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00:01:07 [woman] You didn't wake me.
00:01:10 You were sleeping.
00:01:12 You can't bear
00:01:14 I've boiled you an egg. See?
00:01:18 if I didn't want to see you.
00:01:22 Does any woman ever
00:01:24 to find out what the hell
00:01:28 What are you doing tonight?
00:01:30 I'm seeing my daughter.
00:01:32 Your daughter?
00:01:36 Have I?
00:01:38 Well, she's been abroad for a year.
00:01:43 Did you say tea?
00:01:45 I'm going.
00:01:50 Have fun with your daughter.
00:01:52 [door shuts]
00:02:02 [train approaching]
00:02:12 [brakes squealing]
00:02:22 [woman speaks German]
00:02:23 [woman] Tickets, please.
00:02:27 Tickets. Excuse me.
00:02:35 Tickets.
00:02:40 Tickets, please.
00:02:52 [panting]
00:03:00 [gagging]
00:03:14 [thunder rumbles]
00:03:18 [vomiting]
00:03:40 [woman] Oh!
00:03:42 Hey. Hey, you!
00:03:50 [faucet turning on]
00:04:12 Your feet. Your feet.
00:04:22 [boy sobbing]
00:04:33 Hey, kid.
00:04:37 Up.
00:04:41 It's all right.
00:04:52 There. Where do you live?
00:05:01 It's just up here.
00:05:06 Goodbye.
00:05:17 Look after yourself.
00:05:24 I'm worried about him.
00:05:28 The boy's saying
00:05:31 - He does.
00:05:33 - Good, then.
00:05:35 We're not going to argue about this.
00:05:40 Remind me.
00:05:43 [mother] Michael's 15.
00:05:45 - [doctor] It's scarlet fever.
00:05:48 [doctor] He'll be in bed
00:05:51 Complete isolation.
00:05:53 Emily, keep away. He's contagious.
00:05:59 Emily!
00:06:17 [mother] How are you feeling?
00:06:20 Better.
00:06:23 I meant to tell you...
00:06:25 ...the day I got ill, a woman helped me.
00:06:27 She helped you?
00:06:29 Yes. She brought me home.
00:06:33 Do you have her address?
00:06:36 - [banging]
00:06:45 [men shouting in German]
00:07:03 [woman singing in German on record]
00:07:10 - [Michael] Hello?
00:07:29 [music continues]
00:07:39 I brought you these flowers
00:07:42 Put them over there in the sink.
00:08:06 I would have come earlier,
00:08:09 - You are better now?
00:08:13 - Have you always been weak?
00:08:19 It's incredibly boring.
00:08:23 I couldn't even be bothered to read.
00:08:30 Well, thank you again.
00:08:34 Wait.
00:08:36 I'll walk with you.
00:08:42 Wait in the hall while I change.
00:08:58 [coin clatters on floor]
00:09:40 [men chattering outside]
00:10:13 [women chattering]
00:10:25 [woman shouts in German]
00:10:38 [man grunts]
00:10:49 [Michael gasps]
00:11:11 [footsteps approaching]
00:11:33 There are two more buckets downstairs.
00:11:36 You can fill them and bring them up.
00:11:53 [Michael coughing]
00:11:57 [laughs]
00:12:03 [woman laughing]
00:12:05 You look ridiculous.
00:12:10 [laughs]
00:12:12 You can't go home like that.
00:12:18 Take off your clothes.
00:12:24 [water running]
00:12:42 Do you always take
00:12:57 [clears throat]
00:12:58 It's all right. I won't look.
00:14:08 I'll get you a towel.
00:15:08 [moans]
00:15:10 [whispers] So that's
00:15:31 [whispers] You're so beautiful.
00:15:34 [whispers] What are you talking about?
00:15:46 Look at me, kid.
00:15:50 Mm! Mm!
00:15:52 Slowly.
00:15:54 Slowly...
00:15:57 Shh.
00:16:00 [silverware clattering]
00:16:02 [blows, slurps]
00:16:09 [clock ticking]
00:16:11 [panting, moaning]
00:16:16 [moaning]
00:16:23 [panting]
00:16:34 You've inconvenienced your mother.
00:16:36 How many more times?
00:16:40 - You scared her.
00:16:42 That's why I was late.
00:16:44 How can anyone get lost
00:16:47 I meant to head for the castle,
00:16:50 - Opposite directions.
00:16:52 - He's lying.
00:16:56 Michael never lies.
00:17:01 I've decided I want
00:17:04 - The doctor says you need three weeks.
00:17:07 [mother] Peter?
00:17:14 [sighs]
00:17:15 [children shouting]
00:17:22 - Hey!
00:17:51 - [grunts]
00:17:55 That's right.
00:17:58 [moans]
00:18:01 No, not so fast.
00:18:14 Ah!
00:18:19 It's all right.
00:18:21 Do it again.
00:18:26 Mm...
00:18:29 Oh!
00:18:46 What's your name?
00:18:49 - What?
00:18:52 - Why do you want to know?
00:18:57 I want to know your name.
00:19:02 [laughs] Nothing, kid.
00:19:04 There's nothing wrong with that.
00:19:07 - It's Hanna.
00:19:13 - What's yours, kid?
00:19:17 Michael. Hmm.
00:19:20 So I'm with a Michael.
00:19:24 Hanna.
00:19:26 [teacher] The notion of secrecy
00:19:32 You may say the whole idea of character
00:19:36 is defined by people
00:19:39 holding specific information,
00:19:42 which, for various reasons,
00:19:45 sometimes perverse,
00:19:49 they are determined not to disclose.
00:20:00 [laughs]
00:20:05 [Hanna] You never tell me
00:20:08 Studying?
00:20:12 At school.
00:20:17 - Do you learn languages?
00:20:22 - What languages?
00:20:30 - Say something in Latin.
00:20:34 [speaking Latin]
00:20:40 It's Horace.
00:20:42 It's wonderful.
00:20:46 Do you want some Greek?
00:21:01 [reading in Greek]
00:21:07 It's beautiful.
00:21:09 How can you tell?
00:21:12 How do you know,
00:21:18 What are you studying in German?
00:21:20 I'm studying a play.
00:21:24 By a writer called Gotthold
00:21:28 The play's called Emilia Galotti.
00:21:32 I'd rather listen to you.
00:21:35 All right.
00:21:47 "Act One. Scene One.
00:21:49 The setting:
00:21:52 The Prince..."
00:21:55 I'm not very good.
00:21:58 Go on.
00:22:01 "Complaints, nothing but complaints.
00:22:05 For goodness sake,
00:22:10 Just imagine that
00:22:15 You're good at it, aren't you?
00:22:20 Good at what?
00:22:25 Reading.
00:22:31 What's funny?
00:22:35 I didn't think I was good at anything.
00:22:37 [boys shouting]
00:22:43 [whistling, clapping]
00:22:50 Whoo!
00:22:57 [bell clangs]
00:23:45 [footsteps approaching]
00:24:05 What are you doing?
00:24:08 Why did you behave
00:24:11 You didn't want to know me! You could
00:24:15 - So why did you sit in the second?
00:24:18 - Why did you think I was there?
00:24:21 Now, I've been working.
00:24:25 And I'd like to be by myself.
00:24:27 Would you please leave?!
00:24:33 I... I didn't mean to upset you.
00:24:39 You don't have the power to upset me.
00:24:42 You don't matter enough to upset me.
00:24:49 [gas heater turns on,
00:25:18 [sniffling]
00:26:02 I don't know what to say.
00:26:06 I've never been with a woman before.
00:26:12 We've been together four weeks,
00:26:15 and I can't live without you.
00:26:18 I can't.
00:26:20 Even the thought of it kills me.
00:26:29 I sat in the second carriage
00:26:34 Kid, you thought
00:26:42 Is it true what you said?
00:26:45 That I don't matter to you?
00:27:00 Do you forgive me?
00:27:08 Do you love me?
00:27:27 - Do you have a book?
00:27:32 I took one with me this morning.
00:27:35 - What is it?
00:27:38 It's my homework.
00:27:43 We're changing the order we do things.
00:27:46 Read to me first, kid.
00:27:55 - [Michael] The Odyssey, by Homer.
00:27:59 A journey.
00:28:02 [Hanna] Good.
00:28:07 "Sing to me of the man, Muse
00:28:11 Driven time and again off course
00:28:14 - The hallowed heights of Troy"
00:28:25 [Michael] "He pressed
00:28:29 She was dead.
00:28:31 - Past all help, or need of it."
00:28:40 [panting]
00:28:42 [Michael] "I poked into the place a
00:28:46 as big as a bedroom,
00:28:50 and found a man lying there asleep.
00:28:51 And, by jings, it was my old Jim.
00:28:56 'When you landed,
00:28:59 on the land without having to shout
00:29:03 I begin to go slow."' [laughs]
00:29:05 "Lady Chatterley
00:29:10 as he came into her.
00:29:13 For a moment,
00:29:16 This is disgusting.
00:29:19 Where did you get this?
00:29:21 - I borrowed it from someone at school.
00:29:24 You should be ashamed.
00:29:30 Go on.
00:29:32 [blows raspberry]
00:29:33 "'Billions of bilious blue blistering
00:29:37 It is water! ' 'But what on earth
00:29:40 - Whiskey.
00:29:45 'Whiskey? Come now, captain,
00:29:48 That's enough for today, kid.
00:29:51 I was wondering, do you think
00:29:55 Maybe we could go on a trip.
00:29:58 - What sort of trip?
00:30:01 Just two days.
00:30:07 I've got a guide book.
00:30:10 Look. What do you think?
00:30:17 I think you like planning, don't you?
00:30:24 [sighing]
00:30:36 [Michael] "I'm not frightened.
00:30:39 I'm not frightened of anything.
00:30:43 The more I suffer, the more I love.
00:30:48 Danger will only increase my love.
00:30:50 It will sharpen it.
00:30:56 I'll be the only angel you need.
00:30:58 You will leave life even more beautiful
00:31:02 Heaven will take you back
00:31:06 'Only one thing can make a soul
00:31:19 [laughing]
00:31:38 - Hello.
00:31:44 [boys laughing]
00:31:47 - [woman] Excuse me.
00:31:50 Do you know what you'd like?
00:31:55 - Um...
00:31:58 - You order. I'll have what you have.
00:32:02 Um...
00:32:04 Two frankfurters, two potato salads
00:32:09 [boys laughing]
00:32:16 [sighs]
00:32:18 - Thank you.
00:32:20 - I hope your mother was happy.
00:32:23 She enjoyed her meal very much.
00:32:41 Come on.
00:32:47 [laughing, shouting]
00:32:59 Here, let me show you
00:33:03 It's OK, kid.
00:33:05 I don't want to know.
00:33:20 [choir singing]
00:33:44 [choir continues singing]
00:34:53 [choir stops singing]
00:34:58 - What are you doing?
00:35:05 - Can I hear it?
00:35:09 I'll read it to you one day.
00:35:36 [bicycle bells ringing]
00:35:54 [choral music plays in car]
00:36:15 [music continues]
00:36:21 [shuts off music]
00:36:27 - Morning, Hendrick.
00:36:30 - You're in court 306.
00:36:32 - You all right, Michael?
00:36:34 - Hurry. You know what she's like.
00:36:37 Good luck.
00:36:40 [man] Please stand.
00:36:47 Please sit down.
00:36:53 [woman] The defendant, please.
00:36:55 - [indistinct chatter]
00:37:06 They're coming.
00:37:13 - Hello.
00:37:16 - What did she say?
00:37:19 Welcome your new fellow-students.
00:37:24 - Sit down.
00:37:28 - My name's Sophie.
00:37:31 [teacher] The Odyssey.
00:37:33 Take our your books.
00:37:38 Everyone believes
00:37:41 In fact, The Odyssey
00:37:44 Home is a place you dream of.
00:37:47 Berg, I don't mean to distract you, but
00:37:51 - [laughter]
00:38:00 - It's wonderful, isn't it?
00:38:03 It's gonna be a great summer.
00:38:18 - Why do you leave early?
00:38:21 - Do you have somewhere to go?
00:38:33 [Michael] Sorry I'm late.
00:38:37 I got held up at school.
00:38:41 I have a new book.
00:38:43 The Lady with a Little Dog.
00:38:49 By Anton Chekhov.
00:38:50 "The talk was that a new face
00:38:53 a lady with a little dog."
00:39:08 [man] Schmitz, one moment, please.
00:39:12 I read the reports on you.
00:39:16 You'll be working in the office.
00:39:19 You got promoted. Congratulations.
00:39:29 - [boy] Yee-haw!
00:39:34 [boy] Let's get out of here!
00:39:36 Come on! Michael, we're leaving.
00:39:39 Come on, Michael!
00:39:40 It's meant to be a surprise
00:39:47 - [boy] Come on!
00:39:49 - I'm sorry. Really.
00:39:52 [boy] We've got beer!
00:39:56 I promised someone.
00:39:58 [girl] Michael, please!
00:40:05 [Michael] "Here and there the reflection
00:40:09 on the bank quivered and trembled."
00:40:11 - [Hanna] Oh, kid, kid.
00:40:14 - Stop.
00:40:17 Nothing's wrong.
00:40:22 It's nothing.
00:40:26 You know, you never ask.
00:40:30 You never bother to ask how I am!
00:40:33 [Hanna] You never say.
00:40:36 It just happens to be my birthday.
00:40:40 It's my birthday, that's all!
00:40:43 You've never
00:40:44 - If you want a fight, kid...
00:40:47 - What's wrong with you?!
00:40:51 It's always on your terms.
00:40:54 We do what you want.
00:40:57 - My friends were giving me a party.
00:41:00 Go back to your party.
00:41:06 Mm! Mm!
00:41:29 It's always me
00:41:31 You don't have to apologize.
00:41:44 War and Peace, kid.
00:43:04 [panting]
00:43:32 Now, you must go
00:43:40 [chanting]
00:43:50 Are you all right?
00:44:16 [indistinct chatter]
00:45:22 It's him.
00:45:27 Good.
00:45:30 Get the boy something to eat.
00:45:41 [father] I think we all knew you'd
00:46:54 Mr. Berg? It is 8:00.
00:46:57 Your daughter.
00:47:01 Thank you.
00:47:03 [indistinct chatter]
00:47:06 Julia.
00:47:08 [laughing]
00:47:10 - I've not kept you waiting?
00:47:13 Welcome back. [laughs]
00:47:18 So how will you decide?
00:47:21 I don't know.
00:47:24 I'm happy back in Berlin, I suppose.
00:47:26 - You've seen your mother?
00:47:28 I wanted to get away. That's all.
00:47:31 It was Paris,
00:47:34 Away from your parents?
00:47:38 I'm aware I was difficult.
00:47:42 I wasn't always open with you.
00:47:48 I'm not open with anyone.
00:47:56 I knew you were distant.
00:48:00 You know...
00:48:06 Julia.
00:48:09 How wrong can you be?
00:48:10 [sobbing]
00:48:22 - [Julia] I'll see you very soon.
00:48:28 - [Julia] Good night, Dad.
00:48:38 [woman] Those of you
00:48:41 please stay on in this room.
00:48:43 Professor Rohl will
00:49:16 Well, we seem
00:49:21 A small group and a select one.
00:49:25 Clearly, this is going
00:49:29 We are going to start
00:49:33 Karl Jaspers...
00:49:36 - And ladies.
00:49:40 [# Creation: Making Time]
00:49:57 [girl] So this is where you are.
00:50:00 Yes.
00:50:03 Come in.
00:50:07 - You take work seriously.
00:50:10 You're rather a serious boy.
00:50:13 It's how I was brought up.
00:50:17 What about you? Are you serious?
00:50:23 You're sure you want to work tonight?
00:50:27 Yeah.
00:50:29 But I won't work every night.
00:50:32 See you tomorrow.
00:50:40 - Yes. Exactly
00:50:48 You need a hand.
00:50:50 [crowd shouting]
00:50:57 [siren wailing]
00:51:12 [crowd chanting]
00:51:14 - Why all the police?
00:51:19 - For or against?
00:51:27 [girl] Wow. It's a circus.
00:51:32 [man] All rise.
00:51:36 All photographers
00:51:40 This court is now in session.
00:51:46 [judge] First thing I'm going to do
00:51:49 from each of the defendants' lawyers.
00:51:51 They're arguing that there's
00:51:55 until the outcome
00:51:58 - I'll take these cases one by one.
00:52:01 - I got a pen.
00:52:06 - Your name is Hanna Schmitz?
00:52:09 [judge] Can you speak louder please?
00:52:12 - [Hanna] My name is Hanna Schmitz.
00:52:15 - You were born on October 21 st, 1922?
00:52:21 [judge] At Hermannstadt.
00:52:23 - And you're now 43 years old?
00:52:27 - [judge] You joined the SS in 1943?
00:52:32 [judge] What was your
00:52:37 You were working
00:52:40 Yes.
00:52:41 [judge] You'd recently
00:52:44 Why did you prefer to join the SS?
00:52:46 - Objection.
00:52:49 I'm trying to ascertain
00:52:52 if she joined the SS freely, hmm?
00:52:55 Of her own free will.
00:52:58 - I heard there were jobs.
00:53:01 [Hanna] I was working at Siemens
00:53:04 when I heard the SS was recruiting.
00:53:08 [judge] Did you know the kind of work
00:53:12 They were looking for guards.
00:53:15 - I applied for a job.
00:53:20 - [Hanna] Yes.
00:53:23 Then you were moved to
00:53:28 - [Hanna] Yes.
00:53:29 - [judge] You helped move prisoners...
00:53:32 ...west in the winter of 1944
00:53:57 - So, what did you think?
00:54:02 It wasn't quite what I was expecting.
00:54:04 Wasn't it? In what way?
00:54:08 I thought it was exciting.
00:54:11 [Rohl] Exciting? Why?
00:54:13 Why did you think it was exciting?
00:54:16 Because it's justice.
00:54:24 - [shouting]
00:54:37 [inaudible]
00:54:47 Societies think they operate
00:54:52 but they don't.
00:54:54 They operate by something called law.
00:54:58 You're not guilty of anything
00:55:04 Eight thousand people
00:55:07 Precisely 19 have been convicted,
00:55:13 To prove murder,
00:55:18 That's the law.
00:55:20 The question is never was it wrong,
00:55:24 but was it legal.
00:55:27 And not by our laws, no.
00:55:31 - By the laws at the time.
00:55:36 - [Rohl] What?
00:55:38 Oh, yes. The law is narrow.
00:55:43 On the other hand,
00:55:45 I suspect people who kill other people
00:55:49 tend to be aware that it's wrong.
00:55:54 [judge] Miss Schmitz,
00:56:00 - Yes.
00:56:02 have already been
00:56:05 It's by a survivor,
00:56:08 a prisoner who survived.
00:56:10 Ilana Mather.
00:56:12 She was in the camp
00:00:02 [judge] In the book,
00:00:07 At the end of the month's labor,
00:00:10 sixty inmates were selected.
00:00:13 Picked out to be sent from
00:00:16 That's right, isn't it?
00:00:20 Yes, that's right.
00:00:22 [judge] And, so far,
00:00:26 has specifically denied
00:00:28 Now, I'm going to ask you.
00:00:32 Were you part of it?
00:00:36 Yes.
00:00:39 [murmuring]
00:00:41 So you helped make the selection?
00:00:45 - Yes.
00:00:53 Then tell me,
00:00:56 how did that selection happen?
00:00:59 [Hanna] There were six guards,
00:01:02 so we decided we'd
00:01:08 That's how we did it every month.
00:01:11 We'd all choose ten.
00:01:13 Your fellow defendants
00:01:16 We all did.
00:01:19 [judge] Even though they've denied it?
00:01:21 Saying "we," "we all"
00:01:25 isn't it, Miss Schmitz?
00:01:28 Did you not realize
00:01:31 that you were sending
00:01:34 But they were new arrivals,
00:01:38 So... the old ones had to make room
00:01:43 [gasping]
00:01:44 - I'm not sure you understand...
00:01:48 - There wasn't room.
00:01:50 But what I'm saying...
00:01:53 Let me rephrase.
00:01:56 To make room, you were
00:01:59 "You, you and you have
00:02:04 Well, what would you have done?
00:02:17 Should I never
00:02:32 [man] Ms. Mather,
00:02:38 Go, go. Go, go, go.
00:02:52 - Where's Michael?
00:02:56 [judge] In your book, you describe
00:03:00 [Ilana] Yes.
00:03:02 You were made to work and then,
00:03:06 then they sent you back
00:03:10 [judge] Are there people here
00:03:12 [Ilana] Yes.
00:03:14 [judge] I need you to identify them.
00:03:33 Her.
00:03:38 And her.
00:03:42 Her.
00:03:45 And her.
00:03:49 Her.
00:03:54 And her.
00:03:57 [judge] Thank you. Please continue.
00:04:00 Each of the guards would choose
00:04:03 Hanna Schmitz chose differently.
00:04:06 [judge] In what way differently?
00:04:13 She had favorites.
00:04:17 Girls, mostly young.
00:04:19 We all remarked on it.
00:04:21 She gave them food
00:04:25 In the evening,
00:04:29 And we all thought...
00:04:31 Well, you can imagine
00:04:34 And then we found out she was making
00:04:42 They were reading to her.
00:04:46 At first, we thought this guard,
00:04:50 ...more sensitive,
00:04:56 Often, she chose the weak, the sick.
00:05:01 She picked them out.
00:05:05 But then she dispatched them.
00:05:10 Is that kinder?
00:05:21 [judge] I want to
00:05:24 As I understand it, you and your
00:05:28 [Mrs. Mather] In the winter of 1944,
00:05:33 We were told we had to move on.
00:05:38 Women were dying
00:05:42 Half of us died on the march.
00:05:46 "Less a death march,
00:05:51 [judge] Please tell us about
00:06:03 That night, we thought we were lucky
00:06:08 [judge] Go on.
00:06:11 We'd arrived in a village.
00:06:14 As always, the guards took the best
00:06:19 But they let us sleep in a church.
00:06:22 There was a bombing raid
00:06:26 The church was hit.
00:06:30 At first, we could only hear the fire.
00:06:35 Then we could see burning beams...
00:06:40 ...and they began to crash to the floor.
00:06:45 Everyone rushed...
00:06:49 ...rushed to the doors.
00:06:54 But the doors had been
00:06:57 [judge] The church burned down?
00:07:02 Is that right?
00:07:05 [Mrs. Mather] Nobody.
00:07:07 [judge] Even though you
00:07:13 How many people were killed?
00:07:15 Everyone was killed.
00:07:21 [judge] But you survived?
00:07:31 Thank you.
00:07:34 I want to thank you
00:07:38 today to testify.
00:07:45 I don't know. I don't know
00:07:49 Don't you?
00:07:51 You tell us to think like lawyers,
00:07:53 but there's something...
00:07:58 - How so?
00:08:00 It happened to the Jews.
00:08:03 - What are we trying to do?
00:08:06 Six women locked 300 Jews in a church
00:08:09 What is there to understand?
00:08:14 Tell me! I'm asking!
00:08:21 I started out believing in this trial.
00:08:24 Now, I think it's...
00:08:28 Yes? Diversion from what?
00:08:31 You choose six women,
00:08:34 you say, "They were the evil ones,
00:08:37 One of the victims
00:08:40 That's why they're on trial
00:08:43 Do you know how many camps
00:08:46 People go on about
00:08:49 Who knew? What did they know?
00:08:53 Our parents, our teachers.
00:08:57 The question is,
00:09:00 Better, "Why didn't you
00:09:05 Thousands. That's how many.
00:09:09 Everyone knew.
00:09:19 Look at that woman.
00:09:23 - Which woman?
00:09:26 I'm sorry, but you are.
00:09:37 I don't know which woman you mean.
00:09:40 You know what I'd do?
00:09:44 Put the gun in my hand,
00:09:51 Shoot them all!
00:12:49 [judge] Why did you
00:12:54 Why did you not unlock the doors?
00:12:59 I've asked all of you,
00:13:03 Two of the victims are in this court.
00:13:11 This is the SS report.
00:13:15 The report which was written,
00:13:19 immediately after the event.
00:13:22 you all claim you didn't even know
00:13:27 But that isn't true, is it?
00:13:31 Well?
00:13:34 It's not true.
00:13:39 - I don't know what you're asking.
00:13:43 - is why didn't you unlock the doors?
00:13:47 For the obvious reason.
00:13:50 - We couldn't.
00:13:52 We were guards.
00:13:55 Our job was to guard the prisoners.
00:13:59 We couldn't just let them escape.
00:14:01 I see. And if they escaped,
00:14:05 you'd be charged,
00:14:07 - [Hanna] No!
00:14:09 If we'd opened the doors,
00:14:13 How could we have restored order?
00:14:16 It happened so fast.
00:14:19 The flames... There were flames
00:14:22 Then the screaming began,
00:14:25 If they'd all come rushing out,
00:14:29 We couldn't.
00:14:36 So you did know what was happening?
00:14:40 You let them die,
00:14:43 rather than risk letting them escape.
00:14:48 The other defendants have made
00:14:52 Have you heard this allegation?
00:14:55 They say you were in charge.
00:14:58 It isn't true.
00:15:01 - She was in charge.
00:15:04 - Of course she was.
00:15:06 No. No. We all discussed what to say.
00:15:11 She wrote the report.
00:15:14 - [judge] Is that true?
00:15:15 - Yes, you did!
00:15:17 - She wrote it.
00:15:19 - of your handwriting.
00:15:23 - My handwriting?
00:15:26 - who wrote the report.
00:15:29 - 20 years have gone by.
00:15:32 - Compare handwriting of 20 years?
00:15:41 [judge] I will not be overruled
00:15:43 [counsel] I'm sorry...
00:15:53 I'd rather listen to you.
00:16:15 There's no need.
00:16:21 I wrote the report.
00:16:23 [murmuring]
00:16:37 [judge] Silence, please.
00:16:40 Order!
00:16:54 You've been skipping seminars.
00:17:20 I have a piece of information.
00:17:23 Concerning one of the defendants.
00:17:26 - Something they're not admitting.
00:17:37 You don't need me to tell you.
00:17:39 It's perfectly clear. You have a moral
00:17:45 It happens this information
00:17:48 It can help her case.
00:17:51 It may even affect the outcome,
00:17:55 - So?
00:17:59 The defendant herself is determined
00:18:03 [laughing]
00:18:07 - [Rohl] A moment, please.
00:18:17 What are her reasons?
00:18:22 Because she's ashamed.
00:18:25 Ashamed of what?
00:18:33 - Have you spoken to her?
00:18:37 Why "of course not?"
00:18:40 I can't.
00:18:43 I can't do that.
00:18:46 I can't talk to her.
00:18:48 What we feel isn't important.
00:18:53 The only question is what we do.
00:18:58 If people like you don't learn
00:19:02 then what the hell
00:19:14 Schmitz?
00:19:16 You have a visitor.
00:19:20 [children shouting]
00:19:23 [laughing]
00:19:32 [guard] Quiet, please!
00:19:34 Gertrud Ballow.
00:19:39 Andreas Michael Springer.
00:19:45 Michael Berg.
00:19:50 Walter Sherman.
00:21:27 [guard] Time's up.
00:21:48 [girl] Are you coming in?
00:22:00 [girl] You took your time.
00:22:14 [panting]
00:22:24 What is it?
00:22:47 Where are you going?
00:22:50 I'm sorry.
00:22:53 I need to sleep by myself.
00:23:33 [door unlocks]
00:23:41 I'll just be a minute.
00:23:48 [siren wailing]
00:23:59 [crowd chanting]
00:24:12 - Nazi!
00:24:14 - [shouting]
00:24:26 [man] Silence in the court.
00:24:30 All rise.
00:24:38 [judge] The court
00:24:41 Rita Beckhart, Caroline Steinhoff,
00:24:44 Regina Kroit, Angela Zeva
00:24:47 and Andrea Lumen
00:24:49 of jointly aiding and abetting murder
00:24:54 The court finds guilty the defendant
00:24:57 Hanna Schmitz of murder in 300 cases.
00:25:04 [murmuring]
00:25:06 The court sentences
00:25:09 Rita Beckhart, Caroline Steinhoff,
00:25:12 Regina Kroit, Angela Zeva
00:25:17 to each serve a total sentence in prison
00:25:23 Hanna Schmitz,
00:25:25 in view of your own admissions
00:25:29 you're in a different category.
00:25:32 The court sentences the accused,
00:25:37 [murmuring]
00:26:10 Where are we going?
00:26:12 I said I'll tell you when we get there.
00:26:15 - You told me you liked surprises.
00:26:37 [Michael] She's grown, hasn't she?
00:26:41 I don't know. It's so long since
00:26:47 It's my fault.
00:26:52 [Julia] Daddy's going to live
00:26:58 Mother, I'm afraid
00:27:01 Julia knows.
00:27:04 Gertrud and I,
00:27:07 You don't come for your father's
00:27:13 It's not easy
00:27:15 - Were you really so unhappy?
00:27:19 - It's not what I meant.
00:27:23 You mustn't worry about Gertrud.
00:27:28 She's already a state prosecutor,
00:27:32 [mother] Michael...
00:27:35 ...I'm not worried about Gertrud.
00:27:38 I'm worried about you.
00:28:24 "Sing to me of the Man, Muse
00:28:29 The man of twists and turns
00:28:34 Once he had plundered
00:29:01 - [door unlocking]
00:29:08 217, mail.
00:29:12 220, mail.
00:29:15 [indistinct chatter]
00:29:27 1219. 66215.
00:29:30 Number?
00:29:33 Open it.
00:29:51 Testing, testing.
00:30:11 [static on tape]
00:30:15 [Michael on tape]
00:30:31 The Odyssey by Homer.
00:30:34 "Sing to me of the Man, Muse
00:30:37 The man of twists and turns
00:30:40 Driven time and again off course
00:30:43 Once he had plundered
00:30:47 "...to the house of death.
00:30:51 hoping that others might still come.
00:30:53 Shades of famous heroes,
00:30:57 and ghosts of an even older age,
00:31:00 "Come, sheathe your sword,
00:31:05 Mount my bed and mix
00:31:08 We'll breed deep trust between us."
00:31:13 "Not for all the world, not until
00:31:17 a blinding oath you'll never
00:31:22 "Straightaway, she began
00:31:26 Never, she would never do me harm.
00:31:28 And when she'd finished then, at last,
00:31:31 I mounted Circes' gorgeous bed."
00:31:36 "When young Dawn, with her
00:31:40 they yoked their pair again,
00:31:41 and out through the gates
00:31:44 they whipped the team
00:31:47 holding nothing back, and the princes
00:31:52 "...those purebred stallions...
00:31:55 ...as the sun sank..."
00:31:58 "...is my beginning."
00:32:01 "Truly, and I have to confess,
00:32:05 It's true, till now..."
00:32:07 "Perfectly astonishing.
00:32:10 but he went to
00:32:13 "He lifted a large newspaper
00:32:16 and began stamping his feet
00:32:19 to drive Gregor back into his room."
00:32:23 rather like a Baba au Rhum
00:32:27 At one time you only had to say
00:32:30 'Zhivago's.' And,
00:32:33 [overlapping dialogue]
00:32:38 "The Lady with the Little Dog
00:32:44 "The talk was that a new face
00:32:48 a lady with a little dog.
00:32:51 Dmitri Dmitritch Gurov
00:32:54 so he was bored with it
00:32:58 Sitting in the pavilion at Vernet,
00:33:01 he saw a young woman
00:33:04 A fair-haired young lady
00:33:08 [voice trails off]
00:33:18 I want to take out a book.
00:33:22 Which book?
00:33:33 Do you have
00:33:36 What's your name?
00:33:41 Hanna Schmitz.
00:34:13 [Michael on tape]
00:34:18 The Lady with the Little Dog.
00:34:20 [muttering]
00:34:23 ... Dog.
00:34:34 One, two, three, four, five, six.
00:34:37 The Lady with the Little Dog.
00:34:41 The...
00:34:46 The.
00:34:49 The. The. The.
00:34:53 The.
00:35:01 The.
00:36:07 - No letter?
00:37:39 - [woman on phone] You're Michael Berg?
00:37:43 Thank you for calling me.
00:37:48 I have it here.
00:37:50 As I say, Hanna Schmitz
00:37:54 Hanna has been in prison
00:37:58 She has no family.
00:37:59 She has no friends.
00:38:02 You're her only contact.
00:38:04 And I'm told you don't visit her.
00:38:08 No, I don't.
00:38:09 When she gets out,
00:38:12 She's going to need somewhere to live.
00:38:14 You can't imagine how frightening
00:38:22 Mm-hmm.
00:38:27 I have no one else to ask.
00:38:30 If you don't take
00:38:33 then Hanna has no future at all.
00:38:39 It's kind of you.
00:38:41 Thank you for letting me know.
00:39:27 - You're Michael Berg?
00:39:29 I'm Louisa Brenner. Good morning.
00:39:31 - How do you do?
00:39:34 I should warn you, for a long time
00:39:39 She was very purposeful. In the
00:39:43 She's let herself go.
00:39:48 I'm taking you straight to the canteen.
00:39:52 They've just finished their lunch.
00:40:07 [Brenner] Table four.
00:40:54 You've grown up, kid.
00:41:11 I've got a friend who's a tailor.
00:41:16 He'll give you a job.
00:41:19 And I've found you somewhere to live.
00:41:23 Quite small, but it's nice.
00:41:26 - You'll like it.
00:41:30 There are various social programs,
00:41:35 And the public library is very close.
00:41:44 You read a lot?
00:41:49 I prefer being read to.
00:41:56 That's over now, isn't it?
00:42:07 Did you get married?
00:42:10 I did. Yes, I did.
00:42:13 We have a daughter.
00:42:15 I'm not seeing as much of her
00:42:19 I'd like to see
00:42:23 The marriage didn't last.
00:42:41 Have you spent time
00:42:43 - You mean with you?
00:42:47 No, I didn't mean with me.
00:43:00 Before the trial,
00:43:04 I never had to.
00:43:06 Now?
00:43:10 What do you feel now?
00:43:13 It doesn't matter what I feel.
00:43:17 It doesn't matter what I think.
00:43:21 The dead are still dead.
00:43:30 I wasn't sure what you'd learned.
00:43:32 Well, I have learned, kid.
00:43:36 I've learned to read.
00:43:52 I'll pick you up next week, OK?
00:44:03 That sounds a good plan.
00:44:08 We can do it quietly,
00:44:12 Quietly.
00:44:16 OK. Quietly.
00:44:20 Quietly.
00:44:31 - Take care, kid.
00:46:43 [buzzing]
00:46:48 I've come to collect Hanna Schmitz.
00:46:54 Please. Please, take a seat.
00:47:23 [Brenner] She didn't pack.
00:47:25 She never intended to leave.
00:47:33 [Michael] "The talk was that a new face
00:47:37 had appeared on the promenade,
00:47:41 a lady with a little dog."
00:47:50 [Brenner] She left me a message.
00:47:54 A sort of will.
00:47:58 I'll read the bit that concerns you.
00:48:09 "There is money in the old tea tin.
00:48:12 Give it to Michael Berg.
00:48:15 He should send it,
00:48:19 to the daughter who survived the fire.
00:48:23 It's for her.
00:48:25 She should decide what to do with it.
00:48:32 And tell Michael I said hello."
00:48:42 [sobbing]
00:49:17 [horns honking]
00:49:53 - Ms. Mather?
00:49:56 - You're Michael Berg.
00:49:58 I was expecting you.
00:50:02 - Please.
00:50:05 So you must tell me, exactly what
00:50:10 I was here already.
00:50:13 - You're a lawyer?
00:50:14 I was intrigued by your letter,
00:50:20 - You attended the trial?
00:50:24 I was a law student. I remember you.
00:50:30 My mother died in Israel
00:50:34 I... I'm sorry.
00:50:37 Go on, please.
00:50:41 Perhaps you heard.
00:50:43 Hanna Schmitz recently died.
00:50:49 She was a friend of yours?
00:50:52 A kind of friend.
00:50:55 It's as simple as this.
00:50:57 Hanna was illiterate
00:51:01 Is that an explanation
00:51:06 - No.
00:51:09 No. No.
00:51:14 She taught herself to read
00:51:18 I sent her tapes.
00:51:23 She had always liked...
00:51:34 Why don't you start
00:51:36 At least start that way.
00:51:40 What was the nature
00:51:47 When I was young,
00:51:56 I'm not sure I can help you, Mr. Berg.
00:51:58 And...
00:52:00 ...even if I could,
00:52:02 I was almost 16
00:52:05 The affair only lasted a summer.
00:52:10 But what?
00:52:18 I see.
00:52:22 And did Hanna Schmitz acknowledge
00:52:28 She'd done much worse
00:52:37 I've never told anyone.
00:52:43 People ask all the time
00:52:46 But the camps weren't therapy.
00:52:51 What do you think these places were,
00:52:55 We didn't go there to learn.
00:52:58 One becomes very clear
00:53:05 What are you asking for?
00:53:08 Or do you just want
00:53:11 My advice? Go to the theater
00:53:15 Go to literature.
00:53:17 Don't go to the camps.
00:53:22 Nothing comes out of the camps.
00:53:27 Nothing.
00:53:42 What she wanted...
00:53:45 What she wanted was
00:53:49 - I have it with me.
00:53:54 As you think fit.
00:54:07 Here.
00:54:17 When I was a little girl,
00:54:22 Not quite like this.
00:54:29 I took it with me to the camp,
00:54:32 - What was in it?
00:54:36 A piece of hair from our dog.
00:54:40 my father had taken me to.
00:54:44 It was the tin itself
00:54:48 that was valuable,
00:54:51 what you could do with it.
00:55:01 There's nothing
00:55:04 I give it to anything associated
00:55:07 then to me it seems...
00:55:10 ...like absolution, and that's
00:55:13 - nor in a position to grant.
00:55:17 an organization to encourage literacy.
00:55:25 Good. Good.
00:55:27 Do you know if there
00:55:30 I'd be surprised if there isn't.
00:55:32 There's a Jewish organization
00:55:36 Not that illiteracy
00:55:41 Why don't you find out?
00:56:00 Shall I do it in Hanna's name?
00:56:04 As you think fit.
00:56:11 I'll keep the tin.
00:56:18 Thank you.
00:57:10 [choral music plays]
00:57:11 - Where are we going?
00:57:16 I do. I do like surprises.
00:58:23 [Julia] Hanna Schmitz.
00:58:31 Who was she?
00:58:34 That's what I wanted to tell you.
00:58:39 That's why we're here.
00:58:49 So tell me.
00:59:02 [Michael] I was 15.
00:59:07 I was coming home from school.
00:59:12 I was feeling ill.
00:59:15 And a woman helped me.
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