in bowing position as he looks at the crowd.
his face shows signs of utter despair and dejection.  the dream is gone and the memory of what was really hurts deep down. he looks around making sure he hasn't been noticed by anyone and takes that deep sigh and strolls towards the back of the circus tent area on his way to find schmidt.
he sits up on his bunk, and wants nothing to do with the bully and his pranks.  so he goes back to studying his papers and looks up again to catch keltner's look of disappointment, and as keltner turns away from helmut.  helmut realizes he should do something to show keltner he, indeed, cares.  he jumps down from his bunk and grabs galt by the arm and turns him around.  they are now face to face.
he sees something's going to happen, he puts his papers away and sits upright.  waiting.  his eyes catch galt's eyes peering at him.
his face is turning color.  he hasn't a lot of air left in his lungs.  and keltner is practically hanging onto galt trying to get his hands loose.  and galt could carry another three men without batting an eye. galt puts him down slowly, in the middle of the aisle, so that just his feet touch the ground, but he keeps his hands around his throat.
the truth of keltner's charge hits helmut with an overpowering force. he looks at keltner for a beat.  his eyes filled with pain, then slowly turns away from him, leaving him standing there as we pan with helmut and hold on.