The case in Warsaw remains closed until all three officers meet in Paris in July 1944. Paris is then a hotbed of intrigue, with senior Wehrmacht officers plotting to assassinate Adolf Hitler. Kahlenberge is deeply involved in the plot, while von Seidlitz-Gabler is aware of its existence but is sitting on the fence, awaiting the outcome. Tanz is unaware of the plot and remains totally loyal to Hitler; for unexplained reasons, at this stage of the film he wears the uniform of a Waffen-SS General (SS-Obergruppenführer) - unlike earlier in the film when he wears a Heer uniform; this is done perhaps to emphasize his loyalty to the Nazi cause.