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I have not slept the whole night.

Should we talk about it now?

You haven't read the newspaper?

Each page, Madam Professor.

They want to bring him to justice in Jerusalem?

Why would the Mossad have kidnapped him otherwise?

You think it is right?

It would have been better that they shot him

in front of everybody in Buenos Aires.

- Yes, but...

God did not let him escape.

God no... But the Germans, yes.

You'll see, they're not going to request his extradition.

Do you really want to inflict this to you?

You remember how you were shocked

to hear these terrible news from Europe...

And how horrified you were?

I could never forgive myself to miss such an opportunity.

You said how intelligent and courageous

I have been to flee Gurs.

You have been, sweet heart.

Many women stayed in the fear

that their husbands would not find them

if they left the camp.

I would have found you anywhere.

Maybe not.

In the heat of this summer,

there was still hope...

it would be over soon.

And then...

The wait...

More and more women would let go,

would not complain anymore...

and would not clean themselves more.

They would lie on their straw mats.

I tried to encourage them...

I was sometimes harsh, sometimes nice.

But one night...

It had rained all day, the straw mats were fraying.

I lost all courage.

I felt so tired.

So tired...

I wanted to leave...

this world...

I loved so much.

And at this moment, I...

I imagined you in front of me.

looking for me...

And not finding me.

Do you understand why I don't want to let you go?

Congratulations.

Hannah, great! Did you ask them?

And they just said "yes"?

They agreed. Simply.

For a genius, everything is simple.

Come on, that's enough!

You know,

I kind of fear this trip.

I wish I could go with you.

Hans, that would be nice. I would feel better.

Thank you.

If you want: "chips".

- Our train was late. - Sure.

We know that excuse.

Put yourself at ease. Everyone is there.

It's nice you could come.

Do not mention my name in the same breath as this Nazi.

Hans!

This is not a great trial, this is illegal.

This is an illegal abduction committed by these Mossad morons.

Israel has the sacred right to trial a Nazi

for his crimes against the Jewish people.

Sacred right? Hans, you're crazy.

Most survivors live there.

Exactly.

And they want to see him, confront him.

Confront him!

We will drag them all to court!

They will be witnesses.

- The trial will last forever! - This trial...

Israel did not exist as a State at the time of the Nazi crimes.

Alas!

Otherwise they would have declared war

to Hitler as England and France did.

But we were there anyway!

We did our duty,

we fought the Nazis in the British army.

In 1944, in the Jewish Brigade,

I and others brave men of Israel.

We know.

Heinrich does not know what it means to take up arms

to defend his convictions.

Convictions that lead him to emigrate.

Like many. He has no merit.

Nobody wants to take away your merit, Hans.

Hannah always reminds us how much she admires the soldier you were.

Not just the soldier.

Lotte!

Nuremberg accused Eichmann and he managed to escape arrest.

He must be judged by an international tribunal.

- There are none! - Exactly!

If the trial goes as you predict...

You cannot judge the whole history.

You just can judge a man.

Indeed. A man is judged. To murder.

Yes . For murder.

And you have to prove...

See you soon.

- Thank you, my dear. - See you soon.

We were harsh with Hans. Tell him I'm sorry.

- You always say that. - I know.

Goodbye.

- Goodbye... - Be careful with this storm.

Really.

Yeah... I have a perverse pleasure...

to tease this dear Hans a little.

Especially when he is happy to send you to hell.

Oh... sacred you.

Here:

"He thanked the Führer when taking office."

MEMBER OF THE PARTY HEIDEGGER...

Then they sang the Horst-Wessel-Lied.

Hi, Scoundrel!

Hi, Rascal!

Hannah! My dear Hannah!

Jerusalem...

your love.

Yeah.

How is my dear Heinrich?

- Is he nice to you? - Yes.

Even too sweet.

I would like him to slap me on the wrist:

I am confused in this maze of events.

This is my wrist he slapped.

He is afraid that all this plunges me back

in these dark hours.

This trial is very important for us.

You're strong...

Hannah you've always been.

And brave.

Very brave.

You'd rather tell me how you are.

How's your heart?

Not very well.

It never got used to accept

the reality of our world.

Israel has aged faster than you, my little Hannah.

I always thought you'd have tons of kids someday.

Oh, Jenny. We were too poor then.

When we could afford it,

we were too old.

Many are poor here. But they have children.

Children are important. It is a young country.

It was about time that you could visit us.

- She is not visiting. - You see?

He already wants to get rid of me.

Pity the reason of your visit is a predator.

This is why he is shown in a cage.

- A cage? - Glass cage.

To protect ourselves from him.

The Court!

As I stand here before you, judges of Israel,

to lead the charge

against Adolf Eichmann,

I am not alone.

With me at this time

are six million accusers.

But they can't get up

to point an accusing finger towards the glass cage

and cry to the one inside:

"I accuse!"

For their ashes are scattered on the hills of Auschwitz

and the fields of Treblinka,

and are engulfed in the rivers of Poland.

Their graves are scattered throughout Europe.

On all its area.

Their blood cries.

But we can't hear their calls.

And Hausner is strutting

as if he competed with Eichmann for a role in a play!

His dramatic opening speech was predictable.

Ben Gurion asked for this?

He is the one who pulls the strings, no?

Israel must ensure that it doesn't become a show trial.

This is all you, Hannah! Wait a minute.

And try to understand Ben Gurion.

Our young people refuse

to confront themselves to these dark hours, as you call them.

Or they are ashamed of their parents who haven't defended themselves

or they blame them for their disgraceful conduct.

They think that only the criminals or the whores were able to survive.

And you think Hausner can bring them understanding

to the suffering of their parents?

Do show a little patience with us.

I read that 15 people died

during transportation.

I can only say that these figures

could not be registered by the GB4 Department.

They come from local authorities.

This is the result of the instructions.

The report in question shows that

the local police or neighborhoods

sent their request to authority 4.

This is how I was put in charge of this case

I treated as an intermediate task,

as I was ordered. I had to obey orders.

But in the instructions, you fixed

the number of people to park in the train cars, is that correct?

I was given the order.

Whether or not they were killed,

this order was to be executed.

It was executed in an administrative manner.

I was in charge of only a small part.

The other necessary parts, such as the transportation,

were executed by other parties.

Mr. President,

I feel like a steak you want to cook

for a fact

riddled with inaccuracies, as we can clearly prove it here.

You finally heard the predator.

You don't feel well?

Yes. Yes, I'm fine.

Good.

Okay.

So what?

He is very different from what I had imagined.

This is one of the most dangerous people among the SS.

Not at all, precisely.

This is the point.

He is sitting in his glass cage.

Like a ghost...

Besides, he has a cold.

He doesn't scare at all.

He is insignificant.

He speaks in this horrible administrative jargon.

He suddenly says phrases like:

"I feel like a steak you want to cook."

Incredible!

Waiter! No steak, isn't it?

Want to cheer me up?

"The intention is perceptible and we are upset."

"The intention can be felt and we are shocked."

" Is allowed what pleases."

This is also Tasso.

"Is allowed what is right."

"If you would learn precisely what is proper,

"then do no more than ask of noble women."

My father was a tailor in Berlin.

He was always quoting "Faust" when shaving.

Mephisto, preferably.

"Blood is a peculiar juice..."

Eichmann.

Eichmann is not Mephisto.

Later when we were transported elsewhere...

200 or 210 of us stayed,

on the 1,200 that had been brought.

The next ones were all gassed.

Those who arrived just after us

were all gassed

It was...

Forgive me...

Please, try...

Start again.

Please calm down.

Remain seated! Everyone remain seated.

Remain seated!

I suspend the hearing, unless the witness recovers his mind.

Mr. Hausner, don't count on that.

I think the witness can hardly recover.

If you could see how people try to testify calmly...

Most of the stories have nothing to do with Eichmann

as an individual.

But we both knew from the beginning that this trial

would deal more with a historical fact than with the acts of a single man.

But still it's awful.

My poor little girl, away from home.

Already three minutes.

It costs a fortune, we need to hang up.

Yes.

See you soon.

Take him out quickly. Out! You interfere here!

You're a dirty coward! Bastard!

Remain seated, remain seated, if you want to stay!

An officer takes oath of allegiance to the flag.

If he breaks this oath...

this man is a pest.

This is my opinion.

I have sworn to tell the truth here.

This was my view at that time:

an oath is an oath.

Do you think a person taking an oath

is released from her oath

after Hitler's death?

After Hitler's death,

every man is indeed freed from this oath.

At the questioning, you said

that if the Führer had told you that your father was a traitor,

you would have shot him with your own hands.

If he had been a traitor, certainly.

No, if the Führer had told you so.

Would you have killed your own father?

Provided he proved it to me.

If he had, my oath would have forced me to.

Were you proved that the Jews should be exterminated?

I have not exterminated them.

Have you ever felt a conflict

between your job and your conscience?

I'd rather say a duality

- Duality? - Yes...

A conscious duality...

where we sail from one extreme to the other and vice versa.

We had to give up our conscience.

Sorry?

We had to give up our individual consciousness.

It could be said like that.

If there had been more civic courage,

things would have been different.

- Am I right? Answer... - Civic courage...

If there had been a hierarchical structure, yes, certainly.

It was not a fate

that was supposed to happen.

It is a matter of human behavior.

It was a matter of human behavior.

It was so...

It was war, it was agitated...

Everyone was saying: it is useless to resist...

- Yes. - A drop in the ocean,

useless, no success or...

or failure or something...

I guess...

this is due to the time.

At the time, for the education of children,

ideologies that were applied,

military training, this stuff.

Eichmann is not anti-Semitic? What a humbug!

You heard him. He just obeyed the law.

He would obey any law.

All those who joined the party, especially as SS,

were convinced and evil anti-semites.

He swears he personally never hurt a Jew.

Let him make twists with it!

But isn't it interesting

that a man

who has done everything a murderous system demanded of him,

who even hastens

to disclose any details about his work,

that this man insists

on the fact that he has nothing against Jews.

- He's lying! - This is false. He's not lying.

You're falling into the trap!

He says he didn't know where the trains were going.

Do you believe that too?

This information did not matter to him.

He transported people.

To death. But he didn't feel responsible.

Once the trains were gone, his work was done.

And he thinks he is in no way responsible

for the fate of the people he had transported?

Yes. It is his vision. He is a bureaucrat.

Your quest for truth honors you, but you're mislead!

But Kurt, you can't deny the huge difference

between the unimaginable cruelty of a man

and his mediocrity.

Don't worry, Rachel.

This is the way we argue, Hannah and I.

I'm just afraid she irritates many other people.

This is her nature.

But every time we got K.O...

we always reconciled.

Hey. Kurt, no!

Think of your heart.

I know. I'm not getting any younger.

If only your feet were made of lead,

you could not constantly escape anymore!

I don't run away from you.

Never.

What's inside?

Copies of the minutes.

Six tapes of Eichmann's questioning.

I could have sent them to you in New York by cargo ship.

I have to start reading them right now.

Bring Heinrich, next time.

You are here!

And your classes?

Canceled! It was an emergency.

Thank you, Freddy.

How good it is to be back!

Four pounds...

Can you see it?

I starved myself for you.

Look at the homework waiting for me.

You take a few days off.

Rascal, I have 2,000 pages to read before the semester begins.

Calm down, Ms. Professor.

From Mary.

No.

From me.

Rascal! This is the wrong stack.

Miller asked me to take care of another course.

Someone is sick or divorcing or a typical American thing.

I can't cope with it already!

You have to learn to say no. Only to others, of course.

Hannah...

So?

This polite Mr. Shawn did not say much,

he is certainly very curious to know

when you will hand over your articles.

There is not even any verdict yet!

Yes...

And how dare he call you, this Mr. Shawn?

I think he can't imagine

that a writer as famous as yourself

is struggling with a stack of papers and not write a word.

But this gentleman here, would have written this article long ago.

There is no doubt.

- Thank you. - Professor.

You can use my office.

You just have to get the pipe holder out.

Your doctor will be happy!

This is the pot calling...

You're leaving without a kiss or a slap?

One musn't interfere with great philosophers in their thinking.

But how can they think without a hug?

It's from Israel.

At least 500 new pages from court.

I'll sort them out later.

Lotte, what would I do without you?

I would have never been so close with my own daughter.

My father says that God has given us a family,

but that thanks to him we can choose our friends.

Yes...

You think I would have chosen Charlotte?

Oh, I forgot: she called.

She wanted Heinrich's new number at Bard.

You gave it to him?

I couldn't find it.

Attention, Lotte.

This psychoanalyst probably practices telepathy.

I take them back?

Yes, please.

Thank you.

They slept like the dead.

Someone came in and shouted:

Hurry up, the SS are coming.

I had two friends with me...

I've pushed them too.

Once a week, the infamous Dr. Mengele proceeded to a selection.

The rumor about the arrival of Dr. Mengele was enough

to sow terror throughout the camp.

Admittedly guilty...

Politicians...

If there had been more

of what I call civic courage,

things would have turned out differently.

FACULTY OF PHILOSOPHY DR M. HEIDEGGER

Miss Arendt.

You say you want to learn to think with me.

Thinking

is a solitary occupation.

You are my hero! Thank you!

You see,

the Western tradition

suffers from the prejudice that

the worst that a man can do

comes from its self-centeredness.

But in this century which is ours, evil has revealed

more radical than was anticipated.

We now know that the greatest evil,

radical evil

has nothing to do with patterns

humanly understandable and immoral such as egocentricity.

Instead, it is mainly related to the following phenomenon:

it is the fact of making people redundant.

The whole system in the concentration camps was

convincing prisoners that they were unnecessary...

before they were killed.

In the camps, people would learn

that the punishment was not related to a crime,

that the operation did not benefit anyone,

and that work

did not need to be profitable.

The camp is a place

where each fact and gesture

is by definition devoid of meaning.

Where in other words, it creates absurdity.

I summarize:

if it is true that

at the final stage of totalitarianism

an absolute evil appears,

absolute because it is not to be attributed to human reasons,

then it is also true

that without it,

without totalitarianism,

we would never know

the radical nature of evil.

What time is it?

The second hour began. You know what that means.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Can I ask you a personal question?

Please.

Have you been in a concentration camp?

I had the occasion

to spend some time in the Gurs camp, in France.

At the beginning, yes. They welcomed us.

But Germans invaded France on 10 May 1940,

our French friends suddenly packed us in an internment camp.

We became a new kind of breed

placed by its enemies in concentration camps

and by its friends in internment camps.

How did you manage to escape?

A visa. Not a passport. We've been stateless for 18 years.

What was your first impression of America?

Do you understand?

Hannah!

My dear...

Don't cry.

I talked to the doctor.

You have 50 percent chance to get on with it.

You forget the remaining 50 percent.

What were you talking about with your students?

About us.

They will hang Eichmann.

- This is good. - Well...

But it is not fair.

The sentence is too weak?

The sentence is justice only in appearance.

There is no real sentence for such acts.

It would be more courageous to leave him alive!

The verdict was given:

You don't need to avoid your friends from the New Yorker anymore.

No. First start by recovering.

You didn't write anything since my small accident.

Wrong. I took notes.

And a brain aneurysm is not a small accident.

You could have died.

Yes. But Eichmann is a monster.

When I say monster, I don't speak of the devil.

No need to be smart or strong

to behave like a monster.

You oversimplify.

What is new in the Eichmann phenomenon,

is that his likes are many.

This is an horribly normal individual.

Not all normal individuals ran the section IV B4

installed in the Reich Security Office

and in charge of the extermination of the European Jews.

You're right. But he considered himself...

as a servant, serving Germany and obeying the Führer.

"My loyalty is my honor."

The order of the Führer was the law.

And he pleaded not guilty to the charge:

He was acting according to the law.

The documents show that Eichmann led the "final solution"

well after Himmler forbade him.

And why? He wanted to finish his work.

You don't see that each law,

each order was completely reversed?

It was no more "Thou shalt not kill",

but "Thou shalt kill."

To accomplish his task, he had to resist temptation

- to be good. - Great.

So nobody is responsible or guilty.

Any sane man knows that it is wrong to kill.

Most Europeans, including our friends,

- have suddenly got ill. - Heidegger was your friend.

Hans!

He is not the only one to have disappointed us.

Hannah, you can't write this for the New Yorker.

- No way. - Hans, the glass door!

This is too abstract. This is ambiguous.

They don't want a philosophical treatise.

They want to know what the Nazi Eichmann did.

- You want to forgive him? - What twaddle!

I'm glad he will be hanged.

Let's drink to Heinrich recovery!

Hey, Hans. To Heinrich.

Scoundrel, cheers.

No more kisses. Except for me.

Why was Hans so furious against me?

Because he loves you. Just like when he was a student.

Bullshit!

He hates Heidegger

more for conquering you than to have joined the party.

So he should hate you more.

This may be the case.

My recovery party

exhausted me.

I'm going to bed.

Thinking

does not lead to any knowledge

compared to science.

Thinking

brings no

practical wisdom.

Thinking

does not solve any of the great enigmas of the world.

Thinking gives

no immediate strength

to act.

We live

because we are living beings.

And we think

because we are thinking beings.

We are so accustomed to consider

reason and passion as antagonists

that the image of a passionate thought

where the idea and the fact of being alive would be one

almost scares me.

- Excuse me. - No. Hannah!

You say you were not a normal executioner.

That you were not responsible for your actions.

Isn't that what you said?

- No, I never thought of it. - You never thought of it?

- Sorry? - You did not think of it?

You were an idiot.

- You did not think? - Think?

- Yes. - Think? Of course I did.

You were not an idiot?

You're sure you can go?

You've alarmed them so much

they want me with a wheelchair.

Charming women will fight

to push you.

Nobody can push me as well as you.

Lotte...

Take good care of her.

Thank you.

Listen.

I changed the beginning.

"Evil, we learned, is something demonic:

" it embodies Satan.

"With the best will in the world,

" we cannot detect any evil

or demonic depth in Eichmann,

"he was simply unable to think."

- This is excellent. - It is better, right?

Yes...

Ignore them... You drive yourself crazy!

But Shawn's response in the New Yorker is very convincing.

- You want me to send it to you? - What response?

To a nasty article published in the New York Times.

Ah, that one! I don't care!

Rather tell me how Heinrich is.

Charlotte is cooking for him every night.

Please, Heinrich can eat meat only twice a week.

Yes.

Hello...

Darling.

- You goddamn piss me off. - Hello, Scoundrel...

Come on, let's not waste our time with that.

Jerusalem General Attorney flew

to come and talk with survivors in New York.

This was the headline of the Daily News:

- It made the cover. - A storm in a teacup.

This is not a storm. This is a hurricane, Hannah.

Rather tell me what you're going to eat tonight.

Spinach,

full bread, water.

It's good you're not in New York.

They all blame you

to defend Eichmann, Hannah.

Scoundrel, these are just a few articles in a magazine.

Darling,

you're really naïve.

She thinks her sarcasm will protect her.

He only shows his vulnerability.

She tries to keep away from this story

and in doing so, she appropriates it all the more.

False, totally false.

This is not about her.

But where is she

when she writes about this Nazi and his crimes?

She has the right to feel pain and to show it.

This would be shameless. And it doesn't look like her.

You must be aware that if she repressed this pain,

it will eventually catch her up.

And you too.

Professor Heidegger came to see you.

Thank you.

This is one of the secrets of time:

it comes back and can transform everything.

When I saw you there in your prettiest dress,

I knew that a new and prosperous period began for us.

Please, stop for a moment.

I did not know if I should come.

There is no greater invitation than being the first to love:

"Nulla enim is maior

" ad quam praevenire Invitation amorem

"amando." Saint Augustin.

Your last letter saddened me.

How could you believe all these slanders?

I felt a heart throb when I read your rector speech.

I couldn't believe

that my mentor would behave like an idiot.

I know that these years have been tough for you, filled with misery

deprivation and vulnerability.

For me too, they were hard.

Martin, I came because I want to understand.

Hannah...

I'm like a boy who dreamt and doesn't know what he is doing.

On the political level, I'm not talented nor experienced,

but I know it and I hope...

to learn more.

So as not to omit any thinking.

Why don't you make a public statement?

"In the muted dialogue I feed myself with, I am alone."

- Do you remember me? - Of course.

You were in the Kurt Blumenfeld zionist group in Berlin.

Your secret services have sent you

to talk about my youthful indiscretions?

The State of Israel has bought four plane tickets just to tell me that?

You must be rolling in money

for wasting so much!

We can't understand that you, Jewish,

spread such lies on your people.

This is a book that I have never written.

A book that will never be published in Israel.

And that should not be published anywhere, if you have any decency.

You forbid books,

and you speak of decency!

- I'm warning you. - No, you threaten me!

We wanted Kurt Blumenfeld to take you back to reason,

but he is dying.

We didn't want to be so cruel.

You didn't know?

Rivka, why didn't you let me know earlier?

Kurt didn't want it.

What are you doing, my dear!

You went too far this time.

No argument today.

This cruelty...

and lack of respect from you.

You'll think differently when you read.

I've tried.

Since when do you listen to others when it comes to me?

Do you feel no love for Israel?

Don't you love your people?

I can't laugh anymore with you.

Kurt, you know me though. I have never loved a people.

Why should I love the Jews?

I only love my friends.

This is the only love I am capable of.

Kurt...

I love you.

Those ones think your articles are excellent.

Those ones think you're completely wrong

and shouldn't have written anything.

Anybody I know?

Yes. Some friends.

And those ones wish you death.

Some do not lack imagination.

I go.

Oh, Lotte!

I'm late?

Good.

Oh, Hannah, I didn't know...

Lore, I'm glad to see you.

I came to help Lotte.

No, just sit down first.

Here.

You were there yesterday?

I didn't want to leave Lotte alone.

- Thank you. - It goes without saying.

How is Hans?

He...

Why didn't he come?

He doesn't feel good.

Oh, God!

What do they write?

Nothing.

Come on, Lotte.

Read it to us.

This is nice of you

to have stayed tonight.

You've had such a rough day.

When I was a child, my father was very ill.

He died when I was seven.

After a long struggle.

I've always known him sick.

And in my dream, he is...

he is in good health.

He is beautiful.

He looks at me and says: "I love you."

- What are you doing with the letters? - I'll answer.

No, you're not gonna do it.

It will never end otherwise.

Yes, but I terribly hurt these people. I take it seriously.

We've lived here for twenty years. I don't want to pack my bags again.

They will not expel you for some few articles.

Are you so sure?

Hans, if I had known you were there.

I came...

with the vain hope that you would understand.

But you are and remain the same.

Hannah, with this... arrogance of yours,

and your ignorance, long known,

of Jewish things, you turn a trial

in a philosophical treatise.

Hans, please, I'm too exhausted.

You're acting like a German intellectual quibbling

who despises Jews.

And you try to make us accomplices of the Holocaust!

You never accepted that the Germans

have shamefully betrayed you.

They have expelled you, and they'd have killed you if they had the chance!

Your friend Eichmann was responsible for Gurs transportation.

If you didn't get the chance to escape in time,

you would have suffered the same fate as the other women!

Stop!

They have all been transported! All deported to-

Stop now, Hans!

From now on,

I give up on Heidegger's preferred student.

The whole world is trying to prove that I'm wrong.

And no one sees my real mistake.

Evil can not be both ordinary and radical.

Evil is always extreme.

Never radical.

Good is always deep and radical.

Would you have covered the trial if you knew what was expecting you?

Yes.

I would have covered it.

Maybe to learn who my real friends are.

Kurt was your friend and would have remained it.

Kurt was my family.

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