Downfall (2004)
Dieter Mann: Feldmarschall Wilhelm Keitel
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Quotes
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Generalfeldmarschall Wilhelm Keitel : Your report impressed the Führer. He has appointed you commander of Berlin's defenses.
General der Artillerie Helmuth Weidling : I'd rather be shot than have this honor.
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Generalfeldmarschall Wilhelm Keitel : Even at the risk of repeating myself, the Ninth army must be withdrawn, otherwise it is surrounded and wiped out! We must now...
Adolf Hitler : The Ninth army will not retreat. Tell Busse to fight where he stands.
Generaloberst Alfred Jodl : My Führer, then the Ninth army will be lost.
Adolf Hitler : We will repel the Soviet troops advancing to the North and East, with a relentless and almighty assault.
Generaloberst Alfred Jodl : With what force, my Führer?
Adolf Hitler : Steiner's force will attack from the North and unite with the Ninth army.
General der Infanterie Hans Krebs : The Ninth Army is unable to move North; the enemy army outnumbers us ten to one.
Adolf Hitler : Wenck: he will support them with the Twelfth Army.
Generaloberst Alfred Jodl : But my Führer, the Twelfth Army is heading west to the Elbe.
Adolf Hitler : Then tell the army to turn around!
Generaloberst Alfred Jodl : But we would expose the Western Front!
Adolf Hitler : Are you questioning my orders? I believe I made myself clear!
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Generalfeldmarschall Wilhelm Keitel : The Führer has lost all sense of reality.
Generaloberst Alfred Jodl : He moves divisions that only exist on his map. Steiner's scattered unit can hardly defend itself and yet, Steiner is ordered to attack! It's pure madness!
SS-Gruppenführer Hermann Fegelein : Then why don't you tell him yourself?
Generalfeldmarschall Wilhelm Keitel : He won't listen to reason. You should know that.
SS-Gruppenführer Hermann Fegelein : Something must be done.
Generalfeldmarschall Wilhelm Keitel : Are you insane? We'll be thrown out like Rundstedt and Guderian!
SS-Gruppenführer Hermann Fegelein : Yes, and?
Generaloberst Alfred Jodl : [glares at Fegelein] We are soldiers! We pledged our allegiance to the Führer!
SS-Gruppenführer Hermann Fegelein : So that means we are no longer allowed to think?
General der Infanterie Wilhelm Burgdorf : All this coming from you? An opportunist? A ruthless careerist?
SS-Gruppenführer Hermann Fegelein : Pardon?
[Burgdorf takes a swig of alcohol]
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General der Infanterie Wilhelm Burgdorf : [after Hitler realizes that the war is lost and goes to his room] What now?
SS-Gruppenführer Hermann Fegelein : It's time to end this spectacle.
Generalfeldmarschall Wilhelm Keitel : [Shocked] What do you mean? Just stop fighting? That's unthinkable! The Führer said we will not surrender. We will not repeat November 1918! Never!
SS-Gruppenführer Hermann Fegelein : You all heard him. He's no longer leading us. 'Do whatever you want.' That's what he said.
Generalfeldmarschall Wilhelm Keitel : There is no one who will replace him! The Führer is the Führer!
General der Infanterie Hans Krebs : [to the others] The Führer is just confused. He will pull through.
SS-Gruppenführer Hermann Fegelein : Oh, great! And what will happen afterwards?
General der Infanterie Hans Krebs : [pause] We cannot surrender for the Führer would never approve. We swore to obey his will!
SS-Gruppenführer Hermann Fegelein : Nothing but empty phrases! We must act NOW! Before it's all too late!
General der Infanterie Wilhelm Burgdorf : You just want to save your skin!
SS-Gruppenführer Hermann Fegelein : [to Burgdorf] Mind your words.
[the Generals storm off]