Dieter Mann credited as playing...
Feldmarschall Wilhelm Keitel
- 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.
- Generalfeldmarschall Wilhelm Keitel: Even at the risk of repeating myself, the Ninth army must be withdrawn, otherwise it is surrounded and wiped out!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!
- 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]
- 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]