- Bannführer Kaß: Where were you born?
- Vater Völker: In Berlin.
- Bannführer Kaß: Where is it?
- Vater Völker: Near the Spree.
- Bannführer Kaß: Near the Spree, that's right. But where? In what country?
- Vater Völker: Well, in Germany, of course.
- Bannführer Kaß: In Germany, that's correct. In our Germany. Think about it.
- Stoppel: What's your name then?
- Heini Völker: Heini.
- Stoppel: Are you a member?
- Heini Völker: What's a member?
- Stoppel: So you're not a member, then, correct?
- Heini Völker: No, I'm not a member.
- Stoppel: Well its high time you become a member then. We have a Communist Youth Internationale. You're not a Nazi, are you?
- Vater Völker: What are you talking about, Stoeppel? The boy doesn't know a thing about that stuff. My boy a Nazi, now that is totally ridiculous. I'd kill my boy if I ever thought he was a Nazi... Whatever.
- Stoppel: It was nice talking to you, Heini.
- Heini Völker: Hi, mother.
- Mutter Völker: Hi, Heini.
- Mutter Völker: Did you spend the night someplace? What did you do?
- Heini Völker: It was wonderful mother.
- Mutter Völker: Did you stay with Stoeppel and his boys?
- Heini Völker: Stoeppel?
- Mutter Völker: What then?
- Heini Völker: No, I was with the others.
- Mutter Völker: What others?
- Heini Völker: Those with the crooked cross.
- Mutter Völker: Those were the Nazi's!
- Heini Völker: Right.
- Heini Völker: [Gerda kisses Heini on the cheek from behind] Stop that rubbish.
- [he turns around, Gerda takes off her hat and reveals herself]
- Heini Völker: You are a girl!
- Gerda: You notice everything!
- Stoppel: This is Gerda, the pearl of the Beusselkiez.
- junger Kommunist: Why don't you give her the kiss back?
- Heini Völker: No, I don't want to.
- junger Kommunist: Why not?
- Heini Völker: Everybody could come then.
- Kowalski: [after a customer left] Say, what did he give to you?
- Heini Völker: [shows Kowalski] A mark.
- Kowalski: Oh boy, actually this money belongs to me.
- Heini Völker: [offended] Why?
- Kowalski: He haggled it down from me. All right, go home now.
- [Heini leaves]
- Kowalski: Hey, and don't blow that money.
- Heini Völker: Where should I go?
- Vater Völker: What a question? To his father, that's where he belongs.
- Bannführer Kaß: That's the question. Where does a boy belong? You know, I had very good parents, but once I was fifteen, I went away. I wanted to the sea, become a sailor. Somewhere there were islands, palmtrees, Africa. Thousands of boys ran away.
- Vater Völker: Those boys were rascals.
- Bannführer Kaß: Well, boys are something wonderful. Boys are a big secret, since all the times. They fled to the trappers, to the gipsys. Always they were touched by the big migration. Then they start to stroll. Where does a boy belong these day? Why don't you ask your own boy?