straps,
as I'll be dragged
against the ground.
But first thing I'll do after I unbuckle
the straps, I'll burn this letter.
Let's agree on this option.
Here's the letter.
You're to destroy it even if you're
shot down above the Reichstag.
Karl Wolf had
reasonable grounds for fear.
Should the letter get in somebody
else's, not Himmler's, hands,
his fate would have been decided.
Seven hours later
the letter was unsealed by Himmler.
Dear Reichsfuhrer.
Shortly after
I arrived in Bern,
I set down to sorting out the data
collected by the secret agents here,
at Allen Dulles' representation
in Bern,
I made one major conclusion.
Dulles, as well as we're,
is worried about the real perspective
of creating Communist regimes
in Northern Italy,
which will result
in forming a communist belt
via Togliatti
to Maurice Thorez in France.
I've just got back from the meeting
with Dulles' envoys
Gewernitz and Guesmann.
Tomorrow, on Thursday, March 8,
there'll be held a meeting with Dulles.
03.08. 1945
(15 hours 30 minutes)
Bern. The USA Special Office
mansion.
Fabulous contralto.
I'd say, Italian
voices are the best in the world.
What?
I'm saying that
Italians have very special voices.
Either due to the sea,
note, a warm sea,
in Germany the sea is cold,
or it's...
the Italian sky.
It's kind of mystical.
It seems, this clock is slow.
- No, it shows the right time.
- Really?
Then it's my watch that is fast.
2 minutes fast.
I hate to wait. And you?
- When I have to...
- Wonderful contralto.
- How do you do?
- Good day.
- Did you have breakfast?
- Yes, thank you.
This way, please.
Allen Dulles - resident of the US
Strategic Services Agency in Europe.
What a beautiful day,
isn't it?
Yes, very beautiful.
Another of our men
is due to come here now,
and then we'll start.
He'll be here any minute.
General, do you realize
that Germany has lost this war?
Yes, I do. I understand
that Germany has lost this war.
But should we start these negotiations
with such a painful
for me, a German, <>?
Do you understand that
unconditional capitulation
can serve
as the practical basis for these talks?
I do.
I understand it.
However, in case you
wish to talk
with us on Himmler's behalf,
these talks will break up
without having started.
Mister Dulles
will be forced to take his leaving.
I reckon, that to continue this war
is a crime against both the Germans
and the European culture,
especially now, when we
made certain moves towards negotiations.
You.
We.
Both America and Germany.
I'm ready to place my organization
at your disposal,
it's the most powerful organization
in Germany, the SS and the SD,
at your disposal,
at your allies' disposal,
with the only purpose
to stop the war
and to ensure that
communist regimes are not established
either in Italy or Germany.
I can assume, that prior to
these discussions with me
and to giving an agreement to launch
official negotiations,
though they are kind of secret,
you made inquiries and came
to know that in Germany my rank is
an SS Obergruppenfuhrer.
And I'm holding the position
of the Head of Reichsfuhrer
Himmler's private headquarters.
General, you just said
that you're placing
the SS and the SD at our disposal.
Do you mean to say
that you'll get to grips with the Vermacht
and with Field-Marshal Kesselring
in particular?
Or will Field-Marshal Kesselring
carry out your orders?
I understand what you mean.
I understand you, Mister Gewernitz.
But I need your
guarantees, so that
tomorrow I could begin discussing it
with Field-Marshal Kesselring
in detail and thoroughly.
Okay, it sounds reasonable.
But you have to understand
that as soon as Kesselring
issues an order to capitulate here,
in Italy, where we have
over 1.5 million people under control,
it will start a chain reaction
on the other fronts.
I mean
the Western front in Norway,
in Denmark, in the West of Germany.
Thus on the