Hart's War

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0:00:57 > 0:01:05This programme contains some strong language.

0:01:05 > 0:01:09ROOSEVELT ON RADIO: '..are pounding the Germans with relentless force.

0:01:09 > 0:01:12'We do not expect to have a winter lull in Europe.

0:01:12 > 0:01:14'We expect to keep striking,

0:01:14 > 0:01:18'to keep the enemy on the move and hit him again and again.'

0:01:18 > 0:01:20'1944. December.

0:01:20 > 0:01:23'I was miles from the front and a stranger to war.

0:01:23 > 0:01:25'Troops, fuel dumps, enemy units -

0:01:25 > 0:01:28'they were pins on a map to me.'

0:01:28 > 0:01:29Champagne?

0:01:29 > 0:01:31Are you trying to score a few points?

0:01:31 > 0:01:33Just trying to aid the war effort, Hart.

0:01:33 > 0:01:35< Tom.

0:01:35 > 0:01:38The Captain needs back to the 106th. Can you find a driver?

0:01:38 > 0:01:39I can take him, sir.

0:01:39 > 0:01:41Funny. I had a feeling you'd say that.

0:01:41 > 0:01:44There hasn't been much movement today, sir.

0:01:44 > 0:01:45So I see. Captain.

0:01:45 > 0:01:48Don't forget, sir. You wanted to send champagne along.

0:01:50 > 0:01:51< Yes.

0:01:51 > 0:01:53Yes, thank you for reminding me, Tom.

0:01:53 > 0:01:56The general should get a kick out of that.

0:01:56 > 0:01:58Colonel.

0:01:58 > 0:02:00ROOSEVELT: 'Troops are now fighting along a battle line

0:02:00 > 0:02:05'of 300 miles in Holland, France and Germany.

0:02:05 > 0:02:08'Within ten weeks after the first landings in France last June,

0:02:08 > 0:02:13'the Allies have landed nearly two million men.'

0:02:20 > 0:02:23You know what this army could use, sir? Snowplough services.

0:02:23 > 0:02:26What we could use is half a million gallons of gasoline

0:02:26 > 0:02:29and a road that wasn't paved with Bouncing Bettie's.

0:02:30 > 0:02:31German S-mines.

0:02:31 > 0:02:33Yes, sir.

0:02:33 > 0:02:34You ought to spend a night

0:02:34 > 0:02:37on the line sometime, Lieutenant.

0:02:37 > 0:02:38I know that, sir.

0:02:38 > 0:02:41Of course, it's not too likely, is it?

0:02:41 > 0:02:42Sir?

0:02:43 > 0:02:45The Colonel says your father is a senator,

0:02:45 > 0:02:49so I guess you won't spend too many nights in a foxhole, will you?

0:02:51 > 0:02:53It's nothing to be ashamed of, son.

0:02:53 > 0:02:54That's a hell of a father to have.

0:03:17 > 0:03:18Where to, sir?

0:03:18 > 0:03:20St Vith.

0:03:20 > 0:03:22I'm afraid you've gone the wrong way, sir.

0:03:22 > 0:03:23St Vith is due west.

0:03:25 > 0:03:28I'm pretty sure St Vith is due east.

0:03:29 > 0:03:31Sergeant, it's straight ahead.

0:03:31 > 0:03:33SENTRY: Can I see that, sir?

0:03:39 > 0:03:41I drove this route yesterday.

0:03:42 > 0:03:43Mm-hmm.

0:03:52 > 0:03:53Get your hands up.

0:03:54 > 0:03:55Up!

0:04:15 > 0:04:16Halt!

0:04:16 > 0:04:19SHOUTING IN GERMAN

0:05:55 > 0:05:56MAN: Are you in great pain?

0:05:57 > 0:06:01First Lieutenant, Thomas Hart.

0:06:01 > 0:06:02Serial number...

0:06:04 > 0:06:07..1841287.

0:06:09 > 0:06:11Would you care for a cigarette?

0:06:14 > 0:06:16Your train is an eight-kilometre march from here.

0:06:16 > 0:06:18Of course, with some shoes on,

0:06:18 > 0:06:20you might be all right.

0:06:21 > 0:06:24First Lieutenant, Thomas Hart.

0:06:26 > 0:06:29Serial number, 1841287.

0:06:30 > 0:06:32Thank you, Lieutenant.

0:06:32 > 0:06:34But we both know

0:06:34 > 0:06:36there is much more to you than that.

0:06:41 > 0:06:44Show me the locations of the fuel dumps.

0:06:45 > 0:06:49Just point and we can end all this.

0:07:12 > 0:07:14I'll have your clothes returned to you immediately.

0:07:14 > 0:07:16When you are dressed, we'll have another chat.

0:07:16 > 0:07:18Our last one, I hope.

0:07:38 > 0:07:41Smile, Joe. For you, the war is over.

0:08:22 > 0:08:23Lieutenant.

0:08:23 > 0:08:25This will help against the cold.

0:08:26 > 0:08:29No thanks, soldier. I'll be all right.

0:08:29 > 0:08:31No, you won't. Come on. Take it.

0:08:31 > 0:08:33Just till you warm up.

0:08:33 > 0:08:34Take it, sir.

0:08:52 > 0:08:55Hey, Captain, does somebody tell our folks

0:08:55 > 0:08:56about us being captured?

0:08:56 > 0:08:58Germans give a list to the military

0:08:58 > 0:09:00and the military notifies the families.

0:09:00 > 0:09:01Is that voluntary, sir?

0:09:02 > 0:09:04How do you mean, Lieutenant?

0:09:04 > 0:09:07Uh, I mean, can you ask them not to?

0:09:09 > 0:09:10I don't think so.

0:09:36 > 0:09:38Have to put some straw in there.

0:09:40 > 0:09:43Straw in your shoes, for frostbite.

0:10:13 > 0:10:14Another slave detail, sir.

0:10:16 > 0:10:18Hey, ladies!

0:10:18 > 0:10:20Next batch of shells you turn out,

0:10:20 > 0:10:23nothing but duds this time, all right? Mortars no boom boom, ja?

0:10:27 > 0:10:28Fire!

0:10:28 > 0:10:31Captain, P-51 incoming.

0:10:31 > 0:10:32Ours?

0:10:32 > 0:10:33MEN SHOUT

0:10:43 > 0:10:46Everybody stay down! Keep low!

0:10:51 > 0:10:53Captain, what's happening? Why are they shooting?

0:10:53 > 0:10:54They can't read the roof.

0:10:59 > 0:11:00CAPTAIN: All right, get the doors!

0:11:00 > 0:11:02Everybody get the doors!

0:11:02 > 0:11:03Come on, now!

0:11:03 > 0:11:05Get down!

0:11:09 > 0:11:10Aah!

0:11:10 > 0:11:11CAPTAIN: Get down!

0:11:15 > 0:11:17CAPTAIN: Hart, help out!

0:11:17 > 0:11:19MEN SHOUT

0:11:23 > 0:11:24Aah!

0:11:24 > 0:11:26CAPTAIN: Come on!

0:11:42 > 0:11:43MEN SHOUT

0:11:45 > 0:11:46MAN: Moving out!

0:11:46 > 0:11:48Get the other cars!

0:11:53 > 0:11:54Get the other cars!

0:11:54 > 0:11:56Get those men out!

0:11:56 > 0:11:57We're spelling out!

0:11:57 > 0:11:59Round up your men now!

0:11:59 > 0:12:02We're spelling out our position!

0:12:02 > 0:12:04We're spelling out!

0:12:04 > 0:12:05Hart, get that man clear of here.

0:12:05 > 0:12:08Let's get in line!

0:12:08 > 0:12:09Assemble on me!

0:12:09 > 0:12:11Assemble! Move it! Move it!

0:12:21 > 0:12:24All right, men! Let's get back in line!

0:12:24 > 0:12:25Move it!

0:12:49 > 0:12:51It's not helping.

0:12:52 > 0:12:53Come on, men!

0:13:20 > 0:13:21Oh, Christ.

0:13:21 > 0:13:22Are you OK?

0:13:22 > 0:13:24Keep looking at me. Look at me.

0:13:24 > 0:13:25Look at me.

0:13:26 > 0:13:28CAPTAIN: Oh, shit. Shit.

0:13:28 > 0:13:30All right. Are you all right?

0:13:48 > 0:13:50SPEAKING GERMAN

0:13:52 > 0:13:54MAN: They're telling us to march.

0:13:54 > 0:13:57Probably ought to take his boots, Lieutenant.

0:13:59 > 0:14:02Lieutenant! Take his boots.

0:14:02 > 0:14:05Cos either you or some Jerry's gonna get 'em. Take 'em, sir.

0:14:05 > 0:14:07While you still got feet to put 'em on.

0:14:07 > 0:14:09His socks, too.

0:14:09 > 0:14:11Ain't gonna help him any.

0:14:11 > 0:14:12MAN: Stay together.

0:14:14 > 0:14:16All right.

0:15:11 > 0:15:14"DEUTSCHLAND UBER ALLES" PLAYS ON LOUDSPEAKERS

0:16:22 > 0:16:23Once again...

0:16:25 > 0:16:30I'm forced to remind you escape is not a sport.

0:16:40 > 0:16:42Think of it this way.

0:16:42 > 0:16:44Now these Russians have a chance

0:16:44 > 0:16:46at a happy new year.

0:16:46 > 0:16:48GUARDS LAUGH

0:17:01 > 0:17:03Those are dogs you're saluting, Colonel.

0:17:04 > 0:17:05Animals.

0:17:05 > 0:17:08SPEAKS GERMAN

0:17:08 > 0:17:12My country doesn't make those kinds of distinctions, Colonel.

0:17:20 > 0:17:21GUARDS LAUGH

0:17:24 > 0:17:26They're our allies, Colonel.

0:17:26 > 0:17:29Oh, yes. You and your allies.

0:17:29 > 0:17:33Let me tell you about you and your allies.

0:17:37 > 0:17:40The Ministry of War has just released the figures

0:17:40 > 0:17:42from our offensive in the Ardennes.

0:17:42 > 0:17:45200,000 Allied killed or captured.

0:17:45 > 0:17:49Your Third Army, Patton, in full retreat.

0:17:49 > 0:17:50And the Wehrmacht has captured

0:17:50 > 0:17:53enough abandoned fuel to retake Paris,

0:17:53 > 0:17:55perhaps even drive your troops

0:17:55 > 0:17:57back to the sea.

0:17:57 > 0:18:01Might be a bit crowded around here this winter.

0:18:15 > 0:18:17Turn around, Joes.

0:18:17 > 0:18:19Yes. Turn around.

0:18:27 > 0:18:28Ross. Hart.

0:18:30 > 0:18:31Ross and Hart.

0:18:31 > 0:18:33I'm Captain Ross.

0:18:34 > 0:18:35Major Clary.

0:18:35 > 0:18:36Lieutenant Hart.

0:18:36 > 0:18:38Lieutenant.

0:18:38 > 0:18:40Debriefing. Officer's hut. On the double.

0:18:41 > 0:18:45RADIO: 'The German counterattack on the American Third Army front

0:18:45 > 0:18:48'is still going on. The entire front, stretching about 30 miles,

0:18:48 > 0:18:51'is in motion. On our side, countermeasures are being taken.

0:18:51 > 0:18:55'On the enemy's side, more strafes are being flown in.

0:18:55 > 0:18:57'This is a major German effort.

0:18:57 > 0:18:59'Some of the best units in the German army

0:18:59 > 0:19:01'were involved in this penetration...'

0:19:01 > 0:19:03At ease, soldier. Sit down.

0:19:07 > 0:19:09Thank you, sir.

0:19:12 > 0:19:17So tell me, Lieutenant, how come you're not dead?

0:19:17 > 0:19:18Sir?

0:19:19 > 0:19:21First you survive crashing that jeep,

0:19:21 > 0:19:23then Hans and Fritz take your boots.

0:19:23 > 0:19:25You got a rabbit's foot in your pocket?

0:19:27 > 0:19:29Two horseshoes and a four-leaf clover, sir.

0:19:29 > 0:19:30Atta boy.

0:19:31 > 0:19:33By the way, you might want to

0:19:33 > 0:19:35take it easy on that bread.

0:19:35 > 0:19:37You haven't had anything solid for a while.

0:19:37 > 0:19:40Wouldn't want you to wind up in the infirmary.

0:19:40 > 0:19:41I don't know, sir.

0:19:41 > 0:19:43After the march I just made,

0:19:43 > 0:19:46an infirmary might look like the Waldorf to me.

0:19:49 > 0:19:51A stomach can shrink quite a bit in 17 days.

0:19:52 > 0:19:55That's the number, isn't it? 17 days?

0:19:55 > 0:19:58Six days on the train. Another six days of marching.

0:19:58 > 0:20:01What was it, Joe? Five days of interrogation?

0:20:02 > 0:20:03No, sir.

0:20:06 > 0:20:08Three days.

0:20:11 > 0:20:13Well, anyway. Easy does it.

0:20:15 > 0:20:17Yes, sir. Thank you.

0:20:17 > 0:20:20So this interrogator they threw at you,

0:20:20 > 0:20:22his name wasn't Schumann, was it?

0:20:26 > 0:20:27No, sir.

0:20:29 > 0:20:30Lutz.

0:20:34 > 0:20:36Schumann was a real prick.

0:20:36 > 0:20:38Almost broke me in two.

0:20:40 > 0:20:41MAN: Platoon, up.

0:20:44 > 0:20:45GERMAN BARKS ORDERS

0:20:50 > 0:20:54RECORD PLAYER PLAYS BIG BAND MUSIC

0:21:01 > 0:21:02Not much for small talk, I guess.

0:21:02 > 0:21:04You come to appreciate that.

0:21:09 > 0:21:10Smoke, Lieutenant?

0:21:11 > 0:21:13LUTZ: Would you care for a cigarette?

0:21:15 > 0:21:17Again, Lieutenant, I need to ask you.

0:21:17 > 0:21:19The fuel dumps...

0:21:22 > 0:21:23Thank you.

0:21:25 > 0:21:29So, this Captain Lutz, he know much about

0:21:29 > 0:21:31about your operations at the chateau?

0:21:33 > 0:21:35He knew everything, sir.

0:21:35 > 0:21:37Fuel dump locations?

0:21:37 > 0:21:38Troop movements?

0:21:41 > 0:21:43He knew what I'd had for breakfast before my capture.

0:21:50 > 0:21:53LUTZ: Point and we can end all this.

0:21:57 > 0:22:01Just name, rank, and serial number.

0:22:05 > 0:22:08Good enough. You're excused, Lieutenant.

0:22:09 > 0:22:13Unfortunately, we won't be able to quarter you here.

0:22:13 > 0:22:16We're full up. We're gonna have to put you in barracks 27.

0:22:17 > 0:22:19Isn't that for enlisted men, sir?

0:22:19 > 0:22:21Yes, it is, but as you can see,

0:22:21 > 0:22:24the Germans are doing a rather brisk business these days.

0:22:24 > 0:22:26You'll be comfortable there.

0:22:26 > 0:22:28Yes, sir.

0:22:32 > 0:22:33Lieutenant.

0:22:33 > 0:22:34Sir.

0:23:01 > 0:23:02DOOR OPENS

0:23:10 > 0:23:12LUTZ: Point.

0:23:17 > 0:23:18Point or say hello to stumps

0:23:18 > 0:23:20for the rest of your life.

0:23:31 > 0:23:32Good.

0:23:37 > 0:23:41SHOUTING IN GERMAN

0:24:34 > 0:24:36CROMIN: Don, are you in? I called.

0:24:36 > 0:24:37Hold your water, Joe.

0:24:37 > 0:24:40Looks like a whole division just surrendered.

0:24:41 > 0:24:43Who's in charge here?

0:24:47 > 0:24:49Hey, how many we up to?

0:24:49 > 0:24:50Three lovely ladies, big shot.

0:24:52 > 0:24:53That's right.

0:24:53 > 0:24:54Excuse me.

0:24:54 > 0:24:56I'm looking for who's in charge here.

0:24:56 > 0:24:59From the looks of things, I'd say Adolf Hitler.

0:24:59 > 0:25:00I'm Lieutenant Tom Hart.

0:25:01 > 0:25:02It's OK, folks.

0:25:03 > 0:25:06Staff Sergeant Vic Bedford. Good to meet you.

0:25:06 > 0:25:07You, too.

0:25:07 > 0:25:08Come in from Ardennes?

0:25:08 > 0:25:09Yeah.

0:25:09 > 0:25:11Colonel sent me over to bunk in here.

0:25:11 > 0:25:14Officers' barracks are full.

0:25:14 > 0:25:16Well, in that case, welcome to Rio.

0:25:16 > 0:25:18Hope you don't mind, sir.

0:25:18 > 0:25:20All we have is this middle bunk right here.

0:25:20 > 0:25:21It looks fine.

0:25:21 > 0:25:23I'm betting you're a Lucky Strike man.

0:25:23 > 0:25:25You bet right.

0:25:25 > 0:25:27Care for some hooch, Lieutenant?

0:25:27 > 0:25:28Ringing in the new year.

0:25:28 > 0:25:30Uh, thanks. I'm fine.

0:25:30 > 0:25:31Fermented raisins, mostly.

0:25:31 > 0:25:33A little turpentine thrown in for flavour.

0:25:33 > 0:25:34I'm fine.

0:25:34 > 0:25:36MAN: We got anybody left at the Front, sir?

0:25:36 > 0:25:38How are you doing, Lieutenant?

0:25:38 > 0:25:40Private.

0:25:40 > 0:25:42Give him a break, fellas. He just got here.

0:25:42 > 0:25:44Lieutenant, guard 'em with your life.

0:25:44 > 0:25:46They double for cash - especially with the guards.

0:25:46 > 0:25:47Thanks, Sergeant.

0:25:47 > 0:25:50Excuse me a second.

0:25:50 > 0:25:51Fellas, listen up.

0:25:51 > 0:25:53Lieutenant Hart here is going to be staying

0:25:53 > 0:25:55with us for a while.

0:25:55 > 0:25:57Hello, sir. Men.

0:25:57 > 0:26:00Say, what's it take to get in that poker game?

0:26:00 > 0:26:02I expect we can work something out.

0:26:02 > 0:26:04Good.

0:26:04 > 0:26:06Sir, are you about a size ten?

0:26:06 > 0:26:09Why? They got a Woolworth's behind one of these barracks?

0:26:10 > 0:26:11You never know.

0:26:33 > 0:26:34Uhh!

0:27:06 > 0:27:08Just piss on him, sir.

0:27:08 > 0:27:09Huh?

0:27:09 > 0:27:11It's the only thing that gets him moving.

0:27:14 > 0:27:16Happy New Year.

0:27:28 > 0:27:30GERMANS BARK ORDERS

0:27:34 > 0:27:36New year.

0:27:36 > 0:27:38It's 1945!

0:27:38 > 0:27:41Happy New Year!

0:27:48 > 0:27:51Ten and a half is the best I could do.

0:27:51 > 0:27:53The holiday season.

0:28:00 > 0:28:04PATRIOTIC GERMAN SONG PLAYS OVER LOUDSPEAKERS

0:28:17 > 0:28:18Look at the smile on this guy.

0:28:18 > 0:28:20Socks, too.

0:28:20 > 0:28:22Could have used those in Hurtgen.

0:28:22 > 0:28:24What's the matter, you don't like trench foot?

0:28:24 > 0:28:26Sure, it's just that once my toenails turned black

0:28:26 > 0:28:29I didn't have a single purse that matched.

0:28:32 > 0:28:35MUSIC ABRUPTLY STOPS

0:28:39 > 0:28:41Square 'em up, Major.

0:28:41 > 0:28:43Yes, sir.

0:28:51 > 0:28:52Look at this.

0:28:52 > 0:28:54They've got those poor bastards

0:28:54 > 0:28:55going around the clock now.

0:28:56 > 0:28:59See that factory up past the north tower?

0:28:59 > 0:29:02The Germans are making bombs right under our noses.

0:29:02 > 0:29:03It's supposed to be a shoe factory.

0:29:03 > 0:29:04Instead, they've got the Russians running

0:29:04 > 0:29:06in and out making mortar shells.

0:29:10 > 0:29:11What the hell is that?

0:29:13 > 0:29:15One of their flyers.

0:29:15 > 0:29:18Wait a minute, they've got niggers flying airplanes now?

0:29:18 > 0:29:22332nd Fight Squadron. I read about them in Yank magazine.

0:29:23 > 0:29:24I'll be damned.

0:29:24 > 0:29:26Well, we got us some nigger officers.

0:29:26 > 0:29:29Fucking Jerry's right. We must be losing this war.

0:29:33 > 0:29:36RAGTIME PIANO MUSIC

0:29:41 > 0:29:44Five, six, seven, eight. Lift! Lift!

0:29:57 > 0:29:59Lieutenant. Sir.

0:30:04 > 0:30:06Looks like it'll be a good show.

0:30:06 > 0:30:07Yeah, it does.

0:30:09 > 0:30:11It's high stakes around here, sir.

0:30:11 > 0:30:13What do you mean?

0:30:13 > 0:30:17Half the smokes in camp are riding on where you're putting the new men.

0:30:19 > 0:30:21Where do you think we should put them?

0:30:23 > 0:30:26I think I'd give them their own billet tent, sir.

0:30:27 > 0:30:30We can't do that.

0:30:30 > 0:30:33I was thinking about putting them in 27 with you.

0:30:34 > 0:30:37Sir, wouldn't they be better off in the officers' barracks?

0:30:37 > 0:30:40I don't carry enough weight to move two officers out of 22.

0:30:40 > 0:30:42I can't make them the only two officers

0:30:42 > 0:30:44in the enlisted men's barracks.

0:30:46 > 0:30:47You're in 27.

0:30:47 > 0:30:49Figure you can keep an eye on them for me.

0:30:49 > 0:30:51Sir, I'm still new to that barracks.

0:30:51 > 0:30:54Don't carry a lot of weight with the men yet.

0:30:54 > 0:30:56You've got bars on your shoulder, Lieutenant.

0:30:56 > 0:30:58That ought to be weight enough.

0:31:03 > 0:31:05Be done. Come on.

0:31:05 > 0:31:06Tastes like chicken, right?

0:31:06 > 0:31:08No, you've got maggots.

0:31:08 > 0:31:10It's protein. Eat.

0:31:10 > 0:31:11You called?

0:31:11 > 0:31:13Yeah. What do you got?

0:31:13 > 0:31:14Three pair.

0:31:14 > 0:31:16Gonna have to make some room in here, fellas.

0:31:16 > 0:31:17Come on in, men.

0:31:17 > 0:31:19We got two more guests.

0:31:22 > 0:31:26Second Lieutenants Lamar Archer and Lincoln Scott.

0:31:31 > 0:31:32You've got to be kidding, sir.

0:31:32 > 0:31:34They're gonna live here?

0:31:35 > 0:31:39Two officers just entered the barracks. Where's your salute?

0:32:01 > 0:32:02What's the big idea, sir?

0:32:02 > 0:32:04We're all full up in here.

0:32:04 > 0:32:06Not anymore. Croutch, Krasner.

0:32:06 > 0:32:07BOTH: Yes, sir.

0:32:07 > 0:32:10You've been reassigned. Barracks 28.

0:32:10 > 0:32:11The Colonel wants you situated before lockdown.

0:32:11 > 0:32:13GERMAN VOICE

0:32:17 > 0:32:18What were you flying?

0:32:18 > 0:32:20DOOR CLOSES

0:32:20 > 0:32:22P-51 bomber escorts.

0:32:22 > 0:32:25Must be a shitload of dead bomber crews scattered across Europe.

0:32:25 > 0:32:27You see these bars, Sergeant?

0:32:27 > 0:32:31Bars don't make you fit to share the same roof with white folks, boy.

0:32:31 > 0:32:32Bedford!

0:32:32 > 0:32:33That's Lieutenant Boy. You got that?

0:32:33 > 0:32:36Call yourself whatever you want.

0:32:36 > 0:32:37You're still just a nigger to me.

0:32:37 > 0:32:39I didn't quite catch that, Sergeant. What was that?

0:32:39 > 0:32:41All right! That's enough!

0:32:41 > 0:32:42Just let it go.

0:33:41 > 0:33:43MEN SHOUTING

0:33:43 > 0:33:45CHATTERING

0:33:48 > 0:33:50Set, go!

0:33:50 > 0:33:53Over-over here!

0:33:53 > 0:33:55Nice. Very nice!

0:34:05 > 0:34:06Uh-oh! Deadline.

0:34:08 > 0:34:10Lieutenant! Mind grabbing that, boy?

0:34:23 > 0:34:24What are you doing?

0:34:24 > 0:34:26WHISTLE BLOWS

0:34:33 > 0:34:34Nice one, sir!

0:34:34 > 0:34:35Cookie, hey!

0:34:35 > 0:34:37More bread. More bread.

0:34:37 > 0:34:39Das ist verboten!

0:34:39 > 0:34:42Das ist verboten, Bedford!

0:34:43 > 0:34:45Bon appetit!

0:35:06 > 0:35:07GUNSHOT

0:35:07 > 0:35:08Uhh!

0:35:08 > 0:35:09Shit!

0:35:16 > 0:35:18MCNAMARA: Nobody moves!

0:35:21 > 0:35:23How bad, sergeant?

0:35:23 > 0:35:24Yeah, it's just a nick. I'll be fine.

0:35:24 > 0:35:27You all right? Yeah.

0:35:27 > 0:35:28MAN SHOUTS IN GERMAN

0:35:52 > 0:35:55Fuck 'em!

0:35:56 > 0:35:59CHEERING

0:36:09 > 0:36:10Go get that hand looked at.

0:36:10 > 0:36:11Yes, sir.

0:36:15 > 0:36:16Hey, Bed.

0:36:16 > 0:36:18Cigarettes?

0:36:20 > 0:36:24MEN SINGING ON RADIO

0:36:36 > 0:36:37You're a regular bank, Vic.

0:36:38 > 0:36:40Mm-hmm.

0:36:40 > 0:36:42How's the hand?

0:36:42 > 0:36:44Is that really what you came over here to ask me?

0:36:44 > 0:36:46No. Major Clary told me that you went to see him

0:36:46 > 0:36:47to lodge a complaint Yeah.

0:36:47 > 0:36:50About Lieutenants Archer and Scott.

0:36:50 > 0:36:52I'm sure he'll take it up

0:36:52 > 0:36:54with Eisenhower the first chance he gets.

0:36:54 > 0:36:56They don't belong here.

0:36:57 > 0:36:59Nobody belongs here.

0:36:59 > 0:37:01But this is where the colonel put them.

0:37:01 > 0:37:03Yeah. I bet you wish the colonel would have given you

0:37:03 > 0:37:05that open bunk in the officers' barracks

0:37:05 > 0:37:08right about now, Lieutenant.

0:37:09 > 0:37:12I mean, this is hardly the Waldorf.

0:37:12 > 0:37:13Ain't that right?

0:37:13 > 0:37:15We're not going to have a problem

0:37:15 > 0:37:17about this, sergeant, understood?

0:37:17 > 0:37:21What did you do before the war for a living?

0:37:25 > 0:37:28I was in law school. Second year.

0:37:28 > 0:37:29Harvard?

0:37:29 > 0:37:29Yale.

0:37:29 > 0:37:31Meet many coloureds up there?

0:37:31 > 0:37:32A few.

0:37:32 > 0:37:34Yeah, well, I dealt with their kind.

0:37:34 > 0:37:36Two years I was on the police force

0:37:36 > 0:37:38in east St Louis, and I know what they are.

0:37:38 > 0:37:42So let's not pretend like we're fucking neighbours.

0:37:42 > 0:37:43You finished, sergeant?

0:37:43 > 0:37:45No, I'm not finished.

0:37:46 > 0:37:48Never did settle on a price, did we,

0:37:48 > 0:37:50for them boots and socks?

0:37:50 > 0:37:52I mean, might be as cold as the North Pole around here

0:37:52 > 0:37:54but that don't make me Santa Claus.

0:37:57 > 0:37:59What do you want?

0:37:59 > 0:38:01I'll take your watch.

0:38:02 > 0:38:04This was a gift from my father.

0:38:04 > 0:38:07I bet your daddy can afford you another one.

0:38:17 > 0:38:20Is this going to buy me a little civility, sergeant?

0:38:24 > 0:38:26Tons.

0:38:41 > 0:38:44FILM NARRATOR SPEAKING GERMAN

0:39:00 > 0:39:02Not much of a picture, is it?

0:39:04 > 0:39:06Well, we do feel a little misled, sir.

0:39:06 > 0:39:08The guard told us they'd be showing

0:39:08 > 0:39:10the life and time of Jesse Owens.

0:39:13 > 0:39:16You know, you men can sit up front with everyone else.

0:39:17 > 0:39:21Yeah. We're fine, sir.

0:39:21 > 0:39:23Nobody's going to bother you.

0:39:25 > 0:39:26I said we're fine, sir.

0:39:32 > 0:39:34MEN SHOUTING COMMANDS IN GERMAN

0:39:43 > 0:39:45GUARD: Take your places!

0:39:59 > 0:40:00FARTING

0:40:00 > 0:40:01LAUGHING

0:40:01 > 0:40:03That was nice, CW, that was 18 inches.

0:40:03 > 0:40:05Ah, come on, Joe. It was two feet, at least.

0:40:05 > 0:40:07Hey, either way, my record still stands.

0:40:07 > 0:40:08MAN: Cut it out, you guys.

0:40:08 > 0:40:10Up, up, up.

0:40:10 > 0:40:12Everybody. Out of the way.

0:40:12 > 0:40:15Out! Out of the bunks.

0:40:19 > 0:40:20Attention.

0:40:20 > 0:40:22Attention near the bunks.

0:40:22 > 0:40:24Now, now, now, now!

0:40:26 > 0:40:28Who is the ranking man in here?

0:40:29 > 0:40:31HART: Lieutenant Thomas Hart.

0:40:32 > 0:40:33One of your men

0:40:33 > 0:40:35was out on the compound tonight, Lieutenant.

0:40:36 > 0:40:39He was spotted on the east field

0:40:39 > 0:40:41removing a spike from one of the billet tents.

0:40:42 > 0:40:44Your men are aware of this camp's policy

0:40:44 > 0:40:46concerning the possession and concealment of weapons,

0:40:46 > 0:40:47are they not?

0:40:48 > 0:40:50Major, no-one has left this barracks.

0:41:07 > 0:41:08Whoa, wait a minute. What the hell...

0:41:08 > 0:41:09FUSSEL: Quiet!

0:41:09 > 0:41:11But this is a plant. Somebody put that...

0:41:11 > 0:41:13Quiet!

0:41:19 > 0:41:21Abfuhren!

0:41:21 > 0:41:23Mitkommen. Mitkommen!

0:41:23 > 0:41:24You bastard, I heard you go out.

0:41:24 > 0:41:25I should have seen this coming.

0:41:25 > 0:41:27Major, where are you taking this man?

0:41:27 > 0:41:29Examples must be made, Lieutenant.

0:41:29 > 0:41:32We take the safety of our men very seriously.

0:41:32 > 0:41:33SPEAKS GERMAN

0:41:35 > 0:41:38Major, where are you all taking him? Major!

0:41:38 > 0:41:39What did he do?

0:41:42 > 0:41:45DOGS BARKING, MEN SHOUTING IN GERMAN

0:41:53 > 0:41:54Ah!

0:41:58 > 0:41:59LINCOLN: Lamar!

0:42:00 > 0:42:02Hey, Lamar!

0:42:06 > 0:42:07Lamar!

0:42:12 > 0:42:13MAN: Feuer!

0:42:13 > 0:42:14SHOTS RING OUT

0:42:33 > 0:42:34I'll kill you.

0:42:35 > 0:42:37I'll fucking kill you, Bedford.

0:42:37 > 0:42:39You put that spike...

0:42:39 > 0:42:40Watch your mouth, nigger.

0:42:40 > 0:42:42You put that spike there. Get off of me.

0:42:42 > 0:42:44Lincoln, look at me. Lincoln!

0:42:44 > 0:42:45Get off of me!

0:42:47 > 0:42:49Can I let you go?

0:42:53 > 0:42:55It's a minor offence, Colonel.

0:42:55 > 0:42:59This man deserved 15 days in the cooler, not execution.

0:42:59 > 0:43:00He attempted escape.

0:43:00 > 0:43:01Bullshit.

0:43:01 > 0:43:04You dragged him out of his barracks barely clothed.

0:43:04 > 0:43:05Your men lined him up and shot him.

0:43:05 > 0:43:07This man wasn't trying to escape

0:43:07 > 0:43:09any more than those Russians you hung the other day.

0:43:09 > 0:43:11Is he a dog?

0:43:11 > 0:43:12A lesser race?

0:43:14 > 0:43:16That's a word you Americans use,

0:43:16 > 0:43:18as I remember.

0:43:18 > 0:43:19But of course, your country

0:43:19 > 0:43:22doesn't make such distinctions.

0:43:22 > 0:43:25And neither do you, I'm sure.

0:43:25 > 0:43:27He was an officer,

0:43:27 > 0:43:28a lieutenant in the Army Air Corps.

0:43:28 > 0:43:31Yeah. That's why you were so eager

0:43:31 > 0:43:33to welcome him and the other one

0:43:33 > 0:43:35into your barracks.

0:43:35 > 0:43:36Look it up, Colonel.

0:43:36 > 0:43:38We have every right to question a man

0:43:38 > 0:43:40for concealment of a dangerous weapon.

0:43:40 > 0:43:42This man had rights, too.

0:43:43 > 0:43:44The Geneva Convention

0:43:44 > 0:43:45specifically forbids summary executions.

0:43:45 > 0:43:47Take a look around you, Colonel.

0:43:48 > 0:43:51THIS is not Geneva.

0:43:57 > 0:43:58Where are you going?

0:43:58 > 0:44:00To check on my men.

0:44:00 > 0:44:03You're welcome to do so, of course.

0:44:03 > 0:44:06In the meantime, I'll be looking in on YOUR barracks

0:44:06 > 0:44:09to listen to what's on the BBC this evening.

0:44:19 > 0:44:21SPEAKING GERMAN

0:45:01 > 0:45:05Now, go see your men, Colonel.

0:45:07 > 0:45:08Good night.

0:45:37 > 0:45:40GERMAN ON LOUDSPEAKERS

0:45:40 > 0:45:43# Not to love the Fuhrer is a great disgrace

0:45:43 > 0:45:47# So we heil, heil right in the Fuhrer's face

0:45:51 > 0:45:53# Is we not the supermen?

0:45:53 > 0:45:55# Aryan pure supermen?

0:45:55 > 0:45:57# Ja, we is der supermen

0:45:57 > 0:45:59# Super-duper supermen

0:45:59 > 0:46:00# Is this Nazi land... #

0:46:00 > 0:46:01Get up.

0:46:09 > 0:46:11How's Scott holding up?

0:46:11 > 0:46:13It's hard to tell.

0:46:13 > 0:46:14He isn't saying much.

0:46:16 > 0:46:18He was asking about the body.

0:46:18 > 0:46:21And there's some personal effects - dog tags.

0:46:21 > 0:46:23AIRPLANE APPROACHING

0:46:30 > 0:46:31SHOTS RING OUT

0:46:33 > 0:46:35MEN CHEERING

0:46:42 > 0:46:44MAN: Fly over again! Come on!

0:46:46 > 0:46:47Come on, boys!

0:46:52 > 0:46:55MEN SHOUTING

0:47:03 > 0:47:04SHOTS FIRED

0:47:05 > 0:47:08Take that, you bastard!

0:47:08 > 0:47:09SCOTT: Careful, Bedford.

0:47:09 > 0:47:11That's a nigger you're rooting for.

0:47:11 > 0:47:13Tail's painted red

0:47:13 > 0:47:16Means he's 99th, right out of Tuskegee, boy.

0:47:21 > 0:47:23MEN SHOUTING LOUDLY

0:47:39 > 0:47:41MAN: Come on, let's get him out!

0:47:41 > 0:47:43Get them out of there!

0:47:47 > 0:47:49MCNAMARA: Get him to the doc, now!

0:47:49 > 0:47:52Come on! One man down here!

0:47:53 > 0:47:55Put this out. Come on!

0:47:59 > 0:48:01MAN: More buckets, more buckets. Quickly, come on.

0:48:01 > 0:48:03Come on!

0:48:07 > 0:48:08Let's go!

0:48:25 > 0:48:28MEN SPEAKING GERMAN

0:49:28 > 0:49:29Move around this corner.

0:49:29 > 0:49:30MAN: Yes, sir.

0:49:30 > 0:49:33Do you know where I wish I'd never been?

0:49:33 > 0:49:34Where is that?

0:49:34 > 0:49:35The goddamn Waldorf.

0:49:37 > 0:49:38It's not personal.

0:49:39 > 0:49:42He just can't stand being lied to.

0:49:42 > 0:49:44I never lied to him.

0:49:44 > 0:49:46Don't. You hung yourself the minute he debriefed you.

0:49:47 > 0:49:50That guy Lutz they threw you in with,

0:49:50 > 0:49:52he was a Level One interrogator.

0:49:52 > 0:49:55McNamara had him, too.

0:49:55 > 0:49:56When a guy won't talk,

0:49:56 > 0:49:59they just keep kicking him up the ladder.

0:49:59 > 0:50:00Level 2, Level 3.

0:50:00 > 0:50:02It takes weeks.

0:50:04 > 0:50:05He was in there for a month.

0:50:05 > 0:50:08The only guy you saw was Lutz,

0:50:08 > 0:50:10and he spit you out of there in three days.

0:50:14 > 0:50:16All I gave them was name, rank, and serial number.

0:50:16 > 0:50:17See, the thing about the colonel is

0:50:17 > 0:50:18he's not like you and me.

0:50:18 > 0:50:19He's West Point, fourth generation.

0:50:19 > 0:50:21He was raised on all this.

0:50:22 > 0:50:24So crap like this,

0:50:24 > 0:50:27catching a junior officer in an obvious lie,

0:50:27 > 0:50:29all it does is remind him of how far away he is

0:50:29 > 0:50:32from the real war -

0:50:32 > 0:50:35the one he's supposed to be fighting.

0:50:35 > 0:50:36You see?

0:50:48 > 0:50:50CREAKING

0:51:17 > 0:51:19Damn it, Lincoln.

0:51:26 > 0:51:27MAN: What are you doing?

0:51:30 > 0:51:32You should have sold some tickets for this one.

0:51:34 > 0:51:35WHISTLE

0:51:35 > 0:51:37MEN SHOUTING IN GERMAN

0:51:37 > 0:51:38DOGS BARKING

0:51:46 > 0:51:48WHISTLE

0:51:48 > 0:51:51MAN SHOUTING IN GERMAN

0:51:51 > 0:51:54Raus! Raus! Move it, move it!

0:52:01 > 0:52:04MEN SPEAKING GERMAN

0:52:12 > 0:52:14VISSER: Two of your men dead in two days, Colonel.

0:52:14 > 0:52:18It seems you've lost control of your company.

0:52:19 > 0:52:20Will Lieutenant Scott be granted the right

0:52:20 > 0:52:22to stand trial and face this charge?

0:52:22 > 0:52:24Major Fussel saw him standing over the body.

0:52:24 > 0:52:27I would say he's HAD his trial.

0:52:27 > 0:52:28Any prisoner accused of a crime

0:52:28 > 0:52:30against another prisoner has a right to a trial.

0:52:30 > 0:52:32And if the boy were being held in Alabama,

0:52:32 > 0:52:34there wouldn't be any trial at all.

0:52:34 > 0:52:36Is this not so?

0:52:36 > 0:52:38Yeah, maybe you're right, Colonel.

0:52:38 > 0:52:40Maybe we should just forget the trial.

0:52:40 > 0:52:42Let's just drag him out of the barracks

0:52:42 > 0:52:43and shoot two holes in his chest

0:52:43 > 0:52:46like you did with Lieutenant Archer.

0:52:46 > 0:52:48Uh-huh.

0:52:49 > 0:52:51A trial.

0:52:51 > 0:52:53A court-martial.

0:52:53 > 0:52:56Like in your American movies?

0:52:56 > 0:52:58Yes?

0:52:58 > 0:53:01Yeah, something like that.

0:53:01 > 0:53:03That should be fun.

0:53:03 > 0:53:05Yeah.

0:53:06 > 0:53:09All right, Colonel.

0:53:09 > 0:53:12You may conduct it in your theatre here.

0:53:26 > 0:53:28Colonel, my men are in this theatre every day.

0:53:28 > 0:53:30With your permission,

0:53:30 > 0:53:31we'd like to erect a billet tent

0:53:31 > 0:53:33to house the proceedings.

0:53:33 > 0:53:34No.

0:53:34 > 0:53:35Your theatre will do quite nicely.

0:53:35 > 0:53:37You have until the end of the week

0:53:37 > 0:53:38to conduct your trial.

0:53:38 > 0:53:40It's a capital charge, Colonel.

0:53:40 > 0:53:41The trial will take more than a few days.

0:53:41 > 0:53:431,000 more American prisoners from the Ardennes

0:53:43 > 0:53:45will be arriving over the weekend,

0:53:45 > 0:53:48and I am putting them in your theatre.

0:53:48 > 0:53:49Colonel, I just explained to you...

0:53:49 > 0:53:52Colonel, Saturday, your theatre is mine.

0:54:06 > 0:54:07Wait. Colonel!

0:54:08 > 0:54:09This is a murder site.

0:54:18 > 0:54:20I beg your pardon, Lieutenant.

0:54:20 > 0:54:22I said this is a murder site.

0:54:22 > 0:54:24The body and everything around it

0:54:24 > 0:54:25are now evidence.

0:54:25 > 0:54:27This area cannot be disturbed

0:54:27 > 0:54:29until everything is photographed.

0:54:32 > 0:54:33Of course.

0:54:45 > 0:54:48I'm appointing you counsel for Lieutenant Scott.

0:54:51 > 0:54:53Sir, I'm not a lawyer.

0:54:53 > 0:54:55You sounded like one a minute ago.

0:54:56 > 0:54:59I could be a material witness.

0:54:59 > 0:55:00I mean, I heard the lieutenant going out.

0:55:00 > 0:55:01The lieutenant needs our help.

0:55:01 > 0:55:04I've appointed you counsel.

0:55:04 > 0:55:05Understood?

0:55:06 > 0:55:07Yes, sir.

0:55:07 > 0:55:09Dismissed, Lieutenant.

0:55:11 > 0:55:12Sir.

0:55:53 > 0:55:55SCOTT: And this guy that's prosecuting me,

0:55:55 > 0:55:58this Captain Sisk,

0:55:58 > 0:55:59is he a real lawyer?

0:56:00 > 0:56:01Yes.

0:56:01 > 0:56:03That sounds about right.

0:56:05 > 0:56:08I think we have to paint this thing as a fight, Scott.

0:56:08 > 0:56:09That's all.

0:56:09 > 0:56:12It's a fight that got a little out of hand.

0:56:12 > 0:56:15You're supposed to ask me if I did it, first.

0:56:16 > 0:56:20Look, I came here to kill Nazis.

0:56:20 > 0:56:22If it was some crackers that I wanted to kill

0:56:22 > 0:56:23I could have stayed in Macon.

0:56:23 > 0:56:26Major Fussel ID'd you standing over the body.

0:56:26 > 0:56:27Fussel is a Nazi!

0:56:27 > 0:56:30No. Fussel is a witness.

0:56:31 > 0:56:33And he's enough to hang you.

0:56:34 > 0:56:36Look, all I'm saying is if it was a fight

0:56:36 > 0:56:37that got a little out of hand,

0:56:37 > 0:56:40then it's not murder. It's manslaughter.

0:56:40 > 0:56:41Do you understand that?

0:56:49 > 0:56:50Man, oh, man.

0:56:52 > 0:56:54Can I fire you?

0:56:54 > 0:56:56Now, look, Scott, I'm just trying...

0:56:56 > 0:56:58If it's a coloured guy on trial,

0:56:58 > 0:57:01and it's a white man who's been murdered,

0:57:01 > 0:57:04there's no such thing as manslaughter.

0:57:04 > 0:57:06Don't you know that?

0:57:06 > 0:57:07Or is that something that they teach you

0:57:07 > 0:57:09in the third year of law school?

0:57:11 > 0:57:13What do you expect from me, anyway?

0:57:13 > 0:57:15A "Hey, yes, sir, boss."

0:57:15 > 0:57:18Or "Why, thank you, boss. You're mighty kind."

0:57:18 > 0:57:20Is that the way a railroaded coloured man acts

0:57:20 > 0:57:22where you're from?

0:57:22 > 0:57:23Nobody's railroading you, Scott.

0:57:23 > 0:57:24Then how come the only real lawyer

0:57:24 > 0:57:26is the guy that's prosecuting me,

0:57:26 > 0:57:28and I'm stuck with you defending me?

0:57:31 > 0:57:34That's how the Colonel wanted it.

0:57:34 > 0:57:36Yeah, but I ain't being railroaded.

0:57:42 > 0:57:44MEN SHOUTING IN GERMAN

0:57:49 > 0:57:51I'll meet you back at the barracks.

0:57:51 > 0:57:52Yes, sir.

0:58:02 > 0:58:04Well, Lieutenant?

0:58:04 > 0:58:06I'm gonna need a few things, sir.

0:58:06 > 0:58:08Who has Bedford's personal effects?

0:58:08 > 0:58:09We do.

0:58:09 > 0:58:11I'll need to see them,

0:58:11 > 0:58:14and the photographs that were taken of the scene,

0:58:14 > 0:58:16and of course, his body.

0:58:18 > 0:58:20What did Scott tell you?

0:58:20 > 0:58:21Sir?

0:58:21 > 0:58:25You were with him all day. What did he tell you?

0:58:25 > 0:58:27I'm sorry, sir. I can't reveal that.

0:58:27 > 0:58:29Sure you can.

0:58:29 > 0:58:31Attorney-client privilege, sir.

0:58:33 > 0:58:35Only an attorney has attorney-client privilege.

0:58:35 > 0:58:37I need to be briefed on everything

0:58:37 > 0:58:38that Scott intends to testify to.

0:58:38 > 0:58:40Sir, you're going to be president

0:58:40 > 0:58:41of the court-martial.

0:58:41 > 0:58:43How can I possibly discuss our case with you?

0:58:43 > 0:58:44Are you suggesting

0:58:44 > 0:58:46that I would betray Lieutenant Scott?

0:58:46 > 0:58:49That I would share details of his case

0:58:49 > 0:58:50with the prosecution?

0:58:52 > 0:58:53No, sir.

0:58:53 > 0:58:56Scott followed Bedford out through the night latrine.

0:58:56 > 0:58:58If he testifies to that fact,

0:58:58 > 0:59:00every German in this camp will know how we get in

0:59:00 > 0:59:01and out of the barracks after dark,

0:59:01 > 0:59:03and every man in this camp would be compromised

0:59:03 > 0:59:04because of that.

0:59:04 > 0:59:06Are you following this, Lieutenant?

0:59:06 > 0:59:07Yes, sir. Good.

0:59:09 > 0:59:11Now, Scott will testify that he went out

0:59:11 > 0:59:13through a hole beneath the stove

0:59:13 > 0:59:15in the barracks.

0:59:15 > 0:59:18And you will make certain that he is clear on that.

0:59:18 > 0:59:19Do we understand each other, Lieutenant?

0:59:19 > 0:59:21We do, sir.

0:59:22 > 0:59:23Dismissed.

0:59:24 > 0:59:26Permission to speak, sir.

0:59:26 > 0:59:27Speak freely.

0:59:27 > 0:59:30Scott thinks this is all just for show.

0:59:30 > 0:59:32He thinks you passed sentence

0:59:32 > 0:59:34as soon as the body hit the ground.

0:59:37 > 0:59:39Is he right?

0:59:39 > 0:59:42Bedford's footlocker is in my barracks.

0:59:42 > 0:59:44I'll make sure you get it.

1:00:19 > 1:00:21VISSER: Not much to look at, is he?

1:00:29 > 1:00:31Did you know him?

1:00:31 > 1:00:33No.

1:00:33 > 1:00:34Not personally.

1:00:34 > 1:00:37But my guards certainly seemed to.

1:00:38 > 1:00:39These are for you.

1:00:44 > 1:00:45Thank you.

1:00:48 > 1:00:49How well?

1:00:49 > 1:00:50Hmm?

1:00:50 > 1:00:53Your guards, you said they knew him. How well?

1:00:55 > 1:00:58Well, you'd have to ask them about that.

1:01:04 > 1:01:06This is yours, too, I believe.

1:01:09 > 1:01:11We found it on his wrist.

1:01:11 > 1:01:13But with the inscription

1:01:13 > 1:01:15and those new boots on your feet,

1:01:15 > 1:01:16I made the assumption.

1:01:18 > 1:01:21It's a little hard to imagine, Colonel,

1:01:21 > 1:01:24your guards sitting for an interview.

1:01:24 > 1:01:26I can arrange it.

1:01:26 > 1:01:29I can arrange anything you like.

1:01:30 > 1:01:32It seems only fair -

1:01:32 > 1:01:34what with your colonel throwing you to the wolves.

1:01:36 > 1:01:38I'm not sure I follow you.

1:01:38 > 1:01:39Really?

1:01:41 > 1:01:45Yale isn't in the habit of accepting half-wits.

1:01:45 > 1:01:46At least it wasn't

1:01:46 > 1:01:48when I was studying there.

1:01:50 > 1:01:54The oldest member of the class of '28.

1:01:54 > 1:01:58My fellow students voted me hardest worker.

1:02:01 > 1:02:02But we can swap stories

1:02:02 > 1:02:04some other time, can't we?

1:02:04 > 1:02:07Right now we've got a trial to prepare for.

1:02:10 > 1:02:13It's a sincere offer, Lieutenant.

1:02:15 > 1:02:18Anything I can do to help...

1:02:18 > 1:02:19Truly.

1:02:22 > 1:02:25SISK: And exactly where were you, Major Fussel,

1:02:25 > 1:02:26on the night in question?

1:02:26 > 1:02:28FUSSEL: I was walking the area

1:02:28 > 1:02:31behind this theatre and the Australian compound.

1:02:31 > 1:02:33SISK: At about what time?

1:02:33 > 1:02:35Maybe about 1:00 in the morning.

1:02:35 > 1:02:38And can you tell the court what you saw?

1:02:38 > 1:02:40The schwarz Lieutenant Scott

1:02:40 > 1:02:42was kneeling over the body.

1:02:42 > 1:02:44It looked to me like he was checking

1:02:44 > 1:02:45that the man was dead.

1:02:45 > 1:02:47I blew my whistle, and he started to run.

1:02:47 > 1:02:49And what did you do next?

1:02:49 > 1:02:52I would have shot, but it was dark.

1:02:52 > 1:02:53And so was he.

1:02:53 > 1:02:55MEN CHUCKLING

1:02:55 > 1:02:56HART: Major Fussel,

1:02:56 > 1:02:57how well did you know Sergeant Bedford?

1:02:57 > 1:02:59A little, I think.

1:02:59 > 1:03:00HART: You traded with him regularly.

1:03:00 > 1:03:01Traded?

1:03:01 > 1:03:03Bartered.

1:03:03 > 1:03:04Cigarettes for a pair of boots.

1:03:04 > 1:03:07Chocolate for some spare parts.

1:03:07 > 1:03:09No. I never did this.

1:03:09 > 1:03:11A Kriegie trading with a German soldier?

1:03:11 > 1:03:13I never saw it.

1:03:13 > 1:03:14PRIVATE: Am I allowed to repeat

1:03:14 > 1:03:15what he actually said, Captain?

1:03:15 > 1:03:17You may, Private.

1:03:17 > 1:03:19Lieutenant Scott said, "I'll kill you.

1:03:19 > 1:03:21"I'll fucking kill you, Bedford."

1:03:21 > 1:03:23Corporal, have you ever heard any other man

1:03:23 > 1:03:26threaten a fellow soldier during your time in the army?

1:03:26 > 1:03:27"Better shape up or I'll kill you."

1:03:27 > 1:03:29"I'll kill you if you touch my cigarettes again."

1:03:29 > 1:03:30That sort of thing?

1:03:30 > 1:03:31CORPORAL: Yes, sir.

1:03:31 > 1:03:32I'll bet you've even made such a threat yourself

1:03:32 > 1:03:33once or twice.

1:03:33 > 1:03:34I suppose so.

1:03:34 > 1:03:35Corporal, did you ever

1:03:35 > 1:03:36actually kill any of the men

1:03:36 > 1:03:38you threatened in this manner?

1:03:38 > 1:03:40No, sir.

1:03:41 > 1:03:42But I'm not coloured.

1:03:42 > 1:03:44I can control myself.

1:03:44 > 1:03:46So, you, too, had heard the threats

1:03:46 > 1:03:48made by the accused against Sergeant Bedford?

1:03:48 > 1:03:49HART: Your honour, this being

1:03:49 > 1:03:50the fourth prosecution witness

1:03:50 > 1:03:52called to testify in this matter,

1:03:52 > 1:03:54if the defence will stipulate

1:03:54 > 1:03:55that the accused did indeed threaten the life

1:03:55 > 1:03:56of Sergeant Bedford,

1:03:56 > 1:03:58could we dispense with any further testimony

1:03:58 > 1:03:59to his having done so?

1:03:59 > 1:04:00Your honour, Sergeant Webb is being called

1:04:00 > 1:04:02as an eyewitness to the crime itself.

1:04:02 > 1:04:03He's what?

1:04:03 > 1:04:05Is that right, Sergeant?

1:04:05 > 1:04:06Yes, sir.

1:04:06 > 1:04:07Sir, that's a lie.

1:04:07 > 1:04:09SISK: Your honour, the sergeant will testify

1:04:09 > 1:04:10that on the night of the murder

1:04:10 > 1:04:13he watched through a window in barracks 27

1:04:13 > 1:04:15as Lieutenant Scott accosted Sergeant Bedford

1:04:15 > 1:04:17outside the theatre and broke his neck.

1:04:17 > 1:04:18Your honour, he did no such thing.

1:04:18 > 1:04:20I was standing right beside Sergeant Webb

1:04:20 > 1:04:21at the exact time of the murder.

1:04:21 > 1:04:22He saw nothing of the sort.

1:04:22 > 1:04:24The hell I didn't.

1:04:24 > 1:04:25You don't know what I saw.

1:04:25 > 1:04:26Sir, I request that this court

1:04:26 > 1:04:29instruct this witness as to the consequences

1:04:29 > 1:04:30of perjuring himself in a court...

1:04:30 > 1:04:31MCNAMARA: He put his hand on the bible

1:04:31 > 1:04:33and swore to tell the truth, Lieutenant.

1:04:33 > 1:04:34That's good enough for me.

1:04:34 > 1:04:35We've had no prior notice...

1:04:35 > 1:04:36Sit down, Lieutenant.

1:04:36 > 1:04:37HART: Your honour, his bias alone...

1:04:37 > 1:04:38Lieutenant!

1:04:40 > 1:04:42Sit down, please.

1:04:53 > 1:04:55I'll catch up.

1:04:56 > 1:04:58FIRST MAN: I gotta go make some trades in barracks 18.

1:04:58 > 1:05:00SECOND MAN: See if you can get me some smokes.

1:05:00 > 1:05:02Webb...

1:05:02 > 1:05:03You're a lying sack of shit, you know that?

1:05:03 > 1:05:05Yeah, and maybe you ought to mind

1:05:05 > 1:05:05your own business.

1:05:05 > 1:05:06This doesn't concern you, West.

1:05:06 > 1:05:07Hey, Lieutenant.

1:05:07 > 1:05:08Or you. Any of you.

1:05:08 > 1:05:09What do you know, Joe?

1:05:09 > 1:05:10George S Patton just showed up.

1:05:10 > 1:05:12Return to your barracks, Corporal.

1:05:12 > 1:05:14Take your two friends with you.

1:05:18 > 1:05:19So, what is it, Webb?

1:05:19 > 1:05:21Up there today.

1:05:21 > 1:05:23You think you owe it to Vic?

1:05:24 > 1:05:26Why are you so bent

1:05:26 > 1:05:27about that flying bellhop anyway?

1:05:27 > 1:05:28He's a soldier.

1:05:28 > 1:05:30Vic Bedford was a soldier.

1:05:30 > 1:05:33He fought. He had courage.

1:05:33 > 1:05:35You wouldn't know too much about that,

1:05:35 > 1:05:36would you, Lieutenant?

1:05:36 > 1:05:39You lied in there today.

1:05:39 > 1:05:40You didn't see what happened any more than I did.

1:05:40 > 1:05:44I didn't have to. I know.

1:05:44 > 1:05:46Not good enough.

1:05:46 > 1:05:48It's good enough for McNamara.

1:06:10 > 1:06:13Sorry about what happened in there today, Lincoln.

1:06:13 > 1:06:15I didn't see it coming.

1:06:17 > 1:06:18You're saying that's the first time

1:06:18 > 1:06:21you seen a man lie through his teeth

1:06:21 > 1:06:24holding his hand on the bible?

1:06:24 > 1:06:26I was writing a letter to my father.

1:06:26 > 1:06:29Figured I should tell him first.

1:06:32 > 1:06:35He was part of the 369th Infantry

1:06:35 > 1:06:39in the last war, the old 15th.

1:06:39 > 1:06:41They was the first negro troops

1:06:41 > 1:06:43to go into action in France.

1:06:45 > 1:06:47Did your father serve?

1:06:47 > 1:06:50Mm. My father was in headquarters.

1:06:50 > 1:06:53He had an 8 on his shoulder, too.

1:06:53 > 1:06:55His father made sure of it.

1:06:55 > 1:06:58That's how we do things in our family.

1:07:00 > 1:07:03That's a shame.

1:07:03 > 1:07:05Got your testimony to prepare.

1:07:08 > 1:07:09Yeah.

1:07:22 > 1:07:24SPEAKING GERMAN

1:07:38 > 1:07:42Lieutenant, how are you?

1:07:42 > 1:07:44Not too well, I imagine.

1:07:44 > 1:07:47Come on up.

1:07:49 > 1:07:51That was quite a beating

1:07:51 > 1:07:53you took today.

1:07:54 > 1:07:56It's warm inside.

1:08:05 > 1:08:07You've read Mark Twain?

1:08:07 > 1:08:09It's wonderful.

1:08:09 > 1:08:11Colonel, I have witnesses to prepare for.

1:08:11 > 1:08:13Yes. I know.

1:08:13 > 1:08:15That's why I wanted to see you.

1:08:30 > 1:08:31We keep a library

1:08:31 > 1:08:33of all American military manuals.

1:08:33 > 1:08:34I thought this one

1:08:34 > 1:08:37might be of particular use to you.

1:08:41 > 1:08:43I can't accept this, Colonel.

1:08:43 > 1:08:44We have a policy about fraternizing...

1:08:44 > 1:08:46Lieutenant, without this, your client

1:08:46 > 1:08:48will face the firing squad.

1:08:48 > 1:08:50Would that be better?

1:08:58 > 1:08:59Your son?

1:09:01 > 1:09:02Yes.

1:09:02 > 1:09:04Where's he fighting?

1:09:09 > 1:09:11He is not anymore.

1:09:12 > 1:09:14The Russian front.

1:09:14 > 1:09:16Novograd.

1:09:16 > 1:09:19Horrible place.

1:09:22 > 1:09:24I'm sorry.

1:09:26 > 1:09:27I killed my share

1:09:27 > 1:09:31of English and French, I suppose...

1:09:31 > 1:09:33in the first war.

1:09:33 > 1:09:37They had fathers, too.

1:09:46 > 1:09:48It's verboten, you know...

1:09:50 > 1:09:52Negro jazz.

1:09:53 > 1:09:55These might be the only copies

1:09:55 > 1:09:57of their kind in the entire Reich.

1:09:59 > 1:10:02But I'm quite fond of them.

1:10:06 > 1:10:08Nice to read by, anyway.

1:10:10 > 1:10:12Takes a man right back.

1:10:15 > 1:10:17Take a seat.

1:10:20 > 1:10:22Thank you for your time, Colonel.

1:10:24 > 1:10:25Lieutenant...

1:10:28 > 1:10:30Enjoy the manual.

1:10:51 > 1:10:52Come to order, gentlemen.

1:10:52 > 1:10:54Captain Sisk, is the prosecution

1:10:54 > 1:10:55prepared to call its next witness?

1:10:55 > 1:10:57We are, your honour.

1:10:57 > 1:10:58Begging the court's pardon, sir.

1:10:58 > 1:11:00Yes, Lieutenant?

1:11:00 > 1:11:01HART: Before we continue, your honour,

1:11:01 > 1:11:02it's been brought to my attention

1:11:02 > 1:11:03that the court may have overlooked

1:11:03 > 1:11:05a few procedural matters yesterday.

1:11:05 > 1:11:08I'm referring to the US Army Manual

1:11:08 > 1:11:09For Courts-Martial

1:11:09 > 1:11:12Chapter 12, sections 57, 58.

1:11:12 > 1:11:14MCNAMARA: Make your point.

1:11:14 > 1:11:15According to these sections, your honour,

1:11:15 > 1:11:17the court was obliged yesterday

1:11:17 > 1:11:18to ask the accused if he wished to challenge

1:11:18 > 1:11:20any members of the court

1:11:20 > 1:11:21for peremptory disqualification

1:11:21 > 1:11:24before any pleas were entered.

1:11:24 > 1:11:25A little late in the game for that,

1:11:25 > 1:11:26isn't it, Lieutenant?

1:11:26 > 1:11:29Nevertheless, it is a right

1:11:29 > 1:11:30specifically granted to the defendant.

1:11:35 > 1:11:37Very well.

1:11:39 > 1:11:40Does the accused wish to challenge

1:11:40 > 1:11:41any member of the court now?

1:11:41 > 1:11:44HART: We do, your honour.

1:11:44 > 1:11:45You, sir.

1:11:47 > 1:11:50Request denied. Proceed, Captain Sisk.

1:11:50 > 1:11:53HART: Sir, according to Chapter 12, Section 58d,

1:11:53 > 1:11:54defence is allowed one peremptory challenge

1:11:54 > 1:11:56of the board, and this challenge is not subject

1:11:56 > 1:11:58to any ruling by the court itself.

1:11:58 > 1:11:59MCNAMARA: Request denied, Lieutenant.

1:11:59 > 1:12:01HART: Then the court must address section 58e

1:12:01 > 1:12:03which states the defence may disqualify

1:12:03 > 1:12:05a member of the board for cause

1:12:05 > 1:12:07if that member has displayed a bias

1:12:07 > 1:12:08toward the accused or his case.

1:12:08 > 1:12:09This court has shown no bias

1:12:09 > 1:12:10in this case, Lieutenant.

1:12:10 > 1:12:12HART: The court has demonstrated

1:12:12 > 1:12:13in ex parte conversations before the commencement

1:12:13 > 1:12:16of this hearing a distinct prejudice

1:12:16 > 1:12:18against the accused, his case,

1:12:18 > 1:12:20and his counsel, sir.

1:12:35 > 1:12:37MCNAMARA: Very well.

1:12:37 > 1:12:39We'll take a short recess to consider the matter.

1:12:39 > 1:12:41Lieutenant Hart. Sir?

1:12:41 > 1:12:43Can I see you outside for a moment, please?

1:12:56 > 1:12:58Sir?

1:12:58 > 1:13:00Listen to me, you pampered little shit,

1:13:00 > 1:13:04I will not be laughed at. Not by him.

1:13:04 > 1:13:06Sir, I'm just trying to protect my client.

1:13:06 > 1:13:09Your client's about to lose his lawyer, Lieutenant.

1:13:09 > 1:13:10Sir?

1:13:10 > 1:13:13Article 32: Contempt of court.

1:13:13 > 1:13:16Article 70: Intentional delay.

1:13:17 > 1:13:19I know the book, too.

1:13:19 > 1:13:20Forwards and backwards.

1:13:20 > 1:13:22Then you must know, sir, that...

1:13:22 > 1:13:24Shut up and listen to me, Lieutenant.

1:13:25 > 1:13:27You will not accept anything

1:13:27 > 1:13:28from that commandant again.

1:13:28 > 1:13:30Is that clear?

1:13:30 > 1:13:33You will not allow him to participate

1:13:33 > 1:13:35in these proceedings, is that clear?

1:13:35 > 1:13:37You will never set foot in his office again

1:13:37 > 1:13:38without my permission.

1:13:38 > 1:13:40We understand each other?

1:13:56 > 1:14:00RADIO VOICE: '..And propaganda reported by them...

1:14:00 > 1:14:03'and by the Germans over Strasbourg.

1:14:03 > 1:14:05'One minute you can hear Hitler himself

1:14:05 > 1:14:08'announcing that he will be in Strasbourg

1:14:08 > 1:14:09'by January the 30th,

1:14:09 > 1:14:13'the anniversary of the Nazis coming to power in Germany.

1:14:13 > 1:14:16'The next, the Nazis are claiming that two new divisions

1:14:16 > 1:14:18'are advancing on Strasbourg

1:14:18 > 1:14:21'and that the Americans are in full flight over Marseilles.

1:14:22 > 1:14:25'The closer they get, the more violent they become.

1:14:25 > 1:14:29'The Nazi menace and the more honeyed of their promises.

1:14:29 > 1:14:30'But today...'

1:14:30 > 1:14:33Come in. Have a seat.

1:14:34 > 1:14:37RADIO: 'We've checked German...'

1:14:41 > 1:14:42Have a drink.

1:14:42 > 1:14:44Sure.

1:14:46 > 1:14:47Maybe you can help me

1:14:47 > 1:14:49decipher some of this code

1:14:49 > 1:14:52coming through the BBC tonight, yeah?

1:14:52 > 1:14:54I don't think you need my help, Colonel.

1:14:55 > 1:14:57Seems pretty clear what they're saying.

1:15:01 > 1:15:03It would seem so.

1:15:06 > 1:15:10Or perhaps it's all propaganda.

1:15:10 > 1:15:12How about that?

1:15:21 > 1:15:22RADIO STOPS

1:15:22 > 1:15:24HE SIGHS

1:15:27 > 1:15:29Ooh.

1:15:29 > 1:15:31Strange thing about war wounds.

1:15:34 > 1:15:36The older you grow,

1:15:36 > 1:15:39the less proud you become of them.

1:15:46 > 1:15:48BLUES MUSIC PLAYS

1:15:52 > 1:15:54CLICKING

1:16:05 > 1:16:07Got another one of these around here somewhere?

1:16:07 > 1:16:09Of course.

1:16:09 > 1:16:11Good. Why don't you and I take a walk

1:16:11 > 1:16:12out on your compound

1:16:12 > 1:16:14and have ourselves an old-fashioned duel?

1:16:14 > 1:16:19That would be fitting, wouldn't it?

1:16:19 > 1:16:21But surely you can think of a more clever way

1:16:21 > 1:16:24out of this camp than that, yes?

1:16:31 > 1:16:34You think the war will wait for you,

1:16:34 > 1:16:36is that it, Colonel?

1:16:38 > 1:16:41It won't, you know.

1:16:41 > 1:16:43They never do.

1:16:49 > 1:16:52You're drunk.

1:16:52 > 1:16:53Yeah.

1:16:55 > 1:16:57But I'm seeing things very clearly.

1:17:02 > 1:17:04You know, sometimes I think

1:17:04 > 1:17:05your Lieutenant Scott

1:17:05 > 1:17:09might have been better off in Alabama.

1:17:09 > 1:17:11Lynchings are over in minutes.

1:17:13 > 1:17:16The kind of justice he's suffering here

1:17:16 > 1:17:18is far crueller.

1:17:18 > 1:17:20Is that why you gave Lieutenant Hart the manual?

1:17:21 > 1:17:24I was merely trying to help the lad.

1:17:24 > 1:17:26He's got enough to worry about

1:17:26 > 1:17:28without providing you with amusement.

1:17:28 > 1:17:30Yes.

1:17:32 > 1:17:35He's got you to worry about, hasn't he?

1:17:36 > 1:17:38Stay out of our business.

1:17:40 > 1:17:44Forgive me, Colonel, but you're hardly

1:17:44 > 1:17:47in a position to hand out orders.

1:17:47 > 1:17:49Especially to me.

1:17:54 > 1:17:56For now.

1:18:01 > 1:18:04DISTANT EXPLOSIONS

1:18:07 > 1:18:09Unless, of course, you think that's just

1:18:09 > 1:18:11the sound of propaganda falling out there.

1:18:21 > 1:18:24SCOTT: 'Well, the idea was to follow Bedford

1:18:24 > 1:18:25'and catch him on the compound.

1:18:25 > 1:18:28'I wanted to drag him back under the barracks

1:18:28 > 1:18:29'and put his face in the mud.

1:18:29 > 1:18:31'Well, by the time I got to him

1:18:31 > 1:18:33'he was already dead behind the theatre.'

1:18:33 > 1:18:35His neck had been snapped.

1:18:35 > 1:18:36That's when everything blew up.

1:18:36 > 1:18:40Dogs, you know, hands up, and that was that.

1:18:40 > 1:18:41Lieutenant, did you apply anything

1:18:41 > 1:18:43to your face or hands

1:18:43 > 1:18:44before going out that night?

1:18:44 > 1:18:46Shoe polish? Soot?

1:18:46 > 1:18:48SCOTT: No.

1:18:48 > 1:18:50Defence exhibit one, your honour.

1:18:50 > 1:18:53Photos of the deceased taken in the camp morgue.

1:18:53 > 1:18:55The court will note black smudges

1:18:55 > 1:18:57on Bedford's right cheek and jaw.

1:18:58 > 1:19:02SISK: Your honour, what is the relevance of this?

1:19:02 > 1:19:03To demonstrate to the court

1:19:03 > 1:19:05that whoever killed Vic Bedford was white.

1:19:06 > 1:19:08I'd like to ask the court's permission

1:19:08 > 1:19:09to conduct a demonstration, your honour.

1:19:09 > 1:19:11I'd also ask the trial judge advocate

1:19:11 > 1:19:13to rise, if he would.

1:19:13 > 1:19:15MCNAMARA: Proceed.

1:19:16 > 1:19:18Based on Bedford's wounds and the fact

1:19:18 > 1:19:21that nobody reported hearing him cry for help that night,

1:19:21 > 1:19:22we have to assume that he was either

1:19:22 > 1:19:23friendly with his assailant

1:19:23 > 1:19:25or that whoever killed him did so from behind -

1:19:25 > 1:19:27the positioning being something like this.

1:19:27 > 1:19:29Captain, if you wouldn't mind grabbing at me -

1:19:29 > 1:19:31at my face to get me to stop.

1:19:31 > 1:19:33Now, of course, the killer had the benefits

1:19:33 > 1:19:37of leverage and surprise, so the neck was snapped

1:19:37 > 1:19:41and Bedford fell, and the smudge went with him.

1:19:41 > 1:19:44It was also on his fingers. Captain?

1:19:47 > 1:19:48At this time, I would like the court

1:19:48 > 1:19:49to note the following for the record:

1:19:49 > 1:19:51whoever killed Vic Bedford

1:19:51 > 1:19:52had such a substance on his face

1:19:52 > 1:19:54on the night of the murder,

1:19:54 > 1:19:56which raises two questions.

1:19:56 > 1:19:59First, what call would Lincoln Scott have

1:19:59 > 1:20:00for darkening his face?

1:20:00 > 1:20:02To look more black?

1:20:02 > 1:20:05Second, if he had done so, when did he take it off?

1:20:05 > 1:20:06Your honour, you stood face to face with him

1:20:06 > 1:20:08immediately after his capture.

1:20:08 > 1:20:09His face was clean.

1:20:09 > 1:20:11I think it's fair to conclude

1:20:11 > 1:20:12that whoever killed Vic Bedford

1:20:12 > 1:20:13was not only white

1:20:13 > 1:20:15but was waiting behind this theatre

1:20:15 > 1:20:19face blackened to avoid detection by the guards.

1:20:19 > 1:20:21Nothing further, your honour.

1:20:21 > 1:20:23Lieutenant, you say that Sergeant Bedford

1:20:23 > 1:20:25sneaked out through a loose board

1:20:25 > 1:20:28beneath the barracks' stove.

1:20:29 > 1:20:30Is that right?

1:20:35 > 1:20:36Yes, sir.

1:20:36 > 1:20:38And you took that same route on the night in question

1:20:38 > 1:20:40after he'd gone out.

1:20:41 > 1:20:43Yes, I did, sir.

1:20:43 > 1:20:45What did you find down there, Lieutenant?

1:20:45 > 1:20:47SCOTT: Excuse me, sir?

1:20:47 > 1:20:49What was down there on the ground?

1:20:51 > 1:20:53Mud, right?

1:20:53 > 1:20:56You stated that it had been your intention

1:20:56 > 1:20:58to put the victim's face in the mud

1:20:58 > 1:20:59until he begged you to stop,

1:20:59 > 1:21:00so there was mud down there,

1:21:00 > 1:21:03isn't that right, Lieutenant?

1:21:03 > 1:21:04I suppose so.

1:21:04 > 1:21:07And a fair amount of soot from the stove itself.

1:21:07 > 1:21:10So it's possible that Sergeant Bedford,

1:21:10 > 1:21:12having descended through a hole lined with soot

1:21:12 > 1:21:13and then having crawled facedown

1:21:13 > 1:21:16beneath the barracks wet with mud,

1:21:16 > 1:21:19might have emerged with mud and soot on his face.

1:21:23 > 1:21:25Nothing further, your honour.

1:21:26 > 1:21:28Thank you, Captain Sisk.

1:21:28 > 1:21:30Will you step down, Lieutenant?

1:21:35 > 1:21:37Lieutenant Scott?

1:21:40 > 1:21:42You know how hard they tried

1:21:42 > 1:21:46to wash us out of flight school - the coloured flyers?

1:21:46 > 1:21:49Your testimony's been entered, Lieutenant.

1:21:49 > 1:21:50You can step down.

1:21:50 > 1:21:53It was test after test.

1:21:53 > 1:21:55I mean, anything they could come up with

1:21:55 > 1:21:58to turn us into the cooks or the drivers

1:21:58 > 1:21:59or the shit shovellers.

1:21:59 > 1:22:01Your honour, this is highly unnecessary.

1:22:01 > 1:22:02the witness has already...

1:22:02 > 1:22:04SCOTT: But I refused to wash out.

1:22:04 > 1:22:08So did Archer. I mean, come hell or high water.

1:22:08 > 1:22:09We hit the books.

1:22:09 > 1:22:11We were just determined

1:22:11 > 1:22:12that we were not going to spend the war

1:22:12 > 1:22:14being some niggers.

1:22:14 > 1:22:16That's enough, Lieutenant. You will take your seat.

1:22:16 > 1:22:18SCOTT: With all due respect, sir,

1:22:18 > 1:22:19I would like to exercise my right

1:22:19 > 1:22:21and address this court.

1:22:21 > 1:22:24Now, I've been sitting down ever since I got here.

1:22:25 > 1:22:27And you know, I should have stood up and said something

1:22:27 > 1:22:29the moment that you threw us in with the enlisted men

1:22:29 > 1:22:33instead of quartering us properly as officers.

1:22:39 > 1:22:41But it's OK.

1:22:41 > 1:22:44You see, coloured men expect to have to jump

1:22:44 > 1:22:46through a few hoops in this man's army.

1:22:46 > 1:22:49Archer knew that. We all did.

1:22:53 > 1:22:58There's a camp right outside of Macon, where I'm from,

1:22:58 > 1:23:04and there the army sends the German POWs.

1:23:04 > 1:23:06Puts them to work picking cotton.

1:23:09 > 1:23:11But what's strange is every once in a while

1:23:11 > 1:23:13we'd see them walking through town

1:23:13 > 1:23:17going to movies, eating in diners.

1:23:17 > 1:23:19But if I wanted to go to those same movies

1:23:19 > 1:23:21I had to sit way off in the balcony.

1:23:21 > 1:23:25And those diners were closed to me even in uniform.

1:23:25 > 1:23:29But German POWs were allowed to sit there and eat.

1:23:29 > 1:23:30And this must have happened

1:23:30 > 1:23:32to at least half the guys at Tuskegee.

1:23:32 > 1:23:35But the thing is we just kept telling ourselves

1:23:35 > 1:23:39that no matter what, as long as we did our jobs,

1:23:39 > 1:23:40it'd all be worth it,

1:23:40 > 1:23:44because hey, the war would end, we could go home

1:23:44 > 1:23:46and be free to walk down any street in America

1:23:46 > 1:23:50with our heads held high as men.

1:23:52 > 1:23:54So that's what we did.

1:23:54 > 1:23:56We did our jobs.

1:24:00 > 1:24:02We served our country, sir,

1:24:02 > 1:24:05Archer and I.

1:24:05 > 1:24:08And what you let happen to him...

1:24:08 > 1:24:11What you allowed to happen to him...

1:24:13 > 1:24:15was appalling.

1:24:19 > 1:24:21And so is this.

1:24:38 > 1:24:39DOOR OPENS

1:24:42 > 1:24:44At ease, Lieutenant.

1:24:52 > 1:24:53How are they treating you?

1:24:55 > 1:24:57No worse than the men in my barracks, sir.

1:25:01 > 1:25:03I can probably find you another blanket.

1:25:03 > 1:25:04No. I'm fine.

1:25:20 > 1:25:22Night.

1:26:44 > 1:26:45GAVEL BANGING

1:26:45 > 1:26:47New order, gentlemen.

1:26:47 > 1:26:50Before you proceed, your honour, the defence hasn't rested yet.

1:26:50 > 1:26:51Still like to call one last witness.

1:26:54 > 1:26:57Defence calls Oberst Werner Visser.

1:27:01 > 1:27:02This some kind of joke, Lieutenant?

1:27:02 > 1:27:05He's material to our case, sir.

1:27:05 > 1:27:07Unless, of course, the Colonel refuses to testify.

1:27:10 > 1:27:11He does not.

1:27:18 > 1:27:19Colonel, could you tell us

1:27:19 > 1:27:22the nature of your relationship with Vic Bedford?

1:27:22 > 1:27:24I'll be happy to. I didn't have one.

1:27:24 > 1:27:27And what about your guards, Colonel?

1:27:27 > 1:27:28Major Fussel, for instance?

1:27:29 > 1:27:31Were you aware of his dealings with Vic Bedford

1:27:31 > 1:27:33at night after lockdown?

1:27:35 > 1:27:37That would be impossible in this camp, Lieutenant.

1:27:37 > 1:27:38Policy forbids.

1:27:40 > 1:27:41Do you remember the conversation we had

1:27:41 > 1:27:43in the camp morgue four days ago?

1:27:44 > 1:27:45Vaguely.

1:27:45 > 1:27:48I asked you if you knew Vic Bedford

1:27:48 > 1:27:49and you said,

1:27:49 > 1:27:52"No, but my guards certainly seem to."

1:27:52 > 1:27:53Perhaps.

1:27:53 > 1:27:54So, in your words,

1:27:54 > 1:27:56no guard ever traded with Vic Bedford,

1:27:56 > 1:28:00and yet he was able to acquire winter boots,

1:28:00 > 1:28:01thick socks, fresh milk,

1:28:01 > 1:28:03and parts for a hidden radio.

1:28:03 > 1:28:05isn't that a fact?

1:28:05 > 1:28:07Lieutenant, I'm sitting here

1:28:07 > 1:28:10as a gesture of military courtesy.

1:28:10 > 1:28:13If it is your intention to paint me as a liar...

1:28:13 > 1:28:15No, Colonel.

1:28:15 > 1:28:16It is my intention to establish

1:28:16 > 1:28:18that Vic Bedford built up enough of a rapport

1:28:18 > 1:28:21with your Majors Wirtz and Fussel

1:28:21 > 1:28:24to engage in the framing of Lamar Archer,

1:28:24 > 1:28:25conspiring with them in the tent spike incident,

1:28:25 > 1:28:28which resulted in Archer's death.

1:28:28 > 1:28:31Lieutenant Archer was shot while attempting escape.

1:28:31 > 1:28:32No, Colonel.

1:28:32 > 1:28:34Lieutenant archer was executed

1:28:34 > 1:28:36in return for information.

1:28:38 > 1:28:39Archer dies.

1:28:39 > 1:28:40Five minutes later,

1:28:40 > 1:28:44Colonel Visser and Major Wirtz enter barracks 22

1:28:44 > 1:28:45and destroy a hidden radio

1:28:45 > 1:28:48that they had been trying to locate for months.

1:28:56 > 1:28:57Can you tell the court anything

1:28:57 > 1:28:59about these items, sir?

1:28:59 > 1:29:02Identification papers, some currency.

1:29:02 > 1:29:03What of them?

1:29:03 > 1:29:06Perfect German-made ID papers and Reichsmarks.

1:29:08 > 1:29:09Two thousand of them.

1:29:12 > 1:29:15More than enough cash to make it through the country.

1:29:15 > 1:29:17Vic Bedford kept those in a stash beside his bunk.

1:29:17 > 1:29:18Again, can you tell the court the nature

1:29:18 > 1:29:20of your relationship with Vic Bedford?

1:29:20 > 1:29:22I did not have one, Lieutenant.

1:29:22 > 1:29:23Do you have any idea

1:29:23 > 1:29:25how he may have gotten these items, sir?

1:29:26 > 1:29:27If they didn't come from you,

1:29:27 > 1:29:29and if he never had any dealings with your guards,

1:29:29 > 1:29:31the fact is, Colonel,

1:29:31 > 1:29:33Vic Bedford traded with you and your men regularly.

1:29:33 > 1:29:34Objection, your honour!

1:29:34 > 1:29:35As soon as he came up dry on you,

1:29:35 > 1:29:36you ordered his murder.

1:29:36 > 1:29:38Isn't that right, Colonel?

1:29:38 > 1:29:39Lieutenant Hart.

1:29:40 > 1:29:43I thought you tried marvellously

1:29:43 > 1:29:45to establish that the killer had blackened

1:29:45 > 1:29:47his face with soot.

1:29:47 > 1:29:50Now, if any of my guards,

1:29:50 > 1:29:53or even I wanted to kill one of my prisoners -

1:29:53 > 1:29:55Vic Bedford in this case -

1:29:55 > 1:29:59we would hardly need to blacken our faces to do it.

1:30:00 > 1:30:01Would we?

1:32:38 > 1:32:40Move. In the corner, Webb.

1:33:24 > 1:33:25Captain.

1:33:37 > 1:33:39You see?

1:33:40 > 1:33:42German uniforms, explosives.

1:33:43 > 1:33:46Yes, Captain, I see.

1:33:46 > 1:33:48The trial's got nothing to do with Lincoln Scott, does it?

1:33:49 > 1:33:50No.

1:33:50 > 1:33:52It's the way it had to go.

1:33:54 > 1:33:55We're out of time, Hart.

1:33:56 > 1:33:57We lose this theatre tomorrow.

1:33:57 > 1:34:00Uh-huh, and I'm supposed to keep Visser and his men distracted

1:34:00 > 1:34:02while half the camp goes out.

1:34:02 > 1:34:03Is that it, Captain?

1:34:08 > 1:34:09I'm asking the wrong fucking guy.

1:34:26 > 1:34:27I've just seen the tunnel, Colonel.

1:34:33 > 1:34:34In here, Lieutenant.

1:34:52 > 1:34:54Everything in this place is a lie.

1:34:54 > 1:34:55Everything.

1:35:02 > 1:35:04Oh, Jesus Christ.

1:35:06 > 1:35:08First he told the Germans about the radio.

1:35:10 > 1:35:11It was only a matter of time

1:35:11 > 1:35:13before he told them about the tunnel.

1:35:16 > 1:35:18You killed Bedford.

1:35:21 > 1:35:23That's right.

1:35:30 > 1:35:32If you fuck with this operation in any way,

1:35:32 > 1:35:33I'll kill you, too.

1:35:38 > 1:35:39You will sit in that courtroom

1:35:39 > 1:35:42as Captain Sisk drags out these proceedings.

1:35:43 > 1:35:46Make whatever summation you like, but that's it.

1:35:48 > 1:35:49When that board breaks to deliberate,

1:35:49 > 1:35:5135 men go under the wire.

1:35:51 > 1:35:52And Lincoln Scott will be dead.

1:35:52 > 1:35:54That's war, Lieutenant.

1:35:54 > 1:35:55The war's at the front, Colonel.

1:35:55 > 1:35:57We're not even in it anymore.

1:35:57 > 1:35:58Speak for yourself!

1:35:58 > 1:36:00You know those Russians

1:36:00 > 1:36:02they march in and out of here every day?

1:36:02 > 1:36:03You know where they go?

1:36:03 > 1:36:04Munitions plant.

1:36:04 > 1:36:06The army thinks it's a goddamn shoe factory.

1:36:11 > 1:36:12Look.

1:36:13 > 1:36:16I don't want to see Scott dead any more than you do.

1:36:16 > 1:36:17But if one man has to be sacrificed

1:36:17 > 1:36:19to take out that target,

1:36:19 > 1:36:21then that's the way it has to be.

1:36:21 > 1:36:22I agree completely, sir.

1:36:22 > 1:36:23Good.

1:36:25 > 1:36:27But I think that one man should be you.

1:36:28 > 1:36:30And don't worry. I'll play my part.

1:36:30 > 1:36:31But at the end of the trial,

1:36:31 > 1:36:34you're going to tap your little gavel.

1:36:34 > 1:36:35You're going to stand up

1:36:35 > 1:36:36and you're going to confess to the murder.

1:36:36 > 1:36:38Your duty demands that.

1:36:38 > 1:36:39Fuck you, Hart.

1:36:39 > 1:36:41What the fuck would you know about duty?

1:36:44 > 1:36:45I'll see you in court, sir.

1:37:03 > 1:37:04MAN YELLING COMMANDS

1:37:06 > 1:37:08I got a better question.

1:37:08 > 1:37:09What was in that goddamn soup last night?

1:37:09 > 1:37:11I got 20 men with food poisoning.

1:37:11 > 1:37:13Nicht mein problem.

1:37:23 > 1:37:25Colonel? Whoa! Colonel!

1:37:27 > 1:37:28You're in no shape for the trial, sir.

1:37:28 > 1:37:31I'm fine. Really, I'm fine.

1:37:32 > 1:37:34Let me go.

1:37:34 > 1:37:36We'll convene as scheduled after the Appell.

1:37:37 > 1:37:38Square 'em up.

1:37:40 > 1:37:43Prisoners, attention!

1:37:47 > 1:37:48Come to order, gentlemen.

1:37:48 > 1:37:49Captain Sisk.

1:37:51 > 1:37:54Is the prosecution ready to present its summation?

1:37:54 > 1:37:56We are, your honour.

1:37:56 > 1:37:57Very well.

1:38:08 > 1:38:09I'm sorry, gentlemen.

1:38:09 > 1:38:12The court needs a five-minute recess before summations.

1:38:14 > 1:38:15Colonel. Colonel!

1:38:15 > 1:38:17Colonel? Colonel!

1:38:17 > 1:38:19Let's get him back to the barracks.

1:38:19 > 1:38:21Get his coat.

1:38:21 > 1:38:22Get some rest, sir.

1:38:22 > 1:38:25All right, come on. Get back to the barracks.

1:38:25 > 1:38:27We need an extension, Colonel - he's very ill.

1:38:28 > 1:38:30The agreement was the end of the week.

1:38:30 > 1:38:31It's a matter of courtesy, Colonel.

1:38:31 > 1:38:33The agreement was today!

1:38:38 > 1:38:39I need to talk to you.

1:38:54 > 1:38:56Are you any good at poker, Lincoln?

1:38:58 > 1:39:01There's an escape going to take place later on this afternoon.

1:39:02 > 1:39:04Escape? How's that?

1:39:05 > 1:39:08Down a tunnel through that burned theatre wing...

1:39:10 > 1:39:12while the jury's in deliberations.

1:39:15 > 1:39:16So what you mean?

1:39:16 > 1:39:17This whole thing's been a joke?

1:39:17 > 1:39:18Yes.

1:39:19 > 1:39:22But Archer and Bedford are dead for real.

1:39:22 > 1:39:25Is that part of this big joke, too?

1:39:25 > 1:39:27Look, we haven't got time now.

1:39:27 > 1:39:29During deliberations, you're going out under the wire

1:39:29 > 1:39:32with 35 other men.

1:39:32 > 1:39:33Is McNamara, too?

1:39:35 > 1:39:37Yeah, McNamara, too.

1:39:41 > 1:39:44It's funny. I was just writing my son,

1:39:44 > 1:39:47and in the letter I was trying to explain to him

1:39:47 > 1:39:50what the word honour means.

1:39:51 > 1:39:53It would be a hell of a thing, wouldn't it,

1:39:53 > 1:39:57to find out that your father helped 35 men

1:39:57 > 1:39:59escape from a place like this, wouldn't it?

1:39:59 > 1:40:01You're going out, too, Lincoln, you got that?

1:40:03 > 1:40:05I can't do that, Tommy.

1:40:06 > 1:40:08Suppose the board comes back

1:40:08 > 1:40:10and there's nobody sitting

1:40:10 > 1:40:12in the defendant's chair anymore?

1:40:12 > 1:40:13It doesn't matter. You'll already be out.

1:40:13 > 1:40:15Then the search begins,

1:40:15 > 1:40:18and all those men, they won't have a chance.

1:40:18 > 1:40:20Lincoln, if you stay, you'll be convicted.

1:40:20 > 1:40:25If I stay, those men are gonna have a chance.

1:40:25 > 1:40:26And you'll be executed.

1:40:31 > 1:40:33Lincoln, listen to me, please.

1:40:33 > 1:40:35Everything's fine, Tommy.

1:40:35 > 1:40:37Everything's really OK...

1:40:40 > 1:40:43Just as long as he knows what happened here.

1:40:45 > 1:40:47As long as there's somebody to tell him.

1:40:53 > 1:40:56How far could I get anyway? A coloured man

1:40:56 > 1:40:59running through the German countryside?

1:40:59 > 1:41:01It'd be target practice.

1:41:26 > 1:41:28HART: It started with a noble idea.

1:41:30 > 1:41:32Letting coloured men join the fight.

1:41:33 > 1:41:36But no-one in the Air Corps ever considered what might happen

1:41:36 > 1:41:39if one of those Tuskegee men ever got shot down.

1:41:40 > 1:41:42No-one ever asked what would happen

1:41:42 > 1:41:45if a coloured officer was suddenly captured

1:41:45 > 1:41:47and sent to a Stalag like this one.

1:41:48 > 1:41:51But Lincoln Scott was shot down,

1:41:51 > 1:41:53and he was sent to a Stalag

1:41:53 > 1:41:54and once here,

1:41:54 > 1:41:56he wasn't just thrown in

1:41:56 > 1:41:57amongst white enlisted men,

1:41:57 > 1:41:59he was quartered with them.

1:41:59 > 1:42:01Men like Staff Sergeant Vic Bedford.

1:42:01 > 1:42:03Bedford, the real Bedford,

1:42:03 > 1:42:05was a man unknown to us.

1:42:05 > 1:42:08Hateful, vengeful,

1:42:08 > 1:42:10with a bigotry that ran bone-deep.

1:42:12 > 1:42:14A man who simply couldn't stomach the thought

1:42:14 > 1:42:18of sharing a roof with coloured officers.

1:42:18 > 1:42:20So he badgered Scott, baited him,

1:42:20 > 1:42:23even refused to respect Scott's rank...

1:42:23 > 1:42:27Then conspired to kill the only friend Scott had in this camp.

1:42:27 > 1:42:29That's why Scott followed Bedford out

1:42:29 > 1:42:31the night in question,

1:42:31 > 1:42:35crept up behind him and snapped his neck.

1:42:36 > 1:42:38Members of the board, we take no pleasure

1:42:38 > 1:42:39in prosecuting Lieutenant Scott,

1:42:39 > 1:42:41but a capital charge requires

1:42:41 > 1:42:45that we put aside our passions and sympathies,

1:42:45 > 1:42:48wedding ourselves solely to the truth.

1:42:48 > 1:42:50It is this.

1:42:50 > 1:42:52Lieutenant Scott was positively

1:42:52 > 1:42:54and unimpeachably identified at the scene of the crime.

1:42:54 > 1:42:57He had motive, he had opportunity,

1:42:57 > 1:42:59and he had an animus for the victim

1:42:59 > 1:43:02which was confirmed even by his own testimony.

1:43:04 > 1:43:06Lincoln Scott is an officer,

1:43:06 > 1:43:09he is a soldier,

1:43:09 > 1:43:10but he is also a murderer.

1:43:36 > 1:43:37HART: There's a tenet

1:43:37 > 1:43:39that was drummed into all of us

1:43:39 > 1:43:41from our first day in Basic:

1:43:42 > 1:43:44Sometimes one man must be sacrificed

1:43:44 > 1:43:46for the good of the men around him.

1:43:46 > 1:43:49Someone has to be first to hit the beach

1:43:49 > 1:43:51or to jump on a grenade

1:43:51 > 1:43:53or to draw enemy fire

1:43:53 > 1:43:56so coordinates can be drawn for mortar teams.

1:43:56 > 1:43:59I think Bedford learned that tenet, too,

1:43:59 > 1:44:00except Vic got it backwards.

1:44:00 > 1:44:03Vic thought that sometimes a few hundred

1:44:03 > 1:44:05must be sacrificed for the good of one...

1:44:06 > 1:44:07Him.

1:44:07 > 1:44:11For Vic the watchword was expediency.

1:44:11 > 1:44:12One day he'd trade with our captors

1:44:12 > 1:44:15to get hard-to-find parts for a radio,

1:44:15 > 1:44:16earning him the loyalty

1:44:16 > 1:44:18of our commanding officer and his staff.

1:44:18 > 1:44:20Then Vic would tell the Germans

1:44:20 > 1:44:21where to find that radio...

1:44:21 > 1:44:22Go.

1:44:22 > 1:44:24In exchange for the murder of Lamar Archer.

1:44:26 > 1:44:30The army has its share of cowards...

1:44:30 > 1:44:32and Vic Bedford was one of them.

1:44:32 > 1:44:34It also has heroes,

1:44:34 > 1:44:36soldiers like Lincoln Scott.

1:44:36 > 1:44:38Lincoln Scott, who wanted nothing more

1:44:38 > 1:44:39than to serve his country.

1:44:39 > 1:44:40And serve he did.

1:44:40 > 1:44:42nine downed German fighters,

1:44:42 > 1:44:4430 missions,

1:44:44 > 1:44:45until one of those missions landed him here,

1:44:45 > 1:44:48Stalag 6a,

1:44:48 > 1:44:50where Vic Bedford and the sad sacks

1:44:50 > 1:44:52Bedford called friends were lying in wait.

1:44:52 > 1:44:56Scott was a target from the second he got here.

1:44:56 > 1:44:59He suffered insults, threats,

1:44:59 > 1:45:00but he did not retaliate.

1:45:00 > 1:45:04He did not kill Vic Bedford.

1:45:04 > 1:45:06No.

1:45:07 > 1:45:08Someone beat him to it.

1:45:11 > 1:45:13It could've been any number of people...

1:45:13 > 1:45:17the guard who thought that Bedford had cheated him,

1:45:17 > 1:45:19a fellow Kriegie who discovered Bedford's treachery,

1:45:19 > 1:45:21even one of our ranking officers

1:45:21 > 1:45:23as punishment for ratting out that radio.

1:45:23 > 1:45:25So this, then, is our victim?

1:45:25 > 1:45:26A bigot.

1:45:26 > 1:45:28A traitor.

1:45:28 > 1:45:30A rat.

1:45:30 > 1:45:32Enemy of every Kriegie in camp.

1:45:34 > 1:45:35The question is,

1:45:35 > 1:45:37who hated him enough to kill him?

1:45:42 > 1:45:43WHISPERING: Colonel.

1:45:50 > 1:45:52I did.

1:45:56 > 1:45:57ROSS: Wait a minute,

1:45:57 > 1:45:58what are you saying, Lieutenant?

1:45:58 > 1:46:00I killed Vic Bedford, sir.

1:46:02 > 1:46:04Come on, Colonel. Here.

1:46:04 > 1:46:07SPEAKING GERMAN

1:46:07 > 1:46:10VISSER: I want every man in the compound present

1:46:10 > 1:46:12for the execution of Lieutenant Hart.

1:46:14 > 1:46:15Very brave.

1:46:15 > 1:46:17Very brave, indeed.

1:46:17 > 1:46:18SISK: Colonel, this man has rights.

1:46:18 > 1:46:19Not anymore.

1:46:19 > 1:46:21This court still has to deliberate the matter.

1:46:21 > 1:46:22I am the court now!

1:46:22 > 1:46:24Now. Get him up. Get him up. Get him up.

1:46:31 > 1:46:33Get out, get out, get out.

1:46:34 > 1:46:36SHOUTING IN GERMAN

1:46:38 > 1:46:40DOGS BARKING

1:46:50 > 1:46:52COUNTING

1:47:11 > 1:47:13SHOUTING IN GERMAN

1:47:33 > 1:47:35SPEAKING GERMAN

1:48:42 > 1:48:43I want every man

1:48:43 > 1:48:45who participated in that court-martial

1:48:45 > 1:48:47removed from the line.

1:48:47 > 1:48:49SHOUTING IN GERMAN

1:48:52 > 1:48:54VISSER: Line them up for execution.

1:48:54 > 1:48:56Line them up, now.

1:48:56 > 1:48:58ROSS: These men knew nothing, Colonel.

1:48:59 > 1:49:01Line them up!

1:49:03 > 1:49:04You will be the first.

1:49:04 > 1:49:05These men knew nothing.

1:49:05 > 1:49:07You will be the first!

1:49:07 > 1:49:08Colonel, they knew nothing!

1:49:13 > 1:49:14MAN: Herr commandant!

1:49:14 > 1:49:15Herr commandant!

1:49:58 > 1:50:00BOOM

1:50:27 > 1:50:29VISSER: So,

1:50:29 > 1:50:31your men are saboteurs as well?

1:50:31 > 1:50:32No, Colonel,

1:50:32 > 1:50:34they're just soldiers.

1:50:34 > 1:50:36They were following my orders.

1:50:36 > 1:50:39I assume complete responsibility.

1:50:41 > 1:50:44That's very noble of you.

1:50:45 > 1:50:47MORE EXPLOSIONS

1:50:53 > 1:50:54Seems you've won our duel

1:50:54 > 1:50:56after all, Colonel.

1:50:58 > 1:51:00No.

1:51:02 > 1:51:04We both lose,

1:51:04 > 1:51:06don't we?

1:51:08 > 1:51:09Yeah.

1:51:12 > 1:51:16And now you wish to trade your life

1:51:16 > 1:51:18for theirs?

1:51:26 > 1:51:28Yes, I do.

1:52:00 > 1:52:02Very well.

1:52:06 > 1:52:08GUNSHOT

1:53:30 > 1:53:32SHOUTING IN GERMAN

1:54:26 > 1:54:27HART: 'We buried the Colonel

1:54:27 > 1:54:29'in a marked grave behind the camp.

1:54:29 > 1:54:32'Three months later, the German Army surrendered.

1:54:32 > 1:54:34'Our Stalag was liberated.

1:54:34 > 1:54:36'The war was over.

1:54:37 > 1:54:39'We returned home,

1:54:39 > 1:54:40'to America,

1:54:40 > 1:54:42'to our families.

1:54:42 > 1:54:43'Lincoln Scott got the chance

1:54:43 > 1:54:46'to explain the word "honour" to his son.

1:54:46 > 1:54:52'Honour and courage, duty, sacrifice.

1:54:52 > 1:54:55'Lincoln's son came to understand those words,

1:54:55 > 1:54:57'and so have I.'