Carl Zuckmayer

General Harras is an opponent of the Nazi regime but serves it nonetheless because he loves to fly. When he discovers that his subordinate and friend chief engineer Oderbruch is sabotaging the war effort out of the conviction that Hitler’s dictatorship can only end if the Germans loose the war. True to his character Harras can neither endorse this nor live with himself: „ Who served as the devil’s general on earth by bombing him a path – will have to serve him in hell also“ He commits suicide by knowingly flying a sabotaged aircraft and receives a state funeral.