Original subtitles

Move aside.

We're looking for the girl.

Where is the Mischling?

The one you're searching for, she went back to Lübeck 2 days ago.

You are Frau Schlegel?

She is your child?

Yes, but she doesn't live here.

She lives with her aunt in Lübeck.

You're making a mistake.

Women like you...

who contaminates...

If she's anything like her mother she'll be open also

to contaminate from within.

You won't find her,

because she doesn't live here.

Leyna, come. They're gone.

Spring 1944.

That was the year I turned 16.

Children like me from the Rhineland were known as

Rhineland bastards

or "Hitlers problem",

because our German nationality automatically came

through our white mothers,

even our fathers were African

and often absent.

There were so few of us that in my entire 16 years,

I never saw another soul like me.

Happy birthday, dear girl.

Thank you, Frau Heinrich.

Hitler wanted to deal with us secretly,

without being seen by Germany,

to be attacking our Aryan mothers.

So, though we had a freedom

that the Jews did not have,

still we had to be guarded

especially once the Gestapo started to visit us in Rüdesheim.

It wasn't that I had not known I was different.

It was as I reached 16,

I really began to feel it.

That was the year I realized

Hitler had a plan for us.

Why are we going to Berlin?

To be invisible.

Stop talking, Koen.

Read your book.

I have my drawing book, but no pencil.

I can't draw without it.

You want a pencil?

I think that I might be able to help you, little man.

Thank you.

He's restless.

He's a boy. We never grow out of it.

- Your papers. - Yes, of course.

I have all our papers.

Here.

Schlegel?

Yes.

Invisible.

Here's not like the Rhineland.

They're not bothered with children like you

or with talk fixing you.

Life will be good again.

I promise.

We have a new girl joining us today.

Her name is Leyna Schlegel.

Stand up.

Schlegel is a good German name,

but your face

is so un-German.

Leyna has facial features in common with people of which continent?

Grethe.

Africa.

Indeed.

So how does a girl like you

come to have a name so Germanic as Schlegel?

Schlegel is my mother's name.

And what is your father's name?

Why wouldn't you tell me about my father?

He was black from head to toe.

- I want to know who he was. - Leyna.

You know everything.

I was just a little older than you,

- made mistakes. - Mistakes?

Not you.

Koen, get me some water, please.

He was a good soldier.

But I told you all this.

I don't know what else.

Why did you not marry?

Mr. Müller slept me yesterday,

because he told me that you're the worst of all people white

and the worst of all people black.

That's what a mulatto is.

But I told him that's not true.

To me, you're the best of everything.

Your hair is dirty.

I'll wash it for you tonight.

- Heil Hitler. - Heil Hitler.

Hey, shouldn't you be going with them?

Monkey.

Wilhelm just returned from Vienna.

Does he know we're coming?

Yes, of course, I told him.

She's actually is beautiful.

And he looks just like father.

Go on, Leyna, sit down.

I didn't expect you with the children.

Today they saw a Negro at the door, tomorrow it will be a Jew, you know?

Nobody saw us, Hilde.

Leyna, come ahead of me.

See if you can pick up a...

a good loaf of bread before the store closes.

Take Koen with you.

Leyna, please...

use the back.

Kerstin, I want you to understand that I have nothing against your family.

And a choice between your child and us...

well, I know, it's no choice at all.

But I spilled blood for the Kaiser.

And last month they kept my sick father over two nights

because someone convinced them he had a Jewish mother.

And now you bring your Negro here.

You compromised me,

- us, your sister, without any regard. - Wilhelm.

Listen for just a moment,

and you will never hear from us again.

- I need papers. - Kerstin.

Something that say Leyna has been sterilized.

You really are quite unique.

Wilhelm, you have access.

A Gestapo document declaring her physically changed.

You can do this.

- I know you can. - You should leave, Kerstin. - Hilde, please!

I didn't think the order would extend to Berlin. I hoped she would be safe here.

But two days ago they came.

She was out. I told them she carries the papers with her, but I'm afraid.

I'm afraid

that they would take her from the streets,

from the school, anywhere, that I can't protect her.

Leyna, lets go.

Why did you put her in school?

- What's the matter with you? - Hilde.

I can't hide her.

If not school, then labor service.

Who knows where she would end?

All the girls must do labor service. She's no different.

You want her to be special?

No.

I want her to be like everyone else...

unremarkable.

Then she will not escape this war as if it had never happened.

None of us will manage that, Kerstin.

Günther.

What?

Where did that voice come from?

Ah.

Some bread, please, Günther.

How are you? Good? Settling it?

I miss home.

Morning.

Ah, is that a...

yes, I think... a smile.

That's better.

There are people waiting.

Negermädchen.

I always keep the good one back, but you can have it.

Now listen to me.

If your sister forgets to smile,

you remind her of Günther's face.

It's funny, yes?

Yes.

Can I go now?

Yes, you can go with the other boys.

Go on then.

Koen.

Koen.

I have no choice.

The law says you must go, but where you're going

they will teach you many things.

Lots will make sense and feel right,

but so much will be confusing because it will be different to the things

you learn here

at home.

But I want you to understand

that nobody can know a son better than a mother,

no teacher, no group leader.

I hope, Koen, that you choose never to forget this,

that you keep what I teach you

in here

and here.

You understand me, Koen?

- Leyna? - I didn't see you.

- Leyna? - Sorry.

Let me look.

You should be more careful.

We need to get you home so that we can clean these wounds.

I'm sorry.

Why are you in the building so early?

The leaders are meeting before the boys arrive.

I told them we need to.

Are you making problems for yourself?

The elder ones are taking pocket money from the others.

- And yesterday I had mothers screaming in my ears. - Wait!

Ask!

Hm?

Don't take!

We're a little late, Frau Nagel. I'm sorry.

Oh, what happened to you?

A little hooligan ran her over with his bike.

It was an accident.

What do you say, Koen?

Thank you, Frau Nagel.

And next time I kick your ass in chess, huh?

A gentleman asked me to take it for you.

He was at your door while you were gone.

I asked his name, but he didn't want to tell me.

Wilhelm.

Hilde must never know.

Here, take them.

A set of the doctor's papers has also been filed.

Who?

A connection in the municipality of Rüdesheim,

- one who is critical of the regime. - A Communist?

You have communist contacts?

There are more papers inside.

They must be archived in Rüdesheim.

Have them signed and returned to me as instructed.

And then

you must forget that you ever had a sister.

Here.

What?

Nothing.

You polish like your uncle Harry...

like a girl.

Oh!

Well, Uncle Harry told me I polish like you.

When you're finished, go and get yourself cleaned up. You have mud in your hair.

My target were excellent today.

I have to go to Hamburg tonight, but Sunday...

Sunday we'll catch some fish, yes?

I have papers for you.

You should carry them with you

wherever you go.

It will protect you.

- Where did you... - They're false,

but they're enough.

No one will know.

Wilhelm needs you to sign these also.

If I send them back to him, he'll will make sure it's in the right place for us to be left alone.

What is it?

A declaration

that you will not commit the crime of racial mixing with anyone of German blood.

I am of German blood.

It's just a signature to keep them away. It means nothing.

It means something surely, or why should I sign?

I don't.

Fine, then they will come for you, Leyna, and they will make you sign.

Not false, empty papers.

Real ones.

And not before they've fixed you in reality

and cut your insides to do so.

Neither you nor your brother entered this world without pain,

but I could not be in this life without you both.

You should also know the blessing of motherhood one day, Leyna.

I want that for you.

If you do not sign

they will do to you

what can never be undone.

You'll be who they have made you.

What was the treaty that enabled Poland to take this land from the empire?

Anna?

Versailles.

Schlegel.

The five principal leaders who signatories to this treaty.

Heil Hitler.

Heil Hitler.

Heil Hitler.

Sit.

Schlegel, stand.

Come.

Leave your books. You won't need them anymore.

And take your bag.

They didn't hurt you.

That's all that matters.

They can force you from school,

but they can't stop you learning.

You learn here, at home.

But you really be conscripted to work now.

I was proud of how you worked today.

You grow so quickly.

I have a coat that fits nicely now.

You drive us home?

No, thank you. I cycle.

Uh, look, please.

You followed us home.

I wanted to know if you're all right.

I am.

What are you looking at?

I don't know, your bruise.

I'll see you.

What's your name?

Günther, der Junge.

Günther!

Take them off.

Take them off.

Off!

They didn't circumcise you good enough, Jew.

I can fix that.

What happened? He was a Jew?

Printing leaflets.

He was plotting with other students.

He wore a crucifix like a badge,

running with some rotten Zionist group.

I heard some people outside Günther's store.

Something happened to him today.

I know.

I was there. I saw it.

He was touching the bread,

but he was Jewish.

Don't be stupid, Koen. He was a good Jew.

Leyna.

Good Jew?

He was a human being.

If I forbade you from sharing the streets with me

because your face is freckled, should my words

make you any less of a human being?

Should that mean that anyone should shoot you in the street like a dog?

I'm sorry.

I'm sorry you had to see such a thing, Leyna.

Also to you, Koen.

It's not your fault.

It's my job to protect you from the things you hear,

even the things you think.

A Waffen-SS man.

He came to speak to us during training today.

He told me my skills are superior.

He wishes to speak with me further.

What was his name?

Lieber.

Section leader.

Tell me, when does Lieber plan to speak to me?

I don't think they're asking you to fight.

When you asking them

why they're not out there fighting themselves, these men who

walk around recruiting you idiots?

Why are you angry?

It's easy to hit the target when no one is attacking you, Lutz.

Do you think there's time for practice out there in the East?

Out there the enemy is real, and his only target is you.

This isn't a game to me.

I'm training hard.

Everyone can see it.

I fought in the last war for 4 years.

And when I got back,

Germany was even worse than when I left.

No work. Debt. Hunger.

Like you we ran willingly towards our death.

Towards protecting the homeland.

Like fools we didn't ask a single question.

And all those men,

comrades, that I ate with,

slept with, pissed with, they died for nothing.

Do you understand me? For nothing!

We were humiliated, deceited,

but this war... this war is ours.

You can not make a difference.

That's not true.

Germany will be freed from the Gestapo hyenas,

the SS murderers,

and anyone who believes in the dirt from Hitler,

like National Socialism...

and this repulsive system.

We will see the end.

Not of you,

not of Germany,

- 'cause the fight is not against the German people. - Leyna.

- On the contrary, Britain is fighting to free you... - I...

...from the monstrous hands of a dictator who convinced you...

Mother, I just need some fresh air.

...he would free Germany, and instead...

Leyna.

She's a Negro.

Leyna.

Leyna?

That's your name?

Why did you come?

You could get into a lot of trouble.

- Heil Hitler! - I wanted to see what it's like.

Heil Hitler!

See what he does here.

Koen.

He's my brother.

I know.

I've seen him with you.

Were you spying on us?

Only once.

He's German.

Of course.

I've...

I've seen a lady that looks like you.

In a photograph.

Well, not...

really a photograph.

My father, he has a gramophone.

He hides jazz records,

but I've heard them playing, quietly.

Sometimes, late at night, when I'm in my room,

as I press my ear to the floor, I hear.

Negermusic.

Isn't that what it's called?

It's not allowed.

♪ When we're in a friendly situation ♪

♪ My conversation might not be smart ♪

♪ But if we're to have a perfect understanding ♪

♪ Let's call a heart a heart ♪

On the cover of one of the magazines is a lady.

She's like you, kind of...

beautiful.

You'll get into trouble singing those songs.

I'll just have to be careful.

Like my father.

Come on.

Have you ever been up there?

Into those hills?

It's the quietest place on earth.

I used to go up there to collect caterpillars

with my father and my mother.

You can see all of Berlin from that one place.

Did you run away?

Run away?

It's just...

your mother, she is...

She's not Jewish.

No. I know, but...

your father.

He...

He's a Negro.

Have you ever swam in the night?

You know, when it's so dark, you can see nothing.

I always thought it would be so wonderful.

Then why have you never done it?

In Rüdesheim I'd swim every week.

There were many Jews.

They were told they couldn't use the pool.

And then...

I was told I couldn't use it either.

It's been a long time, that's all.

I have dreams that I'm drowning.

You just have to get used to the water again.

You can join me.

Now the next.

Heil Hitler!

Heil Hitler!

Leyna.

Leyna! Leyna?

Leyna! Leyna!

Leyna.

Here.

In this wood you need to know where you're going.

I can't believe I lent you my bike.

My mother had them made for us.

For me and father.

Does she have one too?

She's dead.

Oh, I...

I'm sorry.

Is that why you come here?

To think of her?

Sometimes.

Mostly I think about what it would be like to fight,

to stand up for Germany,

like my father did.

Do you think you could take a life?

Kill a human being?

Of course I could.

I could kill a Russian soldier with ease.

Ow, my mother will think I've been up to something.

Use my jumper.

It's easier.

Aren't you afraid?

What for?

Fighting.

War.

Does the war frighten you?

Yes.

My father fought in a war.

He did? For Germany?

Of course..

Here is England.

Here is England.

Here is England.

Here is the BBC Midnight News.

The Allies advance to the mainland Europe continues.

British elite forces, along with American troops...

- Did my father fight for Germany? - I peg your pardon?

...and they captured the French port of Cherbourg.

He fought for the French.

- The German soldiers... - As Tirailleurs Sénégalais.

...from the western front.

Victory included...

Avec qui passez-vous tant de temps, Leyna?

You told me he was sent here to fight.

You didn't tell me he was sent here to fight us!

Qui est-ce?

Arrête toi!

Je ne veux pas parler français!

It's his language!

He was part of the occupation by the time we met.

He didn't fight you...

or me!

Of course he did.

I'm German,

even if you want to pretend you're not.

Even if you want me to pretend I am not.

I loved him.

It was from that place that you came.

A place even Koen can not claim.

You have made me an enemy twice.

If you think I've made you the enemy, Leyna,

then look around you!

Look, Leyna!

And the next time you're with that son of a Nazi,

you know this:

If his father catches you with his buy,

he'll kill him

before he comes and kills us!

I've forgotten my gloves.

I'll wait.

No, you go on.

I'll need just a moment.

It's your choice, Leyna.

You're always here,

outside the factory.

Are you cold?

No.

Are you?

Yes, it's the coldest summer.

I've lost my gloves.

I told my mother I left them.

I have to go.

I don't want my mother to being upset with me.

I wanted to give you something.

Cheese.

Maybe you could enjoy it with Koen

and your mother.

I thought you had gone.

My mother didn't wait for me, Leyna.

And that's just how I became your mother,

chasing the same impossibility you're chasing.

The first time your father looked at me,

I thought my heart would never beat again unless he loved me forever.

He was ripped away from me, Leyna,

and all I had left was you,

the best of everything.

So you think I can ever leave you?

For each of us

there is someone.

For me, it's you, Leyna,

the gift from your father.

Koen is my heart,

you know that,

but for me

that someone is you.

An unwashed Englishman.

A French baboon, black from head to toe.

Black like your sister.

Black as coal like Leyna.

- Reiht euch auf! - Aufstellen.

In the line!

Move!

You're used to it, aren't you?

Dirt in the mouth?

A good soldier should have honor.

Koen!

Are you all right, Koen?

Koen!

What?

Do you still love me?

No.

I hate you.

You're a girl, and I hate girls!

Halt!

Aufmachen!

Sie sollen aufmachen!

Kommt raus da!

Aufmachen!

Ihr habt Jews hier?

It's just the three of us.

My son is asleep in the bedroom.

Where are her papers?

Go fetch them, Leyna.

It's all right, Koen.

They'll go soon.

Born in Rüdesheim.

German.

You are negro, but you say you're German.

We would have to replace it.

You won't reporting to SS Lieber.

He thinks you'll be of more use elsewhere.

Fighting?

We need every man we can get.

Oh, so you do realize that our men are freezing to death on the Russian front?

They are dying with honor.

It's not for nothing.

No, it is for blind delusion.

Are we finished?

May I go now?

Lutz, wait.

Your mother

fought for her life with every part of her being.

She wouldn't want to see you throw away yours.

You wear the mask that gets you through the war,

that helps you survive.

Why did you fight for Germany if you don't love it?

If you weren't prepared to die?

Don't judge me, Lutz.

You are just as I was. I would've died for Germany 10 times over.

Others made that sacrifice then,

and they will make it now.

Let them.

Lutz,

I am your father first of all.

Do you understand?

No, I don't.

You want me to feel as you feel, but you don't want me to fight like you fought.

You want me to have an independent mind,

but not if it goes against yours.

Who should I be?

Should I be you or not?

You are not a hero,

and neither am I.

Hey!

- Wo sind die Papiere? - Verdammt nochmal!

Macht die Tür auf! Sofort!

We can't go to the hilltop today.

I have to try to go back home.

You should wait. They'll be everywhere.

Wait?

Aufmachen! Sofort!

Put this on.

- Wird's bald! Kommen Sie raus! - Macht sofort die Tür auf!

Come quick.

Leyna!

Where are we going?

Somewhere safe.

Until things calm down.

My father, he left for Munich yesterday.

Sit down.

Are you hungry?

No, thanks.

Thirsty?

Me neither.

Thank you.

What for?

Being my friend.

I will have some water.

Your mother, she looked kind.

You must miss her terribly.

My father...

he used to cry a lot.

That was the worst.

I only have one photograph of my father.

I want to show you something.

What are you doing?

I told you.

This one he likes to play most often.

♪ When we're in a friendly situation ♪

♪ My conversation may not be smart ♪

♪ But if we're to have a perfect understanding ♪

- ♪ Let's call a heart a heart ♪ - After she died I would hear this music

- and I would tell myself... - ♪ There are words ♪

- ♪ That should be whispered gently ♪ - ...if I looked hard enough through the crack in the door...

- ♪ That's evidently the way ♪ - ...I would catch her in here,

- dancing with my father. - ♪ To start ♪

♪ If I tell you what my dreams have been demanding ♪

♪ Let's call a heart a heart ♪

We can dance.

♪ Can I prove how I yearn ♪

♪ Just by the turn of a phrase? ♪

♪ Can I keep my control ♪

♪ When all my soul is aflame? ♪

♪ Maybe we'd call a true confession ♪

♪ And in discretion on someone's part ♪

♪ But if I'm to say how madly I adore you ♪

♪ Let's call a heart a heart ♪

Shh.

It's Jan, the furniture maker.

It's all right. He can't see you, he's almost blind.

I'ts only shapes, or if you're really close.

What do you think he wants?

My father gives him work.

He probably left some tools in the back.

He's leaving.

Berlin is supposed to be clear by now.

I think that's why there are so many actions today.

You don't have to be scared.

"Clear"?

Of all Jews.

I heard my father talking before he left.

For the Führer's birthday last year, Berlin must to be clear of Jews.

But the Jews married to Germans and the Half-Jews,

they still remain.

Where do they "clear" them to?

Poland, I think.

Camps for labor.

Better they work for Germany than sitting here plotting and planning against us.

It's hard, you know.

The Gestapo comes looking for a Jew and they'll find me.

Not for long.

It can't stay like this forever.

Germany will be calm again.

It will be all right.

How do you think America is like?

Why?

That woman you showed me on the magazine...

she is American.

So?

Do you think she is happy?

They hang people like you in America, Leyna.

They show us in books in meetings.

People hanging in trees,

set on fire.

Did you ever do that before?

Do what?

What we just did.

Of course.

When?

When was the first time?

I don't know.

A few years ago.

A few years?

Be quiet, Leyna.

I don't think that you ever touched anyone

the way that you just touched me.

Here, put this on.

What time is it?

It's after 9:00.

What?

Lutz, the curfew.

Guten Abend.

Halt!

Heil Hitler.

What are you doing?

I'am... I'am collecting some books from Treptow.

I'm preparing for a meeting tomorrow.

And you couldn't do it in daylight?

Just scurry around in the dark?

I just returned from training exercise.

Where do you live?

Hey!

In Köpenick.

I live in Köpenick.

Weißmüller's boy.

Go on, get on your way, before you get arrested.

Leyna!

Leyna!

I'll wait until you get inside.

Lutz.

What we did today,

did you ever do that before?

No.

JEW

Formal Notice of Confiscation of Assets

From here on

you will not leave the house unless I'm with you.

You've shown you can't be trusted.

You could've been arrested.

- I'm not Jewish. - No.

And nor are you Aryan, Leyna.

We'll all have to pay for your mistakes in the end.

Me, you, even Koen.

We'll have to pay.

You speak of nothing but mistakes, but who pays for yours?

And that's why I will not that you throw your life away.

You will not go near that boy again.

I apologize.

Excuse me.

You!

Stop!

Halt!

Now!

Stop, Leyna.

We have to stop.

Stay here.

Both of you!

Mother, I have no sterilization papers and no identity papers.

I will explain.

Your Bastard?

My daughter.

Your Negro Bastard.

You work at the factory?

Papers.

Yes.

Quickly!

Yes.

Here.

Her papers.

Yes.

Tell me...

What was in your heart when you're ashaming Germany?

I've never ashamed Germany.

Her papers!

You are Germany's disgrace.

You and your bastard.

Close your mouth!

Black man's whore.

You're lost.

You forgot what it is to be a good German woman.

Do you think you are lost?

I am not lost.

Perhaps not forever.

So then, how do you become a good German woman?

You lose your monkey.

Mama. Mama...

What?

We take her, or we take you.

- No, no, no! - Mama!

Please! Please! Please, I beg you! No, please! Please!

- Mama! - Take me!

- Mama! - Be quiet!

Take me!

No! Mama! No!

You don't cry!

You don't... cry.

Mama!

Mama!

Mama!

Why didn't she tell me?

She didn't even say goodbye.

She told me to say goodbye for her.

This work,

it will pay her good money and it won't be for long.

How long?

I don't know.

But she loves us.

And you can't be away from people you love for very long.

So, I know,

right now,

right this minute,

she's working as hard as she can

to get back to us.

I could've gone with her.

No, you couldn't.

Excuse me, sir?

Herr Engel.

I was going to visit Lutz

and his father.

I wasn't sure if he's still in Munich.

- He's back. - Oh.

Lutz, you missed already.

He was summoned to duty

one day ago.

Duty?

Thought he had a month,

but they came for him early yesterday morning

and sent him to the East.

No warning.

It was his time.

I wish it was mine again.

Nothing in Berlin

except women and old men

and hiding Jews.

Is it true you can't be away from people you love forvery long?

Of course it is.

Koen.

Come.

Papers! Identity papers!

What's happening?

I think they're moving us to the engine factory.

Papers.

Bitte, bitte, nicht!

- Where are my papers? - What is it? What's happening? Who are they looking for?

Take her away!

Ich hab überhaupt nichts getan!

You tell him you forgot your papers.

Papers!

They're looking for papers.

Look! Look! The woman is running away!

Stop! Get her!

What are you doing?

Wait! What are you doing?

Quickly! Go! Go!

Get in.

Shut up.

Shut up!

Next.

Hurry up.

Come here.

You're a Mischling?

Yes.

My mother is Aryan.

Sterilized?

Yes.

I was sterilized in Rüdesheim in the Rhineland.

Your mother did you no favors.

She rendered you a Nigger.

Don't claim to her purity

because she didn't care to make you pure.

Gypsy?

You're a partisan?

No.

I love Germany.

But they took my mother and my papers.

They say there's no such thing as a Negro of the fatherland.

And what do you say?

I say...

I say I am German.

Stand here.

I'm going to do for you, what your mother couldn't.

I'm going to give you a chance for life

because it was not you who defiled the German race.

You're merely the sickening produce.

You will work in the kitchen.

You'll eat the food you are given and no more.

If you take advantage,

you'll die before your time,

as your mother should have.

You are in my bunk.

Oh, hush, Negro.

You think you're better than me?

Spare your energy.

You're only lucky you're not in the rat house over there like...

Do you think I am Jewish?

All I want is to sleep near my sister,

but an African savage like you wouldn't understand.

You would eat your own mother to keep alive.

Only a fool sleeps down there where they piss and empty themselves pouring from above.

Well, you can sleep in my bunk.

Where are the girls that sleep here?

Infirmary.

They won't be back.

Those shoes will cause you trouble.

I know, but they're strong.

Down there is ripe for typhus.

I'm tired of being pushed out.

Your stomach is round.

I've seen it in the wash barracks.

Do you know what happens in there?

Where?

The Jewish rat house.

I can't breathe with this air.

♪ How can I prove how I yearn ♪

♪ Just by the turn of a phrase? ♪

♪ Can I keep control ♪

♪ When all my soul is aflame? ♪

♪ But if I'm to say how madly I adore you ♪

♪ Let's call a heart a heart ♪

Here, take mine.

Take it.

I ate in the kitchen.

Your feet are rotting, Hermine.

When I can, I'll bring you a potato.

You can use it to buy shoes.

Okay?

Last night I ate ice cream.

Sweet vanilla ice cream.

I was asleep in my mother's arms.

I smelled her skin.

I felt her heart beat.

They took her instead of me.

I will never forgive myself.

I have said I'm sterilized.

Hermine, it hurts.

You will get used to it.

Halt!

Where are you coming from, and where are you going?

Sir...

I'm returning from kitchen duty to my barracks.

You carry food from the kitchen.

Hand it over.

Sir...

Take off your clothes.

Hurry up!

Come on.

Do you want to be shot?

Take off your clothes.

Now!

Hey!

What has she done?

Negermischling.

Have you seen one before?

Stealing from the kitchen.

See how she shakes.

She's hiding food.

I should like to deal with her.

She...

is miserable.

Let me take her.

I want to search her barracks.

Go ahead.

If you can stand the Neger stench.

Leyna.

Wait.

Stop!

Where do you sleep?

We have to walk.

Where is your block?

We sleep in the same barracks.

Can she return with me?

Did you have food in there?

Come.

You look pale. Are you sick?

No.

Stay away from the prisoners.

The camp gets riddled, we can't keep up.

Why did you bring me here?

Is it just to be with you?

Oh, is that so bad?

Right now the Jews are bribing each other with food, just to be close to a loved one.

Whether you fight or you're here, you're surrounded by death. At least, here you're not being shot at.

And no one can doubt your loyalty if you wear the uniform.

"You wear the mask that will get you through the war

and allow you to survive."

It's cooked.

It will get you good shoes.

I think I should look after it for you until tomorrow.

Take a small bite.

But just one, or you'll be furious with yourself.

Schneller! Los!

Bewegt euch!

Auf geht's! Beweg dich!

He needs someone young and strong. Go with him.

You have to talk to me.

How did you get here?

What about your mother?

Brother?

What about Lutz?

What happened to him?

I was called.

I had no time.

I didn't know how to get word to you.

I thought they would send me to fight.

Instead, they sent me to a camp.

East.

All day the smell of skin and bone.

I couldn't bear it.

You've worked in a place like that?

No.

But I have seen Jews selected to work in the...

in the killing rooms.

To kill other Jews?

But there would be none left.

The smoke never stops.

No, it doesn't.

I want to make it stop, but I don't know how.

Why are you staring at me?

You look chenged.

The latrines.

I'll on duty nearby tonight.

Meet me. I'll bring food.

No.

You need to eat, Leyna.

I haven't received the order from you.

Which order?

Clearing the children.

In the absence of the Kommandant

it needs your signature.

I've had more urgent concerns.

In case you haven't noticed, we're 60 tanks short of losing the war.

Yes, and I'm not interested in leaving deseased corpses for the Americans to find. Are you?

Do you know why you were always the cause of so many rumors?

Your inability to say what's going on in your mind,

and your choice of company. Dubious, always.

Your friend Bismarck-Schönhausen has been arrested in Berlin...

plotting against the Führer...

with 15 others.

He should be hanged like a dog.

So should his son if they have any sense.

Sins of the father

and such.

How many times, would you say,

he visited your home?

About as many times as you, Jüttner.

You didn't come yesterday.

I brought you this.

And some food.

Sir, this was found in the camp,

amongst jewelry from the prisoners.

It is a Weißmüller ring, isn't it?

Thank you, Peter. You can go.

I'm filthy.

Let me hold you.

Why do you breath like that?

I'm cold.

Leyna...

Yes.

I last held you six months ago.

Leyna, you're afraid of me?

Did someone hurt you this way?

Did we do this together?

Walk with me.

This isn't war.

Harming ordinary people.

It isn't what a soldier does.

Hm, you think so?

That is precisely what a soldier does, whether he wants to or not.

That is war.

I told you your choices would keep you alive or see you dead.

You came here,

so you're alive.

Those were your options.

Choose life

or choose death.

You told me we are not heroes.

What you should've said is that we are cowards.

Up!

Up!

Get up!

Now! Come on!

Where are my shoes?

Where are my shoes?

Did you take my shoes?

Did you take her shoes?

Did you take my shoes?

Did you take her shoes?

Where are my shoes?

- Did you take my shoes? - Hermine.

Hermine, stop it, she's dead!

Betz, Leyna.

Do you know what he's gonna do to me?

He's a murdering pig.

I saw my family go to the place you call the rat house,

where one by one they disappeared.

My...

My mother...

she told me:

Never admit you are a Jew.

That is how to stay alive.

I'm alive, Leyna.

I missed the smoke and came here for labor.

Hermine...

And now I will die because I have no shoes.

You will not die.

Shoe-less?

Why?

It's, um, the shoes were taken from the barracks in the night.

Weißmüller!

Join me, will you?

Shoot her.

Shoot her.

Do you laugh?

Do you find that incident amusing?

Do you?

Hey?

You should have killed her.

That I might understand who you are.

She had no weapon.

That's not how I wanted to fight.

She was a Jewess.

She told me.

Germany told us the world is against us,

and yet all I see

is Germany is killing its own people.

Leyna,

we need to go somewhere where nobody would ever know us.

- Away from Germany, away from... - Lutz...

when you look at me, what do you see?

I'm not a Gypsy.

I'm not a Jew.

Even in this camp they tell me I've no place to belong.

I see a German girl,

loyal and dutiful to the fatherland.

But I was never allowed to love it.

You are not supposed to love me.

But I do.

Hermine died,

forced to deny who she was,

and now I must live for both of us,

declaring every day

who I am,

here...

in my country.

They will kill you

and our child.

If the baby has survived all this, so can I.

They didn't want me to have a child.

But she and I will be the evidence

of all that she and I are,

and all that they try to deny

that I

am a German Negro.

Love me where we both belong, Lutz.

We have to, at least, get out of here.

Hide somewhere until the war is over.

I can steal a car or bike, anything.

We... we can't stay in this.

Please.

We would never make it out alive if we try to escape.

You can't save me.

Can you save me?

I... I want you to breathe properly,

and to eat morning and night without the fear that you would be murdered,

in this place that... that tells me that I should be a murderer.

I don't want you to be afraid anymore.

It will be over soon.

For all of us will it be over.

Once the prisoners are moved out, I'll make arrangements for you to go back to Berlin.

Moved?

How?

The railway lines were bombed,

the roads destroyed and dangerous.

They'll walk.

We'll move them.

- Little by little. - They'll die.

Most of them can barely make it to relieve themselves.

Or perhaps you want to go now?

No.

I'm not going, not yet.

They're coming at us from both sides.

I don't know who will reach here first, but I can't protect you.

I don't want you to protect me.

And this?

You want me to put it back in the prisoners' barracks?

Don't make me choose for you.

Leyna.

You have to do this quickly.

They'll start moving the camp in days.

I have a uniform for you.

I can't walk through the gates.

- I can't! - We would use a motorcycle.

I will get one. I promise.

Lutz, we're going to die.

Leyna, we will have a life.

A life.

Komm!

The bombing is getting closer!

I can't!

Nun, macht doch mal!

In einer Reihe! Vorwärts!

Mädels, kommt, schneller!

Where are they taking us?

Where are we going?

Where are we going?

What's happening, Kapo?

I don't know.

Quickly! Go! Hurry up!

Schneller gehen!

The women's camp, what's happening?

- Do you move them already? - We have to.

You and me leave today.

- And when where you going to tell me? - I'm telling you now.

I won't go!

Then it will be you, the thieves and the Jews.

How do you rate your chances?

Do you know yourself, Lutz? Do you?

Yes, I know myself!

And you...

you know what she means to me.

And if you take her away, you'll kill me.

And you think

planning a future with a Negro will keep you alive?

I refuse to let you be arrested and tortured because of her.

Germany will not let you survive.

You will not survive!

Father...

she's having our child.

We have to survive!

We have to!

They will hang you.

Leyna!

Where are they taking us?

Do you know?

Where are we going?

Weiter! Weiter!

What's happening?

Sir, we have to go. There is no time.

Where are they going?

Do you know?

Leyna!

Leyna!

Leyna!

Leyna!

Leyna!

Lutz!

I'm here!

Leyna!

Leyna!

Lutz!

Leyna!

Leyna!

Lutz!

Leyna!

Leyna!

Leyna!

I'm going to try to help all of you.

Please, give the full name, age and appeal of the family member you are searching for.

If you know the last camp your family member was taken to, please have this information ready.

Hi.

Ils disent que vous êtes de la Rhénanie.

Je ne parle pas allemand.

Parlez-vous français?

Oui...

français et allemand.

Ça fait longtemps que tu es ici

et ils disent que vous n'êtes toujours pas enregistré.

Veux-été parlez-moi?

Comment vous appelez-vous?

Leyna Schlegel.

Ah.

Une bonne fille allemande.

I'm looking for my aunt.

Can you help me? I'm looking for my brother.

I'm searching for my whole family.

...my father, my sister, and my younger brother.

She was last known in Flossenburg Camp in 1943.

She was last seen in the camp...

I don't know where he's been.

If you know the last camp your relative was taken to,

please have this information.

Don't you see?

You're asking for all last known information about the person you are searching for.

Please, have it ready to...

Excuse me.

I'm searching for my daughter.

Mama.

Look!

Leyna!

Aproximately 25,000 black Germans existed under the Third Reich, including Rhineland Children.

Some perished in the camp system, and others survived to be liberated in 1945.

Together with those teens who escaped sterilization,

these survivors defied Hitler's vision of a future Germany without black Germans.