Downfall Quotes: Downfall focuses on the last days of one of history’s most controversial personalities, Adolf Hitler, who lived through one of the bloodiest periods in human history.
Downfall Quotes
1- “Many mistakes have been made, so be ruthless. Life never forgives weakness. This so called humanity… is just priests’ drivel. Compassion is a primal sin. Compassion for the weak is a betrayal of nature.”– Adolf Hitler, ‘Downfall’.
2- “I won’t use my final hours as Reich Chancellor to sign a statement of surrender!”– Joseph Goebbels, ‘Downfall’.
3- “Tomorrow millions of people will curse me, but fate has taken its course.”– Adolf Hitler, ‘Downfall’.
4- “When I meet Eisenhower, should I give the Nazi salute, or shake his hand?”– Heinrich Himmler, ‘Downfall’.
5- “That was an order! Steiner’s assault was an order! Who do you think you are to dare disobey an order I give? So this is what it has come to! The military has been lying to me. Everybody has been lying to me, even the SS! Our generals are just a bunch of contemptible, disloyal cowards.”– Adolf Hitler, ‘Downfall’.
6- “I feel no sympathy. I repeat, I feel no sympathy! The German people chose their fate. That may surprise some people. Don’t fool yourself. We didn’t force the German people. They gave us a mandate, and now their little throats are being cut!”– Joseph Goebbels, ‘Downfall’.
7- ” I could have said in Berlin, “No, I’m not doing that. I don’t want to go the Führer’s headquarters”. But I didn’t do that. I was too curious. I didn’t realise that fate would lead me somewhere I didn’t want to be. But still, I find it hard to forgive myself.” – Traudl Junge, ‘Downfall’.
8- “In a war as such there are no civilians.” – Adolf Hitler, ‘Downfall’.
9-“The war is lost… But if you think that I’ll leave Berlin for that, you are sadly mistaken. I’d prefer to put a bullet in my head.” – Adolf Hitler, ‘Downfall’.
10- “Traitors! I’ve been betrayed and deceived from the very beginning! What a monstrous betrayal of the German people, but all those traitors will pay. They’ll pay with their own blood. They shall drown in their own blood!” – Adolf Hitler, ‘Downfall’.
11- “- Magda Goebbels: My Führer, I beg you to leave Berlin! My Führer, please. Don’t leave us! What will become of us?
-Adolf Hitler: Tomorrow millions of people will curse me, but fate has taken its course.” – ‘Downfall’.
12- “- Feldmarschall Wilhelm Keitel: Your report impressed the Führer. He has appointed you commander of Berlin’s defenses.
– General Weidling: I’d rather be shot than have this honor.” – ‘Downfall’.
13- “- General der Artillerie Helmuth Weidling: My Führer, as a soldier I suggest we try to break through the encirclement. During the fight for Berlin we’ve already lost 15-20,000 of the younger officers.
-Adolf Hitler: But that’s what young men are for.”– ‘Downfall’.
14- “-Martin Bormann: Himmler is such a pompous clown.
-General der Infanterie Wilhelm Burgdorf: Big shots. Big shots everywhere. It makes me sick.”– ‘Downfall’.
15- “I hate those two-faced sods who say ‘Sieg Heil’, but behind their backs say, ‘Kiss my a… aunt’.” –Constanze Manziarly, ‘Downfall’.
16- “- SS-Gruppenführer Hermann F*gelein: Convince him that we need to leave Berlin, Eva!
-SS-Gruppenführer Hermann F*gelein: …Or come with me.
-SS-Gruppenführer Hermann F*gelein: Eva! You’re going to die!” – ‘Downfall’.
17- “-Oberleutnant: Orders, sir?
-General der Artillerie Helmuth Weidling: I am to be shot.
-Oberleutnant: What? Why?
-General der Artillerie Helmuth Weidling: They believe I moved my command post to the West, away from the enemy!
-Oberleutnant: Not a bad idea, General.” – ‘Downfall’.
18- “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.” – ‘Downfall’.
19- “- Obergruppenführer Tellermann: A good soldier will always find something to eat.
– Prof. Dr. Ernst-Günter Schenck: Yes. And when the fighting starts, who will he take food from? Civilians! I won’t allow it!”– ‘Downfall’.
20- “- General Weidling: My Führer, as a soldier I suggest we try to break through the encirclement. During the fight for Berlin we’ve already lost 15-20,000 of the younger officers.
– Adolf Hitler: But that’s what young men are for.” – ‘Downfall’.
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