Tom Wilkinson credited as playing...
General Friedrich Fromm
- Werner von Haeften: You're as guilty as any of us.
- General Friedrich Fromm: [scoffing] Spare me, Lieutenant.
- Col. Claus von Stauffenberg: No one will be spared.
- General Friedrich Fromm: I don't know what you're brewing up, and I don't want to know. But when the music stops, I'd be obliged if Keitel found himself without a chair.
- General Friedrich Fromm: What is it you want?
- General Friedrich Olbricht: I wanted to introduce our new man, Colonel Stauffenberg.
- General Friedrich Fromm: Ah! From Africa. Well, I'd offer you my hand, but I might not get it back.
- Col. Claus von Stauffenberg: I'd say the General's lost more important things this morning.
- [pause]
- General Friedrich Fromm: [laughs] It's about time they put somebody with balls into this office.
- General Friedrich Fromm: I'll hear you say it Colonel!
- Col. Claus von Stauffenberg: [angrily turns and raises false arm] Heil Hitler!
- General Friedrich Fromm: Now, you can teII your friends, CoIoneI, that I aIways come down on the right side. And as Iong as the Führer is aIive, you know what side that is. Heil HitIer.
- General Friedrich Fromm: Last night, the Russians launched a new offensive against Army Group North Ukraine.