to wrestle with her conscience. As the war comes to an end she narrowly escapes rape at the hands of brutal Russian soldiers and is enlisted as a nurse in a Soviet field hospital.

Greta (played by Katharina Schüttler) wants to succeed as a singer by whatever means. She starts a love affair with a high ranking SS officer, named Dorn (played by Mark Washke), who promotes her career, but when she becomes a threat for his own marriage, he organizes a road show for her close to the front line. By chance she manages to return to Berlin, where she openly expresses her doubts in the Endsieg and angers Dorn by revealing their affair to his wife, acts which lead to her arrest and imprisonment for Wehrkraftzersetzung (subversionof the war effort), and she is executed. See the video and read the article of Greta singing, ‘Mein kleines Herz’

Viktor (played by Ludwid Trepte) is Greta’s secret lover and because of his Jewish background both of them live in constant fear of being accused of Rassenschande (“racial shame”, “racial defilement”, or “racial pollution”). Attempting to help him escape deportation, Greta manipulates the Gestapo officer, Dorn, into giving him a passport to the USA, but Dorn double-crosses him and on the day for his departure he is arrested by Gestapo and send to a concentration camp. On the way there he escapes from the train, along with a Polish woman named Alina, and joins a group of Polish Armia Krajowa partisans. During his time with the partisans he