as enemy troops in Altap city.
The troops of the 3rd Ukrainian Front
and the 2nd Ukrainian Front
began the Viennese offensive operation
for the purpose of the crushing and
defeating the 6th German Tank Army SS.
Another offensive of the Red Army on
that day was against the city of Dzepsk.
This is the guard manager speaking.
Yes, sir.
Please wait.
Shtirlitz is in the building and
walking along the corridor.
- Along whose or what corridor?
- Along our very building corridor.
Shtirlitz is within the building, sir.
And the hell where is he marching to?
Shtirlitz was going to Mueller.
Shtirlitz understood Mueller's move with Holtoff
against him, but he was convinced, though, that
the most decisive struggle with Muller
is still in the very near future.
Holtoff tried to blackmail Shtirlitz for his
distractive role in the German physicists' case.
If would have happened that the point of
view of a physicist Runge would have won,
then the Germans could have approached the
creation of an Atomic bomb as early as 1944.
That all happened in 1943.
Shtirlitz became aware that in the
Gestapo jail they were holding
one of the key German nuclear
physicists whose name was Runge.
He was arrested as a result of a fake
quarrel and squabble among the German
nuclear physicists, who worked with Runge
in the lab and some of them were envious
of Runge’s genius, so they wrote a
denunciation against him out of spite.
Shtirlitz knew well that Runge's nuclear
research group is closer than any others
to the creation of an atomic weapon.
He was ordered from his spy Center in Moscow
to find a way to get closer to Runge.
Where did you get this information from?
- Does it seem improbable to you?
- Absolutely not. I’m listening to you.
An interesting group of nuclear scientists
was assembled in the States. Fermi, Einstein...
Oppenheimer is in charge of it all.
Yes, he’s managing the nuclear project.
We employ sufficient amount of German minds
to be ready for any real atomic threat.
Something just does not seem right.
It is very possible that here we are
dealing with a leakage of some
sensitive information and even with
a possible plot of our German physicists.
Shtirlitz realized, that Shelenberg has
in mind Runge and his research group.
And if this is a plot of the
intellectuals, so then the only
possible way to neutralize it, is
by the physicists themselves.
The Gestapo of Muller can do only 3 things really
good – find criminals, torture and then kill them.
What relative amount of useful knowledge
might, my dear shtandartenfurer Shtirlitz,
have about the latest discoveries
and flows of modern nuclear physics?
Right now I am more occupied by a problem,
of how, with a help of physical chemistry,
to stop the process of developing an
advanced stupidity in some of our officers.
It's getting more and more difficult
to work productively with those morons.
We have bred so many total idiots,
who speak right words at right times.
You may end up your life in a
concentration death camp. Be careful.
But, I think, Mueller will not make you
disappear in a concentration death camp.
You know too much information.
Your funerals will be with honor.
You’ll die in a car crash of some kind.
Thanks a lot. But I first want to bring
flowers to his, Muller's, grave.
Impossible! Muller is immortal.
He’s immortal because the secret police
and its detective work are immortal.
Two months have passed since
that conversation at the stadium.
Shtirlitz had a rule to never
rush the events.
He believed, "Endurance" is
the other side of "Swiftness".
Whatever should happen will happen.
That was his strong belief.
The second time a conversation about
a physicist Runge came up unexpectedly
during a banquet dedicated to
the birthday of the Fuhrer.
That celebration of Fuhrer’s birthday,
in contrast to the previous ones,
was condacted much more modestly
than ever before.
After Goebbels's political