The Best Rolf Kanies Quotes

Adolf: You see, gentlemen? I'll be proved right. Wenck will come.
[leaves generals]
Adolf: Wenck will come.
[passes by guards who salute to him]
General: I want to immediately know if it's possible for Wenck to attack or not.
General: It's unlikely that Wenck's small force can attack the Red Army...
Joseph: [interrupts Krebs] How dare you say it's unlikely?
General: Wenck has nothing to confront the Red Army!
General: Why don't you tell the Führer? Have you all gone crazy?
General: The Führer knows it himself, but he will never surrender, and we won't either! I went through that before, and once is enough!
General: Come on, I have to get out of here.
[leaves with Mohnke]

Joseph: Surrender? Never! This is outrageous! I've conquered Berlin against the Reds several years ago, and will defend the city to the last breath against them! The few hours that I've yet to live as German Chancellor, I will not use them to put my signature on a document of surrender!
General: We must protect the civilian population!
General: The Führer's order is final!
General: No matter what happens, we will protect to the end!
General: We cannot give up!
[Fritzsche steps out to Rochus Misch]
Walter: We have to start negotiations!
Joseph: I repeat: I will never sign to a surrender!
[Burgdorf follows Fritzsche]
Hans: I need you to send a telegraph to Marshal Zhukov immediately.
Rochus: Marshal Zhukov?
General: What's going on here?
Hans: This is madness. We have to give the city to the Russians.
[Burgdorf pulls out a gun]
General: Then I have to shoot you. The Führer commands to prohibit any surrender!
[Wielding grabs Burgdorf's arm as the latter shoots]

General: The enemy has broken through along a wide front. They've taken Zossen to the south, and are advancing to Stahnsdorf. They're now on the northern outskirts between Frohnau and Pankow. They've reached Lichtenberg, Mahlsdorf and Karlshorst to the east.
Adolf: Steiner's assault will bring it under control.
General: My fuhrer, Steiner...
Generaloberst: Steiner couldn't mobilize enough men. He was unable to carry out the assault.
Adolf: [Removes glasses] These men will stay here: Kietel, Jodl, Krebs and Burgdorf.

General: [after Hitler realizes that the war is lost and goes to his room] What now?
SS: It's time to end this spectacle.
Generalfeldmarschall: [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: You all heard him. He's no longer leading us. 'Do whatever you want.' That's what he said.
Generalfeldmarschall: There is no one who will replace him! The Führer is the Führer!
General: [to the others] The Führer is just confused. He will pull through.
SS: Oh, great! And what will happen afterwards?
General: [pause] We cannot surrender for the Führer would never approve. We swore to obey his will!
SS: Nothing but empty phrases! We must act NOW! Before it's all too late!
General: You just want to save your skin!
SS: [to Burgdorf] Mind your words.
[the Generals storm off]

Adolf: Burgdorf, what's going on? Where's the firing coming from?
General: First of all, Happy Birthday, my Führer. My Führer, the city of Berlin is under artillery fire; grenades have hit near the Brandenburg gate, Reichstag, and the Friedrichstrasse station.
Adolf: Where is the firing coming from?
General: My Führer, we don't know, but I'm talking with Koller.
Adolf: Koller! Let me speak to Koller.
[takes phone]
Adolf: Koller. Do you know that Berlin is under artillery fire?
General: No.
Adolf: Can't you hear the shooting?
General: No, I'm in Wildpark Werder.
Adolf: The city is chaotic. The Russians have captured a railway bridge over the Oder.
General: The enemy has no railway artillery in the Oder.
[takes paper from soldier]
General: It's not long-ranged artillery; the divisional headquarters of the Flak and Zoo-Bunker report that the shells are ten to twelve calibers. The Russians went into position in Marzahn.
Adolf: That's only twelve miles from the city center. Are the Russians really this close? The Lufwaffe leadership must be hanged immediately!
[hangs up]
Adolf: This is outrageous. Outrageous! The Russians are twelve miles from the city center, and nobody told me anything. I had to ask.
General: My Führer, it's probably long-range artillery, after all. You mentioned a railway bridge over the Oder.
Adolf: Nonsense.

Generalfeldmarschall: Even at the risk of repeating myself, the Ninth army must be withdrawn, otherwise it is surrounded and wiped out! We must now...
Adolf: The Ninth army will not retreat. Tell Busse to fight where he stands.
Generaloberst: My Führer, then the Ninth army will be lost.
Adolf: We will repel the Soviet troops advancing to the North and East, with a relentless and almighty assault.
Generaloberst: With what force, my Führer?
Adolf: Steiner's force will attack from the North and unite with the Ninth army.
General: The Ninth Army is unable to move North; the enemy army outnumbers us ten to one.
Adolf: Wenck: he will support them with the Twelfth Army.
Generaloberst: But my Führer, the Twelfth Army is heading west to the Elbe.
Adolf: Then tell the army to turn around!
Generaloberst: But we would expose the Western Front!
Adolf: Are you questioning my orders? I believe I made myself clear!