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- Hitler, Adolf, Lance Corporal, 16th Bavarian Regiment.

Nerve shock, pulse normal. - Temperature normal.

- [Doctor] What happened to you, Corporal?

- At your service, Herr Colonel Doctor.

I'm blind sir, I was in an artillery barrage, sir.

Suddenly the enemy shoots gas.

It's dark before my eyes, I cannot see.

- I understand.

- I am blind.

- No organic damage, no sign of gas poisoning.

- His eyes are completely normal,

but he insists that he can't see.

- He probably can't, case of hysteria, shock.

An emotional, unbalanced mind, retreating into illness.

I venture to say that he will be

all right in a couple of weeks.

- There's a very strong indication of paranoia, too.

He feels that he's persecuted and everyone is against him.

- He should be kept under observation.

However, this isn't a mental hospital.

Release him as soon as possible, we need the beds.

- You don't mean sir, I'm to send

that kind of man back to the front?

- There won't be any front in a few days, Herr Doctor.

Austria is signing an armistice today.

- I don't know why they bother to have us take this down.

They'll only put another like him in its place.

- [Soldier] They can't do that.

People have had enough of the Kaiser and his kind.

They'd had enough of war.

- [Soldier] What have the people got to say about it?

- [Soldier] We have a republic now.

We can elect them and we want to represent us.

- [Officer] Put it there, get the mops.

- We won't have a republic long if the army gets its way,

Why do you think they've let us stay here

in the barracks, after we demobilised?

- Because we are homeless, jobless?

- I suppose it's because we haven't any money.

- Don't be crazy.

It's because we are soldiers, fighting men.

I tell you the High Command is planning

to take over the republic and start another war.

- Another war, but what can we do to stop them?

- There are plenty of us who know what to do.

We have arms. - That's mutiny.

- It's only mutiny if we fail, everything is ready.

We need a few more here, that's all.

- I'm in if the rest of you are,

but I don't want to risk my neck.

- There is no risk, everything is prepared.

One terrific blow at the same hour,

the night after tomorrow.

- Corporal Hitler would like to see Captain Rohm.

It's very urgent. - You wait outside.

- It's urgent. - Wait outside, I said.

- What's this? - At your order, sir.

If Herr Captain will grant me a moment sir,

it is a matter of vital importance.

- Come in.

At ease. - Herr Captain,

it is a horrible condition.

Something must be done immediately, immediately.

- Don't be so excited.

Speak clearly and distinctly, what have you to report?

- A conspiracy is going on.

The men in the barracks are planning a revolution.

- A revolution?

- Against the High Command sir,

the night after tomorrow, sir.

- What proof have you?

- I just heard them this minute.

They didn't know I was listening.

(bell ringing) - At your order, sir.

- Call out the guard at once. - Yes sir.

- We can shoot the whole lot of them, it won't do any good.

Not as long as we have a government that allows any fool

to stand up on a street corner and talk against the army.

And what are we doing to combat it? Nothing.

- I'm doing my best, sir.

- Where are the speakers we were going to have?

Why aren't they out on the street corners?

Where's the political party the general staff asked for?

- It takes time to find the right political party, sir.

I have my eye on one now that shows promise.

I will send someone there.

- Promise, promise, we have to rebuild

the whole morale of the people before we can fight again,

and all I hear is promises.

Come in.

- Corporal Hitler sir, to see Captain Rohm.

- Have him wait.

- He's the man who informed, sir.

- Pay him, pay him.

- I thought it might not be a bad idea

to keep him on the payroll, sir.

- Very well, if you think he'll be useful.

I leave these things to you.

- Hitler, General Fornet conveys his thanks to you.

You have done us a great service, we will keep you in mind.

There might be other work of the same sort

for our investigating committee.

- At your order sir, I should be happy to do any work

you ask of me, sir. - Splendid.

Tell me Hitler, you, do you know anything about politics?

- If it please, Herr Captain,

that is my most fervent interest.

When I was lying in the hospital,

blind and poisoned with gas,

I vowed I would devote my life sir, to it.

- Very well, there's a new political party.

They call themselves the German Workers.

Although the army cannot of course take part in politics,

we are rather interested in this group.

Go there, become a member, report.

There will be a small fund for expenses.

- At your order, sir.

- And study this pamphlet, to give you an idea

of our point of view.

It's called, "A Stab in the Back of the Victorious Army".

"Any objective analysis of the military situation

shows that the German army was not defeated."

- The German army was not defeated, not a regiment,

not a single company laid down their arms.

No, the war was not lost on the battlefield.

The war was lost here at home.

The victorious troops at the front

were stabbed in the back by traitors,

but we shall deal with these traitors.

We shall wipe out that disgrace.

A new Germany shall arise, and you, you my comrades,

are the ones who will create it, Sieg Heil.

- Sieg Heil. - Sieg Heil.

- It was a most inspiring speech.

If I may, I should like to become a member of your party.

- Excellent, an application blank.

- We have no blanks.

- No blanks? - No.

- You see we are a humble party, just at our beginning,

but if you will leave your name.

- Hess, Rudolph Hess. - Rudolph Hess.

- We are proud to welcome you.

The party is more interested

in discussion and debate than in action.

They have no money, no advertising, not even a rubber stamp.

- But you think it has possibilities?

- At your order sir, yes, with the right leadership.

- Here you are, that'll buy them a rubber stamp.

- Thank you, sir.

We must have blanks, we must have posters

announcing our meetings, we must have propaganda.

- But that takes money, we have exactly three marks.

- Money is no object, here is a hundred marks.

- A hundred marks, where did you get it?

- That's no concern of yours.

- This is fine, Herr Hitler.

- One condition, Herr Drexler.

From now on, I am the chairman of the party.

- Certainly not, I am the chairman here.

I founded the party, it's a party for workers.

As far as I know, you've never done

a day's work in your life.

- As you like, Herr Drexler, anyone can start a party.

With a hundred marks in my pocket,

I can start a party of my own tomorrow.

- Wait a minute, Drexler, we've got to have money,

for the rent, the light bill.

- But this is extortion.

- I am a realist, Herr Drexler, do you accept?

- We accept. - Put it in the minutes.

- Herr Hitler elected chairman and chief of propaganda,

the German Workers party.

- By a unanimous vote. - Sieg Heil.

- Sieg Heil. - Sieg Heil.

- The whole world of nature is a mighty struggle

between strength and weakness.

Nations which offend against this law fall into decay.

You can see it right here in the republic today.

We must wipe out this decay, we must remove this cancer.

Germany awake, Sieg Heil. - Sieg Heil.

- Magnificent.

Those who wish to join the party, step up to this desk.

Drexler will write down your names.

- Name?

- Gregor Strasser. - Gregor Strasser.

Did you like the speech, Herr Strasser?

- Well, so-so.

What I'm interested in is the aims of the party.

- Sign.

- I'm sure my chauffeur wants to join too.

Heinrich? - Yes sir.

- Name? - Himmler, Heinrich Himmler.

- [Drexler] Heinrich Himmler.

- I grant you, he's only half-educated, and vain,

and even a little bit ridiculous.

But when he speaks, he is amazing.

He held those people in their seats for two hours.

- What kind of people? - Every kind.

What's important, the very kind we want.

The middle class, little shopkeepers, clerks.

The unorganised groups, they listen to him.

We just get behind him, give him money for advertising,

get him offices and a newspaper, he'll do.

- A newspaper?

- I've been making some inquiries.

There's a weekly we can-

- I am responsible for the army's political fund,

Captain Rohm.

I must answer to the High Command

and to our friends in industry for every penny,

and to buy a newspaper?

- Can't be expected to build this party

without some way of reaching the public.

- And what is to prevent this man,

after we have built him up,

from joining the very forces that he's supposed to fight?

What assurance have we that we can control him?

- I remind you, we have his confidential war record.

- Then give him his newspaper.

- "Point 17, We demand an agrarian policy suitable to our"-

- Gentlemen, these things may be important,

but they're only a means to an end.

Our objective is the overthrow of the republic,

and I repeat, there's no time to waste.

- And what are you going to do with power

when you get it, Captain Rohm?

You must have a programme worked out in advance, you must-

- Any idiot can figure out a programme.

What we want first is money, and lots of it.

- I agree with Strasser.

The people are not interested in programmes.

We must appeal to their emotions,

to their strongest instinct, hatred.

Give them a scapegoat, someone to blame, someone to hate.

- Christianity, that's the thing.

Christianity is the greatest enemy of the German people.

It's the Christian Church which has undermined the people

with its talk of pacifism, meekness, peace.

- Do we have to sit here and listen

to this provincial fanatic?

We want to get on with our business.

- I am a scholar, a philosopher.

I didn't spend my life in a back room

filling up prescriptions for castor oil.

- Gentlemen, please. - Strasser.

I want it understood that I will decide

what we will use and what we won't use.

I am the leader of this party.

As for Rosenberg being a fanatic,

I want him to be a fanatic.

If we demand fanatical faith in our followers,

we must have that same fanaticism ourselves.

- Shall I proceed? - No.

I agree that we must eventually eradicate

the poison of the Christian doctrine,

but at present we are too small a group,

and the church is too big. (coughing)

- Please, please, Herr Hitler's throat.

You know you mustn't smoke.

- We must be careful to choose an enemy

we are sure we can defeat, some small minority group.

- What about the Bolsheviks?

- Yes, if we say we are going to fight the Bolsheviks,

that will automatically bring

the white collar workers into our ranks.

- Not only them, but big business, big business everywhere.

With that as a slogan, we can win friends in France,

England, America, all over the world.

- We are not ready for that yet.

- Let's get back to our 25 points.

- If I might make a suggestion.

The Jew, the Jews are a minority group,

only three-quarters of 1% of our whole population.

- "Point 17, We demand an agrarian policy suitable to our"-

- Shh. - The Jews.

The Jews are the cause of all our troubles.

The Jews started the war.

The Jews were the cause of our defeat.

- Let us at least be logical.

They cannot be responsible for both the war and the peace.

- I cannot work under these conditions.

I cannot work with people who don't believe in me.

I resign, I resign. - Well.

- I have nothing to do with logic.

Logic is the business of little minds,

the so-called intellectuals who sit and talk and do nothing.

I want action, I accept anything that leads to action.

- I want action as much as you do,

but let us pick on something that's near to the truth.

- The truth, what is the truth?

It's something you've heard so often

that you accept it as the truth.

- Then I shall make it the truth,

and I shall repeat it again and again, in different ways,

but the meaning will always be the same.

The Jew is responsible for all of our trouble.

The Jew is responsible for all of our trouble.

Who signed the Treaty of Versailles, the people?

No, the government.

This government is not German, it is Jewish.

Our democracy is ruled by the man who can most skillfully

make public opinion work in his interest,

and that can be achieved by the man who can lie

most artfully, most infamously.

He is not a German, he is, in Schopenhauer's words,

the great master in the art of lying, the Jew.

- Say, throw him out.

Do we have to listen to this type-

- Silence, silence, the speaker has the floor.

- Jew baiter. - Since when are you a worker?

- Sit down.

You're out of order, throw him out.

- Isn't this a meeting of the German Workers party?

- Sit down, this is now

the National Socialist German Workers Party.

Adolf Hitler is right, while our brave countrymen

were giving their lives and their blood for Germany,

the Jews are conspiring- - Lies, you're a liar.

This is supposed to be a political meeting.

- The man is right, why bring religion into it?

- The Jew is not a religion, it's a race.

- Jew baiter.

- I protest. - Go to it, Rudy.

- We have a right to speak too.

I don't know how you people feel,

but I was a member of the old German Workers party.

We were a decent political group, meeting for discussion.

- That's right.

- I'd like to know what's happened to our party.

- You are out order, get down, leave the table.

- I say we want our old party back.

Let's rout these murderers, these liars, these Jew baiters!

- They'll pay for this.

- What happened?

- The meeting got a little out of hand.

Our golden canary says he won't sing anymore.

- It's over Ernst, it's over.

- You must not be upset, Adolf.

- I can never speak again.

I cannot subject myself to the insults

of those subhuman swine.

- You are perfectly right Adolf,

and it won't happen again, I promise you.

- I must have police protection.

I insist on police protection, if I am to speak again.

- I'll get you something better than that.

Don't worry, I'll see that you're protected.

Operator, operator, 8713 please.

- Himmler, I want you to get the names

of the men who attacked us tonight, keep a list.

I want the name of every person

who stands on our path of progress.

And when our day comes, I promise you gentlemen,

heads with roll.

- Hello, Captain Herman Goering please.

Yes, Goering.

- Rohm has been telling me about your party.

Quite an idea, but he tells me

you're having a little trouble.

- We are being persecuted, we are being attacked.

They are breaking up our meetings.

- Then what you need is a few fellows

who can hit harder and quicker than they do.

People respect power and violence, they thrive under it.

Terror is a very wholesome thing.

- I have a little ring here. - Nice.

- [Goering] The nice thing about it are these blades.

I assure you that ring has brought me more respect

than any of my medals. - Captain Goering,

that is exactly what the party needs.

We want men who are brave and reckless, who will fight.

We must meet terror with terror.

I beg you to organise such a unit.

- I'd like nothing better.

There are a lot of men I can pick up,

who would be willing to work for their meals,

and a roof over their heads.

- Unfortunately our party is poor.

We are unable to pay our hardest workers.

Our members have been paying their expenses

out of their own pockets.

- It'll cost a lot to have party troops.

I figure we ought to have a couple of thousand men.

To feed them, not to speak of getting them arms,

and uniforms, and- - Yes, I know.

- Now I have some money, or rather my wife has.

Maybe I could use it, but I'd have to be pretty sure

I saw a future for myself.

- Captain Goering, we need you in this party.

I promise you this, when we come to power

you will be Commander in Chief of the Air force.

- We have been attacked by the Bolsheviks, by the Jews.

They use the age-old tactics of the hyenas.

When fighters are tired out, then they attack.

- I protest, it isn't the Jews who attack you,

but you who attack them. - Don't do that.

♪ My dearest fatherland ♪

♪ Greatest treasure on this earth ♪

♪ Fathering this land together ♪

♪ Guarding well our home and hearth ♪

- His Excellency, General von Ludendorff will see you.

- [Adolf] Your Excellency,

this is the greatest moment of my life,

to be allowed to meet the greatest general of all time.

- I have followed your career with interest, Herr Hitler.

I was surprised and glad to find,

that in spite of our differences of background,

we hold the same convictions.

- [Adolf] I am honoured, Your Excellency.

- You may sit down.

Every night I am busy preparing, for the next war.

The war, Herr Hitler, it can only mean for Germany

victory or annihilation.

- That is exactly the way I see it, Your Excellency.

And therefore it must be planned to the smallest detail.

- We must act soon, or it will be too late.

I decided to use my name again for Germany's revival.

I shall take over the leadership.

- Lead us Your Excellency, we will follow.

- I am expecting some information

about the attitude of the High Command.

If I hear from them I'll let you know.

Thank you, Herr Hitler.

- Gentlemen, General von Lossow will explain

to us the position of the army,

and the plan we have been discussing.

- I regret to have to tell you, Your Excellency,

that they have very definite instructions

from the High Command in Berlin,

that they are not interested in any attempt

to overthrow the government at this time.

- And their reasons?

- Simply that the time has not yet come for a change.

Danger of international complications,

possible strike on the part of labour.

They refuse to take the responsibility.

- The responsibility is mine.

- May I remind you, Your Excellency,

that without prejudice to your great historical record,

you are, ah- - Retired.

- You no longer have any responsibilities.

- Certainly if we can't have the army's support,

we should be able to count on its strict neutrality.

- My orders are not only to refuse support,

but also to suppress any attempt at a coup d'etat.

- [Officer] General von Lossow,

you're in command of the army here in Munich.

You could act on your own responsibility.

- I want to march, good heavens, I want to march.

Gut only if I see a 51% chance of success.

- Anybody who has to underwrite his courage by 51%

is destined for failure.

I'm sorry to have bothered you.

- Anyone who must underwrite his courage with 51%

is destined to failure, that's what he said.

- The cowards, the dirty cowards.

- Surely a male like Ludendorff wouldn't give into them.

- He said that under the circumstances,

he'd have to think things over carefully

before he participated.

He said he's not a gangster.

Personally, I don't know why we have to buckle under

to these old boys. - Hello?

- We go ahead and we're successful, they'll be with us.

- I say we march.

- When I say so, Herr Streicher, and not a minute before.

- Look what Mussolini did last year, with his march on Rome.

If he had sat around debating-

- Commissioner von Kahr has ordered a state of emergency.

Our meetings have been forbidden.

It seems that they feel that 14 meetings

in one night are a little too much.

- So these gentlemen are alarmed

at the thought of 14 meetings.

What will they say when we hang the first 1400,

no, the first 14,000 to the lamppost?

Make an appointment with him.

I shall see this little dictator

who tries to stand in my way.

He may represent the upper classes,

but I represent the people, and the leader of the people

will triumph, rest assured of that.

Make the appointment.

- You are very fortunate, Herr Hitler,

that I have been so lenient.

I hope you realise that I have not only a moral,

but legal right to arrest you,

- Your Excellency, it is only my patriotic concern-

- There are rumours running through the city like wildfire

that you are planning a putsch.

- It's a lie, a lie started by my enemies.

We drill yes, we prepare,

but I would never move against the authorities.

- Understand Herr Hitler, I have no quarrel with you

concerning certain principles of your programme,

- Your Excellency, I am honoured, I know that-

- Please, do not interrupt.

Granted, we both realise that this republic must go,

but I'm not in favour of your method of achieving it,

nor in your ultimate aims.

It is my hope that someday the monarchy,

the legitimate rulers,

will be restored to their rightful position.

- Your Excellency, that is also my dearest wish.

You have given me hope.

How do you plan to achieve this, when?

- Before it can happen, we must plan carefully, quietly.

Violence will not help us.

- Your Excellency, you have given me invaluable advice.

Permit me to thank you.

- Herr Hitler, if I lift the ban on your meetings,

will you promise me that you will not act prematurely?

That you will wait until I give the word?

- I promise, I promise Your Excellency.

I and my party are at your disposal.

- [Officer] Achtung!

- Gentlemen, we march. - With von Kahr?

- Von Kahr is a coward, they are all cowards.

The army, Ludendorff, all of them.

They want to march, oh yes they want to march,

but they are afraid, they lack the initiative.

I shall lead the way and they will be happy to follow.

- And if they don't?

- In that event, I'm prepared to take the consequences.

Defeat will not find me among the living.

- That's very heroic, but it doesn't improve

the chances of our success.

- Let me explain my plan for taking over the city.

On the night of November the eighth,

von Kahr is holding a meeting

of his monarchist sympathisers.

♪ Oh, the Fatherland, dear Fatherland ♪

♪ Greatest treasure on this earth ♪

♪ Oh, the Fatherland, dear Fatherland ♪

♪ We'll defend the land of our birth ♪

- Ladies and gentlemen, as I look at this meeting

of representative citizens of our city, my heart-

- The national revolution has broken out.

The hall is occupied by hundreds of strongly-armed men.

If quiet is not kept, I will have machine guns

placed in the gallery.

The republic is overthrow, tomorrow will find

a new government in Germany, or us dead.

Gentlemen if you please, Your Excellency General,

I guarantee your safety.

- In that room, please.

- Outside.

Rohm has taken over the army headquarters,

thousands of our troops are now

in the outskirts of the city, waiting for a signal to march.

This is your chance to come in with us.

Besides, there is no turning back now.

Tonight's events already belong to world history.

You must fight with me, conquer with me, or die with me.

If things go wrong, I have four bullets in my pistol,

three for you if you forsake me.

The last one is for myself.

- Herr Hitler, you broke your word to me.

- Yes I did, but I did it in the interest of the Fatherland.

Forgive me.

- I want to consult with Lossow privately.

- Private conversations are forbidden.

- General von Ludendorff is here.

- Your Excellency, you are just in time.

Your word will overcome the last resistance

to our great undertaking.

- Gentlemen, I'm as much surprised

by the turn of events as you are,

but in the interest of unity,

for the good of our Fatherland,

I will not shirk my patriotic duty

in my country's hour of need.

I can only ask you also to cooperate.

- Thank you gentlemen, for your cooperation.

Silence, silence, silence.

Comrades, the decision has been hard for those men in there,

but they can see we are not prompted by selfish interests,

that we wanna take up the struggle

for the German Fatherland.

A new national government will be nominated

in Munich this very day.

I propose Herr von Kahr as administrator.

His Excellency General von Ludendorff.

His Excellency General von Ludendorff

takes command of the national army.

And now, and now I want to fulfil the vow I made in 1918,

to know neither peace nor rest, until on the ruins

of the wretched Germany of today,

there shall arise once more,

a Germany of power and greatness.

- Sieg Heil. - And now go home,

all of you, go and instil in your city

the enthusiasm which has just set your hearts on fire.

- Good night, gentlemen.

- It was glorious gentlemen, it was glorious.

The people are with us, heart and soul.

- If you'll forgive us Herr Hitler, we should go.

- Why?

- Well, there are many things to do. There must be a proclamation.

- Announcing the formation of a new government.

- Yes, you may go.

- Thank you, Herr Hitler. - General.

- Adolf, Adolf.

Rohm has occupied the army headquarters.

- Magnificent, I feel my strength growing with every breath.

I feel thousands of new capabilities inside me.

Rudolph, we must prepare our blacklist.

Anyone who resists us shall be punished by death.

- Where's von Kahr? - I let him go.

- You let him go? That's insane.

You can't trust those men.

- Nonsense, they wouldn't dare deceive us.

They are too cowardly to act independently.

- You should have held them as hostages.

- They have work to do, work.

Von Kahr has to write the proclamation

announcing the birth of our new national government.

- Proclamation will be ready in 15 minutes.

- The declarations, extorted from myself and the others

at the point of a revolver, at the point of a revolver,

are null and void. - Hello Berlin?

Army headquarters, I want to speak to General von Seeckt.

- Back to report, Your Excellency.

Captain Rohm and his forces have been

completely surrounded, and all telephone connections

have been cut off. - Good.

- I don't like this.

The order to attack should've come long ago.

- Today revolutions must be made scientifically.

It has to be an exact process, not like this,

emotion and hurrahs.

There's a definite technique for a coup d'etat,

first small groups, minutely trained.

- Please Heinrich, You drive me crazy with your recipes.

What time is it?

- 10 past 3:00, Herr Strasser.

- What does devil is Rohm waiting for?

- Miller? - Yes sir.

- [Heinrich] Send a runner to Herr Hitler, find out what's wrong.

- Reporting sir, I couldn't get through.

Everything is locked, sir.

I found this taped to the house.

- What is it?

- The proclamation from von Kahr.

"Any demonstration will be suppressed by armed forces."

- The traitors, the traitors!

- I was afraid something like this would happen.

- And who let them get out of our hands, walk out of here?

Who? The great Adolf, the big hero.

- If anyone has a right to make accusations, it's me.

- You? (laughing) You? - Please, gentlemen.

- Rohm said the army would be on our side.

- Rohm nothing, you were so sure that all you had to do

was to open your big mouth, and they'll follow you.

- Please gentlemen please, this is getting us nowhere.

- Wagner's right, he's right, we've got to stick together.

Herman please, we've got to do something.

- You can do whatever you like.

- Herman please, even now they may be surrounding us.

Rudolph, get the cars ready quick.

- We can't go off and leave the men.

- We are more important than the men.

We have to save ourselves

for the future of the movement, quick.

- And you said if we failed,

you're going to kill yourself. (laughing)

- General von Ludendorff.

- Have you seen from von Kahr's proclamation?

- Yes sir.

- You must start a demonstration at once,

pull in your men.

- But they may fire on us.

- I shall lead you in a march through the streets,

pull in your men.

We started this, and we are going to see it through.

- Comrades, you heard General Ludendorff, we march.

They wouldn't dare fire on the hero of the World War.

Lead us Your excellency, we will follow.

- Pull in your men,

at 11:00 we march.

- Sieg Heil. - Sieg Heil.

- Sieg Heil.

♪ Forever glory ♪ - Sieg Heil.

♪ Oh Fatherland ♪ - Sieg Heil.

♪ Oh holy land, in honour, truth, the best ♪

♪ Your ancient glory shines anew ♪

♪ On high in East and West ♪

♪ You stand against the enemy ♪

♪ And march straight in line♪”

♪ And fly the eagle from his nest ♪

- Sieg Heil, Sieg Heil, Sieg Heil.

I Stand up high, stand up high ♪

♪ Lift the worker banners high ♪

♪ Tell them all, show the world ♪”

- Halt, halt or we'll fire. (crowd murmuring)

Ready, aim- - All together now.

- Fire.

- Your Excellency, I give you safe conduct.

- Get me out of here, quick. - Adolf! Adolf,

Adolf, I'm wounded.

- Quick, quick. - Adolf.

- There they were, thousands of them,

with their rifles aimed at us.

I shouted, "Close the ranks," and linked arms

with the man next to me.

A volley rent the air, the man fell,

pulling me down with him.

- How awful.

— A boy lay beside me, severely wounded.

I picked him up and carried him.

I thought, if only I can get him to a car, I can save him.

Suddenly a uniformed policeman appeared.

He recognised me, he took aim at me and fired,

but the shot missed.

I jumped in a car with the boy,

we were chased by an armoured car, but we escaped.

I left the boy at the hospital and wandered, outta my mind.

In a daze I found myself here.

- I'm so glad you came, we'll take care of you.

We are honoured to have you in the Hamsinger house.

- Please hurry. - Yes, Frau Goering.

- I can't bear the pain, Carin.

I must have some morphine, I must.

- The doctor said not for three hours more.

- You must give it to me.

- Oh, please don't ask me that again.

I can't bear to see you starting it again.

Please try to hurry.

- I place you under arrest.

- Adolf Hitler, I place you under arrest.

- The state prosecutor insists upon seeing you,

Herr Minister. - Show him in.

- Dr. Gurtner, I've just heard that I'm to treat Hitler

and his band with extreme leniency when they come to trial.

This cannot be true.

- Hitler has threatened that if he finds himself in danger,

he will reveal the names of those who supported him

and their purpose in doing so.

And therefore, my dear Dr. Stenglein we,

we think it best not to provoke him.

- This is monstrous.

This man has tried to overthrow the government.

He's responsible for the deaths of hundreds of people.

- Those are the orders.

- Why do they bother having a trial at all?

It will simply be a farce.

- Oh no, no there must be a trial.

They say he's gone too far, and he must be reprimanded.

- Reprimanded, he should be strung up to a lamppost

as he has threatened to do to others.

There must be something left for the people to believe in.

If we make a mockery of law and justice now,

we might as well give up.

- Oh come, come, Herr Doctor.

Forget this idealistic nonsense.

You're not living in the past.

We are trying to build a new Germany.

If your conscience is going to trouble you,

perhaps you'd better- - Resign?

- As you see fit. - I see.

You mean he's not to be punished at all?

- Oh yes, he'll be sentenced to the Fortress for five years.

- Which will serve six months, and the others?

Hess, Strasser, Goering, Streichen?

I suppose they'll all receive similar sentences?

- All except Goering, he's beyond our jurisdiction.

I just got word that he's

at the Aspen nursing home in Sweden.

- A straitjacket for Herr Goering.

- Hess, I have another idea, have you finished?

- Please, Adolf.

- [Adolf] “To give women the right to vote

cannot be considered justifiable.“

- "Cannot be considered justifiable."

- "Whoever talks about the rights of women

is influenced by the criminal doctrine

of the equality of human beings."

- Perhaps if you just give me the book.

- No, I must put it in my language.

The language of the people.

Did you get that? Quick, I have another idea.

- I'll fix it later.

- Now for when I talk on propaganda,

something important occurred to me.

Wait, where is Class' pamphlet on Pan Germanism?

I want the chapter on foreign affairs.

Rudolph, I have a name for my book.

I shall call it "Mein Kampf."

That's what it really is, my battle.

Nobody else knows what is at stake.

- “Mein Kampf", wonderful.

Here is the pamphlet. - Take this.

- "The victorious germination will have to demand

that the French danger is done away with once and for all."

No wait, put it this way.

It is against France with its sadistic thirst for revenge,

that we must aim our battering ram.

- That's wonderful, my Fuhrer.

- Now for the talk on propaganda,

I am not to be disturbed,

I thought I made that clear to you.

- Please Herr warden, you were saying?

- No, I can't go on.

My mood is gone, it's gone.

- It's just that you have a visitor.

He says he's come all the way from Berlin.

- Who is he? - Dr. Joseph Goebbels.

- Goebbels, Goebbels, I'll see him.

- Strasser has probably sent him to spy on us.

- Why waste your time on seeing that miserable little dwarf?

- He is a very clever writer, Herr Rosenberg.

He may not have your knowledge of world theories,

but he knows how to reach the public.

Where is Dr. Goebbels? - Mein Fuhrer.

I have come an a pilgrimage to see our great leader.

- I thought Herr Strasser was your leader, Dr. Goebbels.

- Herr Strasser is a good worker,

honest, plodding, unimaginative.

But you Herr Hitler, you are our longing,

our hope, our nation.

You are all that we mean in that great word, leader.

- I tried to lead and I failed.

On that fateful day when we marched, I lost everything.

Everything that I'd worked for for years,

gone on a single day.

Why, why did I fail?

- If you will forgive me Herr Hitler,

you had nothing to do with it.

The greatest leader in the world could not have led

his forces to success on that day, it was impossible.

Look, here's your chart for that day,

with the new moon opposite your Mars-Venus

and with Saturn on your ascendant, opposing your Mercury,

and with Venus opposite your Neptune-Pluto conjunction.

I found the same thing in Napoleon's chart.

Like him, you will make wrong decisions

whenever you base them on emotional issues, moon issues.

Now here's your chart for today.

Observe Mars moving low in the third house.

- What does that mean?

- You must not take any aggressive action

until it begins to move upward,

and is animated by the transit of Saturn.

Say four or five years.

- You mean I must do nothing?

- Nothing aggressive, but these years

can be invaluable for quiet work.

Consolidating your forces,

outlining your plans for the future,

crystallising your ideas.

You see, you are entering a new phase, a transition.

- I see, I see.

- Herr Hitler?

- Put it with the rest.

- But this is the best Christmas present of them all, Herr Hitler,

your release.

- Congratulations, Herr Hitler.

- So, they finally got around to it, eh?

- Rudolph, don't stand there.

My clothes, my city clothes. - Yes.

- Herr Hitler, I have a car outside

to take you back to Munich. - Splendid.

Rudolph, my things please.

Where is the statement for the press?

- Right here. Where are they, at the gate?

- [Guard] I notified the newspapers,

but they said they were unable to send anyone.

- What? - This is outrageous, why?

- [Guard] They said it was of no news value.

- Strasser is at the bottom of this.

He and the rest of you have banded yourselves

together against the Fuhrer.

While he's here helpless,

you are out turning the people against him.

- My trousers please.

- It is not we who have changed here, Hess.

It is the times, the whole picture has changed.

The country is prosperous.

American money is pouring in like a golden flood.

The people have work, food.

They're not interested in revolutionary talk now,

and the army will have nothing to do with us,

since the putsch. - My coat, please.

- Herr Hitler, we must adapt ourselves to the change.

- I don't need your advice.

I know exactly what I'm going to do.

For the next four or five years,

I shall take no aggressive action.

I shall formulate my plans, crystallise my ideas.

- But my Fuhrer, what will happen to the party?

Already they're fighting among themselves,

trying to take over the leadership.

- I can handle them.

Rudolph, gather up my manuscript, please.

- Yes, Adolf. - Hess worries if they fight.

That's my only chance.

If they should ever join together,

if Goering, Rohm, Strasser ever agreed, I'd be through.

- They can always be controlled, my Fuhrer.

I'm compiling dossiers on all our members,

secret records of all their indiscretions.

Rohm for instance, the slight discrepancies

in his handling of the army fund.

And Captain Goering, the illegal sale of aeroplanes

after the war, now the insane asylum.

- Goering? They told me he was in a nursing home.

- He was at first, but in August he attempted to strangle

a nurse because she would not give him morphine.

Later in September, for the same reason,

he attacked another nurse with a knife.

They thought it best to remove him to the Langbro,

but there are better facilities

for the handling of the criminally insane.

- Goering, I can't believe it, Goering.

- A threat to expose such information

is a very potent weapon.

I have equal data on Streicher, Goebbels, Hess.

- Please do your work, but I don't what to hear about it.

- You are right Herr Hitler, leave it to me.

I enjoy exact work, figures, the filing of little details

which gradually grow into a mountain of evidence.

You should not be worried with such petty matters.

- I shall take a little place in the country

in my beloved mountains, suits my temperament

much better to be among the simple things, close to nature.

- Excellent, excellent.

We must all establish respectable backgrounds.

I myself have a chicken farm.

I entertain the mayor of my little town.

- I shall send for my sister in Vienna

to come and keep house for me.

- A splendid idea to have a woman in the house.

It'll put it into all the gossip about, ah,

make the people think of you as one of themselves.

- Have you been making a dossier of me, Herr Himmler?

- Oh, no no, of course not, my Fuhrer.

- Now a little smile, thank you.

- Yes?

What is it, Hess?

- Your sister has arrived.

- Show her to her room, I'll see her later.

- She's brought her daughter with her.

- Her daughter?

How dare she bring her daughter here without consulting me?

I will have no little child running around in the house.

I'll speak to her.

- Well, Adolf? - Angela.

- It's been 20 years, you have changed, Adolf.

You used to be such afraid little-

- We have both changed, Angela.

- Yes, yes I, I suppose so.

- Angela, I must tell you.

I asked you to come here, you alone.

I did not ask you to bring your child.

- But Adolf, what should I do with her?

She has nobody but me, now my husband is gone.

- I, I'm sorry, Angela, I'm afraid it is impossible.

I have work to do, I must concentrate on that.

I must have no distractions.

- Oh, here's my daughter.

You come, speak to your uncle.

She can't believe it yet, that she's seeing

her famous uncle at last.

What's the matter?

At home you chat and chat about him,

and now you can't speak a word.

- How are you, Uncle Adolf?

- What's her name? - Gretl, but we call her Geli.

- Thank you Geli, come in, come in.

That's a pretty name, Geli.

What a picture, what a perfect picture.

The Fuhrer with his family.

We must have a photograph of this.

- If you'll come in here, please.

Hoffman, don't go yet, you have to take another picture.

Over here by the piano.

- Oh no, no, we don't want to interfere

if Adolf has work to do.

- Oh, this is part of his work,

and one of the most important parts.

You see, his followers must see him

as he really is, a great leader who is still,

like them, a simple family man.

- Rudolph, I want you to meet my family.

This is Geli, my sister Angela.

This is Rudolph Hess, my friend.

A nice group would be over here by the piano.

- Mother, a piano. - Sit down please.

Do you play, Fraulein? - Oh no.

- What are you talking about?

She's been taking lessons for years.

- Do you know Wagner?

- Yes, I love his music.

- To me, Wagner expresses all of the longing

and striving of the German soul.

He is the true spirit of our Fatherland.

Now let me see.

Oh that is lovely.

Hess, would you mind stepping out please?

A little closer together now.

Ready Hoffman? - Yes, Herr Doctor.

Now keep it still, thank you very much.

- Rudolph? - Yes, my Fuhrer?

Put these in water, please.

No please, can you play "The Shepherd Song“, Geli?

- I'll try, but I'm not good, really.

- Please. - Of course she can.

- This is where we planned the putsch, Geli.

- Heil, my Fuhrer.

- You wait here.

- Don't belong Uncle Adolf, will you?

The shops close at 7:00.

- I'll only be a minute.

Battern. - Herr Hitler.

We haven't seen you in weeks.

- I want some money right away, 1000 marks.

- Are you joking? Where would I get 1000 marks?

- I don't care, that's your business, I want it.

- But Herr Hitler, we haven't any cash.

Our credit is overdrawn.

- If I don't have the money by tomorrow you are discharged.

You understand? - Sounds like old times.

Sit down Adolf, I wanna talk to you.

- Hermann. - Don't be afraid.

I won't hurt you, sit down.

You don't condescend to come to the office

much these days, do you?

- I've been busy. - I know.

Too busy even to answer letters.

- I instructed Hess.

- I know what you instructed Hess.

It seems that that chicken farmer Himmler

thinks I'm no longer an ornament to the party.

- After all, this thing in Sweden, everybody knows about it.

- Listen Hitler, I joined this party when it was nothing.

I spent a fortune on it, and I intend to get it back.

- I'm sorry, there's no place for you.

- All right then, I'll have to sue.

I'll sue you for 50,000 marks damage,

injuries incurred as a result of the putsch.

I'll drag every scandal of the party to the courts,

and I'll ruin you forever.

- You wouldn't dare, you'd ruin yourself too.

- It can't hurt me, you say yourself

everyone knows about my record.

What they don't know yet is yours.

- Hermann, I'm not ungrateful, you know that.

I always have a warm heart for old comrades.

- Uncle, Uncle. - Come in, Geli.

- Oh, excuse me, but I'm late, I'd better go.

- Geli, I want you to meet the famous Captain Goering.

- How do you do.

- Captain Goering is an old party comrade

who has just returned to the fold.

- I'm sorry to intrude on your privacy,

but you force me to it.

I tried to talk to you last week in the restaurant,

but you slipped out.

- I'm sorry, some sudden business.

- I know, they told me.

You left by a side door with your niece.

This party means too much to me

to see it fall to pieces for lack of leadership.

If you are not willing to take an active part again,

you must step aside for someone who will.

- Angela? - Yes, Adolf?

- Excuse me.

- Is there something you need?

- Where's Geli, did she go out?

- No, no, she went to her room sometime ago.

- [Adolf] She didn't say goodnight to me.

- Suppose she didn't want to disturb you.

— [Adolf] If I hadn't of wanted to be disturbed,

I would've told her so, I'd been waiting for her.

- I'm sure she didn't know. (soft uneasy music continues)

- I'm afraid you'll have to start for your train.

I'll think over what you said, I'll write you.

- When? - Tonight, tomorrow.

- I think it might be as well, Herr Hitler,

to devote a little more time to politics

and a little less time to your niece.

- In the first place, she is not my niece.

Her mother is my half sister.

We happen to have had the same father.

And the second place, I will not tolerate

any criticism of my personal life.

It is none of the party's business.

- Good night.

Good night.

- Goodnight Uncle.

Goodnight Uncle.

- Don't call me that, I'm not your uncle.

I'm not your uncle.

- Mother, let's go home.

- What are you talking about?

- Let's go home, let's go back to Vienna.

- The idea, you must be out of your mind.

- Please Mother, please.

- What's the matter? Why are you acting this way?

I thought you loved it here.

- I did, but oh it's just that, after all I,

I want to go on with my music lessons,

and there is not a better place than home in Vienna.

Oh Mother, I can't stay here, I can't.

- What are you saying, Geli?

- Oh I was, it's just.

- If you don't like it here, we'll go back to Munich.

I'll get an apartment there, I'll get you a better teacher.

Anything you want, Geli.

- There, you hear that Geli?

- You mustn't leave me, you're the only friend I have.

I'm surrounded by people who are just trying to use me.

People who are plotting against me behind my back.

I've got to have someone near me I can trust.

Don't leave Geli, don't leave.

- Of course she's not going to leave, are you Geli?

- I want to hear her say it.

- No, no, I won't leave. (crying)

- Now's our time to move.

He's had five years to get that stargazing

out of his system, now he's got to go to work, He” Hitler.

- Heil Hitler. -

- If he's not careful,

Strasser is going to take over this party.

- Might not be a bad idea.

- We need big money.

Strasser is scaring it away with his socialist talk,

his promises to the workers.

- That's where he's smart.

You can't get money out of the rich

unless you give them a good scare, frighten them,

and then they call you in for a little talk,

and you let them know that you are open to reason.

- Strasser is not working for a bribe.

He means just what he says. - Then he's out.

A man you can't bribe, you can't trust.

- If you come right down to it, whom can we trust?

I don't trust you and you don't trust me,

and certainly neither of us trust Himmler here.

- Let just be serious.

There's only one man we can all agree on, and that's Hitler.

- But you can't bring him down to earth.

Our little Adolf is in love for the first time in his life.

- I think we can shock him out of his sentimental dreamings

and turn him into a genuine realist.

- What are you getting at?

- I mean, if he should commit a crime with his own hands.

Hitler's a paranoiac, he believes everyone

is prosecuting him, attacking him behind his back.

- There was a fellow just like him in the asylum.

He used to say- - Oh, play.

Go on, Herr Himmler.

- Such a man is always a potential murderer.

- What we have to do his focus his suspicions,

he'll do the rest.

- And who's to be the lamb for the slaughter?

- It has to be someone close to him,

someone that he thinks he can trust.

The shock would be that much greater.

- A shame, she's so pretty.

- Nine days, and you haven't even kissed her?

- I realise that sir, but-

- You're a good looking young man.

What's the matter with you?

- You have to go easy with her.

The girl is terrified, Herr Himmler.

It'll take time to break down her reserve.

I think when she begins to trust-

- We can't take time for that, that will do.

- Yes sir, Heil Hitler. - Heil Hitler.

Continuing report 86.

In the absence of her Hitler,

subject invited Comrade Weisser to her room.

He was seen to leave three hours later.

- "Subject invited Comrade Weisser to her room.

He was seen to leave three hours later."

Of course the girl is young.

We might have expected this sort of thing.

- Turn around, go back home.

- But Herr Hitler, your meeting.

- Turn around, I said.

- Geli, Geli!

What has happened? What is it?

- Poor child, we tried to stop her, but it was too late.

- On the strength of those facts, I demand that you charge

Herr Hitler with the murder of his niece.

- Where did you get this information?

- Any journalist could have gotten it.

- Oh come Herr Gehrlich, let's be reasonable.

The inquest's over, and the girl was pronounced a suicide.

Why not forget the whole thing?

- Too many things have been forgotten these last years.

I demand an investigation.

If you won't take action, I'll print this story

in my paper and force you to.

- That will be too bad.

I doubt very much if this evidence will hold in court.

- There's one thing you seem to have overlooked.

You know where this girl is buried?

- Certainly, at the Zentralfriedhof in Vienna.

- A Catholic cemetery.

- Is there anything wrong with that? The girl was a Catholic.

- Perhaps you don't know this, but the Catholic Church

does not allow suicides to be buried in consecrated ground.

Rather disproves your theory, doesn't it?

Now will you reconsider? - I'm sorry.

- Then good day, Herr Minister.

- Get me Herr Himmler.

- Good evening, Herr editor.

- Well, what's the news?

- Gehrlich, the editor of "Der Gerade Weg",

commits suicide. - Suicide?

- If it is, it's the first time any man

ever shot himself in the head five times.

- Heil, my party friends,

once before in the country's hour of need,

we tried to take power, we failed.

For seven years, we've waited patiently.

At last that hour has come again,

but this time we will not take the state by force.

We will take it by strategy and cunning.

We will make them vote us into power.

Legality will be our watch word.

- Is this the old revolutionary

who said that heads would roll?

What's the matter, you lost your courage?

- I know what I'm going to do when I get power,

but first we have to get it.

We shall hold our noses and enter the government,

and if out-voting them takes longer than out-shooting them,

at least the results will be guaranteed

by their own constitution.

- You won't be voted in, not in a million years.

You've got to fight it out.

- I am the leader of this party.

I make the decisions, and I shall take

the responsibilities for them.

This Depression will get worse, not better.

The people are desperate, go among them.

Farmers, trades people, clerks, all of them.

Find out what they want, find out what they long for.

Promise it to them, anything, everything.

Let's have no color blindness for the sake of principle.

Leave all doors open, Heil. - Heil.

- Every one of you who now works himself to the bone

on another man's lands, will have land of his own.

The big land of the states

will be divided up and given to you.

I promise you, Herr Baron,

we will never divide up the estates.

Just put us into power and you will be assured protection.

- Our Fuhrer too was a working man, he knows your problems.

He promises you that on that day we assume power,

that very day there will be no more unemployment.

- The unemployed will be drafted into labour camps,

Colonel von Reichenau, they will have military training.

They will be a vast reservoir of manpower

for your future army.

I guarantee you, we will withdraw

from the League of Nations.

I will give you universal conscription, free armament.

- I promise you, factory workers,

you will have higher wages, and shorter hours.

- Heil. - Heil.

- I promise, Herr Thyssen and Herr Hugenberg,

that when I come into power,

my first step will be to dissolve the trade unions.

- Our holding company has a political fund.

If I put it at your disposal, what may I expect in return?

- Herr Thyssen will dictate the policy of the party,

in as far as it affects his business interests.

- Hitler. - Hitler.

- Hitler. - Hitler.

- Hitler. - Hitler.

- Hitler. - Hitler.

- Hitler.

- The National Socialists in one amazing leap,

have jumped from the smallest

to the second largest party in Germany.

By only a small majority

was Hitler defeated by von Hindenburg.

- Everybody comes to me, big men in industry,

today the Duke of Kohlberg, and it's always the same thing.

I should make this bohemian Corporal my chancellor.

Instead of doing that, I should appoint him postmaster,

and let him lick the backside of the stamps

with my picture on them.

- You shouldn't judge the whole movement by that one man.

Now Goering for instance-

- Oh Goering is all right, he's an officer.

You can talk to him

- And did you know that Her Majesty, the Kaiserin,

has donated money to the movement?

- The Kaiserin.

- You remember you once wrote that the day would come

when our great emperor might return.

That day may come sooner than you think.

- Yes, but this bohemian Corporal,

he will never allow that to happen.

He wants the power for himself.

- Give it to him then,

that is the best way to get rid of him.

I guarantee that in six months he will be finished,

and then the responsible people

in the movement will take over.

- I don't trust him, Herr Papen.

You are the only man I can trust.

- That is a very great honour, Herr President.

Suppose then you made me Vice Chancellor,

with the power of veto.

He would be our employee and must do as he is told.

- Yes, but there is one thing I insist on.

Never let him come to see me alone.

- I promise you, Herr President,

I will always accompany him.

- At last Goebbels, at last. - At last what?

For all the power you've got,

you might as well be Papen's valet.

He and that cabinet of his have got you in a trap.

- I have my foot on the first rung of the ladder.

They cannot stop me now.

- They've got you tied hand and foot.

They're going to strangle you with your only legality.

I still say the only way for you to get power

is to take it with force.

Let's march, I've got two million

storm troopers crazy to go.

- Once and for all, no.

They're just waiting for me to do something like that.

- Then what can you do? You're up to your chin in Barons.

You can't see Hindenburg unless you take your nurse along.

You haven't even got a majority in the Reichstag.

Read them the figures, Goebbels.

- We have 196 votes, the opposition parties have 431.

- You need 200 more votes for the clear majority.

- I'll ask for a new election.

- You wouldn't dare, you'd only lose more votes.

Haven't you learned yet that the people

are never going to vote you in?

The Communists and Democrats have 200 votes.

- Then all we have to do is eliminate

the Communists and Democrats.

- These are Reichstag members.

You can't just beat them up and throw them out

like you do at a meeting.

- You better stop taking that stuff Goering,

or they'll have you back in their asylum.

What we want is to get Papen and the others off our necks.

They're the ones we have to shake off first.

They have got us say an iron ring,

and we have got to break out of it.

- The one thing those boys

are really frightened of is communism.

- Yes, let's give them a good Red Scare.

Tell them that the Communists are planning

to set fire to the Reichstag, that oughta loosen them up.

- What's the use in talking about it?

The Communists will prove we're lying,

and it will boomerang on us.

- They can't deny it if it happens.

- Now no one can stop us

from crushing the Communists with iron fists.

- The Communists have set the Reichstag on fire.

- The Communists have destroyed the Reichstag.

- In the hundreds of tonnes of material

found at Communist headquarters

was a plan for total revolution.

- I had no idea that things

were as bad as that in our Germany.

Burning the Reichstag, but that's unheard of.

- I am as horrified as you, Herr President.

- All I ask of Your Excellency,

that you give me the power to deal with them.

- Yes, we must strike back at them.

Strike back hard, and the harder the better.

- I have here an emergency decree for you to sign.

"In defence of the nation and state,

articles 114, 15, 17, 18, 23, 24

and 53 of the German constitution

are suspended until further notice,

hence restrictions on personal liberty"-

- You are wasting time, give it to me.

- I have it, I have it.

The old fool signed the decree.

- My Fuhrer, this is magnificent.

- I told Ernst I was right.

Now we can do anything, anything, and it will be legal.

With this paper for an instrument,

we can not only destroy our enemies in the Reichstag,

but anyone else who dares to get in our way.

- That can only be done

with the systematic intimidation of the whole nation.

We must create a permanent state of terror.

- We are ready, my Fuhrer.

Goering is waiting with his men.

He has 5,000 orders for arrest already signed.

All they need is a date.

- [Adolf] What is he waiting for? Tell him to hurry.

- And newspapers who have lied to the workers

have been suppressed.

- We have met here to organise the protests

of the trade unions, it time we organise and defeat-

- The Communist party has been suppressed.

- The Catholic Centre party has been dissolved.

- All opposition has been crushed.

All power lies in our hands, but our work has just begun.

This cleansing process was only a stepping stone.

We must go on to reshape the destiny of Germany,

and eventually of the world.

We must begin our preparation for war.

We must rearm, secretly of course,

or we would have to listen to the outcries

of the sob sisters in England and France.

Herr Thyssen, the figures you have here

for rearmament are ridiculously low.

Double them, triple them, increase them tenfold,

and still you won't have reached

the figure that I planned for.

Give everyone the heavy artillery, the tank army,

the air force, the maximum of what they want.

Preparation for war must not stop at material things.

We must educate the people.

That is your task, Goebbels.

Everyone, everyone from the Commander-in-Chief

to the men in the ranks,

from the treasury vaults to the last trouser button,

must be permeated through and through with the idea of war.

The whole nation must be regimented,

like one vast military camp.

- The grizzly reality of war should never be concealed.

It is and it remains an orgy,

in which costly human blood is spilled like water.

A piling up of skulls, a pyramiding of dead men's bones,

a field of corpses, in which the happiness and hope

of many families lives buried.

We must never let any military celebration

cause us to forget the horrible scenes of the last war.

- I want all Catholics and Protestants

to keep their opinions to themselves.

- It's time we understand we must get rid of the churches.

- My quarrel is not with the churches.

I'm against the whole Jewish Communist idea

of Christianity itself, with its eternal 10 commandments.

"Thou shalt not," and "thou shalt not,"

as if nature did not say conquer, murder, kill.

My duty is to free our people,

and give them back the courage of their instincts.

- You must make to discount this picture of Christ

as a weak man, and show him as a fighter.

You must prove that he was an Aryan.

- Why bother with that Jew? Our Fuhrer is our saviour.

He's the symbol and destiny of Germany.

He's our lodestar, the sense and faith of our people.

He's a messiah sent by God

to lead the German people to greatness.

- This is the time to start our own religion.

If I may be allowed, my Fuhrer.

- Yes, read the pamphlet.

- "Point one, the new national church

is determined to exterminate irrevocably

the strange and foreign Christian faiths

imported into Germany." - Good, good.

- "The national church demands the immediate cessation

of the publishing and distribution of the Bible.

The national church has decided

that the Fuhrer's 'Mein Kampf'

is the greatest of all documents,

the purest and truest ethics

for the present and future of our nation.

The national church will clear away from its altars

all crucifixes, Bibles, pictures of saints.

An the altar, there must be nothing but 'Mein Kampf',

and to the left of the altar, a sword.

The national church will"-

- Don't let's start a thing like that now.

A campaign against the churches at this time

would turn half of Germany against us.

- There are more subtle ways of destroying the churches

than an open battle against them.

- [Adolf] What do you mean?

- We'll take the children from them.

If we control the child, we control the future.

- Who is it that reminds us most of Jesus

in his love for humble people,

and his readiness for self-sacrifice?

- [Students] Our Fuhrer.

- Who reminds us most of the disciples,

because of the loyal attachment to the Fuhrer?

- [Students And Teacher] Herr Goering, Dr. Goebbels,

Rudolph Hess.

- I belong to the Fuhrer. - I belong to the Fuhrer.

- It's an honour to die for the Fuhrer.

- [Students] We belong to Adolf Hitler.

- You were born a German, the blood that flows

through your veins is German, not Christian.

One is either a German or a Christian, you cannot be both.

Heil Hitler. - Heil Hitler.

- [Crowd] Heil, Heil, He”, He", He”, He".

- Herr Hitler, it is not possible

that you really know what's going on in Germany.

You cannot have been informed.

Let me tell you, our children are being taken away.

Our members are refused work,

because they belong to the church.

They're trying to force the church

to become nothing but an instrument of propaganda

for the National Socialist party.

- I'm afraid I'll have to disappoint you, Pastor Niemoller.

All this has happened with my knowledge and approval.

It is necessary to adjust Christianity

to the ideas of the party.

- And you expect us to do that?

Do you really think that we are so contemptible

that we would surrender the sacred faith given to us by God

and accept a political programme in its place?

- National Socialism is more than a political programme.

It comprises everything of importance to mankind,

including religion.

If you adjust your teaching to our party views,

you will secure the unconditional backing

of the great power of the state.

- Christianity is not dependent on any state, Herr Hitler.

It is God's words.

- Why are you making it so difficult for me?

Why don't you realise that I have supreme power

over the Church and its doctrines?

Jesus Christ was only a man, and a Jew at that.

I am more powerful than Christ.

Why shouldn't I have the right to establish a church?

My aim is to make Germany strong,

and therefore I should eliminate any sickness.

And I consider the sentimental feeling

for Christianity a kind of sickness.

I shall tear up the cancerous growth

of pity and brotherly love that eats into our manhood.

I shall create a master race

that has allegiance to blood and the sword.

I shall make Germany the greatest power in the world.

- Christianity does not admit the master race.

In the eyes of God we are all brothers,

and when you attack the Jew you attack us all,

Protestant and Catholic alike.

- Then Christianity must go.

- Herr Hitler, you are at a crossroads.

There are two paths that you can follow.

You can make of our country

a self-respecting member of the brotherhood of nations.

Or you can continue as you have been going,

pushing civilization back 2000 years,

unleashing the forces of evil and hatred,

degrading our youth to the level of animals.

- Well, then let us be animals,

and the laws of nature will prevail.

The survival of the fittest, we shall be the fittest.

- There is one force that you haven't reckoned with,

the soul of man.

There are good men among us who fight you now,

but they have nothing but their bare bodies

to hurl against your steel.

Someday they'll find arms to fight your arms.

Someday good men all over the world

who would welcome you now, will turn on you

with the very hatred that you have preached.

They will destroy you, and with you are beloved Germany.

- How dare you? How dare you talk to me like that?

You leave the destiny of the Fatherland to me.

I will decide what is Christian and what is not.

You will either come to terms, or you shall die.

You shall die, like everyone shall die who gets in my way.

- We have the utmost respect for Captain Rohm,

he's a gifted militarist.

We've expressed our willingness to have him

as a member of the general staff, but he refuses.

Instead, he demands that we incorporate

him and his men into the army as equals.

Herr Hitler, the army will never consent to that, never.

The stormtroopers are a gang of revolutionaries,

cutthroats, killers, completely undisciplined.

You cannot make war with such men.

Please understand Herr Hitler,

we have complete confidence in you,

but we have come to the definite decision,

the stormtroops must be dissolved.

- Do you realise what you're asking?

The stormtroops are my strength.

It's like telling me to cut off my right arm.

- You still have your own elite guard, the SS men.

- 100,000 men, a mere handful.

No, no, I can't, that would be political suicide.

- The army is prepared to make concessions.

If you dissolve the stormtroops, we are willing

on Hindenberg's death, to recognise you

as the supreme leader of the state, and of the army.

- I shall give you my decision, General von Reichenau.

- We give you till July 1st,

if they're not dissolved by then,

we shall have to step in ourselves.

We shall be forced to establish a military dictatorship.

- And even if you could win your revolution,

which you can't, who would really be in power? Rohm.

- You know what Mussolini said to you, clean house.

You've heard the same thing from Pope and Thyssen.

They won't support us any longer

unless we can get rid of the Bolsheviks in the party.

You've heard it from everyone, clean house.

- How can I dissolve three million men?

What do I say to them, it's all a joke?

Go home like good boys and forget all about it?

Do you think those murderers

and cutthroats would listen to that?

I'd still have a revolution on my hands.

- Men can't revolt without a leader.

We'll deal with them exactly as we've dealt

with every group that has stood in our way.

The Communists, the Democrats, the trades unions.

Remove the leaders.

My SS men will do the work, they'll be delighted.

- I can't do it, I can't do it.

- Whether you do it or not, doesn't matter, the purge is on.

Stick with the army and keep your job,

or go out and commit suicide, make your choice.

- They are right, my Fuhrer.

The party must be cleansed and purified.

Have courage, show them that you are a real leader.

- I thought you were with Rohm.

- My Fuhrer, my every thought has always been for you.

- Why don't you go away these next few days?

There's no need for you to be bothered with details.

Go and see the new road through the Alps.

Go inspect some of the labour camps.

- You're all plotting against me.

I can see it in your faces.

You want to betray me, that's my destiny, betrayal.

- Hysterical little pup, I say let him have his revolution.

We'll get rid of him and Rohm at the same time.

No, no we still need him.

Keep after him, tell him there won't be

anything for him to do.

We'll set the stage, all he has to do

is make an appearance when everything is over.

You must count on six of our 55 men

for each of these arrests.

- Arrests? You're not going to arrest them.

- Each man must have the formality of a trial.

- Shoot them and try them afterwards, this is business.

- May I have your list? We want to avoid duplications.

- There are some names you may not know there.

Personal accounts, you better have the addresses checked.

Some of them go back 10 years.

- My men will do that.

General von Streicher? Colonel von Reichenau?

- Give those Prussian officers

a taste of their own medicine.

Let them know that they're not immune.

- I see you have Strasser too.

Grausner, Jung, von Papel.

I think we'll run into trouble there with him, though.

- At least we can try, Prince August Wilhelm?

- To put a stop to their talk of restoring the monarchy.

- My wife was fond of him, put him on my list.

I'll handle him. - Very well.

Prince August Wilhelm, Goebbels?

Do you think it wise to eliminate Goebbels?

- I'm trying to make this a popular movement.

- He has documents filed in several foreign countries.

They're to opened and read in case he dies a violent death.

- Very well, cross him off.

By the way, Herr Himmler, I too have documents filed abroad.

- In addition to some 11 million marks, friend Goering?

Yes, I was aware of that.

- It's time, dear Fuhrer.

The cars are ready, it's time to go.

Take courage, my Fuhrer.

It is all arranged.

As far as propaganda is concerned,

I will take care of the right interpretation.

Think only how stunned they will be.

The army, Himmler, Goering, how dumbfounded they will be.

They think you are afraid,

and instead you will be the moving spirit.

It'll be your triumph.

- Rohm has been my best friend.

For all these years he has obediently followed me,

giving me strength, putting me in power, people know that.

If I kill him, they would turn against me,

and I shall be lost.

- They will recognise your greatness, my Fuhrer.

They will realise that you

are making this sacrifice for them.

Our party must be purified,

must be cleansed by this bath of blood.

We must rid ourselves of this filthy scum.

We must burn it down to the raw flesh, these ulcers,

that threaten the very life of our Fatherland.

These perverted men, who with insane irresponsibility

planned to do away with you,

and impose their bloody terrorism on the country.

- You're right Goebbels, I must do it.

I must sacrifice them for the good of Germany.

- My Fuhrer, this is- - Silence.

- Yes, who's there?

- It's I, Hitler, open up.

- Adolf, I didn't expect you until later.

- Traitor, swine, planning to kill me

and the general staff.

You're a traitor to the movement,

you're a traitor to Germany.

Seize him, bind him. - Adolf, what is this?

What's happening? - You and your filthy crew.

- Adolf, Adolf, have you lost your mind?

- Bring him around and shoot them, shoot.

- [Narrator] So it began the purge, the bloodbath.

One of the most infamous massacres

in all of Germany's history.

- Calling all SS troops execute plan T.

Calling all 55 troops, execute plan T.

- [Narrator] The SS men roared through the night,

bringing in their victims.

Sometimes there was the formality of a trial.

- I said guilty, take him away, next prisoner.

You are charged with treason.

What have you to see in your defence?

- It is a mistake. - Guilty, take him away.

- [Narrator] In other cases, they didn't bother.

Sometimes there were refinements to their executions.

But they did not limit themselves to the slaughter

of stormtroop leaders.

There were others, the grudges went back for years.

The doctor who had once attended Hitler

and judged him to be insane.

Father Stemfle, a priest who had the misfortune

of knowing too much about Hitler's early life.

Former State Commissioner von Kahr,

the man whom Hitler blamed for his failure in the putsch.

Strasser too had to die.

He had been foolish enough

to accuse Hitler of betraying the people.

- Herr Strasser?

- [Narrator] General von Streicher was murdered,

because he had once told Goering

he was not fit to be in the government.

His wife was not on the list, her murder was an error.

There were other errors, such as Willie Schmidt.

- This is the wrong Willie Schmidt.

This is the music critic, go and get the right one.

- [Narrator] For four days, the massacre went on.

All over Germany,

there was an orgy of bloodshed.

The courtyards of prisons and barracks were strewn

with the bullet-ridden bodies of SA leaders.

These men who had lived by violence and terror,

now died by the same violence and terror.

The dead numbered over 1000.

Rohm, who was Hitler's closest friend,

who had discovered Hitler and set him

on the bloody path to power,

was accorded a special privilege.

- A favour from the Fuhrer,

you are to be permitted to kill yourself.

- If Adolf wants me shot, let him come and do it.

- Hitler had kept his part of the bargain

with the army, now they kept their part.

They swore allegiance to him as their supreme commander.

From then on, we all know what happened.

Victory after victory, an incredible unbroken series

of successes against weak and defenceless nations.

The German advance rolled onward with ice-cold calculation.

They systematically exterminated whole peoples.

The Jews, the Poles, entire civilizations crumbled

under the remorseless wheels of the German war machine.

Europe laid prostrate under the iron heel

of the Prussian boot.

Hitler's power grew with every success.

He became mightier and mightier,

adored and acclaimed by his fanatical followers.

- [Crowd] Sieg Heil, Sieg Heil, Sieg Heil.

- [Narrator] But above the triumphant Heils of his people,

Hitler began to hear the outraged protests of the world.

Pastor Niemoller had warned him.

- There are good men among us

who would fight you now, but they have nothing

but they bare bodies to hurl against your steal.

Someday they'll find arms to fight your arms.

Someday, good men all over the world will turn on you.

With the very hatred that you have preached,

they will destroy you.

- [Narrator] And all over the world, good men did find arms.

Good men of 55 nations fought shoulder to shoulder

against the aggressor.

Now it was only a question of time

before the world would be purged of Hitler and his gang.

But the world knew that this would not be enough.

This too had to go the root of the evil, German militarism,

and all it stood for had to go with him.

And to this task, three-quarters

of the people of the world

pledged their lives and their sacred honour.

♪ The proof of liberty, the price of liberty ♪

♪ Oh, we'll fight til the victory ♪

♪ Fight til the victory comes ♪