Fatherland

Xavier March: Let me tell you a story about a clockmaker. He was over a hundred years old. Wrinkled face, his hair was white as snow. He'd worked all his life, hunched over clocks like this. So, he was a hunchback. People thought he was ugly, people of the village, and they used to call him names. So, he lived on top of the mountain with all his clocks. And he worked day and night. While he was working all the time, he didn't notice that the hunch on his back started to grow. Bigger and bigger. And one day, when he went out for a walk, his nose almost touched the ground. That's how big it was. And that same night he was working, working away with little clocks, and they suddenly stopped ticking and he looked up. And he saw, in the mirror, two little feathers coming out of his coat and he started growing. And he looked in the mirror and he saw that he had these two big wings. And all the clocks starting singing. And he opened the window, looked at the stars, and flew up in the sky. Pili

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Charlie Maguire: They killed all the Jews. Xavier March: No, we didn't. We resettled them. We gave them their own piece of land. [offered some pictures] Maguire: Xavi, look at these. March: These are forgeries. Maguire: Forgeries? March: They must be. Maguire: So, Luther, Stuckart, and Buhler...they were killed for forgeries? March: Do you want this to be true? Do you think it's a good story? Maguire: It is true. [pause; points to pictures] LOOK AT THEM! [softer voice] You agreed to follow my lead wherever it took us. It's brought us here. We can't go back. March: [stands] My God.. Maguire: You knew... March: I was at sea during the war. Maguire: What does "necessity of removing the biological basis for Judaism once and for all" mean? What's "Final Solution" mean? March: I don't know. Maguire: [pores over papers] It's a rail timetable, one train a day, 60 persons per car, 60 cars per train...that's 25,000 people a week. What happened at Auschwitz and Belsen? March: I can't believe this

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