The Young Lions

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(woman) Whoo!

(woman laughs)

That's marvellous. Now, tomorrow, you give

me lessons and I give you your money back.

Oh, I feel so good.

(violins play)

Listen. Listen to what they're playing.

Ja. ''Rslein''.

# Dee da-dum

# Lief er schnell, es nah zu sehn

# Sah's mit vielen...

Ooh!

Go on. I'm sorry. Go on. Please.

# Rslein, Rslein rot

# Rslein auf der Heiden

As a rule, Americans speak German

with a very bad accent,

but your accent is... is really horrible.

Oh, Christian.

- This has been so wonderful.

- Yes.

I wanna thank you. You've been

more than generous with your time.

Well, that's only because

I've had the very worst intentions.

Thank you. Oh!

Oh, I hate to leave.

I hate to say goodbye now.

Why? Why don't you

say goodbye in the morning?

No. No, I can't. I've got to leave too early.

Now, look. lt is New Year's Eve.

You go back to America,

I never see you again, and...

- Please, spend the evening with me.

- No.

Too bad.

- Do I have a rival?

- Michael.

- Who?

- Michael.

But I think Michael would not mind if I just...

stole one tiny little Bavarian evening.

Are you kidding? I don't think it would even

occur to Michael that anybody would ask me.

All right. All right, Christian, I'd love to.

Wonderful.

(band plays ''The Blue Danube Waltz'')

- You look lovely.

- Thank you.

You look... really...

I want to present my sister Freda.

- Charmed.

- I'm so happy that you came tonight,

because I composed a little piece of music

for you. And, uh, it's... well...

- Would you like to hear it?

- I'd love to.

- Really?

- Yes.

(trumpeting)

- Do you like it? lsn't it nice?

- lt's wonderful.

(cuckooing)

Prosit Neujahr!

(shouting)

- Happy New Year, Margaret.

- Prost Neujahr, Christian.

lch bringe einen Toast.

Bitte.

Gott, beschtze unsern Fhrer, Adolf Hitler.

- Heil!

- Heil!

(ripple of applause)

Das Horst-Wessel-Lied.

(band strikes up)

# Die Fahne hoch!

Die Reihen dicht geschlossen!

# SA marschiert mit ruhig festem Schritt

# Kameraden,

die Rotfront und Reaktion erschossen

# Marschiern im Geist in unsern Reihen mit...

Are you all right?

What's the matter?

Oh... you know, I was just in Berlin

and I... I saw some Nazi demonstrations.

But... I didn't realise it had gone this far.

Not... not here, in this... little town.

lt's a little frightening.

Well, do you think that being a Nazi

is such a terrible thing?

Christian...

Christian, are you a Nazi?

No, I am not a Nazi.

I'm not... I'm not political at all.

But I think that they stand for

something hopeful in Germany.

Christian, you don't really believe that?

Yes, I believe this.

But why? Why?

What can you possibly find to justify Hitler?

I think that... that Hitler

will bring us a better life.

- ls the life you have now so terrible?

- No.

My life is not so terrible,

but I don't wish to spend the rest of it

teaching fat little children how to ski,

and being charming and picturesque.

I can understand your wanting more...

I think that perhaps

you cannot understand what it means

to live on tips from foreigners

in your own country, huh?

You know what I really am?

I'm not a ski instructor, even.

I do this for two or three months in the year,

and when the season is over, I... I go to work

in a little shop as an assistant to my father,

- and I am a shoemaker.

- And you don't want to be a shoemaker?

No, I don't. I want to be something else.

- Well, then, you don't have to remain one.

- Oh, this is not the United States.

lt's so hard to explain to you,

but, you see, it's very difficult for people

to rise above their class in Europe.

I'll tell you something. At one time,

I wanted very much to be a doctor.

And I worked... I worked very hard for this.

And when there was no longer any money

I was forced to give it up,

because we have no free university here.

And I think this is...

this is where Hitler can help us.

I think that... that...

He has promised to change all this.

Christian, Hitler promises

to conquer the whole world.

Oh,ja. But this is a direct result of

a handful of completely insane fanatics...

- Ooh! Christian!

- Yeah, it is, and this will pass.

lt will not pass.

lt's going to get worse and worse and worse.

And I think it's going to end in war.

I think that... we should not discuss this...

because I don't know all the answers.

I know you don't know all the answers.

And with political discussions, we go

round and round, and nothing is ever settled.

Come on, let's go back in

and have a nice time. Come on.

(people singing ''Deutschland ber alles'')

No.

Good night, Christian.

I'll say goodbye in the morning.

(radio announcer) This is the BBC, London.

Today, June 24th 1940, at 7.15pm,

France surrendered to Germany.

The events of the past 45 days,

beginning with the German invasion

of the Low Countries on May 10th,

have thus come to a tragic climax.

England, now fiighting virtually alone,

faces the German military power

whose aim to conquer or destroy the entire

civilised world can no longer be questioned.

ln the words of Mr Winston Churchill:

''What General Weygand has called

'the Battle of France'is over.''

'''The Battle of Britain'is about to begin.''

Leutnant, I do wish you'd order

your driver to slow down.

I'm reluctantly willing to die for the

fatherland, but not in a traffic accident.

We're late, Brandt.

Go a little faster, Basserman.

But we almost hit a cow back there!

The only living thing we have seen

all afternoon. Where is everybody?

Making love, drinking absinthe. You know

the French. Don't you read our papers?

Where are they?

When I was a little boy, I promised

my father I'd kill a Frenchman for him.

They shot off his leg in Verdun,ja, in 1916.

So I promised him, on Christmas Eve it was,

I promised I'd shoot a Frenchman for him.

- Leutnant, have you ever been to Paris?

- No, I have not been there.

Oh, what a city! What a wonderful city that is.

I'll show you a good time there. Ha!

You won't keep those people indoors for ever.

Not those Parisians.

Ah, what wonderful girls!

When I was a correspondent there,

we practically lived in the streets.

Simone and I, we will show you Paris the way

it always was. The way it always will be.

(gunfiire)

(tyres screech)

(gunfiire)

Go up to the road and keep firing on them

in case they try to come to the front,ja?

Jawohl.

Go!

Mets-toi derrire cet arbre.

Komm an.

(gunfiire)

Maeschen, stay behind this tree here.

I go over behind the tree over there.

Jawohl.

(gunshot)

I got him. I got him.

Maeschen, stay down!

(gunshot)

Ne tirez pas. Je me rends.

Streicher! Hold your fire.

Streicher.

(gunfiire)

Brandt, Streicher, come on.

(gunfiire continues)

Brandt.

Tell him to go back

and tell the others to surrender

because we now have them in the crossfire.

Go. Allez.

coutez-moi.

Maeschen... is dead?

- What-what?

- Maeschen is dead?

Ja. I'm sure his father

is very happy now. Ja?

Allez. Allez. Vite.

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