0:01:27 > 0:01:29THUDDING AGAINST DOOR
0:01:30 > 0:01:32SHOTS AND SCREAMS
0:01:38 > 0:01:41SHOOTING CONTINUES
0:02:33 > 0:02:34Eden Palace! Depositions.
0:02:34 > 0:02:36Mm-hm.
0:02:36 > 0:02:37The shootings?
0:02:37 > 0:02:38I know.
0:02:38 > 0:02:42You always say "prepare the next case as soon as we've won the last one".
0:02:42 > 0:02:43I say that?
0:02:43 > 0:02:45- You do.- I must learn to relax.
0:02:45 > 0:02:49- So how did you like my summing up? - It was good.- You didn't hear it. - No, but I know it was good.
0:02:49 > 0:02:53- It was awful.- Well, eight men walked free. And there's a photographer
0:02:53 > 0:02:58- waiting for you from Anti-Fascist Action in Room 42. - Already! They were confident.
0:02:58 > 0:03:02- Yes, I have no idea why people invest so much faith in you, Hans. - I have nice teeth.
0:03:02 > 0:03:04And I'm cheap.
0:03:04 > 0:03:08- Max got paid in tenderloins.- That beats, what was it? Tram tickets.
0:03:08 > 0:03:12- So let's celebrate. He's cooking. - Perfect.- He wants us back by 6.
0:03:18 > 0:03:20Are you two lost? I don't mean philosophically.
0:03:20 > 0:03:25- You're obviously that. - We're waiting for someone. - You're not meant to be back here.
0:03:25 > 0:03:30This isn't for members of the, uh... public. Over there's the exit.
0:03:30 > 0:03:33Beyond it you'll discover the street.
0:03:46 > 0:03:48Don't be late!
0:03:48 > 0:03:50# This is how we do it!
0:03:50 > 0:03:53# It's how we do it! #
0:03:53 > 0:03:56Rudolf, I didn't see you.
0:03:56 > 0:03:58- I hope not.- Are you waiting for me?
0:03:58 > 0:04:02- I am.- Can I ask what about? - I want you to have a drink with me.
0:04:04 > 0:04:07I'm going home to drink champagne with my friends, Rudolf.
0:04:07 > 0:04:10- Champagne! I thought you were always broke.- We are.
0:04:10 > 0:04:12It's the Eden Palace shootings.
0:04:12 > 0:04:14That is your next case, isn't it?
0:04:16 > 0:04:18A quick one.
0:04:18 > 0:04:21Take your boys this afternoon.
0:04:21 > 0:04:23Tomorrow those boys will be fighting Fascists again
0:04:23 > 0:04:26and soon you'll be asked to defend one of them
0:04:26 > 0:04:30- after he's slotted some wretched Brownshirt.- In self-defence.
0:04:30 > 0:04:33Or if not, you'll be prosecuting a Brownshirt thug on their behalf.
0:04:33 > 0:04:36- You do this work too. - Isn't it tedious?- It's important.
0:04:36 > 0:04:40Never-ending! How could it not be with these private armies in Berlin?
0:04:40 > 0:04:4523 political murders last year. 65 this. Yes?
0:04:45 > 0:04:46How many more next?
0:04:46 > 0:04:48100? 150? Am I being too sunny?
0:04:48 > 0:04:50Rudolf, I've got to go.
0:04:50 > 0:04:55This Eden Palace Trial - you want to nail a few more Brownshirts but what do you really want?
0:04:56 > 0:05:02Wouldn't it be fun to cross-examine the man who gives the orders?
0:05:02 > 0:05:04Put Goebbels on the stand?
0:05:04 > 0:05:05No.
0:05:05 > 0:05:07Hitler.
0:05:09 > 0:05:11Sir...we're going round again.
0:05:13 > 0:05:15Call Hitler as a star witness
0:05:15 > 0:05:18and you can redefine the scope of your trial.
0:05:18 > 0:05:21Those gunmen... they're not what's important.
0:05:21 > 0:05:23Imagine the Fuhrer, on that stand,
0:05:23 > 0:05:28and you asking him questions about Brownshirt violence.
0:05:28 > 0:05:30It would be the greatest show in Berlin.
0:05:30 > 0:05:33His storm-troopers, in the dock.
0:05:33 > 0:05:36His new pals, the rich financiers, in the gallery.
0:05:36 > 0:05:38Both thinking they own Hitler.
0:05:38 > 0:05:41You bring them together in the same room for the first time,
0:05:41 > 0:05:45gawping at each other like cretins and wondering how the hell they belong in the same party.
0:05:45 > 0:05:50And who's Hitler going to be shaking hands with at the end of the day? It won't be both. It can't be.
0:05:50 > 0:05:54You force him to choose between the big fists and the deep pockets.
0:05:54 > 0:05:56And therefore you cripple him.
0:05:57 > 0:06:01- He was in court six months ago. He did well.- In Leipzig, not Berlin.
0:06:01 > 0:06:04It was a friendly examination. They let him say what he wanted.
0:06:04 > 0:06:07I know. But in Leipzig, he swore his party had turned its back on violence.
0:06:07 > 0:06:12Said he wanted his men "to operate on the right side of the law".
0:06:12 > 0:06:17- That should have been the start of the scrutiny. Has it stopped Nazi violence?- That's not the point.
0:06:17 > 0:06:21- It's absolutely the point. - No, this is.
0:06:21 > 0:06:25What if I can show that in disavowing violence he perjured himself?
0:06:25 > 0:06:29- I could get him to admit he lied under oath and continues to lie!- Hmm.
0:06:29 > 0:06:32And tell me, what would that mean for him?
0:06:32 > 0:06:35Prison, possibly. A political ban, certainly.
0:06:35 > 0:06:38Or deportation, back to Austria. Is he even a German citizen yet?
0:06:40 > 0:06:41Picture it.
0:06:41 > 0:06:44The perjurer is thrown out of Germany.
0:06:44 > 0:06:47Now is the time, Hans.
0:06:47 > 0:06:50You know, a year ago I asked that girl over there what did she think of Hitler?
0:06:50 > 0:06:53- Do you know what he said?- "Who?"
0:06:53 > 0:06:56I really have to go.
0:07:01 > 0:07:03Listen, if you do this, I'll help you.
0:07:03 > 0:07:07I've tracked that piece of shit since 1923.
0:07:07 > 0:07:12But I'm not as good a barrister as you. I'm not as quick. I'm not as audacious.
0:07:12 > 0:07:14You are humouring me, Rudolf.
0:07:28 > 0:07:33Stephan...your lease - my colleague has sorted it out.
0:07:37 > 0:07:39You have a communist to thank.
0:07:42 > 0:07:44"Heil, Margot and Ma..."
0:07:52 > 0:07:53Ah.
0:07:54 > 0:07:56BABY CRIES
0:07:56 > 0:07:59Should I put on my armour?
0:07:59 > 0:08:01We were going to celebrate. Remember?
0:08:01 > 0:08:05Max sold his beechwood table and we did something good too.
0:08:07 > 0:08:10Go sit down. We saved you some.
0:08:16 > 0:08:20I had this crazy idea.
0:08:22 > 0:08:25"Did you, Hans?" Yes, I did, actually.
0:08:25 > 0:08:28He's going to jack everything in and open a sweet shop in Konigsberg.
0:08:28 > 0:08:32No, he's going to learn tenor sax and join the Weintraub Syncopators.
0:08:32 > 0:08:34Oh, I'd like to see him get syncopated.
0:08:34 > 0:08:38SINGS: No oh oh.
0:08:38 > 0:08:40I'm going to subpoena Adolf Hitler.
0:08:42 > 0:08:43That shut you up.
0:08:43 > 0:08:46- We don't know if you're joking, now. - I'm not joking.
0:08:46 > 0:08:50I'm thinking of getting him to testify at the Eden Palace trial.
0:08:50 > 0:08:53And this was your idea?
0:08:53 > 0:08:55Actually it was Olden's.
0:08:55 > 0:08:58Oh, Hans. He's an operator isn't he?
0:08:58 > 0:09:00He is shrewd. He said it was a chance
0:09:00 > 0:09:03to interrupt the interminable Hitler monologue.
0:09:03 > 0:09:04- Have a dialogue?- Yes.
0:09:04 > 0:09:06Well, in court that's what it would be.
0:09:06 > 0:09:10He'd have to turn all those bizarre thoughts into rational statements
0:09:10 > 0:09:14and I'd be challenging him and pointing up the contradictions.
0:09:14 > 0:09:16You want to reason with a crazy man?
0:09:16 > 0:09:18Hans finds reason erotic, my love.
0:09:18 > 0:09:23- He gets a twitch in the trousers every time he hears "therefore". - It's an idea. You know?
0:09:23 > 0:09:25Something to consider.
0:09:25 > 0:09:28Hitler and his men are hysterics. We've always said that.
0:09:28 > 0:09:31You think you can stop an hysteric with a court move?
0:09:31 > 0:09:33So, how do you stop him? With a satirical cartoon?
0:09:33 > 0:09:37- You stop Hitler with politics. - I don't know if you've noticed, Max,
0:09:37 > 0:09:39but the Reichstag hasn't met since February.
0:09:39 > 0:09:40It may never meet again.
0:09:40 > 0:09:44Those socialist deputies of yours were still making 'points of order'
0:09:44 > 0:09:47and 'please Mr Chairman's' when 107 Nazis marched into the place.
0:09:47 > 0:09:51- Elected.- What?- You said 'marched'. They were elected.
0:09:51 > 0:09:53But elected to destroy parliamentary procedure,
0:09:53 > 0:09:56to make the Reichstag unworkable, which they've done.
0:09:56 > 0:09:59Politics has shifted to the streets of Berlin, Max,
0:09:59 > 0:10:03which is exactly where the Nazis want it.
0:10:03 > 0:10:05Why doesn't Olden put him on the stand?
0:10:06 > 0:10:09- I'm the one doing Eden Palace. - It's because he flattered you.
0:10:11 > 0:10:15What's the matter with you? Don't you care that Hitler's winning?
0:10:15 > 0:10:17No, no, we don't care, do we, Max?
0:10:17 > 0:10:23When he was put on the stand in Leipzig, he became a credible figure for the first time in his career.
0:10:23 > 0:10:24I've heard both of you say that.
0:10:24 > 0:10:29Look, one, this is Berlin, not Leipzig. This is our town. He's short on friends here.
0:10:29 > 0:10:33Two, it's not his paid lackey Hans Frank asking the questions this time.
0:10:33 > 0:10:36- It's me.- God knows, your brain is magnificent, Hans.
0:10:36 > 0:10:38But your ego is the size of the Brandenburg Gate.
0:10:38 > 0:10:40His judgement's the man walking through it.
0:10:40 > 0:10:46- This is not about ego. This is about conscience.- Lawyers always confuse the two.- You're being a child.
0:10:46 > 0:10:48You want to criticise Hitler to make you feel good.
0:10:48 > 0:10:51Look at you. The big anti-fascist who does nothing.
0:10:51 > 0:10:55Tinkering with his carpentry all day, oblivious to the world.
0:10:55 > 0:10:58"Pay him in tenderloins. He'll be happy."
0:10:58 > 0:11:00Pardon?
0:11:00 > 0:11:03BABY CRIES I'll go and deal with the baby.
0:11:03 > 0:11:05What, you mean the other one?
0:11:19 > 0:11:21He's your oldest friend, Hans...
0:11:22 > 0:11:27..and he's afraid for you. To expose yourself like this...
0:11:55 > 0:11:57What do you want, friend?
0:11:57 > 0:12:01Ah! Herr Litten. I'm sorry, I didn't recognise you.
0:12:01 > 0:12:03It was here then?
0:12:03 > 0:12:06- It was here.- May I?- By all means.
0:12:07 > 0:12:11They, er...fired right in at whatever moved...
0:12:11 > 0:12:13and everyone moved.
0:12:18 > 0:12:20That's typical of the police.
0:12:20 > 0:12:23They were here and gone in about 20 minutes.
0:12:23 > 0:12:25They've got automatic weapons now?
0:12:25 > 0:12:27They ask and the Lord provides.
0:12:27 > 0:12:29The Lord?
0:12:29 > 0:12:32- Hitler.- Oh, yes. Well, I suppose, he is the Lord.
0:12:32 > 0:12:34Don't be fooled by their shooting style, Herr Litten.
0:12:34 > 0:12:37Their instructions are precise enough.
0:12:37 > 0:12:41- We were lucky to get away with so few casualties. - They will be back.
0:12:43 > 0:12:47Thank you...for helping me to see.
0:13:00 > 0:13:03GENTLE PIANO MUSIC PLAYS
0:13:30 > 0:13:31I love Liszt.
0:13:31 > 0:13:34This bit.
0:13:37 > 0:13:39"I carry a deep sadness of the heart
0:13:39 > 0:13:44which must, now and then, break out in sound."
0:13:44 > 0:13:46That's what he said.
0:13:52 > 0:13:56Did I ever tell you that my godfather was his cousin?
0:13:56 > 0:13:58About 25 times.
0:14:00 > 0:14:01Sorry.
0:14:07 > 0:14:09I know you're going to do it.
0:14:09 > 0:14:15Because you're a lawyer and you're addicted to elegant solutions.
0:14:15 > 0:14:19I thought you were going to say I was vain again.
0:14:19 > 0:14:21And you are reckless.
0:14:24 > 0:14:27- I must learn how to do that.- Mm.
0:14:27 > 0:14:29TAPPING
0:14:33 > 0:14:34I'll go.
0:14:34 > 0:14:36BABY GURGLES
0:14:38 > 0:14:41I deserve a bash on the head with a hammer.
0:14:54 > 0:14:58I came across as the unthinking idiot last night.
0:14:58 > 0:15:02Well, to be fair, you've been working hard on that for a while.
0:15:03 > 0:15:06To be honest, I doubt the judge will even grant a subpoena.
0:15:06 > 0:15:10If he does, Margot'll help you. You know that?
0:15:14 > 0:15:16I'll help too if I can.
0:15:17 > 0:15:19I'll carve you some crutches.
0:15:21 > 0:15:26I look at you and Margot and think Germany will be fine. How could it not be?
0:15:26 > 0:15:29In 50 years' time you'll still be making your furniture.
0:15:29 > 0:15:32- Beautiful furniture known throughout Europe.- The world.
0:15:32 > 0:15:34The world! Why not?
0:15:34 > 0:15:38And Margot will illuminate that world.
0:15:38 > 0:15:43And your brood of children who only know peace and have never even heard of Fascism.
0:15:43 > 0:15:47And you, Hans? What are you doing in 1980?
0:15:48 > 0:15:51Long since retired back to Konigsberg.
0:15:51 > 0:15:53To that sweet shop.
0:15:56 > 0:15:59You'll still have your nose in the law books, my friend.
0:16:07 > 0:16:09Yes, then a case was...
0:16:09 > 0:16:13Take a seat, Herr Litten. I'll be with you in just a moment.
0:16:13 > 0:16:14I'm going to have to go, now.
0:16:14 > 0:16:18I'm with that advocate I was telling you about.
0:16:18 > 0:16:23Well, that, ha-ha, that would be something.
0:16:23 > 0:16:27But there's nothing to fear. I promise you that will never happen.
0:16:30 > 0:16:33You will sympathise with me when I say that I found this
0:16:33 > 0:16:35to be an unexpected development.
0:16:37 > 0:16:41You wish "to summon the following witnesses... de-da de-da
0:16:41 > 0:16:45"to supply evidence that there is no serious ban
0:16:45 > 0:16:48"on weapons in the Nazi Party etc etc,
0:16:48 > 0:16:54"and that the witness's party formed Roll Commandos to seek out, attack
0:16:54 > 0:16:59"and even kill political opponents etc and that 'Storm 33'..."
0:16:59 > 0:17:04That is the Brownshirt group to which the defendants belong, Your Honour.
0:17:04 > 0:17:06Sorry.
0:17:06 > 0:17:10"And that Storm 33 is such a Roll Commando."
0:17:14 > 0:17:16You wish to have Herr Hitler in my courtroom?
0:17:16 > 0:17:20I do, Your Honour. It's nothing personal.
0:17:20 > 0:17:24You know my feelings about the law and politics, Litten.
0:17:24 > 0:17:27It's very easy to turn a courtroom into the Coliseum,
0:17:27 > 0:17:28especially these days.
0:17:28 > 0:17:32- I agree with that.- Good! So, then, you'll understand my reluctance.
0:17:32 > 0:17:33But, Your Honour...
0:17:33 > 0:17:38I also don't think you have thought this proposal through. This looks like you're fishing, to me.
0:17:38 > 0:17:42- But I...- I'm also discouraged by your excitability. You're not a great listener.
0:17:42 > 0:17:45- I'm sorry, Your Honour... - Though an exemplary interrupter.
0:17:45 > 0:17:49It's a frivolous request, Litten. You'll see when you've calmed down.
0:17:49 > 0:17:51Sir, I don't think it is.
0:17:51 > 0:17:54The men I'm prosecuting belong to an organisation led by someone
0:17:54 > 0:17:57whose attitude to political violence is deeply ambiguous.
0:17:57 > 0:18:01I think the rule of law would be... strengthened
0:18:01 > 0:18:05if that leader could, under oath, eradicate the ambiguity.
0:18:05 > 0:18:08He's already done that at Leipzig.
0:18:08 > 0:18:10Oh. Artful, Litten.
0:18:10 > 0:18:14You're thinking it's a question of perjury?
0:18:14 > 0:18:16That's a serious thing.
0:18:16 > 0:18:19Not least because you're questioning a man's honour.
0:18:19 > 0:18:23I am. I think he lied to the court in Leipzig.
0:18:24 > 0:18:25Admirably honest.
0:18:25 > 0:18:30But you'll need better than this streak of vapour
0:18:30 > 0:18:32if you want to demand his presence in my court.
0:18:32 > 0:18:34Show me some real evidence
0:18:34 > 0:18:39that he's been provoking street violence here in Berlin
0:18:39 > 0:18:41and perhaps I'll listen.
0:18:41 > 0:18:43Thank you.
0:18:45 > 0:18:47You have three days to find it.
0:19:33 > 0:19:36Yes. Goebbels was with Hitler?
0:19:36 > 0:19:38We didn't know that.
0:19:38 > 0:19:41And that was September the 1st?
0:19:42 > 0:19:44Ah... You didn't.
0:19:46 > 0:19:49Mmm, I see. Well, thank you for trying.
0:19:50 > 0:19:53SHE HANGS UP THE PHONE No joy?
0:19:53 > 0:19:54He saw Hitler arrive,
0:19:54 > 0:19:57he saw him go into the tavern where the Brownshirts were waiting,
0:19:57 > 0:19:59but no hacks were allowed in.
0:19:59 > 0:20:02He didn't sneak round the back and peer in a window?
0:20:02 > 0:20:04He's an investigative reporter, for heaven's sake!
0:20:06 > 0:20:10Someone must know why Hitler came to Berlin.
0:20:10 > 0:20:12Seven closed meetings over two nights,
0:20:12 > 0:20:16when he's meant to be putting clear water between himself and the Brownshirts?
0:20:16 > 0:20:21And no-one knows what was said? I mean, there's absolutely no record?
0:20:22 > 0:20:26Sorry, Margot, but we need something solid.
0:20:26 > 0:20:29Like a Brownshirt with a grudge against Hitler.
0:20:55 > 0:20:59You know, I couldn't place you, at first.
0:20:59 > 0:21:02Maybe it's because you're not wearing the swastika.
0:21:02 > 0:21:04Still, I was a bit rude to you, wasn't I?
0:21:04 > 0:21:07But I never like to see a paramilitary uniform in court.
0:21:07 > 0:21:10I'm a bit old fashioned that way.
0:21:11 > 0:21:13Berlin though, eh? What a city!
0:21:13 > 0:21:17One minute, a young man is running with the Fascists.
0:21:17 > 0:21:22The next he rounds a corner and suddenly he's coming the other way with a hammer and sickle.
0:21:22 > 0:21:25Nobody's quite sure why. Is he a convert?
0:21:25 > 0:21:30Or is it just that the soup's better?
0:21:30 > 0:21:32It's not the soup, is it?
0:21:32 > 0:21:36Which means he's either suddenly developed an interest
0:21:36 > 0:21:38in the contradictions of capitalism
0:21:38 > 0:21:43and the leading role of the international proletariat, or he's...
0:21:43 > 0:21:45..doing a spot of eavesdropping.
0:21:48 > 0:21:52It's all right. There's no reason why anyone should know.
0:21:52 > 0:21:56Excellent! You want to help me. And you will, you will.
0:21:56 > 0:22:00You are going to put me in touch with Captain Stennes.
0:22:02 > 0:22:06Captain Stennes is not somebody I would ever speak to. He's, er...
0:22:06 > 0:22:10I know. He's volatile. He scares you.
0:22:10 > 0:22:14But I know you can do it, don't I? I do.
0:22:16 > 0:22:19Tell him who I am. He'll know my name.
0:22:19 > 0:22:22And tell him it's a business proposition.
0:22:27 > 0:22:31I said, what do you want from this Captain Stennes?
0:22:31 > 0:22:34- Hans!- I'm not quite sure. - What might he want from you?
0:22:34 > 0:22:36I'm not sure about that either.
0:22:36 > 0:22:41What? So we're just coming down here on a whim, then? To see how the Brownshirts live?
0:22:43 > 0:22:45Six months ago they occupied... Did you see that?
0:22:45 > 0:22:50- "They occupied...?"- The Brownshirts occupied the Nazi headquarters
0:22:50 > 0:22:53- on Hedemannstrasse and kicked out Goebbels, yes?- I remember.
0:22:53 > 0:22:56This guy, this Captain Stennes, he did that.
0:22:56 > 0:22:59Said he was provoked. Got wind of a purge inside the Nazi party.
0:22:59 > 0:23:01What, he was going to get the chop?
0:23:01 > 0:23:04When Hitler renounced violence, Stennes didn't like it.
0:23:04 > 0:23:07Elections, party politics, cutting deals, he's against all that.
0:23:07 > 0:23:10He just likes whacking people?
0:23:10 > 0:23:12I think we're entering Nazi land.
0:23:12 > 0:23:14Hans! Hans!
0:23:28 > 0:23:32Hans, you could talk Mother Superior into a cabaret.
0:23:32 > 0:23:33And up onto the stage too.
0:23:35 > 0:23:38See, those guys were Captain Stennes's guys.
0:23:38 > 0:23:42When Hitler crapped on Stennes, they followed him out of the party.
0:23:42 > 0:23:44The men I'm prosecuting? They're Stennes men.
0:23:44 > 0:23:46So they're not Hitler men?
0:23:46 > 0:23:50Well, I think they're still Hitler men as well. It's...complicated. This is it.
0:23:50 > 0:23:54So, to cut the cabbage, Stennes believes in total and utter violence
0:23:54 > 0:23:57and doesn't like Hitler because he's too moderate
0:23:57 > 0:24:00- and we've come down here to speak with him?- Yes.
0:24:00 > 0:24:04Don't worry. If things get unpleasant, just look like you don't have a conscience.
0:24:04 > 0:24:07Remember...those Brownshirts may look formidable
0:24:07 > 0:24:10but they take a club to the gut like anybody else.
0:24:10 > 0:24:12We don't have a club.
0:24:26 > 0:24:29Not exactly Germanic Knights, are they?
0:24:29 > 0:24:32No, but nor were the Germanic Knights, probably.
0:24:34 > 0:24:35Herr Litten.
0:24:37 > 0:24:39- And his friend.- Max.
0:24:43 > 0:24:46Tell Lothar to come with a bottle of Aurignac.
0:24:46 > 0:24:48You were made to feel welcome, I trust?
0:24:48 > 0:24:50We were stopped at a roadblock.
0:24:50 > 0:24:55I hate this territory thing. In Berlin! It's so regrettable.
0:24:57 > 0:24:59But necessary, you will agree.
0:25:01 > 0:25:05Come, gentlemen, share our dainties, drink our potations.
0:25:09 > 0:25:14"Who satisfieth thy mouth with good things,
0:25:14 > 0:25:18"making thee young and lusty like an eagle."
0:25:25 > 0:25:26Please, sit.
0:25:40 > 0:25:42So...
0:25:43 > 0:25:47..I heard Hitler came here six months ago?
0:25:47 > 0:25:49He came here, to Charlottenberg, to Neukolln.
0:25:49 > 0:25:52He did the whole circuit in Berlin
0:25:52 > 0:25:56- talking to the different Storm sections.- Saying what?
0:25:58 > 0:26:03Saying, "put your guns away". Saying, "be nice to policemen".
0:26:03 > 0:26:06I'll give him his due. It's not something these boys wanted to hear.
0:26:06 > 0:26:11Many of our lads were starting to have doubts about Hitler.
0:26:11 > 0:26:15Thought he was getting too intimate with industrialists and financiers
0:26:15 > 0:26:17and forgetting them. Threats were made.
0:26:17 > 0:26:19To Hitler?
0:26:19 > 0:26:22It's hard for a man who's taken a Commie bullet in his shoulder
0:26:22 > 0:26:26to listen to talk of the "electoral road to national socialism",
0:26:26 > 0:26:29however cunningly it is put.
0:26:29 > 0:26:32But in the end it was your head that rolled, not Hitler's.
0:26:32 > 0:26:35That's why you got in contact with me, is it not?
0:26:35 > 0:26:38We have a shared interest.
0:26:38 > 0:26:42Eden Palace is an...opportunity. Do you not think?
0:26:42 > 0:26:46- Do I?- Come on, Litten. Stop looking at the uniform.
0:26:46 > 0:26:49Treat me like a man with a brain that works.
0:26:50 > 0:26:53Say what you want. Today we can be friends.
0:26:57 > 0:27:01I think we are both disgusted by what happened at Leipzig.
0:27:01 > 0:27:05Your Fuhrer's repudiation of violence. The...
0:27:05 > 0:27:09hypocrisy of the man, if I may be so bold?
0:27:09 > 0:27:13Hypocrisy? I could stomach that.
0:27:13 > 0:27:16It was his sincerity that worried me.
0:27:16 > 0:27:20But Josef Goebbels personally assured me
0:27:20 > 0:27:24there was nothing sincere about Hitler's oath at all.
0:27:28 > 0:27:34You know, in the trial, you should describe my boys as men of conscience.
0:27:34 > 0:27:37They are political men, like you and I.
0:27:37 > 0:27:40Let the court know you think they fall within
0:27:40 > 0:27:43the provisions of paragraph 20 of the legal code.
0:27:43 > 0:27:48If I do that, Captain Stennes's men will get shorter sentences and an easier time in prison.
0:27:48 > 0:27:52- Should you convict.- Oh, I think we both know I'll convict.
0:27:52 > 0:27:54And in return?
0:27:54 > 0:27:58He'll be able to suggest a political source for their violent actions.
0:27:58 > 0:28:00Hitler?
0:28:00 > 0:28:01No. Hitler's butler.
0:28:03 > 0:28:06- I would like to do as you say. - But you need me.
0:28:06 > 0:28:09Isn't that so?
0:28:09 > 0:28:12- I may subpoena you.- You should.
0:28:12 > 0:28:15It would be better for me if I were to come...reluctantly.
0:28:15 > 0:28:17So that is what I will do.
0:28:17 > 0:28:21I won't go out of my way to help you attack the Fuhrer,
0:28:21 > 0:28:25but it may become interesting if you were to ask me the right questions.
0:28:25 > 0:28:29I wouldn't want you to attack your Fuhrer.
0:28:29 > 0:28:31I want you to embrace him.
0:28:31 > 0:28:32I know you do.
0:28:35 > 0:28:37I believe we have an understanding.
0:28:40 > 0:28:42You want your Adolf Hitler back.
0:28:43 > 0:28:46I think we can achieve that.
0:28:46 > 0:28:50I will remind you that the accused are Stief
0:28:50 > 0:28:53and his Nazi colleagues and not Herr Hitler.
0:28:53 > 0:28:57He is your witness, not your quarry. You may think him a bad man,
0:28:57 > 0:29:00you may think him a hypocritical man.
0:29:00 > 0:29:03But we don't have a law against hypocrisy.
0:29:03 > 0:29:06I'm interested in the crime, not a man's morals.
0:29:06 > 0:29:08Don't over-reach yourself.
0:29:31 > 0:29:32Herr Hitler?
0:29:34 > 0:29:38Sir, I am authorised by the Criminal Court of Berlin
0:29:38 > 0:29:42to deliver this document on behalf of private prosecutor Hans Litten.
0:29:48 > 0:29:50It's a court subpoena.
0:29:50 > 0:29:55- Failure to comply with the summons will result...- Yes, we know. Go away.
0:29:57 > 0:30:00I shall require your signature, sir.
0:30:04 > 0:30:10Ah, the great explorer returns. Have you discovered an enchanted forest?
0:30:10 > 0:30:14- No.- An unknown city then, where men are the size of trees
0:30:14 > 0:30:16- and everybody speaks backwards.- No!
0:30:19 > 0:30:22What do we call a man with a beard?
0:30:22 > 0:30:24Beaver.
0:30:24 > 0:30:25This beaver here, do you see him?
0:30:25 > 0:30:28This beaver has come from Berlin.
0:30:28 > 0:30:32He's come to annoy us and spoil our picnic.
0:30:32 > 0:30:36He wants me to lose my nerve and scream and stamp my feet.
0:30:36 > 0:30:39But that would be silly, wouldn't it?
0:30:39 > 0:30:42What shall we say to this beaver?
0:30:46 > 0:30:49HITLER LAUGHS
0:30:53 > 0:30:57My friend wants to know, "When are you going to shave your chin?"
0:31:00 > 0:31:03Well done, Dieter.
0:31:05 > 0:31:07You realise, in 24 hours
0:31:07 > 0:31:10all of Germany will know what you've just done.
0:31:12 > 0:31:15Imagine the forces that will buffet that courtroom.
0:31:15 > 0:31:18- You need to prepare, Hans, like never before.- I plan to.
0:31:18 > 0:31:22You will bring politics into that room. So will the man who you've subpoenaed.
0:31:22 > 0:31:24The judge will be unable to stop either of you.
0:31:24 > 0:31:28- Yes, but I am a man of the law. - You and I both.
0:31:28 > 0:31:32But get beyond the letter. Hm? Touch the spirit.
0:31:32 > 0:31:36Don't let the judge bind you with procedure. There are bigger things at stake.
0:31:36 > 0:31:40- You think I should cut corners? - No, I think you should be daring, that's all.
0:31:40 > 0:31:43Public opinion will be on your side.
0:31:43 > 0:31:46Germany's moderate soul is your ally.
0:31:46 > 0:31:50You must lean into the bends and feel it with you.
0:31:52 > 0:31:56RADIO BROADCASTS HITLER SPEECH
0:32:03 > 0:32:06You know that thing called expenditure?
0:32:06 > 0:32:09- And that other thing called income? - Mm-hm.
0:32:09 > 0:32:12Expenditure's winning. Easily winning.
0:32:12 > 0:32:14I thought we had a rule about him!
0:32:14 > 0:32:16Hans! You're not listening to me.
0:32:16 > 0:32:18Anti-fascists have no money.
0:32:18 > 0:32:22We won't get that man on the stand at all if we don't pay our debts very soon.
0:32:22 > 0:32:26- The court will simply revoke your licence.- I know. I know.
0:32:26 > 0:32:28So what's the big plan?
0:32:28 > 0:32:31You need to get your father to extend the loan.
0:32:38 > 0:32:42He's in town this weekend, with mother. I'll talk to him.
0:32:42 > 0:32:43Say you're defending democracy.
0:32:43 > 0:32:46Well, he's no fan of Weimar I'm afraid.
0:32:46 > 0:32:50To him it's all atonal music and flat roofs.
0:32:50 > 0:32:55Bauhaus chairs, the rumba, Otto Dix, negro jazz,
0:32:55 > 0:32:57Jewish self-assertion...
0:32:59 > 0:33:03- SHOUTS:- Well, remind him it's about life and liberty as well.
0:33:03 > 0:33:05I will. I will.
0:33:19 > 0:33:25We were shooting duck last week, with the Schoenhausens in Pomerania.
0:33:25 > 0:33:29And Otto. You remember Otto? Herr Bonhof's son.
0:33:29 > 0:33:32He's just opened a medical practice in the Old Town.
0:33:32 > 0:33:34It's doing very well.
0:33:34 > 0:33:36He inherited all his uncle's patients.
0:33:36 > 0:33:39Yes, but it's doing very well.
0:33:40 > 0:33:44Father, I'd like to talk about extending the loan.
0:33:46 > 0:33:48What is this?
0:33:48 > 0:33:50An olive?
0:33:50 > 0:33:52Whatever next?!
0:33:54 > 0:33:56I was talking about the loan.
0:33:56 > 0:33:59I think we need to stop the loan.
0:33:59 > 0:34:02It's a bad time to do that.
0:34:02 > 0:34:04You're not a student any more.
0:34:04 > 0:34:08I know you're living like a student but you're not one.
0:34:08 > 0:34:10Not any more.
0:34:10 > 0:34:14- It's not that the practice is short of work.- I know.- It's too much work.
0:34:14 > 0:34:18I'm busy with cases. I've got the Eden Palace case - it's a big trial.
0:34:18 > 0:34:20Do you think I don't read the papers?
0:34:20 > 0:34:23You've never followed my career.
0:34:23 > 0:34:25It's become impossible not to, Hans.
0:34:25 > 0:34:29I just about managed it when you started working for the Communists.
0:34:29 > 0:34:31Red Front Fighters' League.
0:34:31 > 0:34:35It became a little more difficult when you filed against the police.
0:34:35 > 0:34:39"Rector, your son in Berlin has indicted the chief of police."
0:34:39 > 0:34:43But...you've subpoenaed Adolf Hitler?
0:34:45 > 0:34:47That's been pretty hard to overlook.
0:34:47 > 0:34:49You like Hitler now?
0:34:49 > 0:34:52Of course not. The man is uncouth.
0:34:52 > 0:34:54I'm waiting for the "but".
0:34:58 > 0:35:01But 32 political parties?
0:35:01 > 0:35:05The squabbling. The faction-fighting. The perpetual disagreements.
0:35:05 > 0:35:08- You mean the democracy? - Oh, there you are.
0:35:08 > 0:35:10Is it for Germany?
0:35:10 > 0:35:14As for your Hitler - office will tame him
0:35:14 > 0:35:16and people want a strong man.
0:35:16 > 0:35:19- That "and" is very strange there. - Hans!
0:35:19 > 0:35:23The "but", the "and". He's become a linguistic critic.
0:35:23 > 0:35:26I can't work out whether you're arguing for Hitler or against him.
0:35:26 > 0:35:28- We're against him! - Maybe he's not so bad.
0:35:28 > 0:35:33- People in Germany want order, not freedom.- Oh, that argument!
0:35:33 > 0:35:36You sing your ode to liberty.
0:35:36 > 0:35:40Just remember, it doesn't keep your prole friends warm in winter.
0:35:43 > 0:35:47And now we see how far the termites have spread
0:35:47 > 0:35:50and how well they have dined.
0:35:50 > 0:35:52You are pathetic.
0:35:52 > 0:35:57You're busy protecting everybody and you never protected yourself.
0:35:58 > 0:36:04We gave you the most precious thing a Jew could have in Germany -
0:36:04 > 0:36:05a baptism.
0:36:05 > 0:36:07And what did you do?
0:36:07 > 0:36:09Piss in the water.
0:36:14 > 0:36:16Hans.
0:36:16 > 0:36:18That was a disgusting thing to say.
0:36:18 > 0:36:19It was.
0:36:19 > 0:36:21I was talking about what you said.
0:36:23 > 0:36:26And what he said. He's been having difficulties in Konigsberg.
0:36:26 > 0:36:32We have our Nazis too. They've discovered his father's name on the table of honour in the synagogue.
0:36:32 > 0:36:35He feels vulnerable, Hans. Is he wrong?
0:36:35 > 0:36:37You want me to give up?
0:36:39 > 0:36:41I don't believe you can.
0:37:08 > 0:37:10Well, do we have a fight in us?
0:37:11 > 0:37:14We do. We do!
0:37:14 > 0:37:16I think that's meant to be somebody boxing.
0:37:16 > 0:37:18Max Schmeling eat your heart out.
0:37:20 > 0:37:23So, Herr Rudolf.
0:37:23 > 0:37:25You're the only of us who's actually seen the ogre.
0:37:25 > 0:37:28How should Hans fight the big fight?
0:37:29 > 0:37:32He should remember Hitler is two men.
0:37:32 > 0:37:36No man enjoys the excitement of the hour like Hitler,
0:37:36 > 0:37:40yet his eyes are also fixed on the next 1,000 years.
0:37:40 > 0:37:42And what he can't do...
0:37:44 > 0:37:46..what Hans must make him do...
0:37:48 > 0:37:51..is take account of what happened yesterday
0:37:51 > 0:37:55- and what's going to happen tomorrow. - Put him in the time-frame normal people live in.
0:37:55 > 0:37:57Yes.
0:37:57 > 0:38:02And stop normal people from treating time like he does.
0:38:02 > 0:38:04But you've seen him speak.
0:38:04 > 0:38:06- He does entrance people.- It's true.
0:38:06 > 0:38:08Everyone goes through the same emotion.
0:38:08 > 0:38:13For ten minutes you say, "What a comedian. What a comedian!"
0:38:15 > 0:38:17Then you see his wholehearted sincerity.
0:38:17 > 0:38:22The speeches are sinfully long, a cataract of hateful words,
0:38:22 > 0:38:25as he tries to make you think with your blood.
0:38:25 > 0:38:27- But he is appealing. - MAX SCOFFS
0:38:27 > 0:38:29No, no, he is.
0:38:29 > 0:38:34He projects an image of deep suffering under intolerable wrongs.
0:38:34 > 0:38:39A man with a grievance against the universe, a martyr if you will.
0:38:39 > 0:38:41That is the self-pitying nature of fascism.
0:38:41 > 0:38:46You'll see he exists in a permanent state of being offended. Forever showing his wounds.
0:38:46 > 0:38:48Contradict him and he WILL bleed.
0:38:48 > 0:38:50And you're bound to contradict him, Hans.
0:38:50 > 0:38:55But this is your ground, not his. He won't have the oompah band warming the crowd or the light show.
0:38:55 > 0:38:57That's your opportunity!
0:38:57 > 0:39:00He's not allowed his favoured speech - dissertation, the tirade.
0:39:00 > 0:39:03But don't we want that? To see him froth at the mouth?
0:39:03 > 0:39:06No! Do not open a demagogue's auction, Hans. Interrupt him.
0:39:06 > 0:39:10- Try and make yourself a real pain in the arse.- Try?
0:39:10 > 0:39:13You'll be able to say things in this court room
0:39:13 > 0:39:17that would bring a club smashing into your skull if you ventured them in public.
0:39:17 > 0:39:22- Imagine if that happened right in front of the judge.- Thanks(!) - It would prove the point.
0:39:28 > 0:39:31To our valiant friend, Hans.
0:39:31 > 0:39:35Tomorrow let's see him smash fascism.
0:40:24 > 0:40:26Father isn't there.
0:40:26 > 0:40:29She has chosen sides, Hans.
0:40:29 > 0:40:31The court shall rise.
0:40:36 > 0:40:38Summon the accused.
0:40:44 > 0:40:49I'm opening today's hearing in the criminal proceedings against Stief and his colleagues
0:40:49 > 0:40:52before the bench of District Court Number Three.
0:40:52 > 0:40:55Two witnesses have been summoned by the private prosecutor.
0:40:55 > 0:40:59I point out in advance that any kind of demonstration,
0:40:59 > 0:41:03or excitement, will be dealt with ruthlessly.
0:41:03 > 0:41:06I call upon the private prosecutor.
0:41:08 > 0:41:10My purpose in calling the next witness
0:41:10 > 0:41:15is to prove no serious ban on weapons exists within the Nazi party
0:41:15 > 0:41:16to which these men belong.
0:41:16 > 0:41:19That indeed, Roll Commandos, or raiding parties,
0:41:19 > 0:41:23have been formed expressly to organise violent attacks on,
0:41:23 > 0:41:26and murder of, their political opponents.
0:41:26 > 0:41:29Storm 33, to which these men belong, being just such a Roll Commando,
0:41:29 > 0:41:32and their attack on the Eden Palace dance hall
0:41:32 > 0:41:36being just such a premeditated act of political violence.
0:41:36 > 0:41:39I hope to show that the next witness
0:41:39 > 0:41:41was in full knowledge of this strategy and approved it,
0:41:41 > 0:41:46and that the policy of his party in Berlin is to bring disorder to the streets.
0:41:46 > 0:41:48- The witness's name? - Adolf Hitler.
0:41:48 > 0:41:51I call on witness Adolf Hitler.
0:41:51 > 0:41:54The court calls witness Hitler.
0:42:02 > 0:42:04Heil Hitler!
0:42:04 > 0:42:05I have forbidden that!
0:42:05 > 0:42:09I at least expected the defendants to ignore me.
0:42:09 > 0:42:13If that happens again, you'll be held in contempt of court.
0:42:13 > 0:42:14You may be seated.
0:42:15 > 0:42:17As you wish.
0:42:18 > 0:42:22Please tell us your name, occupation and place of residence.
0:42:22 > 0:42:25I am Adolf Hitler. I live in Munich.
0:42:25 > 0:42:28And by profession I am a writer.
0:42:28 > 0:42:32Are you related by blood to the accused?
0:42:32 > 0:42:34That is to say by family.
0:42:34 > 0:42:35No.
0:42:35 > 0:42:38I would ask you to be mindful how you answer the questions,
0:42:38 > 0:42:40in case you may incriminate yourself.
0:42:40 > 0:42:42You will be asked to swear an oath
0:42:42 > 0:42:46at the close of your testimony. Herr Litten, your witness.
0:42:51 > 0:42:56Herr Hitler, do you know of Storm 33?
0:42:56 > 0:42:58No.
0:42:58 > 0:43:02- You've not heard of this elite Roll Commando?- We have no Roll Commandos.
0:43:02 > 0:43:06Their formation would be in breach of party rules.
0:43:06 > 0:43:07I see.
0:43:08 > 0:43:11So there are no bombs, grenades, carbines,
0:43:11 > 0:43:14or weapons of any kind in the Brownshirts?
0:43:14 > 0:43:17- The "Brownshirts"?- Of course,
0:43:17 > 0:43:20that is how your enemies - most people - refer to them.
0:43:20 > 0:43:24But for the benefit of the court,
0:43:24 > 0:43:27I can use your term - Sturmabteilung, SA.
0:43:27 > 0:43:29So. The SA, then?
0:43:29 > 0:43:30Do they have weapons?
0:43:30 > 0:43:33If they do I have no knowledge of them,
0:43:33 > 0:43:37but it is possible that in defending the Party
0:43:37 > 0:43:40against the terrorists of the Left,
0:43:40 > 0:43:43there might have been occasions when weapons of self-defence were used.
0:43:43 > 0:43:48But no Roll Commandos dedicated to attacking their political enemies?
0:43:48 > 0:43:51- None.- You would know about them if they existed?- I would.
0:43:51 > 0:43:55- You know everything that happens in your party.- I am its leader.
0:43:55 > 0:43:57Of course.
0:43:57 > 0:44:03- And as its leader, your authority in the party is unchallenged?- It is.
0:44:03 > 0:44:06And the obedience you demand is absolute?
0:44:08 > 0:44:13Yes. Their absolute obedience is what I demand.
0:44:13 > 0:44:15So, no Roll Commandos.
0:44:15 > 0:44:20Yet in this article, in The People's Observer, dated April 4th this year,
0:44:20 > 0:44:25you refer explicitly to the Roll Commandos of a Captain Stennes,
0:44:25 > 0:44:28the leader of the SA in Berlin.
0:44:28 > 0:44:34You say he has achieved nothing more than "a few wretched Roll Commandos".
0:44:34 > 0:44:37In that article I also renounced violence
0:44:37 > 0:44:41and complained that Stennes was trying to force me
0:44:41 > 0:44:43- from the legal path.- Quite.
0:44:43 > 0:44:45You reject political violence,
0:44:45 > 0:44:47as you also did at the Leipzig trial six months ago.
0:44:48 > 0:44:52Yet you ridicule Captain Stennes, with whom you have fallen out, for the pitiful number
0:44:52 > 0:44:54of Roll Commandos created on his watch.
0:44:54 > 0:44:59Not only have you heard of Roll Commandos, you appear to want more.
0:44:59 > 0:45:01Is that not the case?
0:45:01 > 0:45:02Lawyer's trick.
0:45:02 > 0:45:05- I beg your pardon?- A typical trick.
0:45:05 > 0:45:08His kind trade in cunning and deception.
0:45:08 > 0:45:12That is a complaint about me,
0:45:12 > 0:45:14or perhaps my entire...profession?
0:45:14 > 0:45:17But it is not an answer.
0:45:20 > 0:45:23Herr Hitler? Please answer the question.
0:45:23 > 0:45:27At Leipzig, I made an oath to operate inside the law.
0:45:27 > 0:45:30My appearance in this court is therefore a waste of time.
0:45:30 > 0:45:31You did make such an oath.
0:45:31 > 0:45:36- But here, you effectively scoffed at it. Is that not so? - One moment, your honour?
0:45:54 > 0:45:59A war veteran would not be so confused over language as this lawyer is.
0:45:59 > 0:46:03Roll Commando was a term we used on the Western Front.
0:46:03 > 0:46:05Squads of 10 or 20 soldiers
0:46:05 > 0:46:09were ordered to roll down an enemy trench.
0:46:09 > 0:46:12It was dangerous work. Heroic work.
0:46:12 > 0:46:16Thank you for the fascinating history lesson, Herr Hitler.
0:46:16 > 0:46:21But I feel we are still dancing around the edges of the problem here.
0:46:21 > 0:46:22We are dancing?
0:46:22 > 0:46:25In a manner of speaking.
0:46:33 > 0:46:35The SA is under strict orders
0:46:35 > 0:46:39to refrain from physically assaulting opponents.
0:46:40 > 0:46:41In an emergency,
0:46:41 > 0:46:43an individual SA man,
0:46:43 > 0:46:48in the course of being hunted down, and fearing for his life,
0:46:48 > 0:46:51may cross the line between defence and attack.
0:46:53 > 0:46:57Almost every night in this town, SA men are attacked by Red murderers.
0:46:57 > 0:47:01- Please refrain from using that term. - It's important to know what happened
0:47:01 > 0:47:03and why blood is spilt.
0:47:03 > 0:47:07When we first marched through Berlin in 1927,
0:47:07 > 0:47:10people threw flowers from their windows to greet us.
0:47:10 > 0:47:12With plant pots attached, I believe.
0:47:12 > 0:47:14LAUGHTER
0:47:14 > 0:47:16JUDGE BANGS GAVEL
0:47:16 > 0:47:18Herr Hitler...
0:47:18 > 0:47:21Herr Hitler, let me ask you this,
0:47:21 > 0:47:24what is the purpose of this SA?
0:47:32 > 0:47:34It is the party's sports section.
0:47:36 > 0:47:39- It gives classes in self-defence. - Ju-jitsu!
0:47:39 > 0:47:43You might perhaps prefer the witness to supply the answers.
0:47:43 > 0:47:48I do not know the entire curriculum. It is possible ju-jitsu.
0:47:48 > 0:47:50And these two men,
0:47:50 > 0:47:52these students of ju-jitsu,
0:47:52 > 0:47:56their vicious attack on the Eden Palace dance hall,
0:47:56 > 0:47:58was that self-defence?
0:47:58 > 0:48:02- Your honour.- Yes, that is an inadmissible question.
0:48:02 > 0:48:07I am aware that these things receive imaginative treatment in the Jew...
0:48:07 > 0:48:09in the press.
0:48:09 > 0:48:12But to us, they are ridiculous.
0:48:12 > 0:48:16I wrote, in my book, seven years ago,
0:48:16 > 0:48:21that our objectives would not be reached by bombs and grenades,
0:48:21 > 0:48:24but by large mobilised masses.
0:48:24 > 0:48:28What Germany requires is a revolution,
0:48:28 > 0:48:32which means a mental revolution, a spiritual rebirth.
0:48:32 > 0:48:34Who are you addressing?
0:48:36 > 0:48:37The court.
0:48:37 > 0:48:41I believe the court can hear you quite comfortably.
0:48:41 > 0:48:43Yes, it can.
0:48:43 > 0:48:45It is not necessary to shout.
0:48:45 > 0:48:47Or to harangue.
0:48:49 > 0:48:54You mentioned your book, Mein Kampf, published six years ago.
0:48:54 > 0:48:58Your honour, I can't see that this publication, important though it is
0:48:58 > 0:49:01as a general statement on the party philosophy,
0:49:01 > 0:49:03is relevant to this trial.
0:49:03 > 0:49:06Herr Hitler apparently does...
0:49:06 > 0:49:09and therefore it is admissible.
0:49:09 > 0:49:12You mentioned your book, Mein Kampf, published six years ago.
0:49:12 > 0:49:15And what you also say in this book is that "a free road"
0:49:15 > 0:49:18ought to be given by the State to certain "forces"
0:49:18 > 0:49:21to "declare a war of annihilation on Marxism".
0:49:21 > 0:49:24By which you mean the German labour movement.
0:49:24 > 0:49:28And these "forces" you refer to who require this "free road"?
0:49:28 > 0:49:30Would that be you and your followers?
0:49:36 > 0:49:37Answer the question, please.
0:49:40 > 0:49:42I don't know.
0:49:44 > 0:49:45But it is your book!
0:49:45 > 0:49:50You also say, in the same chapter, that so long as the labour movement is alive,
0:49:50 > 0:49:55your followers have "a duty not to worship the idiocy of law and order".
0:49:55 > 0:49:59And you call for "a final reckoning" with your enemy
0:49:59 > 0:50:04and the "bloodiest civil war" which you say can give rise to
0:50:04 > 0:50:07"a steeled..." is that word correct?
0:50:09 > 0:50:14"A steeled and healthy people". You then conclude, very grandly,
0:50:14 > 0:50:18that "you do not decide the destinies of a nation with kid gloves".
0:50:18 > 0:50:24There follows a lot of stuff about "vipers" and "vermin" and "rats", by which of course you mean "people".
0:50:24 > 0:50:28And you say you have talked about this need for a cleansing violence,
0:50:28 > 0:50:31"until your throat was hoarse".
0:50:33 > 0:50:37We. Know. That. Throat.
0:50:37 > 0:50:40Your honour, I would point out this book was written
0:50:40 > 0:50:44six years before Herr Hitler made his oath at Leipzig.
0:50:44 > 0:50:47That is true, Herr Litten. We are not concerned here
0:50:47 > 0:50:49with the distant past.
0:50:50 > 0:50:54Well, let us turn to something more contemporary, then.
0:50:54 > 0:50:56In Berlin last year,
0:50:56 > 0:51:00Dr Goebbels said, "the enemy must be mashed to a pulp".
0:51:00 > 0:51:03- That is not be taken literally. - It is a metaphor?
0:51:03 > 0:51:08It means we will destroy our enemy's organisations completely.
0:51:08 > 0:51:13Or do you believe that our SA people are supposed to go into taverns
0:51:13 > 0:51:16and mash their opponents into a pulp now?
0:51:16 > 0:51:19Again, it is usual for me to ask the questions, not you.
0:51:19 > 0:51:23But, yes, that is what we propose happened in the Eden Palace case.
0:51:23 > 0:51:26We will destroy enemy organisations by mobilising the masses.
0:51:26 > 0:51:30But what happens if you can't "mobilise the masses"?
0:51:30 > 0:51:33- I do not accept that possibility. - Dr Goebbels does.
0:51:34 > 0:51:37In the pamphlet "Nazi-Sozi", pages 18-19,
0:51:37 > 0:51:40he answers the specific question of what would happen
0:51:40 > 0:51:43if the Nazis had the street-fighters on their side,
0:51:43 > 0:51:46but not the majority of the German people.
0:51:46 > 0:51:50"We will clench our teeth and prepare ourselves", he says.
0:51:50 > 0:51:55"Then we will march against the State and become revolutionaries in deed.
0:51:55 > 0:51:57"We will chase the parliament to the devil
0:51:57 > 0:52:01"and base the State on the strength of German fists".
0:52:02 > 0:52:06I ask you, Herr Hitler, is all that a metaphor as well?
0:52:06 > 0:52:09Your Honour. Dr Goebbels can be called to answer this.
0:52:09 > 0:52:13It is a meaningless publication! It does not bear the party symbol.
0:52:13 > 0:52:17But is it true you put Goebbels in charge of Berlin operations in 1926?
0:52:17 > 0:52:21- I cannot remember the date. - It is here.
0:52:21 > 0:52:25Yes, in 1926, according to your own document.
0:52:26 > 0:52:29And this was published a year later, in 1927.
0:52:29 > 0:52:33No party can be measured by the individual statements of one of its members.
0:52:33 > 0:52:35But such a prominent member?
0:52:35 > 0:52:39Are you saying you have no control over Dr Goebbels either?
0:52:39 > 0:52:42- Of course I do. - So it is extraordinary, is it not,
0:52:42 > 0:52:45that not only did Dr Goebbels escape punishment
0:52:45 > 0:52:48for straying from your legal path,
0:52:48 > 0:52:51but that sweets keep falling into his lap.
0:52:51 > 0:52:55The Director of Party Propaganda, I think he is now?
0:52:55 > 0:52:56That pamphlet means nothing!
0:52:56 > 0:52:58It is ancient history.
0:52:58 > 0:53:03And I have already said it is not endorsed by the party.
0:53:03 > 0:53:08- He has said that.- Really? I think we can say you have been speaking out of both corners of your mouth.
0:53:08 > 0:53:12One corner speaks to rich backers, the other to street-fighters.
0:53:12 > 0:53:15In public, you pose as a man of peace.
0:53:15 > 0:53:19In private, you ridicule your captains for not being violent enough.
0:53:19 > 0:53:21When men respond by knifing more stomachs,
0:53:21 > 0:53:24you sing hymns to the glories of martial arts
0:53:24 > 0:53:29and self-defence. And your own writing, with its cargo of poisonous hatred
0:53:29 > 0:53:32and its obsession with annihilating the enemy,
0:53:32 > 0:53:35well, all that's "not to be taken literally".
0:53:35 > 0:53:41You swore an oath at Leipzig where you said, essentially, that "Hitler is not Hitler".
0:53:41 > 0:53:47Today, I think we can see, he most certainly is.
0:53:49 > 0:53:53Very well. I'm calling a short recess. Herr Litten, I assume
0:53:53 > 0:53:55you are finished with this witness?
0:53:55 > 0:54:00After the recess, I would like to call Captain Stennes, the former leader of the Berlin SA.
0:54:00 > 0:54:05But Herr Hitler should stay. I will need to interrogate him further.
0:54:10 > 0:54:12< Court is in recess.
0:54:19 > 0:54:23- Give me a dragon to slay, give me a beanstalk to climb!- Hans!
0:54:23 > 0:54:27- You want me to get that Goebbels pamphlet verified, don't you?- I do.
0:54:27 > 0:54:30- Get a new copy. With a receipt. - Hans, we should talk.- We should.
0:54:30 > 0:54:33But it's going well, isn't it? I will tighten the noose.
0:54:33 > 0:54:37- He will feel His Royal Highness The Law.- The judge applies the law, Hans.
0:54:37 > 0:54:41And all the punishment is his. Don't win the argument and lose the judge.
0:55:10 > 0:55:13- He is nothing like I imagined him. - You have not seen Hitler before?
0:55:13 > 0:55:18Only a picture in a newspaper. He looks insignificant, doesn't he?
0:55:18 > 0:55:22- The little hamster beneath his nose. - And that pimp's haircut!
0:55:22 > 0:55:26- But he's not insignificant, is he? - No.
0:55:26 > 0:55:29Or someone just to be laughed at.
0:55:34 > 0:55:38I got it. I got it. From the Nazi stall. I got the man to sign it.
0:55:44 > 0:55:47- Jewish pig.- Hans Litten, pleasure to meet you.
0:55:48 > 0:55:51Can I have a word, would that be possible?
0:55:55 > 0:55:57Help me with this, would you?
0:55:57 > 0:55:59If I can.
0:55:59 > 0:56:03You know, of course, that Germany has no colonies in Africa or Asia, don't you?
0:56:03 > 0:56:06Taken away from us by England and France after the war.
0:56:06 > 0:56:08Don't you think that's a shame?
0:56:08 > 0:56:10I have no opinion.
0:56:10 > 0:56:14No, but you should, because it's bad luck for you and for people like you.
0:56:14 > 0:56:15- Is it not?- Is it?- I think so.
0:56:15 > 0:56:20For what are we to do with our political prisoners when the Fuhrer finally takes the reins in Berlin?
0:56:20 > 0:56:23We can't deport them in the classic manner.
0:56:23 > 0:56:25We can't send them to the tropics
0:56:25 > 0:56:27and forget about them like the French do.
0:56:28 > 0:56:30No, there'll have to be another way.
0:56:32 > 0:56:34Your little whore is looking at me
0:56:34 > 0:56:39as if she'd like to stick a knife into my neck. It's very cute.
0:56:41 > 0:56:44You've chosen to be Jewish
0:56:44 > 0:56:48and you're under the illusion that it will always be your choice.
0:56:48 > 0:56:52That is so foolish. I want to stop you, but it's too late.
0:56:52 > 0:56:56- You couldn't anyway. - I know. You're a law unto yourself.
0:56:56 > 0:56:59And so I say again.
0:56:59 > 0:57:00Jewish pig.
0:57:11 > 0:57:15The court calls Captain Walter Stennes.
0:57:15 > 0:57:18Herr Stennes, do you know of Storm 33?
0:57:18 > 0:57:23- I do.- How well do you know it? - I am it's leader. - Is this your man, Max?
0:57:23 > 0:57:25I prefer not to think of it like that.
0:57:25 > 0:57:28But he'll do you a favour won't he?
0:57:28 > 0:57:29We hope so.
0:57:29 > 0:57:34Were you aware of any plans for Storm 33's attack on the Eden Palace dance hall before it happened?
0:57:34 > 0:57:36I was not.
0:57:36 > 0:57:40But can we assume Storm 33 acted according to a plan?
0:57:41 > 0:57:45Not necessarily. The Storms are primarily a defensive organisation.
0:57:45 > 0:57:48- Though associated with violent acts? - Assuredly.
0:57:48 > 0:57:53And that fact should not be overlooked by saying, for example,
0:57:53 > 0:57:57that they are organisations dedicated to the study of jiu-jitsu.
0:57:57 > 0:57:59Certainly not.
0:57:59 > 0:58:04Or that hundreds of thousands of Brownshirts have battle dress just to PLAY at being soldiers?
0:58:04 > 0:58:06We do not play.
0:58:06 > 0:58:10You said the Storms were "primarily defensive organisations".
0:58:10 > 0:58:13Herr Hitler also referred to "self-defence".
0:58:13 > 0:58:17Does that mean these groups never go on the attack?
0:58:17 > 0:58:20An attack is a kind of defence, is it not?
0:58:20 > 0:58:22But is it usual for such an attack to be arranged
0:58:22 > 0:58:24without your knowledge?
0:58:24 > 0:58:26It is not usual but it is possible.
0:58:26 > 0:58:30How would it be possible? I mean, given the SA's reputation for top-down discipline?
0:58:30 > 0:58:33I have pointed out to the party leadership, repeatedly,
0:58:33 > 0:58:36that the discipline of my men has been compromised,
0:58:36 > 0:58:39in the past, by conflicting messages from the top.
0:58:39 > 0:58:44You mean your men are confused as to what their role is or whose orders to follow?
0:58:46 > 0:58:49Be so good as to answer my question, please.
0:58:49 > 0:58:52Last year Adolf Hitler's position was perfectly clear.
0:58:52 > 0:58:56But six months ago at Leipzig, he seemed to disown the SA.
0:58:56 > 0:58:58This is what is confusing.
0:58:58 > 0:59:03It seems very clear, does it not? Herr Hitler changed his mind.
0:59:03 > 0:59:08In fact, he was worried that you would steer him away from his new path of legality.
0:59:08 > 0:59:10Well, is that not so?
0:59:10 > 0:59:14- I cannot say what was really in Hitler's mind. - I'm not asking you to.
0:59:14 > 0:59:18But on January 19th...this year...
0:59:19 > 0:59:23..at the SA leaders' assembly, here in Berlin,
0:59:23 > 0:59:27Dr Goebbels came to me and ridiculed Hitler's oath at Leipzig.
0:59:27 > 0:59:29SHOUTING
0:59:29 > 0:59:32I must...I must have quiet!
0:59:32 > 0:59:36Must have quiet. I would remind you that you're entitled
0:59:36 > 0:59:41to request Dr Goebbels's presence here as a witness,
0:59:41 > 0:59:45but not to waste the court's time by speculating as to his state of mind.
0:59:47 > 0:59:50Dr Goebbels instructed you to ignore Hitler's oath?
0:59:50 > 0:59:52To continue to ignore it, yes.
0:59:52 > 0:59:55I remind you that you are now under oath.
0:59:55 > 0:59:58My oath I take seriously.
0:59:58 > 1:00:02But I understand if our leader is more...elastic in a court of law.
1:00:02 > 1:00:05This is now becoming pure speculation.
1:00:05 > 1:00:08Prosecutor Litten, you are teetering. Do not fall.
1:00:11 > 1:00:16You said a moment ago you were "confused" when Hitler made his oath to legality?
1:00:16 > 1:00:17I was not confused.
1:00:17 > 1:00:19But many of your troops were?
1:00:19 > 1:00:22Yes, until I explained what was happening.
1:00:22 > 1:00:25We are not allowed to mention the information given to you by Dr Goebbels,
1:00:25 > 1:00:31so I'm asking now whether Hitler himself ever explained to you the meaning of his oath.
1:00:31 > 1:00:36He did not need to. I understood what it meant. We trust him.
1:00:36 > 1:00:37Heil Hitler!
1:00:37 > 1:00:39- CROWD:- Heil Hitler!
1:00:39 > 1:00:43- JUDGE BANGS GAVEL - Order! Order!
1:00:43 > 1:00:45Order! Order!
1:00:45 > 1:00:48We shall adjourn for lunch.
1:00:48 > 1:00:50Prosecutor Litten, I wish to see you in camera.
1:00:54 > 1:00:58He's wavering. The judge. He doesn't want to be holding the knife
1:00:58 > 1:01:02when Hitler's backers get to see his corpse.
1:01:02 > 1:01:04The people hang on every word.
1:01:04 > 1:01:08Didn't I warn you to resist turning this into a trial about Adolf Hitler?
1:01:08 > 1:01:12The testimony given by Captain Stennes is germane to the trial.
1:01:12 > 1:01:15- I believe I am still the judge. - Yes, sir.
1:01:15 > 1:01:20- "It won't happen again, Your Honour." That's what you should say. - Yes, that is what I meant to say.
1:01:20 > 1:01:22Do not become clever, Litten.
1:01:22 > 1:01:26It is not a trait that is very attractive to Germans.
1:01:29 > 1:01:32That was not a smart examination. Both of you grinding axes.
1:01:32 > 1:01:34That's what it looked like to me.
1:01:34 > 1:01:37Stop playing politics and get back to the law.
1:01:44 > 1:01:48I understand your concern but while we anticipated certain problems in the morning,
1:01:48 > 1:01:52I'm sure in the afternoon we'll set ourselves back on track.
1:01:52 > 1:01:55I'm going to go and have a word with my client
1:01:55 > 1:01:58and Herr Bruckner will be over in a moment.
1:02:01 > 1:02:05- They're panicking, are they?- They're businessmen, they don't panic.
1:02:05 > 1:02:09- Don't like it though.- The Holy Ghost hasn't entered the Fuhrer, yet.
1:02:09 > 1:02:12It's the last thing we want. It's a court. It's not Nuremburg.
1:02:12 > 1:02:14You're killing him with footnotes.
1:02:14 > 1:02:17- Release him. - Are you mad? Keep them watered.
1:02:22 > 1:02:26- It's no life for a man, is it? - What isn't, boss?
1:02:26 > 1:02:31Smart asses, pedants. I've met them before.
1:02:31 > 1:02:35Have you noticed how they become more eloquent the higher the fee?
1:02:35 > 1:02:37Have they noticed?
1:02:37 > 1:02:38We need to talk, boss.
1:02:38 > 1:02:41Turned themselves into a tempest of tears
1:02:41 > 1:02:45about finding a sufficient number of pennies to place in the slot.
1:02:45 > 1:02:48You should know that better than anyone, Frank. You are a lawyer.
1:02:48 > 1:02:51- It's not an honest profession.- Sir.
1:02:51 > 1:02:55- Did you see...erm, the Jew lawyer? - Litten.
1:02:55 > 1:02:57You see him strutting and gurning?
1:02:57 > 1:03:01The courtroom positively encourages the charlatan
1:03:01 > 1:03:07and his type are very well suited to it, of course, the Hebrew always exaggerates everything.
1:03:07 > 1:03:09When he asked you about Leipzig...?
1:03:09 > 1:03:14As a matter of fact, I could have asked that question better myself.
1:03:14 > 1:03:15- Twenty times better!- I agree.
1:03:15 > 1:03:21I have a great gift of distilling even the most complex question down to its base foundation.
1:03:21 > 1:03:25But the lawyer is a pedant. He loves to complicate. Truth is his victim.
1:03:25 > 1:03:31That should be seen more than it is but legal superstitions, people cling to them.
1:03:31 > 1:03:34That's quite good. You should write that down.
1:03:34 > 1:03:38I would have the courts lock-step with the State.
1:03:38 > 1:03:40Anything else invites ridicule.
1:03:40 > 1:03:43You ask, ""hat is the problem with the law?"
1:03:43 > 1:03:47The problem is the blindfold you see around the figure of Justice.
1:03:47 > 1:03:49You know the lady?
1:03:49 > 1:03:51Why would you apply a blindfold?
1:03:51 > 1:03:56It's like a boxer entering a ring with one arm tied behind his back.
1:03:56 > 1:03:59- I'm not backing that boxer. - Exactly.- Herr Hitler!
1:04:02 > 1:04:08Sir, you don't know me. I am Jewish and I have something to show you.
1:04:12 > 1:04:19The Battle of Ypres, May 1915. Saxon Grenadiers.
1:04:21 > 1:04:25And so you see, this is my country too.
1:04:27 > 1:04:29Good day to you.
1:04:41 > 1:04:43"Good day to you".
1:04:43 > 1:04:46You too, you foul, disease-ridden sewer rat.
1:04:49 > 1:04:52This city is no better than Jew-riddled Vienna.
1:04:52 > 1:04:54It's crawling with them.
1:04:56 > 1:04:58Who let them breed like this?
1:04:58 > 1:05:00Who let them fasten on to us?
1:05:00 > 1:05:05Time to clear them out. The whole stinking nest.
1:05:08 > 1:05:10It is a question of honour.
1:05:13 > 1:05:16Can you imagine men achieving the supreme task
1:05:16 > 1:05:19with the withered spirits these courts demand?
1:05:19 > 1:05:22No, you can't! You cannot! It cannot be done!
1:05:27 > 1:05:28That lawyer.
1:05:29 > 1:05:33Clever tongue. Jabber, jabber, jabber.
1:05:33 > 1:05:35I will take a knife...
1:05:38 > 1:05:40..and cut it out.
1:05:48 > 1:05:50Are you ready now, Fuhrer?
1:05:58 > 1:06:02He's gone, hasn't he? The judge.
1:06:05 > 1:06:08We knew it might happen. It's happened.
1:06:10 > 1:06:12Got one eye on writing his job application
1:06:12 > 1:06:15for if Hitler ever gets into power.
1:06:16 > 1:06:18Don't help him write it.
1:06:19 > 1:06:23You'll get no help now. You're on your own.
1:06:23 > 1:06:24"Lean into the bends".
1:06:26 > 1:06:29Yes. Lean into the bends.
1:06:32 > 1:06:33Germany is with you.
1:06:54 > 1:06:56I have now a second copy
1:06:56 > 1:07:01of the Goebbels pamphlet exhorting "the strength of German fists" which, the court recalls
1:07:01 > 1:07:05from this morning, Herr Hitler denied to be a Nazi party publication.
1:07:05 > 1:07:10This copy, with the party symbol clearly embossed on the cover,
1:07:10 > 1:07:12was purchased less than an hour ago
1:07:12 > 1:07:15from the party bookstall on Hedemanstrasse.
1:07:15 > 1:07:19Here is the receipt and indeed it has been dated and signed,
1:07:19 > 1:07:22by a moonstruck Nazi, I presume,. LAUGHTER
1:07:22 > 1:07:26"to my pretty and adorable assistant".
1:07:26 > 1:07:28Herr Hitler, you did, in fact,
1:07:28 > 1:07:30testify in the morning session,
1:07:30 > 1:07:35that this text by Dr Goebbels is not endorsed by your party.
1:07:37 > 1:07:39It isn't.
1:07:39 > 1:07:44But what does it even mean that it is released by our party publisher?
1:07:44 > 1:07:47A whole variety of books are released by our publisher.
1:07:47 > 1:07:52How can you say there's a call for illegality? That is an unprovable statement.
1:07:52 > 1:07:56How is it possible that the party publisher endorses a book
1:07:56 > 1:07:59that is in clear opposition to what you call the party line?
1:07:59 > 1:08:03What has this to do with the case? I don't believe it has anything to do with it.
1:08:03 > 1:08:09- I can only say that the court... - And I will not tolerate criticism of the court.
1:08:11 > 1:08:17Your honour, I am saying that instructions to Nazi party members are often given in the form of hints
1:08:17 > 1:08:20- and intimations and that Goebbels... - This is preposterous!
1:08:20 > 1:08:24An order is an order only when it is an order.
1:08:24 > 1:08:28You cannot run an organisation on nods and winks and...
1:08:28 > 1:08:29- Innuendo?- You cannot.
1:08:29 > 1:08:31This is a matter now of honour.
1:08:31 > 1:08:35I will not be insulted. You ask,
1:08:35 > 1:08:37"What is our attitude to the Constitution?"
1:08:37 > 1:08:40The Constitution describes the theatre of war.
1:08:40 > 1:08:43We abide by its rules.
1:08:43 > 1:08:45It does not describe the goal.
1:08:45 > 1:08:49The goal is a situation where we will write our own Constitution.
1:08:49 > 1:08:53- I have been clear about this to the German people.- Not to this court.
1:08:53 > 1:08:56Yes, to this court. To the eternal court of history.
1:08:56 > 1:08:58We shall obey the law...
1:09:00 > 1:09:02..until it is time to rewrite that law.
1:09:02 > 1:09:06And then "heads will roll", is what you said at Leipzig.
1:09:07 > 1:09:09What is this?
1:09:09 > 1:09:11I have made my position clear.
1:09:11 > 1:09:15You'd prefer a policeman with a warrant terrorizing opponents
1:09:15 > 1:09:17than the mob. That's all you have said.
1:09:17 > 1:09:20- SHOUTING - Order! Order!
1:09:20 > 1:09:22(I will personally break you.)
1:09:22 > 1:09:24(You will never get that chance.)
1:09:24 > 1:09:27Order. Herr Litten, to the bench, please.
1:09:33 > 1:09:34Where are you going with this?
1:09:34 > 1:09:37I am merely following him.
1:09:37 > 1:09:40This is not an examination about what a man might do.
1:09:40 > 1:09:44It is about what a man might have said, or will say,
1:09:44 > 1:09:46about the case that is before us.
1:09:46 > 1:09:51This is a court of law, Litten. We do not gaze into crystal balls here.
1:09:51 > 1:09:54Please, stick to the knowns.
1:09:54 > 1:09:56- Isn't that naive?- I beg your pardon?
1:09:56 > 1:09:58- He has threatened you. - He's done no such thing!
1:09:58 > 1:10:05He has declared war on the law. You cannot ignore the violence of what he has just said. You cannot.
1:10:05 > 1:10:08You can only pretend to do so.
1:10:23 > 1:10:25You know, you are never more alive
1:10:25 > 1:10:28than when you're watching somebody die.
1:10:39 > 1:10:42Are you saying that these violent men,
1:10:42 > 1:10:46and others like them, are nothing to do with you?
1:10:46 > 1:10:51- He has already answered that. - They are following your orders, doing what you want them to do.
1:10:51 > 1:10:53You are not required to answer that question.
1:10:53 > 1:10:56I do not need to give orders.
1:10:56 > 1:10:58I am here because a hurricane has brought me here.
1:10:58 > 1:11:04The next election will turn our 107 in the Reichstag into 200.
1:11:04 > 1:11:06That is why we are feared.
1:11:06 > 1:11:10A little over exuberance in the ranks will not throw me.
1:11:10 > 1:11:12I am my own master.
1:11:12 > 1:11:17It is the socialists and communists who would destroy Germany, not I.
1:11:17 > 1:11:21I have a granite-hard commitment to law and order.
1:11:21 > 1:11:25And I will not be moved on this.
1:11:25 > 1:11:29Our destiny is to reshape the German state.
1:11:29 > 1:11:33And, yes, German law, according to our own principles.
1:11:33 > 1:11:38That is the destination to which I am being carried by the German people.
1:11:38 > 1:11:42We can make ingenious debating points all day
1:11:42 > 1:11:47and we can sit around and watch German culture continue to crumble as we do so.
1:11:47 > 1:11:50Or we can give shape to the tremendous forces
1:11:50 > 1:11:53which have been unleashed inside Germany.
1:11:53 > 1:11:56- APPLAUSE AND SHOUTS - Order, order!
1:11:57 > 1:11:58Quiet!
1:12:00 > 1:12:04Your honour, he is making speeches again.
1:12:08 > 1:12:11Quiet, please!
1:12:13 > 1:12:16Herr Litten, you have tried the patience of this court too long.
1:12:16 > 1:12:19This examination is over.
1:12:19 > 1:12:22The witness is dismissed.
1:12:22 > 1:12:26I swear by Almighty God Omniscient that I have told the whole truth,
1:12:26 > 1:12:28concealed nothing and added nothing.
1:12:28 > 1:12:30So help me God.
1:12:46 > 1:12:50CROWD: Heil Hitler!
1:12:50 > 1:12:54If you will make some room, my client will be happy to make a statement.
1:12:57 > 1:13:00- What happened there? - I beg your pardon?
1:13:00 > 1:13:03I'm asking as a long-standing member of the bar association.
1:13:03 > 1:13:09What happened there is that your man over-reached himself. But he can't help it, can he?
1:13:09 > 1:13:11Such cleverness. Such lack of wisdom.
1:13:11 > 1:13:13- You failed.- Oh, for shame, Olden.
1:13:13 > 1:13:16You're getting as emotional as he is.
1:13:16 > 1:13:19You exist inside your own little Holbein painting, don't you?
1:13:19 > 1:13:21Step outside the frame and see Hitler for who he is.
1:13:21 > 1:13:24There are war drums in that man's voice.
1:13:24 > 1:13:27I could hear the screws rattling in his head when he spoke.
1:13:27 > 1:13:31But you don't neutralise Hitler the way your friend wants to.
1:13:31 > 1:13:33You don't smash him.
1:13:33 > 1:13:35You hire him.
1:13:52 > 1:13:57I am proud of you, my dear son.
1:13:57 > 1:14:02You've done enough, Hans. Germany is better than its judges.
1:14:04 > 1:14:05You've exposed him.
1:14:05 > 1:14:11But you must take care. Not everyone will be glad.
1:14:11 > 1:14:14I think not everyone wants to be rescued.
1:14:21 > 1:14:24And enough of these pitiful arguments,
1:14:24 > 1:14:26these schoolgirl bickerings,
1:14:26 > 1:14:30this degenerate, mendacious democracy
1:14:30 > 1:14:33that pits German against German.
1:14:34 > 1:14:38We are a spiritual nation and the people are yearning
1:14:38 > 1:14:42for something profound to believe in.
1:14:42 > 1:14:46My only task is to serve those people.
1:14:51 > 1:14:56But that's ridiculous. My friend knows that's ridiculous. Hans?
1:14:57 > 1:14:59Hans, speak to them.
1:14:59 > 1:15:01That man says we lack belief.
1:15:01 > 1:15:07That we fritter away our strength by arguing and quarrelling.
1:15:07 > 1:15:09Well, I am full of belief.
1:15:09 > 1:15:13It is the arguments and the quarrels I believe in.
1:15:13 > 1:15:16That is what makes a society.
1:15:16 > 1:15:20I also believe in a law that sets out the ground-rules for those arguments,
1:15:20 > 1:15:24with no-one, absolutely no-one, beyond its reach.
1:15:27 > 1:15:29Law is the process whereby a strong man
1:15:29 > 1:15:32voluntarily imposes restrictions on himself...
1:15:32 > 1:15:36bound by a weapon that he puts into the hand of his weaker brother.
1:15:36 > 1:15:39It is what we call civilization.
1:15:40 > 1:15:47The man who has just left does not conceive the law as an instrument to protect his brother
1:15:47 > 1:15:49but as a tool to destroy his enemy.
1:15:51 > 1:15:53He will want you to live without the law.
1:15:53 > 1:15:58And therefore he will want you to live without ideas.
1:15:58 > 1:16:02Your very thoughts will make you a criminal.
1:16:45 > 1:16:47We don't see you much at court any more.
1:16:47 > 1:16:49People have begun to worry about you.
1:16:51 > 1:16:53It is you, isn't it?
1:16:59 > 1:17:01I wonder what it would take
1:17:01 > 1:17:05to turn this hat of his into a yarmulke.
1:17:05 > 1:17:07Please leave me alone.
1:17:11 > 1:17:13Ah bu-bu-bu!
1:17:20 > 1:17:22It is Litten, isn't it?
1:17:22 > 1:17:25You never said yes.
1:17:25 > 1:17:26Is this because I...?
1:17:26 > 1:17:29Because you once threw us out of a court building?
1:17:29 > 1:17:33You must think we're very small people.
1:17:34 > 1:17:37This...it's a bit bigger than that.
1:17:41 > 1:17:43You want to get involved?
1:17:54 > 1:17:57I didn't think so.
1:18:00 > 1:18:03How long you reckon you got, Litten?
1:18:14 > 1:18:17Pawns are not an inconvenience, Hans.
1:18:17 > 1:18:19They're an opportunity.
1:18:20 > 1:18:22They're boring.
1:18:25 > 1:18:28Hans, Rudolf is here to see you.
1:18:29 > 1:18:33Why does that sentence always fill me with trepidation?
1:18:40 > 1:18:42- What's this?- Open it.
1:18:49 > 1:18:50Paris.
1:18:52 > 1:18:55I assume you have no savings.
1:18:55 > 1:18:58You'll find an address of a lodgings in Belleville.
1:18:58 > 1:19:01It's run by an old socialist. He's helped us before.
1:19:01 > 1:19:03You can stay there till you find your feet.
1:19:03 > 1:19:05It isn't much, but...
1:19:05 > 1:19:07you're not used to much.
1:19:08 > 1:19:12- Well, thank you, Rudolf. Really, thank you.- It's nothing.
1:19:12 > 1:19:15No, no, it is considerable.
1:19:16 > 1:19:18But I cannot go.
1:19:20 > 1:19:24Give me a single reason why you should stay in Germany.
1:19:24 > 1:19:26I couldn't leave my mother.
1:19:28 > 1:19:31- Your mother knows.- So you know?
1:19:34 > 1:19:35And you too?
1:19:38 > 1:19:41You have all conspired...
1:19:41 > 1:19:42behind my back.
1:19:44 > 1:19:50- You want me gone. - No-one wants you gone.- It is too dangerous for you to stay, Hans.
1:19:50 > 1:19:53They are coming for you. You have to leave.
1:19:55 > 1:19:57You have to leave us.
1:20:00 > 1:20:02I should not have told you about the stair well.
1:20:02 > 1:20:06It's more than that. Your name's in the Nazi newspapers everyday, Hans.
1:20:07 > 1:20:10It's become a swearword.
1:20:10 > 1:20:14Leave Germany. Lie low. At least let this thing cool off, hm?
1:20:36 > 1:20:38I can feel a lawyer's speech coming on.
1:20:40 > 1:20:42No, I'll spare you that.
1:20:44 > 1:20:46- I failed.- You didn't fail, Hans.
1:20:46 > 1:20:50You showed the court what he's like.
1:20:50 > 1:20:53No. He walked out of that building to cheers, Margot.
1:20:53 > 1:20:57- He turned the courtroom into a stage and I didn't want him to do that. - No, no.
1:20:57 > 1:20:58I let him...
1:21:00 > 1:21:03..puff out his chest and display his plumage.
1:21:03 > 1:21:06You did everything you could.
1:21:07 > 1:21:09And now Germany seems to love him.
1:21:11 > 1:21:13That's why you need to go.
1:21:16 > 1:21:19That's why I have to stay.
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