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how the diplomacy works.

The Vatican

has the largest masterpieces.

And no division to defend them.

Mr. Ambassadeur,

I would be grateful for you to order

to cease immediately

these arrests in Rome.

Twenty days ago,

the commander S.S. Kapler,

required 50 kilos of gold

not to depor the Jew community.

The Jewish community gave it to him

and now, they are arrested!

Must one think that your government

does not respect its word?

Alas...

I wait until you say to me

"Why you do not resign?"

It is painful for the Holy Father,

beyond what one can imagine,

that in Rome, under his eyes,

so many people are made to suffer

because they are of another race.

What would make the Holy Father

do if that continued?

The Holy Father would not like

to have to express his disapproval.

This is an official request

from the Holy Father?

He wishes not to have to do one of them.

Until now,

He has not said anything that the Germans

can take as a hostile act.

But there are limits.

If the Holy Father were

in the need of protesting,

he would put himself in the hands

of the Divine Providence.

I hear that

converted are also stopped!

Protest, Monseigneur.

Protest.

- What do you do in Rome?

- Rolf Grober, what a surprised!

You came to disinfect the Vatican?

I seek a means

to return to Berlin.

Who is in charge of transport?

Lieutenant Nitzel.

I will introduce you to him.

This is an insane world!

Still not too much.

Italians are kosher fascists.

Without them, we would have the double of it!

They only think of stealing.

- This is Nitzel.

- What will you do with them?

Why are we here?

We are converted since two generations.

Good trip to Berlin.

A thousand leaves tomorrow evening

from the station of Tibertina.

Tiburtina. Trastevere.

Nothing any more will stop them.

There is still a means.

What do we know

on the situation in Cassino?

The Americans bombard without respite.

The Germans always hold.

Part of the monastery is destroyed,

especially the southern wing.

The library...

It is surely destroyed.

They also bombarded the vault.

Mr. Weizscker said to me that the Germans

will never leave Monte Cassino.

We solicited

the American representative

to cease

bombardments but...

there is little hope.

We received the gifts

of the Spelmann Cardinal

and of the company of the Jesuits.

The Holy Father...

1000 Jews will be off-set

if your Holiness does not act.

We consider your zeal with love.

Who defends persecuted

speak in Our Office.

But, in fact,

only moderation

can make us honor.

But they will be off-set this night!

If the Holy Father shows himself at the station,

as in San Lorenzo

after the American bombardments,

The train will not leave.

Mister Secretary,

The Church opened its convents

and its monasteries to the oppressed.

Many Jews are under our protection.

The German ambassador

ensured me that the others

are led to a camp of work.

- With women and children?

- You want to separate the families?

They off-set them to kill them!

It is up to the Christians

and to the Vatican to save them...

Leave from here, how do you dare!

Count, make your son shut up.

Very the Holy Father,

with all the respect

had with those which impose silence to Us,

I beseech Your Holiness

to act personally.

In Germany,

in Austria,

many are the Christians

who have hope only in Us.

Can we overpower them

with a new burden

whereas they undergo

terrible bombardments?

At the proper time,

we will intercede

in order to restore an equitable peace

who will unite all the Christians.

Our prayers,

our cries of pain...

take that off!

You do not know what you do!

It is a blasphemy!

On the dress of a servant of Christ!

Forgiveness, father...

I request Your Holiness

to remove me of my functions.

Who would know better than Us

is what it is to be a father?

It is a crown of spines.

Her baby died.

The priest!

A priest among the Jews?

What?

- Coffee or schnapps, captain?

- both.

Isn't the doctor down?

It is too early for him.

What?

They took on board a priest

with the Jews.

He says he is a secretary

of the Nuncio in Berlin.

- Which did that?

- idiots, no doubt to have fun.

I fear that he is

a spy of the Vatican.

To convert the Jews

during the voyage?

To see what one does here.

What did he see?

Here nothing, but he made

the trip in 4 days.

In his coach,

there were 8 dead including 5 children.

What else?

It is said that he is the cousin of the Pope.

He denies it.

He is here by error.

Fritsche, they all are here by error!

If he is a secretary of the Nuncio,

he should be released.

It is sure that he is not Jewish.

I state that he is Jewish.

You, over there!

Your Holiness...

Approach.

I am told that you are not Jewish?

I am like the other ones.

One needs volunteers

and priests

if somebody dies.

Work is hard,

it is our new Ruhr complex.

Factories of death,

this odor...

Pharmaceutical factories.

you can feel the nitrogen, the gum...

I know what it is.

He came to spy!

You want to be crucified?

But I have another project.

You will learn tolerance.

Your Church, formerly,

purified by burning people.

Nazism makes the same but

on a large scale.

In a way, we are the new

chosen people.

Amen!

I am a little catholic myself.

Not as excessively pious person as him...

Fritsche,

you fall into the sentimentality.

Leave us.

And send me a kapo

for our canon.

He is a strong believer.

He does not like that one speaks religion here.

But he is a good soldier.

In six months or a year,

we will lose the war.

It will be our turn

to enter the catacombs.

Find-me a comfortable one in Rome

and I will let you leave...

from where nobody ever left.

You will hang your testimony

at the bells of Saint-Peter's.

You are pathetic.

The world already knows.

I know, but bear in mind

that divine anger

does not thunder in the sky,

nor allied bombers.

They crush our cities,

but here, the sky is serene and empty.

The sky is never empty.

Put him at Probing Kommando.

He is my protected.

Do not touch one of his hairs,

nor his star

nor a shred of his cassock.

You will work at the crematory.

If God is somewhere here,

you will find him more easily there.

Go...

I need a car.

you need a priority order,

my lieutenant.

Hold.

Immediately.

I am sorry Liutenant.

There is a priority convoy.

Construction will be finished

in December 1945.

The production will start in 1946.

- I fear that...

- What do you fear?

The labour which arrives

is worse and worse.

Does all go from worse to worse?

Startup in 1946,

yes or not?

Yes, of course.

Come in!

I must speak to you into private.

It is necessary to make it quickly.

Fritsche wanted to release him

since his arrival here.

To pull his leg,

the doctor put him at Probing Kommando.

he has seen everything.

The Nuncio requires explanations.

Himmler is afraid of the consequences.

Is Himmler... afraid?

This priest will go to Berlin.

Never to Rome, all is arranged.

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