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00:03:31There's nothing to be surprised about.
00:03:33After all, he became a German.
00:03:35From day to day.
00:03:38He's just leaving the barracks.
00:03:40From a house for asylum seekers.
00:03:42They gave him a social, a private apartment.
00:03:46The Germans are in a state of complete disarray.
00:03:49And you know what destroys us?
00:03:52The fact that we are a state of care.
00:03:55If they give you an apartment for which they pay
00:03:59and a social, tell me,
00:04:02what else is there to work for?
00:04:08In Poland, they also give you an apartment and a social.
00:04:13They give you a social.
00:04:15And you can live on it.
00:04:21So what?
00:04:24Can I get dressed?
00:04:29Get dressed.
00:04:31Where?
00:04:32There.
00:04:36And get to work.
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00:05:19Your parents were Polish?
00:05:22What do you care?
00:05:24No, I'm sorry.
00:05:25But you know, many Poles speak German perfectly.
00:05:29But German speaking Polish is a real rarity.
00:05:32You're exaggerating.
00:05:34I know Germans who speak Polish like me.
00:05:36Maybe better.
00:05:37I haven't met them.
00:05:38For example...
00:05:41What?
00:05:42I was born in Gdańsk.
00:05:45Many of my friends were Polish.
00:05:48Oh, yes.
00:05:49Besides, I'm easy to talk to.
00:05:51You're too kind, sir.
00:05:53I have a wooden ear.
00:05:55But to get to something here,
00:05:57I have to speak German perfectly.
00:06:00And what about your...
00:06:03citizenship?
00:06:05Silence for now.
00:06:11I should have an answer tomorrow.
00:06:14Tomorrow?
00:06:16Maybe the day after tomorrow.
00:06:19You'll get your citizenship
00:06:22and you'll stop coming here
00:06:24like Arthur.
00:06:27No, sir.
00:06:29I care about the Force.
00:06:31And I won't find out that I work for the Black Social.
00:06:34I also take risks.
00:06:36More than you.
00:06:39But the dead have to get their share of the time.
00:06:45You're doing well.
00:06:48And while Willy is in the army,
00:06:50you can work for me.
00:06:52You have a job.
00:06:53Thanks.
00:06:55How long will they keep him?
00:06:58A year.
00:07:12You don't look like someone
00:07:14who studied physics.
00:07:16I finished my studies.
00:07:17Humanities.
00:07:19And then...
00:07:20Then I landed in the office.
00:07:23I used to be an officer, too.
00:07:25Sir?
00:07:26When was that?
00:07:27A long time ago.
00:07:28In the 1940s.
00:07:34You wonder how old I am.
00:07:37And how many Poles I killed during the war.
00:07:41You're lying, boy.
00:07:43No, sir.
00:07:44I'm a gardener.
00:07:46Why?
00:07:47I became a gardener after the war.
00:07:50After coming to Schleswig-Holstein.
00:07:52And before that?
00:07:53Where did you live?
00:07:54In Berlin.
00:07:55It's a beautiful city.
00:07:56I haven't been there since the liberation.
00:08:01After the unification,
00:08:02the capital of an empire like Germany
00:08:04has to become a real metropolis.
00:08:06I saw the plans for the expansion.
00:08:08They're really impressive.
00:08:10I remember Schperr's plans.
00:08:12They were impressive, too.
00:08:21You have a wife.
00:08:23I'm in my sixth month of pregnancy.
00:08:25And that's all I've accomplished in 28 years.
00:08:30But I'm ambitious.
00:08:31So ambitious that I live with my parents-in-law.
00:08:34And I have no prospects for my own apartment.
00:08:39To tell you the truth,
00:08:42I have no prospects at all.
00:08:46What would you do in my place?
00:08:51I'd become a German.
00:08:53You see?
00:08:54Do you stand a chance?
00:08:56I think so.
00:08:57My mother is German.
00:09:00I mean, in a way.
00:09:02What do you mean, in a way?
00:09:04It's very simple.
00:09:05She really feels Polish,
00:09:07but her mother was German.
00:09:09I mean, her mother's mother.
00:09:12And my grandfather served in the Wehrmacht.
00:09:14Oh!
00:09:15He was a Silesian.
00:09:16But he was afraid to mention it.
00:09:18That he served in the Wehrmacht?
00:09:20He was so afraid
00:09:21that he drowned all his papers in shit out of fear.
00:09:24What happened?
00:09:25In the toilet.
00:09:26Before the inspection of the Security Office.
00:09:28Someone brought it there
00:09:30and they did the inspection.
00:09:31So my grandfather threw all the documents
00:09:33into the toilet and flushed the water.
00:09:35And then he died.
00:09:36That can be checked.
00:09:38That's what they check.
00:09:40But something's wrong.
00:09:41Why?
00:09:44Someone says
00:09:45that when my grandfather was to be sent to the Eastern Front,
00:09:48he preferred to live in a small, quiet barn in the village.
00:09:51So he deserted?
00:09:53It's not certain yet.
00:09:54Ah!
00:09:55How could one win a war here?
00:09:57Yeah.
00:10:03And my father?
00:10:04My father is Polish.
00:10:06My father's mother is Polish.
00:10:08And my father's father is also Polish.
00:10:10In addition, he died in Katyn.
00:10:13Where?
00:10:16Katyn.
00:10:17You probably haven't heard of it.
00:10:20Ah!
00:10:21I had a dirty childhood because of my grandfathers.
00:10:23My parents were still afraid
00:10:25that someone from my old friends would report
00:10:27that my grandfather Gerard served in the Wehrmacht
00:10:29and my grandfather Piotr.
00:10:32Katyn was dangerous for the communists.
00:10:40But in fact,
00:10:42it's not certain at all that my grandfather Piotr
00:10:44died in Katyn.
00:10:50During the war, my grandmother,
00:10:51to explain the whole story,
00:10:53even went to Jasnowidza.
00:10:55To whom?
00:10:56Most of you don't believe in the existence of Jasnowidza,
00:10:59but there are such people.
00:11:01And who was this Jasnowidza?
00:11:03I don't remember her name.
00:11:05She was a young woman.
00:11:07Actually, she was a girl.
00:11:08She was 16 years old
00:11:09and was already very famous.
00:11:12She had a strange pseudonym,
00:11:13something biblical.
00:11:15Sarah, Saba, Sydonia.
00:11:17Sybilla.
00:11:19Exactly, Sybilla.
00:11:25And please imagine
00:11:27that when this Sybilla
00:11:28was about to tell her grandmother
00:11:29what happened to her grandfather,
00:11:31the Gestapo entered her office
00:11:33and the session was interrupted.
00:11:35It wasn't the Gestapo.
00:11:37Excuse me?
00:11:44He couldn't count how many there were,
00:11:45probably 20,
00:11:46and he got into the container.
00:12:14Excuse me, sir.
00:12:28How do you know all this?
00:12:31What was your grandfather's name?
00:12:34The one from Wehrmacht?
00:12:35The one from Katyn.
00:12:37Just like me, Michalski.
00:12:38A typical German name.
00:12:42Piotr Michalski.
00:12:44I bear my grandfather's name.
00:12:48Grandma gave up.
00:12:50She says I'm similar.
00:12:51Is she still alive?
00:12:53She belongs to the long-lived.
00:12:56Just like you.
00:13:00She still believes
00:13:01that her grandfather is alive
00:13:03and that he'll come back,
00:13:04that he just disappeared somewhere.
00:13:07I don't know where.
00:13:08Maybe he's in Kazakhstan
00:13:10or in America.
00:13:13You know,
00:13:14even though so many years have passed since the war,
00:13:16people still find each other.
00:13:19Really.
00:13:20Such cases happen.
00:13:28All the camps were successful escapes.
00:13:31Kozielska for sure too.
00:13:33My grandfather was in Kozielska
00:13:35before being transported to Katyn.
00:13:37But there's no proof
00:13:39that he was there.
00:13:40Nothing at all.
00:13:41And no witnesses.
00:13:44And most of all,
00:13:46no body was found.
00:13:49My grandfather was an officer.
00:13:53In 1939,
00:13:55he was a lieutenant of the 34th Infantry Regiment.
00:14:00Did he serve in the army?
00:14:03No, unfortunately.
00:14:05My leg...
00:14:08It was a small mistake
00:14:09when I was picking up a bag.
00:14:11I thought you were injured.
00:14:15No,
00:14:16in the first years of the war
00:14:19I was a hunter.
00:14:23Him?
00:14:24A hunter.
00:14:27My boss was Himmler.
00:14:31Heinrich Himmler?
00:14:35Why are you looking at me like that?
00:14:40The Reichsfuhrer had a great weakness.
00:14:43He believed in occultism
00:14:45and supernatural powers.
00:14:47He was convinced
00:14:49that he was another incarnation of Heinrich the Lion,
00:14:52who was for him not only the creator of the German Reich,
00:14:55but the greatest German hero.
00:15:00That's why he ordered to rebuild
00:15:02the medieval castle,
00:15:05where the elite of the SS
00:15:07gathered for spiritual meditation exercises.
00:15:11That castle had many secrets.
00:15:20What secrets?
00:15:22For example,
00:15:24that there was a sanctuary of order in the underground.
00:15:29The great master Himmler,
00:15:31like King Arthur,
00:15:32took over.
00:15:35At one table
00:15:37were twelve of the most important bosses of the SS.
00:15:41Each of the participants received the name
00:15:43of one of the knights of the Grail.
00:15:46During spiritual meditations
00:15:49their spirits were called out,
00:15:52and in the furnace near the table
00:15:56the ashes of the bravest SS men were burnt.
00:16:00They had fallen in battle,
00:16:03but the secret of the most vigilant guard
00:16:08by Himmler
00:16:11was clearly visible.
00:16:16The Reichsfuhrer's initiative
00:16:18led to the creation of a secret organisation.
00:16:21Its task was to reach those
00:16:23who were said to have been equipped
00:16:26by nature with supernatural powers
00:16:29and to bring them to the castle.
00:16:34The Wehrmacht joined the Reich.
00:16:37New territories,
00:16:38and we were going around Europe.
00:16:40We were called
00:16:44the Jasnowice Hunters.
00:16:47In April 1940,
00:16:50I found myself in Kraków.
00:16:54You interrupted a session
00:16:56in the Sybil office.
00:16:59Yes.
00:17:00Unfortunately for me...
00:17:03I don't understand.
00:17:05I enter and what do I see?
00:17:09A lady in her retirement age
00:17:11who has entered a trance
00:17:14and shouts out darkness around darkness
00:17:16and wants to tear something from her head,
00:17:19something invisible.
00:17:24Maybe she's crying.
00:17:28At that time I didn't know the whole truth.
00:17:32And, to be honest,
00:17:34this theatrical gesticulation
00:17:37made me laugh.
00:17:39I've seen such tricks of Jasnowice
00:17:41in my career.
00:17:43So I propose to you,
00:17:46I interrupt a session,
00:17:47and she falls.
00:17:48And nothing.
00:17:49Only from time to time
00:17:51she catches the air
00:17:52like a fish thrown out of the water.
00:17:54Yes, apparently she sank.
00:17:55No.
00:17:56Because I interrupted a session.
00:17:59At that time I didn't know
00:18:01that she really
00:18:02could enter a trance.
00:18:07After two hours she regained consciousness,
00:18:09so we could continue our journey.
00:18:13A journey to a gothic castle
00:18:15full of Jasnowice.
00:18:18That would be right.
00:18:20All traces of Sibyl were lost.
00:18:23Grandma was sure she was dead.
00:18:29And she
00:18:31became a Jasnowice of Himmler.
00:18:33My Lord, to sit
00:18:35in a great hall
00:18:36at one table
00:18:38with the Reichsfuhrer of the SS
00:18:40is the highest honor.
00:18:43To receive this honor
00:18:44it wasn't enough
00:18:45to receive recommendations
00:18:46of old merits
00:18:47or the purity of Aryan blood.
00:18:49In our eyes
00:18:50everyone had to go through
00:18:51a thorough phyto-test.
00:18:53What kind of tests?
00:18:55Sibyl was to point to a place
00:18:58where Lieutenant Peter Michalski
00:19:00is located.
00:19:02Dead or alive.
00:19:05She pointed to it?
00:19:07She pointed to the area
00:19:09that didn't yet belong to the Reich.
00:19:13It was clever.
00:19:18We didn't know what the truth was.
00:19:25Katyn.
00:19:32Leading Jasnowice
00:19:33is a mission
00:19:35full of traps
00:19:36and unexpected twists of events.
00:19:40Between Jasnowice
00:19:42and the leader
00:19:43a bond is formed.
00:19:45Especially dangerous
00:19:47when Jasnowice is a woman.
00:19:50And I led Sibyl
00:19:52for over a year.
00:19:54And then?
00:19:55Then, when all this
00:19:56could be verified
00:19:58just before the invasion of the Soviets
00:20:00we had to part.
00:20:02Why?
00:20:03In May 1941
00:20:05Rudolf Hess fled to England.
00:20:07After his escape
00:20:08bad times came.
00:20:11Some of Jasnowice's astrologers
00:20:13ended up in prison
00:20:14and concentration camps
00:20:16and others were exiled
00:20:18out of mercy.
00:20:19No one foretold this escape?
00:20:22Even Wilhelm Wulf
00:20:24Himmler's personal astrologer
00:20:27had a momentary blackout.
00:20:29The Reichsführer fell into a frenzy.
00:20:31Fortunately
00:20:33in a short time
00:20:34the media and Jasnowice
00:20:36were preserved.
00:20:37And we were caught
00:20:38by the bushes with our bags.
00:20:41I mean, it was time to part.
00:20:44I promised Sibyl
00:20:45that we would leave
00:20:46and that probably
00:20:48we would never meet again.
00:20:52It didn't make any impression on her.
00:20:55She took it as if
00:20:56it meant nothing to her.
00:20:58Air.
00:20:59After all, I saved her life.
00:21:03Only when I opened the door
00:21:07and held in my hand
00:21:08the photo of your grandfather
00:21:10Sibyl said
00:21:14you will be at his exhumation.
00:21:25Two years passed.
00:21:27Everything changed in my life.
00:21:29I moved to Berlin.
00:21:31I got married.
00:21:32My parents-in-law
00:21:33had a beautiful house
00:21:35so we moved in with my parents-in-law.
00:21:38And I started my career
00:21:39as an official in the Reichsführer.
00:21:42In the main office
00:21:43of the Reich Security.
00:21:44I was only an official.
00:21:46Nothing significant.
00:21:48Everyone says so.
00:21:51I wanted to break free from the bottom
00:21:53and swim to the surface.
00:21:56But it didn't work out.
00:21:57Still this leg.
00:22:01I'm sorry, Herr Obersturmfuhrer,
00:22:03but the limit of cripples
00:22:05in higher positions
00:22:07has already been exhausted by Dr. Goebbels.
00:22:10And when I lost hope
00:22:12in advance,
00:22:14Marianne,
00:22:15just like your wife,
00:22:16was pregnant in the sixth month.
00:22:19That's when it happened.
00:22:21What happened?
00:22:22Kerstin was in Marianne's belly
00:22:24all night long,
00:22:25digging so hard
00:22:26that it threatened
00:22:27to puncture the uterus.
00:22:29She was always so calm.
00:22:30And now,
00:22:31as if something had entered her,
00:22:33she led me out of balance.
00:22:35Maybe those steps...
00:22:36What steps?
00:22:37The room upstairs.
00:22:38It was Hans's room.
00:22:40He had returned from the Eastern Front.
00:22:44Then I wondered
00:22:46if what happened that night
00:22:48had anything to do with it.
00:22:52After midnight,
00:22:53the floor stopped creaking.
00:22:55Both fell asleep.
00:22:57I tried, too.
00:22:59But I couldn't sleep.
00:23:01I went out of the bedroom.
00:23:02I went into the kitchen.
00:23:04I set the kettle on fire
00:23:06and tore the card from the calendar.
00:23:10March 31, 1943.
00:23:15At the end of my life.
00:23:17I'll remember those dates
00:23:20and the starry night.
00:23:22Making coffee in the mill,
00:23:24I was drinking a big bear.
00:23:27When I heard behind my back
00:23:29that someone was quietly opening the door,
00:23:31it was Hans, my brother-in-law.
00:23:35Since his return from the Eastern Front,
00:23:39he hasn't left his rooms upstairs.
00:23:42He worked in the dark,
00:23:43so he didn't bother me.
00:23:45Hans was a military correspondent.
00:23:51He didn't bring any photos.
00:23:53From the Eastern Front?
00:23:55Not quite from the Front.
00:23:57What were in those photos?
00:24:00Hans arranged them so cleverly
00:24:03that there was nothing in the first ones.
00:24:08Just a dug-up land
00:24:10with something sticking out of it.
00:24:12And then?
00:24:13And then it got worse.
00:24:15With every photo, it got worse.
00:24:18The employees had to do a lot of work
00:24:22so that Hans could photograph it better.
00:24:28You still can't guess what it was?
00:24:33Fuck.
00:24:41I read an interview with a Russian guy
00:24:43who worked at the Exhumation.
00:24:45He lived nearby
00:24:46and apparently observed the execution from afar.
00:24:50And what did he see?
00:24:52There were so many Polish officers
00:24:54that the killer's gun overheated.
00:24:57So they had to soak the pistol barrels
00:25:00in cold water.
00:25:02What myths?
00:25:03In every myth, there's a bit of truth.
00:25:08My boy,
00:25:09a gun soaked in water would refuse obedience.
00:25:13They were professionals.
00:25:15Really?
00:25:16So a professional is someone
00:25:18who first puts a coat on his head,
00:25:21then ties a belt around his neck
00:25:23and only then shoots, right?
00:25:25Calm down.
00:25:27They put a coat on so as not to get dirty.
00:25:44What's going on with you?
00:25:47I'm sorry.
00:25:57Hans didn't know about it,
00:26:00but I was perfectly informed
00:26:03that the Polish government in London
00:26:05for two years,
00:26:06that is, since the Poles and Russians
00:26:08met in one of the Allied camps,
00:26:11has been demanding from the Soviets
00:26:13information on the fate of several thousand
00:26:16Polish officers
00:26:18who died in unexplained circumstances
00:26:22in 1939
00:26:23before joining the Polish Red Army.
00:26:29That's why, while looking at these photos,
00:26:31I couldn't control my excitement.
00:26:34Maybe my imagination was working here.
00:26:37But in terms of quantity,
00:26:38in terms of quantity, it was correct.
00:26:39Of course, to calculate exactly
00:26:41how many there were,
00:26:42five, ten,
00:26:43or maybe fifteen thousand,
00:26:46all the graves had to be excavated
00:26:49with the Polish intelligence
00:26:52to carry out a detailed inventory of the bodies.
00:26:58But then, at dawn,
00:27:01in the kitchen of my parents-in-law,
00:27:03I was sure
00:27:05that I was on the trail of the biggest murder
00:27:07committed on the prisoners of war
00:27:10of the New Jewish Civilization.
00:27:13I had a proof in my hand,
00:27:15an unrepeatable proof
00:27:18that one of the allied allies
00:27:22with premeditation
00:27:23had murdered half of the officer corps
00:27:26of the other ally.
00:27:28You were a very good knight.
00:27:31Do you know what that meant for us?
00:27:34Here is the good God
00:27:35whom Hitler did not believe.
00:27:38He gave us
00:27:41a wonderful propaganda material,
00:27:44a bomb that could explode
00:27:46in the assault of the allied forces.
00:27:48But we had to act carefully,
00:27:49very carefully.
00:27:51But von Ribbentrop and Goebbels
00:27:54never listened to us.
00:27:55They always knew everything better.
00:27:59That's why they decided to cut the iron while it was still hot.
00:28:06Instead of elaborating on the details
00:28:09of the mysterious strategy of the game,
00:28:11the Ministry of Propaganda
00:28:13carelessly put all the cards on the table
00:28:16in April
00:28:18and gave a radio broadcast
00:28:20in which all the details
00:28:22of the crime in Katyn were revealed.
00:28:28We were about to find out
00:28:30how big a mistake they had made.
00:28:35Tell me,
00:28:39what were they actually counting on?
00:28:42Maybe they were counting on the fact
00:28:44that the Russians would publicly confess to the murder
00:28:46and apologize to the Poles
00:28:48and ask for forgiveness.
00:28:50I think that was all they were counting on.
00:28:52The Allied forces were on fire
00:28:54so the Soviet Information Bureau
00:28:57on April 13
00:28:59calmly stated that the Polish prisoners of war
00:29:02had been taken into captivity.
00:29:05In 1939, they were employed
00:29:07to work in the West
00:29:09from Smolensk
00:29:10and when the German troops entered
00:29:13the fascist encirclement
00:29:15they were lost.
00:29:17They were lying to the world
00:29:19like dogs.
00:29:25But tell me,
00:29:28who in April 1943
00:29:31was more suitable to accuse
00:29:33of this heinous act
00:29:35than we Germans?
00:29:38This is what we gained
00:29:41through the zeal
00:29:43of von Ribbentrop
00:29:45and Goebbels.
00:29:49Instead of the bomb
00:29:51which the explosion was supposed to blow up
00:29:53the Allied camp was destroyed.
00:29:56Our strategy made
00:29:58that instead of the great Łubud
00:30:00there was a tiny little
00:30:03little bunch
00:30:07which
00:30:09not only didn't do anyone any harm
00:30:11but it also turned out
00:30:13that the wind had changed direction
00:30:15and we Germans were smothered
00:30:17right in the face.
00:30:21It was only now that they began
00:30:23to think what to do with this phantom.
00:30:25Now.
00:30:27When did they come to the conclusion
00:30:30that the innocent
00:30:32must prove
00:30:34their innocence?
00:30:36Innocent?
00:30:38Laugh at yourself
00:30:40when you get punished.
00:30:42To this day.
00:30:44In April 1943
00:30:49all the evidences of Russia's guilt
00:30:51were still
00:30:53in our hands.
00:30:57Those at the top said
00:30:59that we should call
00:31:01an international commission
00:31:03of states, including Germany
00:31:05consisting of
00:31:07outstanding scientists
00:31:09representatives of the court medicine
00:31:11and send them to Katyn.
00:31:16The activities of the international authorities
00:31:18could bear fruit
00:31:23at the earliest
00:31:25in a few weeks
00:31:27if not months.
00:31:29And
00:31:31the commission
00:31:33that was established after Russia's declaration
00:31:35should have acted immediately.
00:31:37But how?
00:31:39In the Ministry of Foreign Affairs
00:31:41in the Ministry of Propaganda
00:31:43and in ours
00:31:45everyone was racing in ideas
00:31:47worked non-stop
00:31:49for 24 hours a day
00:31:53because it was a chance
00:31:55a great chance
00:31:57that opened up before us
00:31:59everyone was wearing
00:32:01a marshal's hat
00:32:05and the hat
00:32:07was an idea
00:32:09a great idea
00:32:11a small feather
00:32:13that could decide
00:32:15the fate of the war
00:32:17If we had won the war
00:32:19maybe there would have been no Coca-Cola
00:32:27Disasters also have
00:32:29their good sides
00:32:47The photos brought by Hans
00:32:49have shown
00:32:51that I had
00:32:53an advantage over the others
00:32:55an advantage of a few days
00:32:57a few sleepless nights
00:32:59thousands of golden thoughts
00:33:01wonderful solutions
00:33:03everything ended up
00:33:05in a trash bin
00:33:07the time of life's trial
00:33:09has come
00:33:11and I can't propose
00:33:13anything sensible
00:33:15Suddenly
00:33:17our interview
00:33:19got a copy of a telegram
00:33:21which General Anders
00:33:23sent to General Sikorski
00:33:25Anders, after revealing
00:33:29the crimes in Katyn
00:33:31was afraid of the fate of Poles
00:33:33in Russia
00:33:35and asked General Sikorski
00:33:37for an immediate explanation
00:33:39of a known case
00:33:41I read the telegram
00:33:43What was in the letter?
00:33:45A few words, a proposition
00:33:47What proposition?
00:33:49I proposed that Himmler
00:33:51personally invite to Katyn
00:33:53the head of the Polish government in London
00:33:55and representatives of the highest powers of the Alliance
00:33:57To finally explain
00:33:59who really committed the murder
00:34:01It would be too beautiful
00:34:03I knew the Alliance would refuse to come
00:34:05Why?
00:34:07For the good of the Coalition
00:34:09But Sikorski
00:34:11is a traitor
00:34:13And despite opposing the Alliance
00:34:15he would take advantage of the invitation
00:34:17And he will fall into a trap
00:34:19I didn't expect the Alliance
00:34:21to exclude the Soviets from the Coalition
00:34:23but the Poles
00:34:25It was likely
00:34:29I didn't receive
00:34:31any answer from Himmler's office
00:34:35In a few days I found out
00:34:37that the Polish government
00:34:39was behind closed doors
00:34:43What do you think?
00:34:45What could they be doing?
00:34:51The next question was
00:34:55To whom would the Poles
00:34:57turn to
00:34:59with a request
00:35:01for an explanation
00:35:03of the crime in Katyn
00:35:05When I was in Katyn
00:35:07I couldn't sit at my desk
00:35:11I walked around the room
00:35:13like a lion locked in a cage
00:35:17Instead of wonderful thoughts
00:35:19I was consumed by desire
00:35:21I couldn't control it
00:35:23My head was completely empty
00:35:25And I only drank
00:35:27and drank
00:35:29Nerves were the only organ
00:35:31in which
00:35:33my brain functioned
00:35:35properly around 5 or 6
00:35:37In the morning
00:35:39I walked up to the window
00:35:41A spring breeze was blowing
00:35:45just above the roofs of the capital
00:35:47of the German Empire
00:35:49Cold clouds were shining
00:35:51soaked with tons of water
00:35:57With great difficulty
00:35:59they were passing just above the roofs of the churches
00:36:03I saw
00:36:07an identical aura
00:36:09and the same arrangement of clouds
00:36:11but where?
00:36:15Finally I remembered
00:36:17Kraków
00:36:21Kwiecień from three years ago
00:36:23Sibilla
00:36:25And you went
00:36:27to Wewelsburg
00:36:29It was my last rescue
00:36:31I was there for several hours
00:36:37As usual, it was silent
00:36:41And I stared at it
00:36:43as if hypnotized
00:36:45For three years
00:36:47the bud
00:36:49turned into a flower
00:36:55About a beautiful beauty
00:36:57It was simply unthinkable
00:36:59that beauty
00:37:01could hide a mysterious power
00:37:03And yet
00:37:07it looked me straight in the eye
00:37:09as if
00:37:13it was reaching
00:37:15for a crayon
00:37:17and on a white sheet
00:37:19which lay in front of it
00:37:21it was drawing
00:37:29How would my fate have turned out
00:37:31if not for this visit
00:37:33and the sign of the cross on the card
00:37:35One step
00:37:37and your whole life changes
00:37:39It all depends on
00:37:41whether you turn left or right
00:37:43or you do nothing
00:37:45you make no choice
00:37:47and you stay in your place
00:37:49or you leave
00:37:51and you leave
00:37:53and you leave
00:37:55and you leave
00:37:57and you stay in your place
00:37:59And for someone like me
00:38:03it was a curse
00:38:05I was still dreaming of a great career
00:38:07and I was ready to sell
00:38:09the soul of the devil
00:38:15And I sold it
00:38:17But then
00:38:19then
00:38:23after returning to Berlin
00:38:25from the euphoria
00:38:27in Himmler's office
00:38:29the light was on
00:38:31I came into my room
00:38:33and grabbed my earpiece
00:38:35I couldn't control
00:38:37my trembling hands
00:38:39they were trembling so much
00:38:41that the earpiece fell out
00:38:43and hit the desk
00:38:45and broke
00:38:47I thought it was a bad omen
00:38:49but still I dialed the number
00:38:51of Himmler's office
00:38:53in the whole room
00:38:55The secretary who
00:38:57picked up the earpiece
00:38:59probably heard it too
00:39:03I introduced myself
00:39:05and asked for an audience
00:39:07What was the case?
00:39:09Katyn
00:39:13Reichsführer SS
00:39:15was sitting
00:39:17with his huge desk
00:39:19and in the light of the lamp
00:39:21he was studying some documents
00:39:23and I was crouching
00:39:25on a chair
00:39:27behind a small table
00:39:29waiting with a beating heart
00:39:31until he allowed me to speak
00:39:33It was all beyond my power
00:39:35If I could, I would get up
00:39:37and run away
00:39:39where the hell I was
00:39:41But now it was
00:39:43impossible
00:39:45I've never sweated in my life
00:39:47and here suddenly
00:39:49I could literally squeeze
00:39:51my nerves out of my shirt
00:39:53You know what I was most afraid of?
00:39:55I would never
00:39:57compromise
00:39:59And I was sure
00:40:01that this disgusting
00:40:03stench of sweat
00:40:05despite the distance
00:40:07between us
00:40:09had already reached
00:40:11the Reichsführer SS's nose
00:40:13In my imagination
00:40:15I saw Himmler's face
00:40:17and I heard a short
00:40:19shudder
00:40:21Preach!
00:40:23How can you treat
00:40:25someone who is dying
00:40:27like a sweaty rat?
00:40:31Sikorski's idea is good
00:40:35I suddenly heard
00:40:37that Ribbentrop had some objections
00:40:39to foreign policy
00:40:43In London, behind closed doors
00:40:45the Polish government
00:40:47and every hour
00:40:49we had to wait
00:40:51for Ribbentrop's decision
00:40:53The hearing was over
00:40:57I got up
00:40:59and while standing
00:41:01I became helpless
00:41:05They were talking about
00:41:07who to turn to
00:41:09in the matter of Katyn
00:41:11to turn to Russia
00:41:13The whole thing exploded
00:41:19From 1941
00:41:23Sikorski sent to Russia
00:41:25in the matter of Katyn
00:41:27about 200 notes
00:41:29to which only yesterday
00:41:31he received an answer
00:41:33I went to the exit
00:41:35and forgot my flask
00:41:37So in your opinion
00:41:39will it be the English
00:41:41or the Americans?
00:41:45It will be someone neutral
00:41:49He pretended that the document
00:41:51he was reading
00:41:53was more important
00:41:55than our conversation
00:41:57Who asked?
00:41:59I waited
00:42:01The Red Cross
00:42:03The Red Cross
00:42:09And he finished reading
00:42:11and honored me
00:42:13with his look
00:42:15His cold eyes
00:42:17lit up like a basilisk
00:42:19It was a decisive moment
00:42:25The Poles will turn to the Red Cross
00:42:27to call a commission
00:42:29in the matter of Katyn
00:42:33It didn't bother him at all
00:42:35in his flasks
00:42:37Take off your blindfold
00:42:39and open the drawer
00:42:41What do you suggest?
00:42:43The government of the Reich
00:42:45should turn to the Red Cross
00:42:51with a similar request
00:42:55He took out the flasks
00:42:57and checked their purity
00:42:59in the light of the lamp
00:43:01What if the Poles don't turn up?
00:43:05They will
00:43:07and they will make a big mistake
00:43:09A mistake?
00:43:11Because if both requests
00:43:13the Polish and the German
00:43:15affect the headquarters of the Red Cross
00:43:17at the same time
00:43:19the Soviets will be able to assume
00:43:21that there was a secret agreement
00:43:23between the Poles and the Germans
00:43:25It's me
00:43:29Is it your idea
00:43:31or did one of my spies
00:43:33lose his courage?
00:43:35Mine! I whispered
00:43:39He could easily
00:43:41check
00:43:45that it was Sibylla
00:43:47Sit down
00:43:55When I sat down
00:43:57I realised
00:43:59that for almost all the time
00:44:01I'd been standing in front of Himmler
00:44:03on guard, without flasks
00:44:05It was beyond my strength
00:44:11I was afraid I'd lose consciousness
00:44:13As I heard through the fog
00:44:15the telephone conversation
00:44:17and the content of the conversation
00:44:19I knew
00:44:21who was the inventor
00:44:25But what did it matter?
00:44:27Was it my idea
00:44:29or Himmler's
00:44:31or Sibylla's?
00:44:33It was important
00:44:35that Joachim von Ribbentrop
00:44:37gave us his blessing
00:44:39and we received it
00:44:43When Himmler put down the flask
00:44:45my fate was sealed
00:44:49Everything was in the hands
00:44:51of the Poles
00:44:55On the 17th of April
00:44:57the representative
00:44:59of the Polish Red Cross
00:45:01went to the headquarters
00:45:03of the International Red Cross
00:45:05in Geneva
00:45:07and made a request
00:45:09to carry out
00:45:11an investigation
00:45:13into Katyn
00:45:15To his amazement
00:45:17he heard that
00:45:19just a moment ago
00:45:21literally
00:45:23the same representative
00:45:25of the government of the German Reich
00:45:29For the observer from the outside
00:45:31it looked like a cooperation
00:45:33between Poland and Germany
00:45:35The Soviets
00:45:37were apparently just waiting
00:45:39because the next day
00:45:41the Journal of Truth was on the front page
00:45:43Poles
00:45:45cooperating with Hitler
00:45:47On the 26th of April
00:45:49the Soviet government
00:45:51severed relations
00:45:53with the Polish government
00:45:55in London
00:45:57and I celebrated
00:45:59my great triumph
00:46:01and I wanted to share
00:46:03this triumph
00:46:05with Sibylla
00:46:11And that's how it started
00:46:17Sibylla
00:46:47How old do you think this spruce is?
00:46:49I don't know
00:46:51Seven!
00:46:53Spruces grow very slowly
00:46:55Our commission and the one
00:46:57established by the International Red Cross
00:46:59easily found collective graves in Katyn
00:47:01Small spruce and pine trees
00:47:03indicated them
00:47:05Their age was an indisputable proof
00:47:07that the crime
00:47:09was committed by the Russians
00:47:11in the spring of 1940
00:47:13and not, as they claimed
00:47:15later, by you, the Germans
00:47:17Exactly
00:47:19Have you been to Katyn?
00:47:21What do you think?
00:47:23Who could have been
00:47:25the most credible witness
00:47:27for Churchill and Roosevelt
00:47:29in the Katyn case?
00:47:31I don't know
00:47:33And it seemed to me
00:47:35that the English and American troops
00:47:37in our prisoners' camps
00:47:39taking part in the trip to Katyn
00:47:41could easily see
00:47:43what the Russians were doing
00:47:45with the war prisoners
00:47:47Regret that you haven't seen
00:47:49the faces of those officers
00:47:51who were identified by me
00:47:53Was it your idea?
00:47:55I was in the limelight then
00:47:57but
00:47:59I stopped laughing
00:48:01For my merits
00:48:03I was chosen
00:48:05as the head of the expedition
00:48:07When did you set off?
00:48:09In May
00:48:13In the middle of a warm May
00:48:27At first, there were flies
00:48:29It was Fort Pochta
00:48:31and then the odour
00:48:33The odour of the spreading nettles
00:48:35was unbearable
00:48:37When we reached the open roads
00:48:39Fortunately, we were forewarned
00:48:41The German preventive measures
00:48:43prevented us from having breakfast
00:48:45We were on a diet
00:48:47We could only drink
00:48:49The English and the Americans
00:48:51could go anywhere
00:48:53and see where they wanted
00:48:55They were not ashamed of anything
00:48:57My task was discreet
00:48:59eavesdropping
00:49:01They didn't know
00:49:03that I knew English well
00:49:05Until now, I have used
00:49:07the translator's services
00:49:09who was taken prisoner
00:49:11in North Africa
00:49:13in August
00:49:15to stand next to the English
00:49:17in the rank of a captain
00:49:19It's all a provocation, James
00:49:23They only extract those
00:49:25who were previously
00:49:27accused of being Russians
00:49:29He was unlucky
00:49:31I just heard it
00:49:33If you have any doubts, colonel
00:49:35then please
00:49:37point out which of the bodies
00:49:39from any grave
00:49:41He was so surprised
00:49:43by my knowledge of English
00:49:45that he agreed to my proposal
00:49:47And we went along the open graves
00:49:49where thousands of bodies
00:49:51were resting
00:49:53Too many
00:49:55to put all of them
00:49:57in the evidence of Russia's guilt
00:49:59Exactly
00:50:01Finally, the colonel stopped
00:50:03and pointed out the body
00:50:05which was visible from the basements
00:50:07In a short time
00:50:09the body was taken out
00:50:11and placed on the table
00:50:15The officer's head was strapped
00:50:17with a cloak
00:50:19and around his neck
00:50:21was tied with a rope
00:50:23The rope was flowing down
00:50:25and on his back
00:50:27he was twisting his hands
00:50:29He was ordered to cut the rope
00:50:31and carefully take off the cloak
00:50:33I cut it
00:50:39He was shot in the back of the head
00:50:41The bullet made a hole
00:50:435-6 cm in diameter
00:50:47However, it didn't completely
00:50:49destroy the scratch on his face
00:50:53The family of the deceased
00:50:55could easily identify him
00:50:57if he was present with us
00:50:59The uniform of a Pole
00:51:01was in perfect condition
00:51:03well cut, well sewn
00:51:05The cloak was covered
00:51:07with something warm
00:51:09A baton
00:51:11A knife opened
00:51:13the sealed pockets
00:51:15and the objects
00:51:17found in them were found
00:51:19A ticket to the cinema, a letter from Poland
00:51:21a fragment of a Russian newspaper
00:51:23and a diary
00:51:25They gave it to me
00:51:27I gave it to the colonel
00:51:29He didn't know Polish
00:51:31but the dates were important
00:51:33When the colonel gave me the diary
00:51:35I knew
00:51:37that he had the final knowledge
00:51:39about who had committed this crime
00:51:41The last note was written
00:51:43on the 10th of April, 1940
00:51:47On the day of my grandmother's visit
00:51:49at Sibyl's, at my grandfather's
00:51:51When Sibyl was in a trance
00:51:53your grandfather was still alive
00:51:55It was 7 a.m.
00:51:57It had to be just before the execution
00:52:01The body was abducted
00:52:03Dr. Orsos' whistle
00:52:05was muffled by a machine
00:52:07to write on
00:52:09A swarm of flies was flying
00:52:11Someone whispered to my ear
00:52:13Watch out for the flies
00:52:15They can carry corpses and poison
00:52:17and he gave me a military booklet
00:52:19of the killed officer
00:52:21I opened it
00:52:25105th Lieutenant
00:52:27Unit 34th Infantry Regiment
00:52:31Name, Piotr
00:52:33Surname
00:52:35Mielecki
00:52:47The ground was spinning under my feet
00:52:51I heard Sibyl's voice
00:52:53You'll be at his exhumation
00:52:55I studied all the numbers
00:52:57of the new courier from Warsaw
00:52:59and I didn't find my grandfather's name
00:53:01Sir, the exhumation you mentioned
00:53:03was too spectacular
00:53:05to be omitted
00:53:07I told them to keep it a secret
00:53:09You're lying
00:53:11Sibyl was more important to me
00:53:13than your grandfather
00:53:15She was threatened to leave for Buchenwald
00:53:17and the memorandum was proof
00:53:19that the prophecy had come true
00:53:21What's this?
00:53:23Here
00:53:25Do you always carry it with you, just in case?
00:53:27Do you think I'm a lunatic?
00:53:29Sir, the items found
00:53:31by the officers murdered in Katyn
00:53:33were so poisonous
00:53:35that they had to be covered
00:53:37with a triple glass in the Katyn Museum
00:53:39The items, yes, but the paper was stinking
00:53:41You're not a lunatic
00:53:43You're a pathetic swindler
00:53:51I'm not a lunatic
00:54:11What was the colonel's name?
00:54:13What colonel?
00:54:15The American colonel you took to Katyn
00:54:17Do you remember his name?
00:54:19Van Fleet
00:54:21Colonel Van Fleet
00:54:23in May 1945
00:54:25submitted a report
00:54:27to the State Department
00:54:29about the trip to Katyn
00:54:31He described the exhumation in it
00:54:33but he didn't mention
00:54:35the name of the exhumed officer
00:54:37So you have to go to America
00:54:39to explain the whole thing
00:54:41and find the 100-year-old old man
00:54:43Exactly
00:54:45The 82-year-old
00:54:47Womach's daughter
00:54:51How do you know that?
00:54:53Were you with him?
00:54:55What did he tell you?
00:54:57Everything
00:54:59Everything?
00:55:03So our meeting
00:55:05is the result of your investigation
00:55:09How many years did it take you to investigate?
00:55:13A year, maybe two, five?
00:55:15A whole adult life
00:55:19So you were there
00:55:21as a martyr
00:55:25No witnesses around the forest
00:55:29Colonel Van Fleet
00:55:31doesn't remember the name
00:55:33of the German officer
00:55:35who led the expedition to Katyn
00:55:39He doesn't remember the name
00:55:41He didn't know him at all
00:55:43You can accuse me, my boy
00:55:45of many things
00:55:47but certainly not that I'm an amateur
00:55:51He also doesn't remember the name
00:55:53of the exhumed Pole
00:55:55So much effort
00:55:57for nothing
00:55:59You're about to leave, son
00:56:09After the meeting with Van Fleet
00:56:11I thought to myself
00:56:13I have to go forward
00:56:15and not look behind me
00:56:17The past
00:56:19And that's the reason
00:56:21you want to become a German?
00:56:23I had to run away
00:56:25not to go crazy
00:56:27Do you know
00:56:29that they still meet?
00:56:31Who meets?
00:56:33Widows
00:56:35In every bigger Polish city
00:56:37widows of the exhumed
00:56:39I was 14
00:56:41when at one of such meetings
00:56:43I found out
00:56:45why the NKVD allowed
00:56:47prisoners Kozielska, Starobierska
00:56:49and Ostaszkowa to correspond
00:56:51Do you know why?
00:56:53It was about the family address
00:56:57The Polish prisoners,
00:56:59fascinated by the humanitarianism of the Russians
00:57:01wrote to their mothers, wives and children
00:57:03They wrote
00:57:05because they didn't know
00:57:07if they could stay in Siberia
00:57:09or Kazakhstan
00:57:11Now
00:57:15Now
00:57:17when I thought
00:57:19I had it all behind me
00:57:21that I was free from it
00:57:23once and for all
00:57:25Such a coincidence
00:57:29It's not a coincidence
00:57:31son
00:57:33What is it then? A destiny?
00:57:35Maybe Sibilla foretold it, didn't she?
00:57:49If the exhumation of Piotr Michalski
00:57:51really took place
00:57:53then my grandfather's documents
00:57:55should be in the boxes
00:57:59Maybe they were there
00:58:01What do you know about the boxes?
00:58:05Everything
00:58:07When the Soviet offensive
00:58:09was approaching Katyn
00:58:11materials obtained during the exhumation
00:58:13which could be irrefutable evidence
00:58:15of the Russians' guilt
00:58:17were placed in the boxes
00:58:19and taken to the General Governorate
00:58:21Where were they placed?
00:58:23In Krakow, at the Institute of Judicial Medicine
00:58:25How many boxes were there?
00:58:27Nine, each locked
00:58:29plus a small box
00:58:31containing twenty-two original
00:58:33These were simply
00:58:35priceless evidence for us
00:58:37We knew that after our departure
00:58:39the Russians would dig up the graves
00:58:41and prepare
00:58:43irrefutable evidence of guilt
00:58:45against the Germans
00:58:47I looked through the signatures
00:58:49of all the monuments
00:58:51and I didn't find Piotr Michalski's
00:58:53Some of the monuments
00:58:55the Poles were unable to sign
00:58:57The Russians were approaching Krakow
00:58:59They had to flee
00:59:01Not my boys
00:59:03They only signed the ones
00:59:05I wanted to be signed
00:59:07In total, there were twenty-two monuments
00:59:09and twenty-two were signed
00:59:11Each in four copies
00:59:13Fifteen signatures were in London
00:59:15Five were found in Poland
00:59:17and two were lost
00:59:19What happened to the originals?
00:59:21Unfortunately, they were lost
00:59:23Lost?
00:59:25Apart from twenty-two monuments
00:59:27there were seventeen
00:59:29There were seventeen
00:59:31in a separate box
00:59:33available only to me
00:59:35What could you possibly need it for?
00:59:37It was excellent material
00:59:39for testing the clairvoyance
00:59:43Was there a monument
00:59:45of my grandfather among them?
00:59:47Go on
00:59:49What about the boxes?
00:59:51The doctor
00:59:53Dr. Beck
00:59:55packed the boxes
00:59:57for our order
00:59:59The head of the police in Krakow
01:00:01wanted to destroy the boxes
01:00:05Fortunately, Beck didn't carry out the order
01:00:07Beck took them to Wroclaw
01:00:09and put them together in the
01:00:11Institute of Judicial Medicine
01:00:13On the way, in the vicinity of Katowice
01:00:15he had a car accident
01:00:17That's right
01:00:19He broke his leg
01:00:21The bones were put together
01:00:23and he had to break them again
01:00:25Then he had to break them again
01:00:27all through those bloody legs
01:00:31When the Russians surrounded Wroclaw
01:00:33the boxes were taken out of the city
01:00:35When was that?
01:00:37February 1945
01:00:39Bullshit!
01:00:41Karl Hermann, the truck driver,
01:00:43confessed that in February 1945
01:00:45he had taken the boxes to the Wroclaw train station
01:00:47Complete bullshit
01:00:49After repacking
01:00:51fourteen of the nine boxes were made
01:00:53He left the city
01:00:55By train
01:00:57There were indeed fourteen boxes
01:00:59But by train
01:01:01No one knows better than me
01:01:03how it really was
01:01:05I was there
01:01:07You were in Wroclaw?
01:01:09When the boxes were taken out?
01:01:13March 1945
01:01:17Everything was already known
01:01:19The last Octagons, the Third Reich
01:01:21Goebbels and Himmler believed
01:01:23that those documents from Katowice
01:01:25were of some importance
01:01:27to anyone
01:01:29except the Poles
01:01:31and decided to hand them over to the Americans
01:01:33as proof of innocence in this case
01:01:37Because that's how it is
01:01:41Every criminal
01:01:43even the greatest
01:01:45when he's accused
01:01:47of something unfulfilled
01:01:49will do everything in his power
01:01:51to prove
01:01:53that in this one and only case
01:01:55he's innocent
01:01:57He will fight to the last breath
01:01:59to cross out the crime
01:02:01of another
01:02:03from his record
01:02:05The fact that it's only another crime
01:02:07you owe the Wehrmacht
01:02:11In the autumn of 1939
01:02:13in Zakopane
01:02:15there was a secret meeting of the SS and the NKVD
01:02:17At this meeting
01:02:19the fate of the Polish prisoners of war was decided
01:02:21The Russians in Katyn
01:02:23kept their word
01:02:25and you failed
01:02:27only because the Wehrmacht opposed it
01:02:33Beck really had complications
01:02:35after breaking his leg
01:02:37He was still wearing a cast
01:02:39The Russians were approaching Wroclaw
01:02:41and the boxes had to be taken out
01:02:43Someone had to keep an eye on it
01:02:45It fell on me
01:02:47I didn't want to leave
01:02:51In July
01:02:53of 1943
01:02:55Marianna gave birth to a daughter
01:02:57I became a father
01:02:59We gave her the name Kerstin
01:03:01after my mother
01:03:03Golden curly curls
01:03:05blue eyes
01:03:07and cheeks
01:03:09when she was smiling
01:03:11Before leaving for the airport
01:03:13Marianna was holding her hand
01:03:15The car was moving
01:03:17I waved to say goodbye
01:03:23It was March 14
01:03:271945
01:03:29I saw her for the last time
01:03:35We landed in the burning Wroclaw
01:03:37The city was turned into a fortress
01:03:39Surrounded by the Russians
01:03:41It was dark
01:03:43so we set off the same day
01:03:47We set off into hell
01:03:49How did it happen
01:03:51that we reached the area of Dresden?
01:03:55The Russians were bombing everything
01:03:57and we were still moving forward
01:03:59and forward
01:04:01as if someone up there
01:04:03had decided that we were untouchable
01:04:07When death rages around
01:04:09and you remain alive
01:04:13you begin to believe in God
01:04:17And then I thought
01:04:19that only He
01:04:21cares
01:04:23for the world to know the truth
01:04:27and for these materials to survive
01:04:29Maybe it was His merit
01:04:33Whose?
01:04:35We reached Radeboil
01:04:39Between Dresden and Miśnia
01:04:41We couldn't go any further
01:04:43Our clothes were so soaked
01:04:45with the blood and poison
01:04:47flowing from the chest
01:04:49that we burned them
01:04:51and put on new ones
01:04:53but the sweater didn't stay on
01:04:55it was in my hair
01:04:57I had to go to the hairdresser
01:04:59and get a haircut
01:05:01In Radeboil
01:05:04The United States
01:05:06which was in the German camp
01:05:08John Van Fleet
01:05:10Did you let him escape?
01:05:12We weren't such great altruists
01:05:14one for another
01:05:18The point was
01:05:20for the Americans to take over the chests
01:05:24But the Americans
01:05:26didn't want these chests
01:05:30On the 25th of April
01:05:32we found ourselves in a trap
01:05:35In the vicinity of Torgau
01:05:37the American troops
01:05:39met the Russians
01:05:41and we were hidden in Radeboil
01:05:43We were waiting for a miracle
01:05:46The next day the Russians showed up
01:05:49What happened to the chests?
01:05:51I ordered them to be put together
01:05:53at the railway station
01:05:55at Speditor
01:05:57Dr. Beck claims that he put them there
01:05:59Previously they were in the garden
01:06:01in Beck's house in Radeboil
01:06:03and from there they were taken to the railway station
01:06:05Exactly
01:06:07Because of Fetor
01:06:09which you are talking about
01:06:11I waited until the last moment
01:06:13when the battle for the city was lost
01:06:17I ordered Speditor to set fire to the chests
01:06:21In 1952
01:06:23Beck confessed that it was his instruction
01:06:25and that's why Speditor set fire to the chests
01:06:27What did you do?
01:06:29I stood there and watched
01:06:33the whole course of my brilliant career
01:06:37My mission was
01:06:39over
01:06:41Did everything burn down?
01:06:43Only the Russians
01:06:45conquered the city
01:06:47Immediately the NKVD
01:06:49arrived at the station
01:06:51and the search began
01:06:53but their only trophy
01:06:56How did the Russians know
01:06:58that the chests were at the station?
01:07:00Good question
01:07:04The NKVD arrested Speditor
01:07:06under the charge of chests
01:07:08Was he shot?
01:07:10I don't remember
01:07:12I think so
01:07:14No, sir
01:07:16He was taken to Russia with his family
01:07:18You have never been to Radeboil
01:07:20Everything you are telling me here
01:07:22about the journey from Wrocław
01:07:24is based on your imagination
01:07:26and facts read in the history textbook
01:07:29At the Radeboil station
01:07:32when Speditor set fire to the chests
01:07:36the fire made
01:07:38the leadership
01:07:40shout first about the Third Reich
01:07:42and then about me
01:07:44that I will survive the war
01:07:46and after the war I will change my name
01:07:48And you changed it
01:07:50I did
01:07:53Everything is correct
01:07:55The chests
01:07:57the chests are your penance
01:08:02And the fact
01:08:04that I will show up here
01:08:06was also foreseen
01:08:09I managed to escape from Radeboil by miracle
01:08:12to find out
01:08:14about Marianna's death
01:08:16and Kerstin
01:08:18I was supposed to burn my head
01:08:21I couldn't
01:08:23And what happened to Sybil?
01:08:32I stayed alive
01:08:34and I started to fear
01:08:36Who were you afraid of?
01:08:38I was in the Russian occupation zone
01:08:40I had the impression that they were following me
01:08:42Who was following you?
01:08:44In front of the tribunal in Nuremberg
01:08:46the Russians accused the government
01:08:48of the Third Reich
01:08:50of the massacre in Katyn
01:08:52You know this from the history textbook
01:08:54but about the fact
01:08:56that I was a very uncomfortable
01:08:58and dangerous witness
01:09:00for the Russians
01:09:02because I had a chest
01:09:04with 17 memorabilia
01:09:06This is not written
01:09:08in any history textbook
01:09:10You stubbornly claim
01:09:12that these memorabilia did exist
01:09:14There were those who helped me
01:09:16to find myself in Schleswig-Holstein
01:09:18in the occupation zone
01:09:20by the Americans
01:09:22I started to work
01:09:24at the old Bruckner
01:09:26my mother's cousin
01:09:28He had the largest garden company in the area
01:09:30His sons perished in the war
01:09:32Someone had to help him
01:09:34And that's how I discovered
01:09:36my true calling
01:09:38I became a gardener
01:09:40And on the cypress plantation
01:09:42you're going to buy
01:09:44the crowns
01:09:46as Sibylla foretold
01:09:48Look
01:09:50It's not that difficult
01:09:52You take two twigs
01:09:54and a wire
01:09:56and you pull them off
01:09:58and you wrap them around
01:10:00and again
01:10:02and again
01:10:04and again
01:10:06and again
01:10:08and again
01:10:10two twigs
01:10:12and a wire
01:10:14and you pull them off
01:10:16and you wrap them around
01:10:18There was never a chest with memorabilia
01:10:22and two twigs
01:10:24and a wire
01:10:26and you pull them off
01:10:28and you wrap them around
01:10:32and again
01:10:34two twigs
01:10:36and a wire
01:10:38and you pull them off
01:10:42and you wrap them around
01:10:44On the 3rd of November
01:10:46we walk
01:10:48coldly
01:10:50wet
01:10:52mud
01:10:54we pass the ruins
01:10:56we enter the forest
01:10:58It turns out that it's Kozielsk
01:11:00The old estate of cousins
01:11:02and two twigs
01:11:04two twigs
01:11:06and a wire
01:11:08and you pull them off
01:11:10and you wrap them around
01:11:14Numerous houses and villas
01:11:16Nature
01:11:18is wonderful here
01:11:20A woman welcomes me
01:11:22The staff here
01:11:24is kind and nice
01:11:26two twigs
01:11:28and a wire
01:11:30and you pull them off
01:11:32and you wrap them around
01:11:36On the 14th of November
01:11:38Good morning my dear wife
01:11:40and my son
01:11:42How did you sleep?
01:11:44Not very well
01:11:46It's raining
01:11:48For breakfast
01:11:50soup with porridge
01:11:52For dinner
01:11:54porridge and herring
01:11:56and two twigs
01:11:58and a wire
01:12:00and you wrap them
01:12:02around
01:12:06On the 30th of November
01:12:08cloudy
01:12:10the underwear dries
01:12:12and I have no other choice
01:12:14I had a bad dream
01:12:16My dearest Zosia
01:12:18I beg you
01:12:20take care of our son
01:12:22and two twigs
01:12:24and a wire
01:12:26and you pull them off
01:12:28and you wrap them around
01:12:30On the 12th of December
01:12:32we had a spiritual seance
01:12:36The Spirit said
01:12:38I will leave Kozielsk
01:12:40on the 19th of December
01:12:42to the camp in Modlin
01:12:44From Modlin
01:12:46they will let us out
01:12:48on the 27th of December
01:12:50and on the 29th of December
01:12:52I will meet you
01:12:54and Adas
01:12:56and a wire
01:13:00and you pull it off
01:13:02and you wrap it around
01:13:04On the 10th of February
01:13:061940
01:13:08the letter finally came
01:13:10I read it
01:13:12and I read it
01:13:14I put it down
01:13:16and I read it again
01:13:18How wonderful it was
01:13:20that it came on the 4th anniversary
01:13:22of our son's birthday
01:13:24and a wire
01:13:26and you pull it off
01:13:28On the 3rd of April
01:13:30they started to take it out
01:13:32and you wrap it around
01:13:34On the 5th of April
01:13:36they take it out again
01:13:38and two twigs
01:13:40and a wire
01:13:42and you pull it off
01:13:44On the 7th of April
01:13:46there are fewer of us
01:13:48and you wrap it around
01:13:50Around
01:13:52my car came
01:13:54I left Kozielsk
01:13:56at 4.15
01:14:00This is at 4.15
01:14:02of our time
01:14:04On the 10th of April
01:14:06I woke up
01:14:08at 5 in the morning
01:14:10We were transported by cars
01:14:12to the forest
01:14:14Here is a detailed review
01:14:16At 8.14
01:14:18they took away
01:14:20the main belt
01:14:22the coat of arms
01:14:26the watch
01:14:28My dear
01:14:30Poland will not die
01:14:32It will be
01:14:34as we imagined
01:14:38and two twigs
01:14:40and a wire
01:14:42and you pull it off
01:14:44and you wrap it around
01:14:48Around
01:14:50my car came
01:14:52I left Kozielsk
01:14:54at 4.15
01:14:56of our time
01:14:58On the 10th of April
01:15:00they took it out
01:15:02and you wrap it around
01:15:04Around
01:15:06my car came
01:15:08I left Kozielsk
01:15:10at 4.15
01:15:12of our time
01:15:14On the 11th of April
01:15:16they took it out
01:15:18and you wrap it around
01:15:20Around
01:15:22my car came
01:15:24I left Kozielsk
01:15:26at 4.15
01:15:28of our time
01:15:30On the 11th of April
01:15:32they took it out
01:15:34and you wrap it around
01:15:36Around
01:15:38my car came
01:15:40I left Kozielsk
01:15:42at 4.15
01:15:44of our time