Fanatic

It's late April 1945, the General and all the troops have fled. Ilsa Krug, a Wehrmachthelferinnen, sees the other women have left and only she and Heide Hoppe remain. Ilsa leaves Heidi to burn papers as Ilda retrieves more boxes of documents. Lotte Besse, the General's mistress, arrives asking about the General. Ilsa tells her, the General left with his wife. Lotte uses the phone in the General's office and Ilse retrieves another box of papers. Ilsa returns and finds Heidi looking out the window. Heidi suggests they hang up a white sheet. Ilsa refuses, concerned the Americans might consider it a false surrender. Ilsa and Heidi are burning papers as they hear tracked vehicle. Heidi tells Ilsa she's leaving. Ilsa refuses Heidi's suggestion she leave with her. Ilsa grabs the last box of papers and takes it to the fireplace. Staff Sergeant O'Reilly bursts in. They make eye contact. Ilsa heaves the box into the fireplace. O'Reilly shoves her, sending her tumbling to the ground. He orders Private Joe Russo to watch Ilsa and O'Reilly retrieves the box from the fireplace and uses his jacket to stop the box from burning. Lotte is escorted into the room. The soldiers celebrate finding a cache of souvenirs in the General's office. 2nd Lieutenant Grumm ends the festivities. He enters and scolds Ilsa because O'Reilly almost got burned. Lotte claims the General told her they would leave for Switzerland together. The next morning an artillery barrage wakes Ilsa and Lotte. As the battle nears the building Lotte tried to join the battle with a handgun hidden in her boa. Ilda and Lotte scuffle and Ilsa tosses the gun through the window. This draws gunfire and the women rush to the cellar. Lotte admits she was sent to spy on the General and report if he planned to desert or surrender. The gun was for her protection. The next day the battle is over, and Americans find them in the basement. At Ilsa's suggestion the women are put on a fire brigade. That night they return to the room. Lotte starts a fire in the fireplace and Ilsa uses the boxes to replace the broken windows. An MP Captain comes in and searches Lotte's boa. The next day Ilsa is interrogated by a 2nd Lieutenant. He shows her atrocity pictures. Ilsa asks to be excused, goes to a bathroom and cries. She refuses to cooperate with the 2nd Lieutenant. After the war a Major questions her. She is honest and cooperative. The Major offers her a job. THE END