The Deathmaker Page #2

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I know from the station do.

My brother Willy... He doesn't steal.

He's awful honest!

- You've been begging a lot, right?

- Yes.

Is begging allowed?

They gave me 3 months.

- Why is begging punished?

- Why?

God. I never did it again afterwards.

- A policeman said, "Come with me!"

- You could've worked.

Nobody wanted me! I showed them

my military papers at the factory.

It says:
In-va-lid! They said,

"We don't want people like that!"

I went round the shops

and said I was a disabled veteran.

That I wanted to buy things but couldn't

pay much. And I got suits and shoes.

Sometimes for free!

Later I sold the stuff with Hans.

Are you allowed to use

a married man's wife?

What's that?

Are you allowed to

use a married man's wife?

No, I never did that!

- But Hans did, with Dorchen.

- What do you call that?

It's not allowed. It's... whoring.

What's the deed called when a

woman does it?

I didn't do anything else.

- Isn't it adultery?

- Yes. That's what they say.

Is it allowed?

People can do it if they want. I don't.

Did you have intercourse with women?

- With my fiance! A decent girl.

- What's her name?

Erna. She was a good girl.

A pretty girl.

Is she married now?

- Yes, she has been for a long time.

- And before that?

Didn't you have intercourse

with other women?

No, never!

You mean the thing with the

butcher Karl's daughter?

I got sick from her!

- Butcher Karl! That's humbug!

- Never!

- Of course! No one will believe you!

- You can do what you want!

One commandment says:

"Thou shalt not kill!"

- Yes.

- You didn't always keep it, did you?

I didn't mean to do it!

How many did you kill?

It was a pretty fair portion.

Weren't you sorry?

I didn't mean to.

He has beautiful hands.

Didn't you ever think about all the

parents you made unhappy?

- They were just joy-boys!

- Are you any better?

I wasn't on the game!

They came up to me saying,

"Uncle Fritz... we want to do it. "

How many did you tempt into doing

such disgusting things?

- I'm leaving. Tomorrow.

- Where do you want to go?

I'll notify them here and be off to

Hanover. Where the revolution is.

- Is it still on?

- Who told you that?

- They're storming the court!

- Who?

- That's why they sent me here!

- Where?

Here, with you, to Gottingen!

- And who am I?

- You're a professor! At the court!

A professor at the court?

There are also doctors

in the police force!

We'd better stop.

You can stay a little longer.

Is that your son?

Who is Christ?

Our savior.

We always go to church

where he's hanging.

Why do we celebrate Easter?

That's when they put

Lord Jesus on the cross.

The Jews yelled,

"Crucify him! Crucify him!"

Why?

Now they're yelling at me like that.

I never did them any harm,

the communists.

It must've been the same back then.

That hurts!

Bumping your head like that.

You've got a nice pencil.

What's the difference between a

staircase and a ladder?

The difference between a staircase

and a ladder?

The ladder is outside and leads up to

the roof. Stairs...

Stairs are in the house.

My parents had a long ladder.

An awful long one. It went up to

the roof. We had chickens too.

- Why do you say that?

- The ladder was near the hen house!

Once the chickens were killed nobody

liked eating them. We gave them away.

- Who killed them?

- Edel the barber came to do that.

He killed as many chickens

as we had chicks.

We always ran away when he came.

I still can't stand the sight!

But you slaughtered people!

No, they were dead already.

So I had to take them away.

That's what they all say out there!

Don't die on us!

You don't die from that, no...

Would that be so bad?

So execute me!

- It happens real fast!

- How do you know?

I always feel like...

...I lived once before!

And they chopped my head off.

It went really smoothly.

Where was that?

Must've been a long time ago.

Where was it?

Where was it, where was it?

Maybe it wasn't even here, in Germany.

I think it was in...

...Rabitsch! Where I was in prison.

That was a long train trip!

You really believe that?

These things happen!

I believe these things happen!

I've got a gaslight at home!

That's much nicer.

I mean, with a match!

That's a lot brighter.

Look how it shines.

- What is snow?

- We get it in winter, at Christmas.

In the summer we get rain

and thunderstorms.

What is ice?

We get that in winter too.

When it's real cold it freezes over.

- What?

- The ice!

Just thinking about it makes me shiver!

What's the difference

between ice and water?

Ice-skating... skate.

Water... drinking!

What comes first:

lightening or thunder?

Wasn't that thunder?

What comes first?

A thunderstorm is...

There wasn't one today, was there?

- No.

- There'll be one!

How can you tell?

It gets dark...

That's not thunder.

I thought it was thunder.

Praying?

What makes you think that?

My mother always prayed

during a thunderstorm.

- Why?

- She did a lot of praying.

Why during a thunderstorm?

During a thunderstorm she'd put the

moneybags on the table.

She was rich!

She had three large bags!

One was full of gold!

The others full of silver.

Then she'd take out

her hymnal and pray.

Why did she put the moneybags

on the table?

We lived alone in the house.

We might get hit by lightening.

And everything would burn up!

What do you know

about the Good Lord?

He's in heaven.

And when you're dead...

We'll all be up there.

With Him!

We'll do fine then!

Mother's in heaven. And my sister.

And now I want to go there too.

My mother's waiting for me.

Your mother'll be shocked

when she finds out.

I won't tell her.

I'd rather tell her how my relatives

treated me. They didn't look out for me.

She'll find out about the execution.

Right.

You can see it!

- I'll tell her there was a war on.

- People aren't decapitated in war.

She can't see that! I'll know whether

I'll get in! No one else knows!

Do we all go to heaven?

We all get in.

No.

Only the good. There's also a hell.

That's where the devil is.

He's got horns and a cloven hoof,

like my mother always told me.

But I haven't seen him yet.

Mother always talked about his cloven

hoof! I don't know if she saw him.

Have you seen the Good Lord?

No...

There's a big garden with

beautiful trees and flowers.

We can play there.

And there's music.

We can sing. So my mother told me.

Can we actually see God?

Yes, when you're up there.

I have seen Him in pictures.

He's got this beautiful long white beard.

But I don't want to see my father.

The ones I killed...

...are they up there too?

But they won't tell, will they?

I smashed their heads to pieces!

I smashed them!

I...

They can't see without eyes!

They can't harm me up there.

- Will the Good Lord let you in at all?

- My mother's up there.

She'll see to it that I get in.

Don't you know her?

She used to laugh so nice.

- I thought you'd come this morning.

- No, Fritz, I was too busy.

All that work!

The inspector said he'd brought you

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