Edgar is then arrested, with Paul witnessing the arrest. Under pressure, Erik confesses the entire story about Edgar and the RIAS radiostation.
The entire class stays silent, and as punishment they are all prohibited from graduating. Fritz Lange, the minister for national education in the GDR arrives at the school and classifies the incident as counter-revolutionary and asks the class to point to the instigator. Kessler, a zealous school superintendent, begins to look into the incident. After once again meeting at Edgar's, the class takes a vote and decides to lie about what happened, and to say it was a moment of mourning for the fallen football player Puskás. This upsets their teacher, and Erik tells him it is an act of protest. Kurt manages to convince the majority of the class to hold a moment of silence for the victims in Hungary before class starts. While listening, the learn of the death of Ferenc Puskás, a Hungarian football player adored by the students. As Edgar lives in West Germany, they can listen to the radiostation RIAS. Back in Stalinstadt, they convince some class members to visit Edgar, the great-uncle of one of the students, Paul. In the cinema, they watch the newsreel and learn of the Hungarian uprising. High school students Kurt and Theo secretly go to the cinema in West Berlin.