The entire first half of the film leads up to the Night of the Long Knives . The liquidation of the SA leadership , old enemies and the shooting of Ernst Röhm then transpire . During this time , Karl is arrested and sent to Dachau Concentration Camp . Using his connections within the SS , Helmut gets Karl freed but Heydrich cautions that Karl had better behave himself or else Helmut would find himself " running short of friends . " The next five years preceding World War II are treated hurriedly . The film pays homage to Kristallnacht only in a brief scene , and then the film skips to Helmut personally being involved with the selection of prisoners to murder for the Gleiwitz incident . During the war itself , the film portrays Helmut becoming involved in the paperwork of the Holocaust . Karl meanwhile becomes an anti-Nazi , is drafted in the '' Wehrmacht '' , and becomes an officer on the Eastern Front
Kristallnacht
Kristallnacht
Hitler's SS: Portrait in Evil