Downfall 2004

Adolf Hitler: That was an order! Steiners assault was an order! Who do you think you are to dare disobey an order I give? So this is what it has come to! The military has been lying to me. Everybody has been lying to me, even the SS! Our generals are just a bunch of contemptible, disloyal cowards.General der Infanterie Wilhelm Burgdorf: I cant permit you to insult the soldiers.Adolf Hitler: They are cowards, traitors and failures!General der Infanterie Wilhelm Burgdorf: My fuhrer, this is outrageous!Adolf Hitler: Our generals are the scum of the German people! Not a shred of honour! They call themselves generals. Years at military academy just to learn how to hold a knife and fork! For years, the military has hindered my plans! Theyve put every kind of obstacle in my way! What I should have done... was liquidate all the high-ranking officers, as Stalin did!

— Downfall 2004 war

Albert Speer: You must be on stage when the curtain falls

— Downfall 2004 age

Generalfeldmarschall Wilhelm Keitel: Your report impressed the Führer. He has appointed you commander of Berlins defenses.General der Artillerie Helmuth Weidling: Id rather be shot than have this honor.

— Downfall 2004 art

Adolf Hitler: In a war as such there are no civilians.

— Downfall 2004 war

Adolf Hitler: The war is lost... But if you think that Ill leave Berlin for that, you are sadly mistaken. Id prefer to put a bullet in my head.

— Downfall 2004 war

Reichsführer SS Heinrich Himmler: When I meet Eisenhower, should I give the Nazi salute, or shake his hand?

— Downfall 2004 rich

[last lines]Traudl Junge: All these horrors Ive heard of during the Nurnberg process, these six million Jews, other thinking people or people of another race, who perished. That shocked me deeply. But I hadnt made the connection with my past. I assured myself with the thought of not being personally guilty. And that I didnt know anything about the enormous scale of it. But one day I walked by a memorial plate of Sophie Scholl in the Franz-Joseph-Strasse. I saw that she was about my age and she was executed in the same year I came to Hitler. And at that moment I actually realised that a young age isnt an excuse. And that it might have been possible to get to know things.

— Downfall 2004 people

Adjutant SS-Hauptsturmführer Otto Günsche: He is not in the bunker.Adolf Hitler: What do you mean you cant find Fegelein? Keep searching for him! I want to see Fegelein at once! If he goes AWOL, thats desertion. Treason! Bring me Fegelein![slams desk]Adolf Hitler: Fegelein! Fegelein! Fegelein!

— Downfall 2004 reason

Adolf Hitler: I always make mistakes when Im dictating.

— Downfall 2004 mistakes

[first lines]Traudl Junge: Ive got the feeling that I should be angry with this child, this young and oblivious girl. Or that Im not allowed to forgive her for not seeing the nature of that monster. That she didnt realise what she was doing. And mostly because Ive gone so obliviously. Because I wasnt a fanatic Nazi. I could have said in Berlin, No, Im not doing that. I dont want to go the Führers headquarters. But I didnt do that. I was too curious. I didnt realise that fate would lead me somewhere I didnt want to be. But still, I find it hard to forgive myself.

— Downfall 2004 art

Adolf Hitler: [Screaming after Steiner didnt attack after giving an order] Traitors! Ive been betrayed and deceived from the very beginning! What a monstrous betrayal of the German people, but all those traitors will pay. Theyll pay with their own blood. They shall drown in their own blood!

— Downfall 2004 people

Magda Goebbels: Sleep tight, children.

— Downfall 2004 children

Magda Goebbels: My Führer, I beg you to leave Berlin! My Führer, please. Dont leave us! What will become of us?Adolf Hitler: Tomorrow millions of people will curse me, but fate has taken its course.

— Downfall 2004 people

Oberleutnant: [after the telephone line is cut] Orders, sir?General der Artillerie Helmuth Weidling: I am to be shot.Oberleutnant: What? Why?General der Artillerie Helmuth Weidling: They believe I moved my command post to the West, away from the enemy!Oberleutnant: Not a bad idea, General.

— Downfall 2004 art

Walter Hewel: Why do you want to live on?Prof. Dr. Ernst-Günter Schenck: And you? Why do you absolutely want to die?Walter Hewel: You see this?[shows him a cyanide cap]Walter Hewel: The Führer personally gave it to me!Prof. Dr. Ernst-Günter Schenck: [bitter] As last honor?Walter Hewel: ...maybe.

— Downfall 2004 ya

Reichsführer SS Heinrich Himmler: Between us, Id say hes had it.SS-Gruppenführer Hermann Fegelein: Yeah? What do you expect from a teetotal, non-smoking vegetarian?

— Downfall 2004 man

Adolf Hitler: You see, gentlemen? Ill be proved right. Wenck will come.[leaves generals]Adolf Hitler: Wenck will come.[passes by guards who salute to him]General der Artillerie Helmuth Weidling: I want to immediately know if its possible for Wenck to attack or not.General der Infanterie Hans Krebs: Its unlikely that Wencks small force can attack the Red Army...Joseph Goebbels: [interrupts Krebs] How dare you say its unlikely?General der Infanterie Hans Krebs: Wenck has nothing to confront the Red Army!General der Artillerie Helmuth Weidling: Why dont you tell the Führer? Have you all gone crazy?General der Infanterie Wilhelm Burgdorf: The Führer knows it himself, but he will never surrender, and we wont either! I went through that before, and once is enough!General der Artillerie Helmuth Weidling: Come on, I have to get out of here.[leaves with Mohnke]

— Downfall 2004 art

Joseph Goebbels: I feel no sympathy. I repeat, I feel no sympathy! The German people chose their fate. That may surprise some people. Dont fool yourself. We didnt force the German people. They gave us a mandate, and now their little throats are being cut!

— Downfall 2004 people

General der Artillerie Helmuth Weidling: I am to be shot.

— Downfall 2004 art

SS-Gruppenführer Hermann Fegelein: Convince him that we need to leave Berlin, Eva![a shocked and mildly horrified reaction from Eva]SS-Gruppenführer Hermann Fegelein: ...Or come with me.[Eva begins to walk away as if she has not heard him. Fegelein grabs her arm]SS-Gruppenführer Hermann Fegelein: Eva! Youre going to die!

— Downfall 2004 action

Adolf Hitler: [dictating to secretary] My political statement. Since 1914, when I invested my modest strength in the First World War, which was forced upon the Reich, over 30 years have passed. In those 3 decades, all my thoughts, actions and my life were dictated by my love for and loyalty to the German people. Centuries will pass, but from the ruins of our cities and cultural monuments our hatred will be renewed for those who are responsible, the people to whom we owe all this: The international Jewry and its supporters.

— Downfall 2004 love

Adolf Hitler: [in a furious tirade upon hearing of Himmlers attempt to surrender] Has he gone crazy?

— Downfall 2004 crazy

Prof. Dr. Ernst-Günter Schenck: [as the SS and Wehrmacht offices are leaving Berlin] I wont allow my staff to be evacuated!SS-Obergruppenführer Tellermann: Is that so?Prof. Dr. Ernst-Günter Schenck: The food supply to Berlin will collapse!SS-Obergruppenführer Tellermann: A good soldier will always find something to eat.Prof. Dr. Ernst-Günter Schenck: Yes. And when the fighting starts, who will he take food from? Civilians! I wont allow it!SS-Obergruppenführer Tellermann: Its the Führers Orders!Prof. Dr. Ernst-Günter Schenck: As Department Head, I answer to the SS and Reichsführer Himmler. But as a doctor, I answer to the Wehrmacht and we are still here. Please keep that in mind.SS-Obergruppenführer Tellermann: [to aides] The Professor can stay in Berlin. Please give him an authorized permit!

— Downfall 2004 art

Officer: [In the bunker during a bombardment] Berlin is now nothing but warehouses: Here were some houses, and there were some houses.[laughter]

— Downfall 2004 war

Helmut Goebbels: [after hearing Hitler shot himself] Bullseye!

— Downfall 2004 self

General der Artillerie Helmuth Weidling: My Führer, as a soldier I suggest we try to break through the encirclement. During the fight for Berlin weve already lost 15-20,000 of the younger officers.Adolf Hitler: But thats what young men are for.

— Downfall 2004 art

Constanze Manziarly: I hate those two-faced sods who say Sieg Heil, but behind their backs say, Kiss my a... aunt.

— Downfall 2004 hate

Joseph Goebbels: I wont use my final hours as Reich Chancellor to sign a statement of surrender!

— Downfall 2004 men

Martin Bormann: [at Hitlers birthday reception] Himmler is such a pompous clown.General der Infanterie Wilhelm Burgdorf: Big shots. Big shots everywhere. It makes me sick.

— Downfall 2004 art

Traudl Junge: Herr Speer! How did you get into Berlin?Albert Speer: It wasnt easy, but I must speak with the Führer.Heinz Linge, Kammerdiener: If I were you, Id wait a bit.

— Downfall 2004 you

General der Infanterie Hans Krebs: The enemy has broken through along a wide front. Theyve taken Zossen to the south, and are advancing to Stahnsdorf. Theyre now on the northern outskirts between Frohnau and Pankow. Theyve reached Lichtenberg, Mahlsdorf and Karlshorst to the east.Adolf Hitler: Steiners assault will bring it under control.General der Infanterie Hans Krebs: My fuhrer, Steiner...Generaloberst Alfred Jodl: Steiner couldnt mobilize enough men. He was unable to carry out the assault.Adolf Hitler: [Removes glasses] These men will stay here: Kietel, Jodl, Krebs and Burgdorf.

— Downfall 2004 men

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