Georg Elser - Das Attentat Page #4

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they sent us to work at satellite camps.

There was at least one

death every week.

- Where are you working now?

- At the steel works.

I get out every two weeks for

good behaviour, but mustn't see anyone.

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 (U), 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!

- 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.

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