Amen. Page #6

This, Your Eminence.

A S.S. gave me

this chart of Poland.

It is the names and location of

concentration camps.

In red, the number of gassed per day.

In black, estimates:

400000 of Hungary,

200000 of Romania,

80000 of Greece.

What can we do?

To negotiate to save them.

To negotiate with the Nazis?

Never we will negotiate

with these criminals.

Not even to save

a million lives?

Only our victory will save them.

They will be reduced to ashes by then.

If the Holy Father interceded

before the Nazis for the Jews...

Out of question!

The Holy Father must remain neutral

in order to act for peace.

And there will not act to remain neutral.

He could intervene in the name of Christ...

Germans would then

occupy the Vatican

and would plunder it.

The Vatican should be saved

or Christianity?

If by a miracle he saved them,

your government

would then accomodate these Jews?

Why would Hitler accept?

To deliver a fatal blow

to the democracies which would accomodate them.

Goebbels said "That those which like

the Jews take them, but naked ".

That would create internal agitation,

and a gigantic wave of anti-semitism.

Riccardo, your desire

to save these unfortunate make of us

in fact agents of Goebbels.

Since his rout at Stalingrad,

Hitler counts on our weaknesses.

To save Jews would slow down

our effort of war

which in turn would profit him.

While we lunch,

trains run towards the camps.

And our children die the combat

to save the free world.

The world is sick...

Riccardo, my little one,

The Church is made of patience,

of patience, faith

and of hard labour.

In the end, time

always gives reason to the Church.

Always.

One should celebrate Easter

at the same date, each year.

There are two great dates

for the Christians:

the festival of the Blessed Virgin,

August 15,

and Christmas,

December 25.

Easter does not have fixed date.

The Christians need reference mark,

if not they are lost,

they are mislaid...

Even the contrition

can be pride.

I feel guilty like witness

and even more as priest.

By pride and obstinacy,

you trowels your future.

As long as I testify

the love of Christ

for the men, all the men,

my future is assured.

Hitler can destroy us,

us, men of God

and all Christians of Europe.

If all Christians of Europe

became Jewish for a time,

the time of persecutions,

what would make the torturers?

Reality is that there is

on a side Nazis,

other, Communists.

The Americans are still far.

If my friend from Berlin came to Rome,

would you meet him?

If you think...

that it is worth doing, then yes.

If you judges it worthy,

can you try to obtain for him

an audience with the Holy Father?

Yes.

Thank you.

There is what it is

and what it should be.

Alas,

we must live with...

what it is.

That was an eternity!

Bring me something to drink.

Many things have happened

since our games around a campfire!

Sit down.

What can I do for you?

Can you organize me

a voyage to Rome?

- For you and your family?

- Just me.

An outward journey and return?

When do you want to leave then?

I don't have a date.

What do you think of the situation?

I think that we were right,

the future will confirm it.

Thanks God, my myopia has

led me to this sinister place.

Here, I can serve my fatherland

without disavowing my convictions

nor betraying my faith.

Where did you land?

With disinfection.

Vast program.

I write you a priority master pass.

You will travel when you want.

I write it on your name?

Of course, thank you.

In these heroic times,

you obtained a title

or a rank?

Lieutenant of Waffen S.S.

Address yourself to transport of the S.S.

It is a private voyage.

Thank you for your visit.

You must send

more and more of trains to the East,

goods trains.

Do you know what you transport?

Goods.

Men too.

Labour.

Industry develops much

in the East.

Put your photograph...

in S.S., it will go better.

And if I said to you

that families there are piled up

to lead them to the slaughter-house?

Get out of here, or else I call

the police force or Gestapo.

I did not change, Karl.

Me either.

These trains carry out us to hell.

I do not deal with freight.

- Do you deal with the rout of the trains?

- I help my country to win the war.

And if these trains were slowed down?

Will you leave at once?

Or would you prefer that

I call the police force?

Make him leave!

You can meet me

at the Institute of Hygiene.

May Christ take care

on you and hold them.

Bastard of S.S.

I must set out again tomorrow evening.

It is short, but I think

that my father will obtain the audience.

I learned that 400 S.S.

arrived to Rome,

a special unit.

The Allies approach Naples.

More than 3 million were gassed.

Three million?

Here are them...

The delivery orders of gas Zyklon.

On these charts are

all the camps.

It is what is necessary

to convince them.

There is a control point.

What is it?

Saturdays, they are sure

to find them at home.

One can do nothing.

- What happens?

- Count, can you lodge us?

Lead them to the house of friends. Go!

- They are in your street.

- I know.

The Holy Father rose very early

this morning.

He awaits you.

- Principessa!

- the Germans stop the Jews!

Here even, with the corner of the street.

Not, my sister, He should be found.

Please...

Tell me...

What?

Why your father

is it so close to the Pope?

We are auxiliaries

to the papal throne.

Thank you, my sister.

My father is with the Pope.

We learned that they

also stop converted.

Convene the Weizsacker ambassador.

We require explanations.

MaLet him know of Our anger

and of Our sorrow.

Not...

Of Our sorrow and Our anger.

Mgr Hudal!

Eminence, is my father here?

The Count is with the director.

Gerstein, a friend.

- Is he a converted?

- Pardon?

That does not change anything,

but we separate the two sensitivities.

No, Kurt is Aryan.

We must see my father.

He is discussing provisioning

with the director.

We have 56 refugees:

11 children, 5 gipsies,

3 Communists and 12 old men

requiring medical care.

I will send a doctor,

flour...

Meat and pasta are hard to find.

There are many refugees.

- Your son is there with a friend.

- Really?

- Kurt Gerstein.

- Delighted to meet you, Count.

- You obtained the audience?

- Forgiveness...

In the current situation,

it is unthinkable

that the Pope meets a German,

especially an officer of the S.S.

And the Cardinal?

- Go ahead.

- You accompany us?

I must make sure that the convents

accomodate these unhappy souls.

This way.

Wait there,

an authorization is needed.

It is out of question...

that a S.S...

who betrays his country

enter here.

Certain treasons

are the last weapon of righteous.

We all love you.

The Pope, your father

and myself

we understand the distress of your heart

but it overpowers us

and it poisons our life.

Put yourself there,

you will replace my secretary.

You will take notes...

and you will understand

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