Conspiracy Page #7

Then tell me about infallibility.

Those little Nuremberg country sausages,

the gritty little ones.

- You can keep your oysters. What is that?

- Can you get them here?

- Lange?

- Yes, sir?

Who were those 30,000 you say you shot,

when you say you shot?

In Riga, Latvia.

And stood by with my men and allowed

Latvian civilians to kill in mobs.

I received memos directing the,

one would say, "evacuation" of Jews...

...who, shot and buried in soil and corpses,

managed to crawl out, still alive.

Not exactly war, is it?

- And gas chambers about to come?

- What gas chambers?

Gas chambers?

I hear rumors, yes.

This is more than war.

- Must be a different word for this.

- Try "chaos."

Yes. The rest is argument,

the curse of my profession.

I studied law as well.

I studied law as well.

How do you apply that education

to what you do?

It has made me distrustful of language.

A gun means what it says.

Do we need all this discussion?

- He has his style.

- Yes. Very persuasive.

Is there a problem, Doctor?

He is non compos mentis.

- It's your boss.

- On your feet.

Beautiful lake. Is it not? I'm sorry.

After the war, I shall live in this house

and rise to see that lake every day...

...and dream comforting things.

I am a dreamer, as I think you are.

Yes, it is a dream world.

Maj. Lange, how can I help you?

Politics is a nasty game.

I think soldiering requires the discipline

to do the unthinkable...

...and politics requires the skill...

...to get someone else

to do the unthinkable for you.

But we need the politics,

so we put up with them.

- At least for now.

- Yes.

We look forward to a better day.

A peaceful world.

A German culture triumphant.

That is what we work for.

I appreciate the words, sir.

We are servant-soldiers, are we not?

- Yes, that is what we are.

- Indeed.

Did you ask him?

Ask him what?

- Does he have a little Jewish blood?

- No, not yet.

Inform me when he answers.

That's what I heard.

A grandmother or a grandfather.

His father.

That's the rumor, and if it is true,

how happy would he be to tell you?

- I want a work document in two days.

- Yes.

- No more than 30 copies.

- Yes, sir. 30 numbered.

And those spools, the stenotype record,

have it destroyed.

Yes, sir.

- Let's get them back in here.

- All right.

- Who's up there, sir?

- Dr. Klopfer.

Kritzinger is...

The gentleman outside walking: Find him.

Sir?

It has got colder.

What a pretty little maid.

I would like to remind all of you

that our Fhrer enunciates the goals.

It is our task to turn his vision into reality.

We can debate the "how"

and the "when" up to a point.

We can not debate the "if," Dr. Stuckart.

- I am not purposely contentious.

- Nor was I trying to be insulting.

I would like to try...

We will now discuss method.

Who would like to speak on this?

What is being advocated here?

A law dissolving all marriages

between mixed and German?

- Why not?

- Courts adjust.

As we all do. That is not the point.

You're too inflexible, my friend.

You know damn well the courts will be

happy to be rid of the problem.

I'm pointing out a problem of casting every

Jew and non-Jew into a sausage machine.

If that's the plan, I'm asking

that some legal framework be built.

Let's do it. If we skip a few steps, so be it.

"Skip a few steps!"

When you plane down a piece of wood,

a few chips go flying.

Jews or judges, who are the chips?

I would like to say...

...in this discussion,

regarding the tone, first...

...abandon your misperception that

Dr. Stuckart has affection for the Jews.

I'm sure he does not, and his heart is pure.

He believes in supremacy of law.

Jews...

...in any event,

will vanish soon enough from Germany.

But the method, yes.

You accept, casually...

...the obliteration of legal distinctions...

...and the use of extreme,

inconceivable measures...

...that, I say again, that our Chancellery

was assured would not be used.

That is where we have come.

A soldier cannot decide

where he chooses to fight.

Where are we here?

Gen. Heydrich invited your opinions

on the methodology.

Indeed.

I can say this.

You're going to have your work cut out

with the Catholic church...

...with the Reich divorcing

all those Catholics.

That's not going to make

our priests very comfortable...

...or the Vatican.

The Vatican has no love for the Jew.

Why should they interfere?

The Lutherans would not object either.

I agree with Dr. Stuckart.

The problems outweigh

the short-term ideological satisfactions.

Military necessity comes first.

Am I wrong?

Why can this not be simpler?

The Ministry of Justice, which I represent,

can live with it gladly.

Maj. Lange, an opinion?

General...

...I accept the chain of command.

I have no other gods before it.

The politics of it all...

No, nothing.

- We are more than a nation of armies.

- I hope.

General?

If Dr. Stuckart is saying we should turn

a few Jew-loving Germans against us...

...I would happily throw them all

on the same transport.

It is, however, a political decision,

not mine particularly to make.

Can you step back from trying

to settle these details today?

Other agencies will want to be heard.

Now, that is wisdom from my neighbor.

I favor sterilization, I think,

but not wholesale...

...what Gen. Heydrich outlined earlier.

Why not?

...what Gen. Heydrich outlined earlier.

Why not?

X-rays, injections: Why are we discussing

theoretical solutions?

Goethe said that theories are gray,

but that real life is green.

Stop chattering, and be realists here.

I insist, as I have before,

that the best way is the quickest way.

Purge them totally off our land,

ideally, off our planet.

And for the Eastern Territories,

leave us able-bodied workers.

If they are separated,

the men from the women, QED, no babies.

And evacuate the others, as you outlined.

Get it done.

All right, we've gone around.

I have your opinions.

I want to move on.

Let's have the food in here.

I wish to keep going.

We can eat while we work.

To clarify what I agree with

and what I do not...

...I agree with the doctor about

the complications of all the variations.

But I favor deportation

or sausage-making, right?

I hear talk from some of you who live here

in Germany about labor force.

What is the reality,

at least for the Polish Jews?

Damn few of them are fit

for labor of any kind.

You do not find Jews with dirt under

their fingernails, so who is this labor force?

What we have are ghettoes

filled and overfilled...

...with the scabrous, the rotting.

We do not have the food for them.

The stink of their diseases

does not stop at the walls.

And you ship them up to us

by the thousands to deal with.

What are we to do?

We have no place to put them.

We have no more place to put our own.

We cannot shoot 3.5 million Jews.

We cannot poison them,

and we cannot use them.

You'll have Maj. Lange and his men

come in with their special methods.

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