Labyrinth of Lies Page #6

Mengele...

Bring Mengele to Germany,

I beg you.

The UN security council already

scolded us because of Eichmann.

We are a small young country,

we do not need new enemies.

We are already surrounded by enemies.

Mengele could be anywhere.

We have to bring him to Europe.

He travels under a different name.

Otherwise, we would have got him

in Gnzburg.

I need that name, Mr. Fischer.

I was so close.

It is not the fault of my car.

Hello.

Kathi, right? Sit down, please.

I don't have much time,

I'll be late on the train.

The young Mengele was there.

I've heard his mother talking to my boss.

He flies back today from Frankfurt.

I wanted to call the police,

but my boss...

Thank you.

I have to talk with Fischer.

Where is he? It is urgent.

Mr. Fischer is suspended.

Your generation knows no loyalty.

I need Mengele's travelling name.

Please.

I told them, it loses oil.

- Can you fix it?

- The engine is gone.

We do not know what name he uses.

Why go to the airport?

I will know Mengele

when I see him, believe me.

Well?

Mr. Radmann,

What is that supposed to be?

Mr. Wisnievska is very angry.

You convinced him to testify

And we just sit there!

Mr. Langbein, I do what I can.

What do you do in Frankfurt, mom?

You don't call.

What happened? Did you move out of office?

Son, we need to talk.

I need to work.

Don't be stubborn, Johann,

it is important.

Please, go away.

Gustav has asked me

me to marry him and I accepted.

You are married.

After 15 years of not coming home.

I asked to declare him dead.

I want you to come to my wedding.

No. Gustav was a Nazi.

How you dare?

You don't even know him.

He was in the party, as everyone.

My father was not.

Of course he was!

What?

Dad was a member of the party,

He had no choice, as Gustav.

Enough is enough. You're lying.

Get out of here!

You stain the honor of dad

to excuse that Gustav.

- Get out!

-Be reasonable.

Dad?

Don't do it.

I need to know.

Don't do it.

Kurt Radmann,

born in Marburg in 1898.

Can you check if he was

a member of the party?

Wait in the hall.

Marlene.

Johann, how nice.

One moment.

You're drunk.

How can I bear it otherwise?

I already have a drunk in the house,

don't need another one.

Sure, Miss Wondrak operates

now in higher circles.

You have forgotten one thing.

- Were's the swastika?

- What?

That dress is for the wife

of a Nazi criminal.

What? Are you crazy?

Mertens, Lichter, all those

fine people are criminals.

How do I know?

Because this is a country of criminals

and they all behave

as if nothing had happened.

All these colors...

We Germans should wear black.

Forever and ever.

And you're doing this.

Beware!

Are you crazy?

I have to turn it in tomorrow.

You have become unbearable.

See only the bad. You're blind.

-Not everyone is bad.

- I am blind?

Battalion pioneer 221.

Your father served in Poland.

I have investigated.

Do you know what he did?

Ask him once, why is he drinking.

I don't believe you.

How do you dare to do this?

Get out!

I don't want to see you again!

Out!

The sheriff Radmann

and his faithful companion, the chief

Sharp pen.

Struggle against many

but in the end the good triumphs.

In the end, the bad guys die.

The sheriff Radmann

and the chief Sharp Pen...

- How did you know what that meant?

- What?

What "shot on the run" means.

Tell me, how did you know that?

I was there.

What?

In Auschwitz. I was there.

You were in Auschwitz?

During the war?

-Liar.

-Stop. You don't know.

-What you are.

-You don't know what...

I know too much. I know that you are

a liar and a hypocrite.

That is the worst.

Have you forgotten who I am, Johann?

Listen to me.

Do you want to know what I did?

I was 17 years old.

They enlisted my entire class as child soldiers

and we were sent to Auschwitz.

Of course, carry orders,

the great excuse.

And in the end everything

is Hitler's fault.

You wanted to know, isn't it?

Well, listen to me, damn it.

We had to keep an eye

on the prisoners.

There was a Polish professor,

Tadeusz Rosenthal.

I passed him bread and cigarettes,

but they caught him with it.

To punish him, they threw his hat.

over the fence.

And told him to pick it up.

And then he was shot.

"Shot on the run".

You get it, Johann?

As in the list.

You make me sick.

All you give me is disgust.

You're drunk.

What did you do?

Were you a Nazi?

- Were you one of them?

- Idiot!

You.

Why didn't you do anything?

Why did you collaborate?

It's outrageous!

Lump!

You all were there.

You were a Nazi.

You were a...

Why me?

- What does this mean?

-The trial, the investigation.

Why me?

Because you were born in 1930.

- You are unbiased

-No.

Because I was naive enough

to let you burn me.

By the way, my father

was also a Nazi.

What did you expect?

Almost all the lawyers

were members of the party.

He was just as guilty as the others.

If you think that this is about

who is guilty or innocent

you have not understood anything.

I resign.

You can't abandon us.

I'm very happy.

I think you have made

the best decision.

You will start on Monday.

I have heard.

Congratulations.

I wanted to thank you for your help,

Schmittchen.

Save it.

Our client is wrong.

He violated a patent law.

We can only...

Son, we can't pay for all this

if our clients are "wrong".

Yes.

-Peter.

-Hans. Very well.

Mr. Lichter, Mr. Radmann.

I consult with Mr. Lichter

if there is something dirty.

I am just brilliant, I'll do whatever

it takes for our customers. Can I?

Gentlemen, work out a strategy.

Money is not an issue.

I'm glad that we work together.

Now.

The man has not been born

to be a hero.

Right?

Mr Radmann?

I was as blind as the others.

What do you think now?

I don't know.

But there is something that I do not understand, Simon.

How can you continue to live here?

How can you continue

to live in Germany?

Look.

I arrived from Vienna at 18.

I met Hannah

in the hats section of

Schneider's shop.

My daughters were born

in the university hospital.

and on the Fressgasse

they got their first ice cream

We were going to feed the ducks

in the Grueneburgpark.

One pinched Klara's hand.

Tell me.

Where else can I go?

I can go to Auschwitz

to say Kadish.

I would like to.

Can you give me the book?

Gnielka has to go with you.

No, I will go alone.

Bubeleh...

All right.

Why haven't you said anything?

Because it gives me shame.

Because I didn't do anything

and I kept on watching.

Kept my mouth shut and watched.

And what about the trial?

How can you give up everything?

I've always wanted to fight

for a good cause.

But since I don't know what that is.

How can I judge other people?

If I had been...

I don't know what I would have done.

Don't you see what's at stake, Johann.

Look around you.

What do you see?

Auschwitz.

No. You see a meadow.

Three barracks, a fence.

Auschwitz is the stories

that are buried here.

Without the trial these stories

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