Address Unknown (1944)

Carl Esmond: Baron von Friesche

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• Baron von Friesche : Does he know the conditions he doesn't like? I find that hard to understand. I myself would hesitate to form conclusions without firsthand evidence. You must set him right. I suppose it isn't easy for a foreigner to understand the agonies our people have suffered since the Treaty of Versailles. What years of less and less bread, of leaner bodies, of the end of hope...

  [pauses to offer Herr Schulz a cigarette] 

  Martin Schulz : [accepting a cigarette]  Oh, thank you.

  Baron von Friesche : The quicksand of despair held us. Then just before we died, a man came and pulled us out.

  Baron von Friesche : [turning to Herr Professor]  You are a native of Munich, Herr Professor?

  Professor Schmidt : Well, uh...

  Baron von Friesche : You have *witnessed* this deliverance.

  Professor Schmidt : If it *is* a deliverance...

  Baron von Friesche : [turning to Herr Schulz]  You know, there's a surge, my friend. A surge. Our whole despair has been thrown aside like a forgotten coat. No longer do we wrap ourselves in shame.

  Baron von Friesche : [turning to Herr Professor]  What can be wrong about a man who affects people so?

  Professor Schmidt : When people are hungry, they don't care *what* kind of a man it is who gives them bread.

• Baron von Friesche : You're going to have to choose, Herr Schulz. You can't sit on two stools at once... at least not here, in Germany.

  Martin Schulz : I understand.