- Erik Dorf: Treblinka, Belsen, and the other camps aren't fulfilling their job of 'resettlement'. Something on a grander scale is envisioned.
- Rudolf Höß: Grander?
- Erik Dorf: Toward the *final* solution of the Jewish problem.
- Rudolf Höß: I won't disappoint you. Ever since childhood, Reichsführer, I was taught to serve and obey.
- Reinhard Heydrich: Everybody is wary of me. You see, Erik, I know all there is to know about all of them, from top to bottom, what a bunch of funks and scum they really are. A veritable rogue's gallery. Göring: drug addict and bribes taker. Rosenberg: I have his letters to his Jewish mistress. Goebbels: scandal after scandal. Himmler: suspect on his wife's side. Not to mention Streicher and Kaltenbrunner: no better than dull criminals.
- Heinrich Himmler: As commandant of Auschwitz, your job will be to expand the camp by twice its size.
- Rudolf Höß: I understand, Reichsführer. But where would the labor come from?
- Reinhard Heydrich: You'll have more laborers than you can handle.
- Rudolf Höß: I.G.Farben grabs them for their factories.
- Reinhard Heydrich: I.G.Farben will do what they're told. They've been getting fat long enough from our work.
- [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.
- Inga Helms Weiss: [to SS Sgt. Müller] I hate You. I hate all of you. You are incapable of love. All you know is greed and how to be cruel. And the worst of it is, we've let you take over.
- 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.
- Adolf Eichmann: [to Erik] Now there rose up a new king in Egypt who knew not Joseph. Kaltenbrunner's our new king, eh Major?
- Erik Dorf: I have no worries. I have been more than diligent in expediting Operation Reinhard. Lidice was leveled. The Jews of Poland are moving in increasing numbers.
- Ernst Kaltenbrunner: Heydrich's dead! I run the SS. You have a black mark against you. Questionable father, a communist maybe!
- Erik Dorf: I was investigated and cleared.
- Ernst Kaltenbrunner: The commanders in the field are complaining about you. Informer... schemer!
- [Jews arriving at KZ Theresienstadt, 1942]
- [first lines]
- trooper: Straight ahead to the square! No talking!
- 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.
- [last lines]
- transportees: [waving out of the vent holes of cattle cars] Bye! Bye! Bye!