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(interference on radio)
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- [Man] That the guts of the German Army
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have been largely torn out.
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(speaking in foreign language)
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(singing in foreign language)
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- [Man] With thy blessing,
we shall prevail,
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over the unholy forces of our enemy.
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♫ Baby won't you please come home
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♫ 'cause your Mama's all alone
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♫ I have tried in vain
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♫ Never know more to call your name
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♫ When you left you broke my heart
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♫ 'cause I never thought we'd part
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♫ Now every moment of the day
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♫ You can hear me say
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♫ Baby come on home I need your loving
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♫ Baby
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♫ Please
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♫ Come on home
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(typewriter keys clicking)
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- [Man Voiceover] If
newspaper was my wife,
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radio became my mistress.
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But don't blame me for my
infidelity to the facts.
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My work in newspapers
gave me the permission
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to transcend the truth.
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My name is Sefton Delmer and
I was the first newspaper man
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to interview Hitler in 1932.
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At first I thought he
was a harmless crackpot
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but eventually I saw him for what he was.
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An aggressive threat to
Europe, perhaps even the world.
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After I got kicked out of Germany, in '41,
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Churchill and the War Cabinet
got me thinking about creating
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a fake radio program to
help bring down Hitler.
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Naturally I loved the idea.
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(gentle piano music)
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I assembled a team to
create these so-called
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black propaganda broadcasts.
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My good friend Ian
Fleming joined to help me
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with the script writing.
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Agnes Bernelle, a young German refugee
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and talented actress,
became our radio star Vicky.
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Approximately 80% of our
scripts were real news.
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The other 20% were
carefully concocted lies.
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Agnes would read these
scripts over the radio.
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Using the most powerful
transmitter in Europe
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we could broadcast signals into Germany,
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tricking the enemy into
thinking they were listening to
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real German radio stations.
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The goal of our black propaganda
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was to turn the German
people against the Nazis.
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To demoralize the German
soldiers and oh, most of all,
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to give the Germans something
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Hitler didn't want them to have.
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Jazz.
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- You were right about her.
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Radio doesn't do her justice.
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- Otto my friend you should've
seen her in Fine and Dandy
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at the Seville Theater.
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- [Otto] I can only imagine--
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- Delmer do you want to work
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or just tell jokes with your friend?
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- Oh I'm sorry but this is his first taste
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of black propaganda.
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- It's much nicer than I expected.
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- And you are?
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- Ah forgive me this is Otto John,
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one of the July 20th fellas
who managed to escape.
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He may join us as an
expert on the Resistance.
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- Agnes Bernelle, sideshow
in Delmer's circus.
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- I must say it is a
pleasure to meet the girl
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who once instructed all
good German citizens
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to send their morning urine to the Fuhrer
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in a small bottle.
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- I heard it took three
weeks to flush those things
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through the German postal system.
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- That was one of my better ideas.
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Fleming, Ian Fleming,
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Special Assistant to the
Director of Intelligence,
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His Majesty's Navy.
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- Pleased to meet you.
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- You know, when this war is over,
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I'm going to write the spy
novel to end all spy novels.
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And you're going to be
in every one of them.
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- Well that's if the doodlebug rockets
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don't get us first.
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Tom are we actually going
to do this thing tonight?
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- Mm hmm.
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- [Agnes] Where's Howard I
thought he was going to play
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General Beck?
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- He had to cancel.
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Something about wanting
to write the script.
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But I think my German will hold up.
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- Okay well I'm ready when you are,
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this song's just about over.
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- [Otto] So, this is your war of wits.
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- Total war.
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I must warn you.
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In my unit we're up to
all kinds of dirty tricks.
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The dirtier the better.
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Lies, treachery, everything.
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No holds barred.
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If you're at all squeamish about
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what you may be called upon to do
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against your fellow Germans,
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you're no good to us.
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What do you say?
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(tense music)
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- Mr Delmer, my friends
have given their lives
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to rid Germany of this Satan.
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Whatever you ask of me,
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whatever quickens the defeat of Hitler,
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I consider it a continuation of the work
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of my countrymen.
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Otherwise, those who died in
Valkyrie were the lucky ones.
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And those still alive in
Germany will have hell to pay.
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- [Delmer] The German underground
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made an assassination
attempt on the Fuhrer,
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at least their 20th,
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led by Colonel Stauffenberg
called Operation Valkyrie.
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But the bomb's explosion
didn't kill the madman,
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only perforating his eardrum
and singeing his pants.
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An indignity that made him
as furious as death itself.
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- 120 people were either
executed or took their own lives
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in order not to be tortured by the Gestapo
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and then betray names of their friends.
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(shouting in foreign language)
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- [Delmer] Soon all those
involved found themselves
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in the crosshairs of the German Gestapo
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in Freisler's People's Court.
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- Even though the Gestapo
was rather dimwitted
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it did not take too much
creativity to figure out
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the Resistance was primarily
the old upper class.
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When you look at the list of those hung,
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you have all the names
that made Prussia great.
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Moltke, Schwerin,
Schulenburg, Yorck, and so on.
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- [Delmer] After the initial executions,
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the dragnet expanded to
included anyone suspected
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of being involved in the
assassination attempt.
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This included theologian and
pastor Dietrich Bonhoeffer,
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a German who was a
nuisance to the Nazi Party
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and had been for years
speaking out actively
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against the Fuehrer.
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Such boldness had landed
him in Tegel Prison.
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- [Bonhoeffer Voiceover]
I'm still discovering
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right up to this moment
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that it is only by living
completely in this world
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that one learns to have faith.
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By this worldiness I
mean living unreservedly
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in life's duties, problems,
successes and failures,
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experiences and perplexities.
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In doing so we throw ourselves completely
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into the arms of God,
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taking seriously not our own sufferings
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but those of God in the world.
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- The time in Tegel Prison
after the failure of the coup,
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it's from this moment on
when he has to reckon with
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his own death.
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And he's enamored with this
figure of Moses on Mount Nebo.
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Moses, who gets to look
into the Promised Land
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but will not enter it,
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that's Bonhoeffer and the conspirators.
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- [Bonhoeffer Voiceover]
Grant me to witness,
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through the veil of death, my people,
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at their high triumphant feast.
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I fail and sink into thine eternity
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but see my people marching forward, free.
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Stay, hold my nervous hands
that fall on my staff.
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Thou faithful God,
prepare me for my grave.
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- Some of the records will
say that he with others
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pretty much felt their fate was sealed
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and that it was over.
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That there lives would likely end.
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But you know as the weeks
went on I'm not so sure
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that if I was in his place
or any of us would know
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that that's truly a possibility,
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but I think they had also seen enough
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serendipitous stuff
happen, I would still guess
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that they thought there was a slim chance
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that somebody might
intervene and they could see
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the next month and years of their life.
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(speaking in foreign language)
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- [Delmer] The Allies were
pushing their way across France
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towards Germany.
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Our radio broadcasts were
of course already there,
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serving up a daily delicious
blend of fact and fiction,
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to whoever might be listening.
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By 1944 I had long since
traded decency for deception,
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throwing myself completely into the work
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of crushing Nazi Germany.
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How many listeners believed
our black propaganda,
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we never knew, but enough
successful reports came in
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to make me hope there were many.
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It was hard work, but also quite fun.
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(upbeat music)
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- You do know that nobody will
be able to see your lipstick
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on the radio.
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- I know, but you will.
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- There's wine on the Rhine.
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Two barrels have broken
and lost their spirits.
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- Is that code?
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- Just as we hoped, we
lured them over the Alps
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with the false coordinates we broadcast
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and they ran out of fuel.
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(laughing)
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- What do you know your black
propaganda actually works.
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- Recently we even had the
SS arresting each other.
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- Mostly we just keep those
faithful German soldiers
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worried sick that their wives
aren't quite so faithful.
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- And if those soldiers die,
Sefton sends cheery letters
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to their families to make them
think they're still alive.
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- Why?
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- Spreads rumors, breaks morale.
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- Second one in sixth months.
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- [Fleming] What about me?
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- I think the coordinates
were Sefton's idea.
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If I remember correctly
you were busy creating
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sexist names for your future spy novels.
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- Now what shall we report today?
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- I have an idea.
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- Let's hear it.
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- We finally announce the formal agreement
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between the German
Resistance and the Allies.
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- Ian--
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- It's time.
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- You keep pitching that.
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- Save it for your book Ian.
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Nobody wants more spies and double agents.
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- We have Otto now.
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- He's here for the details.
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- Yeah then why--
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- Every German resistor
is seen by the Allies
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as a spy pretending to be anti-Nazi.
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Remember the Venlo fiasco?
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A most unpleasant introduction
to the German Resistance.
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- That was nearly five years ago.
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- Will our audience really believe
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that high-ranking Germans
would turn against Hitler?
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- But they have.
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We have.
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My brother Hans and I were
recruited into the Resistance
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by Klaus Bonhoeffer.
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The entire Bonhoeffer
family was very anti-Nazi,
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even before the start of the war.
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- This is good Otto.
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Tell us more.
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- We would often meet
at the Bonhoeffer home
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in order to discuss plans
to eliminate Hitler.
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We were involved in the
attempted coup in 1938.
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This was a plan organized by Hans Oster
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and there were top generals supporting us.
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Even the Berlin Chief of Police.
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Our plan was to wait for
Hitler's order to attack
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Czechoslovakia and then
with lightning speed
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seize him in the Chancellery.
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Professor Bonhoeffer,
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Head of Psychiatry at Berlin University,
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would then declare him insane.
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Subsequently he would
be removed from power.
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- What happened?
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- The world gave in to Germany's demands.
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No shots were fired and
Czechoslovakia was erased
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from the map.
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Hitler looked like a statesman.
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No one would've supported a coup.
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Our best chance came in 1943.
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We disguised a bomb as
two bottles of brandy
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using a captured British
explosive with a pencil detonator.
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After months of preparation
we enacted our plan
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which we called Operation Flash.
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We managed to give the
bomb to Colonel Brandt,
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telling him it was a gift,
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which he placed on Hitler's plane.
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We toasted our luck in
getting the explosive
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right under the Fuehrer.
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And later that night we toasted
the detonator that failed.
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It's as if the Devil is protecting him.
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- But who would believe all this?
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- Why is that so hard to believe?
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That a German might act out
of a sense of conscience,
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and not simply self-interest.
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Why have you invited
me here if you believe,
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as Churchill does, that
there is no such thing
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as a good German.
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- That's not what I said.
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- No but it's what you meant.
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- Listen--
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- Klaus' brother, Dietrich Bonhoeffer,
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managed to get out of Germany in 1939.
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He made it all the way to New York City.
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It was his conscience
that made him return.
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- A pastor, taking part in
the assassination plots.
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- Because of my job with the airlines
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I too could have fled.
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But I followed Dietrich's lead.
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We were resistors, for God and country,
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before Hitler was losing the war.
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When we had something to lose.
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(tense music)
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- My apologies.
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Churchill dismissed the German
resistors at Valkyrie as
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an internal disease, but it was
clear that the German pastor
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with others was inspired into action
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by a deep Christian conviction.
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But who was Dietrich?
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One of eight children,
he got his PhD at 21.
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A man of intellect, but a man of the world
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who loved to travel.
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Cuba, North Africa, Mexico,
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he loved the bullfights of Barcelona.
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He had lived in America for a year,
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much of his time in Harlem.
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- Bonhoeffer loves life
and he savors life.
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One time when Karl Barth sent a cigar
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by way of Eberhard Bethge
to Bonhoeffer in prison,
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Bonhoeffer responds, this is a sacrament.
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This is a kind of savoring of life.
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- [Delmer] This likable
misfit was also part of
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a highly educated and
well-connected family.
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(crowds chanting)
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When Hitler came into power in 1933,
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Germans were ready for
something more than the chaos
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of Weimar and humiliation of World War One
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but it seems the Bonhoeffer
family was one of the few
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who didn't think this was
the rebirth of Germany.
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- The interesting part
of the Bonhoeffer House
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in Charlottenburg, during
those years I think was
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the coming together of
so many important people.
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Dietrich Bonhoeffer was the
confessing church pastor
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and in some ways was a fly on the wall
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because gathering there
would be his brother-in-law
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Hans von Dohnányi, who
some would claim was the
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intellectual head of the July 20th plot.
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Rüdiger Schleicher and his brother-in-law,
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and his brother Klaus
had key parts to play
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in that plot as it unfolded
and I'm sure they found
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in the house on the Marienburger Allee,
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a safe place of trusted people.
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- It turns out that
several in that family,
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especially Hans von
Dohnányi was high placed
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in the military counter
intelligence, the Abwehr.
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So the Bonhoeffer family
had access to information
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about the medical experiments,
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later on about the concentration camps,
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so Dietrich Bonhoeffer
understood the degrees of hell
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in that land.
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- Oster and Canaris, at
the recommendation of
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Dietrich Bonhoeffer's
brother-in-law, Hans von Dohnányi,
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recommended that Dietrich
Bonhoeffer be employed,
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and used by the Abwehr,
military intelligence,
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because of his ecumenical
contacts and his relations
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with parts of the world
where they thought the Nazis
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could use some good public relations.
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Even though his past had
shown some resistance
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to the National Socialist regime,
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the argument they used was that
the Abwehr and intelligence
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uses all kinds of people,
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not just people who've
been loyal to the Reich.
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- [Delmer] So Bonhoeffer began
visiting his allied contacts
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hoping they could convince
Churchill to recognize
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the Germans plotting
Hitler's assassination.
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One such trip, in 1942, took him to Norway
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under the guise of official work.
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But his real mission was to contact
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the local resistance movement.
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Accompanying him was another
agent, Helmut Von Moltke,
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and their time together, in many ways,
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brought the ethical challenges
of the Resistance into focus.
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- The two went together,
they came to Sassnitz
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on the Isle of Ruegen and
there was ice on the sea
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and the ferry boat wouldn't go.
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So they had the night in the hotel
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and the whole morning for
themselves and they decided
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they would go to the Stubbenkammer,
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the very famous chalk cliffs.
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And they had four and
a half hours to talk.
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I have tried for years
to find out what the two
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have talked about.
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I was so frustrated in
the end that I thought
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the beech trees would tell me
what they had talked about.
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I said this as a joke to my family members
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because I wanted to go
there and see the place
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and we went there and the beeches didn't,
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the beech trees didn't tell me anything.
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And then we went to Kreisau in Silesia.
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And I heard that the
Countess Moltke had said well
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Bonhoeffer and my husband
couldn't get together
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because Bonhoeffer was
talking like a scribe
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in the New Testament,
they are the scribes.
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And in that moment I knew
what they had talked about
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because they had talked about the passage
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in Bonhoeffer's ethics which
he had just worked out.
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Namely is it allowed to
kill the head of state.
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And especially is it
allowed for Christians
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who follow the commandment
thou shalt not kill.
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(tense music)
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- I think it's too easy to
try and force him into saying
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he was or was not a pacifist
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or was or was not an assassin.
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He knew he was living in an
incredibly complex situation.
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Now he deeply respected
the pacifist position.
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He wanted to go to India
to learn from Gandhi
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about non-violent resistance.
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He knew the cost of
war--he'd lost a brother
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in the First World War.
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Yet what do you do, do
you preserve your innocence
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and therefore incur the
guilt of doing nothing.
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- Bonhoeffer says we live in a country
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where the head of state orders
the death of innocent people
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in their thousands day per day.
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And the only way we can
stop it is that we kill him.
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And therefore God leaves
us free to do this
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as he left his son Jesus
free to heal sick people
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on Sabbath day.
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And Count Moltke said
you can't compare that.
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- [Keith Clements] But
he says both militarism
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and rigid doctrinaire pacifism
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don't really deal with the question
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of how you act responsibly.
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You've got to face what
is your duty towards God
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and the test of that is
what is going to happen
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to other people.
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And I think that question
troubled him during the resistance
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and he had to counsel
people in the Resistance
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who were facing that dilemma.
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- I think when someone asks
what did Bonhoeffer actually do--
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this is what he did.
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He speaks from his faith about
the context that we are in,
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in what Christ is
actually calling us to do.
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Why our faith compels us
to do something different
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than what Nazi Christianity
is asking of us.
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- His choice to be part
of the conspiracy I think,
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in the end, wasn't actually a choice.
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He knew that it was necessary.
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He knew that there were only
a small handful of people
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who understood.
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- [Delmer] Back in Tegel
Prison the Nazis moved closer
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to evidence of Dietrich's involvement
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in the assassination plot.
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Soon Bonhoeffer was forced
into stricter quarters.
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They transferred him to the dregs of
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Prinz Albrecht Strasse number eight.
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The hellish prison in the basement
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of the Gestapo Headquarters.
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Later, after surviving
massive Allied bombing,
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he was transferred to the
Buchenwald Concentration Camp.
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(tense music)
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Buchenwald was a concentration camp
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and many say the largest.
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I heard the deaths were
in the tens of thousands.
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A horror of German proportions.
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My apologies Otto.
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On the edge of this death camp
amidst countless atrocities
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and his chances of survival were not good.
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After two years in prison
Bonhoeffer was losing touch
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with the outside world.
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There are rumors his 20 year old fiancee
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even visited Buchenwald to look for him
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but was told he wasn't there.
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On his own Dietrich was trapped
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with a strange mix of prisoners.
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If you can believe those
who made it to freedom
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the stories of his inmates are even better
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than I could've written.
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There was Hugh Falconer, part
of a secret British sabotage
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and espionage organization.
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One Doctor Hoven was
supposedly a failed actor
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who pretended to be a doctor
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and served as a medical
officer in Buchenwald.
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Another, Doctor Sigmund Rascher,
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invented the suicide pill.
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His real claim to fame was
placing volunteer prisoners
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in the murderous skyrider,
a pressure chamber
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which simulated high
altitude oxygen deprivation.
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I even heard there was
a young woman there.
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Can you believe that?
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With 16 or 18 men.
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Can't be true, but if it is,
she had to be a Gestapo spy.
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- Payne Best was a remarkable person.
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He was an officer in the
British military intelligence
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who'd been captured by the Germans
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and spent the entire rest
of the war in prison camp.
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He got to know Bonhoeffer in Buchenwald
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where they were sharing
the same corridor together.
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- [Best Voiceover]
Bonhoeffer was all humility
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and sweetness.
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He always seemed to me to diffuse
an atmosphere of happiness
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of joy in even the smallest event in life,
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and of deep gratitude for the
mere fact that he was alive.
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He was one of the few men I have ever met
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to whom his God was real
and ever close to him.
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- And he wasn't a religious type at all
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but he and Bonhoeffer
shared their tobacco,
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they shared the chess set,
Bonhoeffer loved to play chess
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and Payne Best gave him his chess set
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to amuse himself with in prison.
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He gave him all sorts of things.
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He gave him a pair of
golfing shoes I believe which
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I don't know how Best had
acquired golfing shoes
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in a Nazi concentration camp but he did.
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But this was part of prison life I think
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that people shared what little
they had with each other.
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- Payne Best did not
reckon with his survival.
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He thought when he was
brought into this cellar
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in Buchenwald, this will
be my last living place.
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When the air raids came they
hoped that this would end
506
00:30:19,084 --> 00:30:22,751
a war for the Jewish
people who had survived
507
00:30:24,208 --> 00:30:28,375
in the concentration camp so
far and for peaceful people
508
00:30:30,220 --> 00:30:33,207
all over the world including Germany.
509
00:30:33,207 --> 00:30:37,207
So their own lives were
not as important to them
510
00:30:38,207 --> 00:30:40,374
as the end of the war was.
511
00:30:41,829 --> 00:30:45,246
Still they all hoped to get out of prison
512
00:30:46,202 --> 00:30:47,535
and to be saved.
513
00:30:51,000 --> 00:30:53,750
(downbeat music)
514
00:31:02,141 --> 00:31:03,554
- Ah.
515
00:31:03,554 --> 00:31:05,054
Dulles or Dullous?
516
00:31:07,038 --> 00:31:08,830
- [Delmer] Dulles.
517
00:31:08,830 --> 00:31:09,663
- Got it.
518
00:31:10,553 --> 00:31:12,650
Who is this man?
519
00:31:12,650 --> 00:31:16,291
- OSS Special Assistant
to President Roosevelt.
520
00:31:16,291 --> 00:31:19,302
Self-appointed liaison
with the German Resistance
521
00:31:19,302 --> 00:31:23,191
and now negotiator and chief
to getting orderly surrender
522
00:31:23,191 --> 00:31:26,561
of hundreds of thousands
of German troops in Italy.
523
00:31:26,561 --> 00:31:29,046
- Well Mr Dulles has got some nerve
524
00:31:29,046 --> 00:31:31,879
if he's negotiating
anything close to that.
525
00:31:31,879 --> 00:31:35,596
- And speaking of negotiating surrenders
526
00:31:35,596 --> 00:31:39,343
Dulles is especially
focused on a love affair
527
00:31:39,343 --> 00:31:42,260
with some bird named Mary Bancroft.
528
00:31:43,576 --> 00:31:46,386
- Somebody sounds jealous.
529
00:31:46,386 --> 00:31:47,782
- Hey.
530
00:31:47,782 --> 00:31:49,115
I've had plenty.
531
00:31:49,115 --> 00:31:51,580
- Children we're about to go on air.
532
00:31:51,580 --> 00:31:55,080
Let's maintain a level of professionalism.
533
00:31:59,607 --> 00:32:00,440
All right.
534
00:32:01,306 --> 00:32:03,639
Going live, three, two, one.
535
00:33:11,527 --> 00:33:13,110
- Great work Agnes.
536
00:33:19,720 --> 00:33:21,387
- Are you okay Otto?
537
00:33:25,330 --> 00:33:26,811
- I'm fine.
538
00:33:26,811 --> 00:33:28,742
- Are you sure?
539
00:33:28,742 --> 00:33:31,075
- It's all going to be gone.
540
00:33:32,670 --> 00:33:35,003
It's Kaiser Willhelm Church.
541
00:33:35,910 --> 00:33:37,854
It's Berlin Palace.
542
00:33:37,854 --> 00:33:39,399
Unter den Linden.
543
00:33:39,399 --> 00:33:40,399
The bridges.
544
00:33:42,372 --> 00:33:45,931
Even the trees of the Tiergarten are dead.
545
00:33:45,931 --> 00:33:49,311
Berlin was the capital of the world.
546
00:33:49,311 --> 00:33:51,561
A magnet for intellectuals.
547
00:33:53,864 --> 00:33:57,947
But after this bombing it
will never be the same.
548
00:33:59,161 --> 00:34:00,161
- It's true.
549
00:34:01,386 --> 00:34:04,719
- And my brother and Dietrich and Klaus.
550
00:34:08,449 --> 00:34:10,116
Somewhere right now.
551
00:34:13,146 --> 00:34:16,396
They might be listening to our program.
552
00:34:19,867 --> 00:34:24,034
Believing in their hearts
that they might be rescued.
553
00:34:28,018 --> 00:34:31,685
And nothing could be
further from the truth.
554
00:34:32,747 --> 00:34:34,815
(mournful music)
555
00:34:34,815 --> 00:34:36,439
- [Delmer] Churchill made it clear
556
00:34:36,439 --> 00:34:39,692
there were no lengths of
violence to which we would not go
557
00:34:39,692 --> 00:34:43,164
to beat the life out of Germany.
558
00:34:43,164 --> 00:34:46,858
Initially our airstrikes
avoided civilians.
559
00:34:46,858 --> 00:34:49,025
Later they became targets.
560
00:34:50,746 --> 00:34:54,524
Of course I didn't firebomb
working class neighborhoods
561
00:34:54,524 --> 00:34:58,691
in Hamburg or mock the victims
as Hamburger, as some did.
562
00:35:00,730 --> 00:35:05,004
But I did wonder what role
our broadcasts were playing
563
00:35:05,004 --> 00:35:09,087
and the Allied policy of
unconditional surrender.
564
00:35:10,248 --> 00:35:13,331
That policy, called for by Roosevelt,
565
00:35:14,291 --> 00:35:17,782
had doomed Otto's friends'
efforts to negotiate
566
00:35:17,782 --> 00:35:19,565
with the Allies.
567
00:35:19,565 --> 00:35:23,065
To save Germany from complete destruction.
568
00:35:26,058 --> 00:35:28,688
- The British Foreign
Office just pretended
569
00:35:28,688 --> 00:35:32,170
they were ignorant of German
resistance before the war
570
00:35:32,170 --> 00:35:33,450
which they were not.
571
00:35:33,450 --> 00:35:36,783
They had refused the conspirators' plea.
572
00:35:38,990 --> 00:35:42,558
- What Churchill feared was
that if there was a link
573
00:35:42,558 --> 00:35:46,725
between German Resistance
and the British Government,
574
00:35:47,724 --> 00:35:50,807
Stalin might say you are cheating me.
575
00:35:51,672 --> 00:35:54,558
- The Russians obviously
were fighting their own war,
576
00:35:54,558 --> 00:35:57,674
in their own country
and it would be dreadful
577
00:35:57,674 --> 00:35:59,808
if the British had been
thought to be making
578
00:35:59,808 --> 00:36:02,558
a separate deal with the Germans.
579
00:36:07,207 --> 00:36:11,374
- The German military
forces were also starting to
580
00:36:12,588 --> 00:36:16,188
become more resolved to
fight because of the demand
581
00:36:16,188 --> 00:36:20,355
for unconditional surrender
and the amount of casualties
582
00:36:21,495 --> 00:36:25,162
in the months after
July 1944 to May of 1945
583
00:36:28,686 --> 00:36:33,587
were disproportionately higher
than the casualties before
584
00:36:33,587 --> 00:36:36,196
and that was in part a price
585
00:36:36,196 --> 00:36:38,863
for the unconditional surrender.
586
00:36:45,474 --> 00:36:48,974
(planes roaring overhead)
587
00:37:05,268 --> 00:37:08,101
(static on radio)
588
00:37:24,566 --> 00:37:27,078
- [Man] Prisoners of Buchenwald,
589
00:37:27,078 --> 00:37:29,745
this is General Patton speaking.
590
00:37:32,273 --> 00:37:35,105
We have received your messages
591
00:37:35,105 --> 00:37:37,855
and are moving in your direction.
592
00:37:39,187 --> 00:37:40,270
Just hold on.
593
00:37:41,873 --> 00:37:42,956
Just hold on.
594
00:37:45,990 --> 00:37:48,598
- [Delmer] All in the
Buchenwald Concentration Camp
595
00:37:48,598 --> 00:37:50,292
could hear the approaching sounds
596
00:37:50,292 --> 00:37:53,643
of the Allied bombs and planes.
597
00:37:53,643 --> 00:37:57,137
It was decided that several
of the VIP prisoners,
598
00:37:57,137 --> 00:37:59,354
including Dietrich and Payne Best,
599
00:37:59,354 --> 00:38:03,521
would be transported south
away from the Allied advance.
600
00:38:04,499 --> 00:38:07,554
Though the German transportation
system was disintegrating
601
00:38:07,554 --> 00:38:10,084
and fuel was in short supply,
602
00:38:10,084 --> 00:38:13,881
the Nazi High Command seemed
to have some unknown purpose
603
00:38:13,881 --> 00:38:15,653
for these few.
604
00:38:15,653 --> 00:38:18,327
- There is the rumor that Himmler,
605
00:38:18,327 --> 00:38:22,569
the leader of the SS, one
of the worst criminals
606
00:38:22,569 --> 00:38:26,592
of the Nazi era, he
wanted to have a group of
607
00:38:26,592 --> 00:38:30,759
important prisoners to hand
them over to the Allied people
608
00:38:31,751 --> 00:38:35,876
and save his own life,
which was a ridiculous idea
609
00:38:35,876 --> 00:38:38,919
but this may have been the reason why
610
00:38:38,919 --> 00:38:43,581
the prisoners from Buchenwald
were brought to Schoenberg
611
00:38:43,581 --> 00:38:46,664
in Bavaria and most of them survived.
612
00:38:49,643 --> 00:38:52,878
- [Delmer] Concerning their
ultimate destination and fate,
613
00:38:52,878 --> 00:38:56,426
the guards were as
befuddled as the prisoners.
614
00:38:56,426 --> 00:38:59,931
It was decided they would
stay in a small schoolhouse
615
00:38:59,931 --> 00:39:02,457
that had been converted
into a makeshift shelter
616
00:39:02,457 --> 00:39:03,624
for prisoners.
617
00:39:10,442 --> 00:39:14,192
(talking amongst each other)
618
00:39:19,298 --> 00:39:22,695
- I think that when Bonhoeffer
had reached Schoenberg
619
00:39:22,695 --> 00:39:27,188
with the others he must have
thought that this was the end
620
00:39:27,188 --> 00:39:31,631
of my imprisonment, the
Americans are very close.
621
00:39:31,631 --> 00:39:34,910
We'll be freed and the war will be over,
622
00:39:34,910 --> 00:39:37,410
that there will be a new life.
623
00:39:38,506 --> 00:39:41,089
(gentle music)
624
00:39:48,694 --> 00:39:50,053
- Hope was rising for him.
625
00:39:50,053 --> 00:39:54,066
Surely the Gestapo and the Nazi apparatus
626
00:39:54,066 --> 00:39:57,053
was no longer interested
in them way up in Berlin
627
00:39:57,053 --> 00:39:59,904
which was being bombed
to pieces at that time.
628
00:39:59,904 --> 00:40:03,307
They must've thought they were safe and
629
00:40:03,307 --> 00:40:05,591
Bonhoeffer was not wanting to be a martyr.
630
00:40:05,591 --> 00:40:07,460
He was full of love of life.
631
00:40:07,460 --> 00:40:09,707
He was thinking of his
parents, his friends,
632
00:40:09,707 --> 00:40:12,348
above all his fiancee Maria.
633
00:40:12,348 --> 00:40:14,423
And thinking my goodness
me it's only gonna be
634
00:40:14,423 --> 00:40:17,673
a matter of days now and we'll be free.
635
00:40:37,293 --> 00:40:39,181
- [Delmer] Thanks to prisoner diaries
636
00:40:39,181 --> 00:40:43,301
we know it was an exhausted
but increasingly hopeful group
637
00:40:43,301 --> 00:40:46,172
that settled in for the night.
638
00:40:46,172 --> 00:40:49,481
One memoir was written by Fey Von Hassell.
639
00:40:49,481 --> 00:40:52,508
Her father, a key member
of the Resistance,
640
00:40:52,508 --> 00:40:56,008
had been condemned by Freisler and hanged.
641
00:40:56,008 --> 00:40:58,854
These were bittersweet days for Fey.
642
00:40:58,854 --> 00:41:02,782
Her two young sons, wrenched
from her by Nazi caretakers,
643
00:41:02,782 --> 00:41:04,679
were still missing.
644
00:41:04,679 --> 00:41:07,837
Yet tender feelings toward
a fellow VIP prisoner
645
00:41:07,837 --> 00:41:09,215
were growing.
646
00:41:09,215 --> 00:41:12,665
His family name, the blackest in Germany.
647
00:41:12,665 --> 00:41:13,748
Stauffenberg.
648
00:41:15,046 --> 00:41:18,688
Dietrich was learning Russian
from a young Soviet prisoner
649
00:41:18,688 --> 00:41:22,293
who was the nephew of Soviet
Foreign Minister Molotov
650
00:41:22,293 --> 00:41:24,376
of Molotov cocktail fame.
651
00:41:26,120 --> 00:41:28,697
Another VIP prisoner was a movie star
652
00:41:28,697 --> 00:41:32,609
and popular cabaret singer, Isa Vermehren.
653
00:41:32,609 --> 00:41:35,158
Isa had been entertaining German troops
654
00:41:35,158 --> 00:41:37,837
before her brother
defected from the Abwehr
655
00:41:37,837 --> 00:41:39,837
resulting in her arrest.
656
00:41:41,094 --> 00:41:44,591
Captain Payne Best, as imperious as ever,
657
00:41:44,591 --> 00:41:46,881
tells of nearly jumping out of his skin
658
00:41:46,881 --> 00:41:48,999
when one of the beds broke.
659
00:41:48,999 --> 00:41:53,394
Apparently the beds were made
with flimsy window blinds.
660
00:41:53,394 --> 00:41:55,964
Just as everyone in the
room had settled down
661
00:41:55,964 --> 00:41:59,373
Best's own bed succumbed, much
to the delight of the others.
662
00:41:59,373 --> 00:42:01,623
(laughing)
663
00:42:05,602 --> 00:42:07,696
The group knew the Soviets had secured
664
00:42:07,696 --> 00:42:11,619
all of eastern Europe and
were rapidly approaching.
665
00:42:11,619 --> 00:42:13,822
To the west they could occasionally hear
666
00:42:13,822 --> 00:42:16,344
the American aircraft.
667
00:42:16,344 --> 00:42:20,511
They could almost taste freedom
in the clear Bavarian air.
668
00:42:21,466 --> 00:42:24,883
(gentle accordion music)
669
00:42:25,913 --> 00:42:29,746
(singing in foreign language)
670
00:43:41,153 --> 00:43:42,732
- This is it.
671
00:43:42,732 --> 00:43:44,232
My last broadcast.
672
00:43:46,164 --> 00:43:49,740
I'm going to miss our
little gang of rascals.
673
00:43:49,740 --> 00:43:50,823
Even you Ian.
674
00:43:51,716 --> 00:43:53,307
- Aw.
675
00:43:53,307 --> 00:43:55,663
- Better to end now than
the war go on forever.
676
00:43:55,663 --> 00:43:58,245
- About the finale Sefton.
677
00:43:58,245 --> 00:44:02,412
I like your idea but the GS1
went off the air with a bang,
678
00:44:03,574 --> 00:44:04,657
with gunfire.
679
00:44:05,811 --> 00:44:10,433
Why not also go out with
a bang and this record
680
00:44:10,433 --> 00:44:12,249
will do just the trick.
681
00:44:12,249 --> 00:44:13,157
Explosions.
682
00:44:13,157 --> 00:44:15,797
- Ian this isn't 30 Seconds Over Tokyo.
683
00:44:15,797 --> 00:44:18,105
- I've written something, just hear it.
684
00:44:18,105 --> 00:44:19,187
- Look I really don't have time--
685
00:44:19,187 --> 00:44:21,104
- Take it away sweetie.
686
00:44:22,184 --> 00:44:24,339
- What is that sound?
687
00:44:24,339 --> 00:44:26,364
Allied bombers are here.
688
00:44:26,364 --> 00:44:29,656
The end has come my loyal listeners.
689
00:44:29,656 --> 00:44:34,061
When you hear my voice next,
who knows when that may be,
690
00:44:34,061 --> 00:44:38,283
may it be in that eternal
city where death may touch
691
00:44:38,283 --> 00:44:39,152
no more.
- We'll go with
692
00:44:39,152 --> 00:44:40,671
what's written all right.
693
00:44:40,671 --> 00:44:44,138
- But why, bombings are the
reality of what would happen
694
00:44:44,138 --> 00:44:46,100
if we were broadcasting in Germany.
695
00:44:46,100 --> 00:44:47,388
- I don't care.
696
00:44:47,388 --> 00:44:49,167
I want Vicky to live.
697
00:44:49,167 --> 00:44:50,891
Even if our audience never hears her again
698
00:44:50,891 --> 00:44:53,618
I want them to believe that she was real.
699
00:44:53,618 --> 00:44:57,701
So we'll go off quietly,
without any explanation.
700
00:45:00,098 --> 00:45:01,866
- You're the boss.
701
00:45:01,866 --> 00:45:04,283
- Let's get ready to go live.
702
00:45:53,124 --> 00:45:55,874
(mournful music)
703
00:46:17,375 --> 00:46:19,958
- [Delmer Voiceover] We did it.
704
00:46:21,437 --> 00:46:22,270
We won.
705
00:46:25,615 --> 00:46:28,556
So why is it when I look at myself,
706
00:46:28,556 --> 00:46:31,389
all I see is a flabby faced crook.
707
00:47:02,153 --> 00:47:04,236
- Tell me the truth Otto.
708
00:47:05,787 --> 00:47:09,120
What do you think about what we've done?
709
00:47:10,551 --> 00:47:11,384
- I.
710
00:47:13,419 --> 00:47:14,919
I truly can't say.
711
00:47:17,273 --> 00:47:20,356
- I don't envy them, their situation.
712
00:47:21,291 --> 00:47:23,374
But I envy their courage.
713
00:47:25,080 --> 00:47:26,080
Their faith.
714
00:47:34,295 --> 00:47:38,295
- This was Dietrich's
last Christmas Eve letter,
715
00:47:39,265 --> 00:47:42,848
sent before he was
arrested by the Gestapo.
716
00:47:44,106 --> 00:47:47,403
"We have been silent
witnesses of evil deeds.
717
00:47:47,403 --> 00:47:50,422
"We have been drenched by many storms.
718
00:47:50,422 --> 00:47:54,589
"We have learnt the arts of
equivocation and pretense.
719
00:47:55,586 --> 00:47:58,302
"Experience has made
us suspicious of others
720
00:47:58,302 --> 00:48:01,802
"and kept us from being truthful and open.
721
00:48:03,087 --> 00:48:05,842
"Intolerable conflicts have worn us down
722
00:48:05,842 --> 00:48:08,009
"and even made us cynical.
723
00:48:09,200 --> 00:48:11,367
"Are we still of any use?"
724
00:48:15,659 --> 00:48:19,409
- I suppose we must all
live with our doubts.
725
00:48:23,710 --> 00:48:26,257
- They spent the Sunday after Easter
726
00:48:26,257 --> 00:48:30,601
in this delightful little
Bavarian village called Schoenberg
727
00:48:30,601 --> 00:48:33,340
and apparently it was
a beautiful spring day.
728
00:48:33,340 --> 00:48:36,204
Bonhoeffer was always a
great meditator on scripture
729
00:48:36,204 --> 00:48:38,307
and he loved the set text,
730
00:48:38,307 --> 00:48:40,667
whichever day of the Christian year it was
731
00:48:40,667 --> 00:48:43,558
and we know that the texts
he preached on that Sunday
732
00:48:43,558 --> 00:48:47,438
were from Isaiah and then
from the first letter of Peter
733
00:48:47,438 --> 00:48:50,205
and I like to think that
he's probably imagining
734
00:48:50,205 --> 00:48:52,462
if I had to preach a sermon today
735
00:48:52,462 --> 00:48:54,617
I'd love to preach on these texts,
736
00:48:54,617 --> 00:48:57,088
and then his fellow prisoners said come on
737
00:48:57,088 --> 00:48:59,491
give us a sermon Pastor Bonhoeffer.
738
00:48:59,491 --> 00:49:03,658
- And he has become friends
on a short-term basis,
739
00:49:05,019 --> 00:49:08,936
very short-term with a
Russian atheist, Kokorin
740
00:49:10,545 --> 00:49:14,212
and Bonhoeffer says no
I think probably not.
741
00:49:16,336 --> 00:49:20,503
He feels that might be pushing
Church on a good atheist
742
00:49:23,363 --> 00:49:26,726
and something doesn't
sit well with him on that
743
00:49:26,726 --> 00:49:29,559
but then it's Kokorin who says no,
744
00:49:31,120 --> 00:49:33,091
let's have this Church service,
745
00:49:33,091 --> 00:49:35,880
but that's kind of typical of Bonhoeffer
746
00:49:35,880 --> 00:49:39,213
both to deeply respect whom the other is
747
00:49:41,549 --> 00:49:44,716
and wait for the invitation to respond
748
00:49:46,021 --> 00:49:49,486
with his own message of the gospel.
749
00:49:49,486 --> 00:49:52,460
- He was oppressed and he was afflicted
750
00:49:52,460 --> 00:49:54,960
yet he did not open his mouth.
751
00:49:56,099 --> 00:49:58,786
He was led like a lamb to the slaughter
752
00:49:58,786 --> 00:50:02,536
and as a sheep before
its shearers is silent,
753
00:50:03,456 --> 00:50:05,873
so he did not open his mouth.
754
00:50:07,031 --> 00:50:11,198
At a time such as this there
are simply no words to express
755
00:50:14,119 --> 00:50:17,119
our sadness, our loss, and our pain.
756
00:50:18,979 --> 00:50:23,146
Our fragile words and
emotions simply cannot capture
757
00:50:26,219 --> 00:50:29,552
the gravity of what has already happened
758
00:50:30,829 --> 00:50:33,162
and what we are yet to face.
759
00:50:34,427 --> 00:50:36,272
We have worked tirelessly,
760
00:50:36,272 --> 00:50:39,198
confronting the masquerade of evil,
761
00:50:39,198 --> 00:50:43,281
that has engulfed our
world, always with the hope
762
00:50:44,695 --> 00:50:46,528
of restoring the good.
763
00:50:47,481 --> 00:50:49,648
But now our hands are tied
764
00:50:50,782 --> 00:50:53,803
and our destinies are fixed.
765
00:50:53,803 --> 00:50:57,093
- And one of the English
prisoners who was with him,
766
00:50:57,093 --> 00:51:00,261
Hugh Falconer, said that
he captured the thoughts
767
00:51:00,261 --> 00:51:01,588
of everyone there.
768
00:51:01,588 --> 00:51:04,216
He said we were full of hope,
we were full of anxiety too.
769
00:51:04,216 --> 00:51:07,296
We want to be back with our
families, our loved ones.
770
00:51:07,296 --> 00:51:11,282
What we can really rely on
though is that God is with us
771
00:51:11,282 --> 00:51:14,791
and our salvation is certain in him.
772
00:51:14,791 --> 00:51:16,552
That's what we've got to put our hope in.
773
00:51:16,552 --> 00:51:19,243
- Through the experience
and words of Isaiah
774
00:51:19,243 --> 00:51:23,361
a word does come from beyond to remind us
775
00:51:23,361 --> 00:51:27,278
that God himself was
bruised for our inequities
776
00:51:29,010 --> 00:51:31,768
and wounded for our transgressions.
777
00:51:31,768 --> 00:51:36,553
God has always shared in the
pain of his broken creation.
778
00:51:36,553 --> 00:51:39,528
- [Clement] And also that other
remarkable English prisoner
779
00:51:39,528 --> 00:51:44,078
called Captain Payne Best, he
says that Bonhoeffer sort of
780
00:51:44,078 --> 00:51:46,061
expressed the spirit of everyone there.
781
00:51:46,061 --> 00:51:49,498
He was able, not just to say
this is what the Bible says,
782
00:51:49,498 --> 00:51:51,290
but this is how we are feeling
783
00:51:51,290 --> 00:51:54,623
and this is how we can
bring our feelings to God
784
00:51:54,623 --> 00:51:58,786
and God can be with us and
speak to us in this situation.
785
00:51:58,786 --> 00:52:02,317
- And when we no longer
have the personal strength
786
00:52:02,317 --> 00:52:05,067
to hold on to the promise of God,
787
00:52:07,676 --> 00:52:10,926
we can know that he will hold on to us.
788
00:52:13,916 --> 00:52:16,352
Let us join together and sing,
789
00:52:16,352 --> 00:52:18,769
A mighty Fortress is our God.
790
00:52:24,223 --> 00:52:28,140
♫ A mighty fortress is our God
791
00:52:30,518 --> 00:52:34,018
♫ A bulwark never failing
792
00:52:36,878 --> 00:52:40,795
♫ Our helper he amid the flood
793
00:52:42,855 --> 00:52:46,522
♫ Of mortal ills prevailing
794
00:52:47,540 --> 00:52:51,529
(vehicle engines approaching)
795
00:52:51,529 --> 00:52:54,656
- May God in his mercy
lead us through these times.
796
00:52:54,656 --> 00:52:56,424
(loud footsteps)
797
00:52:56,424 --> 00:52:59,841
But above all, may he lead us to himself.
798
00:53:06,193 --> 00:53:09,193
- Prisoner Bonhoeffer, come with us.
799
00:53:10,240 --> 00:53:12,740
(tense music)
800
00:53:19,084 --> 00:53:23,251
- A general found the files
which Dohnányi had kept
801
00:53:24,470 --> 00:53:28,816
with all the crimes Hitler
and his gang had committed,
802
00:53:28,816 --> 00:53:33,351
made an excerpt from this
and presented it to Hitler.
803
00:53:33,351 --> 00:53:37,023
And Hitler got into a
terrible rage and said
804
00:53:37,023 --> 00:53:39,688
I want all of them liquidated.
805
00:53:39,688 --> 00:53:43,495
When they were looking
for the entire group
806
00:53:43,495 --> 00:53:47,662
one person was missing,
namely Dietrich Bonhoeffer.
807
00:53:52,500 --> 00:53:54,808
- Can you deliver a
message to George Bell?
808
00:53:54,808 --> 00:53:55,808
- Of course.
809
00:53:57,196 --> 00:54:00,314
- Tell the Bishop, that I
believe in the principle
810
00:54:00,314 --> 00:54:03,017
of our universal Christian brotherhood
811
00:54:03,017 --> 00:54:06,955
which rises above all national interests
812
00:54:06,955 --> 00:54:09,622
and that our victory is certain.
813
00:54:14,123 --> 00:54:16,198
- Goodbye my friend.
814
00:54:16,198 --> 00:54:17,115
- Farewell.
815
00:54:18,654 --> 00:54:19,987
This is the end.
816
00:54:22,326 --> 00:54:25,076
But for me the beginning of life.
817
00:54:31,299 --> 00:54:33,799
(tense music)
818
00:54:38,820 --> 00:54:41,153
- Terrible as this story is,
819
00:54:42,342 --> 00:54:45,092
it was not without God's command.
820
00:54:47,748 --> 00:54:50,742
And Bonhoeffer knew that himself he says,
821
00:54:50,742 --> 00:54:52,575
Hitler cannot kill me.
822
00:54:53,435 --> 00:54:56,685
The hour of my death will be prescribed
823
00:54:58,491 --> 00:55:00,761
by the living God himself.
824
00:55:00,761 --> 00:55:04,928
And he almost escaped in
Schoenberg with the others.
825
00:55:08,558 --> 00:55:11,725
But God allowed him to become a martyr
826
00:55:14,712 --> 00:55:18,398
which made him a much
more important figure
827
00:55:18,398 --> 00:55:19,815
for future times.
828
00:55:32,963 --> 00:55:35,713
(choral singing)
829
00:55:37,565 --> 00:55:41,088
- [Delmer] So Dietrich was
transported to Flossenbuerg.
830
00:55:41,088 --> 00:55:44,075
This was a camp where
Allied prisoners were hanged
831
00:55:44,075 --> 00:55:48,600
on Christmas Eve in 1944,
with lights on the trees
832
00:55:48,600 --> 00:55:49,933
in holiday glee.
833
00:55:51,510 --> 00:55:53,932
Another group slaughtered
on Easter morning,
834
00:55:53,932 --> 00:55:58,099
as if the life of Christ was
used as a calendar for cruelty.
835
00:55:59,308 --> 00:56:02,938
There was no escape for the thousands
836
00:56:02,938 --> 00:56:05,021
that met their end there.
837
00:56:07,725 --> 00:56:09,374
- He knew what was in store for him
838
00:56:09,374 --> 00:56:12,156
and he and I think it was five,
839
00:56:12,156 --> 00:56:15,858
six other of the conspirators
were, that night,
840
00:56:15,858 --> 00:56:19,242
put in front of a court-martial by the SS.
841
00:56:19,242 --> 00:56:20,565
- It was a farce.
842
00:56:20,565 --> 00:56:24,679
The verdict had been
pronounced by Hitler already.
843
00:56:24,679 --> 00:56:27,291
There was a court-martial
that didn't even meet
844
00:56:27,291 --> 00:56:29,543
the standards of a court-martial.
845
00:56:29,543 --> 00:56:31,932
There was no real proceeding.
846
00:56:31,932 --> 00:56:33,667
There was no evidence.
847
00:56:33,667 --> 00:56:38,308
There were no witnesses and
apparently the whole thing
848
00:56:38,308 --> 00:56:41,205
happened in a matter
of two or three hours.
849
00:56:41,205 --> 00:56:45,372
The SS people just tried to
keep up the semblance of justice
850
00:56:46,696 --> 00:56:50,613
in order not to be
convicted for unjust murder.
851
00:57:08,609 --> 00:57:10,489
- Prisoner Bonhoeffer.
852
00:57:10,489 --> 00:57:14,650
Dietrich Bonhoeffer,
born February 4th 1906,
853
00:57:14,650 --> 00:57:16,067
and today's date.
854
00:57:17,252 --> 00:57:19,127
Must keep the records in order.
855
00:57:19,127 --> 00:57:19,960
Thank you for arriving early.
856
00:57:19,960 --> 00:57:20,971
Punctual.
857
00:57:20,971 --> 00:57:22,221
Must be German.
858
00:57:23,860 --> 00:57:24,693
Clothes.
859
00:57:40,254 --> 00:57:42,872
Well prisoner Bonhoeffer
860
00:57:42,872 --> 00:57:44,964
I have some good and bad news for you.
861
00:57:44,964 --> 00:57:47,402
The bad news is, it's damn cold out there,
862
00:57:47,402 --> 00:57:49,896
and you'll be wearing only glasses.
863
00:57:49,896 --> 00:57:51,896
Oops, we need those too.
864
00:57:59,336 --> 00:58:03,201
And wouldn't you know it the
crematorium's out of order
865
00:58:03,201 --> 00:58:07,227
but the good news is Herbert
has a nice fire going
866
00:58:07,227 --> 00:58:09,477
just steps from the gallow.
867
00:58:11,301 --> 00:58:12,551
Best get going.
868
00:58:15,796 --> 00:58:17,546
Stay ahead of the shepherds.
869
00:58:19,142 --> 00:58:21,309
Happy journey gallow bird.
870
00:58:25,791 --> 00:58:28,374
(dogs barking)
871
00:58:40,133 --> 00:58:43,216
(loud heart beating)
872
00:58:51,516 --> 00:58:54,266
(choral singing)
873
00:59:44,903 --> 00:59:48,252
- When the tyrant executes the martyr,
874
00:59:48,252 --> 00:59:51,613
the tyrant's power ends
because he can't do any more
875
00:59:51,613 --> 00:59:54,729
than that but the power
of the martyr begins
876
00:59:54,729 --> 00:59:57,729
because his witness goes on forever.
877
01:00:01,108 --> 01:00:03,835
And I always think of that remark
878
01:00:03,835 --> 01:00:05,658
when I think of these resistors.
879
01:00:05,658 --> 01:00:10,285
They were the people who
won the battle of faith
880
01:00:10,285 --> 01:00:13,701
and courage and conviction
and human dignity
881
01:00:13,701 --> 01:00:17,034
and it's to them that we now look today.
882
01:01:25,803 --> 01:01:28,856
- [Agnes] Dear Sefton, I
am writing to communicate
883
01:01:28,856 --> 01:01:30,773
a disturbing discovery.
884
01:01:31,763 --> 01:01:35,181
I was recently informed
by some German escapees
885
01:01:35,181 --> 01:01:39,301
that civilians during the war were hanged,
886
01:01:39,301 --> 01:01:42,783
simply for listening to
our radio broadcasts.
887
01:01:42,783 --> 01:01:46,063
Were you aware such actions took place?
888
01:01:46,063 --> 01:01:47,730
Please reply, Agnes.
889
01:02:10,981 --> 01:02:12,782
- [Radio] The stirring
victory keeps Chelsea
890
01:02:12,782 --> 01:02:15,160
at the top of division one.
891
01:02:15,160 --> 01:02:18,006
This is the BBC World
Service, the six o'clock news
892
01:02:18,006 --> 01:02:19,923
read by Nigel Smythers.
893
01:02:20,989 --> 01:02:23,242
We deviate from our regular
broadcast to take you
894
01:02:23,242 --> 01:02:25,694
to the Holy Trinity Church in London
895
01:02:25,694 --> 01:02:29,666
for the memorial service of
Dietrich and Klaus Bonhoeffer.
896
01:02:29,666 --> 01:02:31,793
The next voice you hear will be that
897
01:02:31,793 --> 01:02:33,376
Bishop George Bell.
898
01:02:34,719 --> 01:02:37,219
(organ music)
899
01:02:54,329 --> 01:02:57,723
- It was in May 1942 that I
had my last sight of Dietrich
900
01:02:57,723 --> 01:03:00,806
in Stockholm when altogether unexpected
901
01:03:00,806 --> 01:03:04,327
he came from Berlin, at
the risk of his life,
902
01:03:04,327 --> 01:03:07,753
to give me much information
of the utmost importance
903
01:03:07,753 --> 01:03:11,245
about the movement of the
opposition in Germany,
904
01:03:11,245 --> 01:03:14,991
to eliminate Hitler and
all his chief colleagues,
905
01:03:14,991 --> 01:03:17,194
and to set up a new
government which should undo
906
01:03:17,194 --> 01:03:20,996
Hitler's deeds as far
as they could be undone,
907
01:03:20,996 --> 01:03:23,650
and to seek peace with the Allies.
908
01:03:23,650 --> 01:03:25,590
Very moving was our talk.
909
01:03:25,590 --> 01:03:27,673
Very moving our farewell.
910
01:03:29,529 --> 01:03:31,696
And now Dietrich has gone.
911
01:03:32,805 --> 01:03:36,447
He died with his brother
Klaus as a hostage.
912
01:03:36,447 --> 01:03:39,762
Our debt to them, and to all
others similarly murdered,
913
01:03:39,762 --> 01:03:40,679
is immense.
914
01:03:41,957 --> 01:03:46,124
His death is a death for
Germany, indeed for Europe too.
915
01:03:48,283 --> 01:03:50,818
He made the sacrifice of human prospects,
916
01:03:50,818 --> 01:03:53,247
of home, friends and career,
917
01:03:53,247 --> 01:03:57,201
because he believed in God's
vocation for his country
918
01:03:57,201 --> 01:03:59,726
and refused to follow those false leaders
919
01:03:59,726 --> 01:04:02,656
who were the servants of the Devil.
920
01:04:02,656 --> 01:04:05,646
He was inspired by his
faith in the living God
921
01:04:05,646 --> 01:04:09,489
and by his devotion to truth and honor.
922
01:04:09,489 --> 01:04:13,351
As one of a noble company of
martyrs of different traditions
923
01:04:13,351 --> 01:04:16,277
he represents both the
resistance of the believing soul
924
01:04:16,277 --> 01:04:20,023
in the name of God, to
the assault of evil,
925
01:04:20,023 --> 01:04:22,382
and also the moral and political revolt
926
01:04:22,382 --> 01:04:26,549
of the human conscience,
against injustice and cruelty.
927
01:04:27,732 --> 01:04:30,899
To our Earthly view, Dietrich is dead.
928
01:04:32,163 --> 01:04:35,294
Deep and unfathomable as our sorrow seems,
929
01:04:35,294 --> 01:04:39,268
let us comfort one
another with these words.
930
01:04:39,268 --> 01:04:42,327
For him and Klaus, and for
the countless multitudes
931
01:04:42,327 --> 01:04:46,041
of their fellow victims through
these terrible years of war
932
01:04:46,041 --> 01:04:48,708
there is the resurrection from the dead,
933
01:04:48,708 --> 01:04:50,625
the hope of a new life.
934
01:04:52,213 --> 01:04:56,380
The blood of the martyrs
is the seed of the Church.
935
01:05:04,980 --> 01:05:09,147
♫ For all the saints who
from their labors rest
936
01:05:12,950 --> 01:05:17,117
♫ Who thee by faith
before the world confess
937
01:05:21,432 --> 01:05:25,599
♫ Thy name O Jesus be forever blest
938
01:05:29,010 --> 01:05:31,260
♫ Alleluia
939
01:05:49,989 --> 01:05:52,572
(bell chiming)
940
01:05:58,269 --> 01:06:01,019
(mournful music)
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