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5. The Verdict
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Back in Frankfurt, Eva discovers that her father has had a heart attack and is in hospital. When Mulka is finally convicted of having known about the gas chambers after presenting new evidence, Eva's mother Edith Bruhns is called as a defense witness. Eva learns that her parents denounced the defendant Mulka in 1943 for making statements hostile to the state. Eva quits her job, breaks off contact with her parents, and moves out of the family home. The sentences are pronounced and are shockingly lenient. Eva travels to Kraków to see a Jewish hairdresser from Auschwitz who she remembers from her childhood. She asks for forgiveness, but he refuses to absolve her of her guilt. Matured, Eva returns to Frankfurt and applies to be an interpreter in the follow-up trial.
4. The Site
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Eva and Jürgen are engaged, but Eva is struggling to come to terms with her parents’ past. Jürgen sees Eva’s distress and asks the prosecutor’s office to release her from her duties. Eva is furious and breaks off their engagement. A delegation from the court travels to Auschwitz to get a firsthand impression of the circumstances. Visiting the camp has a profound impact on everyone involved. In the guesthouse that evening, David Miller is provoked into a fight. He confesses to Eva and Kübler that he lied about his family’s past. Eva does not want him to be alone that night and stays with him. The next day, David has vanished, but the members of the delegation must take their flight back to Germany.
3. The Father
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Eva’s parents, Edith and Ludwig, deny knowing the Mulkas. The defendant Wilhelm Boger tells his family that it may take some time before he is released from prison. Diana visits her Italian lover and reveals to her mother that she is pregnant, while Eva questions her parents about the Mulkas. Jürgen and Eva try to spend time together as a couple, but Jürgen is unable to have sex with Eva. In the family living room, Eva discovers a child’s drawing that looks very similar to the barracks at Auschwitz. In search of the truth, Eva looks for her father’s name in the file listing the officers who served at Auschwitz. She finds it and confronts her parents and her sister about having lived at Auschwitz.
2. Rachel Cohen
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Eva takes the oath in court and nervously starts to interpret. Jürgen doesn’t support her decision to take the job but nevertheless introduces Eva to his father and stepmother. In court, a Jewish woman named Rachel Cohen identifies one of the defendants as the officer in charge of “selection” on the camp’s arrival platform. She also confronts the defendants who claim to have known nothing about the gas chambers. After giving her statement, she leaves the courthouse in an agitated state. On the street, she is hit by a car and seriously injured. Eva witnesses the whole thing. That evening, still in a state of shock, Eva helps her parents in the restaurant. All of a sudden, the lead defendant Mulka appears. He seems to know Eva’s mother and spits on the ground in front of her. But why?
1. The Engagement
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It is December 1963 and Eva introduces her family to her boyfriend Jürgen. During the meal, Eva is called by her boss with a last-minute request to work as a Polish-German interpreter for a trial. Later, she translates the statement of an elderly Polish man detailing how hundreds of people were gassed to death in 1941. The account shakes her to the core. At the Christmas market, Eva helps an elderly Polish woman and discovers that she, too, is in the city to testify in the trial against SS officers. On the first day of the trial, Eva hears the charges and for the first time learns about Auschwitz and the atrocities committed there. Jürgen is waiting for her at home, having asked her father for her hand in marriage. Eva tells Jürgen and her family that she intends to interpret at the trial.
