The Best Prof. Ernst-Günther Schenck Quotes

Walter: Why do you want to live on?
Prof. Dr. Ernst: And you? Why do you absolutely want to die?
Walter: You see this?
[shows him a cyanide cap]
Walter: The Führer personally gave it to me!
Prof. Dr. Ernst: [bitter] As last honor?
Walter: ...maybe.

Prof. Dr. Ernst: [as the SS and Wehrmacht offices are leaving Berlin] I won't allow my staff to be evacuated!
SS: Is that so?
Prof. Dr. Ernst: The food supply to Berlin will collapse!
SS: A good soldier will always find something to eat.
Prof. Dr. Ernst: Yes. And when the fighting starts, who will he take food from? Civilians! I won't allow it!
SS: It's the Führer's Orders!
Prof. Dr. Ernst: As Department Head, I answer to the SS and Reichsführer Himmler. But as a doctor, I answer to the Wehrmacht and we are still here. Please keep that in mind.
SS: [to aides] The Professor can stay in Berlin. Please give him an authorized permit!