Soldiers of the Damned Page #3

You have to do what they want.

If you don't then...

Yes, I met with Colonel

Ackermann three weeks ago.

With my superiors.

With my friend, Bernd...

Professor Dietrich.

They knew that the

forest was going

to be overrun with

Russians anytime

and they were desperate

and they sent Bernd in

with Ackermann

and a group of SS.

- What are you people after?

- It's going to

sound crazy to you.

- Tell me.

- Bernd was studying the

existence of Proto-Aryans.

They're a pure race

from whom the German

people are supposedly evolved.

Eventually he lost

all sight of reality

and his theories

became more outlandish-

- What theories?

- That German people

were the descendants

of a race of Aryan god-men.

- Aryan god-men?

- Superhuman beings with

immense psychic ability.

The Ahnenerbe is a breeding

ground for madness.

You wouldn't believe it, Kurt.

Their aim is to recreate

the god-men, a new species.

- How?

- By interbreeding those

of pure Aryan stock

over hundreds of years.

Towards the end, Bernd's

mind verged on the psychotic.

You see, he came to believe

that the god-men still existed,

that it would be possible

to communicate with them.

- And you believe

all of this sh*t?

Jesus Christ.

- I had no choice.

What are you gonna do?

- What were Ackerman's orders?

I demand to know.

- Lieutenant,

we're heading back.

Get ready.

Private, get Baum.

- Sir.

- What do you mean?

We have not reached

our destination,

we have not completed

the mission.

Professor, what is happening?

Why are we going back?

- We are not going back.

- Watch us.

- I warned you.

- I will have you shot for this.

- I hear the SS have

psychic abilities.

Isn't that right, Major?

So tell me, are you

going to die now or not?

- If we return now, without

completing our mission,

Himmler will have us all shot.

He'll show no mercy.

You, your men,

Major Metzger, me.

We'll all die.

You may not care about yourself,

but the only way to

keep your men alive

is to get us to

those coordinates.

I don't know about you

Major, but personally

I'd really like to live to

see the end of this war.

- Don't tell me you

believe this madness.

- I don't know what

to believe Major,

but if it's true, if

these beings do exist

and we could

communicate with them,

would you want Himmler to

start the conversation?

- Let's get something

100% clear, Lieutenant.

Whatever anyone says, the

Third Reich is finished.

We'll be lucky to

have a nation left

once the Russians

are finish with us.

And do you know something?

In a way that's good.

You know what my

worst nightmare is?

That Germany win this war and

people like Metzger prevail.

That would be truly unbearable.

All I want to do is

get this job done

and get the hell

out of this forest.

- What do you

think, sir? Ambush?

My God, Major, it's that

Russian girl I chased.

- No, it isn't.

She's been dead over a week.

- This doesn't make any sense.

I know she killed Carl, but-

- Yeah, what a

terrible way to die.

- One second she was there,

the next she was gone.

- There was nothing

you could do.

Wasn't your fault.

- No, Professor, you

don't understand.

She turned to dust,

right in front of my eye.

Like she just burned up.

You believe me, don't you?

The others, they think it

was the hit on my head,

but I know what I saw.

- Of course, I do.

Come, Dieter, we must go.

- Rolf, I've never

asked you this before.

I've always thought it

to be your business.

- Sarge?

- What do you say to them?

You know, the

dying and the dead?

- I tell them that

death is a rebirth.

They will go to those

they have long missed.

Those that passed to the

other side before them.

- And do you believe that?

- Yes.

- I used to believe in heaven.

Now I'm not so sure.

When you die, leave me a sign.

- What?

- Leave me a sign.

So I know everything

is as you say it is.

- What sign?

- I don't know.

Something only you

could have left me.

- Sarge, I don't think

that might be possible.

- If what you're saying is

true, then you can do it.

- Alright, I'll leave you this.

Hey, what makes you think

I'm going to die before you?

- Are you asleep?

- No.

- You've changed a

lot in five years.

I wouldn't recognize you.

- Five years of war.

It's a lifetime.

- It obviously agrees with you.

You're a lot more

fun these days.

- I see your

conversational skills

haven't improved over time.

- Oh really? I don't recall

you complaining too much.

- That's because the only

way I could shut you up

was by taking you to bed.

- So you weren't

in love with me?

You simply tired

of my conversation.

There you are, Kurt Fleischer.

You are in there.

- You and Professor

Dietrich were lovers.

- Yes...

at the beginning.

How did you know?

- I saw your face when

you realized who he was.

- He was already at the

Ahnenerbe when we met.

He made it sound so exciting.

And I was in love and

wanted to be with him.

And then it all changed.

I saw your picture

in the newspaper

receiving a Knight's

Cross from the Fuhrer.

I was most impressed.

You know, that officially

makes you a war hero.

- Well these days

they give it to war

heroes who hang

the most civilians.

Takes the shine off it a little.

Sergeant.

- There is something.

Can you hear that?

- What?

- Voices, Major.

- Where?

Where are they, Sergeant?

- Everywhere, Major.

Can you not hear them?

You have to hear them.

- Sergeant, stay down.

Sergeant, enough!

- Were they Russians?

No one returned

fire, not one shot.

- We need not worry ourselves

about the Russians any longer.

- What did you hear, Sergeant?

- Voices, first

whispering, then screaming.

- But we didn't hear

anything, Sarge.

- What did they say?

- It was no language

I'd ever heard, Major.

- I think we should

get out of this forest.

- As soon as we

complete this mission.

Isn't that so, Major?

- We've made it this

far, we push on.

We get the job done

and we get out fast.

Alright, let's move.

- I asked

that Russian sniper

what she was scared of,

what they were running from.

- And, did

she enlighten you?

- She was

scared of the voices.

She said they needed to

get out of the forest.

- She had sense.

We, on the other hand, keep

walking deeper into this forest

like lambs to the slaughter.

We must have shot off

200 rounds back there.

You can't kill

what isn't living.

Do you think they were ghosts?

- Of course they were.

What else could they be?

Spirits of those

unfairly killed.

I told you before, this

forest is possessed.

It will kill us all.

- That can't be true, Sarge.

- No?

You saw Ackermann,

he was possessed.

You saw him attack

the professor.

Possessed by an enraged spirit.

That's the only answer.

- He was crazy for sure but-

- Use your brain.

You know, sometimes -

- Sarge?

Sarge?

Holy Mother of God, no.

No.

I killed you, you

bastard, you're dead!

F***!

You're dead!

No, no!

God forgive my sins.

- Sarge!

Christ.

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