Conspiration (2001)

Partager la citation sur facebook Today, each of us becomes a bearer of secrets.

Partager la citation sur facebook We will not sterilize every Jew and wait for them to die. We will not sterilize every Jew and then exterminate the race. That's farcical. Dead men don't hump, dead women don't get pregnant. Death is the most reliable form of sterilization, put it that way.

Partager la citation sur facebook [to Dr. Klopfer, when asked about how he can speak "Jewish"] Well, I lived among them, I worked among them, and I picked up a few words; Jewish, Yiddish, not enough to speak. So I went in search of a rabbi. Rabbi means "teacher", I came to find out. Look, may I tell you the Lord's honest truth? So many of our highest-ranking officers, whose responsibility it is to deal with the Israelites, they make no attempt to get inside the Jewish head. I went to visit this rabbi - old man, long beard - in his one-room flat. And when he saw me, his eyes grew as large as hen's eggs. I asked him to teach me his language, and he agreed. He said that he would, but that he would charge me, of course. I applied to my commander for funds, and I was denied; now, I've run into this opposition all my life, so I paid my own money. Very little, not much. And he taught me some vocabulary, letters of the alphabet. But looking back, I realize it was poor judgment on my part, because I could have so easily had the old man arrested, put into prison, and demanded lessons from him, in his cell, free of charge. One day, he had gone out, and was rounded up and shipped off, because he had gone out unadvisedly. And I thought, that's so stupid... why are they so stupid? Didn't he know that I would have protected him? [pause] At least until my lessons were complete.

Partager la citation sur facebook The Russian is not a communist, my friend. The Russian does not give a damn who runs things. I have lived amongst them. The Russian only cares he has a bottle of vodka to suck and some form of domestic animal life to fuck, then he will happily sit in shit his whole life. That is his politics. I know those people. That is the distinction; I absolve the Jews of that!

Partager la citation sur facebook [Heydrich opens the meeting]
Gen. Reinhard Heydrich: At the risk of sounding like the first day at summer camp, let us go around the table and introduce ourselves, for those who do not know others. I shall save myself for last and start with General Müller.
Gen. Heinrich Müller: Major General Heinrich Müller, SS Gestapo.
Klopfer: Klopfer, representing the Party, that is who I speak for.
Dr. Wilhelm Kritzinger: I am Kritzinger, Ministerial Director of the Reich Chancellery. I appreciate being called, but I wonder why I'm here. The topic to be discussed, the coordination of the Jewish question, I believe, was resolved.
Heydrich: It will be.
Kritzinger: With the Führer stating to me and to my superior, General Lammers --
Heydrich: [firmly] It will be. So...
Gen. Otto Hofmann: General Hofmann, Race and Settlement Main Office. We deal with matters of... race and settlement.
Dr. Georg Liebbrandt: [looks up] Is it me? Liebbrandt, the political office of the ministry for all we hold and administer in eastern Poland, the Baltics, and in the Soviet Union --
Dr. Alfred Meyer: And I am the state secretary for the ministry as a whole.
Dr. Wilhelm Stuckart: [impatiently] Give them your name.
Meyer: Meyer, Doctor. Sorry.
Stuckart: Stuckart, Interior Ministry.
Luther: Martin Luther, undersecretary at the Foreign Ministry.
Neumann: I met almost everybody. My name is Neumann, director, Office of the Four Year Plan.
Dr. Rudolf Lange: Lange, deputy commander of SS task forces in Latvia... among other things.
Heydrich: Oh, we all have "other things".
Dr. Josef Bühler: I'm Josef Bühler, secretary of state for the General Government of German-occupied Poland.
Heydrich: How cold is it up there?
Bühler: Better Krakow than Warsaw.
Luther: Now that it is run by Germans, you should be spared those Polish winters. [chuckles]
Col. Karl Schöngarth: Not the case. Schöngarth, SS, assigned to the General Government.
Dr. Roland Freisler: Dr. Freisler, Ministry of Justice; also I hold rank in the Stormtroopers. So, that is who I am.
Lt. Col. Adolf Eichmann: Adolf Eichmann, SS Gestapo, Office of Jewish Affairs, and that should be... yes, that's all.
Heydrich: And I am Heydrich, SS, Chief of Reich Security Main Office and Reich Protector of Bohemia and Moravia. And, welcome.

Partager la citation sur facebook Heydrich: Emigration. The policy that will take the place of emigration, and we have collected enough practical experience to do it well, is evacuation.
Hofmann: Which differs from emigration in what way? Evacuation to where?
Heydrich: Let us postpone that question for a while.
Klopfer: To hell, one hopes.
Lange: Many already have.
Luther: Do they even have a hell?
Heydrich: They do now. We provide it.

Partager la citation sur facebook Heydrich: My friend, I have read your recommendations. I appreciate the effort and the thought.
Luther: I heard some of what I wrote in what you already said.
Heydrich: I think not.

Partager la citation sur facebook Lange: I get the feeling I "evacuated" 30,000 Jews already by shooting them, at Riga. Is what I did "evacuation"? When they fell, were they "evacuated"? There are another 20,000, at least, awaiting similar "evacuation". I just think it is helpful to know what words mean, with all respect. [Kritzinger thumps the table in approval]
Eichmann: [to Heydrich, in a low voice] If I might, I think it's unnecessary to burden the record --
Heydrich: [abruptly] Yes. In my personal opinion, they are evacuated.
Kritzinger: Explain!
Heydrich: I have just done so.
Kritzinger: That is not -- no, that is contrary to what the Chancellery has been told! I have been told, I have... Purge the Jews, yes. But, to annihilate them, that we have undertaken to systematically annihilate all the Jews of Europe? That responsibility has personally been denied, to me, by the Führer!
Heydrich: And it will continue to be.
Kritzinger: [stands abruptly, stares out the window...after a long pause, turns back] Yes, I understand. He will continue to deny it.
Heydrich: My apologies. Do you accept my apologies?
Kritzinger: [pause] Of course.

Partager la citation sur facebook Stuckart: If you are suggesting that you have dominion over me, just remember this: Even the Party, which I have served loyally since 1922, answers to the government.
Klopfer: They both answer to the Führer. You may be a friend of Goering, but if you're a betting man, put your money on Bormann.

Partager la citation sur facebook Heydrich: We will accomplish this. I will not allow administrative technicalities to slow it down. Every agency will jump to follow my order, or asses will sting. And there are no shortage of meathooks on which to hang enemies of the State. [lights a cigarette] This will be an SS operation. And as the war goes on, the SS will more and more command the agenda, and put marks against the names of the less-than-cooperative. You have a choice to make.
Stuckart: Well, you understand that I respect the...
Heydrich: Please... you will still have to make your choice. Do not let a strutting, imbecilic, porcine prick like Klopfer make it for you. I do not wish to see the bullies - I admit, we have more of our share of them in the SS - take too much of an interest in you.
Stuckart: Interest in me...?
Heydrich: Do you not think? And all I want from this meeting is unanimity, and no trouble getting what has to be done, done. With you at my side, so much is possible.

Partager la citation sur facebook Neumann: I've done this arithmetic. The real size of the labor force is already a million less than the figures show.
Leibbrandt: The economic considerations are not the only considerations, you see.
Neumann: I'll say they are not. Have you done the extrapolations?
Leibbrandt: My friend, with due respect, may I say, "Fuck the extrapolations"?

Partager la citation sur facebook Kritzinger: You are Lange?
Lange: Yes, sir.
Kritzinger: Who were those 30,000 you say you shot - when you say "you shot"...
Lange: In Riga, Latvia. 27,800 I have some responsibility for. I stood by with my men and allowed Latvian civilians killed in mobs. I received memos directing the... one would say "evacuation" of Jews who, shot and buried in soil and corpses, managed to crawl out, still alive. Not exactly war, is it? And gas chambers about to come?
Kritzinger: What gas chambers? Gas chambers?
Lange: I hear rumors, yes?
Kritzinger: This is... more than war. There must be a different word for this.
Lange: Try "chaos".
Kritzinger: Yes... the rest is argument. The curse of my profession.
Lange: I studied law as well.
Kritzinger: [incredulous] How do you apply that education to what you do?
Lange: It has made me distrustful of language. A gun means what it says.

Partager la citation sur facebook [After speaking to Kritzinger, Lange looks out the window at the frozen Lake Wannsee]
Heydrich: Beautiful lake. [Lange turns, startled] I'm sorry. After the war, I shall live in this house, and rise to see that lake every day. And dream... comforting things. I am a dreamer, as I think you are.
Lange: Yes, it is a dream world.
Heydrich: Ah, Major Lange, how can I help you... politics is a nasty game. I think soldiering requires the discipline to do the unthinkable and politics requires the skill to get someone else to do the unthinkable for you. But we need the politics, so we put up with them. At least for now.
Lange: Yes.
Heydrich: We look forward to a better day... a peaceful world. A German culture triumphant. That is what we work for.
Lange: I appreciate the words, sir.
Heydrich: We are servant-soldiers, are we not?
Lange: Yes, that is what we are.
Heydrich: Indeed.

Partager la citation sur facebook Klopfer: I take it you don't get good food like this up in Krakow?
Bühler: If all of Berlin eats like you, it's no wonder we have shortages.

Partager la citation sur facebook Heydrich: You drink, Eichmann?
Eichmann: Yes, sir.
Heydrich: Are you ever drunk?
Eichmann: [wary pause] From time to time.
Heydrich: Well, then... take a fucking drink.
Eichmann: Well, I am on duty, sir.
Heydrich: Well, then, it's an order.

Partager la citation sur facebook Müller: What was that story you were going to tell me?
Heydrich: Story?
Müller: Kritzinger.
Heydrich: Oh yes, he told me a story about a man he had known all his life, a boyhood friend. This man hated his father. Loved his mother fiercely. His mother was devoted to him, but his father used to beat him, demeaned him, disenherited him. Anyway, this friend grew to manhood and was still in his thirties when the mother died. The mother, who had nurtured and protected him, died. The man stood at her grave as they lowered the coffin, and tried to cry, but no tears came. The man's father lived to a very extended old age, and withered away and died when the son was in his fifties. At the father's funeral, much to the son's surprise, he could not control his tears. Wailing, sobbing... he was apparently inconsolable. Lost. That was the story Kritzinger told me.
Eichmann: I don't think I understand.
Heydrich: No? [Eichmann shakes his head] The man had been driven his whole life by hatred of his father. When the mother died, that was a loss, but when the father died, and the hate had lost its object, the man's life was empty... over.
Müller: [pause] Interesting.
Heydrich: That was Kritzinger's warning.
Eichmann: What, that we should not hate the Israelites?
Heydrich: No, but that it should not fill our lives so much that, when they are gone, we have nothing left to live for. So says the story. I will not miss them.