Holocaust (TV Mini Series)
Part 3: 1942-1944 (1978)
James Woods: Karl Weiss
Quotes
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[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.
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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.
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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.