Underground (1941)

Wolfgang Zilzer: Hoffman

Quotes 

• Hoffman : You don't know what they do to you. Things that men have never thought of before. A pain so great you think you will die. But nature comes to your rescue - the body becomes numb. And you don't feel their beatings anymore. They offer you bribes, promise you anything if you will just give them names and addresses. I didn't have to stay in that hell for two years. I could've told them what they wanted and gotten out. But I kept thinking - this can't last. My friends are working - throughout Germany thousands of members of the underground are working and I'm protecting them. That's what kept me alive. Then at last, something happens to your mind. You lose all power of thought, the strength of making any decision leaves you. And you're not responsible anymore. I have not betrayed you. You must believe me - you must tell the others, that the Hoffman they knew would never have betrayed you.