Wilhelm Utech endures a string of interrogations at the concentration camp he has been hauled to. Distributing leaflets is a crime that suggests he’s in a resistance group, but the SS guards assigned to beat the truth out of him fail. After he is released, he finds Mildred and assures her that he revealed nothing about the Circle. The brutality he experienced while incarcerated has convinced him that they should use whatever weapons are required to fight Hitler.