MOTHER NIGHT
"Police"
"Haifa, Israel 1961"
Do you prefer German or English?
English.
You are to write down your memoirs
for the documentation
You have three weeks to complete
Do you have any questions?
No. This is great.
"Jews, Negroes...
You are the only man I know who has
Who is this?
Bernard Liebman.
I have guard duty
Oh. I see.
Everyone else on either side...
is convinced he couldn't have acted
How do you know I have
The way you talk
I can tell something
What do you imagine
All I heard were
"Helga" was one.
"Hoess" was the other one.
I knew Hoess.
He had no trouble sleeping.
Slept like a baby
You know this?
I guess so.
I helped hang him.
- With your testimony?
With my hands.
Did that give you
My job was to strap his ankles.
I did a very good job.
I see.
Afterwards, I packed my bags
The catch on my suitcase
so I buckled it shut
Twice, within one hour...
I did the very same job.
Once to Hoess...
once to my suitcase.
Both jobs felt about the same.
Yeah.
I, Howard W. Campbell, Jr.,
a Nazi by reputation...
and a nationless person
I am awaiting a fair trial for
I was born in Schenectady, New York,
My father was raised
the son of a Baptist minister.
He was a service engineer
Because of his work...
most of his reading consisted
There were a few
Howard!
In 1919, when General Electric
we left Schenectady
By 1938...
I had become a successful
and I had married
for the Haifa Institute...
of war criminals.
your memoirs before your trial begins.
Thanks for everything.
Mongrel"
a bad conscience about the war.
from 2:00 till 10:00.
in any other way.
a bad conscience?
in your sleep.
is troubling you.
is troubling me, Bernard Liebman?
a couple of names.
right up to the end.
- No.
lots of satisfaction?
to go home.
was broken...
with a big leather strap.
am an American by birth...
by inclination.
my war crimes by the state of Israel.
on February 16, 1904.
in Tennessee...
for General Electric.
of tradejournals and technical books.
notable exceptions.
relocated my father...
and moved to Berlin, Germany.
playwright in the German language...
the young, beautiful...