been drinking?
No, not a drop.
Why are your eyes bloodshot then?
I didn't sleep.
Too much work on Prague.
Our men are tailing
the underground there.
It will get very interesting there
in the next few weeks.
Kruger will give you assistance.
He's an excellent worker,
though lacks imagination.
Have some cognac.
- It will perk you up.
- I wish it did.
On the contrary, cognac makes me
dazed. I prefer vodka.
This one won't make you dazed.
Prosit!
This villa
is a safe house.
At one time its purchase was
transacted through dummy persons
and a Bolzen,
chief engineer
of the people's chemical plant
named after Robert Ley,
got the right of using the villa.
He hired a guard, giving him
a high salary and a good ration.
That Bolzen was
Standartenfuhrer of the SS Stirlitz.
Today he came here
to meet with
his agent provocateur, Klaus.
Information to be pondered over.
Goebbels.
Veteran of Hitler's Party,
Reich Minister of Propaganda,
Obergruppenfuhrer of the SS,
the Gauleiter of Berlin,
the architect of the Third
Reich's new morals.
Married, has six children.
High-school education.
"You should be cruel and
merciless when it comes to those
we're fighting against
and who are doomed by us
for total annihilation.
No pity can ever stir
in your hearts
for a Slav, a Jew, a Frenchman.
Remember: You are
the future masters of the world."
Goebbels.
Leader of the Berlin
Nazi organization,
Chief of the press, propaganda
and culture, Joseph Goebbels
was known in the Reich as an orator
and a political strategist,
the initiator of the banishment from
Germany of Thomas Mann,
Albert Einstein,
Bertold Brecht, Anna Seghers.
On his orders a fine publicist,
von Oschecki, had been killed.
At his sanction, the best German
journalists, Communists and
and Social Democrats were executed.
"The Possessed Nazi" - that was
Goebbels' nickname in the Party.
Although Reichsfuhrer Himmler's
officials called the Reich Minister
differently in their secret reports.
He was referred to
by the codename
"The Babelsberg Buck".
Not once had the Gestapo agents
spotted the Reich Minister
in the boudoirs of actresses during
night orgies in Babelsberg.
But scandal broke out
when it became known
that Goebbels had an affair
with Czech actress Lida Baarova.
Goebbels was summoned
to the Party office
and for 4 hours was subjected
to humiliating questioning
about his affair
with an inferior Slav woman.
Shortly after these events,
which almost cost Goebbels
his career,
Stirlitz saw the Reich Minister
at a book fair.
He remembered Goebbels' hands,
he remembered how carefully
Goebbels handled the book
of selected speeches of Goebbels.
The same night, on Goebbels'
orders books had been burned,
the books of Marx,
Engels, Hegel, Kant,
Heine, Mann, Tolstoy,
Rolland, Gorky, Brecht,
Seghers and many others.
The Reich Minister continued
to expiate his sins
before the new moral of the Third
Reich.
"I, like everyone of us,
will prove to the Fuhrer my loyalty
by the readiness to give every drop
of my blood for him," he said then.
Hitler had forgiven him only on the
day of the assassination attempt
when Goebbels, the only one of
Hitler's bonzes left in Berlin,
had obstructed the insurgent generals
and taken part in their shooting.
It was on his orders that the mass
arrests had been made in Berlin.
In those days hundreds of people were
executed with no trial or investigation.
The Fuhrer had decorated Goebbels,
appointed him the Gauleiter of Berlin
and began to entrust to him trips
to most vulnerable areas of the front,
where the defense was held by
Volksturm men and Hitlerjugend boys.
And finally, in January 1945
the Fuhrer came
to Goebbels' house on his birthday.
That day Goebbels said to his wife:
"With my Fuhrer, I'll rise from
the ashes.
With my Fuhrer, I'll perish.
There's no other alternative."
Goebbels was eliminated by Stirlitz
as a possible candidate
for