Donald Pleasence credited as playing...
General Kahlenberge
- General Kahlenberge: You're to stay with him every minute of the day. Twenty-four hour call, do you understand?
- Corporal Hartmann: Yes, sir.
- General Kahlenberge: He may want to go out at night. Do you know anything which might interest General Tanz? Nightclubs or girls, that sort of thing.
- Corporal Hartmann: A few, sir, but, uh... I don't really know what the general's taste is, sir.
- General Kahlenberge: Let us hope that whatever it is, it is not you, Corporal.
- [Hartmann looks at him in shock]
- General Kahlenberge: However, if it should be, remember that you're serving the fatherland.
- Corporal Hartmann: ...I'll try to remember, sir.
- General Kahlenberge: General Tanz, forgive me, but, uh, just as a matter of curiosity - what do you feel is the exact purpose of this exercise?
- General Tanz: You've read the memorandum.
- General Kahlenberge: Oh yes. Yes, I have indeed...
- General Tanz: And what does the memorandum say?
- General Kahlenberge: That Phase One is intended to intimidate the population, to search houses, to find and arrest resistance.
- General Tanz: Then that is the exact purpose of the exercise.
- General von Seidlitz-Gabler: An excellent plan, by the way - much like my own when I first came here, only I was never given the ultimate authority to implement it.
- General Kahlenberge: But, um... am I to understand that if there is resistance during Phase One, you would then go to Phase Two, and even Phase Three, which would mean the destruction of the entire city?
- General Tanz: You are to understand exactly that.
- General Kahlenberge: Well, uh... isn't that somewhat... excessive?
- General Tanz: Excessive.
- [goes to map]
- General Tanz: You will be aware that we are thirty miles from Moscow. We are moving ahead on a 5,000 mile front. Every available soldier is needed if we are to conquer Russia. Yet here in Warsaw, three divisions are rotting, because of a few thousand criminal Poles and Jews hiding in slums. It is... excessive to permit this state of affairs.