Die rote Kapelle Page #3

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I understand them and they understand me.

I can be very useful for both camps.

The Soviet Union suggested that the group in Berlin

use radios...

... but things just did not work.

Hans Coppi took the radio

to Fritz and Hannelore Thiel ...

... who hid the radio in their home.

These actions

to send messages ...

... they were real acts of resistance

here in Berlin.

As were pasting posters, and distributing leaflets

on the Eastern Front...

.. and helping persecuted people

My father helped many people

to get away from Germany.

To America, where he had contacts.

I heard from my sister that she met

with Cato and another friend...

... on a part of the S-bahn ...

along which the French prisoners

of war were transported

Any contact with foreigners

was totally opposed my most people

It was prohibited in all cases.

We found that nonsense.

It started with notes on paper

where they tried to say ..

... what they needed most.

Every day I went from

Witzleben to Westkreuz.

I waited near a tunnel, where

the French came

Then I joined in that group, gathered notes

and disappeared.

It was a kind of adventure.

But there was also human warmth.

The French were happy and I was happy too.

In the spring of 1942 they had

a large anti-Soviet Exhibition in Berlin...

... under the title: The Soviet Paradise.

They're back:
the Huns,

fast becoming a nightmare

A fist in our face

At this exhibition the Red Orchestra

wanted to do something.

For example, they made small posters with slogans like:

The Nazi paradise: War, hunger,

lies, Gestapo - How much longer?

They went in pairs, usually

a man and a woman...

... Who then pretended to be a couple in love

while the girls stuck the posters.

In the background stood

Harro Schulze-Boysen, watching the action.

In uniform, with a gun.

He covered them, so nothing happened to them.

He looked like the perfect German officer:

Slim, a head like a greyhound,

his eyes...

But he was extremely intelligent.

That did not fit the image.

He wanted people to

realize that there were war crimes...

... and that

human rights were being violated.

These Jews were agitating against the Wehrmacht

When the German attack on Moscow

was repulsed...

... they began to make and distribute pamphlets

Schulze-Boysen took photographs, which was very dangerous...

... And foreign newspapers,

Swiss and Spanish...

... told us how the war was going.

That gave us courage.

The broadsheet AGIS

(named after a Spartan King)

... was written and distributed by

the group in the winter of '41-'42

That was a very sharp,

critical text about the Nazis.

In the name of the State

atrocities against...

civilians and prisoners are made

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