EVA

AND THE

WARLORD

 

AN ORIGINAL SCRIPT

 

By

 

FRANK W. LAMBERTON

 

e-Book 2002

 

www.mittymax.com

 

Copyright 2002

 

 

 

 

 

EVA AND THE WAR LORD

By

FRANK W. LAMBERTON

 

A Play Script for Television or Cinema

 

CHARACTERS:  With Speaking Parts

 

Eva Braun                              Mistress of Adolph Hitler

Adolph Hitler                          Chancellor of Germany

Lala Anderson                        Swedish singer and actress

Heidi Braun                            Eva’s sister

Eva’s mother

Wesley Olson                          US Air Corps Aerial gunner

US Airman                              Singing Airman

Daphne Dollson                     Wesley’s English girl friend

Mrs. Dollson                           Daphne’s Mother

Colonel Randall                      Adjutant 8th Air Corp Bomber Command

Libert Speer                            German Chief of Armament Production

Joseph Goebells                     Nazi Chief of Propaganda

Frau Goebbells                       Wife of Joseph Goebells

Helen Goebells                          13 year old daughter of Joseph Goebells

Herr Zollicoffer                     Theatrical Producer

Emil Jannings                         German Actor

August Benninghoven             German Actor

 

German Catholic Priest

General Jodi

Major Bethke

German Officer                      Informing Hitler of the Invasion

 

 

Non Speaking Characters

 

American Airmen of the 8th Air Corps

Various German Soldiers, Attendants, and Hospital Patients

EVA AND THE WAR LORD

By

FRANK W. LAMBERTON

SCENE ONE

Day Exterior

Establishing scene:

 

A quiet, suburban residential street.,

Superimposed title: Berlin 1943

 

Three limousines draw up at the street curb. Two Waffen SS men get out of the

lead vehicle and take position on each side of’ the front door of a house near

where the vehicles have stopped. Then Adolph Hitler steps out of the second

limousine and walks to the front door. One of the guards hammers on the door.

 

Cut to Interior of the house. Front room:

Two young women: Eva and Heidi Braun. Heidi is 20 and Eva is 26. They hear a loud knocking on the front door.

 

Eva

             That must be Adolph now, No one but one of his men would knock so imperiously. Go out the back door.

 

Heidi

              I want to Se him. I’ve never seen him up close. Then I’ll go.

 

Eva

                       Go answer the door. Take a good look at him, and then go. Don’t                   forget to curtsey.

 

              Heidi goes to the door, and opens it. An SS officer walks in, and takes a position by the door. Hitler walks in, and ignores Heidi who shrinks back and gazes at him in awe.

 

Eva

              Adolph my love, welcome to my house.

 

   Hitler walks to her while Heidi steps back. Hitler kisses Eva lightly, on the

   cheek.

 

Hitler

              I can only stay for thirty minutes. Then it’s back to business.

 

Eva

              I should count myself lucky I suppose, to get a half hour of your time. Who gets the other half hour?

 

              Hitler looks around, appraising the room:

 

Hitler

              You live well. You told me you have your mother here with you.

 

Eva

              Yes, and this is my sister, Heidi.

 

              Heidi gives him a low curtsey:

 

Hitler

              I think the salute would be more appropriate.

 

Heidi

               Sorry, mein Fuehrer. (She thrusts her right arm into the air)

 

Hitler turns to the SS officer:

 

Hitler

              Hauptman, wait for me outside. (To: Heidi) Are you married?

 

Heidi

 

              No Sir. My betrothed works in an airplane factory.

 

Hitler

              Marry him and have children. It’s the duty of all German women.

 

Heidi

              May I be excused, sir?

 

              Hitler nods. Heidi exits with the SS officer. Hitler turns to Eva:

 

Hitler, in relaxed tone:

              This is the first time I’ve come to visit you. Always you have come to     where I am, and that’s as it should be, of course. But there are always distractions, and interruptions. Here we may have a quiet talk.

He sits down in an easy chair:

 

Eva

              At Berchesgarten I had you to myself now rid then. So, I treasure the memory of that time.

 

Hitler

              Ah--Berchesgarten, high in the German Alps. Great mountains, endless scopes of scenery, and the war far away. I needed that.

 

Eva

              When may we do it again?

 

Hitler

              You may as well ask when will we take Moscow. You should have stayed up there, Eva. I wanted you to, but no, you needed the city. Hmpt!

 

Eva

              May I get you a drink? A beer, perhaps?

 

Hitler

              No drinks. Sit down beside me. (She sits on the arm of his easy chair) At this point we are not winning the war. We're not losing, but this latest set-back is a hard blow!

 

Eva

              Do you mean the reversals in Tunisia?

 

Hitler

              Reversals? There’s a word that I never want to hear again. What do you know about those reversals?  Our defeat in Tunisia has not been reported in the newspapers or on the radio broadcasts. Doctor Goebbels is very careful about telling the public more than they need to know.

Eva

              Rumors and whispers——it’ s very difficult to keep such things      quiet. How bad is it, Darling? Is the Afrika Korps realty surrounded, and trapped by the British, and the Americans?

 

Hitler

              Yes, and I don’t want to hear anything more. I came here not to discuss the war.

 

Eve

              I find war talk to be both depressing and over­whelming. Even when we were capturing France I didn't listen very often to the broadcasts. I just say wake me when it’s over. To go to sleep and wake up in the sunlight of smiling peace.

 

Hitler

              But first we must go through the fire--to make us strong for the duties of governing half of the world. And we shall have it. Perhaps it will take longer than I had planned on, but nothing can stop Germany on the march. Nothing, I tell you--not the degenerate misled armies of’ the West, nor the Russian Bolsheviks. Nothing...

 

Eva

              Do you remember that I was performing in a musical revue at the Odeon Theater before I went to Berch­esgarten with you?

 

Hitler

              Afrika Korps has been driven into a trap in Tunisia. They are surrounded on three sides by the British, and the American army. The sea is behind them, so there is no retreat for them.

 

Eva

              I didn’t know. I’ve heard nothing but hints about it in the newspapers.

 

Hitler

                        No amount of sweetening or evasions can hide the hard facts for very long. I can’t evacuate the Afrika Korps by ship. For one, the British Navy controls that area of the Mediterranean along with the Amer­ican Navy. They dominate the sky, too. I don’t have enough ships to takeoff thirty thousand troops. So I lose the Afrika Corps. I write them off just as I wrote off the army at Stalingrad. Now we withdraw to shorter lines within the inside perimeter of Europe. And there will be no more surrendering, Eva. No more surrender. I will have the head of any general who surrenders instead of fighting to the death!

 

Eva

              Adolph, you really should leave the war outside when you come to visit with me. You can’t win the war all by yourself, you know. So let me tell you of my plans --not such tremendous plans as yours, but important to me.

 

Hitler

              So what are you up to, and are you asking my permission to do whatever it is?

 

Eva

              Of course; just like we were married.

 

 

Hitler

              Please. No talk of marriage. I have no time for it with the     war taking all of my time and attention.

 

Eva

              Darling, the producer-owner of the Odeon Theater promises me a lead

              role in his next musical comedy-- just like I had last year. You remember? I played the lead role in Hello Fraulien! The show lasted for