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He insists he acted in self-defense, but Kringelein, whom always hated Preysing's guts, summons the police and Preysing is arrested.
He confronts the Baron; the two struggle, and Preysing bludgeons the Baron with the telephone, killing him.
Irritated by his former employer's coarse behavior, Kringelein – who is aware of Preysing's many swindles – tells him what he thinks of him.
Kringelein's former employer, industrialist General Director Preysing ( Wallace Beery ), is at the hotel to close an important deal, and he hires stenographer Flaemmchen ( Joan Crawford ) to assist him.
Later, when the two are in her room, which opens on to his, Preysing sees the shadow of the Baron rifling through his belongings.
Preysing interrupts them and imperiously demands she join him.
Scholder, The Churches and the Third Reich, ii, p. 154 Bishop Preysing cautioned against compromise with the new regime, against those who saw the Nazi persecution of the church as an aberration that Hitler would correct.
Surprised by his uncharacteristic audacity, Preysing attacks Kringelein and the two men must be separated.