49th Parallel Page #6

I can't imagine

why his last boss let him go.

Must have been crazy.

If he wasn't then, he is now.

Congratulations, Vogel.

It was a good idea.

Round the barn!

What's the news in Winnipeg?

The market was good for geese.

People are asking for Hutterite geese.

I don't like that, Andreas.

No?

For 300 years our brethren

have wandered from place to place ...

... from country to country...

... because of the jealousy of others.

This is a good country, Andreas.

- I met Frau Habermann.

- Yes? Oh, her trial was on today, wasn't it?

Her husband and her eldest son, Eric,

are to be interned. She is free.

Bad luck ...

... just at harvest time.

It wasn't a good day for the trial.

Papers are full of stories about those Germans

who landed from a U-boat down north.

They seem to have acted like wild beasts,

killing and stealing.

- What's Frau Habermann going to do?

- I had a talk with her.

- She needs help on the farm.

- It'll be difficult.

We'll talk it over. Tell the others

we'll have a meeting tonight, yes?

[Exhales]

Air's heavy.

I'm afraid we're going to

have a storm tonight.

Sorry. Sorry I'm late, Peter.

Barbarina, there's an electric storm

playing all around us ...

... frightening the animals

and your chickens.

- Move over, Philip.

- What about you, Anna?

- Andreas.

- Huh?

- One of our guests is speaking.

- Eh? What? Oh! Good!

We're discussing the Habermanns.

I was about to say ...

... you have one clear choice.

Where there is a question of blood ...

... where one is governed

by the deepest of racial instincts ...

... then every other consideration

is swept aside.

Men like yourself ...

German, or of German ancestry ...

... rise up with all the might and power

of the great German people behind you ...

... conscious of the sacred duty

that binds us all together ...

... and in the knowledge that he

who doesn't forget his people ...

... will not by his people be forgotten.

There is a new wind blowing from the east ...

... a great storm coming across the sea ...

... a hurricane which will sweep aside

all the old, outmoded ways of life ...

... and mark the beginning of a new order,

not only for Europe ...

... but for the whole world.

Let those beware who would have

the temerity to stand in its way.

They will go down

before its irresistible impulse ...

... and be crushed out of existence!

But for those who accept the new order

or those who perhaps belong to it already ...

... why need I use

these parables of speech any longer?

I mean, all of you here tonight ...

... yes, you, brothers ...

I call you brothers

and proudly acknowledge you as such.

You who formed a little stronghold

of our people here in Canada ...

... you will have your share

of the happiness and prosperity ...

... that is waiting for us all

when the storm is over and the sun rises ...

... that mighty sun ...

... which will give us

everything we need in life.

What sun are you talking about, friend?

I am talking of the greatest idea in history ...

... the supremacy of the Nordic race,

the German people.

I am talking of the being whose name

I am certain lives in every heart ...

... whose name hangs on all our lips ...

... whether we can shout it to the world

or only whisper it in one another's ears.

Germans!

Brothers!

I ask you to join with me

in paying homage to our glorious Fhrer.

Heil Hitler!

[Kranz, Lohrmann] Heil Hitler!

[Thunder Rumbling]

I don't ask where you come from

or what brought you here ...

... although you've left us

in no doubt as to your beliefs.

Someone has given you,

no doubt deliberately ...

... a completely false impression of us.

We are only one amongst

many foreign settlements in Canada.

There are thousands of them

in this part of the world.

And they have been founded,

some recently, some 80 years ago ...

... by people who left their homes

in Europe because of famine ...

... because of starvation ...

... because of racial

and political persecution ...

... and some, like ourselves,

because of their faith.

Some came only to find new land ...

... new boundaries, a new world ...

But all have found here in Canada ...

... the security ...

... the peace and tolerance

and understanding ...

... which, in Europe...

... it is your Fhrer's pride

to have stamped out.

You call us Germans.

You call us brothers.

Yes. Most of us are Germans.

Our names are German.

Our tongue is German.

Our old handwritten books

are in German script.

But we are not your brothers.

Our Germany is dead.

However hard this may be

for some of us older people ...

... it's a blessing for our children.

Our children grew up against

new backgrounds, new horizons.

And they are free ...

... free to grow up as children ...

... free to run and to laugh

without being forced into uniforms ...

... without being forced to march

up and down the streets ...

... singing battle songs.

You talk about a new order in Europe.

The new order ...

... where there will not be one corner ...

... not a hole big enough for a mouse ...

... where a decent man can breathe freely.

You think we hate you, but we don't.

It is against our faith to hate.

We only hate the power of evil

which is spreading over the world.

You and your Hitlerism ...

... are like the microbes

of some filthy disease ...

... filled with a longing

to multiply yourselves ...

... until you destroy everything

healthy in the world.

No.

We are not your brothers.

What do you want?

I am come to tell you that

you can make your own beds.

I don't want to work for you.

[Vogel] That's all right, Anna Run along now.

You're Nazis, aren't you?

Aren't you?

We're not allowed to hate anybody.

But I hate you.

I believed you'd escaped

from an internment camp.

I should tell the police about you.

You killed my father ...

... because he said your Fhrer was the Antichrist.

You drowned my mother.

I hate you.

I hate you!

So you're going to tell

the police about us, are you?

Little girls should be seen and not heard.

- That will do.

- What's the matter with you?

- That will do!

- Vogel.

Come along, Anna. I'll take you home.

- Herr Leutnant, we can't let them go.

- I'd like to see what you're going to do about it.

- Vogel!

- Yes, Herr Leutnant.

Have you forgotten who you are?

- No, Herr Leutnant.

- Let the girl go and shut the door.

I'll take her home, Herr Leutnant.

[Door Closes]

Is that you, Anna?

Yes, Peter.

I brought Anna home.

She's all right.

We're going now, perhaps in a few minutes.

I only wanted to say that

you've been kind and I like it here.

You like my bread,

and I like the way you live.

Being with you has made me feel

like it used to be at home.

I'd almost forgotten what it was like ...

... baking bread, doing my real work.

That's how it used to be seven years ago

before everything changed.

The life I've been living

seems to have no sense in it now.

Well, I'd better go now.

Please don't go.

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