The Deathmaker Page #7

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After it happened...

...he always took me in his arms,

and kissed me...

...and said,

"You're my best.

Let's be faithful to each other. "

And then he always...

I was glad when someone was with me.

Let's talk about something else.

You can talk here.

Sausages and meat.

Always bringing up

sausages and meat!

- We must discuss it.

- Ask Ahrberg! Ask him!

- What makes you say that?

- He told me.

You talked to him?

At the police station!

He was an expert!

Expert on what?

He's a butcher! He owns the biggest

slaughterhouse in Hanover!

He told me he didn't sell anything

at the shooting fair.

They all wanted Haarmann's sausages!

- Let's talk about Witzel.

- Not him again!

Those are the communists.

They've been in the papers most often.

Professor, I advise you to end

this whole thing.

Your nerves will crack!

What have the Witzels got to do

with communists?

They're joy-boys!

Now they're trying to look good, but

they've been living on it for years!

Especially that other Witzel.

He's a pig!

When he was outside Kropke's, he

used to come up and grab at my pants.

A disgusting little lout!

I didn't like them that brazen.

What's he got to do with communists?

The Witzels are communists!

If I'd known I wouldn't

have given him a glance.

Why not?

They always want to...

Communists wear a yellow pin here.

Disgusting people. I don't like them.

Frau Engel is a communist, too.

She beat me up!

What do communists want?

They don't believe in any god.

When I talked to Frau Engel about God,

she threw me out right away.

I told her,

"One day, when you're sick and dying,

you'll pray to God!"

I've read the Bible so often. I know.

What else do communists want?

They don't want Kaiser,

don't want to work.

but to take away

other people's money.

Go ask around in Hanover!

Why are the communists angry at you?

Because I liked being a soldier

and I stood up for the Kaiser.

- But if you said so, you were beaten!

- Are you afraid of the communists?

They wanted to tear me apart,

turn the car upside down,

saw off...

...my head slow and lock me up alive in

the lions' cage at the zoo!

- There once was an apostle...

- In the Bible!

- He pulled a thorn out of a lion's paw.

- Who was it?

- I couldn't tell you anymore.

- But I know.

Maybe you only read it today!

Wasn't it Daniel?

In the lion's den?

The lion didn't harm him!

He won't harm you either,

when you whisper in his ear,

"I am Fritz Haarmann!"

Dogs can smell it.

They never harm me either.

They know I'm their friend.

Your last wish?

A nice cheese sandwich,

a nice cup of coffee...

...and a nice cigar.

When we've finished our coffee

we can go.

But don't touch!

They should say that Fritz Haarmann...

...went to the scaffold...

...with colossal, fearless,

military courage!

Then I'll give a little speech.

Professor,

I feel like Napoleon on St. Helena.

Napoleon on St. Helena?

I go for walks.

There's always someone with me.

It's nice like that.

But Napoleon was a great man.

Me, too, now!

I've even made it into the movies!

I'm in cinemas all over the world!

China, Japan.

America.

Napoleon was the sort of man...

...who could see something through

once he'd started it.

And even if he was French,

he was a great general.

Even in school I worshipped him.

A capable man.

We should have had him now.

Shouldn't the pastor come along?

Come on!

No.

Pastor Hardeland

of the "Christuskirche" confirmed me!

Herr Ratz called twice

to tell him to come, but he didn't.

Ministers are all heretics!

I've often read the Bible.

But they preach the wrong way.

It isn't nice he didn't come.

So I said,

"I can walk up to God by myself!"

And though my sin be red as blood,

it can still, like Jesus said,

it can still be cleansed

until it is as white as snow.

That's what God is there for.

God said,

"Love thy neighbor like thyself. "

What kind of speech

do you want to give?

I want to say that I spoke nothing

but the truth! People shouldn't...

People shouldn't think I killed to

rob or something. It's a sin, I know.

But the boys ran after me. The Bible

says that self-abuse is forbidden.

And I never did that.

The boys did it to me, and I did it

to them. It wasn't self-abuse!

What about "sucking"?

It's disgusting!

Now it occurs to me.

Why did you keep taking

those boys with you?

I know.

I shouldn't have. But they kept

coming with me.

You should've said,

"I can't kill any boys

if I don't take them with me. "

But they tormented me.

When they put their hands here...

...and kissed me, I was gone.

Sometimes it happened and

sometimes it didn't.

I told you so often.

Exactly! And therein lies

your principal guilt!

Principal guilt!

If I'd had a friend along with me

all of this wouldn't have happened.

Will you be coming to the execution?

May I read it?

I'm not playing the idiot! Really!

I'm not catching flies!

It's ridiculous to blow up

every little thing.

You can see he's a low person,

look:
"You, butcher"!

That's not right.

I don't believe it!

You go in a man,

you come out a sausage.

No, one shouldn't write such letters.

- Only on New Year's Day.

- Fritz,

- do you know why you're here?

- Yes.

Herr Ratz said we're on

a pleasure trip, visiting you.

He said there's an uproar in Hanover.

We must flee. When it calms down...

This is really something!

From Berlin.

The devil is never at rest.

For he dwells in every breast.

Counsel for the world: Dato Sago.

Philanthropist.

I don't understand.

I didn't get a letter in years.

And now all these.

It's those jokers...

- ... sitting around in bars.

- So why are you here?

Yeah. You want to examine me,

see if I'm sensible.

What do we say in court?

I won't say.

Whether I'm...

...of sound mind!

We don't want to say that in court.

- I'm not to come?

- Yes, if you like,

but don't mention Hildesheim.

I don't want you to.

We could mention it.

It'd make a bad impression.

They wouldn't chop my head off.

Would it be worse in Hildesheim?

You go crazy there.

I already noticed.

There are madmen here, too.

One of them screams so terribly,

just like in Hildesheim.

I'm telling you now:

If you think I'm crazy...

...I'll never look at you again.

We'd be finished!

I told you before:

I don't think you're crazy.

Then I'm relieved.

I want a monument.

- It costs money.

- Let it be 1,000 marks.

This book'll make you a millionaire!

You'll see. When the trial comes up

it'll be a hit. Even in 100 years!

- With pictures?

- Of course.

I had my photograph

taken here especially.

In any case,

the stenographer should get a suit.

Because he worked so hard.

And Hans... you could give Hans

a few marks, too.

Every year on my birthday

he's to lay a wreath at my grave.

- I'd like that.

- Your birthday's coming up.

Pity you won't be here.

I know.

You would have given me a present.

A cup of coffee,

a cheese sandwich and...?

- A cigar!

- A cigar.

I want to see the executioner first.

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