concerns with his concerns and anxieties?
We, the common men only care about ourselves.
And he thinks and cares about all
the Germans. He deserves warmth.
Come on, professor!
Enough of this nonsense.
He is a goddamn mad maniac, who
killed millions, and now he hides,
a dirty bastard, in a safe, warm place
and watches movies with his girl friend.
Don't you think so?
Well, you see. Your brother and
my best friend ...
He was an antifascist, an underground
resistance fighter just like me.
For years he was leading German
underground resistance group.
He was helping me in the fight.
You never asked about my profession.
I am a shtandartenfyurer SS.
I work in the military intelligence.
No, no, my brother could not be
a provocateur. I do not believe you.
He never was a provocateur. And I actually
really work in the military intelligence.
I also work in the Russian
military intelligence as well.
-Do you remember well the handwriting
of your brother? - Certainly I do.
Here is a letter he gave me
before he died.
Friend! I thank you for everything.
I have learned so much from you.
I learned how it is necessary to love,
and in the name of this love
to hate those, who bring servitude to
the people of Germany. Your Pleyshner.
He wrote this to me, fearing the Gestapo.
The servitude to the German people,
as you well understand, will bring
hordes of Russian Bolsheviks and
armada of Americans, don't you think?
Or maybe, the servitude to Germany was,
actually, brought by Hitler instead?
By the Nazis?
Shtirlitz all of sudden felt sorry,
that he said all this to him.
And he was sorry for even approaching
this unhappy old man with “his business”.
Although, why is this a "my business"?
- thought Shtirlitz.
First of all this is their business, a business of
the Germans. Therefore, his business as well.
I do things for them, but in fact they had
to do those things themselves.
I understand.
Now I understand everything.
You can completely rely on me.
but I already was in the concentration
death camp once and I must warn you,
that if they start beating and
torturing me again
I just will not be able to hold it and
I could tell them about you.
I do know that.
What did you feel when I told you
about what I do and who I am?
A relief. An enormous relief.
Then we will work well together.
What must I do now?
Nothing yet. Just live quietly and be ready
for actions when it will be necessary.
- And for whom will we be fighting?
- For Germany.
- For Germany?
- For Germany. But not the Reich.
You will agree, that between those two
concepts there is an enormous difference.
It is agreeable.
Italy. Military airport Bilsana.
If you would get hit, anything could happen
in war, you are obligated to burn
this letter even before you will have
time to unfasten parachute straps.
I cannot burn letter before I will unfasten
my parachute straps.
because I will be dragged on the ground.
but the first, that I will do, after unfastening
the straps, is that I will burn letter.
Let us agree to this version.
Here is this letter.
You are obligated to burn it, even if you
get hit above the Reichstag.
Karl Wolf had all reasons for a fear.
If this letter falls into the hands others
than except Himmlers,
He would be finished. Terminated.
In 7 hours the letter was opened by Himmler.
Dear reichsfurer! Immediately after
I have arrived to Bern, Switzerland
I began working with the secret service
materials, assembled here,
About Allen Dulles' representation in Bern,
I drew the conclusion:
Dulles is most disturbed by a real prospect
of creation in Northern Italy of
the Communist government,
which will involve the formation of
the Communist belt through out
Togliattis to Maurice Torez in France.
I just returned from the meeting with the
representatives of Allen Dulles,
Mr. Gevernits and Mr. Gusman.
Tomorrow, on March 8, will take place
a meeting with Allen Dulles personally.
March 8, 1945,