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The contends of spoken word in following motion picture does not match with the opinions of the actors, the director or any other collaborator of this film production. All collaborators renounce national socialism and any thoughts connected to it.
After Austria's infiltration by the German Reich, the members of the Nationl Socialist German Worker's Party began to systematically discriminate, dispossess and subsequently destroy all jews and their family, as well as other minorities like the mentally disabled, homosexuals and also catholic priests.
Stefan Adler, a well-known, generous livestock-merchant, living in a small village within the mountains of Tyrol also joined this movement in believe of the one and only German unity, oblivious of the fact that his father was a jewish migrant.
As the truth about Adler's ancestors came to light, his wife Maria claimed to the mayor and the village's group leader that she had cheated on her husband, so that their children Hans and Anna would be saved from the burden of jewish origin.
Feeling left and betrayed by all his fellow people, Stefan Adler now waits alone at home...
Now they'll take me straightaway. - No, I've managed that, for a big price, because you couldn't control your temper.
But, you were the one provocing him all the time. - That was just appropriate.
Say...what price?
I'll be his wife.
Well, what else can I do?
Have you really been in bed with this ***?
Yes, I was...
...but, to get things straight, he's not Hansi father. That's chronologically impossible. He just can't remember right when it was. Thank god.
And that guy from the railroads?
No, that was nothing. He's just an old school friend, a socialst. Likes playing pranks on the nazis.
But that needs to remain between the three of us.
You especially mustn't tell Hansi, he should better believe Sepp to be his father. This way you are at least both save.
Thoroughbred aryans.
What a humiliation! What a humiliation!
It's just that I really want to marry Erich. (note: Erich is the mayor's son)
Really? Is it true?
Yes, it's true indeed.
Get out of my eyes, son! I never want to see you again. Never ever! Go to your stupid group leader. You two fit together quite well!
You should flee, Stefan.
Of course. Anything else you want?
Stefan, believe me. Rough times are coming for you.
Be quiet! I don't want to hear about it no more.
Stefan, I'm begging you.
I told you to shut the *** up!
Come in.
You mustn't go mad again because otherwise I'll have bring the police officer.
There are a few things that need to be done and there's no point fighting against.
It would just make things worse.
Do you have me in there?
Yes, kind of.
Some orders have been sent.
Obviously, I didn't take them into account for I thought our village was jew-free.
It was sent by the department of aryanization.
Following orders.
Property of 5000 Reichsmark are to be registert by the Reich's ministry of asset.
Concession of trade and business are confiscation
Real estate is confiscated as well.
Don't do anything silly now. I have to do this. It's an order.
You want to take my money?!
My house?!
My business?
Well...what else can I do?
Come on, Stefan! You can't fight against the whole world?!
So? You think I can't? Well, wait and see!
And even when I'll have to bite the dusk. I'm still gonna shoot some of you.
I won't let my existence be destroyed, just because my ancestors were circumcised.
I'm still the same person, right?! Stefan Adler, long-established livestock merchant.
I won't let myself being lead like a lamb to the slaughter that easily!
Why so many hard feelings?
There are other ways.
Sit!
Well, that's a few years past now, when you folks weren't in power.
Which is to say: You obviously already were in power, because you are always in power.
You always pick your side thoughtfully, don't you?
Just watch your language.
Don't insult me because...because...
...I can do things much worse than confiscation your property.
I sure believe that.
It's just that you won't do any such thing. You will leave me be like a good boy.
But I can't
We'll see.
Okay, so I'll start telling the story once more.
A few years ago, when you were still black. A pitch black mayor. (Note: "black" refers to the colour of the Austrian People's Party)
It happened to be that one night the police came to arrest your son.
They also wanted to arrest mine but...oh, right, I forgot, it's not mine anymore
Whatsoever. So they wanted to arrest my semi-son, but he managed to beat it.
Someone had betrayed them.
But who? The whole village was asking itself. Who was that son of a ***?
Well, who do you think?
How should I know?
Ow, sure, you don't know.
I ain't got the time for this trash-talk. Come to my office tomorrow where you will learn everyting else you need to know.
It was you!
You were the traitor!
Say, are you out of your mind?
I've heard it.
You understand?! I've heard it. I was there at this one night. First you betrayed Hans, then your own son. You cowardly ***!
What!? So your the one who betrayed Erich! That can't be! It just can't be!
They already knew everything.
Yeah, that's possible
Maybe they did know something. But you told it all. You said their names. You handed them the rucksack filled with guns.
What a meanness. This has to come to light. It's impossible. How can somebody who betrayed nazis be a nazi mayor.
Yeah, that's right. This should come to light. Then they'll kill our dear mayor before they kill me.
And, what do you expect Erich to think about this, eh?!
Will he say: "Thank you, father, for getting me into jail"
Eh, what?!
Please. I'm begging you.
Don't worry. We'll make a deal.
It's very simple. You leave me be and I keep my mouth shut.
How should that work. I'm not alone. There's still the villages group leader.
Leave him to me!
But if already phoned the gouverneur.
I've called him at home, I've talked to him personally.
I do everything, Stefan, really everything, but just what is still within my possibilities.
The confiscating can't be stopped, Stefan. It's already being carried out.
You have to sign it all over to Hans.
Sure! Anything else you want?!
This SS-*** won't get anything. Not a single Groschen. To fatten his new father with my money, or what?
And if I give it to you, it's the same.
And if I give it to Anna, than it'll go directly to this guy.
But why?
Because you're marring his son.
Come on. Don't you think I could get your property much more easily?
The confiscated property is likely to be given to members of the party for a cheap price.
Get lost now. I have to think about it. You'll hear from me.
See you!
I say it again, Stefan. Flee!
I'm sure you would like that.
What do I do in Palestina?
What do I do in Switzerland?
What do I do in America?
This here is my home.
It's a beautiful country.
I...I don't know anything like it.
Say, don't you get it?! Mama is sacrificing herself for you by marrying this horrible person. If you would leave town, she wouldn't have to.
Who knows.
Maybe that's not such a big sacrifice after all.
Go away! You don't belong with me anymore.
What's up?! Go to your nazi-fiancé?!
You've also been a nazi. Don't you ever forget that!
The holy bible and Goethe's Faust.
What did I say...back then...five years ago?
An united German nation. My father must have believed in that too. Otherwise he wouldn't have appreciated those two books that much.
Through black-mailing the mayor Adler was spared by the nazis for some time, until he was, a few years later, arrested by the same policemen, who once arrested Hans and Erich, son of the mayor, for commiting national socialist crimes. He subsequently was deported into the concentration camp Mauthausen.
Hans accepted the villages group leader as his new father. He became a dedicated nazi and was positioned at Mauthausen. As he met his father there, agonizingly working himself to death at the quarry, he shot him out of pity and afterwards himself.
Adler's daughter Anna married Erich, but soon afterwards he was shot in the second world war, leaving her behind with a child.
One evening, a few months after the war had ended, as the men of the villaged had come together in the tavern, the mayor spoke out a toast on the village, which had got through the rough times through solidarity, where nobody was to be accused for anything, because nobody could forsee that Hitler meant the holocaust so seriously.
He furthermore stated that he had done everything to keep Adler from the worst. After the National Socialist Germans People's Party was brought to fall, he again joined the Austrian People's Party�