Hangmen Also Die! Page #4

it looked pretty serious

So we had to leave you on your own.

- I understood.

- You did a great job, Svoboda.

Now they let lose their

horrible bloodbath.

Yes.

They've already sized over 400 hostages.

We anticipated hostages.

Yes.

Yes, we did, didn't we?

I spent last night with the family

of Professor Novotny, the historian.

No...

No previous acquaintance.

His daughter helped me.

She directed the black

shirts the wrong way.

This morning...

Dedic...

I've decided to give myself up.

- Svoboda!

- Oh, I'm not trying to make any noble gestures.

Or become a heroic martyr...

But 400 lives...

Four hundred?

Dedic, I'm only one, only one.

Have you thought about what must be

done to drive the Germans out?

You'll be needed, Svoboda.

You have no right to surrender.

Don't worry...

They won't torture any information

out of me.

All they'll get is my dead body...

a written confession and the evidence.

The bullets they remove from Heydrich

will give them that.

The gun will be absolute proof.

No...

the underground has nothing to fear.

But it has, Svoboda.

Listen, you're an physician.

If a man showing your symptoms

came into your clinic...

wouldn't you diagnose his case

as nerves shot to pieces...

hysteria cause by exhaustion?

Would you advise a patient in that state...

to make an irrevocable decision?

You would not!

Svoboda, you were chosen to act as

a representative of the Czech people.

The Czech people have

executed "the Hangman".

400 lives! Yes, Svoboda,

What is 400 lives?

This is a war of millions...

and the execution of Heydrich

is only one battle in that war.

But a most important one.

And if you surrender yourself,

alive or dead...

The Czech people will

have lost that battle.

Every Czech person will say to themselves:

"We dare not resist!"

"The Nazi terrorist is too much for us!"

Svoboda...

three years ago we lost our army.

We stood on the streets crying like

children and watched it surrender.

So we built a new one...

A ghost army that will haunt them

until their blood runs cold!

Now, you would have this

army surrender too?

What about this Novotny family?

I take it you were sufficiently cautious?

They know nothing of me.

I used the name of Vanek,

told them I was an architect.

You're sure you didn't leave no clues

to your real identity...

- positive connecting link?

- None, I'm sure.

Dedic...

what about the taxi driver?

Jumped out of the window at the

Gestapo. They got nothing from him

I never met the man.

I wish I had.

You better let me have that gun.

You have a fool proof alibi...

but with that gun and those bullets there,

they would chew that apart.

One moment.

You forgot your prescription.

Miss Novotny.

Dr. Svoboda,

may I talk to you alone?

Nurse, please.

What are you going to do?

How did you happen to find me?

That's not important.

It was Beda, it was your bandage that

gave me the idea you were a physician.

You said you hear the

Wenceslau hymn every morning.

So, when I noticed this hospital

across from the church...

- What are you going to do?

- Nothing.

Nothing?

Last night you spoke differently...

when it was your life in danger.

Now you think you're safe.

So now it's nothing,

nothing to be done?

Dr. Svoboda, you're the only one

who can save my father.

What are you going to do?

I can not surrender to the Germans,

if that is what you mean.

But they will kill him for what you did!

- Let me explain.

- Alright, explain.

Explain why the man who helped you

was taken away to his death...

while you stood there silent.

But don't think I will be silent,

I tell you, I won't!

I won't let you kill my father,

because I won't!

Miss Novotny, consider

what possible benefit...

it could do your father,

for whom I have the deepest admiration...

if you denounce me.

- You would involve your entire family.

- You were counting on that, weren't you?

You think you have control over me

because we helped you.

This is not a threat, but a simple fact.

One you must not forget.

You have it all nicely worked out.

If I tell them, then all my

family will be shot.

If I keep silent,

only my father will be shot.

In other words,

you simple statement of fact is...

we are lost in any case because we were

generous enough to save your life.

You're just a cold blooded coward.

You are no better than Heydrich, himself.

Even the Gestapo couldn't be as

inhuman as you are!

- Petschek Bank.

- Gestapo headquarters?

- Yes, quickly.

- Yes, ma'am.

Hurry, please.

Driver!

Driver!

Driver!

Driver! Can't you hear me?

You're going the wrong way.

Stop!

- Who are you?

- Miss Novotny, you must be out of your mind.

- Do you know what you're doing at all?

- Stop, driver.

I have no time now to give you a

lecture on political principles.

Haven't you any idea what is

going on here?

- This is war, and you're in it.

- Who are you, and where are you taking me too?

Don't be frightened,

we aren't taking you anywhere.

We just want to explain to you...

- Help, let me out please!

- What going on here?

This driver took me the wrong

way here, but I told him...

- Where do you want to go, Miss?

- To the Gestapo.

Gestapo?

But he drove the other way...

then this strange man...

Strange man?

- Where is he?

- I don't know what she is talking about, so help me.

I didn't hear the little lady at all.

I'm hard of hearing...

getting pushed around by the tweezers.

Alright, you're blocking traffic,

you better keep moving.

Why did you want to go to the Gestapo?

Did they send for you?

- Com'on baby, tell us.

- Com'on, out with it.

No, No...

Well, if they didn't send for you, what

business have you got with those butchers?

What does a decent Czech girl want

with the Gestapo anyway?

Who are you squealing on you

little Judas? That poor driver?

What did he do to you, huh?

The Gestapo!

- No, don't let them.

- You needn't be afraid, Miss

- You wanted to be taken to the Gestapo?

- Yes.

Have you received a summons, or do

you wish to make a statement?

I haven't received any summons.

Alright miss, you will be taken to

the headquarters safely.

Mascha Novotny,

for Inspector Ritter.

Here is your pass, Miss Novotny.

Heil, Hitler.

Miss Novotny,

it will be a few minutes.

Perhaps I might go to the washroom?

My cheek is bleeding again.

Right across the corridor,

first door to the left.

Your pass, miss??

Over there.

Your pass?

You've been to Herr Ritter's office?

- Yes.

- And you have already made your statement?

Yes.

That's strange.

That pass should be

signed and stamped.

- There must have been should kind of mistake.

- We don't make mistakes here!

My father had nothing to do

with the shooting yesterday.

He was doing research at the library

all day.

You can easily get proof.

- And this is the statement you came to make?

- Yes.

But I understood only a few minutes ago...

you wanted to leave...

without the benefit of this

extremely valuable testimony.

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