright light
and drop to the ground.

Take cover. Press face to ground.

Pull clothing over head.
Keeps hands under body.

Remain down for at least 90 seconds.
Roll on ground to put out

any flames on clothing.

When caught in a building,
carry out analogous procedures.

Move away from windows and take cover
behind a wall or heavy furniture.

When caught in an automobile:

Bring the vehicle
to an immediate halt. Do not get out.

Take cover on the vehicle's floor.
Remain tightly crouched down.

The defense concept of our politicians
is based on the fallacy

that it is a defensive concept.

Mr. Chancellor, the Honor Guard
of the German Bundeswehr! - Thank you.

The Chancellor thinks
he's the army's Commander-in-Chief.

That's not true. The Bundeswehr
answers to NATO, i.e. the Americans.

Our country's

defense consists of the subordination

to the Americans' global interests.

This military service is meaningful.

Besides, the way I see it, we should
be talking more about the notion

of defense, peace and freedom

than about weapons systems.

The Chancellor takes a ride
in a Leopard combat tank.

He belongs to the generation
that served neither under Hitler

nor thereafter.

Mr. Chancellor, was that your first
ride in a tank? - No...

I rode
with the famous tank driver W�rner.

Is this your first time in uniform?
- No, no.

I wore a uniform as a Flakhelfer.
- The Hitler Youth? The black uniform?

It was a real uniform. You bet it was!

NATO's strategy in Europe
is based on the so-called triad.

Simply put, this means:

First, we try to stop the Russians
with conventional weapons.

In vain. Secondly, we use our short
and mid-range nuclear missiles.

This allows us to destroy, along with
our own country, the enemy troops.

Thirdly, when that doesn't work,
the US President, if he's available,

sets off total Armageddon.

Recently, strategists, mainly from
America, have been thinking about

how to avoid step 3 of the triad.

How can nuclear warfare be made
manageable, even winnable, again?

A new generation of weapons, like this
electronically-guided cruise missile,

has revolutionized weapons technology.

These nuclear weapons are small,
accurate and practical,

fueling the dangerous illusion
that a limited war can be waged

without triggering
the major nuclear war.

The nuclear threshold is lowered,

in the hopes the enemy won't respond

to small nuclear attacks with big
ones. A poker game not without risk.

One of these "small" nuclear weapons
is the neutron bomb,

which kills humans
but leaves objects undamaged.

The true planners of our defense are
the arms firms and their scientists.

Sam Cohen, for example, who became
famous for inventing the neutron bomb.

Do you like developing weapons?

Frankly, yes.
It's a very fascinating pursuit.

What do you like most in this world?

I hope it'll come out and greet me:
my dog.

But for Heaven's sake,
don't tell my wife and kids.

Here's
my artistic representation of a city.

and high above, some 2,000 to
3,000 feet above the city,

I'll explode my neutron bomb.

What does your wife think
about the bomb?

She couldn't care less about the bomb.

She's concerned with tennis, and with
the house, not with such grim matters.

The explosion releases
all these neutrons, this radiation.

Just like a giant X-ray machine.

The weapon explodes high in the air,

keeping the devastating effects
away from the earth's surface.

That's why they say the neutron bomb
kills people but spares property.

When I'm asked if it's not immoral
to kill people while sparing property,

I always say:
The people are enemy soldiers,

but the property is civilian property.

And it's certainly moral
to spare civilian property.

You're talking about a war in Europe.

I live in Europe. Your story
doesn't sound so good to me.

Of course. Unfortunately, Europeans
live adjacent to the Soviet Bloc.

The threat is against Europe, not
America. We're separated by an ocean.

How do your children react
to your inventing this bomb?

With tremendous indifference.

What do you feel about me
having built this bomb?

Tremendous indifference.

In the last 20 years, did you ever
think, "My God, what have I invented?"

No, never. It's by far the most
effective weapon ever invented.

That sounds boastful, but it's true.
There's never been anything like it.

Who's on that picture?

Cardinal Casaroli,
Vatican Secretary of State.

I was his guest almost two years ago
at the Vatican.

And all this culminated
in him introducing me to the Pope.

The Pope?
- The Pope. No less.

How did it come about?

I was introduced
as the father of the neutron bomb.

How did the Pope react?

He reacted remarkably calmly.

Other clergymen were shocked upon
my being introduced by this title.

The Pope asked
if I was working for peace.

I assured him,
as best I could, that I was,

and that I was inspired by his example
in striving for peace.

Will there be a war?

Yes. It's a terrible thing to say.

I think it's just the nature of man.

There have always been wars,
especially in Europe...

which has been a very bellicose
continent, to put it mildly.

In every war, combatants have always
used every weapon at their disposal.

I'm afraid there will not only be war,

but that it will involve
the use of nuclear weapons.

A village in West Germany.

Located in the Fulda valley, it plays
a central role in US defense plans.

The name of the village is Hattenbach.

This is the traditional invasion
route between East and West Germany.

The Fulda valley. The US Army assumes
that World War Three will start here.

A film for the American TV station CBS

made Hattenbach famous.

It's about the defense of the US

on a battlefield called Europe.

US policy has always been to neither
confirm nor deny the existence

of nuclear weapons in Europe.

But it wouldn't surprise Europeans
that these trucks carry nuclear arms.

What would surprise and probably
frighten Europeans is the fact

that American officers, for the first
time, are developing tactics

for using nuclear warfare
on a battlefield called Europe.

US field commanders
use this model to study

the problems in waging a nuclear war,
which they believe can turn

from conventional to nuclear

and back again.

One nuclear strategist complained
that German towns

are only two kilotons apart.

One nuclear shell from a small missile

could devastate
a couple of towns at once.

A German study concluded that if the
US and the Soviet Union

use only 20 percent of their
tactical nuclear weapons in Europe,

Germany would be annihilated.

MSD stands for
"Minimum Safe Distance."

That's the minimum safety zone between
explosions of one's own weapons.

The purpose of this buffer zone
is to avoid striking one's own troops.

We're talking about
the limited use of nuclear weapons.

We want our adversary to understand

that it would be a restrained use

for specific targets
and specific timeframes.

In the political debate,
nuclear war becomes an abstract.

This model of a battlefield
looks innocent enough,

until you realize that the model
is a replica of a real town,

and in the course of the "war game,"
the town of Hattenbach is destroyed.

We went to find that town.

Hattenbach is about 20 miles
from the East German border.

It survived two world wars,
but it won't survive the next.

To the East, the Soviets, with their
nuclear weapons, target Hattenbach.

To the West
there is US nuclear artillery.

And on the Army's map, Hattenbach
is ground zero, a nuclear target.

Right at ground zero,

you can expect, from a 10 KT weapon,
temperatures of over 7000�F.

That's at ground zero.
In a radius of 250 meters,

you'll find nothing.
What was there was blown away.

If I had a village there, there'd be
rubble, but basically leveled rubble.

"Bravery in the Face of Friends!"

1. Conversations in Space

Don't think about it, Kevin.

Forget it.

Forget her...

...everything.

Just forget.

It wasn't half bad down there, Mac.

Downright nice at times.

I do want to go back.
- There's no going back.

And I don't want to go back.

I do.

How long do we still have?
- One minute...

...or ten?
It might take a couple of hours.

What the hell's that?
Who is it? What do they want?

It could be the Russians.
They must have our code.

Can you decode it?

Wait...

They're repeating...

They keep repeating the same question.

"Is anyone still alive?"
The same question, over and over.

Answer them. Do we have their code?

No.

What should I say?
- Use our code. Tell them we're alive!

Kevin Kellerher from Cleveland, Ohio,
and Mac Broker from Cincinnati!

They're answering.

They got it!

Nicolai...

...Raiski from Tula.

And lvan Golkov from Smolensk.

They...

They want to know
if we won, or if they did.

Strange question!

Tell them we won.

They say that they won.

They want to know
if we're real Communists.

Tell them, "Yes, real ones."
And ask what they are.

We are real Communists.
And who are you?

They say they aren't Communists,
they're Christians.

They have a slight chance
of landing at an auxiliary base.

They're...

...inviting us to join them. If...

If it's technically possible,
they want us to join them.

Where's the base supposed to be?

Yakutsk.

You know where that is?

Deep in the heart of Siberia.

Probably minus 60 degrees there.
No, I don't want to land in Yakutsk.

Well, I do.

I want to go back.

Australia?

Kevin says maybe Australia!

They had bread there... whisky...

Maybe even kvass.

They want to know
if we have wives and kids.

Tell them, "Yeah, we did!"

Beautiful wives! Cute kids!

Big swimming pools, fast cars,
great friends! Tell them...

Make sure it's in past tense.
"Everything was great." Tell them...

We've forgotten all of that already.

What do they say?

Nikolai, the guy from Tula,
also had wife and kids.

And lvan from Smolensk did too.

They want to know
if we can still see,

if we want to know what they see.

What do they see?

"Berlin..."

"Forget it," they say.

They say Amsterdam is submerged.

"Simply gone."

Rotterdam..."a burning island."

The mouth of the Thames is on fire.

They say we can forget London.

"The Rhine is burning from Basel

to Strasbourg...

...like lava...

...blackish red..."

Mannheim...

The Lorelei...

And Heidelberg?

Nothing about Heidelberg.

The Rhine makes a bend at D�sseldorf,

"and flows, burning...

across the plain...

...toward Antwerp."

Ask if they want to crash-land
with us in Heidelberg,

or if they'd rather
fly with us to the moon.

What are you talking about?
- Just ask them. Moon or Heidelberg?

2. In a Nuclear Bunker

Believe me, there was no possibility
to bring them down.

Even if it had been possible,
I'm not sure I would've risked it.

They wouldn't have gotten in here.

And outside...

Would you like to be outside?
- So they'll crash?

Probably.

They're not answering anymore.

Nothing.

Nothing.

But I want to go back.

Why isn't Yakutsk answering?

Why aren't they answering?

I'd take Kolima.

Or California!

Forget California!

I'd even take Germany.
- Let us pray.

We're climbing...

We're climbing!

But to where?

To where?

3. Kill your sister

Albert...

I know you're in there.

Margot...

Is that you?

Open up. Let me in.

Let you in?

Where've you been?

I fought my way through.

I walked...
or crawled, rather, from Durcheven

to here.

Through 6 miles of contamination?

You want me to let you in,
as contaminated as you are?

That won't help you.

Won't help us.

How did you find it?

I recognized the fork
in the plum tree.

How often did we sit there
by the fire?

That fork stuck in my mind.

It's still there.

And my wife Edith?

Konrad?

Erika?
- Forget her, Albert.

Forget them all.

Open up!

I'm tired. I'm... hungry, dirty...

Let your sister in, Albert.

Well...

Wait, Margot.

Wait, okay?

Wait...

Bonn...

...a peculiar capital.

The route to downtown takes you
through 5 bottlenecks, 2 gates,

across the Kennedy Bridge
and through two highway underpasses.

They say that in Bonn, the view to the
East is blocked by the "Seven Hills."

Under-Secretary Hoppe is constipated.

His superiors won't hear his concerns.

Hoppe can't discuss in public
because everything is secret.

How can one get the city's population
out of the city in an emergency?

An impossible undertaking.

Impossible.

"A central principle: Never behave

in a completely passive manner."

The 300,000-man Peace March,

Bonn, October 10th, 1981

Imagine there's a war,
and nobody shows up!

Toilet? That way.

Four!

One, two, three...

One more.
...four. Stop, that's it.

Please, you'll have to wait.

Second door to the right, Miss.
Past the pavilion.

To your left. Good day, isn't it?

We're in front of Hotel Gr�nweg...

They're standing in line

for the toilet.

And now I'm about to give the sign...
to let another four people in.

This way. Four of you. Come on.

Four ladies.
- Four!

Here they come, rushing in

for the toilet.
This way, 2nd door to your left, Miss.

I currently work
as a valet for the Bristol Hotel,

but since it's so busy today,
because of the demonstration,

and the people using our toilet,
I'm directing traffic.

I let in four or five people at a time
to use the toilet.

Three more can come in.

How many people has it been so far?
- I'd say about 500 to 600.

What's the name of the hotel?
- Bristol Hotel...

...owned by Mr. Gr�nweg.

Hello!

Ahmed!

Four people!

Four people.

There you go, gentlemen.

These kids are part of
the peace movement.

Where there's a march, they march.

Right now they're playing World War 3
on a Japanese machine.

They're "unfit" for war.

They just wouldn't go.

The heart of a ballistic missile.

The missiles are launch-ready.

They can be launched

at a moment's notice.

The missile operations personnel

work underground.

Oftentimes, soldiers don't even know

whether day is dawning, or

whether it's rainy or sunny outside.

The breaks between shifts are short.

What is War?

"Accident"

The classic land battle.

The Crown Prince's army
was to be here at 11.

It's already past 1.

The paths are muddy, Your Majesty.

We must be patient.

Jena! Auerstedt!
We're in a terrible bind.

A message from His Royal Highness
Prince Friedrich Karl...

Duke Radetzky's 7th Division
has nearly bled to death.

His Majesty requests the order
to attack. It's our last chance

to improve the situation.

Moltke!

Did you hear?
- Yes, Your Majesty.

What are your orders?

The Supreme Command
has no intention of attacking.

Until the 2nd Army arrives,
I order the front to be held.

In the Battle of K�niggr�z,
the Prussians,

starting at 8 am, fight a bloody
frontal battle against the Austrians.

Then the Silesian army,
hours behind schedule,

attacks the Austrians from behind.

Allow me to congratulate His Majesty.

The battle,
perhaps even the war, is won.

The army of His Royal Highness
is now attacking. The battle is won.

This victory
is not apparent to the soldiers,

who at that moment
are fighting or dying.

Victory is decided
where the soldiers do not fight.

Painters find their motifs amidst
frontal warfare that decides nothing.

"War is nondescript."

War is nondescript.

There is no war in the general sense.

"War which decides

over the survival of my people."

"War in which I only conquer areas

along the borders of my empire."

"Conflict"

Civil war, economic war, world war

Colonial, partisan, nuclear war

"War of conquest"

"War of eradication"

"War of extermination"

We support those

trying to liberate themselves
from terror and violence.

And if they have no means left
but war, then we support their war.

And we oppose those who...

escalate their terror,

up to the use of nuclear arms,
which is being discussed in Vietnam.

"Blitz"

"Proxy war"

There's a "fraternal war,"

but there's no word for a war
between sisters, mothers or fathers.

But there is "marital war."

War is the destruction
of the will of another.

Then the opposite of war, peace,
is the creation of a person's will.

We don't have
any experience doing that.

"Peace through victory"

"Peace by dictate"

"Peace by compromise"

"Lousy peace"

"Rest in peace"

"Company peace"

"Cemetery peace"

"The Peace of Munster"

"Pacification"

"Pacifier"

Little house.

Heinrich B�ll remembers...

This isn't the first peace movement
in West Germany.

In the '60s, there were the Easter
marches, and before that, in the '50s,

the campaign "Fight Nuclear Death."

The arms business is booming.
But for whom?

Remilitarization
prevents reunification.

The R�merplatz is the scene of

a political demonstration.
The Union Youth,

the Falcons,

Friends of Nature,
and the Socialist Student Union

called for a protest
against the rearmament

of West Germany.

That protest movement
proved unsuccessful.

Their call for
a nuclear-weapons-free zone in Europe

and against nuclear arms altogether
is being taken up again today.

Fear?

We don't disseminate fear here.
Nor do we express fear.

The politicians should know,

when they examine
their military arsenals,

their planned systems and
confused contingency plans,

that they are the ones
disseminating fear.

Yesterday, a term was used in
parliament, by Chancellor Schmidt,

which I as a writer could talk about
for a long time. But I won't.

It's the term "shady characters."

That is a very,

a very dangerous expression...

For we've seen how "shady characters"
attain the highest government posts.

I'm almost inclined to declare
myself to be a "shady character."

It's gotten cold.

I'd like to personally thank you all
for the encouragement you represent.

The politicians have the choice.

They can
turn us into complacent cynics...

It's easily done. They can have a
paralyzed population around the globe,

paralyzed by weapons, this plague
of weapons, the numbers of weapons...

We won't let ourselves be paralyzed.

It's been raining for hours. Soaked,
but convinced of their noble cause,

the protesters head to their departing
busses and trains here in Bonn.

They might not have heard
all the speakers,

they might not have even
made it to the central square,

because of the many people
who came to Bonn.

But they had the feeling
of simply being there.

That's what counted for them,
on this day in Bonn.

Being there to demonstrate for peace,

not against anyone,

but simply for a cause
that they think is a good one.

That was the purpose
of the trip to Bonn.

These quarter of a million
young people hardly fit...

The only western ruler to occupy
Moscow was Napoleon Bonaparte.

He was victorious on the battlefield.

Now in Moscow, he complains to the
Czar that no one will sue for peace.

He doesn't know
what to do with this country.

He marches back into the winter.

"Exterminatory zeal must

leave enough enemies

to make peace with. Otherwise,

it is an accident."

"Peace, because the enemy

is too tired to fight."

They say that the infantry
is the queen of the battlefield.

That's because

you have to occupy a territory
with people to conquer it.

Destroying country
and people isn't enough.

Victory belongs to all.

Everyone has only one life.

Now stay tuned

for part two of the documentary on the

past and present of the Soviet Army.

Be a man and defend the homeland,

as your fathers did,

and their fathers before them.

Time passes, but we'll never forget.

Every film made by the Soviet Army

includes a sequence recalling

World War Two.

The regiment's favorite pilot, young

Volodja Petrov.

He was not lucky enough

to live to see the day of victory.

All is quiet at the command post.

But the missile operations personnel

remain vigilant all the same.

No matter how complex and perfected

the technology may be,

in the end,

success is based on the human factor.

Let us never forget that fact.

The missile unit troops understand

that today's international situation

is escalating.

They see the dangers posed by the USA,

NATO and by the Peking hegemonialists.

The missile unit troops are vigilant.

They carry out Lenin's directive

to be alert at all times.

Farewell to the Day Before Yesterday

The first guests to arrive
are the representatives of the EU,

Mr. Thorn from Luxembourg,

and Mr. Martens from Belgium.

At the last minute, the pilot
waves a flag out the window.

It displays the Italian colors.

On board is the current
Italian head-of-state,

Signore Spadolini.

Then the Japanese Prime Minister
Suzuki lands,

followed by Prime Minister Trudeau
from Canada.

Notice the subtleties of the protocol.

Since this is an economic summit,

the appearances are ordered by GNP.

After Margaret Thatcher,
seen departing here,

comes Federal Chancellor Schmidt.

For the arrival of the US President,
special precautions are taken.

The US Secret Service

didn't allow the President to use
the French helicopter. Instead,

an American helicopter was
disassembled and shipped to Europe.

An armored limousine as well.

Pan slowly to the right. Stay on
the security agents. Yes, that one...

Follow him.

Pull back into a wide shot...

Now backwards, to your right,
stay on the helicopter.

And stay right there.
- Okay.

His Majesty...

Emperor Wilhelm. May he live...
- Long!

This is the famous Hall of Mirrors,

where, in 1871, Bismarck proclaimed
the 2nd German Empire,

the Reichseinheit, or lmperial Union.

In the same room, in 1919,
the Treaty of Versailles was signed.

Flanking it are "Le Salon de la Paix"
and "Le Salon de la Guerre," meaning

the Hall of Peace and the Hall of War.

Now for a snack
in the Salon de la Paix.

On this splendid summer evening,

a boat ride on the Grand Canal
is planned for the heads of state.

Mrs. Thatcher inquires

whether that is really the boat.

The seafaring endeavor is cancelled,
without a reason being given.

The waiters remove the table settings.

La Garde Republicaine
was deployed in vain.

To mark the summit,
President Mitterand

introduces a new
French communications technology.

At 3:09 pm, a breaking news flash:

The Israelis have invaded Lebanon.

The heads of state face the press.

But not their questions.
Instead, a statement will be read out.

Here again, notice
the interesting seating arrangement.

La Conference has completed its work.

Ajoint declaration has been issued.

Of course, the statement cannot
take current events into account.

Except to say
that the Israeli invasion of Lebanon

violates this country's sovereignty.

The American President is perturbed.

This protest by the host Mitterand
in the name of the summit members

does not suit him whatsoever.

Lebanon, like any other country,
has a right to sovereignty.

Even if that right
has frequently been violated,

we now unequivocally express
our strong opposition.

Alexander Hague
leaves the conference in a huff.

What he doesn't know
is that his departure is permanent.

For the Lebanon invasion
does not bode well for his career.

The rapid sequence of events
suits the press.

Our curiosity must constantly be fed
by fresh news from the media.

New suffering as well.

In this sense, we are cannibals.

But our emotion cannot easily adjust
to the suffering of others.

Emotions take time.

The war machine, however,
apparently functions timelessly.

On the one hand,
it doggedly carries out the same war.

On the other hand,
it changes scenes so abruptly

that emotions cannot keep up.

One moment Pershing, then it's Poland,
then the Falklands,

now it's Lebanon.

But Lebanon
has been a massacre for seven years.

As were Vietnam and Algeria before it.

The images are always the same.

That makes them old.

But it always affects new people.

"In former times people were closer,

and guns couldn't shoot as far."

Clausewitz said,

"From time to time,
war dreams of its absolute notion."

"Proximity!"

"Distance!"

There were warnings on German radio:

Caution! Pokryshkin is in the skies!

The three-time Soviet hero

Marshall A.I. Pokryshkin

still remembers those intense battles.

The distance is what's important.

You have to get close enough.

You aim. You want to press the button,

but you tell yourself, "Wait!

It's still too far away."

If you're too far away,

the chance of success is less.

Only if you're within 50-70 meters...

"Today the Marshall only commands

planes that shoot from 25 miles away."

The F-4 Phantom. The fastest
interceptor fighter in the free world.

The supersonic twin-jet fighter

strengthens the air armada
of the US and its allies.

And to ensure future air superiority,

McDonald Douglas is developing
the even more advanced

F-15 for the US Air Force.

Complete humans are slow.

War makes artificial human.
Only artificial human makes war.

"Electronics, like viruses,

are fast and blind."

Freedom lives among the stars.

According to classical philosophy,

people's freedom stems simply from
the fact that the world is round.

People who head out on this globe

cannot avoid
returning to their starting point.

They'd better do so peacefully.

By now it's crowded out there.

There is a conspiracy of objects.

How smart, effective and aggressive
these objects have been made to be

will be seen when they explode.

From the Infantry's Point of View

General, you know
your publication is controversial.

I know.

Politicians won't accept it.
- I know that too.

You were in Guadalcanal?
- Yes.

And Korea, and Vietnam?
- Sure.

You speak as an infantry officer?

As what else?

And you don't think much
of tactical nuclear weapons?

Not unless one is very religious.

And your Soviet colleagues aren't?
- They're non-believers.

Aren't you overestimating them?
- I never overestimate my enemies.

You keyword is:

"confusion"?

I see it through infantry eyes.

What does the infantry see
that neither you nor anyone else can?

Besides, there is none at the moment.
- Wait and see.

Once again: How does your theoretical
infantry see the war?

More or less.

What does it see?

I already told you.
- What did you tell me?

It sees confusion.

This is like pulling teeth, General.
- Listen...

It starts conventionally,

but it doesn't turn classical.

What's that supposed to mean?
- I said, it starts conventionally.

So the troops leave the barracks
in vehicles. Is that right?

Yes, but it doesn't stay conventional.
- Why not?

They have to get from their barracks
to operative bases 60 miles away.

And that will lead to confusion?
- Assume it's also drizzling...

And assume it's a weekend.

The assumption is that the President
issues the order to use nuclear arms.

That's an assumption.

You mean, due to the confusion?
- Yes.

You mean that a well-placed
conventional strike is misinterpreted,

and the enemy crosses the nuclear
threshold? - That's my assumption.

Your Lance batteries
fire on the enemy's supply lines.

What will your troops do?
- I have no idea.

Who else would know?
- I wouldn't know who.

Your infantry unit
could attack the enemy's flanks.

In my experience, they hold back,

and get their bearings.

And then what?
- I have no idea.

I'm only saying what won't happen.
- Then the war is over quickly.

Not true. There's probably no one left
who could put an end to it.

How is that to be understood?

Very quickly.

Defend yourselves
Put up resistance

Against the pigs' terror and violence

Come on, close your ranks!
Come on, close your ranks!

Defend yourselves
Put up resistance...

Make it stop!
Make it stop...

Make it stop! Make it stop...

Today...

... is a historical day.

The Bundeswehr
turns 25 years old today.

The 12th of November, 1955,

the day of its founding,

was the 200th birthday of the
military reformer Scharnhorst,

who called for

the army and the nation
to be reunited again.

With today's Bundeswehr

and the citizens of today's FRG,
this has been achieved.

A small protesting minority

cannot call this into question.

Make it stop!
Make it stop! Make it...

I thank you all!

I'm happy to be able

to march with you today.

We Germans might not know how to live.

But...

Dying!

That's something
we're terrific at doing.

Let us stay together
on the other side as well.

All of us!

My grandparents on my mother's side
were simple farmers.

We're 4 billion years old,

and we don't want to die just yet.

"There's destruction underway.

I'll be lucky

if this year doesn't kill me..."

"The nearly unsolvable problem

is how to avoid being stricken dumb,

whether through the power of others,

or through one's own paralysis."

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