A Time to Love and a Time to Die Page #3

His eyeballs are frozen.

He was a class mate of mine.

They're thawing now.

The milkman Binding's boy.

He offered to do anything he could

to help me find my parents.

What was I supposed to say? No?

It's Lieutenant Reike, sir.

Not only that, Elisabeth.

He kept asking what else he can do.

Bury him in the church courtyard.

Make a cross.

I thought if I handle him right l...

Yes, sir.

I might be able to find out something

about your father.

Send his personal belongings home.

That should be easy for him.

All he has to do is ask the Gestapo.

Four captured guerrillas

have been sent here to be shot.

Or maybe he's one of them.

I'll need volunteers.

All I know is he's the person I've seen

since coming home who's willing to help.

Very well, sir.

Volunteers! Step forward.

Murderers are never murderers

24 hours a day.

(Wind whistles)

(Coughs)

Some adore their mothers,

some cry when their dogs are dying.

But it's enough when they are murderers

for one minute a day.

I volunteer, sir.

At least for the people who are

in their hands at the time.

Choose the others. You're in command,

we have no officers left.

What happened to you, Ernst?

Are you blind?

Or don't you want to see?

All right, the rest

of the firing squad detail.

It's nearly as dangerous to talk to you

as it is to walk through a minefield.

Immerman! Sauer! Hirschland!

Weiber! Gr?ber!

Now, this came from Binding.

Shall we call it loot from the enemy?

(Explosions

and rumble of collapsing buildings)

Or shall I pour it down the sink?

We'll drink it.

I must have a corkscrew some place,

but where?

I'll show you how we do it in the Army.

That's one way to avoid a hangover

I guess!

Make the grave bigger, Grandpa,

she'd like to be comfortable.

You should laugh more often.

Or does it only happen when

a bottle of brandy is smashed?

I thought I was smelling brandy,

but it isn't, it's lilac.

I think they loathe us.

We're soldiers. Why should we be

called on to shoot civilians?

But it can't be,

it's too early in the year.

Let's go for a walk, Elisabeth.

Oh, you can always say no.

Get shot yourself instead.

It must be spring somewhere.

No one knows for sure

that they are guerrillas...

Not our worry. We didn't sentence it,

so we're not to blame.

I know just the place.

We can get a drink and sit a while.

That's the excuse for everything we do.

Or have you been out all day?

No matter how rotten it is

we can always blame it on...

I've been sitting behind a machine

in a sticky room with 50 other women.

Line up!

We make Army overcoats.

The Labour Service asked me what

I could do, I said, "l play the piano."

So they put you to work

as a seamstress?

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