Verboten! (1959)

[bunniefuu]

"Trinken."

"Trinken Verboten."

Sure don't sound Belgian.

'Verboten.

That mean forbidden.'

♪♪ Our love is verboten ♪♪

♪♪ They tell us

we are worlds apart ♪♪

♪♪ And we are

forbidden to care ♪♪

♪♪ Verboten verboten ♪♪

♪♪ The dream I treasure

in my heart ♪♪

♪♪ A dream

we're forbidden to share ♪♪

♪♪ It's just like forbidding ♪♪

♪♪ The morning sun

to rise at dawn ♪♪

♪♪ Forbidding ♪♪

♪♪ The stars to shine above ♪♪

♪♪ For we know ♪♪

♪♪ True love cannot

be verboten ♪♪

♪♪ And no matter what they say ♪♪

♪♪ I'll give you my love ♪♪♪♪

Why are we always picked

to house clean the sn*pers?

- Colonel loves us.

- Oh, yeah?

Let him love some other squad.

- Come on, let's bypass...

- Uh-uh.

One joker in there can hurt

bookoo guys behind us.

Yeah? How do you know

there's only one?

That's all I saw

when I crossed the tracks.

'I'm gonna head for that flag.'

- He'll open up if you run.

- That's when you'll nail him.

- Dead?


- Yeah.

Lay it on.

Nicht schieben.

No ammunition.

Pity, don't sh**t.

No ammunition!

Throw your weapon out.

Now!

Come out with both


your hands on your head.

- Understand.

- I'm coming.

Pity, don't sh**t.

No r*fle, no b*ll*ts.

I'm coming.

Good.

I don't speak that good.

Oh.

I've attended school.


Many of us speak English.

I guess, I'm lucky

to be in one piece.

You could have k*lled me.

I am not a n*zi.

Sure. You're no n*zi, I'm no

soldier and there's no w*r.

There is a difference


between a n*zi and a German.

Why don't you tell it

to your friend Hitler here?

It's verboten not to

have him in every home.

That used to be

our shoulder patch

till we switched

to the thunder bird.

The swastika.

That's an old American Indian


sign that Hitler copped from us.

Believe it or not,

the 45th division

used to wear

the swastika right here.

An American soldier

wearing a swastika?

But we had it long before

little Adolf got the idea.

Hey, let me see that.

- Who patched me up?


- Please?

My verwunden, who dressed it?

I did.

- Alone?

- Yeah.

Oh, no!

I've dressed

wounded soldiers before.

- Oh, you a nurse?

- Nein.

You should not feel embarrassed.

What's so funny?

What?

Uh, you'll have to sit down,

standing up.

That's what I get for being

sandbagged in the rear.

Sandbagged?

What is that?

Hey, there are some cigarettes

in my cartridge belt.

Help yourself.

What's your name?

Helga Schiller.

I'm Sargent Brent.

Aren't you gonna

save that for later?

You people, all over Europe,

are always saving it for later.

That's because they want

a second cigarette.

The whole pack.

How do you eat?

My brother forages food.

- Where?

- The countryside.

- There's no food out there.

- Franz finds them.

He's a deserter, isn't he?

Franz? He's only 15-years old.

My brother has never

k*lled anyone.

- Hitler youth?

- Yeah.

Then he's old enough to k*ll.

Did they ever put you

in a concentration camp?

I thought they put

all you anti-Nazis

in camps or k*lled them.

My family lived a lie since 1933.

What's that got to do with this?

That was the year Germany

was m*rder*d by unser Fuhrer.

But you all strung along

while he was winning.

- Didn't you?

- Yeah, we believed him.

Till it was too late to learn he

was only interested in Hitler.

Why didn't you Germans

open your mouths

when he started throwing

people in the gas chambers?

We are all guilty for not

opening our big mouths.

Should have let him

bleed to death!

Oh! Oh, I'm sorry.

He blames you for his arm.

It was an American b*mb.

And to him, all Americans

are responsible.

That crazy little jerk

tried to k*ll me.

He has tried.

I am not fighting you, Hitler is.

I thought it was a b*mb.

Relax. Relax, now.

That's just my outfit moving in.

They just probably

spotted a cross...

Germans are moving

through the village.

- How many?

- Oh, many.

Hold it. Hold it.

That's ours.

That's yours.

'Helga! Helga! Helga!'

I don't blame you

for being frightened.

- This is your sister?

- Ja.

Schiller?

Fraulein Helga Schiller.

Is that your name?

Yes, he's sick,

he cannot defend himself.

That is unfortunate for him.

But the SS makes use

of all people.

Even one-armed boys.

Don't worry about him, Fraulein.

Our infantry has driven them back

and our a*tillery

will finish the job.

I don't think that we'll have to

use your brother in this fight.

Oh, thank God!

Thank who?

I'm sorry.

You thank the SS for it.

God has nothing to do with this.

They're checking all roofs

as an observation post

for our g*ns.

The buildings are much

safer on the Hitler Platz.

No high enough observation.

Once we've secure this village

I advise you to stay away

from those buildings.

They'd be mined in case

the Americans counterattack.

He'll want to sleep here.

You must help hide him, Franz.

- And get a b*llet in the head?

- Franz, please.

Turn me in. They'll treat me

as a prisoner of w*r.

The SS don't take prisoners.

- Why didn't you tell him?

- He'd k*ll her.

They must find you

away from here.

'Fraulein Schiller?'

'Fraulein Schiller?'

- Come on, get there.

- 'Fraulein Schiller?'

Who's the woman

in the double room?

- My mother.

- S-She is sick. Heart trouble.

You get the equipment.

About our, um,

sleeping arrangements..

...there are three others

in my crew.

The arrangements

can be made to please.

- Franz sleeps there?

- Yeah.

Mm-hmm.

You're very courageous to remain

here because of your mother.

Oh, I'm sure you would

have done the same thing.

I turned my mother in

to the Gestapo..

...for treason.

'Helga.'

- 'Helga!'

- Ja, mutter?

Have the Americans come yet?

The SS are here.

- He keep his mouth shut?

- Yeah.

- They're moving in?

- Yeah.

I must find a place for you.

I don't get it.

Why are you sticking

your neck out for me?

I will show you there is

a difference between a n*zi..

'...and a German.'

Give me a smoke first.

Target, enemy infantry and tanks.

'Coordinates, 4-8-5-3-7-4.'

Aah-h!

- Can you make kaiserschmarren?

- Oh, I-I.. Not really.

But well, I will need

some sugar and raisins and..

Oh, do not bother, leutnant.

They keep falling all the time.

Oh, it is no bother, Fraulein.

In a few days you will have

raisins and sugar.

Our counterattack

is showing results.

Our only headache

is the American Air Force.

Nein. An over-stuffed

close office.

Besides, it's Heinrich Himmler

who is now second in command.

Oh, I was told that Himmler fled.

What did you say?

Well, I-I told them

it was uh, a stupid lie

to send a re-propaganda.

Told who?

Some soldiers.

- Wehrmacht.

- Ja.

All those Wehrmacht swines

are as jealous of the SS

as the stupid generals

are jealous of Himmler.

If the Gestapo were

to repeat such a lie

they would wipe out your family.

But I forget

I heard this, Fraulein.

And you will help me forget it.

A little schnapps.

Helga!

Helga, the Americans

are advancing.

They're all over the place.

O'Conway, go, check

that wire going upstairs.

Might be loose..

'Come on, take them, buddy.

Let's go! Let's go! Let's go!'

You're alone here?

Huh?

You're alone here, huh?

Verstehen?

'Hey, meathead.'

'What took you so long

getting here?'

Dandy, old boy,

we wrote you off KIA.

What're you hiding there for?

I caught one.

They're okay.

The girl patched me up.

Battalion'll get you out

in the morning

unless those jokers

get here tonight.

Hey, check those buildings

in the square

they're booby trapped with mines.

I'll mark them

for the demo squad.

Hey, you got a beauty

there, sergeant.

But watch yourself.

Frauleins are verboten.

Here, buster,

chew yourself to death.

There is nothing up there,

but old... gear.

Come on, hit the road.

Let's go.

Go.

How's this?

"Please, take care

Fraulein Helga Schiller.

"She saved my life and hid me

from the SS troops.

"She's a friend to all Americans.

"She and her family

are not Nazis.

Sargent David Brent, C company

157th in, 345th division."

Danke sehr.

Danke you sehr.

For the surgery.

The AMG will take care of you.

- AMG? What is that?

- American Military Government.

I haven't any traffic with them

but I understand they will

bite your head off.

This letter of recommendation

oughta give an idea

that you're kosher.

What if they do not believe it?

What if they think

you and I were geliebte.

Geliebte?

Lovers.

And that you

only wrote it because..

Well, I-I've been thinking

about that myself.

Sargent Brent.

How I feel..

...and what I can prove, well,

they're not the same thing.

As a child, I sang

the "Horst-Wessel" song..

...made brown shirts out of rags.

I was raised on hate.

But they would look

into record, never into me.

- And...

- Don't you worry, Helga.

I won't let anything

happen to you.

Even if I have to come back

here, and prove it myself.

Danke.

But no American can help me.

You heard what that soldier said.

Frauleins are verboten.

Well, Brent I guess

you're itching to get home

like all the rest of us.

No, sir, I-I wanna stay on.

What do you mean?

I wanna stay on here in Germany.

But you're one of the highest

point men in my regiment.

Those with lower points are

being redeployed to the states

for action in Pacific,

fly to your home tomorrow.

Oh. Well, I know

it sounds crazy, sir.

- You see I got a girl here.

- Uh-huh.

Well..

Your parents wrote me about her.

They seem to be

up in arms over some fraulein.

Did you get her into trouble?

No. No, sir, no.

Nothing like that.

Well, sergeant, all frauleins

want to hook an American.

A G.I. means chow.

Cigarettes.

Security.

If you weren't an American,

she'd want no part of you.

I don't wanna see one

of my tough r*fle men

get into a messy can't

sh**t his way out of.

- I wanna marry her, sir.

- She's a n*zi.

Oh, look, colonel, you know

how many Nazis I k*lled.

Do you think I'd want to marry

one? Have a kid by one?

She saved my skin.

Does that sound like a n*zi?

And you know the kind

of education she's had.

She's no different

than any others.

Oh, but she is different, sir.

Sergeant, there's a little

story makin' its rounds.

This might help you

to clear up some of the smoke.

Seems they found Hitler

dead with a piece of paper

in his fist on which he'd written

"I was never a n*zi."

Come on.

Come on, hide.

Please, Sergeant. Brent,

you know the rules.

- You will get into trouble.

- What trouble?

Non-fraternization rule.

American soldiers fine $65

for talking to a German.

A 65-dollar question, huh?

Means nothing to me.

- I told you I'd come back.

- What do you mean come back?

Oh, I'm going

to stay around here.

- Oh, I'm very sorry.

- Sorry?

Well, that you did not have

enough points to go back home.

Oh, I had enough points.

Here, see if these fit.

- You did not desert?

- And if I did?

Well, then I will

have to hide you again.

This time from your own soldiers.

Helga.

I'm a civilian.

I got my discharge.

From here on in, it's Mr. Brent.

No, no. HerrBrent to you.

My colonel came through for me.

He got me a job as a civilian.

Workin' for the Army. You know

where? Right here in Rothbach.

- Rothbach?

- I'm gonna work for the AMG.

And with food,

sanitation. The works!

Sort of a liaison between your

Burgermeisterand the Army.

Helga.

I got my discharge pay and..

...now I can either spend it for

my fair home or our honeymoon.

Honeymoon?

Um, how do you say, uh..

Well..

That's all I could think about

when I was in the hospital

was you and me going down

Rhine river on our honeymoon.

I even studied up

on that Rockenfeller ruins.

The Mainz Tower, the Bishop

of Mainz and the Lorelei.

Look, Helga, if you say no,

then I'll go back to America.

'Cause I don't any part

of Germany without you.

But there's no law saying

a civilian can't marry a German.

But it is verboten, you know.

Oh, holy smoke.

Everything in your

country is verboten.

Drinkin' verboten, rawking

verboten..

Don't look, don't listen,

don't speak, don't see, don't..

...now it's don't love.

Nobody can forbid us

to love each other.

if that's the way

we feel about it and..

That's the way I feel about it.

Nobody can put the kibosh

on us in your country or mine.

Well, it will not be easy for

you being married to a German.

Who cares? Who cares?

So-so, a few G.I.s

will make wise cracks

and few Germans will look..

Oh, I-I love you, Helga.

Will you marry me?

Hey, watch it. Watch it.

Those are a couple

of American soldiers watching.

Come.

- Helga.

- Come into the house.

Come, Bruno. Come.

Come into the house. Come.

I'm just a little hazy about

the geography of my own village.

Bruno.

It's better if you learn swiftly.

Your mother and father were

in it. It was a direct hit.

I'm sorry to have

to tell you this way.

Oh, there're many still

out at the woods, Bruno

all over Germany.

I put flowers

on their rubble last week.

Danke.

Ilsa.

How is Ilsa?

Let me make some coffee for you.

American coffee.

She's dead?

- Yeah.

- How?

She took her life. She thought

that the Russians were coming.

Oh, Bruno, it's been terrible..

It's a nightmare.

But we are still fortunate

to have a roof.

Others are living in a cellar

like rats with no food.

No warmth, no electricity.

And that terrible thing

that we face every day.

A defeat.

There's a difference

in being occupied and defeated.

We are occupied.

That is all.

What are you

talking about, Bruno?

How is your mother?

Is she still alive?

But she's under borderline.

She's been that way for months.

And Franz?

He's out picking up

cigarette butts.

At the end of the week, he sells

his treasure for pipe tobacco.

Yet I see you waste no time.

- American food.

- How else are we to eat?

For the first time..

...your sex..

...has the advantage over mine.

To all Americans,

forbidden food is tastier.

Oh, yeah. So stupid.

This non-fraternization.

Everywhere I go

all over Germany..

...It's the Americans

with frauleins.

And the law is that..

love making is verboten.

When an American soldier

calls on a girl..

...they think he's farting.

Bruno, whatever they call it.

We have what they want.

Yeah.

Must be an opposite view.

Has this American

has in your body.

Perhaps your lips

can keep him warm.

Long enough to obtain enough

supply of food and cigarettes.

He works for the

military government.

In the food office.

It's good you've

had the blitz medals.

Yeah. I would have had

trouble being denazified.

- Will I go through that?

- If you want to work.

And if I'm not cleared?

A n*zi is not bad enough

to be thrown into jail

and not good enough to be

given the choice positions too.

Put in the bucket brigade

to clean the b*mb debris.

Cheap labor.

Oh, some of your friends bought

a certificate under black

market certifying

they were fellow prisoners

in the concentration camp.

This is temporary safety.

I must have full clearance

first choice job.

Well, then you'll have to appear

before the

denazification court of Germans.

And they will decide whether or

not you're member of the party.

And if the German doesn't like

me, he can vote against me, huh?

- Yeah.

- Isn't that good?

Unless you have

a character witness.

Character witness.

Perhaps..

- Your lover can help.

- Yeah, perhaps.

This candy bar romance

can lead to more things

than just a passport to food.

- Helga.

- Hm?

Do not lose

your American gold mine.

I'm going to marry

my little gold mine.

But how?

Being a chocolate Romeo

and secret is one thing.

- But marrying is another...

- Law does not affect him.

- He's so important?

- He is a civilian.

He is HerrBrent, now.

I'm going to be FrauBrent

...wife of an American.

'This is the

American forces network.'

'American zone Germany.'

'n*zi plans for underground

resistance against'

'the United States Army of

occupation have been discovered'

'in Munich with the arrest

of three Hitler youth members'

'charged with

suppressive activity.'

'They belong to an organization

called the Werewolf.'

'At Nuremberg, Hermann Goring

and 21 major w*r criminals'

'will be charged with crimes

against peace, w*r crimes'

'and crimes against humanity.'

'Martin Bormann's still missing,

will be tried in absentia.'

'Now for good news. Fasching

will once more be celebrated.'

'Going back as far as 1447'

'Faschingwas suppressed

by Hitler in 1938.'

Fasching, you will

love it Herr Brent.

What's it mean, FrauBrent?

Well, it is, uh, carnival time.

You know with the masks

and costumes and dancing.

It is when a man romances

a woman not his wife

and a woman with

a man not her husband.

Oh, that's out.

That is out.

I'm gonna not catch you

faschingaround with some guy.

I'm from a long line

of jealous husbands.

You come from a long line

of wonderful husbands.

Uh-huh.

So kind, so thoughtful.

You're so right.

I was just thinking of Franz.

That artificial arm

has changed his whole life.

Just goes to show what couple of

cartons of cigarettes can buy.

He's so proud of it. He's shown

it to everyone in the village.

Look. Remagen Bridge.

'What is left of it?'

Yeah, I remember.

I crossed it.

'Before the International

Military Trib at Nuremberg'

'United States chief prosecutor

Robert H. Jackson told'

'the court that he not only

is appearing his council for'

'the elite powers but for

the entire civilized world.'

'He said, "The real

complaining party at your bar

"is civilization.

"The responsibility for

the aggressive w*r was clear.

"despite Hitler's supreme

command over the n*zi party

"the United States, Russia,

France, and Great Britain

"claimed he was surrounded by men

"who knowingly

carried out heinous crimes.

"The defendants in the dock

claimed they have never heard

"of wholesale murders,

beatings, tortures

"concentration camp gassings,

genocidal eradication of whole

"communities and the killings

of surrendered elite soldiers.

"They claim ignorance

of their campaign

"of arrogance, brutality,

and annihilation such as

the world has not witnessed

since the Pre-Christian ages."

Go ahead. I'll double check

as you read them out.

Right.

Yeah.

That's it.

You've got 'em all.

What?

No, no, we don't want

jurisdiction over them.

Denazification is gotta

be a German problem.

Nobody knows a n*zi

better than a German..

- Brent, get me that politician.

- Yes, sir.

The man's running

for public office

while being held in internment

camp as a major n*zi offender.

The worse part of it

is people are scared.

They testify against the Nazis

and they're called collaborators

informers, army lovers.

AMG, Rothbach.

Captain Harvey.

Ah.

Uh-huh.

No, no, we don't want

to convict the little fellas

and let the big fish get away.

Once that happens, every German

will be fed up with the business

of running down w*r criminals,

what's the charge, Bruno?

This man has stolen

the food permit, captain.

- Where did you get this?

- I found it.

- Lay off it.

- Forgive me, captain.

It's just that these

thieves make me so angry.

Especially this thief.

His food permit was issued

to Callowitz and signed by me.

- Are you Callowitz?

- He's Gunther Dietrich.

That's right, captain.

Gunther, Bruno and I served

in the same infantry section.

He was our demolition man.

A mine sapper.

Mine sapper?

Can you defuse a b*mb?

- He's not to be trusted.

- We can't be choosy.

Not when two children and a

farmer were k*lled last week

stepping on mines, not with that

unexploded b*mb in the Martin

Luther plots, your people are

so desperate for a place to live

they've ignored all warnings

about living near that b*mb.

There are hundreds

of villages all overloaded

with bombs and mines,

and we're short of sappers.

Demolition men

are as hard to find as food.

- But he's a n*zi.

- Show me a sapper who isn't.

- Herr Burgermeister.

- Yes, captain.

Put Gunther to work

defusing the bombs.

You mean the one

on the Martin Luther plots?

That's right.

Give him all the help he needs.

Relax, Bruno. We'll keep

an eye on him. Don't worry.

We're working so hard, captain

to build a new Germany and..

...men like Gunther are

sworn enemies we've seen.

We'll build a democracy here

even if it's with n*zi bricks.

I do not understand,

you Americans.

Well, it's like being stuck

in the gambling house.

With loaded dice

and marked cards.

But if you trust any

Hitler lover, you will lose.

We know the wheel is fixed.

But it's the only wheel in town.

'Come on, come on,

before I clobber you.'

Let go of me.

Sir, I paid $65 for spratin

with this fraulein.

And look what this

dirty croc did to her?

Just for talkin' to me.

My brother was k*lled

fighting Americans

where he died for prostit*tes

like this who fraternize..

- These are far more...

- Shut up!

You're gonna stay in jail

for as long as it takes

to grow back her hair,

get him out of here, Bruno.

As for you. I post

you company commander.

I'll see you get a blast

for laying a hand on a German

no matter what he's done.

Yes, sir.

- Franz.

- Yes, sir.

Follow through all

that supply system.

Work closer to the Burgermeister.

We don't want

a typhoid epidemic to hit us.

What's the latest

black market box score?

A pack of cigarettes

is still worth ten bucks

a nickel candy bar, five bucks,

a cake of soap, three bucks

a bottle of whisky, 75 bucks,

a watch, 200 bucks

and a camera, a 1000 bucks.

Lasted till over 30 G.I.'s.

...possession of arms

or cigarettes.

They're Germans, we try

them in their own court.

Yes, sir.

What's new on the run, Sergeant?

- See the polizeiget this.

- Yes, sir.

- Eric.

- Yes, Herr captain.

He's escaped.

Am I discharged?

What would you do

if you were in my place?

I would discharge me,

Herr captain.

He might try to contact you.

- What's that?

- That's possible.

Would you turn him in?

Would I protect a man who put my

mother in a concentration camp?

And laughed when

she died a raving maniac?

Herr captain?

Have I your permission

to follow through with this?

Okay.

Done.

My beloved father.

The great S.S. colonel Heiden.

He m*rder*d my sister's husband

because of some non-Aryan strain.

He placed my sister

on a Hitler farm

to bear children with strangers

for the glory of the Third Reich.

He m*rder*d 71 American

prisoners at Malmedy.

He had such a magnificent record

that Himmler picked him

to organize the Werewolf.

Werewolf?

I've heard that somewhere

before. What is that, Eric?

It's an army.

A secret army founded

by Himmler to carry on the w*r

after Germany's defeat.

An army of fearless delinquents.

Carry on a w*r with what?

Your people are having

enough trouble finding enough

to eat and a place to live.

Everywhere Werewolf

is fanatic, David.

They will find weapons.

Like the n*zi party did.

I don't think you should

lose any sleep over it, Eric.

We've got over a million

armed G.I.'s in Germany.

'It'll be tough to find

a German stupid enough'

'to join up with

Hitler's pipe dream.'

Three more recruits.

Good. Where is it?

- Where is what?

- The food!

Help yourself.

Take one.

He said take one.

With 20 cigarettes,

you can get a woman.

For 2000 cigarettes, a man will..

...smuggle wanted Nazis

out of the country.

That is gold you are smoking.

Do not forget it.

I'm Bruno Eckart.

What is your name?

Helmuth Strasser.

Helmuth Strasser.

Cigarettes, clothing,

jewelry, food.

Anything we can lay our hands on

goes to help escaped

w*r criminals.

w*r criminals.

All those Americans

have me calling them that.

That's oughta all

be hung in Nuremberg.

They left us in the lurch.

- What did you say?

- I'm interested in my skin.

This is good.

But our main objective is not

only to save their lives.

Now, you're talking.

The job of the Werewolf is

to k*ll Americans until everyone

is driven out of Germany.

It's too late for Siegfried

to k*ll the dragon, Bruno.

'I'm not interested in rescuing'

'them under American g*ns.

Are you a n*zi?

Yeah.

I'm a hungry,

disillusioned, angry n*zi

who knows when he's beaten.

Then you should be

angry enough to fight.

I'm angry enough

to have two wounds.

The Iron Cross, first class,

to infantry of Salt Metal

and the hand to hand

fighting class.

I know what w*r is and

I'm sick of it. We all are.

I didn't come here

to join an army

of beer mug pushers

and sausage soldiers.

I thought I was joining a band

of black marketers to steal

so I could get food in my belly.

That's what we'll do.

So why this talk about

fighting with the Americans?

With what? How?

Hitler's system was a good idea

badly carried out.

If he failed, what do you expect

to do with these sausage kids?

You once told me, Bruno Eckart

was a smart organizer.

Smart? You're stupid.

This whole idea is stupid.

Is it stupid for me

to be a Polizei

working with the American

Military Government?

Is it stupid..

...knowing how desperate

they for mine sappers?

For me to maneuver

the American captain

to clear Gunther?

That's fine. Take advantage of

your position, fill our bellies

and forget all this familiar

nonsense about fighting.

You know, your,

your pack of cops here

isn't big enough to frighten

one American patrol.

In 1919, Hitler was only one man.

In 1920, 64 men.

In 1942, he almost

ruled the world.

And he started as a pack..

...that became S.S.

And look at us now.

Grow up, Bruno.

The plan is to start small.

The way he did.

First with a squad.

Then a strong troupe.

'Then a brigade.'

'And then an army.'

How do you expect to do this

with the enemy in our

hair, 24 hours a day?

'The way Hitler did.'

'We'll attract a 100.'

'The jobless, the gutless,

the-the vermin, the angry ones.'

Uh, but Hitler didn't have a

million armed American soldiers

in his lap when he started.

But if enough

Americans are k*lled..

...their families

will make Washington

pull out the army of occupation.

'This is the

American Forces Network.'

'American zone, Germany.'

'Continued widespread

suppressive activities'

'of well organized bands

of guerillas have increased'

'the determination

of the military government'

'to crush the Werewolf.'

'Particularly the area

between Nuremberg and Munich.'

'These fanatics who rob the

countryside in search of loot'

'have even established

help posts to warn them'

'of the approach

of the American patrol.'

'While the army of occupation'

'supervised wide scale

transportation'

'of this misplaced persons'

'the Werewolf created

the dissension in ranks.'

'Their destruction of military

supplies and installations'

'have caused panic

among Germans.'

'Quantities of supplies

have been stolen.'

'Petrol dumps blown up. American

soldiers have been m*rder*d.'

'Several German police

have been attacked.'

'Black market value on

food, cigarettes'

'gasoline and blankets

has gone up.'

Total value of violence during

the past month has amounted

to one percent of the stocks.

What's goin' on here?

Yeah, give me your hand.

But last night's hijack was

food for the local Germans.

No, sir, they're all out.

The Burgermeister too.

- Sir, is that Captain Harvey?

- No. What happened?

Another demonstration.

Looks like another

food riot, sir.

Can you contact one

of the other patrols?

Right, sir.

This is an important year.

The year one

of occupation of Germany.

It must become the year one

of driving the armies,

out of Germany!

We let these Americans run

our lives whenever they felt.

They promise us democracy.

Democracy on empty stomachs?

Germans. Germans are fighting

over garbage dumps.

There's no hope for us unless

we run our own government.

The army don't

want us to live again.

They want us to die

a slow and permanent death.

Where is our food, Herr Brent?

You eat every day.

Your family eats every day.

But what about us?

Wait a minute. Wait.

There's food coming from Munich.

Promises. Always promises.

Don't blame the Americans

if you're hungry.

Your own people took

the food out of your mouths.

'Why don't you demonstrate

against the Werewolf?'

Why don't you

let us rule ourselves?

Go home, army.

We don't any liberators.

Liberators?

We're not here as liberators.

Now, you get that

straight. All of you.

We're here as conquerors

and don't you forget it.

We could've pulled

a n*zi job after we won.

And mistreated you like

you mistreated everyone else.

No food, no medicine,

no clothes. Nothing!

'We could've set up

a n*zi state. But we didn't.'

Instead, the United States is

spending a hundreds of millions

of dollars feeding Germans.

Ah, money!

Always talk of how much

money you're spending on us.

But you're not turning

any of it down, are you?

You call it dirty

capitalistic money

but you're taking

every penny of it.

Instead of treating

you like animals

we give you a blood transfusion.

If your stomachs are empty, it's

because dirty n*zi rebel rousers

are trying to work up

another Hitler on your hands!

Now, break it up!

Move out!

Go to hell, you dirty Americana!

Your people will

condemn all of us.

Because of the Werewolf

soon, all of us will be... Nazis

to the Americans.

We know the middle-aged

and elderly

are not giving us the

trouble here, Burgermeister.

The Hitlerjugend.

The Hitlerjugend is behind

every single act of violence.

In my country they're

called juvenile delinquents.

The same disease

all over the world.

Without families,

or from broken ones

they travel in wolf packs,

operate like gangs.

Individually, they're

all chicken inside.

Frightened little cowards

who attack at night.

But get one of them

alone... they run like a rat.

Captain, with your permission

we middle-aged and elderly ones

would like to form a group.

It will be like

your American policy.

We could police there..

We're all for it.

The more you can get in.

The better we like it.

Yeah.

Thank you very much.

Thank you very much,

for your faith in us. Good day.

How's your head?

Well, I, I feel a lot

better than I look.

Helga, she blew her stack

today, when I came to work.

Captain, if you don't mind

I will knock off.

I'll finish

these graphs tomorrow.

Wait a minute, David.

I, I hate to lower the boom

at a time like this.

But, it's an order.

I'm chopped?

Well, I, knew when I

clobbered that soapbox meathead

that I just stepped

on the armies toes.

No, it's not only that.

As soon as you assume

military authority

you started a riot.

But I covered you on that.

Then, why am I fired?

Temporary.

You're suspended.

Till the whole case

is investigated.

How long do you think

I'll be outta work?

I don't know.

Maybe weeks, maybe months.

But, if you come out clean,

you'll get all your back pay.

It looks to me like the army's

favoring the crowds over me.

No, no, no.

The Army is bending way back

not to give the Werewolf

anything else to throw

at hungry Germans.

Hungry people are easier

to bamboozle.

You think giving me the axe

is gonna stop the riotin'?

It's not what I think.

The army is dropping

all civilians

in the zone and replacing

them with Germans.

That'll give the subversives

less ammunition to cause trouble.

I never thought

I'd be fired for a German.

You should consider

yourself lucky

you came out of it

the way you did.

If Bruno hadn't

blocked those blows

you'd have been kicked to death.

Yeah, I know, Captain.

But what happens to me now?

Well... if you haven't got

fare back home, I'll stake you.

You mean, pull out?

A hungry American

in the German bread lines

won't help the situation.

But I'll get a job. I'm...

Well, the Germans

can't even find one.

- No German will hire you.

- But I've got a wife here.

That's why it's better to send

the money from the states.

She is pregnant.

Look, captain. I am sticking

until I get an okay to take

my wife and baby back to America.

Holy smoke. This is no time

to be talkin' about leavin'.

No ex-G.I. in my command

is gonna sweat on a food permit.

Well, it's not verboten

for an American civilian

to live here, is it?

Now, you answer me.

Yes or no.

Am I under military

supervision right now?

- Everybody is.

- Nobody makes me leave my wife.

Nobody.

As long as I keep my nose clean

I don't want anybody

butting into my life.

I'm not askin' any

favors from the army.

Now, just lay off me.

'David. David!'

I'm sorry, David.

- See if I can help?

- I'll manage.

I hate to see such a good

fellow like you make a mistake.

Mistake?

She is not David.

You talk like you got

kicked in the head.

- You're a good fellow.

- Yeah, well, you said that.

It is stupid for you

to give up your country

for a, for a woman like Helga.

What did you say?

It is of the job, David.

She will want no part of you.

She told me.

She would have lived

with any American.

But as long as you

were stupid enough

to want it legal she married you.

She only married you

for food, David.

Can't you see she's like

all the other n*zi frauleins?

Ask her why she calls you

her American gold mine.

David?

- David?

- 'Hey.'

Oh, I'm sorry.

You should not have gone to work

today. You need that rest.

Won't you sit down. Sit.

Put on some of this??

like your boric acid.

It'll make you feel much better.

Oh, David, I..

I'm just so frightened.

If this happened

in front of the MG office

just think what will happen next.

- Oh!

- I'm sorry.

I don't think they'll

bother me anymore.

- You found them?

- No. Haven't found them yet.

My mother saw this happen

after the last w*r.

One push will follow another.

Well, I'm gonna watch

this one from the sideline.

I do not understand.

Well, tomorrow, I'm gonna get

my food permit from the captain.

Food permit? Oh, why should

you need a food permit?

'Cause I was fired.

It's only temporary.

But a German is gonna hold down

my job. Ain't that a switch?

There's plenty of work.

I can repair bridges or roads.

I'll get a job even

on the bucket brigade.

An American in a bucket brigade?

What's the difference?

It's a job.

There must be something

captain Harvey can find for you.

Uh-Uh. No. Me and the army

are officially kaput.

- They want me to go home.

- Where will the food come from?

I said I'll get

a permit and stamps.

We cannot exist on such rations.

- I know, but...

- Germans won't give you work.

Not with so many of us jobless.

Not even on the bucket brigade.

Why are you getting so upset?

I'm not the first guy

to be fired.

You are the first American

to be fired in Germany.

There's no place here

for a foreigner without work.

Helga, you talk like

you want me to go home.

I don't care what I sound like.

I'm telling what is facing you.

Just sit down here a second.

Let's get one thing straight.

You mean with a baby coming

you don't care if I

go back to America?

At least there, you can find

work. You can take care of us

until it is permitted

to send for us.

David, you will starve here.

You mean we'll starve. Isn't

that what you're driving at?

- I'm no good. I've got no job.

- What are you saying?

I'm no use to you anymore.

That's what I'm saying.

Get rid of me. Get

a German with a job.

- That's what I'm saying.

- David!

Why did you marry me?

What is the matter with you?

Why are you talking like this?

What I say is for your

own health. Your own pride.

Did you ever call me

"American Goldmine?"

Did you?

Why did you marry me, Helga?

I love you.

You never told me that.

Since I asked you to marry me,

you never told me.

You want words? Want to hear it?

I love you. I love you.

Is that what you want?

Oh, David. My feelings for you

are much bigger than it was.

- I'm so filled with love...

- I was a meal ticket to you.

Nein!

You'd have lived

with any American.

Especially one that

works in a food office.

You were all "What a chance."

No wonder you married me.

So no other Fraulein could hook

me. Deny that! Deny it!

You're right, David.

You're right.

'But how could I have loved you

then? I didn't know you.'

Of course, I married

you for food.

What else could I do?

We were afraid and hungry.

But that was before, David.

I swear it.

Now, now it is different.

Now, I love you.

Now, it's easy to say

because it's out in the open.

- No! You must believe me!

- I don't believe you!

I couldn't believe you no matter

what you tell me. You know why?

Because I'm up to my neck in

double crossers in this country.

I don't blame you

for getting rid of me.

- Just another mouth to feed?

- Oh, no, David.

What kinda animal do

you breed here, Helga?

How could you live with me,

hating me so much?

How could you want my baby when..

You're lower than

a street walker.

At least when they

take you know it.

Not a dirty n*zi scheme, to make

a sucker out of an American.

Now, that I'm no longer the feed

bag it's, go home David.

Send money from America,

David. Send for us, David.

Well, I don't want

any part of you.

Oh, I'll see you get chow.

I'll become the best

pack rat in this town.

I'll keep feeding you

while you're carrying my baby.

But, the minute it's born, I'm

gonna take it back to America.

My Kid is not growin'

up to become a n*zi.

Nobody's gonna stop

me from taking it.

You give birth to my kid. I

don't care what happens to you.

We should have dropped

that b*mb right here

and wiped out all of you Nazis.

Tell them this is the

new list of relay points

marking the SS out of Germany.

Colonel Heiden going to Egypt?

The other two generals

are going to South America.

There will be a truck. Waiting

to take colonel Heiden

to the farm house.

A potato cart

has been arranged

to relay him to point four.

There's a change of clothes

for him in that box.

As he goes in, give this money.

Put this list away.

- Franz?

- Yeah?

The box car is getting

too small for meetings.

From now on, we will meet

behind the bahnhof.

Yeah.

What is wrong?

Did you get the shipment?

Yeah.

It's already on the black market

runnin' Berlin and Frankfurt.

You look sick.

I am sick.

Why didn't you tell her

it wasn't a surprise?

What's the difference?

Bruno, I've... k*lled..

...and stolen..

...and done everything to stir

up revolts against armies.

But medicine is different.

One can go without

food for hours but..

...medicine means life or death

in a matter of minutes.

I'm not interested in a lecture.

But, that medicine

was for our own people.

Hundreds of sick

Germans will die.

- Lots of people will die.

- But these are Germans!

To hell with them.

- What did you say?

- I said to hell with them!

That's the second time

I've had to live

through that statement.

First was Adolf Hitler.

And now, it's you.

Get me a piece of coal, Franz.

The Werewolf alone..

...have the right

to rule Germany.

This is a military court martial.

And I find you guilty of treason.

The enemy is to work for us.

And so far as we do not

need them, they must die.

Hit a bull's eye

with the knife, Gunther.

'Their sick. They need medicine.

Their sick. They need medicine.'

Sick. They need medicine.

Sick. They need medicine.

- Sick. They need medicine.

- Franz. Franz.

- What medicine?

- It was just a bad dream.

Now, what is this about medicine?

I told you it was a bad dream.

And why haven't you undressed?

I found them.

Who is the leader

of these hoodlums?

Who are you to call us hoodlums?

By looting, k*lling, stealing

food from our own people

and selling it on the black

market what would you say?

- They're for Hitler.

- Oh, Franz.

- Germans suffered under Hitler.

- That is a lie.

The first to be thrown

in concentration camps

were anti-n*zi Germans.

He only put the Jews,

the Jews and the pols

and all the enemies who

started the w*r against us.

He k*lled German Catholics,

German protestants...

You're a liar.

He k*lled German Lutherans,

German priests, German old men

German old women, German cripples

German sick, German insane.

He's right. You have

sold out to the enemy.

Who's right? Tell me, Franz.

Who told you I sold out?

If I prove what the Nazis did,

would you believe me?

You'll show me nothing but lies.

- You afraid?

- A Werewolf is never afraid.

If I am wrong, I'll help you

fight the Americans.

You will, you promise?

I swear it.

'International military

tribunal number one.'

'The United States of America,

the French Republic'

'The United Kingdom

of Great Britain'

'and Northern Ireland'

'and the Union of Soviet

Socialist Republic'

'against the defendants,

Hermon Willhelm Goring'

'Rudolf Hess,

Joachim Von Ribbentrop'

'Julius Streicher, Franz Van

Papin, Hjalmar Schacht'

'Karl Donitz, Erich Raeder,

Baldur von Schirach'

'Fritz Sauckel, Alfred Jodl'

'Martin Bormann,

Arthur Seyss-Inquart'

'Albert Speer,

Konstantin von Neurath'

'And Hans Fritzsche.'

'Individually, and as members

of any of the organizations'

'to which they respectively

belong, The Reich Cabinet'

'The Leadership Call

Of The n*zi Party'

'The SS, the SD, the Gestapo'

'the SA and the general staff'

'and high command

of the German armed forces.'

'Justice Robert H. Jackson,

the chief American prosecutor'

'makes the opening statement

for the prosecution.'

'The privilege of opening

the first trial in history'

'for crimes against

the peace of the world'

'imposes a grave responsibility.'

'In the prisoners' dock,

sit 20 odd broken men.'

'Reproached by the humiliation,

by those they have led'

'almost as bitterly

by the desolation'

'of those they have attacked.'

'What makes this inquest

significant'

'is that these prisoners

represents sinister influences'

'that will lurk

in the world long after'

'their bodies have

returned to dust.'

'They are the living

symbols of arrogance'

'cruelty, power, racial hatred,

terrorism and violence.'

'The USA presents count one

of the indictment'

'that all defendants

participated'

'as organizers or accomplices'

'in a common plan or conspiracy

to commit crimes'

'against peace, w*r crimes

and crimes against humanity.'

'We will show you

the defendants' own film.'

'You will see their own conduct'

'in the course

of the conspiracy.'

'Its history is the history

of the n*zi party'

'that grew from

the brawling streets'

'of Munich in the 20's.'

'Their aim was the highest

degree of control'

'over the German community.'

'Give me five years.'

'Today Germany.

Tomorrow, the world.'

'The n*zi party alone has

the right to rule Germany'

'and the right

to destroy the enemy.'

The Werewolf alone has

the right to rule Germany.

And a right to destroy the enemy.

'Martin Bommen, last seen alive

May 2nd, 1945, faith unknown'

'tried in absentia, said,

the enemy is to work for us.'

'And so far as we don't

need them, they must die.'

'The enemy is to work for us.'

'And so far as we don't

need them, they must die.'

'German anti-Nazis

were the first victims.'

'Medical experiments

were standard procedure'

'at many concentration

camps for Germans'

'who did not agree with Hitler.'

'Defendant Frick as

minister of the interior'

'directed the n*zi program

aimed at aged, insane'

'crippled or incurable Germans.

The so called useless eaters.'

'Thousands were committed

to special institutions.'

'Few of the German

anti-Nazis ever returned.'

'Evidence proved

they were m*rder*d.'

'Because they were

useless to Hitler's plans.'

'A most intense drive

was directed by Hitler'

'and his Nazis against

German protestants'

'Lutherans, Catholics.'

'Pastor Niemoller, was sent

to a concentration camp.'

'Bishop Greba was beaten up.'

'Hitler inspired vandalism

against church property.'

'n*zi teaching was inconsistent

with the Christian faith.'

'It was the n*zi plan to

suppress the Christian church'

'completely after the w*r.'

The whole Christian era

lasted for 2000 years

and is a failure.

'But, with the w*r, the number

of victims swelled'

'to include citizens of all

the nations in Europe.'

'Included among the ex*cuted

and burned were citizens'

'from Holland, France,

Belgium, Poland, Hungary'

'Czechoslovakia, Greece,

and other countries.'

'But perhaps the greatest

crime against humanity'

'the Nazis committed,

was against the Jews.'

'Whom they used as the scapegoat

to camouflage their plan'

'to make Hitler, God, and

to make Mein Kampf, the bible.'

'Goebbles was Hitler's trumpet.

Goebbles cater to children.'

'Fill them with campaign cries'

'that went to the heart

of the n*zi movement.'

'Hate was the n*zi religion.

Hate was their battle cry.'

'Hate was their God.'

Hate, hate, and again, hate.

'Children of tender years

were invariably exterminated'

'since they were unable to work.'

'The Nazis endeavored

to fool them into thinking'

'they were going through

a delousing process.'

'A thousand years will pass,

and this guilt'

'of the Hitler g*ng

will still not be erased.'

'It took from 3 to 15 minutes

to k*ll the people'

'in the gas chamber, depending

on the climatic conditions.'

'The Nazis knew when

the people were dead'

'because the screaming stopped.'

'After the bodies were removed'

'special Hitler commandos

took off the rings'

'and extracted the gold

from the teeth of the corpses.'

'Much of this loot was then

transferred to secret vaults'

'of the Reich bank

at Frankfurt on Maine.'

'This was genocide.'

'The premeditated destruction

of entire peoples.'

'Genocide, the direct result

of the Nazis claim'

'that they have the right

to destroy Hitler's opposition.'

'Tomorrow, the world.

Dead or alive.'

Franz, I want you to look.

Franz, you've got to look.

We'll look together.

This is something we should see,

everyone should see.

The whole world

should see, Franz.

Franz, look.

I didn't know.

I-I didn't know.

I didn't know.

Hey, Brent.

Oh, I've been looking

all over for you.

Beat it, kid.

Bruno and Wills are meeting

behind the bahnhoftonight.

What kinda double talk

you giving me? Get lost!

Believe me. Bruno is the Fuhrer.

You must tell Capt. Harvey.

You know where he is.

You tell him.

- She wants you to tell him.

- She who?

- Helga.

- Why is she involved in this?

She took me to Nuremburg today.

I saw the trials.

- She took you to the trials?

- Yeah.

- You saw Gary?

- I saw Gary.

I saw film.

I didn't know it!

I didn't know.

What time they meeting

behind the bahnhof?

I-I-In thirty minutes.

You go straight home.

I'll meet you there.

Hello?

That's funny. I came back

for the same thing.

How did you know

I'd need that list

for tonight's meeting?

G-Gunther sent me for it.

That's fine, Franz.

Give it to me.

I just left Gunther

by the bahnhof.

Where were you going

with that list?

I got my job back. Think I

should ask army for a raise?

You've never seen such action

There was action all over the

place. Not even in the army.

The opposition was just...

'Fire, fire!'

Franz!