Holocaust (TV Mini Series)

Part 1: 1935-1940 (1978)

Michael Moriarty: Erik Dorf

Quotes 

• Reinhard Heydrich : No party affiliation.

  Erik Dorf : Well, not until this moment.

  Reinhard Heydrich : Why the sudden interest?

  Erik Dorf : I need a job.

  Reinhard Heydrich : Now that is refreshing. You don't know how many braggarts I have to listen to. Sycophants and connivers full of love for the party, the Führer, the Reich. Such a relief to talk to a man who just wants a job.

• Erik Dorf : Doctor, things won't get easier for you.

  Dr. Josef Weiss : How much worse can they get? We're no longer citizens. We have no legal rights. Our property can be confiscated. I can't belong to a hospital. I can't get any drugs. In the name of *humanity*, what else can you do to us?

  Erik Dorf : You mustn't come to me for help.

  Dr. Josef Weiss : No appeal on the basis of past associations?

  Erik Dorf : No appeal. I bear you no personal malice.

  [pauses] 

  Erik Dorf : Leave.

• Erik Dorf : You must be aware that almost to a man church leaders are actively supporting our policies.

  Father Lichtenberg : Well, in that case, I must draw a distinction between what Christianity teaches and how some people distort and betray that teaching.

  [Erik leaves] 

  Father Lichtenberg : [to priest]  Such an intelligent young man. Our gift to the new era.

• Erik Dorf : I confess I have trouble keeping the SD; the SS, and the GESTAPO separate.

  Reinhard Heydrich : So do we. Doesn't matter, I run them all... under the benign leadership of Reichsführer Himmler, of course.

• Reinhard Heydrich : "Autonomous Jewish territories". Marvelous!

  Erik Dorf : Will these be permanent communities?

  Reinhard Heydrich : Well, let's just say steps towards regulating the Jewish problem. Oh my God, Dorf, I'm getting like you. Using language to say what I don't mean.

• Hans Frank : What the hell do you know? I was head of the party legal office when you were in short pants.

  Erik Dorf : Yes. Heydrich has a file on your legal career.

  Hans Frank : Does he?

  Erik Dorf : Interesting details. Your passion for justice. Objecting to the murder of Ernst Roehm. Not at all what the Fuhrer had in mind for the Government of Poland.

  Hans Frank : I heard you were just another bootlicker. Apparently you're not.