- 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.
- [Scene of Karl's arrest]
- German Police Officer: A few hours questioning and he'll be home.
- Karl Weiss: I'm ready now.
- Inga Helms Weiss: No. No, I know about this routine questioning. I know about visits to the police station. People go and they don't come back.
- Marta Dorf: When you get a chance to have power, influence, why not use it?
- Erik Dorf: Why haven't you left Germany? You're not a poor man.
- Dr. Josef Weiss: Good question.
- Erik Dorf: Get out! Get out while you can.
- Dr. Josef Weiss: Jews get ill. They need medical care. If all the doctors left, who would take care of them? It's only the old and the poor who have stayed.
- Erik Dorf: Doctor, things won't get easier for you.
- Dr. Josef Weiss: How much worse can they get?
- Laura Dorf: [to Erik] Daddy, why does everybody hate the Jews?
- Peter Dorf: Caus' they killed Christ. Didn't you learn that in Sunday school?
- 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.
- Lowy: You know? All this picking on the Jews. What did we ever do to them? All that business about killing Christ. That was a long time ago.
- Dr. Josef Weiss: I suspect the Nazis could care less about Christ or His teachings, but then I'm no theologian. I'm just a general practitioner.
- Anna Weiss: [having listened to news on the radio] Poland, you're next! Mama, why doesn't anyone belive it when he says he's going to do those things?
- Berta Palitz Weiss: People deceive themselves when they're frightened.
- 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.
- Berta Palitz Weiss: We will survive. This is the country of Beethoven, Schiller, and Mozart.
- Dr. Josef Weiss: Unfortunately, none of them are in office right now.
- Moses Weiss: The Palitzes are dead. The old people took their own lives.
- Dr. Josef Weiss: Good God... That good old man! So proud of being German. And that gentle old lady! They left them nothing, Moses.
- Moses Weiss: I hear that from now on things will improve. They'll gradually let up on the Jews. Eventually they'll open all the jails. You'll see.
- 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.
- [last lines]
- Helena Slomova: When I was a little girl in Hebrew school, we learned the story of Ruth.
- Karl Weiss: Who is she?
- Helena Slomova: You only have to know one part: "Where do thou goest, I will go."
- 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.
- Adolf Eichmann: [in Vienna, to Dorf] You know I'm quite proud to show my operation to someone from Berlin: train-shipping, warehousing, processing. Now that we have Czechoslovakia I'm afraid there's another 250,000 Jews to worry about.