The Serpent's Egg Page #6

of a necessary

and logical development.

I know you have told

Inspector Bauer of your experiences.

I also know that justice, represented

by the plodding inspector,

has begun to move,

slow and creaking.

Hell be here soon with his police

and his rusty guns.

But in a few moments,

Ill bite on this cyanide capsule.

I did consider

burning the archives

and destroying

the results of our work,

but it seemed too melodramatic.

The law will confiscate our results

and then file them.

In a few years, science

will ask for the documents

and will continue our experiments

on a gigantic scale.

We are ahead of our time, Abel.

We are to be sacrificed.

Its only logical.

In a day or two,

maybe even tomorrow,

the national units in South Germany

will attempt a revolt

led by an incredible scatterbrain

called Adolf Hitler.

It will be a colossal fiasco.

Herr Hitler lacks intellectual

capacity and method.

He doesnt realize

what tremendous forces

he is about to conjure up.

He will be swept away

like a withered leave

the day the storm breaks.

Look at that picture.

Look at all those people.

They are incapable

of a revolution.

They are far too humiliated,

too afraid, too downtrodden.

But in ten years...

By then...

the 10-year-olds will be 20,

the 15-year-olds will be 25.

To the hatred

inherited from their parents,

they will add their own

idealism and impatience.

Someone will step forward and put

their unspoken feelings into words.

Someone will promise a future.

Someone will make demands.

Someone will talk

of greatness and sacrifice.

The young and inexperienced will

give their courage and their faith

to the tired and the uncertain.

And then there will be a revolution,

and our world will go down

in blood and fire.

In ten years, no more,

those people will create a new society

unequalled in world history.

The old society was based

on extremely romantic ideas

of mans goodness.

It was all very complicated since

the ideas didnt match the reality.

The new society will be based

on a realistic assessment

of mans potentials

and limitations.

Man is a malformation,

a perversity of nature.

That is where

our experiments come in.

We deal with the basic

construction and reshape it.

We set the productive forces free

and control the destructive ones.

We exterminate what is inferior

and increase what is useful.

I always liked you and Manuela.

She showed an affection for me

which I hope was sincerely meant.

Against my better judgment,

I tried to help you.

Comic, isnt it, Abel?

One day you can tell all this

to anyone who is willing to listen.

No one will believe you

despite the fact that anyone

who makes the slightest effort

can see what is

waiting in the future.

Its like a serpentss egg.

Through the thin membranes,

you can clearly discern

the already perfect reptile.

You were given Veronal.

Youve slept for two days.

What day is it?

Its the morning

of November 11th.

- Can I have some water?

- Yeah.

Ive been in touch with Hollinger.

He thinks he can use you

in his circus.

The German state will pay

for a train ticket to Basel.

Thats where the circus will be

for the next two weeks.

I take it for granted that you

will accept his kind offer, no?

I think so.

It would be

the simplest way, Herr Rosenberg.

A constable will go

to the station with you.

The night train is supposed

to leave at 11:
20.

Thank you.

Good-bye, Herr Rosenberg.

By the way,

Herr Hitler failed

with his Munich putsch.

The whole thing

was a colossal fiasco.

Herr Hitler and his gang

underrated the strength

of the German democracy.

Good-bye, Herr Rosenberg.

On the evening

of Sunday, November 11th,

Abel Rosenberg escaped

the police escort

which was taking him

to the railroad station.

He was never seen again.

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