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Gosh!

And you? Out of work,

being at home at this time?

Self-employed.

But it's hard, not being a Nazi.

The steel works are hiring.

But be careful.

They toe the party line.

There.

You do realise we fed a camp inmate?

If the Gestapo come

I'll tell the pricks it's my bread.

- I do what I want with it.

- But you're living in our home.

If the Gestapo come, we're all in for it.

You didn't need

so many fuses to detonate the bomb.

Correct. I knew two or three

gunpowder plates would suffice.

But I thought the extra ones

would increase the explosion.

Why two clockworks in the bomb?

I didn't want to rely on just one

clockwork for my plan to succeed.

Matching the 12 combs (B)

of cogwheel (A),

I was able to set each clock

with its run-time of 14 days

144 hours or 6 days in advance,

accurate within 15 minutes,

to the time of the explosion, 21:20,

and activate it.

All of 13 minutes were missing.

How did you build the detonator?

The block with the three inserted

and sharpened nails (N)

hits the bolt (), on which it has been

loosely set, before the spring (V).

The tips (W) then hit

the cartridges opposite,

thus igniting through the impact

on the cartridge primers

the blasting caps (Y),

inserted at a short distance from them.

The charge detonates.

And?

This ignition head requires

a pressure of 35 kilopond.

The spring is set to 40 kilopond.

Everything matches exactly.

This Elser works intuitively

and very accurately.

Everybody knows

you need pressure to detonate.

Elser must have had instructions.

Technically, he conceived and built

the bomb all on his own.

If you know all the parameters,

you don't need any help or instructions.

This man knows what he's talking about.

10, 15, 20.

Come here. Get lost! Beat it!

You're hurting me.

You're hurting me!

OUR GREETING:

"HEIL HITLER!"

Josef!

What's the big secret they're hiding?

I'm not sure yet, it might be

moulds for ignition heads.

Do you think you can

earn your money talking?

Any contact with

the forced labourers is prohibited.

Workers of the world, unite!

This is Radio Moscow in German

on 25m short-wave.

On April 26, 1937,

Adolf Hitler ordered his Condor Legion

to bomb the Spanish town of Guernica.

Never before

has such a devastating attack

on a civilian target area

been witnessed.

At least 260 people were shot,

torn to pieces or burned to death.

Guernica's destruction is a violation of

international law and an important step...

I've had it with this wretched scum.

Why do they all follow this gangster?

They're the master race now.

They think the Nazis make it better.

Nothing's better.

GERMAN TANKS:

German domination in the air

is not just due to the outstanding

aviators of the Luftwaffe,

but also to the tremendous contributions

of the aviation industry.

As Fhrer and Chancellor

of the German nation and the Reich,

I hereby announce to German history

the accession of my homeland

to the German Reich.

Sieg Heil!

JEWS NOT WELCOME

VILLAGE OF KNIGSBRONN

They want war.

It'll be brutal.

They're building tanks as piecework.

Maybe it'll be like Bohemia and Moravia.

With Hitler attacking

England and France?

We'll all die and the country with us.

I'm a forced labourer, Georgie.

We really ought to do something.

But what?

Blow up the Special Unit?

That would only mean dead workers

and the Nazis would carry on.

We have to do something else,

and soon.

Soon and radical.

Attack the leadership.

You'll need guns or dynamite.

There's dynamite up in the quarry

and detonators here in the factory.

- Someone has to stop this madness.

- Yes, but not you or me or us.

Hitler must be stopped

by other countries, by generals.

We're not strong enough, Georg.

We can't wait till it's too late.

It has to happen.

What's wrong?

I can't stand you

doing it with this drunkard.

There's nothing I can do.

You filthy whore!

You slut!

Just one more, you swine,

just one more.

I'll kill you.

I'll kill you, both of you.

Both of you.

Elsa?

How's the child?

- It's kicking.

- Thank God.

What happens now?

This here is over.

Just come with me.

Where to? To your mother?

So we all go to heaven?

There's no room for me there.

I now work piece rate.

It's better money.

It'll be enough

if I repair furniture on the side.

There are cheap flats

in Heidenheim now.

Only for Labour Front workers.

Not for you.

BRGERBRU ADDRESS.

THE FHRER SPEAKS!

THE FHRER SPEAKS

TIMETABLE:

MUNICH 1938

We've checked everything.

A talented worker such as yourself

should be a staunch National Socialist.

It's obvious that the Nazis

don't support the people.

Today, a carpenter's hourly wage

is 68 Pfennigs.

In 1929 it was 1 Mark and 5.

You're not trying to tell us that our

Fhrer isn't looking after workers.

Hitler is bad for Germany.

- Have you gone completely insane?

- It's true though.

He's sending dissenters

to concentration camps.

And the Jews are being robbed and

tortured just because of their faith.

To cleanse the population.

Your blitzkrieg was a brutal attack.

Poland will be annihilated,

Hitler will incorporate it.

That's the law of the strongest.

It's always been like this.

Do you really think

there'll be no consequences?

France and England

declared war on us on September 3rd.

Soon, a terrible fire will steamroll

Germany and destroy everything.

Endless amounts of blood will be shed.

Then the bombs will drop on us, too.

Can't you see what's happening?

You're suffering from paranoia.

And what about the victims?

Hitler always talks about destiny.

So you National Socialists, too,

must have a higher law.

And it states, "thou shalt not kill".

That's rich, coming from someone

who murdered eight innocent people.

Yes, you heard right.

Last night,

the injured Schmeidel died as well.

I only wanted to prevent

even more bloodshed.

I knew it would not just hit

the highest ranks.

But it had to be done.

All right, take this down.

The considerations I undertook

led to the conclusion

that conditions in Germany

could only be changed by extinguishing

the current leadership.

I said the highest ranks.

Very well, the highest ranks, then.

By this, I mean...

By this, I mean Hitler

and all the government.

I am the sole perpetrator.

I procured the necessary means

for the attack on my own.

I was working entirely alone.

Correct.

And, funnily enough,

nobody would have joined me.

You will regret this, Elser.

Miss Secretary,

may I ask you something?

You're not allowed.

I know you're not wholly unmoved.

Please.

I would be grateful if you could

pass on my condolences to the relatives,

my heartfelt condolences.

I think about them all day.

And, if possible, tell Elsa and my family

that I'm well at the moment.

And that I'm praying

for the Lord to protect them.

And that I accept

sole responsibility for everything.

Could you pass that on, please?

You can't get any more out of him

than the truth.

We make the truth.

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