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Judge:Did you not realize - that you were sending these women to their deaths?Hanna Schmitz:Yes, but they were new arrivals, new women were arriving all the time. So, the old ones had to make room for the new ones.Judge:I'm not sure you understand.Hanna Schmitz:We couldn't keep everyone. There wasn't room.Judge:No. But what I'm saying - let me rephrase: To make room, you were picking women out and saying, "You, you and you have to be sent back to be killed."Hanna Schmitz:Well, what would you have done?Hanna Schmitz:Should I never have signed up at Siemens?
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Did you not realize
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that you were sending these women to their deaths
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But they were new arrivals new women were arriving all the time
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So the old ones had to make room for the new ones
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I'm not sure you understand We couldn't keep everyone
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There wasn't room No
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But what I'm saying
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Let me rephrase
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To make room you were picking women out and saying
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You you and you have to be sent back to be killed
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Well what would you have done
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Should I never have signed up at Siemens
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Movie Summary
The story of Michael Berg, a German lawyer who, as a teenager in the late 1950s, had an affair with an older woman, Hanna, who then disappeared only to resurface years later as one of the defendants in a war crimes trial stemming from her actions as a concentration camp guard late in the war. He alone realizes that Hanna is illiterate and may be concealing that fact at the expense of her freedom.