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Only the bad Polish roads and the supply problem can slow our offensive.

If our panzer columns with no opposition in front of them

Are halted in the middle of Poland because of supply failure...

... our prestige... - Are you telling me that we cannot supply 75 divisions for this campaign?

- No, Mein Führer! I simply asking the question.

- I want answers, not questions!

- Myrtle! - Yeah!

- I have asked Colonel Schottland of my staff...

...to prepare a report on the logistical situation.

- Mein Führer!

- Gentlemen! I have before me made pages of facts and figures...

...detailed data of the problems of supply for our forces in the Polish campaign,

but, we are on the eve of war.

At this late hour Führer wants solutions, not problems.

I'm sure, that I'm speaking for my superiors, when I say that if the Führer orders...

...that we supply 75 divisions or 100 divisions, it will be done!

I have taken the liberty of preparing a tender to the report...

...showing how this supply mission can be accomplished.

However, if the General Staff wishes to hear a detailed logistical report...

- No, no!

That won't be necessary now!

There will be continued negotiations with England and France during the coming week,

but this will no affect my plans. On the 1st of September

we will attack!

Come on, come on! Let's have a toast to our newest general.

- Speech! - Speech! All I can say is, I owe my good fortune today

to you my friends and to the faith we all have in the Führer.

- To the Führer!

Gentlemen! The Ladies, as promised.

Would the general care to meet any of these ladies in particular?

- Is that a part of you official duties too. - Not exactly official, sir.

- But I've been aid general before.

- Schottland!

General Hauser, I hear you recommended my promotion. Please, accept my thanks.

- You supply operation in the Polish campaign was a remarkable achievement.

- You deserved recognition.

You are very kind.

- And your supply operation for this party is...

Now I want to make a recommendation to you.

Stay where you are.

- Excuse me, Gentlemen. Would you come this way.

- Oh, no. That's not fair.

Come and meet our guest of honour.

- Our Lili!

Our finest import from our Italian allies.

We've met before, several times.

Yes, the soldier who runs away.

I hope he's braver on the battlefield than his with women

I think, I frighten the General.

General Schottland as fearless as a lion! I guaranteed.

Would you sing for us? Please!

What would you like to hear? I sing it especially for you.

- You decide.

Schottland, someone wants to meet you.

The English woman who broadcast for us. - Oh yeah.

General Schottland - Miss Karen Crusher.

- Well, don't stand there. Are you said you wanted to talk to her, didn't you.

I'm flattered that you wanted to talk to me, General.

- Yes, on behalf of Lieutenant Reinisch. He's you most ardent admirer.

His greatest wish was to meet you.

He felt, the job duty merited a higher rank than his,

But, I assured him, that you judge a man by his service to the Führer...

...rather than by his rank.

- Yes, of course.

- Will you excuse me.

Does he dislike all women, for a moment I thought it was only me.

- Oh, no. It's not a matter of dislike,

...his interest maybe,

He devoted to his career.

He must have some other interest. - Oh, yes! Clocks!

- Colonel? This is a surprise.

Is anything wrong, that you come here this time of night?

- No. Nothing.

- Have important news? - No, no news.

- You Rascal! No news!

So now is General Schottland! That's wonderful!

But just for that you come here this time at night.

- We got a drink. - Of course. Scotch whisky oh.

The last of the Scotch whisky. - Oh.

- Well, what goes with promotion. A new assignment? - No, no change of assignment.

But something new goes with rank.

An aeroplane.

I have been assigned the plane fuelled and ready to take off.

I can go anywhere. I could be in England in a few hours

- Bad thoughts. - Bad thoughts.

25 years. 25 years ever since I living this masquerade

Living as an exile, with roots going nowhere.

Clock without face.

I felt at home for the first time...

when I sat in the cockpit of that plane.

For the first time I could forget

I was written off as a traitor by my country, my family.

They've never relieve you of your post You know that.

Even if you did escape the War Office

... will probably consider you a deserter. You still under order.

- You Know that too. - Yes I know it.

It's not been easy for you, Alex.

And it will be more difficult for you, as time goes on.

But, it is be difficult for others too

Yes, of course. You are right, I know, I shouldn't complain.

If I'd spent those years at home, with any luck,

I might, perhaps, be a major.

Possibly not even that.

Now, what's really wrong, Alex?

You know, everybody I've seen gets into this mood

in the first year at their assignment.

Your clocks are well done and 24 years behind...

- No, no! I'm not sorry for myself.

- It's just, that I had a big fright this evening. That's all.

- Somebody suspect some? - No. - What than?

A Woman.

A very beautiful woman.

I met her again tonight.

- No, you needn't worry. I shan't fall in love or anything like that.

- I know the risk.

- It doesn't worry me. It worried you and that worried me.

You've done so well with a difficult assignment, I hate to offer advice.

- Your advice has saved my life more than once.

- Alex, You're on duty 24 hours a day.

You've got to learn to relax.

With this promotion you're under magnifying glass.

You'll be conspicuous, if you don't run with the pack.

That shouldn't be so hard for you to do...

...from what I hear of the women in your circle.

Go back to the job.

Running away from this woman will only be worse.

- No, I've been lock in the barn for too long.

This might lead to more, than just pleasant evening.

I can't take the chance.

- But you don't have to I should take the chance.

- Is that an order?

- Of course.

Brandy, please.

Tell me one thing - is it me you don't like or my singing?

You always seem to disappear.

- Well, tonight I've come back.

That must prove, that I like both.

- You can be nice, when you want to. I forgive you.

- Let's drink to that. To the nice things in life!

- Tell do you like clocks?

- Clocks? - Yeah. I collect them.

I've got quiet a large collection in my apartment. I'll like to show them to you.

- Don't you mean etchings? - No! Clocks!

- I'll be delighted.

- How beautiful!

- I only acquired it in the other day.

It's a musical pair of technic clock it has quiet a history.

The most interesting thing is that it was made originally...

- What kind a clock is that?

- That? Oh that's quite interesting...

- It's called Clepsydrae.

It's probably the earliest type of timepiece...

...that can be called a mechanical clock.

This cylinder is filled with water...

...which drips through this opening regularly into the tank below..

...causing a float inside to fall and so work the gears.

You see, like this.

- Interesting.

These clocks are very nice. Is that all you're interested in?

Is that all you want out of life?

- Well, it's very difficult to know what one does want of life.

Do you know what you want?

- Yes, for me it's easy.

I'm a woman. I want to be a successful singer.

- Do you know, you're at the end of the road? You've nowhere to go.

You are a woman and You are a successful singer.

Your records are heard everywhere. You sing on the radio and broadcast to the Troops.

- But my real ambition is to sing in Paris and London.

Hurried up for me, will you? Start attack on France soon

so I can see Paris while I'm still young.

- Did I say something wrong?

- On the contrary, you remind me of all the work.

I have to do, if we are to celebrate victory in West.

For you.

My aide will drive home.

Reinisch!

- Good night.

- Good night.

- It's alright. We alone.

- Operation 'Sea Lion' has been abandoned.

- Abandoned?

- By the order of the Führer himself.

- So, Adolf is not ready to attempt the invasion of England.

- It's definitely off.

Supply are already being shifted eastward.

- Russia.

- Send it to ours - The General Staff thinks it's madness.

- The are right. This is wonderful news, Alex.

This is the beginning of the end.

It should bind Russia to the west for all tight.

- I don't trust the Bear as you do.

I've seen the brute first hand.

- Let's get this news out at once.

- More news for you.

I been appointed deputy chief of supply.

- Wonderful, Alex!

- I shall have an important voice in all supply operation.

I can bring the whole military machine into chaos.

Supplies will get lost or they won't get there in time... - Don't be childish!

You will do the best job of military planning that you humanly can.

After 25 years of this work you ought to be able to remember...

...that you're not a saboteur.

- But situation has change!

- The situation has not change. Not for you.

The secrets that you get, such as, today ...

...may be of more value to the Allied High Command...

...than any service you can perform for the German

- But it could be so easy for me. - Out of the question.

If you are dismissed from your post for some blunder.

You could be of no service to your country at all.

From now on the Gestapo will be watching you more carefully.

This aide of yours, fellow Reinisch.

He's undoubtedly a Gestapo man himself.

- No doubt of that.

- So far as you are aware,

has he any possible basis for being suspicious of it?

- No!

Why should he suspect me.

I'm a perfect Nazi.

Their report was of such a nature, Admiral Canaris.

I thought they should transmitted directly to you.

- Sit down, Müller.

Well, I'm listening.

- To begin with, sir.

Ever since I've been with general Schottland,

I've done some investigation on my own.

and I've discovered, that Schottland is not his right name.

He was born Alexander Scott.

His parents were English and he was educated at Oxford University.

- Your information is incomplete.

He was born of an English father and a German mother.

He spent his childhood in South Africa. He attended Heidelberg as well as Oxford.

In 1914 he Germanised his name

Enlisted in German Army and distinguished himself as a...

...gallant and loyal German officer throughout the war.

- But, sir. A man with such background.

- Dual nationalities are common, even among our national leaders.

Rudolf Hess was born and raised in Egypt and the Führer himself is an Austrian.

- Yes, sir.

A man cannot control the circumstances of his birth,

but he can make a choice. General Schottland made the right choice.

If Schottland would be a spy He would return to England after Armistice in 1918.

Instead he remain to German.

And Germany was a defeated nation

and it was hard to be a patriotic German.

Your assignment to general Schottland is routine.

All high ranking officers are under surveillance of this sort.

I don't want to discourage or vigilance.

But it would be well for you to exercise discretion.

- Yes, sir.

- I'm late for staff meeting

General Schottland is one of rising star of Third Reich.

And has already won the Führer's favourable attention.

- I remember that, sir.

- Good day, gentlemen.

- Satisfied.

The Führer himself raised Schottland to General Staff Corp.

Apparently, he is satisfied.

- General Schottland is very clever man.

- And unlike some of his colleagues on the General Staff a model National Socialist.

A one hundred percenter.

- That's what bother me.

He's too perfect. He's one hundred and one percenter.

- What do you think of it? - I don't know, sir.

- I'm afraid it didn't quite what I'm looking for.

- Sorry to be late, gentlemen. Please don't let me disturb you. Continue.

- As you know the enemy's main effort appears to be in the direction of Saint-Lo.

The Seventh Army has been unable to mount a counter-attack

and forced north-east of Saint-Lo because of the critical supply situation.

Enemy air attack has demolished 90 percent of our tactical quartermaster stores ...

...in areas Q, V and Y.

The petrol reserves of Panzer Group West have been completely destroyed.

Even the secret deposit at Marigny and Agneaux have been wiped out by pinpoint bombing.

- How could this happen? That is the question before us.

General Merkel fuse we cannot lay the blame to faulty camouflage.

- Right, Merkel. - Yes.

I personally inspected all supply areas in a low flying plane.

If I hadn't known where the dumps were,

I couldn't have spotted them myself.

- General Hauser's theory is that a well organised French underground

is the cause of our trouble.

- Intelligence has established, that the underground particularly active in those areas.

- Mere civilian agents equipped with radio transmitters,

which is probable, they report the position of our location as soon as we set them up.

- Yes, I agree.

There's no other possible explanation.

- We all agree. - Yes, sir.

- I don't.

Any French civilians found in areas Q and V would be shot on sight.

They were all evacuated three month ago.

Furthermore decoy depots have been set up in that area.

How is it then, that enemy aircraft bombed only the actual depots

and left the decoys untouched.

As General Merkel says,

our depots were so carefully camouflaged that are own air spotters had difficulty in finding them.

How is it then that enemy were able to score direct hits on every single one of them.

- Then what possibility do you suggest, general?

- I suggest the enemy knew the exact location of those depots.

I suggest the possibility of the leak of information

at a very high level.

- Just what do you mean 'on very high level'?

- I mean from General Staff itself.

- This is preposterous.

- By all mean, general. Traitors often spring up in the most preposterous places.

- This is outrageous! - What is your evidence?

- General Schottland, you are my deputy.

I refuse to permit you to make such reckless charges

in my presence without the evidence to back them up.

- Evidence of treason, General Wagner, does not come neatly wrapped in packages.

- I'm suggesting a possibility.

- Don't be evasive! Who are you accusing?

- Nobody in particular is yet.

But we all know General Staff officers, who disagree with the Führer's strategy.

Who maintained that we cannot win the war

Defeatists, who haven't the courage to bring their views into the open.

You've heard their whispers. We all heard.

I submit, gentlemen, the defeatism is a doorway to treason.

But two defeatist together, then you have a conspiracy.

- You call it evidence.

- In 15 years, in my 15 years on General Staff Corp...

...I never heard of such a irresponsible and malicious gossip...

...from a fellow officer!

With your permission.

- General Schottland. I suggest that you leave espionage...

...to Group Leader Kaltenbrunner and his Secret Service,

and address yourself to your own duties in the supply service.

- Marshall Keitel, with your permission.

- That is all, Gentlemen.

What's now, General.

- I know you want concrete evidence. I don't have it.

I suppose it was idiotic.

- Not idiotic,

rush, perhaps, but not idiotic.

When you spoke of defeatist talking You referring to Noem?

- I know.

- Anyone else?

- Colonel Heitz

- Yes, I know about him.

There others as well

and it goes beyond talk. As you suggest is probably a conspiracy.

I have reason to believe there may be a plot against Führer himself.

I don't yet have all the links in the chain, but when I do.

You probably won't be hearing any more.

Defeatist talk.

You disloyal colleagues won't trust you now.

Alex, it's Cornatz. I must see you.

- Follow me up, I leave my door open, if it's safe.

- Dietz? - Dietz?

Reinisch?

- I have to take a risk. They've arrested my courier.

- May I sit down? Yes, of course.

- So, do not go to the shop until you hear from me.

From now on I shall transmit your information myself.

- Is that wise?

- I think it's not wise but we have to take some risk.

When can you get me the information about the new supply dumps in northern France?

- I shall have the overlays of exact location of the deposes within a week.

- And... Alex,

it is very important that we should not have any change

in his strength or location of German divisionst

on the French coast since your last report.

There no be changes, whatsoever.

- Are you certain?

- Yes, changes were contemplated and then dropped.

- No, we have to plan on the possibility of my being eliminated

of my being eliminated from the scene.

If anything should happen to me, you will find your new contact

in the personal column of the "Volkischer Beobachter".

There will be an item advertising the sale of 'Nuremberg Egg"

it is one of the oldest timepieces small enough to be considered a watch.

- I am familiar with the "Nuremberg Egg"

- Of course, I forgotten what an expert you become.

You will go to the address listed and you will offer 3,000 marks

- But is not worth nearly as much as that.

- Exactly!

If the seller refuses your generous offer and insists of a price of 900 marks

you will have found my replacement.

- I don't like this. Be careful.

- It is you who must be careful, Alex.

You are irreplaceable one.

On the War Office may be able to replace you, I cannot.

- Some sentimentality for the modern Hitler Gener...

I must be going.

- Would you like a drink? - No, thank you.

The nice collection of clocks you have here.

Some I haven't seen before.

- Good bye, old friend.

The latest operation report just arrived.

Shall I enter it on the map, sir?

- No, I'll do it. It's very late. You get on home.

- Have my car, Sandra. - Yes, sir.

- My car here? - Yes, sir.

- All right. I shall need you any more tonight.

Dietz will drive me home.

- I'm afraid that would be impossible, sir.

- What did you say?

- I've orders accompany yourself to Gestapo Headquarters.

- Naturally, sir, I don't know details I heard some talk.

- What sort of talk?

- That the old antique dealer Cornatz has been arrested.

- Oh?

- I can only assume, sir, that since you patronised his shop,

the Gestapo wants you for some routine questioning.

- It is considered of you not to assume that I myself there under suspicion.

- Call the Gestapo Headquarters. Tell them I'm coming right over.

- Tell me now.

You tell me sooner or later so why not spare yourself the agony.

- You friend General Schottland is here.

- For his sake, let's get it over this quickly.

- Tell us your contacts. I can help you.

- Swine!

- No!

- His dead.

- You should've anticipated that.

- Do you suspect everyone who patronised that antique shop?

Cornatz had a half a dozen officers of general rank among his clients,

General Wagner, Marshal Göring.

Does that make Göring spy?

- Cornatz was found with top secret documents in his possession,

which could only have come from the service of supply.

- This materials could be available to at least ten other generals besides myself.

- What was the connection between Cornatz and the assassins.

- The assassins?

- Would you answer my question?

Will you plotters working for Allied intelligence.

- The plot against the Führer?

- So you know?

Go on.

- I know nothing about it.

Except that I had my suspicions.

- Indeed.

Will it make it easier for you to confess,

if I tell you that your plot has failed.

I had a call from the Führer's field headquarters less than an hour ago.

Your bomb exploded according to schedule,

several officers were killed,

but the Führer himself escaped without serious injury.

- The Führer is safe. I'm glad.

- You interest in the Führer's welfare is almost convincing.

- You accused me!

Your hands are not as clean as mine in this affair.

Get me Kaltenbrunner on the phone! I'll talk to him about this and to no one else!

- Get me Group Leader Kaltenbrunner, please, on the other telephone.

- Kaltenbrunner.

- Group Leader Kaltenbrunner. This is Group Leader Müller speaking.

I have with me... Yes, sir, I am listening.

- I have arrested three of the plotters here von Stauffenberg, Olbricht, von Quirnheim.

Have you got that? Good.

You will arrest general Hauser and Merkel immediately.

Let Heitz alone for moment have him followed and see where he leads us.

Quartermaster General Wagner was involved,

but he saved us a trouble by taking his own life.

There are others in the service of supply, who are implicated.

- Yes, sir. I have just arrested one of them myself.

General Schottland. He still denying everything,

But I think we can get him to talk before long.

Good bye, sir.

- Issue orders for the arrests of generals Hauser and Merkel at once.

- General Schottland you are under arrest.

For treason.

And if you think that your rank will spare you from...

...our more persuasive methods of interrogation.

You're quite mistaken!

- I don't believe that was Kaltenbrunner on the phone at all.

- That's enough.

- Thank you.

This is Group Leader Müller speaking.

- You idiot! Did you said that you arrested general Schottland.

- Yes, sir.

Schottland is one of the few men on the staff,

who is absolutely in the clear.

He sensed the existence of a plot almost as soon as I did

and what is more important told me about it.

Release him at once, apologise and make it convincing.

General Schottland. You are free to go.

That has been some mistake.

I hope you will accept my apologies for the rude treatment

to which you've been subjected.

You understand, that such methods are often necessary,

if we're to track down the real traitors.

- Don't apologise, Müller. You're only doing your duty.

Thank you, sir.

- Everyone must serve the Fatherland in his own way...

...even occasional halfwit.

- Thank you, Dietz

- Excellence

- You advertise the Nuremberg egg for sale.

Nuremberg Egg, Nuremberg Egg, Nure... Right!

Yes, sir.

Of course, it is not in working order,

but, as an antique, very nice.

- I'm willing to pay up to 3,000 thousand marks for the right one.

- 3,000 marks! It's yours.

For 3,000 marks I'm even willing put it in working order for you.

- Never mind, it's not the one I'm looking for.

- But Excellence...

- General?

This is indeed a surprise.

- There must be some mistake,

advertisement said 97 Marburg Strasse.

- This is 97 Marburg Strasse.

Won't you come in?

- General.

- I'm sorry. I don't wish to inconvenience you.

The newspaper must be an error.

I was interested in an antique that was advertised.

- The Nuremberg Egg?

- That's correct.

- The advertisement made no mention of price.

- The General should know more about it than I.

How much would you offer?

- Well, I'm looking for something special.

For the right one I'm willing to pay up to 3,000 marks.

- That seems to be a great deal of money, for a watch that doesn't even keep time.

- Well, what do you think it's worth?

- Uh... Oh, well.

It shows you, really, how little I know.

I was willing to sell it for 900 marks.

- Oh, that price is a bargain.

But I'm afraid it isn't exactly, what I'm looking for.

If you will excuse the intrusion.

Captain.

- I would like to sell it.

I'm sorry it isn't exactly, what you want.

- So am I. Good day!

- Come.

- You ordered me to report on my return, sir.

- Yes.

- File a report immediately for tomorrow Staff Meeting.

- Yes, sir.

- Quite a coincidence meeting you.

- Yes.

That's all.

- Yes, sir.

- May I have your coat.

- You did say 900 marks? - Yes.

And you did say 3,000 marks.

- Yes.

- Unbelievable.

- Do you have anything to drink?

- Yes, I think we both can use one.

- Brandy? - Thank you.

- Soda? - Please.

- Remember that evening, when you took me to your house after the dance.

- You seemed kind of...

- Attracted to you. I was.

- You behaved so strangely, I couldn't understand it.

And I was annoyed at my failure

to develop a possible source of information.

- It's amusing now, but at the time it wasn't.

Hiding the smallest personal feelings for fear of betrayal.

I feel released from an emotional straitjacket.

You don't know what this means to me. With you I can...

- No, you can't.

With me you must be as in person as though you were the General Staff.

Our dealing must be professional.

Objective.

Anything else would endanger our work and ourselves.

- You quite right.

Is it you, who receives my orders from London.

- Yes. - How?

It's a short-wave receiver.

- You can be shout for having that.

- I can be shout for almost anything I do

if I'm caught.

- How do you transmit my information?

- I have a method.

I'll explain what it is, as you friend Cornatz would have said

"When you need to know it".

- Very well.

- May I..?

- Of course.

Will you find a cover...

Some excuse for meeting each other regularly.

- Let the Gestapo think we having a love are affair.

The facts must be otherwise.

- Oh, yes, of course.

Well, Captain Reinisch complicate matters?

- No, I don't think he'll be a problem at all.

- Good.

We must arrange a plan, so that we don't carry incriminating documents around with us.

- I'll come to your place, any time you want me to and spend a night.

- Good evening. - Good evening.

- The general is expecting me.

I know. May I.

These days bargains are hard to find.

- He made me a very good offer. I couldn't turn it down.

- It seems you both found what you were looking for.

- Is that surprise you?

- Not really.

I should have expected it.

I was born to be a general's aid.

The dinner is waiting.

- Well... Lily!

- Anything else I can do, sir?

- No, nothing else tonight.

- Very good, sir.

- You told me it was important.

- You have underestimated captain Reinisch

He is a bigger problem than you thought.

- No, he's just jealous and proud.

He thinks he's in love with me.

- He also a Gestapo agent.

- What would you do about.

He must be disposed off. Effectively and positively.

There's only one way.

Come into my bedroom... please.

- What is it?

- Yeah... open it

and you'll find out.

- Oh, it's lovely.

- When I saw it I thought it was made for you.

- Oh, I don't know what to say!

- And don't say anything.

- Do you call that a kiss.

That's better, Much better.

"...I don't know what to say? - Then don't say anything..."

"...do you call that a kiss... That's better. Much better"

"...After tonight nothing... - Fascinating!

Tell me, is this a work of an agent of the Secret Service

or of the Peeping Tom.

- I'm sorry, sir. I should have played it before taking your time.

- Thing isn't even passionate much less incriminating.

"...your affair with Captain Reinisch... Captain Reinisch

He's nothing to me, he just an amusing young boy. That's all..."

- Reinisch! "kiss me..."

If another one of your hunches backfires

it'll be your head, not his.

"...wait, close the door, please..."

- Turn it off!

Coun-ter offen-sive.

Arden... sector

"Counter-offensive, Arden sector, 15 December" is too long.

I'll have to cut the words "counter" and "sector".

I'm sorry! But we must get that information back.

This is going to be a major push.

If von Rundstedt breaks through it could be a major disaster.

- Do you know anything about harmonics?

- No.

- Then you wouldn't understand I can't get all this into one song.

This method of transmitting information is to limited.

- You must get that message through.

- I think I've got it now.

I'm getting through on my broadcast tomorrow night.

- I won't be seeing you for a couple of weeks.

- Why?

- I leave for the front a day after tomorrow

for conferences with von Rundstedt about the supplies for his offensive.

- Take care of yourself.

- I should be listening to your broadcast tomorrow night.

"Today, the 21st of October 1944...

...the futile uprising in Warsaw was brought to an end.

Our positions there remain secure for all time.

And that is the end of the news for tonight. - Heil Hitler!

This hour of song is dedicated to our armed forces wherever they may be.

Our regular soloist on this broadcast, Fräulen Lily Barone,

will not be with us this evening.

But in her place Radio Berlin takes pleasure in presenting Emmy Körner,

whose inimitable style has already made her a favourite songstress of the German soldiers.

- Wait for me here.

- Yes, sir.

- You shouldn't have come here.

- What happened? - I don't know.

I was taken off the air at the last moment.

- Any reason given? - No.

- The Gestapo? - No sign of them.

- I don't understand. I must be suspect.

There's no other good reason.

My singing has never been so popular with the troops as it now.

Alex, you must leave at once.

Until I find out what's behind of this.

- Alex!

- I can protect you.

- Alex, don't you see what's happening.

We've been caught by emotions and personal feeling.

- Our emotions sinful, our personal feelings a crime?

- Yes, for us they are.

- I just shrug, when the Gestapo arrest you and when they question you

- If it happens - yes!

- Well, it won't.

- If they found out about me there's nothing you can do.

If they haven't there's nothing we have to do.

- Your radio, we must dispose of that.

- If they come for evidence, the radio will matter the least.

Don't think of me. Think of a way of getting that message through.

- I have to go to the front tomorrow. I have a chance then.

- How?

- I pick up a field transmitter. I should be near the front lines.

- I'll slip away by myself and transmit the message.

- But there will be a German Army to surround the area. They track you down.

- Not if I work fast enough.

- There must be some other way.

- Can you think of one?

- No, but Alex...

- We will say goodbye without emotion, without personal feelings

and if we're lucky, we'll see each other again.

And there'll be another party,

unemotional and impersonal.

- Attention, Allied Forces, Allied Forces, attention.

Attention, Allied forces, attention.

Relay the following information to your headquarters. This is code...

Sir, would you explain to me what you're doing.

- Corporal, is it your habit to question general officer.

- No, sir! But the circumstances are unusual.

If the General, please, identify himself.

- Of course, I'm General Reidmeister.

- I mean identification papers, sir.

May I see your papers, sir?

- Yes, there're in my briefcase. I'll get them...

- Stay where you are! I get them.

It's corporal Zuitalein. He is still alive.

- Can you remember exactly,

Exactly! What he said when they brought him in.

- Something was a radio transmitter and a German General shooting him.

It was incoherent.

- Can you give him injection or something to bring him to.

- He's in a coma, Major, You'll have to wait.

- How long?

- The bullet lodged in his spine.

Could be a day, a week, a month,

If he lives.

- You didn't answer the door, I thought the Gestapo...

- Alex!

- I'm worried about you, Alex. I've missed you so.

- I failed.

A patrol... surprise me in the woods,

when I was sending out the message.

- Did they see what you were doing?

- Well, it doesn't matter,

I killed them.

- All of them? - Yes!

- Are you sure?

- Yes.

- Are they given any reason yet for taking you off the air?

- The official reason is that my singing was too sad.

It's sentimental for the troops.

- As long as Dr. Goebbels considers himself an authority on the entertainment world,

maybe that is the reason.

- No. If that were true they also banned my records.

I'm afraid they figure out my code and now are waiting.

Waiting for me to lead them to other agents.

That's why after tonight...

- I know what you're going to say, Lily, But it doesn't make sense.

We've established ourselves in everybody's eyes as lovers.

To suddenly stop seeing each other now would be too suspicious.

- You must hide!

- Hide! - Open it!

- I'm sorry to disturb you at this hour, But the matter is urgent.

- This is General Schottland.

- May I see you papers, General? - Captain! It is general Schottland.

- I've seen you many times in Wehrmacht quarters, sir.

- Thank you.

- May we speak with you alone?

- Yes, of course.

- You will excuse us, General?

- You understand we shall check on you statements

if they are inaccurate...

- You will find, that I've told you the truth.

- Were you leaving too, General?

- Please stay awhile, Alex.

The gentlemen are through with their business.

- What did they want?

- Ambitious little Nazi stepped on the toes of a big Nazi.

And now he's wanted for defeatism.

- Who is he?

- The Berlin radio censor. They can't find him.

They're checking everyone, who knew him.

I haven't seen him in months.

- Is that all they asked you about? - That's all.

Maybe they're not on my trail at all.

- I don't think they are.

- Then all we need to worry about is how to transmit your information.

- I don't know the way of getting it through.

There's only one thing to do.

- What's that?

- Cornatz used to argue against it.

But now there's no other choice.

I must work out a method of sabotaging the Ardennes offensive.

- We will destroy their armies and we will drive them into the sea!

- I wish to congratulate the Führer.

This operation will be an answer and a sharp lesson to those of little faith.

I have just returned from Marshall von Rundstedt headquarters.

The Marshall has posed certain supply problems.

He requests that the forces committed under him

be provided with ten days supplies.

Are we must consider whether such a diversion of material,

would not jeopardise us in the event

of a winter offensive by the enemy on the Eastern Front.

- What does Quartermaster General Topper have to say about that.

It is true that, what was assigned to von Rundstedt cannot be sent to Eastern Front,

but fuel is crucial both in the West and in the East.

- Doesn't anyone have a definite idea?

- My Führer!

The Ardennes offensive is based on quick penetration.

If the Marshall is stalled for lack of supplies, it will failed

- Marshall von Rundstedt asked for ten days supplies,

his estimate cannot be questioned.

- Any commanders estimate can be questioned!

They always ask for more than they need!

We will be able to use captured enemy stores, as we advance.

- Brilliant!

The Führer has provided the solution.

With the enemy supply dumps falling into our hands,

this campaign can be operated with three days supplies instead of ten.

The Americans have vast fuel depots in the Bastogne area. That we know.

Given a quick penetration we can capture those deposes intact.

- General Schottland this is... - Tshh!

- I know there will be objections from textbook strategists

and from those who cannot find a word "audacity" in their dusty manual.

I do believe they will be wrong!

- Does anyone here have an objection?

It is not confirmed, that the forces under General Montgomery

have broken von Rundstedt's tribe to the sea.

They have taken the initiative and will soon be entering the heart of Germany.

Von Runstedt's inability to hold his newly won positions in the Ardennes

come as something of a surprise.

In the south, General Patton's Third Army is attacking von Rundstedt's flank

and as quickly moving towards the Siegfried Line and Hitler's stronghold in Berchtesgaden.

- Von Runstedt has run out of fuel. The Battle of the Bulge is over.

- I got a letter from my son at the front.

His group thanks you for the picture you sent them.

- Thank you.

- We were used to listen to you on the radio. We enjoy your singing very much.

- So your public have not forgotten you.

- No, not completely.

I still get mail, telling me, how much they've enjoyed my singing

and how much they miss me.

A few days ago I received most ardent letter from no less than a general.

He particularly enjoyed the extra little something I added to my song.

- That maybe our answer.

Soldiers want to hear you sing.

You have an obligation, as a patriotic German citizen.

Isn't you respond to their demands?

- Yes, of course.

What you mean?

- Smile, we may be watched.

Unless the Allies get definite information that,

Hitler will fight it out in Berlin.

Th... is gone

- I still don't understand?

- You know. You should volunteer to entertain on the Western Front.

To sing to front line troops.

I go with you.

Information would be deliver to the Allies personally.

With my rank to get us well forward.

There should be no difficulty in getting across the Allied line.

- But getting back it would be more difficult, if we want it.

- Why come back, the war is almost over?

- Where shall we be when the war ends Alex, London or... - We?

I'm being with you to help cross allied line.

I'm still under orders.

When Hitler's faithful begin to crack under the pressure,

I should be there to help the process alone and enjoy it.

- If I had any choice I should like to remain with you.

There is no choice.

You assigned to me not for my consolation,

but to transmit information.

Thank you!

- Wake me at 06:00. - Yes, sir. - Good night, Reinisch. - Good night, sir.

- Here is a map of the area.

This road leads directly to the American lines.

Stay on it for half a mile and take to the fields.

This way you may avoid patrols.

- Sound simple.

- No, should you be stopped,

say that you're looking for this village, Einsberg,

where you believe your husband might be.

They'll direct you back to this Inn,

As soon you out of sight, cross this field and take this alternate road.

- I don't think I'd have any problem.

Now, when you make contact with the Americans,

you have to tell your story many times,

before they'll believe and until they check the codeword.

- Is there anything else?

- No, nothing else.

- Good luck.

- I wish you would be going with me - I'll be with you soon.

- You know,

just outside central London,

there is very old Inn called the Fiddlers Three.

I don't know why it comes to mind,

but in a sense it,

it's everything I missed all these years.

One day I'll take you there

and around us men and women will be drinking, laughing...

...arguing

Remember, that will be our first rendezvous

and the war is over.

- What would we be like then?

- You and I? - I'm anxious to find out.

- Halt!

- Please, help me. I'm trying to find a village of Einsberg, where...

Kurt!

- I was just about to call you, sir. It's one minute past six. I'm sorry I'm late.

- It looks like you haven't been to bed all night. - I haven't, sir.

- I met a young lady here. The General has no objections?

- Objections? I have nothing, but admiration!

I wish we could draw such reserves of energy from every German officer.

My breakfast. - Yes, sir.

- Hello.

- Group Leader Müller at Gestapo headquarters in Berlin. Hurry, please.

- All lines to Berlin are tied up.

- It's an important military call It must go through.

- I'm sorry, sir, there's nothing I can do till are lines are cleared.

- Will you hang up, please.

- Good morning! - Two breakfasts. - Yes, sir, yes.

- Well, corporal Zuitailein, you know or don't you?

- I don't know.

All i know that his name sounded like Reidenhorst.

- Oh, the name isn't important it's probably false anyway,

but surely you remember, what he looked like.

- I've looked through all these.

- Has he seen a photograph of every German general? - No, sir.

Only those under the command of Marshall von Rundstedt.

I didn't consider it necessary to include the generals on the Eastern Front.

- Officer of another command might have been visiting the area.

General staff officer for example...

Get me a photograph of General Schottland and get me Captain Reinisch on the telephone.

Seem to remember something about Schottland visiting von Rundstedt

Reinisch will know the exact date.

- I want to speak with captain Reinisch, please.

- Yes... yes! I understand.

- Take a look at this.

This is you man, isn't it?

Isn't it?

- I don't know. It looks like him.

But it's hard to be sure.

- Could you identify him, if you saw him in person?

- I think so.

Especially if I heard his voice. I think I would recognise his voice.

- Good.

- Captain Reinisch is still on the Western Front with General Schottland.

- Corporal, you've going to have a little vacation in Berlin. Take him out.

The moment general Schottland and his aide return

they to be brought here, for what, I hope, will be a little reunion with corporal Zutailein.

- There're defeatist hanging on the lamp post.

Which is worst the defeatist or traitors?

- I only take a few minutes to get the papers I need.

Reinisch call a headquarters and tell them we'll be late.

Reinisch!

Don't you hear me?

- Yes, I heard you. - Why didn't you answer?

- Ever since last night I've been thinking about you and me.

I even call the Gestapo today, but it didn't get through.

Perhaps, it was faith, because it gave me more time to think.

To try to find an answer.

- To what?

- You will die here.

You death will appear suicide.

The way a general for Third Reich would choose to die.

With honour to the uniform you wear.

Not as a traitor, whose hands are covered with blood of men who trusted you.

You will buried with full military honours.

Your coffin draped with the flag.

And no one will ever know the truth.

- What do you hope to preserve by all this?

- Before you die, I must know the truth.

Tell me, who are you?

- You don't want to know who I am,

you want to know who you are and what you are.

Your Third Reich was built on meticulous response to authority

and it's being destroyed by

you want to know why? For healthy sign!

But it's too late Reinisch for you, too late for the truth.

What made you start thinking? What made you have doubts?

Did you suddenly have a human moment and did it surprise you

after living all these years without conscience, Reinisch?

- You talk about conscience!

What I have done I've done for my country.

Right or wrong this honour.

- Truth is honour, Reinisch, and justice.

- Truth is allegiance.

Even as I suspected you

deep inside me, I hoped it would be a lie.

- I'm sorry for you, Reinisch, and the others.

- I don't want your pity!

Hate me as I hate You. Hate is all I have left.

- Sir, No reply from Schottland quarters.

- Still no word from Reinisch? - No.

I'm still trying to reach him.

- Well, where was that girl's body found?

- Outside the village of Einesberg. In a ditch.

On a road leading to the American lines.

Search general Schottland's apartment.

Even if you find nothing, wait there until he returns.

Then bring him here for corporal Zuitailen to identify.

Take me to the Führer bunker.

- General Schottland, I wish to see the Führer. - Yes, General.

- One moment, please.

- Schottland.

- General Hart.

- You know the others: Kurher, Rupert, Eikler, Zaiss, Orbietz.

- You just come from the front, haven't you? What do you think?

- There is always hope! - You sound like him in there.

- The enemy is crushing our defences on all sides. The Soviets on the gates of Berlin.

And you think there's hope.

General Weingster Third Army is still intact.

Until that is gone, there still a hope.

- We've... we've been discussing other measures.

Schottland,

are you familiar with Wehrmacht high command's directive on preserving officer corp?

We have to consider of the time has come to applied.

If Germany is to be reconstructed the officer corp must remain intact.

It must be brought to the attention of the Führer

and it must be presented by someone who enjoys his respect and confidence.

- You think I'm such a person. Is that what you saying?

- Yes.

- Will you do it, Schottland?

- General.

- Get me Group leader Müller, urgent, please.

And I believe the general Weingster's Third Army can relieve the pressure on Berlin.

Wing is well supplied and in his situation is ideal for counter-attack.

- Hear it! Hear it, Keitel! Wing! Wing is our answer!

- But the wing is holding back,

I ask permission to cut through the line and make contact with him

and personally deliver your order for his army to attack.

- So, there's some offensive spirit left.

- Mein Führer, do not allow the treachery of a few defeatist.

- The defeatist! They are the enemy.

- They are be eliminated.

- There are some on you staff, Marshall.

Who... who are they! I got have names!

- General Hart for one... - Who else!

General Kurher, General Eikler, General Zaiss,

General Ruppert and General Orbietz - Arrest them!

- I've just left them. They're outside.

- Ruppert and Orbietz, if you arrest this officers I... - They are nonsense, Keitel!

It going reinstate confidence in our loyal officers.

I never did trust half of that kit.

Schottland is only confirm my intuition. Any others?

- Yes, there's one other, but not... - Who is he!

- Group Leader Müller.

- They will be taking care of. Every one of them.

Prepare papers authorising General Schottland exit from Berlin! - Yes.

- General Schottland to be arrested on sight and shot, if he shows any sights of resistance.

All army and military headquarters must to keep on the watch for him.

- What are you doing in here?

- Group Leader Müller? - Yes! - You under arrest.

- Everything in order, sir.

Autobahn exit control point.

- What?

Gestapo headquarters, yes.

What. General who? I can't hear you.

General who? I can't hear you.

This is autobahn exit control,

emergency motorcycle pursue requested at once.

- Stop this side at that machine gun. - Yes, sir.

- I'll go the rest of way on foot - Yes, sir.

Turn the car around go back the way you came. Thanks, sir.

I... mean - good luck, sir.

Heil Hitler! I look after the clocks, sir.

- Halt!