Original subtitles

Hey, over there!

Where to?

Inside.

Come over here.

Oh, right, SA.

What are you doing here? - To hand something in.

Not today.

The club’s closed. It’s closing time.

We’ve got to get over there.

She’s got to come round here.

Mr Jacoby. Good evening.

Mr Nyssen, we can begin.

Yes, let our guest of honour have another little sip.

But he doesn’t drink alcohol.

Exactly. He has to refuse every three minutes.

Alfred, please.

That dandy from... - No, thank you.

Madam, there’s no fizz left at all.

I’ll be happy to fetch you a fresh glass.

Please keep a low profile.

Trust me.

You’re quite right.

Long live our new Reich Chancellor, Adolf Hitler!

Long may he live!

Hurrah! Hurrah!

Charlotte!

There.

Guard!

Criminal Investigation Department. Someone’s climbed in.

Where? - Up there!

Oh, God.

Alert the fire station on Unter den Linden. Quick! Come on!

Ten more minutes.

My beloved Helga, distinguished guests,

and last but not least, dear Mr Hitler!

It is now almost a whole month since we

elected you as Chairman of Deutsche Reich AG.

If I may introduce them, from left

to right: Günther Quandt, Friedrich

Flick, Carl Bosch, Alfried Krupp,

Ferdinand Porsche, Karl Merck,

Wilhelm von Opel, Hermann von

Siemens, Franz von Papen and Alfred Hugenberg.

Yes, I am familiar with you all, gentlemen.

I thought I would not need to introduce the

supervisory board of this company to you,

But does the dog remember the hand that feeds it?

What did you say, Nyssen?

Yes, what did I say?

I’m talking about my ten-point

plan, which I had sent to you

to support your election campaign.

Point one: economic policy.

It should be, and will be, guided by the state.

The state dictates what the nation needs,

and the economy— all of us here—will deliver.

You’ll see, it’s not entirely wrong…

Mrs Nyssen.

Helga?

Come along, I’ll see you out.

Helga?

I’m sure she’ll feel better in a moment.

Where was I? Right. Economic policy.

It should be national, but …

Please come along.

Wegener, what’s this all about?

Excuse me, madam, but we have to go that way.

Where to? - That way.

- Where are you taking her? - Out.

That’s not a bad idea.

What’s the matter? What are you waiting for? The connection’s been cut off.

What?

Bloody hell!

The timer?

Come on, then.

- What’s happened? - Gereon?

We’ve got to go back in.

What? - Yes.

Gereon, what are you doing here?

What are you up to?

Mrs Nyssen … - Let me go!

Madam, you must … - No!

Mrs Nyssen! - No! No, Gereon! No!

Alfred! No! Let me go! That’s enough, Helga!

Alfred! No! Alfred! - Please come with us.

Alfred!

You, your jacket. Quick! - Gentlemen, the white wine.

Six o’clock sharp – one of the most important ones.

And if you’ll allow me to mention

one of the issues that is personally

closest to my heart: self-sufficiency.

Just a moment, please. I’m not quite finished yet.

We consider it essential that our people’s food

supply is secured within our own borders.

Yes, actually that fits quite well now, doesn’t it?

Let us now turn to

what is probably of most interest to you all: weapons.

Do pay attention! – Excuse me.

Oops.

My trousers are wet.

As you know, my engineers have been developing various types of

rockets for some time now.

We should make use of this technology,

particularly when it comes to colonisation.

Bear in mind, from space,

we can reach any point on Earth

in a matter of seconds.

Every location, every country and every continent.

The combination of military

weapons and technological

progress will propel Germany to

the top of the world in no time at all.

Nyssen AG stands ready, ready to

unleash the elemental forces to

subjugate the enemy and gravity, anytime, anywhere!

Now, let’s get out of here quickly!

You can’t go any further here. There’s a fire.

We have to get through there. – Not now.

Things could kick off here at any moment.

Who are they? What’s in those canisters?

Get out of here!

That wasn’t the fire brigade, was it?

You go upstairs, I’ll take this floor, OK?

OK.

... will this be the Germany that

we have reimagined in this circle,

...will also become a reality.

Alfred Krupp will become Minister for

Economic Affairs, whilst the Ministry of

Defence is probably best left in my

hands, as I was able to explain to you in point six.

Yes, that brings me straight to …

point nine.

I beg your pardon, but we are faced

with an extraordinary situation here.

The Reich Chancellor and the President of

the Reichstag are urgently needed in the city.

Perhaps we should continue our

consultation at another time.

Get out!

Everyone out!

Get out! Outrage!

What a pathetic worm.

The greater your will to greatness, the more

obvious your destiny of utter insignificance.

You are a nobody, an infantile wannabe,

A pathetic nobody. Hush, Mum.

You can’t tell me what to say.

Shh! What’s that all about?

Can you hear that?

Something’s ticking.

Nonsense, you’re the one ticking.

And not in the right way.

There’s something there.

It’s a bomb.

An explosive charge, no doubt about it.

You’ve got to defuse it, lad!

It’ll go off in less than a minute.

We’ve got to get out of here! Come on!

You’re coming with me now!

No.

You’ll do as I say! No!

Just go on then.

Come with me.

How? Come with me.

I’m begging you.

You’re begging me?

Yes, I’m begging you.

Get out of this room.

You want to keep me in this world, for as long as

possible, so you don’t have to face me in the next.

I beg you.

My dear boy, my

dear, my dear, dear boy, I …

I do love you so much.

Please.

It’s all right, Mum.

We’ll go together.

The two of us.

Jacoby? Have you forgotten something?

What’s this all about? Open the door!

Hands up!

Don’t move!

This will have consequences. You realise that, don’t you?

- Mr Jacoby. - Przybylski!

Open the door!

What are you still doing here? - Przybylski!

You’re supposed to open the door!

Do you trust me?

Yes.

What are you up to?

Citizens of the German Reich.

In a few days’ time, you will be electing a new parliament.

Whoever you vote for, that is your decision.

The people are the sovereign of a country, and no one else.

Any political force that runs counter

to this principle must be stopped.

Today we have

opposed the misguided path of the ‘Führer principle’.

The Reich Chancellor Adolf Hitler is dead.

He and his followers have forced us into this act of violence.

For the alliance of fascism and capital knows but one goal.

War.

In war, man loses his soul, his compassion.

His love for nature and the world.

What remains is a spectre,

broken in body and mind.

We, we ourselves are these spectres.

We,

the former comrades, the ghosts of war.

Today we have killed one of our own.

It was our final service to this country.

Even in 100 years’ time, people will still marvel at this,

what we have achieved in these few years since the war.

The achievements of science and medicine,

of psychology and pharmacology, of film

and literature, women’s rights, freedom

of the arts and the press, freedom of

speech and constructive debate, and, last

but not least, our unwavering stance against war.

The hatred, the envy, the violence,

All this arises solely from the

oppressive nature of authoritarianism.

Our action will prevent the

German people from

degenerating into human

machines, devoid of feeling, compassion and love.

We are not machines.

We are merely the broken automatons of the last war,

and we are now retreating into the darkness.

Open up! Unlock the door!

What on earth is going on here?

But with this act, we have made way

for something new and free in Germany,

for openness and expansiveness in the world.

It is now up to you, the German people,

to forge the path ahead.

Vote for him …

In the name of humanity.

Potocznik, do something.

In the name of dignity

and in the name of freedom.

Get out of here!

I’m calling it a day!

Police, drop it, now!

Switch it off, for God’s sake!

Everyone out of here, now!

Right then, lad! - Charlotte!

Come on! Come on, get out! - Come on, over here!

Gereon, stay here!

Let me go!

Get out of here!

Anno, come on!

He’s alive!

Hitler! He’s survived!

We’ve got to get out of here!

Anno!

Over there! Come on!

Gereon?

Gereon.

Shh, shh!

Gereon!

Breathe calmly.

In.

And out.

Let go of your thoughts.

And take a deep breath.

In.

And out.

I’ll guide you.

Step by step.

Step by step.

All the way...

to the end.

Gereon!

“Ladies and gentlemen,

we apologise for the false report.

The Reich Chancellor, Adolf Hitler, is unharmed.”

However, we have received news

that the Reichstag is ablaze.

Communist agitators have started a fire

and in so doing have unequivocally expressed

their contempt for the German people.

Our Reich Chancellor Hitler …” - Arrest them!

“… calls upon the German people to show the greatest possible unity.

Quote: ‘Do not let any of these arsonists

or the Communists behind them get away.

They want to destroy our state

and subjugate our country to the Soviet Union.

Let us hunt them down to the furthest corners,

to the ends of the earth.

Let none of them get away.

Tonight they have shown us their true colours.'"

Hans Litten, arrested on the very night of the Reichstag fire.

As a staunch opponent of Hitler, Hans Litten was

tortured in various concentration camps until he

took his own life on 5 February 1938 at Dachau

concentration camp to avoid further interrogation.

Ernst Gennat remained head of the homicide

investigation unit even under the Nazis and was

promoted in 1935 to the rank of Government and Criminal Councillor.

He died in Berlin in August 1939.

Let’s begin.

Rosa Helfers.

In 1933, she was dismissed from all her posts.

From 1935 onwards, she was under surveillance

by the Gestapo; in 1944 she was arrested and

interned in the Buchholz re-education labour

camp, where her health was permanently damaged.

From 1945 onwards, she played a decisive role in the reconstruction of the SPD.

Ernst Thälmann, leader of

the Communist Party of

Germany, arrested on 3 March 1933.

In August 1944, after more than eleven years in solitary

confinement, he was shot, presumably on the direct orders of Adolf Hitler.

Otto Wels, party chairman of the SPD.

Under his leadership, on 23 March 1933, the

Social Democrats were the only party to vote

unanimously against Hitler’s Enabling Act, upon

which the National Socialist dictatorship was founded.

Otto Wels died in exile in Paris, two

weeks after Hitler’s invasion of Poland.

Immediately after the Reichstag fire, all the

fundamental rights enshrined in the constitution were suspended.

Newspapers that did not toe the Nazi line were

systematically banned, and journalists were persecuted.

One of the most prominent victims was Carl von Ossietzky.

The future Nobel Peace Prize laureate died after five

years in prison as a result of the ill-treatment he suffered.

In the election on 5 March, which was no

longer free, the NSDAP did make gains but

failed to secure the absolute majority it had hoped for.

It was the last election held in Germany until 1948.

In early July 1934, Hitler had

numerous internal party opponents

murdered in the wake of the so-called Röhm Putsch.

This, as portrayed by propaganda

During the events also known as the ‘Night of the Long

Knives’, the former Reich Chancellor Kurt von

Schleicher and his wife Elisabeth were also among the victims.

Rudolf Diels, founder of the Gestapo, handed

over his post to Heinrich Himmler in 1934 and

subsequently became District President in Cologne.

In 1957, he was killed in a hunting accident.

We’ll wait outside.

Dr Edmund Forster returned to

Germany after his trip to Paris.

On 31 August 1933, he was suspended from duty

for alleged remarks against National Socialism.

A few days later, he took his own life.

Ernst Weiß based his last

novel, *Der Augenzeuge* (The

Eyewitness), on Dr Forster’s notes and conversations.

Following the advance of German troops

In 1940, he slit his wrists at his hotel in Paris.

For the economic elite,

their support for the Nazis paid off handsomely.

Not least through the massive use of forced labourers,

they were able to increase their private fortunes and

prove themselves to be compliant enforcers for the terror state.

Hardly any of them were held to

account after the war.

“Charlotte.

It is unpleasant enough when the air

over the country becomes toxic and smoky.

But to a certain extent, one can shut this air out.

One can close one’s windows

tightly and retreat into the

four walls of a secluded private life.

One can shut oneself off, put flowers in one’s room

and to cover one’s ears and nose when out on the street.

The temptation to do so is great, even for me.

My brother said that in 100 years’ time

people will look back on us and our era

and marvel at just how far we had come,

how many new and good things we tried.

And how often we failed, too.

Perhaps.

But what is now being called the Thousand-Year Reich everywhere,

it will make us forget all that.

Until we, too, forget what we once were.

One thing, however, I do know:

that I shall never forget what you meant to me.

That is how I think of you today and tomorrow.

And I already miss you so much

more than anything else in my life.

Your laughter,

your eyes,

your radiance.

Even the city has turned grey for me without you.

The city of Berlin,

which you showed me,

where we were happy for a while.

The city that no longer exists.

Our Berlin."