History Film / RosenFuerDenStaatsanwalt

* ForWantOfANail: Schramm's "It's not about the chocolate!" rhetoric. As a matter of fact, it's about 'the integrity of the Reich's fighting forces and the defense of the homeland'.

--> '''Schramm''': Mr President... if there were any doubts about my democratic ethos... it would be totally laughable. *JumpCut to people laughing as Rudi shows them his death warrant*.

Years later, Rudi is trying to make a living as a rather debt-ridden flying merchant and peddler in post-war Germany. Schramm on the other hand, has not only risen to the head of of rather affluent family, but has been promoted to become a head prosecutor at a Federal German court, leaving his Nazi past in the shadows. As luck would have it, the two men just happen to meet again during a street sale...

''Rosen für den Staatsanwalt'', or ''Roses For The Prosecutor'' for Americans, is a 1959 German BlackComedy. It's set in post-war Germany, during a period where former Nazi party members and collaborators that managed to bypass "denazification" were [[KarmaHoudini reinstated as civil servants]] in the young [[UsefulNotes/WestGermany German Federal Republic]].

It's a story about the Wehrmacht soldier Rudi Kleinschmidt, who is condemnded to death in the last days of [=WW2=] by the [[HangingJudge fanatical military prosecutor]] Wilhelm Schramm for buying two tins of chocolate from black marketeers. However, Kleinschmidt manages to escape the firing squad with his own death warrant in hand, already signed by the prosecutor.

-->--'''Military Justice Wilhelm Schramm''', [[TemptingFate a couple of days before the end of]] [[UsefulNotes/WorldWar2 the war]].

* BasedOnATrueStory & HilariousInHindsight: Scandals like these happened all the time (particularly one that involved the headmaster [[http://archive.jta.org/article/1958/04/15/3054752/jews-in-germany-do-not-see-zind-case-as-a-revival-of-antisemitism Ludwig Zind]], on which this story was based), until well into the 1980s, not least due to the strong solidarity among high-ranking ex-Nazis and the simply startling amount of people who were in one way or another Nazi perpetrators and avoided punishment by the allied forces in the late 1940s. Many people also fled Germany and got sentenced in absentia, just like that friend Schramm helped to flee the country for antisemitic remarks.

''Rosen für den Staatsanwalt'', or ''Roses For The Prosecutor'' for Americans, is a 1959 German BlackComedy. It's set in post-war Germany, during a period where former Nazi party members and collaborators that managed to bypass "denazification" were reinstated as civil servants in the young [[UsefulNotes/WestGermany German Federal Republic]].

''Rosen für den Staatsanwalt'', or ''Roses For The Prosecutor'' for Americans, is a 1959 German BlackComedy. It's set in post-war Germany, during a period where former Nazi party members and collaborators who managed to bypass "denazification" were reinstated as civil servants in the young [[UsefulNotes/WestGermany German Federal Republic]].

* BasedOnATrueStory & HilariousInHindsight: Scandals like these happened all the time (particularly one that involved the headmaster[[http://archive.jta.org/article/1958/04/15/3054752/jews-in-germany-do-not-see-zind-case-as-a-revival-of-antisemitism Ludwig Zind]], on which this story was based), until well into the 1980s, not least due to the strong solidarity among high-ranking ex-Nazis and the simply startling amount of people who were in one way or another Nazi perpetrators and avoided punishment by the allied forces in the late 1940s. Many people also fled Germany and got sentenced in absentia, just like that friend Schramm helped to flee the country for antisemitic remarks.

--> '''Commissar:''' Mr. Kleinschmidt, you are an intelligent man, right? You know you are never supposed to apply logical thought when dealing with government agencies. You'll only stir up trouble that way.

* BasedOnATrueStory & HilariousInHindsight: Scandals like these happened all the time (particularly one that involved the headbteacher [[http://archive.jta.org/article/1958/04/15/3054752/jews-in-germany-do-not-see-zind-case-as-a-revival-of-antisemitism Ludwig Zind]], on which this story was based), until well into the 1980s, not least due to the strong solidarity among high-ranking ex-Nazis and the simply startling amount of people who were in one way or another Nazi perpetrators and avoided punishment by the allied forces in the late 1940s. Many people also fled Germany and got sentenced in absentia, just like that friend Schramm helped to flee the country for antisemitic remarks.

The film can be viewed in its entity [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1tR1ol2Negw here]], in German and without subtitles. For a bigger recap, look [[Recap/RosenFuerDenStaatsanwalt here]].

Years later, Rudi is trying to make a living as a rather debt-ridden flying merchant and a peddler in post-war Germany. Schramm on the other hand, has not only risen to the head of of rather affluent family, but has been promoted to become a head prosecutor at a Federal German court, leaving his Nazi past in the shadows. As luck would have it, the two men just happen to meet again during a street sale...

It's a story about the Wehrmacht soldier Rudi Kleinschmidt, who is condemnded to death in the last days of [=WW2=] by the [[HangingJudge fanatical military prosecutor]] Wilhelm Schramm for buying two tins of chocolate from black marketeers. However, Kleinschmidt manages to escape the firing squad with his own death warrant in hand, already signed by the judge.

It's a story about the Wehrmacht soldier Rudi Kleinschmidt, who is sentenced to death in the last days of [=WW2=] by the Military HangingJudge Wilhelm Schramm for buying two tins of chocolate from black marketeers. But he manages to escape the firing squad with his own death warrant, already signed by the judge.