Holocaust (TV Mini Series)

Part 3: 1942-1944 (1978)

James Woods: Karl Weiss

Quotes 

• [the partisans are ambushing about half a squad of troopers] 

  Karl Weiss : German?

  Uncle Sasha : Ukrainian militia.

  Karl Weiss : Do we want them?

  Uncle Sasha : They killed more of us than the Nazis did.

• Adolf Eichmann : Weiss, what is the function of art?

  Karl Weiss : The function of art? I believe someone said it is to enhance life

  Adolf Eichmann : [referring to Karl's sketches]  And you call this garbage life enhancing? Transport East? Ghetto children? How could you produce such lies, such distortions?

  Karl Weiss : Because it's the truth.

• Maria Kalova : Where you came in, that's their little fortress: torture, murder, executions. Karl, this is no different from Buchenwald, except in the externals.

  Pfälzer : What are they up to?

  Maria Kalova : Terezín is their passport to respectability.

  Karl Weiss : I can't believe it.

  Maria Kalova : You will, when the Red Cross comes through and decides: The Nazi are treating the Jews with kindness. The Swiss, the Swedes, all the neutrals visit us.