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(gospel choir singing) ...When the morning comes

When the saints of God

Will be gathering home

We 'll tell. .. We'll tell the story

Of how we've overcome

We'll understand it better by and by...

[Frank Fischer] Gentlemen, I give you Dietrich Bonhoeffer.

Professor Niebuhr has a little surprise for you.

Freshly translated, hot off the press.

A copy of your "Discipleship."

Thank you.

Thank you so much.

It's a bribe.

We're hoping we can keep you so happy and so preoccupied

you won't have time

Here, here.

...We'll understand it we 'll understand

by and by.--

This is great.

I love this, ifs wonderful.

You love it, huh?

Ya, it's beautiful.

We'll understand it, by and by

That's why I brought you here

By and by-

Your feets too big

Don't like you 'cause your feets too big

Mmm, I like you 'cause your feets too big

I hate you 'cause your feats too big

too big

Yo do do do

Where'd you get 'em

La da da da

Do do do do

Your girl, she likes you

Says she thinks you're nice

Says you got what it takes to take her to paradise

She likes your face and she loves your rig

Oh, but love ya

Look at 'em, your feats be big

What do you say

My abet: too bi?

I don't like you 'cause you say my feets too big

I'm mad at you

'cause your feets too big

Hate you 'cause you say that my feets too big

One more time!

Oh, your feets too big

I don't like you 'cause your feets too big...

[Frank] First Boston, then D.C., then Chicago.

Or, perhaps, you'd rather go to sunny California first?

What's on your mind, Dietrich?

Frank, I have to go home.

To the Nazis.

Are you sure?

Yes.

They'll put you in prison Dietrich, you know that.

Maybe.

See, if I stayed I think I'd become a living lie

to everything I believe in.

We wouldn't want that to happen.

[Dietrich] ...Let's not delude ourselves

that if we take the loyalty oath to Hitler

it means they'll let us worship in peace.

The Nuremberg laws are an attack on Christianity itself.

Adolf Hitler demands nothing less than total commitment.

He's the elected chancellor.

But more than that, he considers himself der fuhrer.

And as "the leader," he craves to be the conscience

of every living German.

But his claim upon us

is a claim that a Christian

can only accept from Christ himself.

The Reich's bishop is rewriting Holy Scripture!

Only those who cry out for the Jews

have the right to sing Gregorian chants.

Thank you, Dietrich.

Christ himself was a Jew.

And in the eyes of the Lord, we are all one!

Eberhard, take Charlotte out.

Come on!

Dr. Bonhoeffer?

Yes.

Good evening.

Good evening.

Until further notice

you're forbidden to speak in public

to publish your writings and to teach.

And you're to report to the Gestapo once a week.

Is that clear?

Good evening.

Be careful.

Gentlemen, it's my duty to arrest you

if you refuse to take the oath.

So, let us please recite it together.

I swear to be true

and obedient...

I swear to be true and obedient...

To the fuhrer of the German Reich

Adolf Hitler...

To the fuhrer of the German Reich

Adolf Hit/er...

To abide by the law and fulfill my duty...

To abide by the /aw

and fulfill my duty...

So help me God.

So help me God.

That's ridiculous!

People know me.

They know I'm Jewish.

And they still respect me.

The Nazis surely have other things to do

than go around arresting every Jew they see.

You're wrong!

Did you read this?

[Gerhard] That Nazi trash?

It may be, but it tells us what and how the Nazis are thinking.

"On the outbreak of war, the Jews will be exterminated

without a trace."

There it is.

Black and white.

That's just propaganda.

They can't. They won't.

They do and they will.

Hitler's never gone back on a promise.

I'm afraid your brother is right.

Even if he is only a Theologian.

Sabine.

It is too dangerous.

You've got to leave Germany.

Why?

Afraid to have a Jew in the family?

The way you were afraid to speak

at my father's funeral?

You have no choice.

You must leave. Now.

But where should we go?

This is our home.

Where would I find work?

First, go to Switzerland.

And then to England.

No.

I'm afraid we can't afford to bury our heads in the sand.

[Dietrich] ...In 1919, when the British

again curtailed civil liberties

Gandhi organized

his first all-India civil disobedience campaign.

He called it a "Satyagraha," meaning "Truth Force."

since then, Gandhi has consistently continued

to lead strong movements, non-violently

against untouchability

for Muslim-Hindu unity, women's rights, basic education.

Our role models, you see

are not only found in Christianity...

...I'd like to visit Gandhi some day, very much.

I'd love to travel to India

and live with him and his followers

do as he does, learn from him--

and try my utmost to--

come on.

In you get.

[Dietrich] I'm sorry to see you go.

But under the circumstances

I think it's the best thing to do.

You might lose everything you've ever loved and wanted

if you stay.

I know.

Well, so long, twin one.

Well, so long, twin two.

I'll miss you.

Please be careful.

The Nazis aren't your friends either.

I know.

Good luck.

Shh... Good luck.

I'm sorry for that remark about my father's funeral.

There was no need for it.

No, no, you don't have to be sorry.

I deserved it.

My bishop asked me not to speak and I didn't.

But I should have.

Drive safely, Gerhard.

Dietrich?

Ruth!

Oh!

What happened?

The Gestapo.

They closed the place down.

And the boys? Are they safe?

They were forced to join the army.

All of them?

No, some were arrested

for refusing.

But you can't stay here.

Come along.

(playing classical m us/'0)

Oh, no!

What are you doing there?

Can you guess what that monstrous little corporal has done?

We're at war with Poland.

The radio says we were attacked.

Well, if the radio says it, it must be true.

What on earth will he do next?

Well, it means that England and France will...

Yes.

Does that mean father and Max are fighting?

Unlikely.

They only left this morning, dear.

Oh, Dietrich, you remember my granddaughter Maria, don't you?

She took confirmation lessons with you.

Uh, I think I'd better go back to Berlin.

I understand.

I'll drive you to the station, yes?

Oh, you're still here?

May I ask what you were playing?

Just some Beethoven.

I liked it. Very peaceful.

Some people believe that if we listened to more Beethoven

the world would be a better and more peaceful place.

Do you believe that?

Are you going to enlist, like father and Max?

So many people ask me that.

So, what would you have me do?

Pick up a gun and fight?

I don't think this is what God wants of me.

There's sure to be something you can do.

Ya, like what?

Maybe it was a mistake coming back to Germany.

[Hans] Dietrich?

Ya ?

You know I left the justice department.

Yes, I know.

I'm working now

with General Oster and Admiral Canaris at the Abwehr.

Military intelligence.

Not everyone in the military wants this war, you know.

No, they're all pacifists, I suppose?

Oster just leaked Hitler's invasion plans

to Holland and Belgium.

You shouldn't be telling me this, Hans.

Why not?

Have you thought about what you're going to do

when your call-up papers arrive?

Yes, I've thought about it.

But I don't know what I'm going to do.

We can get you a certificate

that would make you unavailable for military service.

A what? A certificate?

You'd be classified "indispensable."

What do you mean, "indispensable?"

The resistance needs a courier--

someone with international contacts

and a valid reason to travel.

Someone who can let the allies know what we're doing

and negotiate a cease-fire.

Officially, you'd be a theologian

but unofficially--

a spy?

Unpleasant, I know, for a man of God.

Come on, Hans, wait a minute.

You're asking me to be a spy?

Yes.

I'm a minister.

I'm not a politician.

But that's why the allies will listen to you.

You're trusted, respected.

That is treason, Hans!

Treason or not, we've got to get rid of Hitler.

What does "get rid of" mean?

Exactly what it says.

Hitler is the truly chosen authority.

The people idolize him

even more so now because of his military success.

But he has perverted his authority!

Dietrich, we've been through every scenario:

abide the law, arrest him, put him on trial.

You know very well there is no law now.

He has destroyed it.

But murder, Hans?

Murder-- that is what you're suggesting, isn't it?

He's the murderer, Dietrich.

And he will continue to murder.

I can't, Hans.

I'm sorry, I can't.

Come home with me.

I want to show you something.

[Hans] Arson.

Forced death.

Murder.

Lies. Suffering.

Extermination camps.

Ifs all documented here.

The true history of the Third Reich.

Oh, God.

What do you want me to do?

[Hans] It's your last chance.

We're giving you papers

that say you're from military intelligence.

"Operation 7."

[Charlotte] Operation 7?

You leave by way of Switzerland.

We'll never work for the military!

Mrs. Friedenthal, you won't have to.

That's just your cover story.

You'll be traveling

with Dr. And Mrs. Rosenthal

the day after tomorrow.

Until then, you'll stay here.

How many Jews have you already moved out?

Several.

And they all agreed

to leave the country as Abwehr agents?

Yes, they have.

Here are your papers, Friedenthal, Charlotte.

Weinberg, Meyer...

Captain Ludwig Gehre, Josef Muller.

We don't have much time.

[Hans] Fingerhut, Guido.

Goldfarb, Rolf.

The Gestapo.

This was issued by the Gestapo

Of course it was issued by the Gestapo.

The Gestapo!

Why don't you talk to her?

Charlotte...

This is your only hope.

Dietrich!

Trust us.

Just trust us.

Us? You're...?

You're working for the Abwehr?

No, I'm trying to help.

Help?

Please, trust me.

You don't have to do anything.

Just tell the world out there what is happening here.

But why is the Abwehr doing this?

Maybe we think it'll cleanse our sullied souls

knowing we helped get at least one thick-headed,

stubborn Jewish spinster to safety!

[Charlotte] What good is a handful of Jews

when the rest of us are being murdered?

We don't have much time.

Let's go!

So many lies, so much deception.

Please, Dietrich

don't win the war only to lose your soul.

Don't lose your soul.

[Hans] Dietrich...

I'd like you to meet my superior

General Hans Oster

and Rudolf Freiherr von Gersdorff.

[Oster] We're very grateful to you, Bonhoeffer.

Excuse me, sir, is this meeting confidential?

I'm meeting a friend here, I didn't expect...

[Oster] Your papers.

Thank you.

My father was a pastor in Dresden.

I remember him saying

"Be only afraid of the wrath of God."

Are you serious?

I'm "indispensable" to the war effort?

Our war effort, at any rate.

And we know what we're doing.

All right...

So what do I do now?

Where do I report?

[Hans] You're off to Sweden

to see an old friend.

[George Bell] So, my son, you're a soldier now?

[Dietrich] Yes, and one with a mission.

The people I represent are earnest and honest.

The resistance is very real.

There are men with power and influence

who have made careful plans for a government

after Hitler's assassination.

Assassination?

You speak so freely

of murder?

I know it is sinful, George, I know

and I've been thinking about this very often.

But I choose the lesser of two evils.

I believe it is worse to be evil than to do evil.

Can Hitler be got rid of?

We tried.

So fa r, unsuccessfully,

but also undetected.

George, it would help us

to have some word from the allies

that they acknowledge our existence.

Go on.

Allied demands for an unconditional surrender

have only strengthened German resolve.

That makes our task all the more difficult.

George, many accept that Hitler must go.

But what happens after that?

Surely you understand that,

as Germans we must ask that question.

If we were destroyed...

The allies are not convinced that Germany

can be purged without military defeat.

After three years of war

very few can distinguish Germans from Nazis.

However upright

these people you speak of have made war on us.

Please, please be careful Dietrich.

The tide is turning.

If your resistance is going to act, they must act now.

The best of British chemicals.

Abwehr stock.

Watch carefully, von Gersdorff.

It's primed here, detonated here.

All right.

[Dietrich] In your pockets?

Wait a minute. You're going to ignite them

in your pockets?

But that's suicide.

But I'll take him with me.

Why are you showing me all this?

Why am I here?

Will God forgive me?

I don't know.

But I do know that we have a merciful and forgiving God.

Would you bless me?

Well, remember the words of Jesus.

"Greater love has no man than this

that a man lay down his life for his friends."

Hello.

Hello!

Well, you seem so self-assured

all the way up there.

I never really learned to ride.

Perhaps, someday.

Halt.

What are you writing?

Just some ideas, some notes on ethics.

Ethics, ugh!

I know, I know ifs not very exciting.

Why not, if you've written it?

May I?

Go ahead, if you can read my writing.

"Being evil is worse than doing evil."

Is that true?

I think so.

"Better for a lover of truth to tell a lie

than for a liar to tell the truth."

You don't mean that.

Yes, I do.

Really?

Really.

"To escape sin may be the ultimate guilt."

Do you believe that?

Yes, but do you believe it?

I wouldn't have written it if I didn't believe it.

You never taught us anything like this in confirmation class.

I did.

No, you didn't.

I didn't?

No.

We weren't at war then.

By the Way

have you heard from your father and brother recently?

Yes.

They're on the Russian front.

(clarinet and piano music playing on phonograph)

My father's.

The smell reminds me of him.

I miss him.

I'm sure he must miss you.

No, no, don't put it out.

Leave your father here with us.

American music.

I suppose I shouldn't be listening.

Why not?

America is our enemy.

The Nazis say their music is degenerate.

The Nazis are really not qualified to judge degeneracy.

Actually, I thought they were.

Well, ya...

Yes, yes, you're right.

They are.

Now that my father and brother are gone

there's nobody to dance with.

I never really learned it properly, but, uh...

[Ruth] They were both killed in Stalingrad.

She's inconsolable.

To lose both your father and your brother.

I thought you might help.

Why?

Why?

I wish I had an answer for you, Maria.

Forgive me, I don't.

[Dietrich] We must learn to take each day as if it were our last.

We owe it to God and to ourselves

to believe in the future.

Do you truly believe in the future?

Yes, Maria, I do.

I truly believe in the future.

And I should like to share that future with you.

You're engaged? Now?

Good God, how old is she? She's a child.

She's 17.

Seventeen!

For God's sake, don't tell her anything.

I won't, Hans.

She'll faint with fear.

I can barely look Christel straight in the eye anymore.

Every time someone knocks on the door

she dies a little.

We've got to keep our fingers crossed today.

[Dietrich] It takes a very special person

to do what von Gersdorff is doing right now.

(piano playing)

It must be over now.

[Rudiger] Hello?

Karl, it's for you.

We are being watched?

[Oster] Ah, ifs Manfred Roeder, military prosecutor.

As soon as our call comes, I will arrest him.

Or he'll arrest us.

Someone must have talked.

Why else would he be here?

Thank you.

Understood.

It failed.

And von Gersdorff?

I must get back now.

Even if he won't listen.

Dietrich, I want you to go through your files.

Destroy anything that shouldn't be there.

Also, I want a letter from you, dated in 1939

offering your services to intelligence

long before you were drafted.

It must be clear that you were in the Abwehr

from the very beginning.

List all the influential foreign churchmen you can spy on abroad.

You can't be serious, Hans?

Better to name foreigners they can't hurt

than to let them catch friends they can!

Dietrich, put your scruples aside.

And we better do something about the dossier.

Burn it, there's enough in there to kill us all.

Christel, we can't.

You've got to!

It's our only proof.

[Hans] We need it for later.

In the Abwehr headquarters in Zossen

there are some old archives and records.

That's where I'll hide it.

Roeder, military court.

I have a search warrant.

[Roeder] Law, music, philosophy.

Well, well, aren't we cultured?

What actually made your husband

move from justice to intelligence?

I'm sure he'll tell you if you ask him.

[Hans] What are you doing here?!

What is the meaning of this?!

Let my wife go immediately!

Right now!

No.

Arrest that man.

What's happened, why are they arresting people?

I wish I knew, mother.

Whatever. Go, Dietrich, now, you've got travel papers.

And leave Hans and Christel to explain everything?

I can't.

You must, before they get here.

No, mother, no.

They're here.

[Roeder] Open up!

We have a warrant for Dietrich Bonhoeffer.

Open up!

Pastor Bonhoeffer does not need handcuffs.

You're not well, Dr. Bonhoeffer?

He won't use his blanket.

It's damp, dirty and so old, it stinks.

You will supply Dr. Bonhoeffer

with clean blankets, as many as he wishes.

I've given permission for your family to send you books.

You may write to them.

May l...

May I write to my fiancée?

We will see.

Dr. Roeder, I still have not been informed why I'm here.

Pastor, please.

What kind of statement is that?

I may not have been born

into a cultured family, such as your own

but I'm not stupid.

What do you think you're here for?

I'm afraid I haven't the vaguest idea.

Then let me help you.

You're here to tell the truth, Dr. Bonhoeffer.

That can't be too difficult for a man of God, can it?

I have nothing to hide.

Good.

Then let us begin.

"Whosoever resisteth the power, resisteth the ordinance of God

and they that resist shall be damned."

Paul to the Romans, XIII.

You quoted that in your "discipleship."

Is that correct?

Yes.

Are we here to discuss Theology?

Indeed not.

You're not listening.

I'm not an intellectual, nor am I religious.

You must make allowances

for my ignorance of Theology.

Am I correct in assuming that despite what you've written here

you have knowingly put yourself at the risk of being damned?

Well, you--

you have resisted the new German order

and advised your seminarians

against taking the oath of loyalty to the Fuhrer.

I did not resist the state.

I resisted the state's takeover of the church.

If that is a crime, it is an old one.

I see...

Well, then, have you more recent crimes

you would prefer to share with me?

I've been led to believe that you're an agent

for the Abwehr

military intelligence, with special protection.

Why did you withhold this information at your arrest?

It's not a crime to be in the Abwehr.

Or are you hiding something?

Speak up.

I'm not authorized to speak about classified work.

Work? What work?

Since when is it classified from the Gestapo?

I thought--

and why you?

What secrets did intelligence expect a minister to secure?

Hmm?

Tell me, when did you begin your work

with intelligence?

Late '39, I think.

You think.

Hmm. Ah, yes, quite right.

You applied in 1939.

At least, that's what it says here in this letter

to a Hans von Dohnanyi.

We found this on your desk the afternoon you were arrested.

It looks like the original.

We've been wondering why you have the original, and not intelligence?

That is, if it was sent to them at all.

Again, I ask, are you trying to hide something?

And those trips you've taken abroad.

Those were rare privileges.

We both know that these conferences in wartime

are not what they appear to be.

Every country that sends an emissary

expects information in return.

That's why you were permitted to attend, yes?

I always reported to foreign affairs on my return.

Rubbish! I've read those reports.

Nothing!

Is there anything you wish to add?

No?

Doesn't it strike you as odd, Bonhoeffer

that I am interested only in the truth

and that you, a minister,

seek by your silence to evade it?

Hmm.

Can you hear me?

Can you hear me?!

[Man] What do you want?

I want you to know that you're not alone.

I'm a minister.

Would you like to pray with me?

[Man] I don't believe in God.

What are you doing?

I'm trying to pray with my neighbor.

He cries day and night.

Kretschmer?

It won't do any good.

He's going to be shot any day now.

A young kid, got mixed up with the wrong people.

And his executioners, are they the right people?

If he was your son, wouldn't you want me to help?

If you can hear me, put your hands on the wall

as if we were touching.

Mine are here, too.

Lord, it's dark in me.

In you, it's day.

I am alone.

But you will stay.

I am afraid.

You never cease.

I am at war.

In you, is peace.

Thought you might like to know...

The boy from the next cell?

He was very calm.

Surprised everyone.

He was executed this morning.

Thank you for telling me.

Word of advice: Be careful about being so smart.

People start to believe

you think you're better than them.

And nobody likes that.

You say your faith is based on the new and old testaments.

Including the Jewish prophets.

Their descendants are the enemy of our state.

Yet, you have repeatedly welcomed them

the Jewish enemy, into your home.

They've been your friends, your colleagues, your family.

Your twin sister is married to a Jew.

I had little contact with Gerhard Leibholz.

But you were asked to speak at his father's funeral.

I declined.

Aryan scruples?

I felt it was not appropriate.

No guilt pangs?

Did you or did you not later help Leibholz to escape?

I did not.

You lie!

He left Germany at a time when it was not a crime

for Jews to emigrate.

In fact, it was encouraged.

You personally avoided the call-up.

That is a capital crime.

Dr. Roeder, you forget that I joined the Abwehr!

Fresh blankets.

Oh, thank you.

Ifs the people you know that counts, not God.

I think God is aware of that.

You know him personally, do you?

Getting to know him.

But it takes time.

That poem you said to the boy?

Did you write that?

Yes.

Put it on paper. I'll hand it around, if you like.

Operation 7, the Jews.

We know all about it, Bonhoeffer.

Why shouldn't you? There's nothing to hide.

But Jews as German agents?

Why not?

I assumed they had families

people they hoped to protect by working with intelligence.

What was their mission?

That was classified, I wasn't informed.

There was no mission!

They had all the relevant papers.

Military intelligence cleared it with the Gestapo.

I suppose it amused you to pull the wool over their eyes.

I don't see how.

The Gestapo knows everything, don't they?

[Roeder] How much did they pay you?

I beg your pardon?

The Jews, how much did they pay you?

How much was in it for you, for Dohnanyi, for Oster?

I don't understand, I was paid my expenses.

One of your colleagues was picked up in Prague

in possession of illegal U.S. Dollars.

Operation 7 was a scheme to get money

from wealthy Jews in England and America.

The Abwehr is corrupt to the core.

Or don't you believe me?

You're the state's prosecutor, Dr. Roeder, I must believe you.

So, you've been racketeering, pastor?

It's not very good for the soul, is it?

Nor does it go unpunished.

Or have you been duped?

A lamb amongst wolves?

Perhaps that's why they needed you.

To camouflage their crimes.

Dr. Roeder...

Perhaps you'd like to tell me what you know

about military intelligence.

I already have.

No, you have not.

You have a visitor.

Sit here.

Sit over there.

Dietrich, I missed you so much.

I've been given visiting rights.

They didn't tell you?

I've moved to Berlin, to your parent's house.

Your sister Ursula

came last weekend with Rudiger.

They're in very good health, you know.

And Eberhard and Renate are married now.

They want you to know how happy they are.

Eberhard will be posted to Italy soon.

And Renate is expecting a child.

And I have to confess that I've sinned.

I stole your book, "Creation and Fall. "

I keep it by my bedside now.

I sometimes fall asleep

in the middle of a sentence.

And in the morning, I wake up

and I can't remember where I was.

Theology is not the easiest bedtime reading.

But I don't care.

I feel your presence in every word.

We are all eagerly planning the wedding.

Shall I tell you about it?

We've agreed to keep it as a close family.

Oh, well, it makes it only about a hundred.

Yes.

And we thought summer would be the best.

August.

August is beautiful in our village.

August.

Yes, August.

It's a beautiful month.

And I shall teach you how to ride.

I should like that.

Our first kiss.

Not very proper of me.

No, no, no, it's me.

I'm not...

[Roeder] Speak up!

[Maria] I brought you fresh clothes.

They will give them to you.

I've brought you something to read.

I hope I've chosen the right thing.

Rilke, "Duneser Elegien."

Yes, I know what it is.

Thank you.

Now that I know you like Rilke, I'll read it, too.

After you.

Please read it!

Carefully.

And return it back to me when I return next.

That's enough.

You must leave.

Kiss me again.

Thank you for allowing me here.

It won't be long.

Hold me in your heart.

Miss, you must be very careful when you come here.

People like Dr. Roeder have no conscience, none.

Please, do what you can for him.

He's precious.

...s-e-I...

it-- did not...

It makes no sense.

Don't--

Oh, my goodness, that's backwards.

They don't suspect worst, only corruption.

Feud between intelligence and Gestapo.

Deny all.

From Hans.

Love Christel.

Christel!

Thank God, she's safe.

Tell me, what does a girl like that see in you?

Honestly, Herr Knobloch

I've been asking myself the same question.

I can't figure you out.

We're not obliged to tell the truth to everyone who asks.

Only to God.

And to Roeder.

He's got no right to the truth.

No?

No.

Well, consider this.

If a teacher asks a boy in front of the whole class

if his father came home drunk again the night before

is the boy obliged to answer "yes?"

No.

Exactly.

The teacher is abusing his power in asking that question.

The honest answer is for the boy to lie

defending his father.

And lie for all he's worth.

[Maria] I carry your letter with me everywhere.

If I'm caught on the bus or in an air raid

or if I'm waiting in line at the grocer's

I just take it out and read.

"The way we found each other, so shortly before my arrest

"are such clear signs of hominum confusions

dei providentia."

Through man's confusion...

God's provision, I looked it up.

If I can learn that

you can surely learn to ride a horse.

Things are moving fast.

High command knows the war is lost.

Knobloch and I are working on a plan

to get you out.

Maria, be careful.

For God's sake, please.

I love you so much.

[Dietrich] What's new?

Oh, God!

Why do I do this?

Why do I feel so guilty listening to our own radio.

If it was the BBC-- yes!

Anything special?

Someone tried to kill Hitler...

A bomb.

Is he dead?

No, the man has a charmed life.

The Gestapo's taking the Abwehr to pieces.

And what could happen?

They don't know much yet, they're only guessing.

But Hans kept a dossier, for after the war.

He hid it in the Abwehr archives.

If the Gestapo finds it...

[Paula] ls Dietrich named?

[Christel] Yes.

My God!

The S.S. Are going berserk.

The escape is next week.

We have to hurry.

Stauffenberg's dead.

They were all killed, dozens of them.

I have night duty next Wednesday.

I put a pair of plumber's overalls under your mattress.

You'll leave with me.

Klaus.

Rudiger. Oh, no.

[Paula] Eberhard.

[Christel] It gets worse.

How can it?

I found a note from Hans.

He says his only hope is to be too sick to be tried

a serious illness, something like diphtheria.

How can you do that?

Get him a culture, put it amongst his food.

You're going to?

There is no other choice.

[Dietrich] Who am I?

They often tell me /stepped from my cell's confinement

calmly, cheerfully, firmly

like a squire from his country house.

Who am I?

They also tell me

I bore the days of misfortune equably

smilingly, proudly, like one accustomed to win.

(explosions, distant screaming)

[Man] H I e P, please hem!

Am I then really all that which other men tell of?

Or am I only what I myself

know of myself?

Restless and longing and sick, like a bird in a cage

struggling for breath

as though hands were compressing my throat;

yearning for colors, for flowers

for the voices of birds...

Let those people out!

Thirsting for words of kindness

for neighborliness.

Or am /both at once a hypocrite to some

and to myself

a contemptible weakling?

Who am I?

Whoever I am

you know, dear God

I shall always belong to you.

I can't... I can't run.

But you can't stay here.

They'll kill you.

Please, don't do this to me.

Maria, never think I don't love you.

I love you!

I love you, you must know that.

I want you, I want life.

But there will be reprisals if I go.

Hans, Rudiger, Klaus, my family, yours.

But you don't know that!

The prisoners here need me.

I tell them this is not an end, but a beginning.

But every one of them would flee if they could.

[Dietrich] But they cannot.

They are here.

This is their life now.

And what about me?

What about me?

I need you.

I love you.

Maria, it is here that I became the man you love.

You lied to me!

All the time you knew!

You'll see where your God gets you now!

What happened?

They found a dossier in the Abwehr archives.

You were in it.

You know what this means don't you?

Yes.

This is what you wanted?

No...

But I'm ready.

What is it? What happened?

He's being transported.

Where?

Flossenberg, I think.

Dr. Bonhoeffer, we have a proposition for you...

We're offering you a chance to save yourself

and your family.

Your foreign contacts have been communicated to Herr Himmler.

He wondered if you might be able to help us negotiate.

After reading the Abwehr files

we have reason to believe that the allies will listen to you.

I don't understand, you want me to negotiate

with the allies?

Yes.

For you?

For Germany.

For Germany?

If you wish to save your friends and your family

I urge you to do this.

I thought you wanted to live.

What will happen to your lovely Maria?

Hope springs eternal.

Hope.

The last temptation.

The answer is no, Dr. Roeder.

No.

So, is this the end, a taxi to oblivion?

It's not like any taxi I've ever seen.

It's a taxi especially designed

to exterminate the unsuspecting traveler.

You think you're going to the Ritz for dinner

but then on the way there, you get gassed in your limousine.

The good thing is that no one gets stuck with the dinner bill.

[Dietrich] Gentlemen, come on, for heaven's sake.

Sorry about that, old chap.

I'm Payne Best, British not-so-secret service.

Hello.

Kokorin, Stalin's best friend.

Kokorin... British humor.

(speaking Russian)

[Rascher] They are putting in wood.

[Gehre] Fuel, Rascher, it needs fuel.

But not wood.

They can't use wood.

We will suffocate.

I tell you, we will suffocate.

So it is an extermination chamber!

Did I hear right?

Rascher, the eminent Nazi doctor?

I was hoping to meet you, but at the war crimes trial.

What put you here amongst us dregs?

Fallen out of favor with the party, have you?

Poor sod.

Get in there!

All of you!

We are going to Flossenberg.

I recognize the area.

Have you worked at that concentration camp yet, Rascher?

I know it.

Oh?

What beastly experiments did you perform there?

Watching naked men freezing in the cold?

How long it took them to die?

See what color they turned?

Did you keep notes?

And now the Nazis want to get rid of you, do they?

Oh, poor boy. Poor boy.

You bastard Nazi!

Should have let him kill him.

It's all right.

Come on, ifs all right.

Calm down.

I don't understand how you can protect that man.

Because he believes in his stupid God.

He thinks he's holy.

You really do believe

in this day and age

in this God forsaken death trap?

Yes.

In this God forsaken death trap.

(horn beeping)

[Army Corporal-outside] Two of your prisoners

have to go to Flossenberg.

Prisoner Muller

step down.

Can you read this name?

I'm with him.

We were in prison together.

Look after them.

[Driver] What about the other prisoners, where do they go?

[Army Corporal] That's your problem.

[Driver] We need an order.

[Army Corporal] Then give yourself one!

I should have gone.

All in God's time.

You can throw that wood away.

Axle's gone, she's bust.

So, what are we going to do now?

Don't know, really.

Wait for Christmas or the Americans...

(explosion)

So close?

The war must be almost over.

We'll put in a good word for you with the allies.

I need orders. I need an order.

I need an order!

Are you Sippach?

Yes.

Bade r.

Gestapo.

You're relieved.

(accordion music)

Like everything else these days

it's very confusing.

Seems to be about Admiral Canaris.

They found his diaries and arrested him.

I thought he was one of Hitler's chums.

Anyway, it seems as if Hitler is in a royal snit.

Apparently, that was Hitler's response to Canaris.

(gunshot)

(celebrating and accordion music continues)

(two gunshots)

[Man] Where the hell are we going?

[Man] Who cares?

We'll know when we run out of petrol.

[Guard] There is no card for anyone named Bonhoeffer.

No listing of anyone with that name.

Was he here?

No.

[Kokorin] I think we are going to be waiting here

until the Americans arrive.

[Best] Since it's Sunday, padre, how about a word or two?

We're mostly Pagans and Heathens

but I'm sure no one would mind.

And at least one Atheist.

[Kokorin] Don't mind me.

Well that's the point, Kokorin

I do.

I've been thinking about what Christ will mean in the future.

We'll need a new form of Christianity

in a time when the world has come of age.

I think there's only one purpose of religion in a modern world

where people must come and share each other's suffering

and share the suffering of God in a Godless world.

We'll need more than just religion

in the former sense.

We need faith and Jesus Christ at ifs center.

Real Christianity means sharing each other's pain.

It is not for us

to prophesy the day when men

will once more ask God

that the world be changed and renewed.

But when that day arrives, there will be a new language

perhaps quite non-religious, but liberating and redeeming

as was Jesus' language.

It'll shock people.

It'll shock them by its power.

It'll be the language of a new truth

proclaiming God's peace with men.

[Bader] Dietrich Bonhoeffer r?

You're to go with this man.

Where are you taking me?

Flossenberg.

(explosions, gunfire and air raid sirens blaring)

(screaming and yelling)

(crashing)

(explosion s)

(baby crying)

(explosions and baby crying continues)

[Dietrich] Maria, believe in the future, no matter what.

Remember, it was courage that brought us here.

[Guard] Prisoner, strip!

You tremble, pastor.

Afraid?

I'm cold.

So, this is the end.

No.

Father, give unto thy servants

that peace which the world cannot give.